The Daily Mississippian – November 12, 2012

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MISSISSIPPIAN T h e S t u d e n t N e w s pa p e r

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I think that Obama needed another four years to get started. The first four years, he was getting used to everything. The next four years, he will actually start making changes for the people and the country.

Randall Bolden Theater Junior

I wasn’t satisfied with the election based solely on the electoral votes as opposed to the popular votes.

MORGAN KOOMES

Elementary Education Freshman

I am an independent voter, and I would have seen benefits and disadvantages from both sides. I was more concerned for the division I felt was coming among friends. That (division) was evident over social media.

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Law school honors veterans Chair of Community Service for the Law School Student Body (LSSB) Katelyn Harrell discusses the involvement of the law school at the Veterans Home of Oxford to honor and celebrate Veterans Day.

BY GRANT BEEBE thedmnews@gmail.com

The Christian Science Monitor of Nov. 7 reported that youth voters once again influenced the outcome of the presidential election. Citing data from the National Exit Poll, The Monitor reported that millennials aged 18 to 29 made up 19 percent of the electorate in this election cycle, up one percentage point from 2008, which was already a record-breaking youth vote turnout. President Obama, again, won the support of young voters; The Monitor reports he carried 60 percent of millennial voters compared to the 37 percent who favored Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. Analyses conducted by CIRCLE, an independent research organization that tracks youth engagement in politics, indicates that if Gov. Romney had received 50 percent of the youth vote in swing states such as Ohio, Virginia, Pennsylvania and Florida, as many as 80 additional electoral votes could have been won. The New York Times election map for this year’s presidential election documents that Lafayette County favored Romney with 56.8 percent of voters in the county casting See ELECTION, PAGE 6

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The U.S. Navy Commodores Jazz Band performed at the Gertrude Ford Center for Performing Arts last week.

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In a recent interview with WLOX-TV on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, James Meredith said he was troubled by what happened on the Ole Miss campus last Tuesday after the re-election of Barack Obama. “I’m advising all of the students at Ole Miss, white and black, that the Bible says there will be wars and rumors of wars, so you know there is going to be bad talk,” Meredith told WLOX-TV Saturday. “Anybody that lets themselves be sidetracked by foolishness, it’s not only something wrong with what they’re mad about, it’s some-

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thing wrong with them.” In an interview with the Sun Herald this past week, Gov. Phil Bryant said he first thought of the riots of 1962 when James Meredith enrolled at Ole Miss when he heard of the disturbances on campus. “My second thought was, ‘How dumb can you be?’” he said. “If you are in college, you have to realize the sensitivity of the rest of the nation looking at Ole Miss. For that to happen, it would be worldwide news. It’ll be playing in Paris somewhere.”

The Law School Student Body (LSSB) and the Black Law Student Association will be volunteering at the Mississippi State Veterans Home of Oxford for its annual Veterans Day ceremony today from 9 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. Katelyn Harrell, LSSB chair of community service and third-year law student, said the idea for the law students to serve the veterans came from a friend. “One of my friends, Rebecca Wilks, had just said ‘Hey, I’d really like to see us do something with the Veterans,’” she said.

Harrell, whose job is to coordinate community service events for the law school, said anybody in the law school is invited. “We’d love to have anybody,” she said. Harrell said it’s important, not just for the law school, but for everyone to take part. “I think it’s something important for everybody to do,” she said. “I think it’s important that we remember where our freedom comes from and those who came before us.” Harrell also wants to honor her grandfather’s memory. “My grandfather was in the 104th Timberwolves in the inSee VETERANS, PAGE 6


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