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Student charged in Campus food bank ongoing success deadly car accident The University of Mississippi’s Food Bank has proven to be a success on campus since its Nov. 8 launch.
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Ole Miss student John Howard Strickland has been arrested and charged in the car accident that claimed the lives of Ole Miss students Sarah and John Wheats in October.
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LEFT: John Howard Strickland; RIGHT: Sarah and John Wheats
BY JENNIFER NASSAR thedmnews@gmail.com
Oxford Police Chief Mike Martin confirmed that University of Mississippi student John Howard Strickland has been arrested and charged with DUI in the car accident that killed Ole Miss students John and Sarah Wheats in October. “John Strickland has been charged with two counts of aggravated DUI (does not mean DUI alcohol, includes all toxicants),” Martin said. Strickland, a junior business major from San Antonio, collided into the Wheats’ vehicle on the 18th Street overpass on Highway 6 on Oct. 27. Sarah Wheats, 24, was pro-
nounced dead at the scene and her brother John Wheats, 30, died after being air-lifted to the Regional Medical Center in Memphis. Strickland was treated for minor injuries. After the accident, a warrant for a blood toxicology test on Strickland was requested by Oxford police. Martin is unable to give exact results of the test due to the accident being a criminal case. Strickland responded to his arrest warrant this past Wednesday and bond was set at $35,000. “Aggravated DUI carries up to 25 years in prison for each offense,” Martin said. Strickland faces the possibility of 50 years in prison.
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Anthropology senior Mary Margaret Saulters is the co-director at the UM food bank. The food bank opened earlier this month to help students in need of food.
BY SUMMER WIGLEY sswigley@go.olemiss.edu
Students on campus have created The University of Mississippi Food Bank to provide food for students who are not able to afford meals. “The Food Bank was launched Thursday, Nov. 8 and began serving students on Nov. 12 in the old math lab, Kinard Hall,” said Mary Margaret Saulters, co-student director of the food bank. Robert Cummings, director of the university’s Center for Writing and Rhetoric and faculty sponsor for the food bank, said the food bank is a
permanent organization. “We are located in Kinard 213 Monday through Thursday at various times and we are staffed,” Cummings said. The food bank was open during the Thanksgiving break and plans on being open when needed, according to Cummings. “We were open on a call basis,” he said. “Camp Best, advocate in the Office of the Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs, and I left our phone numbers on the front door in the event we needed to open for a student who needed food.” The food bank is led by a
committee of faculty and students and stands firm with the anonymity for students that come in need of food. “Students must have an Ole Miss ID, but all clients retain anonymity,” Cummings said. Since its launch, the food bank has gained success and recognition. Saulters was grateful for the donations that were made. “We were lucky to have the support of a number of organizations on campus, who organized fundraisers and canned food drives so that our shelves were fully stocked on Monday when we opened,” Saulters said. Cummings believes that students will learn from participating in the food bank. “While there are many practical business skills involved, such as management, budgeting and marketing, I think that students will always remember that they learned how to be sensitive and aware of the needs of others,” he said. “We might not be able to always solve big problems, but we can ameliorate them by remaining practical and building community around our shared principles.”
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The Law School Student Body (LSSB) Senate has conducted a five-question online survey of the law student body. There were 217 student responses — 41 percent of LSSB — according to second year law student Cory Ferraez. Last month, the LSSB passed
a proposal for an alternative to the university’s new smoking ban, which goes into effect in January. “We are confident there are better solutions than an outright ban,” Ferraez said in a previous interview with The Daily Mississippian.