THE DAILY
MISSISSIPPIAN
Thursday, October 6, 2016
Volume 105, No. 33
T H E S T U D E N T N E W S PA P E R O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F M I S S I S S I P P I S E R V I N G O L E M I S S A N D OX F O R D S I N C E 1 9 1 1
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SASI hosts teach-in on race and privilege Ole Miss reports student death abroad LYNDY BERRYHILL
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Senior sociology and African -American studies major Dominique Garrett-Scott serves as the president of Students Against Social Injustice. SASI hosted what Scott called a “teach-in” on Wednesday evening on the Union
Plaza. The teach-in was a interactive session to promote discussion among students. The discussion focused on oppression, different types of privilege and how to work together to create change. More than 20 students attended.
“Collective liberation is all about solidarity,” Scott said. Scott said collective liberation involves recognizing that you have certain privileges that intersect with your marginalized identities and those can be utilized to
uplift and help your peers. “None of us live in a vacuum independent of one another,” Scott said. “Liberation is a group effort that requires everyone’s participation.”
22-year-old Ole Miss student’s death is currently under investigation after he died in China. Frank Anderson, a fifthyear senior and Chinese major, died Saturday, Oct. 1, in Shanghai. The Ole Miss Study Abroad office was unable to comment on the exact circumstances of Anderson’s death Wednesday evening. He was studying abroad with the Ole Miss Chinese Flagship program, but Anderson was also a Croft scholar and a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity. Donald Dyer, chair of modern languages and co-director of the UM Chinese Language Flagship Program, said the department is heartbroken over the loss. “The entire Ole Miss
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Student withdraws from university after viral comments CLARA TURNAGE
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Student Jordan Samson withdrew from Ole Miss after apologizing for a Facebook comment that sparked controversy and a student protest in the Lyceum on Sept. 23. “I hope you can find forgiveness in your hearts for me,” Samson said in a statement from the university Wednesday. “I do not want this post to
define who I am.” Though Samson is withdrawing from the university as a student, he is not leaving campus, according to Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Brandi Hephner LaBanc. Samson will work with the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation and the Center for Inclusion and Cross Cultural Engagement in a practice called restorative justice. “We will be checking in with him weekly and then meeting
biweekly to keep up,” Hephner LaBanc said. “He’ll be in our community but not in classes.” The statement released by the university communications said Samson “will develop a plan that will provide him with learning opportunities and restorative justice activities.” Hephner LaBanc said Samson withdrew from the university voluntarily. “He agreed to all of this on his own. This was not a sanction the university gave him,”
Hephner LaBanc said. “I think it was a mutual conversation in getting to that point.” Around 8:30 Wednesday morning, Hephner LaBanc and other members of the university administration met with leaders of the UM NAACP. Makala McNeil, who was in the meeting, said the university wanted feedback on whether or not the revised statement the chancellor sent out on Sept. 23 was satisfactory. “They want to make this an
integrated part of students and administration working together,” McNeil said. “For us, we don’t want to have to do a sit-in and a protest every time this happens.” Rather, McNeil said she hopes that when students have issues on campus in the future, they will find administration open to feedback. William Winter Institute Academic Director Jennifer Stollman said the UM NAACP will
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