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Sorority recruitment is over. Long gone are clap routines and ear-piercing choruses about sisterhood. The veil of secrecy surrounding this process has been lifted, and order has been restored to Greek life. But what exactly is recruitment? For one week of each year, the Ole Miss campus is consumed by sorority recruitment. Though only spanning seven days and involving a little more than onethird of the campus population, rush seems to control the consciousness of the university. Professors modify schedules, clubs cancel meetings and for 1,400 girls, a monumental decision looms. The scene around campus during recruitment week is as logistically sound as it is frantic.
Potential new members (PNMs) decked out in everything from Panhellenic-provided T-shirts to business casual attire dart about the campus. Breaking only on Wednesday, these girls are enthralled in the process of visiting houses, making selections and waiting. And while the interactions inside the houses are perceived as intimidating, the recruitment counselors say the waiting process is generally the most cumbersome. During the designated recruitment times, if PNMs are not in a sorority house, they are to be confined to the Student Union Ballroom. So if a girl has two houses to visit but there are six designated time slots for visiting, that girl must wait in the Student Union for the other four rounds to conclude — without her cell phone. Phones are confiscated at the beginning of rounds and
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Ole Miss students going through Panhellenic sorority recruitment wait outside of a house during rush week. are delivered back at the end. counselor, said. “They’ve But it’s not arbitrary oversight; tracked their kids down, picked there’s a distinct reason for this them up — just kind of stalking confinement. them as they go across their Moms. rounds.” “A lot of times, we’ve had bad As recruitment counselors, interactions with parents,” Joy Myers, a junior recruitment SEE PANHELLENIC PAGE 3
The third annual Everybody’s Formal, which is hosted by the Associated Student Body, is being sponsored primarily by Greek life organizations. ASB was still reaching out to potential sponsors the day before the formal. The official sponsors for the event listed on ASB’s Facebook page are College Panhellenic Council, Fraternal Leadership & Learning, Kappa Sigma fraternity, Ole Miss Men’s Basketball, Special Projects coordinator Linda Spargo, the Office of the Chancellor, the Division of Administration and Finance and the Division of Student Affairs. ASB President Elam Miller is a member of Ole Miss’ Delta Xi chapter of Kappa Sigma fraternity. Miller said ASB doesn’t have a list of everyone who was asked to be a sponsor and that the organization brought in other people to collect sponsorships who normally wouldn’t be helping find sponsors because ASB was “short of money” for the formal. “I think really it’s been pretty hodgepodge, like we didn’t reach out to (sponsors), so they reached out to us,” Miller said. “We reached out to Fraternal Leadership and Learning, IFC and Panhellenic to get all the money that we can get for this in the hopes that they would be reaching out to individual chapters.” Miller said he approached people in class and in passing to ask about sponsoring the event. “(I approached) U Club of Oxford,” Miller said. “I think I reached out to (Vice Chancellor
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120 women dictate the success of the recruitment process. Per the Panhellenic website, recruitment counselors “are active sorority women who disaffiliate from their chapters in order to aid PNMs through the recruitment experience each Formal Recruitment.” Starting their positions the Sunday before classes begin in August, these women serve as confidants, armchair psychiatrists and friends to the roughly 13 girls that each are assigned to. Following that Sunday, they meet weekly with their group of PNMs to answer questions and give advice. Recruitment counselors tell stories of chasing down moms that cruise down Sorority Row in hopes of communicating with their daughters or of finding moms hiding in trees in an attempt to influence their daughters’ decisions. “I think it just adds to their daughters’ stress — just their presence and their pressure. Especially if they’re a legacy to a certain chapter — the mom definitely going to push them,” junior recruitment counselor Sally Autry said. The maternal influence has been heavily chronicled, most recently in a post published by The Daily Mississippian that outlines the influence of thirdparty “rush consultants” in the recruitment process. These consulting firms,
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continued from page 1 of Development) Charlotte Parks … I reached out to Chauncey Mullins. I think I saw him in passing and was like, ‘You want to help out with Everybody’s Formal, Mr. Ole Miss?’” Mullins is the president of Beta Theta Pi fraternity. The planning committee for Everybody’s Formal was led by initiative director Kelsea White. White, who is a member of Ole Miss’Alpha Mu chapter of Kappa Delta sorority, appointed a team of associate directors that was made up of Danielle Foster, Georgia Summer and Sally Rychlak, all of whom are members of Ole Miss’ Alpha Delta chapter of Phi Mu sorority. White said this was her first year being a part of ASB and that she took on the position when Miller approached her in August. She said Miller wanted to create a different management structure for Everybody’s Formal, so there wasn’t a formal application process for the directors of the event. “Informally, we reached out
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located around the South in areas such as Oxford, Jackson and Birmingham, Alabama, purport to prepare PNMs for recruitment. They prepare “packets” for girls, scrutinize girls’ social media posts and suggest wardrobe choices. But this isn’t cheap — some firms charge girls up to $125 per hour for a process that’s already delineated by the Panhellenic team and given to them free by recruitment counselors. These parents aren’t placing a retainer on an attorney or paying utilities — they’re paying ex-sorority members to critique their daughters in hopes of joining an exclusive social club. In addition to the stress of navigating the actual recruitment process, perhaps the most emotionally taxing process, selections, is done in total silence. After the second round — and following each round after — PNMs must line up at The Inn at Ole Miss and find out what houses they have been released from. Then, they choose houses they want to return to. Lining up single-file and waiting for their turn, potentially for hours, these girls are consigned to silence. “(PNMs) have to be silent unless they’re talking to their recruitment counselor,” junior recruitment counselor Olivia Cusimano said. “Girls don’t start doubting what they like until they hear what other people are saying.” Junior recruitment counselor Stephanie Green said her own
Ole Miss students going through Panhellenic recruitment walk behind Barnard Observatory on their way to a meeting during rush week. experiences during the rush process from the active member side influenced her decision to become a recruitment counselor. Green said she “wasn’t as thrilled with how rush works when (she was) in the sorority.” This a common theme with recruitment counselors. After a year in their chapters, some of these women become dismayed with how the process works from the inside. The process by which sororities accept new members varies by chapter, and most of these processes are not disclosed to the public. Some houses give PNMs a numerical ranking based upon their interactions during rounds,
and some hold “bid sessions” where the totality of the chapter votes on whether or not to accept a PNM. “You talk to a girl for 30 minutes, then give them a score. And then, she gets released,” Autry said. “It was hard being in the house last year basically ranking girls on the conversation(s) I had with them. It wouldn’t matter if the girls weren’t known in the chapter, and it doesn’t matter if I gave them a great score or not. They wouldn’t be there the next day. I just thought that was so unfair.” Some recruitment counselors say theirs isn’t a glamorous position. Counselors must disaffiliate totally from their chapters for six weeks, reaping
no financial or incentivized benefits other than a successful recruitment process. So why do they do it? “I just love the freshmen. I consider myself a third-year freshman. They’re so vulnerable at this stage, and I like being able to be there for them when no one else is,” Green said. As the dust settled on recruitment and the joys of Bid Day ensued, the rollercoaster of emotions wrought by this seven-day process screeched to a halt. PNMs are now new members awaiting initiation, recruitment counselors have returned to their houses and order has been restored to campus. Well, until the cycle begins again next fall.
to everybody because it was so late,” White said. “I didn’t reach out to anyone. I would say most of the people were also here this summer. Elam tried to create an application (process) for future years.” Miller said the event is being sponsored by organizations
September to ask if the group would like to help sponsor the event and that “as a council who advocates for student experience and leadership on this campus,” the council agreed. Minutes from the latest ASB Executive Council meeting
being an executive officer is “more than just basic tasks.” On Tuesday afternoon, two days before Everybody’s Formal, some presidents of Interfraternity Council fraternities and National PanHellenic Council sororities said they had not been contacted by
Barker Fowler emailed IFC, Panhellenic and NPHC chapters to offer them the opportunity to sponsor Everybody’s Formal. Fowler wrote that organization leaders would have to respond within an hour if they wanted their group’s name on the official event banner. “We were contacted (Wednesday) for the first time, and it said respond within an hour. And by the time I saw it, it was too late,” said Cellas Hayes, the president of the Ole Miss Eta Beta chapter of Phi Beta Sigma fraternity. President of the Ole Miss Lambda Sigma chapter of Delta Sigma Theta, Kaylyndzeyia Gray, also confirmed that her sorority received an email about sponsoring Everybody’s Formal and was given an hourlong deadline to respond on Wednesday. “I think that it’s better to have an event sponsored by student groups and be able to have an event that’s an inclusive event for all students,” Miller said. “I don’t think it’s a conflict of interest because these events are for everybody, and we want to make these events happen in the most inclusive way.”
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I think really it’s been pretty hodgepodge, like we didn’t reach out to (sponsors), so they reached out to us. We reached out to Fraternal Leadership and Learning, IFC and Panhellenic to get all the money that we can get for this in the hopes that they would be reaching out to individual chapters.” Elam Miller ASB President
and businesses for the first time so that ASB doesn’t have to pay for the event out of its own budget with the student activities fee. He said now that ASB isn’t spending money out of its budget, more funds will be available to underfunded “minority student organizations.” College Panhellenic Council President Ann Weston Sistrunk said Miller reached out in
indicate that planning and acquiring sponsors for the formal happened last-minute. “We have Everybody’s Formal in about a week, and not much has been planned for it,” the minutes read. “(We’re) trying to put together a crisis team, since there is a lot that still hasn’t been done.” Miller told his cabinet that the week had become busy with “Ed Meek issues” and that
ASB with the option to sponsor the event. “No one contacted us about sponsoring it, but we did get a message to attend,” Delta Psi President Will Tribble said. Phi Kappa Tau President Jay Vaughn also said his fraternity chapter was not contacted about sponsoring the event on Tuesday. On Wednesday morning, ASB Executive assistant
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Ole Miss student musician opens Bulldog Bash festival JEANNE TORP
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One of Ole Miss’ own, Bedon Lancaster, and his band, who are collectively known as Bedon, traveled to Starkville this past weekend and performed at Mississippi State’s annual Bulldog Bash music festival. After winning a battle of the bands hosted by Music Maker Productions on Sept. 13, Lancaster, a junior integrated marketing communications major, earned the opportunity to open at Bulldog Bash on Friday night. Lancaster played on the same stage as big-name musicians, including Ric Wilson, the Mowgli’s and the AllAmerican Rejects. He said that this was the largest crowd he had ever played in front of. “(Playing Bulldog Bash) was definitely a big deal for me,” Lancaster said. “I didn’t take it lightly. It was a lot of people — probably around 700 or 800 for our set. It was also a huge stage, which was pretty crazy. It was a little nerve-racking, but we had a lot of fun.” Lancaster said that performing at Bulldog Bash was a great
way to showcase his new music, including his single “Untitled,” which came to Spotify and Apple Music on Sept. 12. “Untitled” was recorded last December in Nashville and is the first song Lancaster has released on his own. Lancaster said he wanted to get some experience playing live shows before releasing the song. “I wanted to have a good live reputation before I released a single,” Lancaster said. “I also wanted to hear input from my friends — what songs they liked.” While in Nashville, Lancaster recorded three other songs, but he specifically chose to release “Untitled” first. “(‘Untitled’) was definitely the one that, when we finished recording, I thought, ‘Yeah, people would like this one,’” Lancaster said. “And I do too. I love that song. I’m really proud of it.” Lancaster said he has new music in the works, including a second single that will lead up to his first album. He said the single should be released around Christmas, after he records it in Nashville, and the full album should come out some time next year.
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“I started writing for this project about two summers ago (while) decompressing from freshman year,” Lancaster said. “It’s just about me, relationships with people and things that inspire me. So when the album comes out — it’s a pretty chronological story from song to song.”
Having played and written music since he was in high school, Lancaster said he thinks the overall sound of his music has remained unchanged, even as he prepares his new releases. The musicians in his childhood churches — both in New Orleans and, later, in Memphis — heavily influenced
Lancaster’s own music. “I really like soulful music and honest lyrics,” Lancaster said. In the months to come, Lancaster plans to organize a few more shows in Starkville as well as performing shows in Tuscaloosa, Alabama; Knoxville, Tennessee; and Oxford to showcase his new material.
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Since the release of his album “Veteran” in January, JPEGMAFIA, a one man mafia, has been my favorite rapper. As anyone who knows me can tell you, I seriously will not shut up about him. I am a borderline stan. I would quote JPEGMAFIA’s lyrics about hating stans, but they are not fit for print. (Hardly any fun ones are.) I’m going into this much detail about my fanaticism to retain journalistic integrity by being upfront about my biases. Having said this, “Veteran” is a fantastic album with a fantastic opening track, “1539 N. Calvert.” The song is named after the address of The Bell Foundry, a now-closed recording venue in Baltimore, which is where JPEGMAFIA — otherwise known as Peggy — used to live. Peggy’s songs have a considerable amount of edge to them. He is crass, vulgar and on no one’s side. He takes shots at the alt-right, Morrissey, neo-liberals and did I mention the alt-right? Death threats abound, and if you thought The Game name-dropped, wait until you listen to Peggy, specifically on this song. “1539 N. Calvert” has Peggy mentioning Drake, 50 Cent, John Lennon, Kellyanne Conway and even Myke C-Town from Dead End
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intro to the song ends, and JPEGMAFIA’s verse begins. The table explodes into action, and Peggy dances choppily and angrily. The people around him mosh, jump and run away, stringing what looks like videotape around them. Other than a synchronized combination with another dancer (my favorite part of the video), Peggy dances solo as the video intercuts shots of the rest of the group jumping away in the distance. The video ends with Peggy and company reunited outside. They jump over a fence and pose by some graffiti, and the video ends on a mid-jump freeze frame of the group. Effectively describing audio-visual and impressionistic art forms such as music videos is hard to do. Peggy’s art is just as 39010
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Photographer asks community to imagine ideal Ole Miss
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The Division of Diversity and Community Engagement’s inaugural “Dialogues on Diversity” series will begin next Monday with an event called “A Peace of My Mind.” During the studio event, students, faculty and other members of the UM community will have the chance to answer the prompt, “The UM I want to create is…” “A Peace of My Mind” was an initiative started in 2009 by photographer John Noltner, who has since visited college campuses and other public spaces around the country. Noltner said the idea for the event all began with the question: What does peace mean to you? Since then, it has expanded into several multimedia ventures, including a podcast and two books. Alysia Steele, assistant professor of multiple platform journalism, recommended
Noltner to the university after meeting him last year. Steele said she hopes this event will prompt students to talk to each other. “His work is quite powerful, and I was happy to share (one of his) book(s) with Vice Chancellor Katrina Caldwell,” Steele said. “I am thrilled John is on campus to enlighten our campus with forward-thinking, thoughtprovoking work.” Noltner will set up his studio on Monday and Tuesday in Bryant Hall, where participants can describe the Ole Miss they want to create. “What we hope to do every place we go is … help the community articulate their mission, vision and values,” Noltner said. “We want to encourage people to recognize that there’s a lot of work to do in the world, and it’s our work. And … if we see something that we want to change and something that we want to improve, then we
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should go to work and do that.” Noltner said he will explore different backgrounds than he has in his previous work when he heads to Oxford. He said the closest he’s been to Mississippi is Memphis, and he is interested in seeing what people have to say about the often divisive history of the state and the university. “I grew up and have always lived in the upper Midwest, so I haven’t spent much time in the Deep South,” he said. “I know there’s a lot of amazing history — both on campus and in the area — and I hope that some of that is reflected in the stories that we gather.” After spending time in the studio gathering stories and ideas from those in the community, Noltner will deliver the “This is UM” keynote address. Noltner said he plans to incorporate the common themes of the week and weave participant stories into his speech. Though most of the exhibits
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Soccer looks to build on recent success ahead of Missouri CHANCE ROBERTSON
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The 8-4-1 Ole Miss Rebels take on the 4-6-2 Missouri Tigers in their fifth SEC game of the season on Thursday night in Columbia. The Rebels are in the middle of a good run following a brief twogame skid against Memphis and Tennessee. Since those two losses, the Rebels have beaten Auburn, who was No. 9 in the nation at the time, and forced a draw against No. 5 Texas A&M last Friday. These results have helped Ole Miss claim the sixth spot in the SEC and second in the western division, with seven points. This success can be attributed to the balanced style of play the Rebels have utilized recently. The defense has stepped up during the last two games, holding Auburn to nine total shots after the Tigers put up a 25-shot effort against LSU. Ole Miss had another good g showing against Texas A&M, conceding just a single goal during the game. This is made more impressive by the facts that Auburn is second in the nation in overall goals scored and Texas A&M is tied for third.
Goalkeeper Marnie Merritt’s key defensive performance has been a huge part of the the team’s recent success. Merritt made nine saves in the game against A&M to keep her team in the game, including a last-second save as time expired to secure the draw. Merritt has 19 saves in her last three games combined and currently has a .717 save percentage this season. Although the offense has slowed down from its blazing start, the Rebels are scoring goals at crucial moments in games, which has produced positive results. The team’s 31 goals place Ole Miss third in the SEC and tied for ninth in the nation. All-time goal scoring leader CeCe Kizer continues to be the key offensive player for Ole Miss. Her 11 goals lead the team and the SEC and have her tied for third in the country for overall goals scored. The senior is also tied with junior Gabby Little and sophomore Grace Johnson for the most assists on the team, with four so far this season. The team will look to extend its streak of good results in SEC play to improve in conference standings. The offense is in for a physical contest against Missouri but
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CeCe Kizer runs the ball during last week’s game versus Texas A&M. Ole Miss and Texas tied the game 1-1. should be able to score for the third straight game against a Tiger defense that has only produced one clean sheet in
its last four matches. After the game against Missouri, Ole Miss will face the Arkansas Razorbacks
at home on Sunday, before traveling to Baton Rouge to face the LSU Tigers on Thursday.
Women’s Golf heads west for Ron Moore Intercollegiate MACK GORDON
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The Ole Miss Women’s Golf team will travel to Highlands Ranch, Colorado, this weekend to compete in the Ron Moore Women’s Intercollegiate at the Highlands Ranch Golf Course from Oct. 5-7. Ole Miss will join 15 other schools at the event, including the University of Denver, Washington State, Minnesota, Nebraska, Colorado State and Kansas, among many other solid programs. The 2017 Ron Moore Intercollegiate Champion, New Mexico, is not in this year’s field. The Rebels are coming off a T9-place finish at the Mercedes-Benz Intercollegiate in Knoxville. Ole Miss started slow but
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Julia Johnson surveys the ball in flight during the 2018 NCAA Women’s Golf Championship practice round in May. used a solid final round to jump up the leaderboard.
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score, with a 283. Julia Johnson led Ole Miss with a three round total of 219(+6) to finish T12, individually. Ellen HutchinsonKay shot a 222(+9) to finish T23. Conner Beth Ball finished with a 225(+12) to place T38. Kie Purdom also cracked the top 50, with a 225(+12) to place T38. After one event, Johnson leads the Rebels with
a stroke average of 73. Hutchinson-Kay isn’t far behind, with an average of 74, followed by Ball and Purdom, who each have an average of 75. Three of Ole Miss’ top four performers from the MercedesBenz Intercollegiate are underclassmen, with Kie Perdom being the sole upperclassman to finish in the top 50 at the event. The Ron Moore Intercollegiate will mark the beginning of four straight weeks of competition for the Rebels. Following its trip to Colorado, Ole Miss will host the Magnolia Invitational from Oct. 14-16 in West Point at the Old Waverly Golf Club. After the Magnolia Invitational, the Rebels will get back on the road, traveling to Louisville, Kentucky, to compete in the Cardinal Cup from Oct. 20-21 at the University of Louisville Golf Course. Ole Miss wraps up its fall schedule in Texas with the Jim West Challenge from Oct. 28-29 at Kissing Tree Golf Club in San Marcos, Texas. Ole Miss will then be off for the winter, resuming play for the late winter/spring portion of the season on Feb. 25.
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Phillips continues to cement himself as the Rebels’ bellcow BEN MILLER
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Heading into the 2018 season, a cloud of uncertainty surrounded the running back position on the Ole Miss offense. Jordan Wilkins was drafted by the Indianapolis Colts, and Eric Swinney was ruled out for three weeks after receiving a mono diagnosis. Weeks later, there’s no question who the Rebels’ bellcow is now. Scottie Phillips has cemented himself as the top back on the Ole Miss roster, with three games of 100 or more rushing yards, including a 204-yard performance in the season opening win over Texas Tech. Offensive lineman Greg Little spoke about Phillips’ breakout year. “Before the season started, I told y’all he was special, if I’m not mistaken” Little said. “He’s learning every week — getting better. I think he’s gonna be our bellcow from here on out. We’re going to be leaning on him a little more now because (Phil) Longo is seeing him doing his job. Longo
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Ole Miss running back Scottie Phillips fights off a Southern Illinois defender during the home opener earlier this season. wants him to get more touches. Our job is to block and let him (Phillips) do what he does.” Offensive coordinator Phil
Longo wants to lean on Phillips’ running game even more, with the offense hitting somewhat of a roadblock lately. The passing
game has not been firing like it was at the beginning of the season, and Ta’amu’s confidence is looking down. Nonetheless,
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Phillips is performing, no matter the competition. “It feels good, you know,” Longo said. “It’s just, if he could get 100 (yards) in a win, that’d be better. It’s just getting him those yards, getting him rolling, getting him that confidence. That was our biggest thing this year was improving running the ball better than last year, and I think we’re doing a better job than last year.” Phillips has the type of talent as a ball carrier that makes him almost matchup-proof, and the offensive line appreciates how much easier its job has been with him at tailback. “His feet are unbelievable,” Little said. “He makes guys miss when we’re on a block and they come off late. He’s got that quick twitch that’ll make guys miss. He helps us out a lot. He’s always going downhill, which makes life much easier.” That being said, Little spoke about what it’s going to take to overcome the struggles the team has been having lately, as a whole. The defense has looked as dreadful as usual, but the offense has been surprisingly weak and messy. “We just have to come out here and work — that’s all it is,” he said. “Football has ups and downs. We’re going to have bad weeks, and we’re going to have good weeks. It’s just coming in here and learning little things.” Moving past a crushing defeat in Death Valley, the squad is looking forward to homecoming on Saturday against LouisianaMonroe. Little expressed his excitement at the matchup despite the struggles the team has had. “They (Louisiana-Monroe) play extremely hard. They get after it,” Little said. “They play ruthless, and I like that. I like defenses that get after it. They don’t really care about their bodies. They play reckless, and it’s gonna be a different type of challenge than people think.” The homecoming game versus Louisiana-Monroe will kick off at 3 p.m. Saturday at VaughtHemingway Stadium.