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Thursday, October 20, 2011
Occupy Wall Street protests edge closer to Oxford BY WILL BEDWELL williambbedwell@gmail.com
The Occupy Wall Street Movement has been edging closer to Oxford, as protests began in Memphis in the past two weeks, and the protest is going global, as far away as Brussels, the capital of Belgium. This speedy world-wide spread of protests started with just over a thousand people protesting the greed of Wall Street investment bankers and has grown to include hundreds of thousands of protesters in 900 cities around the world, according to “The Atlantic” magazine. The movement originated as a protest against the current state of the economy, which the group blames on Wall Street dealings and the tax system in the United States. Chuck Smith, a political science professor at the University of Mississippi, describes the protests as “frustration with the distribution of wealth in the country as it has evolved in the last 30 years.” Many students, as well as Americans, are not yet sure what to think about the protests. Jana Newcomer, a freshman journalism and pre-law major, said she is neutral on the protestors stance, but thinks the protests are a good thing. “It’s refreshing to me to see that people are exercising their right to practice free speech,” she said. “It’s really good to see people actually taking a stand.” When it comes down to placing blame for this occurrence, Smith said Wall Street is the perfect target many Americans feel have contributed to this problem. “The obvious poster-chilSee WALL STREET, PAGE 5
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Paula Deen visits Oxford on book-signing tour BY KELSEY DOCKERY kqdockery@gmail.com
When it came to naming her new cookbook, “Food Network” icon Paula Deen was a little hesitant when her publishing company, Simon and Schuster, told her what they wanted the title to be. “Personally, I was a little uneasy because I didn’t want people to think in any way that I was being irreverent,” she said. “But, the definition of Bible means handbook; there might not be a lot of people out there that know what the correct definition of Bible is, but it is handbook. So it makes sense to me, and I wanted so badly for this to be that handbook that every kitchen had.” Deen’s new book, “Paula Deen’s Southern Cooking Bible,” hit shelves on Oct. 11. The TV personality visited Oxford on Wednesday to sign copies at Off Square Books. After her television show,
“Paula’s Home Cooking” took off, Deen started writing cookbooks to further bring her lifestyle and recipes into her viewers’ homes. The latest of her 14 cookbooks, the “Southern Cooking Bible” is meant to be a book that people will keep forever. “When I got married at 18, I was given the ‘Better Homes and Gardens’ cookbook,” Deen said. “I have moved probably 36 or 37 times since 1965, when I got the book, and I have managed to keep that book and it sits proudly on my shelf in my kitchen. I thought it was a wonderful book, and I wanted to recreate a more updated version of that book, and I feel like I’ve done it.” For Deen, cooking, mainly Southern cooking, is the way she shows love to her family and how she hopes people will use her new book; to show love to their families by making her recipes. “When I was raising my
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Paula Deen shakes the hand of one of her fans as she and her husband, Michael Groover, sign her new cookbook, Paula Deen’s Southern Cooking Bible.
children, not having enough money to go out and buy the newest gadgets, I was always
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Students, citizens gather to protest Amendment 26
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A large group of protesters against Amendment 26 assemble in front of Court House in Oxford on Wednesday.
BY KATHRYN WINTER kathryn.winter2011@gmail.com
In front of the courthouse on the Oxford Square Wednesday night, a “Vote No for Amendment 26” rally took place. Amendment 26 is on the ballot for the Nov. 8 election, and has been controversial within the state. Betsy Chapman, an organizer of the event, referred to the event as the “Save the Pill
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Rally.” “We’re calling it the ‘Save the Pill Rally,’ as it has been widely publicized that there are a lot of questions about how 26 will affect birth control,” she said. “The problem is that nobody can say for sure how it will, whether or not it will, but were just raising the questions that we think are good questions to ask.” Chapman is part of a group of women who met through a
discussion group and started working on the “Vote No” campaign. Each woman worked on different things before the group decided to collaborate together in order to organize its ideas. “The most important questions to be asked are the ones by women students about how this will be affecting their birth control options,” Chapman said. “They are at a time when it is not good to have a child in the middle of their education. I believe that mothers and babies are better off when the mother is prepared to have a baby.” University of Mississippi graduate student Jacquelyn Kyle attended the rally because she thinks it’s important to make it clear that Initiative 26 is not just about abortion rights. “It’s also about birth control because of the way birth control works, or one of the ways it works is preventing implantation of a fertilized egg, which
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would be classified as murder or killing a person under this initiative,” she said. Kyle said she believes Amendment 26 has a strong chance of failing. “It has a lot of repercussions for invitro fertilization,” she said. “It would regulate it out of legality. You could be investigated for miscarriages now. I think that it’s an awful initiative all around. I think that if they want to go after abortion rights, they would word it differently.” Another group at the rally was the Law Students for Reproductive Justice, an Ole Miss chapter. The group is a new organization that was introduced this year and is not just in Mississippi, as there are several chapters nation wide. Elizabeth Feder-Hosey is the founding president of the chapter. “We’re here because this is See RALLY, PAGE 5
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