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FILM DOCUMENTS THE IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE IN MISSISSIPPI “Mississippi Yearning,” the latest movie from award-winning creators Baldwin Chiu and Larissa Lam, will be screened tonight at the Powerhouse as a part of Yoknapatawpha Arts Council’s Fall Cultural Round Table.
Andy Kennedy has been hired by SEC Network to be an in-studio college basketball analyst for the upcoming season following his short stint on the network last season. SEE PAGE 8
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‘The weight of where we’ve been’
Creative writing professor reads from memoir about race, weight, family
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Bailee Gray, a freshman from Kerrville, Texas, was struck by a vehicle while crossing the intersection of Northgate Drive and Sorority Row during the weekend of the Ole Miss home game against Alabama. The driver who hit Gray, Ole Miss freshman John Walsten, was arrested three days after the incident and has been charged with leaving the scene of an accident with injuries. Gray said she was walking on campus right beside the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority house when she was struck, and that she was “in the wrong place at the wrong time.” “I went to get a milkshake for me and one of my friends, and we had a jam out session in the car until around 1 a.m.,” Gray said. “I said goodbye to her and started walking back to my dorm.” Gray said the route she usually takes to her dorm has no light and no sidewalks, but this particular night she was cautious of her surroundings and decided to take an alternate route. “I was like, ‘Be smart here,’” she said. “I don’t want to walk up a hill like usual. I would rather walk down a hill, and this way has a sidewalk and a lit path.” Gray approached a crosswalk. She remembered a car stopping, so she proceeded to walk. “I know that I started walking across the street, and I threw my arm up to block my face because his lights were like even with my eyebrow,”
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Kiese Laymon reads from his new book “Heavy: An American Memoir” at Off Square Books on Tuesday afternoon.
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Creative writing professor Kiese Laymon candidly detailed his Mississippi childhood, his relationship with his mother and his struggles with his weight at Off Square Books last night.
Laymon, hailed as “the chief blues scribe of our time” by fellow scholar and author Zandria Robinson, read from and signed his new memoir “Heavy: An American Memoir” at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday at Off Square Books. “Heavy,” which is written directly to Laymon’s mother, is his third book. Before this
project, he’d published a novel, “Long Division,” and a collection of essays, “How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America.” Like these previous books, “Heavy” reckons with race, family, the South and both physical and metaphorical weight. According to the book’s description, the memoir “charts
his complex relationship with his mother, grandmother, anorexia, obesity, sex, writing, and ultimately gambling.” In response to an audience member’s question, Laymon said the story in “Heavy” truly started as an idea when he was a child, but that — to this
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Student joins national Latino law group GRACE MARION
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Rosa Leon was born into a military family in a small town in northern Guatemala, just south of the conutry’s border with Mexico. Leon, a first-year law student, is a founding member of the Ole Miss chapter of the Latino Law Students Association. She and LLSA member Julio Cazares represent the University of Mississippi nationally through their involvement with the Latino Law Students Association. “Julio is the director of national public relations so he is in charge of all of our pub-
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Rosa Leon represents the University of Mississippi School of Law at a constitution signing on Monday. licity, not just for our chapter but for every chapter in the nation,” Leon said. “And, I
am the director of membership, so I am in charge of all of the chapters in the nation
to make sure that they’re following our constitution and being active in their community and basically doing what they need to be doing in order to stay in good standing with nationals.” Leon founded the university’s chapter of the Latino Law Students Association this fall, and the chapter now has 20 members. “We promote Latinos in law and just betterment of Latinos in general,” Leon said. “Our chapter is doing that and also trying to promote just the law students in general. We’re trying to get our law students to be as successful as possible.”
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Jacob Gambrell wrote a piece arguing that the U.S. Senate is undemocratic and advocated for the reform of the Constitution itself to make it more democratic. While his argument is thoughtful and rational, I’d like to respond in disagreement. To begin, it is correct that the Constitution was a document that the founders didn’t necessarily like, but it was a compromise. The Constitution allows for diversity of thought, and that’s why Madison and Hamilton didn’t like it, but for different reasons.
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the only way you restructure the country the way liberals are suggesting…is to end the Republic.” Gambrell makes the quantitative argument that government, especially the Senate, doesn’t reflect popular opinion because of how few people can elect a majority to the Senate. While all of this is true, the Constitution was drafted and ratified with the same circumstances. Aaron Blake at “The Washington Post” points out that at the time, Virginia had 12 times as many people as Delaware. Moreover, the difference between the most populated biggest state and least populated smallest state— California and Wyoming—is smaller than it has been for most of the past 150 years. My friend is correct;, the Constitution doesn’t give us a democracy, but it does give us a republic. A, and although the Senate has its own issues, without it, the republic is dead. Reagan Meredith is a junior political science major from Monroe, Louisiana.
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liberty, “which is essential to its existence,” or by giving every citizen the same opinions, the same passions, and the same interests. Both of which, are impractical and would be a dangerous possibility in a true democracy. So, in a republic, we must control its effects. As Madison states later in the paper, “A common passion or interest will, in almost every case, be felt by a majority of the whole; a communication and concert result from the form of government itself; and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual.” In other words, the Constitution protects against the tyranny of the majority. This is precisely why we have the electoral college and the Senate. Smaller states didn’t want their authority taken away because of their smaller population, so the Senate was necessary for these states to ratify. Dr. Pradheep Shanker on this issue: “I stand by this. Our country is extremely diverse, and
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My overarching contention to Gambrell’s argument is that the only way to reform the Constitution to be more democratic is to abolish it wholesale. The United States is a constitutional republic, not a democracy. Article IV, Section 4 says, “The United States shall guarantee to every state in this Union a Republic Form of Government…” This leads to the creation of the Senate. Federalist No. 10, written by James Madison, was an argument for minimizing factions. Madison defined said factions as, “A number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.” The two methods of curing the mischiefs of factions are removing its causes or controlling its effects. He goes on to say that there are two methods to removeing a faction’s causes: by destroying
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The Daily Mississippian recently published a letter to the editor calling for “reparative justice” in response to the social media statements released by Ed Meek a few weeks ago. The writers proposed a threestep plan: remove Meek’s name from the school of journalism and rename it after Ida B. Wells, set up a scholarship fund for black female students entering the program and take down the Confederate soldier monument in The Circle. This three-step plan is in no way a proportional response to Meek’s comments and goes
beyond the scope of necessary actions to repair damage done. Removing Meek’s name from the school is understandable, as he asked the university to do so. However, neither a scholarship fund for female black students not directly affected by these statements nor the removal of the Confederate soldier monument has anything to do with the issue at hand. Instead, this is a pork-barreling tactic employed by the faculty and staff of this institution to promote a liberal agenda. The scholarship fund could cost Mississippi taxpayers thousands of dollars, and monument removal will cost even more, as it did for Dallas and San Antonio. Furthermore, it will serve to increase tensions between liberal and conservative groups on campus. This is not a response Ole Miss can afford. But, this letter points to a greater issue at hand: reparations. Politicians on the left side of the aisle have been talking about reparations for African-Americans for years in order to right the injustices
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done them since the institutionalization of slavery in America. While the concept seems virtuous on the surface, lurking below are many questions that have no answer, mainly who should receive reparations and how much is enough. Scholars have worked on answering these questions for years, but their solutions are anything but clarifying. There is simply no way to gauge the amount of harm that has been done to people in the past and to determine who should receive justice since those injustices did not occur in the present. This leads to another fatal flaw of reparations. If we continue to live in the past, we will never be able to move into the future. Look at the most recent example of astronaut Scott Kelly, who posted a quote from Winston Churchill, “in victory, magnanimity,” on his Twitter feed. He was instantly labeled a racist because Churchill was known to spout demeaning statements against minorities. How is it productive to dismiss the significance
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of one man in shaping Western society because of some character flaws? If that were the case, no person in the past could be quoted or exemplified by modern standards. Understanding the past and living in the past are not the same concept. One reminds man of where he is going so he does not repeat the same mistakes. The other cripples growth and further divides society as it marks those in the present with the same identity as those in the past. What was done to minority groups in the past was a horrible, dreadful act of degradation. As a country, we have moved past those institutions, labeling them for what they are. However, that is not how the left perceives societal realities today. Instead of bringing further progression to a more cohesive society, the left has served to alienate an entire population of American society. Lauren Moses is sophomore accounting and political science major from Dallas.
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HIT-AND-RUN
continued from page 1 she said. “I remember turning and throwing my arm up, and then I kind of remember screaming on the ground.” She would later learn that the impact had left her with a fractured pelvis, four compression fractures in her back, a fractured skull and a brain bleed. Gray was on life support until the Sunday after the incident occurred. Although she was conscious shortly after she was hit, Gray said she does not remember anything until waking up on Sunday. “I didn’t know what time it was. I thought I was sitting on the stairs by Kappa the whole time after it happened watching someone else get loaded up in the ambulance, but I was obviously seizing in the middle of the street,” Gray said. “I had the strangest out of body experience.” A bystander visiting from Alabama that saw the incident happen called an
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ambulance and held Gray in her arms until paramedics arrived, saving her life. Gray said another witness told her the driver got out of his car, saw her on the ground and then drove away. “I got in the ambulance and called my grandparents after I stopped seizing and was just like ‘Hey, I just got hit by a drunk driver, but I’ll be okay,’” she said. “I had a perfectly normal voice, but I guess it was just the shock.” Gray said when she arrived at Baptist Memorial-North Mississippi hospital, doctors told her they did not handle neurological injuries as serious as the one she had sustained, so she was flown to the Memphis hospital in the Life Flight Helicopter. “I got to the hospital here in Oxford, and they saw how much blood was coming out of my ears, so they got me a on a helicopter to Memphis,” she said. “They knew I was going to make it, but they didn’t know if I was going to have any severe brain damage or how long it was going to be ‘til I could walk again.” Gray proved to the doctors
Honestly, everything happens for a reason. I understand that sometimes people make mistakes, and I would have forgiven him if he had gotten out and helped me, but he just left me there to die.” Bailee Gray Freshman hospitality management major
she could walk and was in the hospital for a little over a week. “I was supposed to be flat on my back for two to six months, but I told the doctors I had plans,” she said. Two weeks after the accident, Gray went through formal Panhellenic recruitment and joined Alpha Delta Pi Sorority. “Honestly, everything happens for a reason,” Gray said. “I understand that sometimes people make mistakes, and
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continued from page 1 The two recently attended a Latino Law Students Association national conference in New York City. Leon said the Ole Miss Law School’s support gave them the ability to attend the conference. “We are very lucky to have the support of our classmates because without them, I don’t think we’d be able to do much of anything,” Leon said. Leon is currently working on a mentorship program to connect Latino Law Students Association members with local attorneys. “Each of our members is going to be assigned to an attorney — a local attorney — so that they have that one-on-one availability with someone who’s already practicing just in case they have any type of questions, so they’re a little bit more prepared when they enter into the workforce,” she said. The UM chapter of the Latino Law Students Association is also working on a program to prepare undergraduate students for law school. “Each member will get an undergrad person who is interested in attending law school, and they will help them through the entire process,” Leon said. The program will help undergraduate students as they start to look at law schools,
I would have forgiven him if he had gotten out and helped me, but he just left me there to die.” Gray said her community of support is one of the only things keeping her in Mississippi after the incident. “My friends keep me going. They come over all the time, and we eat lots of good food, watch videos and laugh until it hurts,” she said. “That’s all I do now. I wake up, go to class, do my work and the rest of my time is spent with my two friends, Bailey and Lauren.” Gray’s parents have been in Oxford caring for her since the incident. “I don’t walk to class; my parents take me,” she said. “They like to stalk me, too, so if you see an Audi driving by it’s for sure my parents.” University Police Department Chief Ray Hawkins said Gray’s injuries were more severe than others he has seen following on-campus accidents. “I think accidents happen,” Hawkins said. “There are a lot of variables that come into play, so it’s hard to say that
any one variable caused or didn’t cause this accident.” UPD is in the process of teaming up with Associated Student Body President Elam Miller, to start a campus safety committee next semester. “Our perceptions may be a little different than students. They may see something we don’t see, or they may see things in a different way,” Hawkins said. “The whole idea is to bring students to the table with UPD and talk about some of the safety concerns that they have so those things are on our radar and we can address them.” Mike Harris, director of parking and transportation, said the department has been adding “Pedestrian Crossing” signs in the middle of roads and crosswalks as a visual message for vehicles to slow down. “I feel that Ole Miss is safe, but I also believe there are things that can be done to enhance that safety, and those things are being done,” Harris said.
uncles attended the University of Mississippi. “When it came time to look into a law school I had a lot of influence from my family,” Leon said. Again influenced by her family, Leon said she has wanted to be a lawyer since she was a child. “I was talking to my mom about how I lost an argument with my friends, and my mom was like ‘Well you know how
you can never lose an argument again, right?’ and I was like, ‘What?’ and she was like ‘Well, become a lawyer,’ and then it stuck in my brain forever, and now here I am because I don’t like losing arguments,” Leon said. As a lawyer, Leon said she hopes to work for international soccer organization FIFA. “I am a former athlete, so I want to get back into sports,” she said.
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Rosa Leon takes part in a Constitution signing on Monday. study for the Law School Admission Test and write their personal statements for their law school applications. Leon said she chose to
attend law school at Ole Miss in part because of her family connections to the school. Her grandfather, grandmother and several aunts and
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LAYMON
continued from page 1 day — he is scared to tell this story. His previous works were simply building up to the honesty of “Heavy.” “I had to write ‘Long Division,’ which is just this, like, weird experiment,” Laymon said. “I had to write ‘How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others,’ which is another weird experiment in essayistic writing, in order to have the confidence in terms of skill to write something that I felt like could damage my relationship to my Mama and my family’s relationship to the world.” Laymon said that “Heavy” still isn’t perfect, though. “I still didn’t get it right but I’ll for sure be better with the next book,” he said. The memoir has already received praise from advance readers. The Boston Globe’s review, for instance, called the work “staggering,” writing that “Laymon lays out his life with startling introspection.” “Heavy” was longlisted for both the Andrew Carnegie Medal and the Kirkus Prize. At Tuesday’s event, Laymon read the beginning and end of a chapter titled “Greens,” which was published in full on Longreads recently. “Greens” focuses on Laymon’s trip back to Mississippi with his uncle from grad school in Indiana, visiting his Grandmama in the hospital and his struggles with an eating disorder at the time. From the beginning of the excerpt, Laymon’s writing regularly turned to the second-person, reminding his audience that “Heavy” is addressed to his mother. These moments make the memoir feel more intimate, while distancing the narrative
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Kiese Laymon answers audience questions at Off Square Books on Tuesday afternoon. from readers whose own experiences are far different than that of Laymon’s mother at the same time. “You were in Grandmama’s living room delicately placing a blinking black angel with a fluorescent mink coat on top of her Christmas tree while Uncle Jimmy and I were examining each other’s bodies in a one-bedroom apartment in Bloomington, Indiana,” Laymon writes in the beginning of the chapter. The chapter includes candid and cold descriptions of his own and others’ bodies placed alongside descriptions of heaping servings of chicken gizzards, greens, salt and vinegar chips and cornbread. Near the chapter’s end, Laymon combines the deeply,
shockingly physical details of his body with abstract thought about his own body. This juxtaposition — of physical and metaphorical weight — is a key theme of the book, Laymon said. “Whenever I looked at myself in the mirror, I still saw a 319-pound fat black boy from Jackson,” Laymon writes. “When I touched myself or saw how much I weighed or my percentage of body fat, I knew I’d created a body. I knew I’d made a body disappear.” In response to a joke in the audience about Laymon being a spokesman for Weight Watchers, Laymon reminded the crowd that the book is not necessarily advocating for weight loss. “It’s not a book that’s encouraging weight loss — I think that’s
pretty evident,” he said. “It’s encouraging us to contend with not talking about the weight of where we’ve been.” Eve Ewing, a writer, sociologist and professor at the University of Chicago, introduced Laymon. She recalled how the “magical” first time she heard Laymon read while they were both teaching at Vassar College illustrates Laymon’s ability to “transport” his audience. “It’s snowing outside. It’s beautiful. It’s packed sort of like this, and he begins reading,” Ewing said. “Instantly we’re all transported from New England to the funky, dirty hole of Mississippi.” Ewing spoke about how deeply Laymon had influenced her as a writer, academic and
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person in general. “I know if he touches you half as much as he touches me, you will be a lucky person,” Ewing said. “I want to thank everybody for coming out and supporting him, and I want to thank you for writing this book.” In his pre-reading thank yous, which included nods to Square Books owner Richard Howorth, Ewing and fellow professor Derrick Harriell, Laymon expressed his surprise at launching a book in Oxford. “When my first books came out, I never would have imagined a book launch taking place in Oxford, Mississippi, for a number of reasons,” Laymon said. “I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi. Oxford was a place we were taught to fear more than any other place in the world.” He went on to tell a story about his grandmother — who features prominently in “Heavy” — telling him two rules for being in Oxford when he first got a job at the university. First, she told him to get out of town before the streetlights turned on. Second, she said if he had to stay overnight he should stay in a hotel in nearby Batesville. For all of Laymon’s surprise, the event was well-attended. There were around 100 people at the reading and the line to get “Heavy” signed stretched halfway back through the rows of wooden folding chairs. Howorth, who introduced Ewing, noted that there were so many people that he had to give directions about what to do in the event of an emergency. While this sort of warning is not uncommon at Thacker Mountain Radio Hour airings on Thursdays, it’s an exception for a regular book reading to attract such attention.
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The Yoknapatawpha Arts Council will screen the feature documentary “Mississippi Yearning: Beyond Finding Cleveland” at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Powerhouse Community Arts Center. The documentary, created by Chinese-Americans Baldwin Chiu and Larissa Lam, follows the journey of the filmmaking duo as they trace their Chinese heritage all the way to Cleveland in the Mississippi Delta. Their last film, “Finding Cleveland,” received The Spirit of the Hoka Award at PHOTO COURTESY: MISSISSIPPI YEARNING the Oxford Film Festival in 2016. “Mississippi Yearning” is a documentary about the struggles faced by ChineseAn expansion of the original, Americans in the segregated South. “Mississippi Yearning” picks up where the pair’s last film left off. family and the discrimination on the Chinese Exclusion Act “Mississippi Yearning” folmany Chinese families faced of 1882 and Jim Crow laws. lows the story of Chiu’s father’s in the early 1900s, with a focus Chiu’s family owned a grocery
store in the Mississippi Delta, and the film examines how white, African-American and Chinese-American people interacted in rural communities during this time. The inaugural screening of “Mississippi Yearning” took place at Delta State University in Cleveland on Sunday. The movie was funded by a grant provided by the Mississippi Humanities Council. After the screening, movie-goers were treated to a Q&A session with the film’s creators. “’Mississippi Yearning’ is an American story that reminds us how this country was made up of people from around the world, even at its early stages, and how the contributions of the early Chinese in Mississippi subtly, yet significantly, influenced change in the history of the American South,” Chiu said in a press release.
Ruben Flores, a sophomore exercise science major from Brandon, said he plans on attending the movie screening. He said he was immediately interested in “Mississippi Yearning” after hearing about the movie’s focus on immigrant families and their assimilation into American culture. “My dad is an immigrant from Mexico, so I can relate to wanting to know where your family came from,” he said. “It’ll be interesting to see how (Chiu’s) story compares to my dad’s.” Before the screening, the arts council will host a Fall Cultural Round Table beginning at 5:30 that evening. Randy Cohen, vice president of research and policy for Americans for the Arts, will speak on the economic impact of art on Mississippi.
Liba 102 courses cover topics from drag shows to sports ALLEN BREWER
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Some students think writing is a drag. Others say writing makes them scream. From the perspective of Angela Green, core lecturer of writing and enrichment, this is a good thing. This spring, Ole Miss students will be able to choose from a wide variety of Liberal Arts (Liba) 102 sections with themes such as drag queen performances, horror movies and true crime, among others. “We designed these courses to appeal to specific students,” Green said. “We would rather get students in a class that both meets their time requirements and appeals to their interests. We are trying to provide as many offerings to different types of students.” Some of the new sections that will be added to the course schedule this coming semester are section 14, about “How to Live a Long and Healthy Life;” section 16,
exploring the question “What is Southern Music and Why?” and section 27, called “And the Fans Go Wild.” Writing instructor Shirley Gray, who will be teaching “How to Live a Long and Healthy Life,” said her goal for her class is to make students question what it means to be healthy. “For the second year in a row, the life expectancy of Americans has dropped,” Gray said. “Infants born this year are expected to enjoy a shorter lifespan than their parents or grandparents. This seems at odds with the incredible advances that scientists have made in understanding human health.” Students who take this class will learn about health topics through class discussion, selected reading and documentaries, research and writing projects and some out-of-class activities. An example of a health-related activity might be for students to see how easy it is to find healthy snacks around campus.
In “And the Fans Go Wild,” adjunct professor of writing Bill Hays and his students will explore the depiction of sports heroes in films. Some popular Liba 102 sections will be taught again, including “Writing Through Horror Film,” “Writing About True Crime” and “Gender’s a Drag.” This will be writing instructor Colleen Thorndike’s second semester teaching “Gender’s a Drag,” which will focus on how gender inhabits everyday actions. The class will discuss elaborate gender performances such as drag queens’ shows representation in the media. “In addition to reading essays, we’ll look at TV shows such as ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ and documentaries such as Katie Couric’s ‘Gender Revolution’ and Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s ‘The Mask You Live In,’” Thorndike said. Thorndike said she will change a few things about her section from last year. She said she plans to cut the unit about Disney movies and
teach more about how ideas and expectations based on gender are coded into cultural texts. Other changes will include new documentaries and projects for students. “Last year my Liba class was one of my favorite classes I have taught, and I hope this year’s class is even better,” Thorndike said. Students also have the option to choose from five sections of Writing (Writ) 102. Next semester’s sections of Writing 102 will include themes such as pop culture, food, environment, business and power and privilege. “The difference between the themes comes down to the kinds of texts the students use in the class,” said Wendy Goldberg, a writing core lecturer. “The themes also shape the kinds of questions we may explore in a variety of papers. We would like to see theme awareness and student choice rise.” Goldberg said she conducts a survey of Writing 102 each spring to see if the students selected classes based on
their themes. According to her, only 30 to 40 percent of students specifically chose what section to enroll in based on the theme of the course. “I really liked my Writ 102 class,” said Madeleine Porter, a sophomore English education major and writing center peer consultant. “To be honest, I didn’t know what theme I chose when I signed up for the class, so I was pleasantly surprised.” Liba 102 and Writ 102 fill the same requirements for graduation. While the classes have the same outcomes, students are not able to take both courses. To take either course, students must pass Writ 100, Writ 101, Honors 101 or Liba 101. “In many cases, (Liba 102 and Writ 102) will even have similar assignments, and they are equally rigorous,” Green said. “The main difference is that Liba 102 has (a) more specialized area because we often have people teaching those classes who are specialists in a particular discipline.”
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The Ole Miss women’s tennis team hosted the ITA Southern Women’s Regional from Oct. 12-15, placing second in both the doubles and singles divisions. Senior Alexa Bortles and freshman Isolde de Jong made it to the doubles’ final before losing to defending national champions Eden Richardson and Jessica Golovin of Louisiana State University in three sets (6-3,4-6,107). The singles’ final featured a matchup of senior Tea Jandric and Richardson that went the full three sets (6-3,1-6,6-2) before Richardson came out on top. Ole Miss had three partnerships for the doubles’ division, featuring Bortles and de Jong, junior Anna Vrbenska and senior Allie Sanford, and sophomore Sabina Machalova and Jandric. All of the Ole Miss pairs advanced to the Round of 16. Bortles and de Jong went on to defeat the duo of Monique
Burton and Katia De La Garza from the University of Southern Mississippi in the Round of 32, Yu Fujioka and Milka Pasanen from South Alabama in the Round of 16, Taylor Bridges and Paris Corley from LSU in the quarterfinals and finally, Andie Daniell and Moka Ito of Alabama in the semifinals. Vrbenska and Sanford would go on to beat Kennan Johnson and Anna Loughlan of LSU in the Round of 16 but ultimately lost to Daniell and Ito of Alabama in the quarterfinals. Machalova and Jandric were also victorious in their Round of 16 matchup before losing to Auburn’s Sophia Graver and Taylor Russo. In the singles’ division Jandric, Bortles, Machalova, Vrbenska and junior Tereza Janatova all made it from the Round of 64 to the Round of 16. Jandric and Janatova both had fantastic showings in their matchups leading up to their match against each other in the semifinals. Jandric defeated ULM’s Karolina Snita, Missis-
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Jandric and Janatova’s semifinal match resulted in a victory for Jandric with her sweeping the match 6-2 and 6-1. Both players did well in the tournament to place two Rebels in the top four of the single’s tournament. The finals lived up to the billing, with both matchups going the full three sets and the singles finishing through a tiebreaker. No. 92 Jandric faced No. 38 Richardson of LSU in the final, and Richardson eventually claimed the first-place trophy. Richardson defeated Jandric 6-0 in the first set and 6-2 in the third set. Jandric won the second set 6-1 and was able to turn it into an exciting final after a slow start to the match. Bortles and de Jong also took the second set in their championship match, with a 6-4 result, and forced the championship match into a tiebreaker. They ultimately came up short of a victory, losing 10-7. The Rebels’ next tournament will be the Auburn Fall Invitational on Oct. 26-28.
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Women’s golf places fourth in rainy Magnolia Invitational MACK GORDON
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Ole Miss Women’s Golf hosted the Magnolia Invitational (Oct. 14-16) this week at Old Waverly Golf Club in West Point. The final round of the tournament was cancelled due to heavy rain, making the results after the first two rounds final. Ole Miss shot a two day total of 580(+4) finishing in fourth place, nine shots behind Kennesaw State, who head home as the 2018 Magnolia Invitational champs. The Rebels were looking to repeat their victory in the 2017 Magnolia Invitational, in which they shot an impressive 854(10) to win by seven shots. Last year, Julia Johnson shot (-7) and defeated Memphis’ Abby Herrmann in a playoff to win the 2017 Magnolia Invitational individual title. Ole Miss opened with a first
round 289(+1), putting them only one shot back of the lead after day one. Conner Beth Ball led the Rebels, shooting an opening round 71(-1). Johnson and Pi-Lillebi Hermansson also got off to solid starts, shooting even par 72. “We are proud of the way the team played today,” head coach Kory Henkes told olemisssports.com following the opening round 289. “We came out of the gates strong and only made a couple costly mistakes down the stretch. ... At the end of the day it’s always nice to put yourself in contention after round one.” The Rebels struggled down the stretch on day two, shooting a team total of 291(+3). Ole Miss slid one spot down to fourth, nine shots behind first place. Ellen Hutchison-Kay had the best round of the day for the Rebels, shooting a 71(-1) and finishing T16th. Connor Beth Ball had another solid day,
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Kie Purdom drives the ball during a Women’s Golf practice earlier this season. shooting an even par 72 and finishing T10th. “We were disappointed that we weren’t able to play the final round due to weather, but that is something that is out of our control,” Coach Kory Henkes told olemisssports.com. “It shows that every round is important and you have to do your best each time you tee it up.”
Ole Miss’ fourth place outing at the Magnolia Invitational comes off the heels of a second place finish at the Ron Moore Invitational last weekend in Highlands Ranch, Colorado. The team shot a total of 871(+7) with Conner Beth Ball placing T2nd in the individual standings. The Rebels will now hit the
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road to play in the Cardinal Cup (Oct. 20-21) hosted by Louisville at the University of Louisville Golf Course in Louisville, Kentucky. The Cardinal Cup will be one of the final two tourneys on the fall schedule for the Rebels, as they finish the fall portion in two weeks at the Jim West Challenge.
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Andy Kennedy hired as SEC Network studio analyst JUSTIN DIAL
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Former Ole Miss head basketball coach Andy Kennedy has accepted an offer to become a college basketball analyst for ESPN and the SEC Network for the 2018-2019 season. The agreement comes after Kennedy’s multiple appearances on the network last March during the SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament. During his short stint as an SEC Network analyst during last season’s SEC Tournament, Kennedy provided interesting insight into the teams and players participating in the tournament due to his having faced them as the head coach of the Rebels. Kennedy will make his official debut on Wednesday at SEC Basketball Media Days in Birmingham, Alabama. “Having been a part of college basketball for over 28 years as both a player and a coach, including the last 12 seasons as a head coach in the SEC, I’m very excited to join the team at the SEC Network,” Kennedy said. The SEC had eight teams in the NCAA Tournament a season ago, a record high for the conference. “Coming off an unprecedented season with eight SEC teams earning NCAA Tournament
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Former head coach Andy Kennedy yells directions to players from the sideline during the game against Arkansas last season. bids, this league has never been better,” Kennedy said. Kennedy, who mutually agreed to part ways with Ole Miss following the 2017-2018 season, announced his resignation on Feb. 18 of this year.
Kennedy spent 12 seasons in Oxford as Ole Miss’ head basketball coach. During that span, he was named the 2007 SEC Coach of the Year, led the Rebels to a 2013 conference tournament championship and became the
all-time winningest coach in Ole Miss basketball history. His 245 wins as head coach put him at No. 18 of all-time in SEC history. Prior to his time in Oxford, Kennedy spent five years at the University of Cincinnati as an
assistant coach before becoming the interim head coach in his final season. He served as an assistant coach at his alma mater, University of Alabama at Birmingham, for six years before taking the job at Cincinnati.
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