The Daily Mississippian November 10, 2022

MISSISSIPPIAN

UM’s enrollment increases

MARY BOYTE thedmnews@gmail.com

With a record freshman class totaling 4,480, Ole Miss’ enroll ment has increased 5.1% since fall semester 2021, passing all oth er public universities in the state.

The Institutions of Higher Learn ing released the enrollment data for Mississippi’s public universities on Nov. 2. Ole Miss stands out on the list as the only university with a pos itive increase compared to fall 2021.

The difference is an increase of 1,111 since the previous fall, reaching a total of 22,967 students across all Ole Miss campuses, including the Uni

versity of Mississippi Medical Center.

Overall, enrollment at Missis sippi’s eight public universities fell 1% from 76,510 students to 75,755. This, according to IHL, is slightly less than the national average for public universities. The smallest de crease was at Mississippi State Uni versity, which saw a decrease of 1.9%.

Eduardo Prieto, vice chancellor for enrollment management, said he credits some of this increase to the new Jim and Thomas Duff Center for Science and Technology Innova tion, which is set to open in fall 2024.

Greek life members disagree with dues going to politics

CLAIRE NANCE HAL FOX thedmnews@gmail.com

If you ask members of Greek or ganizations where exactly their dues go, they may say to social events, for meals at the house or to their na tional organizations. What they may not know is that a portion of their dues, directly or indirectly, may be donated to political campaigns or used to lobby for legislation.

Political action committees, usu ally referred to as PACs, are organi zations that raise money privately with the goal of influencing elections or legislation. The Fraternity and

Sorority Political Action Committee, also known as “Frat PAC,” lobbies for the interests of Greek organi zations by supporting alumni cam paigns and legislation that main tains the Greek culture and system.

As a super PAC, the fraternity and sorority committee is able to ac cept and spend an unlimited amount of money to influence elections.

“Fraternity and Sorority PAC exists to aid federal Congressional candidates who support policies that defend and enhance the frater nal experience for today’s college students. We are bipartisan and

ASB update: Two bills passed

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The Associated Student Body held a formal senate meet ing Tuesday, Nov. 9. Two bills were presented and passed.

Bill 22-17: Executive of fice candidates must disaf filiate from Greek organi zations during campaigns

In a 33-2-1 roll call vote with one “no” vote and two “abstain” votes, ASB senators passed Bill 22-17, stating executive posi tion candidates must disaffil iate from their Greek organi zation during their campaign.

There was extensive debate from the senators about the exact

stipulations included in this dis affiliation. President Lila Osman gave an example of a candidate leaving the GroupMe for their re spective Greek organization and refraining from going to chapter meetings during the duration of their campaign. The bill passed with the understanding that the committees will further define “disaffiliate” in the coming weeks.

Attorney General Maddy Ryan, who presented the bill, said there were certain events that oc curred during the past election cycle that prompted the creation of this bill. The events, accord ing to Ryan, are confidential.

Bill 22-7: The honors college make blood do nation a permanent op

tion for Community Ac tion Challenge hours

In a unanimous vote, ASB senators passed Bill 22-7, mak ing blood donation a permanent option for students in the Sal ly McDonnell Barksdale Hon ors College to gain CAC hours.

Liberal arts Sen. and Chair of the Student Life Commit tee Taylor Kelly, while pre senting the bill, explained that she hopes this legislation will benefit both honors students and the Oxford community.

“I think that keeping accessi bility open for students to get their CAC hours while simultaneously helping our community benefits everyone involved,” Kelly said.

Election

The position of Lafay ette County Court Judge will head into a runoff election, according to the Lafayette County Circuit Clerk’s office. The run off election will be held on Nov. 29. Those who wish to vote absentee can cast their ballot at the Lafayette County Circuit Clerk’s office between Nov. 19 and Nov. 26. Lafayette County’s first County Court Judge ever will be a woman.

RUNOFF: Tiffany Kilpat rick (2,160

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Court of Appeals

Judge District One, Position One

WINNER: Jim M. Greenlee (10,365 votes, 98.75%)

ELYSE LITTLETON thedmnews@gmail.com

10th annual Egg Bowl Run

meet University of Mississippi ROTC students in Calhoun City.

The Egg Bowl game ball will travel more than 80 miles in the hands of Mississippi State and Ole Miss students on Tuesday, Nov. 22, marking the 10th an niversary of the Egg Bowl Run.

The organizations will trade off at the Calhoun City Square, and University of Mississip pi ROTC students will deliver the ball to Oxford, completing more than 12 legs of the run with a finish line at the Lyceum.

Chancery

Court Judge: Chancery Dis trict 18

Place One:

WINNER: Lawrence L. “Larry” Little (10, 610 votes, 98.91%)

Place Two: WINNER: Bob Whit well (10,358 votes, 98.86%)

Circuit Court Judge: Circuit District Three

Place One WINNER: Gray Tolli son (10,485, 98.37%)

Place Two WINNER: J. Kelly Luther (6,027 votes, 53.08%) Shirley Byers (5,266 votes, 46.38%)

Place Three

WINNER: Kent E. Smith (10,214 votes, 98.88%)

The University of Missis sippi and Mississippi State University’s Military Sci ence and Leadership orga nizations annually kick off the rival Egg Bowl game by bringing the game day ball to the school hosting the bowl.

“For cadets, it’s a lot of fun to beat out State’s cadets. During the run, cadets and cadres alike encourage each other by crack ing jokes and pushing each other to do better,” said Con ner Curry, a senior in ROTC.

This year, Mississippi State University Reserve Officers Training Corps students will begin the run in Starkville and

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consider only issues that are unique to the undergraduate fraternity and sorority expe rience: preserving freedom of association, ending hazing and providing safe and afford able housing,” FSPAC Pres ident Andrea Bechtel said.

The FSPAC claims to be “truly bipartisan” despite having contributed more to Republicans in every elec tion cycle except 2008.

According to Opense crets.org, the FSPAC raised $1,050,975 in the 2019-2020 election cycle, with 52.28% of that going to Republican candi dates. In 2018, 60% of FSPAC money went to Republicans while 40% went to Democrats.

For the 2022 election cycle, a total of $742,774 was raised and $784,341 spent, with 47.53% going to Democrats and 52.47% going to Republicans.

“No student dues are be

The tradition of the run be gan in 2013 and has success fully received support from the Starkville and Oxford commu nities, who contribute to the canned food drive that takes place along the way. Donations can also be made on the uni versity’s campus until Nov. 21. A donation box in Barnard Hall accepts non-perishable foods. Online donations can be made.

The yearly competi tion between rival schools sparks student involvement, and this year, the Universi ty of Mississippi’s program advocated for students to support runners from Cal houn City via Instagram.

ing used to provide direct support to any candidate,” Bechtel said. “Only personal money contributed by indi viduals can be used to give direct support to political candidates. By law, corpo rate/organizational contribu tions go to an account sepa rate from individual donors.”

Despite this, a large por tion of fraternity and sorority member dues go to the hous ing corporations that manage on-campus housing for the chapters, and the primary cor porate donations to FSPAC come from the housing cor porations that are funded by member dues, per the FSPAC website. Additionally, mem bers of the executive boards for the national headquarters of these Greek organizations, whose salaries are partly made up of member dues, are frequent donors to FSPAC.

“Contributions to the FSPAC are overwhelmingly personal donations from indi vidual fraternity and sorority alumni. Donations from na

tional fraternities and sorori ties are rare — only a handful have occurred during the time current Ole Miss students have been on campus,” Bechtel said.

In 2020, the Sigma Chi Fra ternity national organization donated $5,000 to FSPAC. The Phi Delta Theta Frater nity national organization donated $5,500 in the same year. Neither chapter at the University of Mississippi re sponded to The Daily Missis sippian’s request for comment.

Many members of Greek organizations at Ole Miss want to see their dues go elsewhere.

“I don’t think this should even be a possibility. I don’t think Greek life has any correlation with politics,” Sarah Fortin, a junior com munication sciences and disorders major and mem ber of the Mississippi Beta chapter of Pi Beta Phi, said.

In 2020, the Pi Beta Phi Fraternity for Women national organization donated $2,500 to FSPAC. The University of Mississippi chapter of Pi Beta

Phi declined to comment. Hayden Pierce, a junior international studies ma jor and member of the Beta Beta chapter of Beta Theta Pi, commented on the lack of transparency and the chap ter members’ right to de cide where their dues go.

“Members do not know whose campaigns the PAC is funding and why. These are decisions I feel that Greek members should have more of a say in,” Pierce said.

Many students feel the primary purpose of Greek organizations is to contrib ute to philanthropic efforts and strengthen the core val ues in their members, not influence national politics.

“The purpose of Greek life is not to sponsor political par ties or candidates. Any donat ed money from a fraternity or sorority should be going to philanthropic organizations,” Martha Nichols, a junior political science major and member of the Nu Beta chap ter of Alpha Omicron Pi, said.

The Egg Bowl game is scheduled for 6 p.m. Thanksgiving Day at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium.

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Period@UM hosts women’s health forum

ods, birth control and oth er things in a safe space.”

Period@UM hosted a fo rum in the Gertrude C. Ford Student Union on Nov. 7 with members of Student Health Services answering questions about women’s health in a safe, judgment-free environment.

Nurse practitioner Miele Hudspeth and Director of Health Services Alex Lang hart used the presentation to educate students about different types of birth con trol, menstruation and any other concerns the audience had. They provided informa tion on the resources offered by Student Health Services, such as STD testing, preg nancy testing, annual female wellness exams, birth con trol, education and more.

President of Period@ UM Maggie Walker, a se nior Public Policy Leader ship and integrated mar keting communications major, described the impor tance of education and the motivation behind this event.

“We, as a collective orga nization, think education is so important because so of ten women are not aware of what is going on with their bodies physiologically during menstruation,” Walker said. “We wanted to hold this fo rum to provide an opportu nity for all gendered students to be able to learn about men struation from a qualified source and have the chance to ask questions about peri

Walker, who credited Chan dler Cohn, education chair for Period@UM, as the force be hind the forum, hopes such events will help people better understand women’s health.

“By having free events open to the community, we hope to allow women and men to ex pand their minds around the topic of women’s health and menstruation. These conver sations help educate women around their bodies, destig matize menstruation in gener al and raise awareness around period poverty,” Walker said.

To continue supporting women’s health, Walker said the university could host uni versity-sanctioned sessions for women to ask healthcare professionals questions with out the task of scheduling a formal doctor’s appoint ment. She said the univer sity also could promote dis course with women while increasing accessibility to women’s health counseling, resources and safe spaces.

Walker also acknowl edged ways that the univer sity has supported the cause.

“The university has been immensely helpful in support ing Period@UM’s initiatives thus far. Most notably, in part nership with Dr. Holland’s PPL leadership class last se mester, we asked the univer sity to help fund and manage menstrual product dispens ers in major restrooms across campus. They were incredibly receptive to our proposal, and

pledged significant financial commitments. Dispensers will be installed through a ‘pilot program’ in numerous on-campus restrooms soon. We are thankful that when we ask for support and help, the university is typically quick to assist,” Walker said.

Walker acknowledged oth er groups and departments on campus that were supportive

of Period@UM’s, including the veterans center, the health center and the honors college.

Period UM will continue to provide support for students.

“In the future, we will con tinue promoting these pillars to make a difference for all menstruators at UM. For ed ucation specifically, we are working to promote menstru al health on our Instagram

through mini-info series. In addition, we are going to be tabling to raise aware ness around period pover ty. We will continue to make menstrual products free in on-campus restrooms, pro mote sustainable menstrua tion and conduct campus-wide donation drives to serve the Oxford community be yond Ole Miss,” Walker said.

“The University of Missis sippi is enjoying great mo mentum with the construc tion of our STEM building, a capital campaign that has raised more than $1.2 billion

to support our core mission, and winning athletic pro grams,” Prieto said. “Families and students from Mississip pi and across the nation see that and our status as a lead ing research institution, our history of offering an incred ible student experience at a terrific value, and they want to be a part of this place.”

Prieto expressed his appre ciation for the enrollment team and his colleagues in the Of fice of Marketing and Commu nications, and said they now need to effectively manage the uptick in enrollment so they can keep students at Ole Miss.

“Our record-high retention rates show that students who come here are generally happy

and fulfilled with their overall experience,” Prieto said. “Now, our university has to manage the growth effectively, and university leaders are evaluat ing what’s needed to do that.”

Prieto said in order to keep up the enrollment rates, the university is look ing for new programs.

“Under Chancellor Boyce’s

leadership, we have invested in new programs, new tech nology and more,” Prieto said. “We must continue to move forward as a university and find new and exciting ways to tell our story to the next gen eration of Ole Miss students.”

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Period UM hosted a women’s health forum in the student union on Nov. 7 where students could ask questions related to women’s health and consult professionals.

‘A Difficult Legacy:’ Nashville author to highlight gender bias in country music at Thacker Mountain

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Marissa R. Moss was born and raised in New York City. Despite a lack of market for country music in the area, Moss’ father exposed her to the musical genre from a young age. Though reluctant at first, Moss went on to develop an affinity for country music.

She has since traded the Big Apple for Music City — Nashville — so that she can pursue her writing career fulltime. Moss has gained acclaim as a freelance journalist, with her articles posted in Roll ing Stone, American Song writer, Billboard, NPR and Nashville Scene. In addition, Moss is the 2018 recipient of the Rolling Stone Chet Flippo Award for Excellence in Coun try Music Journalism for her stellar writing and extensive knowledge of country music.

Moss’ most recent en deavor is her debut book, “Her Country: How the Women of Country Music Became the Success They Were Never Supposed to Be.”

Today Moss is set to stop in Oxford and discuss “Her Country” at the weekly Thack er Mountain Radio Hour.

Moss’ book is centered around three leading wom en in country music today — Kacey Musgraves, Maren Morris and Mickey Guyton. Moss discussed their rise to success, while also highlight ing the difficult roads they traveled, and other groups

who were discriminated against in the genre due to its history of limited voices.

“The consistent thread through the women that I fo cused on in the story was that they fell in love at a very ear ly age with women that they heard on the radio — like LeAnn Rimes, Shania Twain and The Chicks. They did hear them on the radio. They were visible,” Moss said. “They felt like country music and a career in country music was something that they could do. Now, if you turn on the radio, you don’t have that experi ence. There’s very little chance that a woman or anyone sit ting in the backseat of a car on the way to school is going to hear a woman’s voice, or any voice that is not just a straight man on country radio.”

Addressing the lack of female airplay, Moss be lieves the gender gap is root ed in stubborn familiarity.

“Nashville is so slow to move and change, and there’s a lot of fear there. If you build your house on the brought-in foundation, you become scared to move or change anything in the house for the fear that it will collapse,” Moss said. “I think their houses are literally made out of cards. The cards are people named Luke, Ja son and Chris, and it certain ly doesn’t help it that 90% of those programmers are white men making those decisions.”

Though the power of the consumer appears limited in today’s country music mar ket, Moss believes move

ments by active country mu sic fans are the only way to bring change to the genre.

“Calling radio stations is probably not going to do it, but people still have an enormous amount of power,” Moss said. “I do think just using your ticket buying power and your merch buying power works. That’s what helped keep Kac ey Musgraves so successful — she doesn’t have country radio, but her fans turn out to shows in arenas and buy mer ch. That allows her to contin ue to be as artistically creative as she wants because she’s successful on her own terms.”

Moss revealed that since the release of her daring book, she has received a surplus of rude messages calling her a faux fan of the genre, but she said that brings her to the real ization that she is going down the right trail when it comes to changing country music.

“You would only go through all this trouble about some thing you really care about and that you love. That’s how I feel about country music,” Moss said. “Country music was, from a marketing perspective, designed to separate and seg regate. It was split into hillbil ly records for white people and race records for Black people. And that’s a difficult legacy to move on from if you don’t acknowledge and repair to the degree that you would need to, and we have not done that.”

You can hear Moss talk more about “Her Country” at 6 p.m. today during the Thack er Mountain Radio Hour.

Marissa R. Moss with her book: “Her Country: How the Women of Country Music Became the Successes They were Never Supposed to Be”

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A large crowd turned out for the Thacker Mountain Radio Hour live show in The Grove on June 27, 2021.

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‘Wakanda Forever’ and the impact of it’s Black and Latino representation

PALEIF RASPBERRY thedmfeatures@gmail.com

On Nov. 11, Marvel’s “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” will be in theaters nationwide.

The sequel’s release after a four-year delay, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the death of lead actor Chadwick Boseman, has fans’ emotions high everywhere, includ ing on the Ole Miss campus.

The film’s plot, accord ing to the IMDB website, is “The people of Wakanda fight to protect their home from intervening world powers as they mourn the death of King T’Challa.”

Many members of the iconic cast are returning members, including Angela Bassett, Lupita Nyong’o, Dan iel Kaluuya and many more.

Mexican actor Tenoch Huera joins the cast to portray the main antagonist, Namor.

Fans of the movie fran chise, as well as the comics, have expressed their enthusi asm for casting an indigenous Mexican in a blockbuster.

Alex Cabello, who is the treasurer of the Latin Ameri can Student Organization and of Mexican descent, talked about his excitement for the casting and what it means for Latino representation.

“We

industry,

usually stereotypical representation,” Cabello said. “I am definitely excited for (Huera) to be a part of (this film). A lot of us are shad owed and pushed aside, so it gives insight into the culture.”

Following the San Diego Comic-Con panel for the mov ie in July, TikTok creators Charles Bryant (@canthony bryant) and @auntiewiggz. official introduced the idea for all Black people to wear white with accents of purple and gold on opening night. White is supposed to hon or the ancestors. As a way to include non-Black people of color, they suggested white with accents colors that cor respond with their culture.

Some Black student lead ers on campus addressed the importance of repre sentation in the franchise.

Black Student Union Secre tary Sydni Davis talked about Black people being able to see themselves in roles that aren’t one-dimensional. She also said the movies are a great medium representing the di versity of the continent of Af rica and its many countries.

Deshauna Lee, co-pres ident of the Honors Col lege Minority Engagement

Council, reminisced about her first time watching the original movie and the con nection she felt with other Black peers from her school.

“I went to a predominant ly white high school, and there were 20 Black people in the entire school,” Lee said. “We all got togeth er, we all wore our natural

hair, and we all wore black. We got pizza and went as a group, and that was powerful because some of those peo ple I hadn’t ever spoken to.”

Lee believes the return of “Black Panther” will “cre ate pathways for Black peo ple to play heroes all the time and not only civil rights activists, slaves or some

The haunting resonance of ‘Till’

WILL JONES thedmfeatures@gmail.com

Within a state with as frac tured a racial history as Missis sippi, the 1955 murder of Em mett Till remains one of its most tragic stories, capitalized by the judiciary injustice that followed.

It was only a matter of time before this story received the major motion picture treatment.

At the very least, this Holly wood production — partially shot in Greenwood, Miss. — raises the level of awareness surround ing the overall tragedy, which is an achievement in its own right.

But “Till” seeks to go deep er, respectfully honoring the legacy of the 14-year-old Afri can-American boy cruelly killed in the Mississippi Delta after be ing accused of offending a white woman, as well as sharpening the impact of this critical sto ry’s ripples throughout history.

Following her son’s mur der, Mamie Till (later Mamie Till Mobley), played by Dan ielle Deadwyler, seeks to right the wrongs of this injustice, picking up the pieces of a lega cy that becomes continuously belittled by the offending race.

This historical friction is where “Till” most successfully operates, with its heroine’s in ternal tug-of-war between an emotional and logical approach

within a system that will not take either viewpoint seriously.

“He is in just the right shape,” Mamie Till says in re sponse to criticism of allow ing photographs of her son’s deformed body to be pub lished. “The world is going to see what they did to my boy.”

Deadwyler is fantastic throughout, displaying a neces sary conviction and anger sel dom seen in Hollywood protag onists. The highlight of the film, a one-take scene of Mamie be ing cross-examined in the Talla hatchie County Courthouse, al lows these conflicting emotions to play out in real time, draw ing the viewer further inward.

Deadwyler, who is surely to land an Oscar nomination, is bolstered by a strong sup porting cast, including Sean Patrick Thomas, Whoopi Gold berg (who also served as a pro ducer on the film) and Jalyn Hill as the lovable Emmett Till.

Director Chinonye Chukwu directs the picture with grace, al lowing early intimate moments between mother and son to play out with a candid verve and tenderness, deftly transform ing a story of racial impunity into one of familial devastation.

This devastation is height ened by the film’s fortunate avoidance of the typically bland period-piece color palette, with

The movie’s heightened swells of melodrama may not

coalesce as smoothly with the lived-in realism found in its shin ing moments, yet “Till” remains a movie that is very much worth seeing and worth championing.

Despite the story taking place nearly 70 years ago, the

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body that is impoverished.”

“‘Black Panther,’ to me, means showing great Black leaders and great Black faces and all the various things that they can do. There are strong Black female leaders. There are warriors. There are intel lectuals. There are politicians. I think ‘Black Panther’ broad casts that very well,” Lee said.

film, along with a series of powerful ending title cards, re mind viewers of its immediate as well as its timeless impact.

“Till” is playing in theaters nationwide.

are kind of represent ed in the Hollywood

but it’s

Letitia Wright arrives to the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever premiere on Nov.

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Danielle Deadwyler and Jalyn Hall in “Till.”

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cinematographer Bobby Bu kowski opting for a more Rock wellian atmosphere — one that eventually becomes uprooted, without ever feeling exploitative.

It’s finally that time of the football season that every Ole Miss Rebel has been waiting for — the Alabama game. A game of this magnitude cannot go without a playlist of its own.

Here are a few songs to help Rebel fans prepare for the big fight between the Landsharks and the Crim son Tide on Saturday:

1. “I Hate Alabama” — Conner Smith

No song puts it better than the ballad banger from country upcomer Conner Smith. I’ll be keeping this one on a loop until kickoff in Vaught-Hemingway Stadium.

2. “Don’t Stop Believ in’” — Journey

True Rebel fans never stop believing it is their year to tear down the Crimson Tide. Jour ney was talking directly to Ole Miss Rebel fans. This song was written especially for us.

3. “Industry Baby” — Lil Nas X & Jack Harlow

“This one is for the cham pions,” Nas X sings on this hype track. Any Rebel fan can instantly relate to this one for this line alone.

4. “The Champion” — Carrie Underwood & Lu dacris

Yes, Carrie Under wood, we are the champi ons … or at least, we will be.

5. “All I Do Is Win” — DJ Khaled, T-Pain, Luda cris, Snoop Dogg & Rick Ross

Other than LSU’s win, the Rebs have gone undefeated this season. Though I’m sure

Alabama will put on an in teresting show, we all know who really deserves the win. And besides, LSU was able to defeat the Crimson Tide, too.

6. “History” — Lauren Alaina

History will indeed be made when Ole Miss takes on Alabama. It’s comeback season. They definitely will be remembering our names, as the country star puts it.

7. “... Ready For It?” — Taylor Swift

They won’t be ready for it, but we sure will be with “The Music Industry,” herself, by our side. Ole Miss will share its own rendition of Swift’s “Reputation” album on game day. Just call it “Reputa tion (Ole Miss’ Version).”

8. “We Will Rock You” — Queen

How do I do the “at” sym bol in a playlist? I want to tag Alabama Football to let them know that we are, in fact, going to rock them.

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“Hotty Toddy” — Josh Abbott Band

Ole Miss is known for hav ing “Hotty Toddy” as its catch phrase. It flows well, holds a cool rhyme — what more could you want? Meanwhile, Alabama is out here telling people to roll tide. Like, what does that even mean? How does one fold off-brand red? Personally, I just do not get it.

10. “So What” — P!nk

Hopefully, Ole Miss will take home that game day trophy on Saturday, but regardless of what hap pens, we know that we are still the best. We lost? So what? We’re still rock stars!

Sports

How can the Rebels hand Alabama its third loss of the season?

CAMERON LARKIN thedmsports@gmail.com

The Rebels come into this weekend’s matchup ranked No. 11 with an 8-1 record, while Nick Saban’s Crimson Tide rolls into Oxford off of a devastating loss in Baton Rouge. Ole Miss has the edge over Alabama in the SEC West standings, so this game is paramount to the Rebels’ chances of reach ing the conference title game.

Ole Miss will need some help from other SEC teams in or der to reach the championship game, but head coach Lane Kif fin and his squad can only focus on their remaining schedule.

There are a few things Ole Miss can take away from Ten nessee and LSU on how to beat the almighty Crimson Tide.

In both its losses this sea son, Alabama got out-rushed pretty significantly. Between quarterback scrambles and great running back play, Tennessee and LSU with ered down the Alabama de fense as the game went on.

Luckily for the Rebels, they have a running back tandem that is unmatched nationwide in Zach Evans and Quinshon

Judkins. They also boast Jaxson Dart, who is in the top four in quarterback rushing in the SEC.

Alabama is 1-2 in SEC road games this year, with its only win coming at Arkansas. Al though Vaught-Hemingway is no Neyland or Death Val ley, Rebel fans know how to show up for big games.

This Alabama team is Sa ban’s most penalized team to date, and many of those are false starts caused by crowd noise. This means that the Ole Miss faithful will play an integral role in the Reb els’ efforts on Saturday.

Ole Miss is hot off its bye week, and Kiffin could not be happier about it. The Rebels, plagued by injury, limped to their Week 10 break. However, on both offense and defense, the Rebels will have healthy bodies for the first time in a long time.

Kiffin can substitute quite of ten and throw numerous differ ent looks at this Alabama team.

It is hard to talk about Ala bama without mentioning the reigning Heisman Trophy win ner, quarterback Bryce Young.

Young has been on an ab solute tear this season, and it is because of him that the Tide

has only two losses. He changes the game in so many ways, so Ole Miss will have to keep him in check on all levels of the field.

If Ole Miss can establish a run game, get the fans in volved early and contain Young,

its chances of sending Ala bama back to Tuscaloosa with its third loss are favorable.

No one should ever count out a Saban-led team, especially one coming off a loss, but Kiffin is very familiar with how that

program responds to hardships, so he will have his guys braced for an early punch in the mouth. This highly ranked match up will come down to wheth er Ole Miss can weather the storm that is the Crimson Tide.

Ole Miss men’s basketball wins 73-58 against Alcorn State

CAMERON LARKIN thedmsports@gmail.com

The Ole Miss Rebels took on the Alcorn State Braves in a season opener that did not disappoint.

Ole Miss walked out of the San dy and John Black Pavilion with a 73-58 win backed by its high-in tensity defense, timely shots and

a phenomenal student section.

Although this was supposed to be a tune-up game against the Braves, Alcorn State made it a battle in the first half. The Rebels struggled offensively for the great er half of the game – the team fin ished shooting 38% from the field.

Ole Miss really flexed its mus cles on the boards, totaling 37 compared to Alcorn State’s 27.

When the Rebels got going, it was apparent who the more physical team was. Alcorn State got pushed around in the paint toward the midway point of the second half.

No matter what group of five head coach Kermit Davis rolled out, they gave their all on the de fensive end. More often than not, the Braves got a shot up with under eight seconds on the shot clock. The pure length and phys icality down low were simply too much for Alcorn State to handle.

Starters Myles Burns and Matthew Murrell came up big on the defensive end, finish ing with two steals each. The defense carried over from last year and will continue to im press as the season wears on.

Ole Miss was without its twotime Gatorade Player of the Year, Daeshun Ruffin, so the scor ing and playmaking roles had to fall somewhere else. Scoring the ball was Murrell’s special ty in this game, as he finished with 20 points while shooting 41% from three. The playmak ing and ball-handling duties became a team assignment.

Even though the offense looked stale at times, things were still happening on that side of the ball. The Rebels have estab lished that they will crash the glass after every shot, resulting in countless second-chance oppor tunities. The Rebels did not cash in on all these opportunities, but fans can expect a higher conver

sion rate as these players become more comfortable in their roles.

Last but certainly not least, Rebel fans came out to support the men’s basketball team in a big way. Energy from the stands tends to elevate player performance, and that was especially the case against Alcorn State. After the Rebels found themselves in a first-half battle, the student section took it upon themselves to contribute to the game in any way possible. By the end of the game, the Pavilion

was rocking, and that is when Ole Miss pulled away from the Braves.

Davis and his players were ex tremely grateful for the support they received in the season open er. They showed this appreciation by stopping at the student section before heading to the locker room.

Ole Miss faces off against Flori da Atlantic University Friday, Nov. 11, at 6 p.m. CST in the SJB Pavil ion, and the Rebels would appreci ate another rocking environment to help them pull out another win.

Zach Evans, Jaxson Dart and Caleb Warren celebrate after a rushing touchdown by Evans during a game against Auburn on Oct. 15.

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Ole Miss forward Josh Mballa blocks out an Alcorn State player after shooting a free throw during a game on Nov. 7

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College football pick ’em: Week 11

No. 9 Alabama at No. 11

Ole Miss: Ian Sparks

Prediction: Ole Miss 35, Alabama 31

This weekend’s matchup against the Crimson Tide is the biggest of the year for the Reb els, who need to win to keep their SEC West hopes alive. ESPN gives Ole Miss a 6.5% chance to win the SEC West, a large dropoff from LSU’s 87.5%. As of Tuesday night, Alabama is a 12-point favor ite to win Saturday’s contest..

Ole Miss is coming off a much needed bye week as in juries have plagued the Rebels in the past few weeks. As was evident in the game against Texas A&M, Zach Evans was pivotal to the Rebels’ rush ing success by giving head coach Lane Kiffin the ability to efficiently swap him and Quinshon Judkins to keep the defense in constant disarray. As for quarterback Jaxson Dart, he has progressed at a fast rate and has looked bet ter with each game this year. Facing Bama’s less- than-elite secondary, Dart could have a big game at Vaught-Hem ingway on Saturday.

That being said, this is still Alabama. There will be many former five-star recruits on the field coached by the great est to ever do it at the college level. Bryce Young is a very good quarterback at this level and can flip a game in an in stant with his arm. Running back Jahmyr Gibbs can tote the rock at a level like Evans does for Ole Miss, so there are no deficiencies talent-wise.

But, I like the Rebs in this one. With the majority of the team healthy and rested, play ing in front of an electric at mosphere will spur Ole Miss to take the victory. I’m not entire ly sold on Alabama even with Young and Gibbs, because as a whole this isn’t the disciplined team that we’re used to seeing from head coach Nick Saban.

later and the Tigers have knocked off Ole Miss and Al abama. WHAT? Am I reading that correctly? You’re telling me that LSU is in the driver’s seat in the SEC West with a chance to make the College Football Playoff? What a job head coach Brian Kelly has done with his squad. He out coached Kiffin. He outcoached Saban. It’s remarkable how resilient the Tigers have been this year. Now the question is if they can continue the course and not let their victory over Alabama distract them from a pretty good Arkansas team.

Arkansas has had its fair share of troubles this sea son. The Razorbacks, 4-3, are coming off a devastating loss to Liberty last week. Quarter back K.J. Jefferson struggled and threw two interceptions, the offense couldn’t really get it going and whenever it came to third down, the Razorbacks hardly converted. If the of fense can’t get it together, es pecially when the Tigers roll into town, it might get ugly quick. Arkansas does have a solid defense, but I think that LSU quarterback Jayden Daniels will be too much for the Razorbacks to handle.

No. 4 TCU at No. 18 Texas: Owen Pustell

Final Score prediction: TCU 34, Texas 31

The battle for Texas rages on Saturday with the Horned Frogs traveling to Austin to take on the Longhorns. With the emergence of head coach Sonny Dykes and the unprece dented success of quarterback Max Duggan, TCU has been on fire this year. The strength of this team rests in the offense with Duggan and company av eraging more than 43 points per game. Duggan has a clearcut No. 1 receiver in Quentin Johnston, who leads the team in receiving with 650 yards and presents a physical mismatch with any cornerback. Look for Duggan to lean on Johnston to make contested catches against a Texas secondary that is allowing almost 260 pass ing yards a game. Defensive ly, the most important mem ber of the secondary might be Tre’Vius Hodges-Tomlinson.

due to eligibility. The junior running back has terrorized defenses for all three years of his collegiate career, and TCU will need to play out of their minds to stop him. Robinson is averaging almost six yards per carry, has scored 14 touch downs and is a legitimate re ceiving threat out of the back field. If TCU can’t stop the run, it will put a lot of pressure on Duggan and the offense. And the weapons do not end there for Texas. Worthy has proven to be one of the fastest and most dynamic players in the country. His connection with quarterback Quinn Ewers has the potential to be legendary, if they can stay on the same page. Look for Texas to set up deep shots to Worthy using Robinson and the run game.

No. 1 Georgia at Mississip pi State: Cameron Larkin

Final Score Prediction: Georgia 45, Mississippi State 13

The No. 1 Georgia Bulldogs travel to Starkville to take on the Mississippi State Bull dogs. Coming off its impres sive win against Tennessee, Georgia is set up for great ness, but the Bulldogs from Athens have to focus on win ning out to achieve their goals.

It is scary that Georgia lost nearly all of its defensive starters to the NFL draft last year and still has one of the best defenses in the nation, but what is even scarier is the fact that the offense has final ly caught up to the defense. Georgia has weapons all over the field: Brock Bowers, Dar nell Washington and Ladd McConkey, just to name a few. Not to mention quarterback Stetson Bennett is coming into his own as the games go on.

Mississippi State has a passing attack that could give Georgia some fits and a ser viceable defense that head coach Kirby Smart should not overlook. Quarterback Will Rogers is a force to be reck oned with on the offensive side of the ball, and coupled with head coach Mike Leach’s air-raid scheme, Mississippi State could shock the world.

However, Georgia is a dif ferent kind of Bulldog. There

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Women’s basketball overcomes multiple deficits to take down Kennesaw State 72-60

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The Ole Miss Lady Reb els got a come-from-behind victory over a stubborn Ken nesaw State team 72-60 to open the 2022-2023 season in the Sandy and John Black Pavilion on Monday night.

The Rebels had early trou bles shooting the ball and end ed the first quarter down 18-14.

The second quarter proved to be a huge test of endur ance and will for the Reb els. They found themselves down in their biggest defi cit of the night, 18-25, but fought back to regain the lead to end the first half up 34-31 and never looked back.

The Rebels lost their home opener a year ago to Belmont before they went on a 13-game win streak, so when Ole Miss was down, there was a fear of another deflating upset loss.

“Well, I’m glad I’m not in here talking about a loss,” said head coach Yo lett McPhee-McCuin after the game. “Last year I was talking about a loss, so I’m a half glass full type of gal. You’re not going to hear a lot of complaints from me.”

McPhee-McCuin went on to say, “This is a new group, figuring a lot of things out. I think as we continue to grow, the competition is only going to get harder, but I think for our group, we are going to fly this plane as we go. It’s a lot of newness, a lot of peo ple have to work out some kinks, and I’m just grateful that we came out with a win.“

Three Rebels finished with 15 or more points in cluding senior guard Angel Baker, who was the safety net for this team throughout the night with 18 points, shoot ing 8-for-13 from the floor.

Junior forward Madison Scott finished with 16 points and shot 7-for-14 from the floor and junior forward Snudda Collins had 15 points, shooting 3-for-13 from the floor and a perfect 8-for8 from the free throw line.

Ole Miss controlled the glass against Kennesaw State, out-rebounding their opponents 41-28 and forc ing the Owls to commit 19 turnovers in the outing.

The Rebels still have some cleaning up to do. Although they won the game, they did not shoot the ball well from be hind the arch. The Rebels shot

17% from the three-point line.

“I watch my team every day, so everything that they did or did not do I’ve seen for about 21 practices,” said McPhee-McCuin after the

game. “So there is not go ing to be much of an over reaction for me. It’s really just show and tell. Like, ‘Hey here’s where we can get bet ter.’ Everything that I expect

ed showed good and bad.” Ole Miss will host South eastern Missouri State today in the SJB Pavilion. Tip-off will be at 6 p.m. CST and will stream on SEC Network+.

• Former Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

• Practiced at his privately owned law firm for 45 consecutive years - located at the same place, being the Oxford Square, Downtown, Oxford, Mississippi.

• Taught the Mississippi DUI Law and 5 different Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure courses each and every semester at the University of Mississippi for 29 consecutive years.

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Ole Miss guard Angel Baker drives toward the basket during a game against Kennesaw State on Nov. 7.

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First woman ASB president turns 100

“But my opponent was a man.”

RABRIA MOORE thedmnews@gmail.com

Maralyn Howell Bullion, the first woman elected stu dent body president at the uni versity, celebrates 100 years since her birth on Nov. 10.

Bullion, a sociology and English major, was elected in 1943. It was never her intention to run for stu dent body president. Instead she attributed her run to someone else making the decision for her. Bul lion described herself as someone who was involved in everything, so being president was no different.

“(My favorite part about being president) was being in volved in everything on cam pus and being able to know the student body better,” she said.

Bullion’s tenure as presi dent, however, was marked by World War II and the univer sity’s dwindling population.

“The student body was closer because of the war, and we had that wonderful feeling of being close to each other and smaller,” she said.

Bullion defeated a “very popu lar member of the DKE fraternity” to become president, symboliz ing that her election as president wasn’t solely based on the fact that many of the university’s men were leaving the university for the war.

“These were war years. Most of the men had gone off to war, so we women were hold ing things down,” Bullion said.

Many of Bullion’s friends and classmates never returned from World War II. The magnolia trees that line the road between Par is-Yates Chapel and Guyton Hall were planted by Bullion and her classmates in memory of the Ole Miss students who died in the war.

Bullion also recalled her time as president when the mil itary wanted to send troops to the university to train to be en gineers. One of her biggest chal lenges was deciding whether or not to allow those students to fully participate in campus life.

“The big challenge was ‘do we let them enter all of our activities as regular students, or do we keep them separate and a part?’” she said.

In the end, the student body decided to accept them as full students, Bullion saying that they ultimately added a lot to the lives of students at Ole Miss.

Since Bullion’s election as the first woman president, the univer sity has only had eight other wom en presidents, the current presi dent being the ninth. For Bullion, this is not necessarily a problem.

“We elect people, not because of their gender or color, but (based on) who the student body thinks will do the best job,” she said.

Being student body president wasn’t far from the only thing Bul lion did while at the university. She also joined Phi Mu sorority, where she eventually became pres ident, and she remains an ardent

supporter of the organization.

In addition to her participa tion in Phi Mu, Bullion also wrote for the Mississippian, served as society editor for the Oxford Ea gle and participated in archery.

After graduation, Bullion moved to Memphis and began working as a copywriter and proofreader for a pharmaceutical company. Later, she went to work in a writing position at the Red Cross in Atlanta, where she would meet her husband, Jim Bullion. Her life with Jim would include six children and lots of travel, including time outside of Par is, in Heidelberg, Germany and in many other parts of Europe.

According to a flier from Bul lion’s 100th birthday celebration, “Maralyn’s ancestors settled in Mississippi in the early 1800s, building log cabins and living off the land to create a home. Centuries later, their one-cen tury-old descendant lovingly carries on that legacy — help ing to make Oxford one of the very best places to call home.”

Bullion’s love for Oxford remains ingrained in her, and her memories of her time at the university bring her a sense of joy. Her hope is that the uni versity will continue to grow, in terms of size and diversity.

“I cherish my four years at Ole Miss,” Bullion said. “They were four of the hap piest years (of my life).”

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Who’s controlling birth?

BRILEY RAKOW thedmopinion@gmail.com

On June 24 of this year, the Supreme Court voted to over turn Roe v. Wade, dismantling federal legal protection for women seeking abortions. It was a Friday, and I was work ing at a summer camp without access to my phone or the news. As campers were leaving on Saturday morning, I received my phone only to immediately be bombarded with headlines.

Post after post, article after article, I stared in disbelief at what this meant. Despite having heard for years about the con servative “pro-life” movement, I never truly believed the Su preme Court would vote to take away women’s rights in 2022.

Years of safe access to abortion for victims of rape and incest, women with life-threatening pregnancy complications and those who do not have the emotional or financial capability of raising a child were gone, just like that.

Roe v. Wade was passed in 1973, a time when gay mar riage was illegal and no-fault divorce was only just beginning to be passed into law by indi vidual states. The AIDS epi demic had not yet peaked, and Watergate was a current event.

Even then, access to safe abortions was a right long over due. Women fought for decades to finally have rights to their own bodies and futures the way men have for millennia. When

the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, they established themselves against every thing those women stood for.

Mississippi is among the many states that have de cades-old abortion bans still in place, meaning our state could soon return to the same enforcement of abor tions from 50 years ago.

Gov. Tate Reeves has al luded to further repealing women’s reproductive rights through actions such as pro hibiting access to contracep tives and Plan B. The idea that women would once again be forced into unwanted pregnan cy through the lack of access to contraception is barbaric and wrong. It seems like Mississip pi has learned nothing from the countless studies showing that teaching and expecting absti nence is completely ineffective.

Without proper sex educa tion and access to reproductive health care, women are once again less than citizens, without the rights and information to take proper care of their own bodies.

Among the dissenting were Justices Stephen Bryer, Sonia Sotomayer and Elena Kagan. They said the court’s opinion means “a state can force (a wom an) to bring a pregnancy to term even at the steepest personal and familial costs.” Medical sit uations like ectopic pregnan cies, where the embryo devel ops outside the uterus, which occur in 1 out of every 50 preg nancies, may not be considered under new abortion legislation.

While Mississippi currently has exceptions to abortion regula tion for the life of the mother, many in the state legislature are fighting for total regulation, meaning nearly every ectopic pregnancy would end in fatality.

At what point do the Re publicans in office take into ac count the safety of women? I struggle to understand what is so “pro-life” about allowing a woman to die for the sake of an unborn fetus, and further what the right believes will happen when there is suddenly an influx of babies thrown into the al ready broken foster care system.

Being anti-abortion is not pro-life. It is pro-power. Estab lishing the inferiority of women through legislature has always been on the agenda of many men in government, and the over turning of Roe v. Wade was just one more step backwards for American equality. We should be truly embarrassed as a nation to have allowed such an inequita ble law to be in place once again.

America is supposed to stand for freedom, but how long can we continue to claim this when we so blatantly disregard the rights and liberties of women within our so-called great na tion? Until Roe v. Wade once again stands, and reproduc tive rights are protected for all women in all circumstances, American liberty will be nothing more than a cruel oxymoron.

Briley Rakow is a junior in tegrated marketing communi cations major from Lemont, Ill.

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