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Student group demands university remove statue
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Student protesters march in the Circle to demand the removal of the Confederate monument on Wednesday. The protesters delivered a letter to campus administrators in the Lyceum also asking for the addition of a hate speech policy and a meeting with members of SASI.
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“What’s disgusting? Racist statues. What’s outrageous? UM values.” That phrase was chanted by around 60 students Wednesday afternoon during a protest in the Circle and the Lyceum. The protest, organized by Students Against Social Injustice (SASI), delivered a letter to officials in the Lyceum asking the administration to remove the Confederate statue that stands prominently on campus, enact a hate speech policy on campus and have a meeting with SASI members next semester about issues they say plague the campus. Em Gill, the secretary for SASI, has previously met with the administration, but said university
leaders have not been receptive to the organization’s demands. Gill said the university’s inaction shows its leaders are too afraid to remove the statue because they want to honor the wishes of some of the alumni who “pay the university’s bills.” “But, that’s not the right side of history,” Gill said. “That’s not morally just, and I think it’s cowardice that stops them from doing that. (The administration) has the power to remove the statue.” At a speech in the Circle, Gill told protesters that every student has a stake in discussion about Confederate symbols. “Currently, we have a statue on our campus that glorifies Confederates who fought for slavery,” Gill said. “We must change the status quo, protect the students of our campus and each other.” The university has a long history with Confederate monuments and symbols.
Not far from the Confederate statue also stands a statue of James Meredith, the university’s first black student to enroll on campus. The statue has previously been tarnished with a noose and Confederate flag, and the Ku Klux Klan have marched close nearby. Rod Guajardo, a university spokesman, said that university leaders have received and reviewed the letter SASI sent them. “With final exams scheduled next week, they look forward to meeting with our students for a conversation sometime early in the new calendar year,” Guajardo said. At a speech in front of the Confederate statue, SASI vice president Bianca Martinez said it’s time to stop “glorifying racist statues” that promote racism
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UM employees organize first labor union in campus history MCKENZIE RICHMOND
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United Campus Workers (UCW) has officially chartered the first registered labor union at the University of Mississippi. The campus chapter will become the “local,” or founding chapter of UCW, for the state of Mississippi, but the charter can expand to any public university within the state. The union was approved by its national organization, the Communication Workers of America. It did not have to seek approval from the university
because it is not a university-sanctioned organization, just a “group of workers who have formed a union,” as Jessica Wilkerson, union co-founder and assistant professor of Southern Studies and history said. Several university professors began organizing last year in hopes of establishing an Ole Miss chapter of UCW, a labor union group originally founded at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Karly Safar, an organizer with the Communication Workers of America, said UCW was initially founded at the University of
Tennessee-Knoxville as a result of a living wage campaign. “Custodians that worked in the dorms, in alliance with professors and students, launched a campaign for the university to pay all employees a living wage,” Safar said. “From there, they expanded to community colleges and most of the public higher educations in Tennessee.” Organizers of the Ole Miss chapter, Wilkerson and Ole Miss reference and instruction law librarian Ellie Campbell, have chartered the all-inclusive labor union with goals to resolve misconceptions about labor unions in “right-to-work
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Jessica Wilkerson, union co-founder. states” and to make sure university-employed voices are heard. “We are a wall-to-wall union, and that means we welcome
anyone who gets a paycheck from this university,” Wilkerson said. Mississippi is a “right-towork” state, which mean that unions are not illegal, but union membership cannot be a condition of employment. Wilkerson said the group held informal meetings last fall and in January 2018 to gauge the number of the campus faculty, staff and students who would be interested in starting a union on campus. Before chartering, UCW set a goal of recruiting 50 members
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Our infrastructure is a dire disaster To progressively grow as an ADVERTISING economy, a country cannot run SALES MANAGER without adequate and superior Rebecca Brown infrastructure. America’s dmads@olemiss.edu infrastructure though, according to the American SALES ACCOUNT Society of Civil Engineers’ EXECUTIVES 2017 Infrastructure Card, Sofi Ash was rated a D+ with various Cameron Collins categories ranging from a B Sam Dethrow score in rail, to a D- in transit. Isaiah Pugh This infrastructure, mostly Michael Rackers built in throughout the 20th century, has failed to keep up with the nation’s economic S. GALE DENLEY STUDENT MEDIA CENTER needs. Whether you believe in a free market system or a PATRICIA THOMPSON complete democratic socialist Assistant Dean/Student Media system, failure to maintain Daily Mississippian Faculty infrastructure will hold us back Adviser in the future. In 1935, the Works Progress
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Administration (WPA), founded by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, employed millions of people to massively build up the infrastructure across the nation that is still in use today. Implemented during the Great Depression, the WPA helped alleviate the problems of many, but most importantly, it gave people hope. The program typically helped pay for wages while the private sector would pick up the rest of the tab. It had its flaws, such as not employing many women or African-Americans. The nation’s current infrastructure is deteriorating and even in the state of Mississippi, countless bridges have been closed, as NBC News cited earlier this year. Implementing a new version of the WPA would put millions to work and further reduce the unemployment rates by offering living wage jobs rather than the massive increase of low wage jobs in recent years. The infrastructure report card asks for over 2 trillion dollars over the next 10 years, and while the White House has previously talked about such issues in the budget, the program needs to speed up with a massive program, rather than spreading out
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projects over multiple decades. If the federal government can afford multibillion-dollar jets or government subsidies on farm food, then it can afford to fix infrastructure that is a detriment to the entire nation’s economy. Our airports are a laughing stock to the world, like LaGuardia airport in New York City where then Vice President Joe Biden said that it seemed like living in a “third world country.” He went on to say, “Why did we lead the world economically for so long? We had the most modern infrastructure in the world,” according to Biden’s interview with NY Daily News in 2014. These fixes and investments won’t be cheap, of course, with Business Insider stating that almost $4.5 trillion in repairs would have to be completed by 2025 to fix the country’s infrastructure. Bipartisanship in this effort would be most beneficial given that three quarters of Americans would support an increase in taxes, as long as it would be for infrastructure projects only. Given politics’ focus of being involved primarily in foreign affairs, this would allow a moment of redemption among the
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general populace in terms of crossing the aisle for a chance of compromise on the domestic side. This is not asking for “more government” but more accountability from our politicians, an actual vision that the silent majority can get behind, and for some, it’s about the glory of it all, rather than just the honorable mention in global political talk. Our infrastructure is a dire disaster and given that there are Americans still unemployed or underemployed here in Mississippi and across the nation, without a doubt it would be ideal to implement a practical and efficient plan in the near decade rather than a century. Jonathan Lovelady is a senior sociology and geology major from Los Angeles.
CORRECTIONS Jaz Brisack is the 26th Rhodes Scholar from the University of Mississippi. Resolution 18-20 failed to pass in the Associated Student Body Senate.
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continued from page 1 for the founding cohort, Wilkerson said. After reaching the goal, the union began the process of chartering and becoming official. “Many unions in the South were at the forefront of fighting against racial and sexual discrimination, as well,” Wilkerson said. “I hope that our union builds on these legacies and works to make ours a fairer and safer workplace for everyone.” James Thomas, assistant professor of sociology and anthropology, is another early member of UCW. “Our mission is to unite the University of Mississippi’s diverse workforce — including part-time and full-time staff, faculty and student laborers — to address the critical issues we all face,” Thomas said. Thomas said the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment protects employees’ right to unionize. “You cannot be fired for joining a union,” Thomas said. “Unions are not antithetical to democracy. They are one of its strongest features. Unions are responsible for nearly every single significant gain American workers have ever received, from eight-hour workdays to weekends to paid leave.” Wilkerson said her mission is
for people to think something more of the word “union” when associated with UCW. “People hear ‘union,’ and they think wages and benefits, but we have a broader mission than that,” Wilkerson said. “We want to build and sustain social and economic justice in our workplaces and in our communities. We’re interested in the broad range of labor issues. If you come to work and feel unsafe because of racism, sexism or homophobia, that’s a labor issue. That would be something, as a union, we would want to address.” According to “Delta Rainbow” by Sally Palmer Thomason, black female laundry workers on campus in the 1940s organized a strike in protest of horrible working conditions and low pay. They received a small raise, better hours and several large fans for the warm laundry room, but no union was ever formed. “When workers feel heard and valued, then they are more invested in the overall success,” said Wendy Goldberg, core lecturer in the department of writing and rhetoric at Ole Miss and member of UCW. “While we have representative bodies at the university, such as the faculty senate and the staff council, we don’t have a body that represents everyone. The United Campus Workers fills this role.” United Campus Workers will represent every branch of employees rather than a specific
sector. “At a very basic level, I hope that I can better understand the needs of my colleagues, as well as other employees across campus— from custodial staff and food service workers to adjuncts and other non-tenure track faculty on campus,” said Jodi Skipper, associate anthropology professor and member of UCW. “Right now, I don’t see a pragmatic way of doing that outside of the UCW. I am also hopeful that the UCW can help to highlight issues around gender equity in salaries.” The UCW chapter on the Ole Miss campus has not established a specific campaign or focus. At the University of Georgia, the group led a campaign about employee parking fees. At the University of Tennessee, UCW carried out a campaign focused on safety and health hazards that custodial workers face. Wilkerson added that “lack of maternity leave … questions about benefits and that which affects all full-time employees” are issues that could be focused on in a unified labor union. “You can’t do much if you don’t even know what the issues are,” Wilkerson said. “It’s important for United Campus Workers in particular to think about who have been the most vulnerable employees, and if we can address some of their issues, the likelihood is that it makes it a better place for everybody.”
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continued from page 1 on campus. “These statues suffocate the air and keep the close-minded blindfolded,” Martinez said. “Black students and other students of color are tired of feeling isolated and underrepresented.” SASI member Matthew Abron said he hopes the protest
takes further steps than what’s previously done in the past about having a dialogue with students. “I think that the university is not doing enough to protect minorities or marginalized students on campus,” Abron said. “There needs to be a specific, written policy on how to deal with that. Hate speech needs to be taken more seriously, rather than just treating it like vandalism or bullying.”
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The legacy of Stephen Hillenburg, creator of “Spongebob Squarepants,” will live on in the memory of his fans KASSIDY DESNOYER
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Cartoon fans all over the world are mourning the death of Stephen Hillenburg, the creator of Nickelodeon’s “Spongebob Squarepants,” after his year and a half battle with ALS. “He was a beloved friend and long-time creative partner to everyone at Nickelodeon, and our hearts go out to his entire family. Steve imbued ‘SpongeBob SquarePants’ with a unique sense of humor and innocence that has brought joy to generations of kids and families everywhere,” Nickelodeon said in a statement. “His utterly original characters and the world of Bikini Bottom will long stand as a reminder of the value of optimism, friendship and the limitless power of imagination.” Spongebob Squarepants, the spunky, yellow sponge who lives in Bikini Bottom, made his debut in 1999 and continues to appear in new episodes each week in the series he stars in. It stands as one of the longest-running animated television series in history, with more than 250 episodes to date.
Aside from television show, Hillenburg produced two movies and a Broadway show that earned 12 Tony Award nominations. Hillenburg was a native of Oklahoma who had a love for drawing and marine biology. The undersea setting of his blockbuster cartoon was inspired by his time at Humboldt State University where he studied natural resource planning with an emphasis on marine biology in 1984. He went on to become a marine biology teacher in southern California, where he used his artistic skills as an instructional aid, illustrating lessons with oceanlike characters like those from Bikini Bottom. Always having a love for art and cartoons, he left teaching and enrolled at California Institute of Arts in Valencia, earning a degree in experimental cartoon animation. “The fact that (the show is) undersea and isolated from our world helps the characters maintain their own culture,” Hillenburg told the Associated Press in 2001. “The essence of the show is that SpongeBob is an innocent in
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a world of jaded characters. The rest is absurd packaging.” The series has won both U.S. and British Emmy Awards, Annie Awards, 14 Kids’ Choice Awards
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Netflix’s ‘Sabrina’ a dark twist on the original series KASSIDY DESNOYER
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The new Netflix series “The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” takes viewers on a series of dark and twisted events complimented with charm and black magic. Though it’s based on the 90s ABC comedy series “Sabrina the Teenage Witch,” this series is nothing like the original. The horror-inspired show follows a dark, twisted and spooky storyline, which is quite the opposite of the original ABC series’ aesthetic. To add another twist, the show follows the comic series “Archie,” created by Roberto Aguirre Sacasa and has a sister-show on The CW Network, the popular teen drama “Riverdale.” One may be expecting to see Sabrina as the peppy, relatable teenager, but she is almost the exact opposite in this chilling and gruesome series — the once-relatable teenage witch is not-so-relatable anymore. Sabrina Spellman, played by “Mad Men” star Kiernan Shipka, is still a half-witch and half-mortal teenager. Instead of following the original series of living in Massachusetts, she resides in Greendale, a fantasy town adjacent to Riverdale.
Living with her two aunts and black-cat companion, Sabrina struggles to balance the dual nature of being half-witch and half-mortal. As Sabrina’s 16th birthday approaches, she has to make the difficult decision of continuing her family’s legacy by going through with her dark baptism which will convert her into a full-time witch. Doing so would force her to leave her boyfriend, friends and mortal life in Greendale for a new life at the Academy of Unseen Arts. Although she loves her mortal life, she comes from a long line of Satan worshippers, and it is her duty to give herself to the Dark Lord. As the storyline unfolds, the Spellman’s are thrown into a series of unfortunate events, giving viewers a glimpse into their world of witchcraft and Sabrina’s quest to save Greendale from dark forces. Unlike previous adaptations of the Archie Comics character, magic is no laughing matter. The Netflix show’s representation of magic is more closely aligned to the medieval concept of witches, who were believed to have been awarded with power by Satan himself. Lucifer makes a few appearances in the show, in the form of a gro-
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tesque goat monster similar to the devil figure of 18th century Spanish painter Francisco Goya’s haunting “Witches’ Sabbath.” Even Salem, Sabrina’s feline familiar, is no smart animal, but a cat that occasionally reveals hints of his fearsome demonic form. The show’s darker depictions of magic makes for some deliciously spine-chilling scares. Overall, the series was not
how I was expecting it to be, but I did enjoy the witchcraft storyline as it is unlike any other series on television currently. However, I wish that it had no ties to the original “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” series as the two shows have almost no similarities. I appreciate Sabrina’s story being told in a new light by portraying her as a tough heroine that displays female empowerment. The show presents
many encouraging examples that I think are important in today’s society. Portraying Sabrina as someone who stands up for what she believes in even when people are constantly against her is something that many teens can learn from. To say this is Netflix’s best show yet would be misleading, but this show is definitely worth watching if you are eager to see the Spellmans in action again.
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Welcome to the 1-3-1, staff writer Griffin Neal’s weekly college basketball column. The title, “1-3-1,” is a hat tip to Kermit Davis’ defensive scheme but will also serve as the column’s section breakdown. Each week, the column will include one big idea regarding the college basketball landscape, three notes about Ole Miss hoops and one Ole Miss thing to look ahead to. THEDMSPORTS@GMAIL.COM
ONE NATIONAL CBB THOUGHT The NCAA did a good thing, sort of. In August, they released their new ranking system — the NCAA Evaluation Tool, or NET — which will replace the outdated and much chagrined Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) after a 37-year run. The change comes after years of disdain from coaches and analysts alike who rightly criticized the RPI’s lack of acknowledgement of important factors that play a part in team success. The NET accounts for five factors: Team Value Index, Team Efficiency, Wins, Adjusted Winning Percentage and Scoring Margin. If none of that means anything to you, don’t be alarmed. The NCAA tweeted a neat graphic that
explains in layman’s terms the justification and rationale for each metric and how each will factor into a team‘s ultimate ranking. On Monday, the NCAA released its first NET rankings of the year and will continue to do so each week until selection Sunday. As of week 1, most were shocked to see Ohio State seated at the top. Other baffling spots in the NET rankings are Radford (15), Kansas (16), and Kentucky (50). Radford has two wins over non Division-1 schools, and doesn’t have a win over a team ranked within the NET’s top 15, whereas Kansas is undefeated and beat Tennessee (21) and Michigan State (24). Oh, and Kentucky barely scratches the top 50, yet their sole loss came at the hands of the Duke Blue Devils, AP’s No. 1 ranked team. The NCAA’s new brainchild
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THREE OLE MISS NOTES 1) This team will only go as far as Terence Davis can take them. After splitting their pair of games at the Emerald Coast Classic over Thanksgiving — games in which Davis scored 7 against Baylor and 0 against Cincinnati — it’s clear that as he goes, so does the team. Ole Miss prevailed against Baylor, but not easily. And if Davis simply hit his season average in their 14 point loss to Cincinnati (13.6 ppg), it’s a one point ball game. Davis thrives in front of the home crowd at the Pavilion, but if this team projects any success going forward, he’ll have to shoulder the burden, irrespective of what floor the ball is bouncing on.
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2) There’s a new starter in town. Bruce Stevens has overtaken Dominik Olejniczak as Ole Miss’ new starting center in the lineup, and projects to stay there going forward. Stevens, who is demonstrably leaner than he was last season, is averaging 10 points per game and 4 boards on 54 percent shooting from the field. While the rebounding numbers might seem sparse for a big man, Kermit Davis’ 1-3-1 defense emphasizes boards by committee — evidenced by six-foot-two-inch guard Devontae Shuler leading the team at 5.2 per game. 3) After five games, there’s a legitimate excitement around the program. The win over Baylor and the losses to Butler and Cincinnati have signified that a gradual shift is taking place in Oxford. The loss to Butler came as a result of poor free throw shooting down the stretch; Ole Miss only shot 61 percent from the line, a deviation from the mean of a team whose free throw percentage ranks in the
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ONE LOOK AHEAD There’s a very legitimate chance that at 3-2, Ole Miss could enter SEC play with a 9-2 record. According to KenPom.com, none of the Rebels next six opponents are ranked within the top 100. And with the exception of San Diego (103rd) and Illinois State (126th), the remaining four sit outside the top 190. Obviously rankings aren’t an indication of how well a team will play, but it does herald that Ole Miss has a list of very winnable games in the near future. An undefeated run through the remainder of non-conference play will not only guarantee a morale boost in the locker room but also a considerably higher amount of bodies in seats for home SEC contests.
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Rebels hope to bounce back at home against TCU a 20-3 run. The Rebels came up just short in the nail-bitter with a final score of 59-64. Allen, a senior guard, has been Ole Miss’ most consistent scoring option with double digits in all the Paradise Jam games including a career-high 26 against St.
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Head coach Yolett McCain-McCuin and the Ole Miss Rebels will look to end a three-game losing streak in an SEC/Big 12 Challenge matchup against TCU at 8 p.m. tonight in the Pavilion. The Rebels are coming off of a 0-3 showing in the 2018 Paradise Jam during Thanksgiving break with loses to No. 2 UConn, Purdue and St. John’s. The 4-1 TCU Horned Frogs come to Oxford with confidence, finishing 1-1 in the SDSU Thanksgiving Classic in San Diego last week. The Horned Frogs fell to BYU 58-61, but coasted to an 81-64 win over hosts San Diego State. TCU is an experienced team, returning all five starters from the team that went 23-13 last season and lost to Indiana in the WNIT Semifinals. Their upperclassmen have delivered so far as they have three players averaging double digit scoring this season in seniors Jordan Moore (15.6), Amy Okonkwo (12.2) and junior Kianna Ray (14.2). The production translates on the defensive end as well as the Horned Frogs rank No. 9 in blocks per game (6.6) and No. 24 in assist/turnover ratio (1.26).
John’s. Allen was named to the All-Tournament team. The Rebels have outscored their opponents in the fourth quarter of every game this season, but they’ll need a more complete game to challenge a tough TCU team.
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Cecilia Muhate shoots over a Lemoyne-Owen defender during the team’s exhibition game earlier this season. Ole Miss won the game 73-45. The 3-4 Rebels have largely relied on newcomers so far in this season. Transfers Crystal Allen, La’Karis Salter and Jhileiya Dunlap have accounted for more than half of the team’s points. The Rebels have also had help from freshman point guard Mimi Reid, who was named SEC Freshman of the Week for her performances in wins over Temple and Western Michigan. Although the results in the Virgin Islands weren’t what the team hoped for, the Rebels have
something to build upon after showing toughness against stiff competition. The Rebels lost 50-90 in game one on Thursday against perennial powerhouse UConn, a team coming off of 10 straight Final Four appearances. The next day, Purdue was able to fight off a late game push to secure a 70-59 win over the Rebels. The closest game of the weekend came on Saturday against St. John’s. The Rebels were down 30-18 at halftime but clawed back into the game with
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Following a particularly chippy Egg Bowl last Thursday, SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey has called upon Ross Bjork and Mississippi State’s director of athletics John Cohen to attempt to create “a healthier environment” in future Egg Bowls. Last week’s 35-3 victory by Mississippi State over the Rebels culminated in a bench-clearing brawl that resulted in four ejections. This is just the latest in a rivalry that has consistently turned out hostility and aggression from both sides. Sankey said he will “require” the two athletics directors to meet with him at the SEC office in Birmingham, although a date is not yet set for the meeting. “These incidents have become far too common in this series,” Sankey said. “I will require both athletics directors to meet with me at the SEC Office in the off-season to review past issues and develop a plan for the purpose of creating a healthier environment for this annual game.” Sankey, whose daughter is a current Mississippi State student, has faced criticism for his intervention as Rebel fans are
concerned about his backseat role during the NCAA investigations of Ole Miss in which Mississippi State players served as witnesses. Many believe that his role in the investigations only served to intensify the toxic nature of the rivalry. On Wednesday, Ross Bjork released a letter to the Ole Miss community asking Rebel fans to band together behind Matt Luke and rejoice in an anticipated period of stability that has long been absent from the program. The letter is seemingly a way to put a positive spin on a negative season that has now concluded in further turmoil involving Ole Miss. “Our 2018 football team has been through more adversity than most teams will experience in a decade, so our goal this year was to give them as much positivity and stability as possible,” Bjork said. “And despite the challenges we have faced, these student-athletes banded together under Coach Luke’s leadership and gave us everything they had each and every week, even when others said they had nothing to play for. This comes on the heels of Matt Luke’s end-of-season press conference, where he urged fans to stick with him and the staff moving forward after a season
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Quarterback Matt Corral fights a Mississippi State player at the Egg Bowl on Thanksgiving. Every player on both teams received an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty after a brawl erupted between the teams and several players were ejected. in which the team moved backwards from the previous year, despite expectations. “When you go through tough times it’s important for me to stand up here and be positive and to keep our team together, but I want our fans to under-
stand and know what’s going to happen here as long as we stick together and keep working,” Luke said. It is yet to be seen what actions will actually arise from the meetings between Sankey, Bjork and Cohen, but Ole Miss
fans will likely be apprehensive about being dealt any sort of punishment related to the incident. Fans from both sides will most likely reject any action that could be seen as taking away from the contention of the rivalry.
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