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Monday, September 26, 2016

Volume 105, No. 25

Occupying the Lyceum

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Social media propels controversy, conversation for Ole Miss students who protested Friday CLARA TURNAGE

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ore than 100 protesters waited on the crowded Lyceum carpet Friday as student leaders and university administration spoke behind closed doors just one floor above them.

Hours before, those same students were wandering around campus doing homework or talking to friends, planning for gameday or attending class, but common cause had drawn them all to a protest at the heart of the university.

On Thursday night, Jordan Samson, an Ole Miss business major, commented on a Facebook post about the riots in Charlotte, where protesters have rallied around the death of Keith Lamont Scott, who was shot by policemen.

“I have a tree with room for all of them if you want to settle this Wild West style,” the comment said.

After NY Daily News reporter Shaun King pointed out the comment and several hundred people retweeted it or posted it to Facebook, many looked to university administration to respond.

UM NAACP President Tysianna Marino told The Daily Mississippian in a telephone interview that she wanted to give the administration the opportunity to respond appropriately before organizing a response from the association.

Chancellor Jeffrey Vitter’s initial response was issued around noon Friday.

“The university leadership and I are aware of recent comments made on social media that have generated concern by members of the Ole Miss community,” the statement said. “The University of Mississippi condemns the use of language that might encourage or condone violence. Instead, let’s be respectful and civil in our discourse, as called for in the Creed.”

The statement did not

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PHOTOS BY: ARIEL COBBERT

TOP: Dominique Scott, treasurer of NAACP and president of Students Against Social Injustice, and Jaylon Martin, vice president of NAACP, state their list of demands for university administrators. LEFT: Dominique Scott, Allen Coon and Makala McNeil discuss and draft up their list of demands. RIGHT: Students have civil dialogue with Andrew Soper, ASB senator, and sponsor of Our State Flag Foundation, on the steps of the Lyceum after several students voice their concern about him being in the Lyceum during the sit-in. LEFT: Brandon Jones prepares a sign, that reads, “Why is the value of our lives being questioned,” for the sit-in in the Lyceum.

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People should not forget fundraising for childhood cancer

ETHAN DAVIS

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The recent Cancer Awareness Research and Eradication Walk on campus was a smashing success. According to a Daily Mississippian article, more than 2,000 students participated to raise approximately $52,000.

Before I go any further, I want to say that I think this event is a wonderful, fantastic, exemplary example of proactive student involvement

for a great cause. I would not dream of anyone thinking that I mean to say that the CARE Walk was in any way bad.

That being said, I do want to address the major funding and awareness gap between childhood and adult cancers, so buckle down for a few statistics.

The federal government is the single largest contributor to cancer research, with the American Cancer Society coming in second. The government funnels cancer research grants through an entity called the National Cancer Institute.

According to the Childhood Cancer Foundation, the NCI spends roughly 96 percent of its budget on adult cancer research. If you do some quick math, you’ll find that leaves only 4 percent for childhood cancers.

To put it in perspective, the

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CCF reports that breast cancer research alone receives approximately $584 million each year, and all childhood cancer research receives just $26.4 million. Additionally, nearly three quarters of childhood cancer survivors develop chronic illnesses that affect them for the rest of their lives, including frequently severe cases that lead to death, not to mention that the risk for secondary cancers later is significantly increased, all according to the CCF. I suppose the question of why I’m talking about this issue should be addressed.

Well, the fact is that childhood cancer is defined as cancers affecting people 19 years old or younger. That is nearly half the student body at this university.

Think for a moment and try to recall the last time you saw awareness materials for

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childhood cancer? Relay for Life events are fairly common. Walmart has already set up pink displays, even though Breast Cancer Awareness Month is October, not September. My debit card has a pink ribbon on it, but have you ever seen materials talking about childhood cancer other than St. Jude? I haven’t.

We, as a nation, are very close to ignoring the thousands of children diagnosed each year. If any of the nearly 4,000 freshmen who came to Ole Miss this year develop cancer, half of the drugs used in their chemotherapy would be more than 25 years old.

The techniques used for a majority of childhood cancer patients are older than they are.

I’m not saying that we stop fundraising for adult cancers in any way, shape or form. I am, however, saying that the

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awareness and funding gap between adults and children is somewhat unfair. I am saying that we shouldn’t leave half our campus without our support, should tragedy strike.

If you have the desire or time—though I doubt you have either—to go back and count the number of times I’ve used the word “cancer” in this article, 21 should be the number you reach. I know that’s a lot of fairly depressing jargon, but it doesn’t have to be.

The point here is that we have the ability to change things for the better; we have hope. So, the next time you have an opportunity to support childhood cancer treatment or research, do it and help make things a little better.

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

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University Counseling Center offers new group sessions ANA MARTINEZ

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With universities across the country now using group counseling as a means to help their students and faculty, the Counseling Center has recently expanded its selection of group counseling sessions.

Group counseling can maximize the benefits for some individuals.

Some of the center’s new sessions, like Calm and Chaos and the Social Anxiety Group Experience, can help people deal with anxiety by teaching them the skills on how to handle stress in their lives. Some of the sessions’ techniques include meditation, muscle relaxation and breathing exercises.

These free sessions are not just for students and faculty of the university; a select few are also open to the public.

Counselor Billy Meyers said one of the problems with anxiety is that people use avoidance to deal with it, which tends to make the anxiety worse.

“Exposure is a big part of the treatment,” Meyers said. “Doing that in a step-wise fashion, where people have some skills to deal with anxiety as it starts to come on, that’s the way we move forward.”

Counselor Dean Worsham has worked at UMCC for 16 years and leads four meditation groups during the week.

He said group therapy can be helpful to an individual because it provides a support network where everyone is working toward the same goal.

“What we find is a lot of people asking themselves questions like ‘Am I doing it the right way?’ or ‘How does it feel?’” Worsham said. “Sitting with a group of people, there is a community in that. Being able to sit with a group of people in silence and stillness is something we don’t do a whole lot of in the Western world. So, being able to practice that with others and be in that moment, to sit and do this with others, is a powerful thing.”

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The Counseling Center is now located the third floor in Lester Hall. There has been a recent expansion of selection of group counseling sessions.

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with Prime Minister Netanyahu that the Israeli people want a just and lasting peace with their neighbors, but that peace will only come when the Palestinians renounce hatred and violence and accept Israel as a Jewish State.”

Clinton was expected to meet with the prime minister later in the day, also in New York.

The meeting was designed to put Israel on good footing with the next U.S. president. But it also served to showcase the candidates’ expertise in foreign policy in the shadow of their first debate Monday, six weeks before Election Day. Clinton, a former senator and secretary of state, often says that Trump does not know enough about the world and lacks the temperament to be president. Trump has argued that he has extensive experience with foreign policy through his career as a business executive and blames

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were meeting separately with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Sunday, giving the each candidate fresh bragging rights about their knowledge of foreign policy and readiness to lead the nation on the eve of their first presidential debate.

Trump and Netanyahu discussed “at length” Israel’s use of a fence to help secure its borders, an example Trump frequently cites when he’s talking about the wall he wants to build between the U.S. and Mexico.

“Trump recognized that Israel and its citizens have suffered far too long on the front lines of Islamic terrorism,” the campaign said in a statement. “He agreed

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The candidate was focused on other matters Sunday.

Trump’s campaign said that during his meeting with Netanyahu, the Republican presidential nominee promised, “extraordinary strategic, technological, military and intelligence cooperation between the two countries” if he’s elected.

The press was barred from covering the meeting between Netanyahu and Trump, but Trump’s campaign said in a statement that the men, who have known each other for years, discussed “many topics important to both countries,” including “the special relationship between America and Israel and the unbreakable bond between the two countries.”

Among those topics: the nuclear deal with Iran, the battle against Islamic State militants, military assistance provided by the U.S. to Israel and other security issues.

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curacies made by the candidates.

But Trump’s campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, said it’s not the job of debate moderators to fact check.

Trump’s vice presidential running mate, Mike Pence, meanwhile, said that Gennifer Flowers will not attend the debate. Trump had tweeted that if frequent Trump critic Mark Cuban attended the showdown, he’d put Flowers, allegedly the former mistress of Clinton’s husband, Bill, in the audience too. Conway said that Flowers had a right to be there if “somebody else gives her a ticket.”

But Pence drew a harder line.

“Gennifer Flowers will not be attending the debate tomorrow night,” Pence said on “Fox News Sunday.”

Conway on ABC defended the tweet, saying Trump “wants to remind people that he’s a great counterpuncher.”

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Clinton for many of the nation’s stumbles in foreign policy.

Meanwhile, the candidates deployed their top supporters to the Sunday shows to take early jabs at their opponents and lower expectations for a showdown expected to draw 75 million viewers — many of them disenchanted with both candidates, the least-popular presidential hopefuls in history.

Facts and who will determine them during the 90-minute debate seemed to be a top concern of the campaigns’ strategists given Trump’s habit of saying things that are untrue and the public’s general distrust of Clinton.

Robby Mook, Clinton’s campaign manager, told ABC’s “This Week” that he is concerned Trump will continue his habit of sometimes saying things that aren’t true and still get a passing grade. He called on moderator Lester Holt to correct any inac-

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New speed reading and study strategy class offered MIA SIMS

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The University of Mississippi Division of Outreach and Continuing Education and Office of Professional Development and Lifelong Learning have teamed up with the Institute of Reading Development to offer a class to students that will increase reading speed and aid with study strategies.

“After conducting some research into non-academic classes to offer to our students, we decided that this Speed Reading (and Study Strategies) class would be beneficial to the student population,” Mary Leach, director of the Office of Professional Development and Lifelong Learning, said.

The four-day program will be offered on Oct. 8, 9, 15 and 16. Students will have the choice to attend from either 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. or 1:30 to 5 p.m.

Though this class hasn’t been offered in the past, there have been similar programs online.

“We have been offering online test preparation classes for students who are interested in taking the entrance exams for professional and graduate schools, and they have been very beneficial to our students,” Leach said.

Leach said they hope to have at least 25 students in each class, and they want to continue to offer it each fall.

“It is possible that we may be able to start other types of programs for students of all ages during the summer months, which will help in bridging the gap between summer break and the beginning of a new school year,” she said.

Director for the Institute of Reading John Boyd said the skills and strategies they teach can be applied to any reading and studying circumstances and are useful for everyone.

“This program is unique in two key ways,” Boyd said.

“First, it offers a dynamic workshop environment in which students practice reading and study skills (with) a variety of materials, with direct, individualized feedback from the instructor. Second, this program has wide-ranging benefits for students from any field.”

The program focuses on helping students develop effective skills and strategies for reading faster, improving comprehension, studying textbooks and improving engagement with reading.

“A core feature of the program curriculum is our emphasis on students’ active decision-making and cognitive control over their own reading processes,” Boyd said. “We work with students to bring a metacognitive approach to their reading choices, help-

ing them identify how to use the skills and strategies from the course effectively in their critical engagement with their own scholarly materials.”

Boyd said everyone should have the experience of reading with confidence, success and enjoyment.

“The speed reading and study strategies that we teach help our students have that experience,” he said. “Through reading faster, improving comprehension, improving study skills and taking active control over their own reading choices, students are able to more critically and meaningfully engage with both nonfiction and fiction texts in deeper ways.”

Boyd said these are skills students can continue to apply

to their reading for the rest of their lives.

“Reading is such a profound and omnipresent form of communication throughout our world,” Boyd said. “We want to share the tools for successful reading with as many students as possible.”

Junior psychology and nursing major Dakota Dilmore said he thinks the class will be very beneficial to students.

“I personally would sign up because increasing my reading speed would cut my study time by a lot so I could focus on comprehension,” Dilmore said. “People who struggle with test taking, I think, would be more comfortable with tests knowing that they are going in better equipped than before.”

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Cody Bradford holds up Black Lives Matter sign on the steps of the Lyceum during the sit in.

Dominique Scott, treasurer of NAACP and president of Students Against Social Injustice, states a list of demands for university administrators.

Ike Hill and Andrew Soper hug after a civil dialogue among students.

Alana Dandridge speaks heatedly with Andrew Soper on the steps of the Lyceum.

mention Samson’s comment.

After reading it, the UM NAACP decided to rally students to occupy the Lyceum.

The protesters followed a model other student protests across the nation have in recent years, in which protesters sit or stand in an area to gain attention from administrators to demonstrate the number of people who care about a certain issue. UM NAACP leaders only had an hour to promote the event, which began at 2 p.m. They tweeted and made Facebook posts, reaching out to the student body through social media.

Even with such a short time to prepare, students filled the hallways on two floors of the Lyceum.

“Right now, we are occupying the Lyceum in response to racist terroristic

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especially frightening, and I hope that Chancellor Vitter had some sort of an inkling of understanding of context before he would make such a lackluster response,” Scott said.

Among the crowd were campus leaders Austin Powell, the president of the Associated Student Body; Cole Putman, Mr. Ole Miss; Acacia Santos, Miss Ole Miss; Terrius Harris, president of the Black Student Union; as well as members of the UM Pride Network, UM NAACP and Students Against Social Injustice.

Powell said he had only heard about the occupation 10 minutes before it began, but he knew he wanted to go immediately.

“It’s important to be here for the students. When you’re representing 20,000 students, it’s a lot of voices and varying opinions,” Powell said. “When the Creed is violated, we have to stand in solidarity.”

Students took to social me-

for Student Affairs Brandi Hephner LaBanc asked the leaders of the NAACP to form a list of demands explaining why they were protesting and what they wanted from the university.

Several of the student leaders went into one of the front rooms of the Lyceum and drafted the email they would send to LaBanc.

They had four requests: that the university recognize Samson’s comments as a racist threat and take disciplinary action, that the administration apologize for its previous statement because it did not recognize this racism, that Vitter reassure the community that neither he nor the university will tolerate this type of behavior on the Ole Miss campus and that Vitter would work directly with students to confront the culture of white supremacy on campus.

After these requests were announced, Dominique Scott, Allen Coon, Terrius Harris, Makala McNeil and

People should know we’re not doing this just to make a scene. We’re doing it because we want to be heard. Until we get what we want, until the university decides to listen to what we have going on, we’re going to be here.

threats and Chancellor Vitter’s lackluster response to these threats,” Jaylon Martin, UM NAACP vice president, said. “We believe that these threats cannot stand and that the chancellor should respond strictly and swiftly to these threats.

We, as the NAACP, also feel that these threats are not acceptable and cannot go unpunished.”

Dominique Scott, UM NAACP treasurer and president of Students Against Social Injustice, said Samson’s comment must be viewed in relation to Ole Miss’ history.

“These comments are happening within the context of a long, long history of the University of Mississippi allowing its students to terrorize other students,” Scott said. “Instead of having a swift response to it, Chancellor Vitter instead chose to sort of dance around the language and not call it exactly what it was.”

Scott said the comment and the university’s response to it must also be understood in relation to the nation’s current, racially-tense climate.

“These sort of comments in concert with this larger narrative with black people going on in the country is

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dia to publicize the occupation. Different groups – like student government and the Black Student Union – Several Facebook Live streams, Periscopes and tweeted videos received hundreds of views and national attention, but that’s not why the protesters were there.

“People should know we’re not doing this just to make a scene. We’re doing it because we want to be heard,” Lawndarius Fondren said. “Until we get what we want, until the university decides to listen to what we have going on, we’re going to be here.”

Fondren, a psychology major, said this is not the first time he has seen violent, racist comments in light of recent events, but this is the first time he has seen the comments from another Ole Miss student.

As the occupation gained attention, Ole Miss alumni posted messages of support to the students. Alumnae Courtney Pearson, the first black Homecoming Queen in 2012 and Kim Dandridge, the first black ASB president in 2012, ordered pizza and sandwiches for the protesters. Dandridge was on a plane when she did so, but used onboard wifi to order the delivery.

Half an hour into the occupation, Vice Chancellor

university administrators went to an upstairs room to talk about their terms. Among the university administrators who were in and out of the meeting were Vitter, Provost Morris Stocks, Hephner LaBanc, Assistant Dean of Students Val Ross and Assistant to the Chancellor Concerning Minority Affairs Don Cole.

They remained in the closed room for more than two more hours.

Some students remained inside while others moved outside or left. While they filed out of the Lyceum, they met Andrew Soper.

Soper’s role in the occupation was minimal until this point. It was Soper’s Facebook post that Samson had commented on the night before. Soper said he came to the protest to “stand in solidarity with the students who are upset about what happened.”

“Hate speech and racism and things like that are not going to be tolerated whatsoever,” Soper said. “I came here to sit with them because I don’t believe in what was said.”

Soper is very active on Facebook and a strong supporter of the state flag.

He plays a role in the Our State Flag Foundation and,

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STATEMENTS FROM CHANCELLOR JEFFREY VITTER

BEFORE THE PROTEST

AFTER THE PROTEST

The university leadership and I are aware of recent comments made on social media that have generated concern by members of the Ole Miss community.

Some of these comments were made in response to the enforcement of stadium rules prohibiting banners and signs from Vaught-Hemingway Stadium this past Saturday. Many of these comments are factually inaccurate. Banners and signs were removed only within the stadium, according to our longstanding policy that prohibits signs, banners, umbrellas, and other items that block the view of fans.

Some social media comments suggest or condone actions that are inconsistent with our core values, our university Creed, and, in some cases, encourage action in direct violation of university policies.

The University of Mississippi condemns the use of language that might encourage or condone violence. Instead, let’s be respectful and civil in our discourse, as called for inThe Creed.

The safety of our students, faculty, staff, and visitors is our top priority. Any concerns about the health and safety of any faculty, staff, or student should be reported to the University Police Department at 662-915-7234.

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continued from page 6 knowing this, students asked Soper why he came to the protest.

What started out as a simple conversation grew as a diverse crowd of about 30 surrounded him, asking questions and listening.

They sat beneath the bullet holes still visible from the integration of James Meredith, the university’s first black student. They sat together on the 61st anniversary of the acquittal of Emmett Till’s murderers by an all-white jury.

They sat a dozen yards from where the Klu Klux Klan protested just last year, and they

talked about understanding one another.

Around 6 p.m., the student leaders emerged from the closed room to tell the protesters what they had discussed.

“They will revise their statement regarding the entire situation,” Martin said. “We will hear more about (Samson’s) punishment in the next few days … Lastly, we will be meeting with them again in the next two weeks or so to continue this dialogue.”

Vitter released a second statement later Friday night.

“Because I have an open door policy, I invited some of the student leaders to meet with me and other university leaders,” the statement

Chancellor Vitter statement concerning meeting with UM students This afternoon I learned that a number of students had gathered at the Lyceum to express their concerns about a recent social media post and our response to it. Because I have an open door policy, I invited some of the student leaders to meet with me and other university leaders. The students helped me more fully understand the impact on them of national events and this particular social media post. They expressed great pain, sadness, and concern for their own safety.

To be clear, we condemn the recent social media post by one of our students that referenced lynching. In light of our country’s history, that comment can only be seen as racist, offensive and hurtful, especially to members of our African American community. There is no place in our community for racist or violent acts.

I appreciate the willingness of the student leaders to meet with me and to continue the dialogue. Together, we are committed to moving beyond words toward action, harnessing the transformative power of education to realize the ideals of our Creed.

said. “The students helped me more fully understand the impact on them of national events and this particular social media post.”

Vitter said he condemned Samson’s post.

“In light of our country’s history, that comment can only be seen as racist, offensive and hurtful, especially to members of our African-American community,” the statement said. “There is no place in our community for racist or violent acts.”

Makala McNeil, communications director for the UM NAACP, said she felt much had been accomplished Friday but there was still much left to do.

“There was a lot of open

dialogue, a lot of listening.

I think it went well,” McNeil said.

McNeil said she felt the administration learned that whatever happens in the world directly affects what happens on campus. McNeil said the university could tell how passionate students are about this issue by how willing they were to gather on a Friday evening.

“Gathering here was so sporadic because it was an emotional response to what’s happening. This is nothing that was scheduled,” McNeil said. “We are collectively coming together as students and saying, ‘This is not OK. We don’t want to be a part of it.’”

But McNeil said the work isn’t finished yet.

“Obviously, there is always more work to be done. I didn’t leave there feeling like everything at the University of Mississippi is accomplished now and we have nothing else to fight for. We’re still out here. The fight will always continue.”

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Rebel receivers dominate against Georgia on the field CODY THOMASON

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It seemed like everything that could go right for the Rebels did on Saturday. Ole Miss was especially effective moving the ball through the air, as the Rebel receiving corps dominated the Georgia secondary the whole game.

The Rebels finished with a total of 330 yards and three touchdowns through the air on the game. Quarterback Chad Kelly did a good job spreading the ball to multiple targets, with Evan Engram leading all players with six catches for 95 yards and a touchdown. Sophomore DaMarkus Lodge finished with two grabs for 72 yards and a touchdown, and freshman A.J. Brown caught four passes for 46 yards on the day. Junior Damore’ea Stringfellow and senior Quincy Adeboyejo made their presence felt as well, with the

former catching two passes for 43 yards and the latter catching three for 38 yards.

“I couldn’t be more pleased,” Offensive Coordinator Dan Werner said of the receiving group’s play. “The fact that those guys just come in and make plays for us.”

Werner said the talent of the receivers made it especially hard for defensive coordinators to game plan against them, and that their play helped open up the rushing attack as well.

Kelly said the receiving corps’ play was especially important when Georgia went into single coverage against them.

“That’s what its about: you have to win your one-on-ones,” Kelly said. “They wanted to give us a one-high look. We took advantage of it, and those guys made plays.”

Perhaps the highlight of the game came in the second quarter with a touchdown from Kel-

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Linebacker DeMarquis Gates and defensive back Montrell Custis celebrate after a play. Ole Miss’ defense held Georgia scoreless in the first half, giving the offense a comfortable lead throughout the game. ly to sophomore receiver DaMarkus Lodge. Kelly narrowly avoided pressure, juking a defender then immediately firing a deep pass before being hit.

The pass sailed into the hands of Lodge at the tail end of his deep post route for a 55-yard touchdown.

“I told Lodge, ‘Don’t stop running, because I’m going to throw it no matter what.’ But I knew that he could outrun the coverage, so I just had to make a play, juke the one guy,” Kelly said. “I just had to get it out.” “(Kelly) threw it late, which is

something we try not to do, but Lodge went up and made a play for him and they’ve been doing that all year,” Werner said.

Lodge is still a relatively inexperienced receiver, but he has been seeing more playing time in the last few weeks and Kelly saw the dividends on that catch.

“He’s the real deal,” Kelly said. “He’s a good player. He works hard in practice and I trusted him and he made a play for me.”

While he is listed at tight end, Evan Engram is the Rebels’ leading receiver through the

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Ole Miss soccer falls against Arkansas 2-1 Sunday MARGO LEE

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Ole Miss was defeated by No. 15 Arkansas at home Sunday afternoon following a back-to-back battle in the 95-degree heat.

After only five minutes of play, the Rebels secured their first lead of the game with a goal by midfielder CeCe Kizer . She broke away from the rest of the defense and it turned into a one-on-one battle against the goalie when she chipped it into the right back corner of the net.

Following the first goal, Arkansas had several attempts to score but were blocked. The Razorbacks almost tied the game when forward Stefani Doyle drove the ball into the goal but was intercepted when it hit the post.

Later on in the first half, Arkansas’ Alexandra Fischer fed a corner kick into the box to Kayla McKeon to tie the game.

Arkansas held a 7-1 advantage on corner kicks over Ole Miss during this matchup.

Rebel goalie Marnie Merritt did not allow any more goals for the rest of the half, saving two from going in. By the end of the second half, Merritt had saved seven shots on frame, a season record high for her.

“This team is very good in the air and at set pieces,” Merritt said. “It was very difficult because we’re playing on the ground and on feet while they’re more of a kick-it-andrun team. I thought everybody stepped up big time on defense and really put their body on the line for the things they needed to.”

Early into the second half, the Razorbacks took their first lead of the game when Claire Kelly scored off a header from teammate Reece Christopherson following a foul. Collectively, Ole Miss and Arkansas had 22 fouls by the end of the game.

“Usually we only average about four or five fouls a game but today we had 10,” Ole Miss’ Assistant Media Direc-

Madison Meador steals ball from opponent during game against Arkansas Sunday evening.

Gabby Little fights for possession of the ball during Sunday’s game against Arkansas. tor Bruce Lee said.

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connect as many passes. We also weren’t clean enough next to the goal,” Mott said.

Ole Miss will hit the road for the next two games against Kentucky and Alabama in

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‘Ticked off’ Rebels bounce back with win over Georgia BRIAN SCOTT RIPPEE thedmsports@gmail.com

Evan Engram came out of his cut on a corner route and looked back at Chad Kelly.

He leaped above Georgia free safety Quincy Mauger in the back right corner of the south end zone.

He high-pointed a 9-yard ball that Kelly tossed and came down with it with two feet in bounds. It was Kelly’s second touchdown pass of the game, and it put the Rebels up 31-0 with 43 seconds left in the first half. Engram had six catches for 95 yards.

“That’s a read for the quarterback. If it’s zone he’s going to hit the underneath routes and if it’s man he’s going to throw it up and let me go make a play,” Engram said. “As soon as I turned, I knew Chad was going to throw it, so I had to make a play for my team.”

But it was the scenario that was of significance. Just a few minutes prior, Ole Miss yet again found itself with a sizable lead, up 24-0 at the time, and the football with just over two minutes in the first half. It was these waining minutes of the opening half that led to its downfall against Florida State and Alabama. It was in these minutes that the Rebels had twice left the door open, only to later see it kicked down in the second half.

“We had three timeouts left then and were going to call what we wanted to call,” Head Coach Hugh Freeze said.

Not this time. Ole Miss went for the jugular in what was a five play, 58-yard drive that sent a clear message that its foot was still on the gas pedal. The foot never came off, either, as Ole Miss stormed to a 45-14 drubbing of an undefeated and 12th-ranked Georgia team for its first SEC win of the year.

“We’ve certainly had experiences that we should learn from,” Freeze said. “We thought we took control. This was the first time we’d won the toss and were able to get it out of halftime, and we thought we’d put it away there early in the third.”

Ole Miss needed this moment.

A young team that had taken a couple on the chin in a brutal month of September let out a little frustration on a steamy hot Saturday afternoon. Freeze said the emotion had been absent in practice all week. He thought it was a sign of a “ticked off” football team, and it showed on Saturday.

“We were mad. We shouldn’t be 1-2 right now. We kind of kicked ourselves in the foot and those losses are on me for turning it over. We’ve got to keep on working hard and looking forward,” Kelly said.

Kelly and the offense opened with a field goal before defensive back Derrick Jones picked off Jacob Eason on the following possession and took it 52 yards for a touchdown. It was Jones’ first game back from a suspension for violating team standards and he didn’t take long to leave his mark.

The Rebels quickly lead 10-0.

Kelly took it from there. Following a 1-yard touchdown rush from D’Vaughn Pennamon that put the

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TOP: Ole Miss tight end Evan Engram stiff arms Georgia linebacker Roquan Smith after catching a pass. Engram led all receivers with six receptions for 95 yards including one touchdown in Ole Miss’ 45-14 win over Georgia. BOTTOM: Players celebrate the win on Saturday.

Rebels up 17-0, Kelly hit Damarkus Lodge for a 55-yard touchdown strike before topping that with a pass to Engram to close the half. Kelly was 13-17 for 233 yards and two scores at the half and finished with a line of 18-24 for 282 yards. The Rebels had 323 yards of offense in the opening half alone and finished with 510. Chad Kelly passed Archie Manning for 6th all-time in offensive yards with 5,621 yards.

A 45-14 exhale that got Ole Miss to .500 (2-2, 1-1) on both fronts.

Its pass rush flustered true freshman quarterback Jacob Eason.

A young secondary grew up and stood tall. Eason was just 16-36 for 137 yards. The pressure on Eason was relentless.

“Coach Wommack called some great blitzes. They were allowing us to rush our four guys and he was rattled. You could see it,” D.J. Jones said.

Ole Miss had been having trouble getting off the field on third downs. Georgia was 4-16 in that department today.

“Finish,” Jones said. “That’s what he spoke all week.”

The Ole Miss receiving corps showed why it is the one of the most talented in the country.

Georgia dared to show Ole Miss a lot of one-on-one looks, and the Rebels won most all of them.

“It’s huge. That’s what it is about. You have to win your oneon-ones,” Kelly said. “They wanted to give us a one-high look. We took advantage of it and those guys made plays.”

Saturday was the end of a rug-

ged September stretch for Ole Miss. It went through adversity.

The losses stung. But Freeze’s team bounced back again.

“It’s hard for me to remember all of them. But this one will stand out because of the type of losses that we’ve had to the No. 1 and No. 2 teams in the country when we played them,” Freeze said. “When you lose games like that and felt you could have won, and you have to hear about it in this world with all of the social media world, it hurts. This one is pretty special.”