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Curtis Wilkie grew up at the University of Mississippi. As a child, he lived in a family dorm as his mother worked to earn her Master’s degree. His father served as the chief of campus police, and his great-grandfather was a student when the Civil War started. It was no shock when Wilkie decided to attend the university himself in the late 1950s, and when he returned as a professor in 2002 after retiring from The Boston Globe, “it was like coming home.”
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Engineering professor dies KENNETH NIEMEYER thedmnews@gmail.com
Waheed Uddin, a professor of civil engineering and director of the Center for Advanced Infrastructure Technology, has died, according to a university spokesman. The university confirmed Uddin’s death but did not release a cause of death. “Dr. Uddin was a pillar of the
Ole Miss School of Engineering whose expertise in civil engineering infrastructure and transportation was responsible for hundreds of graduates finding successful careers around the world,”David Puleo, dean of the School of Engineering, said in a press release. “More importantly, Dr. Uddin was a trusted mentor and valued colleague to the students, faculty and staff.
Our deepest sympathies are extended to his wife, sons and family at this time.” Uddin received a Ph.D. in transportation engineering from the University of Texas in 1984. He has worked at the university as director of the CAIT since 1999 and acted as Chair ofCivil Engineering in 2007.
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OLE MISS VS. TEXAS A&M POSTPONED The Ole Miss vs. Texas A&M football game, originally set for this Saturday, has been postponed due to quarantined players in the Texas A&M program. SEE PAGE 4
Ole Miss head basketball coach Kermit Davis tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday, and regular team protocols — as the result of his test — became public on Tuesday. With basketball season less than two weeks away from tip-off, it appears that unless Davis’s results are deemed to be a false positive, he will not be on the sideline come the Rebels opening games starting Nov 25. “The team is going through contact tracing, and those found to be a close contact will go into quarantine per medical guidelines,” the program said in a tweet on Tuesday. “If Tuesday’s test also comes back positive, Coach Davis will remain in isolation at his home and miss the first two games of the season.” Davis released a statement on Wednesday morning that said his second COVID-19 test came back positive as well and he is now experiencing mild symptoms. He will continue watching team practices on Zoom and organizing the day to day operations of the program. Taking head coaching responsibilities over in the meantime will be Ronnie Hamilton, the third-year assistant coach and former defensive back for Duke’s football team. Although Hamilton is only in his third season at Ole Miss, this is his sixth with Kermit Davis, as he served on Davis’s staff at Middle Tennessee for four years. Although Hamilton has experience at many programs across the country, this will be his first stint as a head coach. He will also likely be assisted by Win Case, who similarly spent 10 years under Davis’s wing at Middle Tennessee, and before that, he had served as a head coach. It is hard to say what impact this will have, but this could be a huge blow if multiple players are isolated because of COVID-19 positive tests, or just contract tracing alone. The Rebels are still set for tipoff at home for the Justin Reed Ole Miss Classic on Nov. 25-27.
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Curtis Wilkie to leave UM after 18 years of teaching “It wasn’t a long-range plan at all,” Wilkie said. “I was hanging out here during football season in 2001, so fully a year after I retired, and I was approached by a guy who was chairman of the journalism department, which was way smaller then. He asked if I would be interested in teaching as an adjunct, and I thought, ‘Well, I don’t really have anything else to do, and it might be fun.’” Wilkie has taught as a journalism professor ever since — besides a semesterlong stint at LSU. Now, over 18 years later, he is retiring from teaching. “Your whole life is kind of a learning experience, but I’ve learned a lot from my students,” Wilkie said. “I don’t know how good of a teacher I am now, but I hope I’ve improved from this guy that took over with really no training or expectations I’d be doing this.” To that point, Debora Wenger, interim dean of the School of Journalism and New Media, said Wilkie sets the
“I’ve tried not to be a professional Southerner,” he said. “But I think being a Mississippian gives you, certainly, a very valuable perspective because we are, I think, the most fascinating region in America.”
standard for someone who has deep expertise, incredible personal humility and a genuine love of story-telling and teaching. “From the first minute that I had to interact with Curtis one-on-one, I was always a bit nervous,” she said. “I’ve been around a lot of journalists over the years, but
someone who operates at the level that Curtis does can be intimidating. Still, he always makes you feel as though your story is as important as anyone else’s.” After his final class on Tuesday, Nov. 17, Wilkie joked that the reason he has fought retirement was because he doesn’t play golf, but ultimately, he said, “It’s just time.” Wilkie also said the COVID-19 pandemic made it easier for him to leave the university. Before March, he would arrive at his office in the Overby Center at 6 a.m. five days a week, but this semester, the pandemic has reduced his on-campus time to two days a week. “Now, it’s kind of like a mausoleum, so it’s not like I’m leaving a really wonderful thing. Hopefully, we’ll have it back at some point, but it’s kind of just sad and dispiriting being here, not much life on campus,” Wilkie said. “Otherwise, it’s been a great experience.” In his time as a student and then as a teacher, Wilkie has seen the university transform from a segregated school with approximately 3,000 students who were mostly from in-state into what it is today. He was a student at the university in the fall of 1962 when James Meredith enrolled, and he witnessed the riots that broke out across campus as a result. Since graduating from the university in 1963, Wilkie said UM has “changed indefinitely.” When he returned to campus as a professor, he saw the band ceasing to play Dixie, the ditching of Colonel Reb, the removal of the state flag and the recent relocation of the Confederate monument. “I wouldn’t have come here and taught if it had been the same school that I attended,” he said. “Probably, the most important thing to me is to see the progress that’s taken place here racially. Not to say that it’s perfect. We’ve still got a ways to go, but it has been
encouraging to see, almost every year that I’ve been here, more and more Black students from Mississippi are choosing to come here and excelling, being outstanding students.”
Wilkie covered the civil rights movement in Clarksdale as his first job after graduating, and said that time has been his “frame of reference” for the rest of his life. As he moved
to Boston, Washington, D.C., and abroad, Wilkie became known for his critique and coverage of the South, and he attributes his ability to do so to growing up in Mississippi and attending UM. “I’ve tried not to be a professional Southerner,” he said. “But I think being a Mississippian gives you, certainly, a very valuable perspective because we are, I think, the most fascinating region in America. There’s so much conflict and change that goes on here. It’s a dramatic place to live and work, and I’ve always enjoyed Southern stories.” While Wilkie said he is unsure of whether he’ll continue writing those Southern stories now that he is retiring, he is looking forward to the publication of his sixth book, “When Evil Lived in Laurel: The ‘White Knights’ and the Murder of Vernon Dahmer” this spring. The book centers around the Ku Klux Klan and South Mississippi in the 1960s. He also plans to continue living in Oxford. “This is my home,” he said. “I’ve got family that lives next door to me, and my daughter, her three sons, my son-in-law. I’m here.”
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ASB hosts drug safety week MORGAN O’NEAL
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Amid the pandemic, the dangers of drug and alcohol abuse and the importance of mental health, have become more prevalent than ever for college students. As a result, the Associated Student Body and the Center of Conflict Resolution and Student Conduct collaborated to create UM Drug Safety and Wellness Week: five days of virtual events and to encourage discussion about these issues. “We noticed a need in our community,” Gabby Hunter, Associated Student Body judicial chair, said. “18-24 is a very dangerous age for almost all of the problems we have in our society, and so, we really wanted to talk about it in a way that destigmatized addiction and also brought light to how mental health is impacted in it.” Hunter said de-stressing during finals week and raising awareness on these issues before the holiday break is crucial. She also said ASB is attuned to the fact that a lot of students are struggling right now. “We know that a lot of students are probably going to struggle with being home for two months,” Hunter said. “Home isn’t always the best place for some of our students, so we want to focus on drug and alcohol safety, especially around the holidays.” The week’s virtual events
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included yoga via Zoom on Monday night and a watch party with a discussion of Netflix documentary “America’s Deadliest Drug: Fentanyl” on Tuesday night. Jack Furla, a junior public policy leadership major, attended the events as well as a tabling event at the Union Plaza on Wednesday. HANNAH GRACE BIGGS / THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN “I thought that (the watch party) was a really cool and ASB and the Office of Conflict Resolution set up a tent outside of the informative way to show our Gertrude C. Ford Ole Miss Student Union to inform students about the student body the importance of risks of drug and alcohol abuse. the problem,” Furla said. “What really stuck out to me is the “We want students to feel these issues in a way that is importance of having Narcan (a medication designed to reverse comfortable talking to us or not only punitive, but also opioid overdose), just in case it talking to other officers about restorative. Hunter said they questions they may have in order want to make students feel seen could save a life.” Hunter said Thursday’s to make better choices about and heard rather than punishing outreach is dedicated to things that could be dangerous them. “I think that if people really understanding fentanyl in for them,” Murry said. “I think response to events that have sometimes people come with took a step to be genuine, and the idea that when talking to let down that wall and talk about happened in Oxford this year. “We haven’t seen a your parents or to faculty (or) these hard issues, our society university response from the staff members, that there are would be better, and we’d have administration acknowledging certain things you shouldn’t talk more ways to make change,” Hunter said. the death of a student, which about.” Brittany Dawson, assistant Hunter said she wants to is disheartening,” Hunter said. “We as students and as director of the conflict resolution encourage students to have a community members have and student conduct office, said voice in this conversation and the responsibility to hold our the purpose of the office is to reach out to organizations such as Active Minds, ASB and the campus accountable, to hold help students. “The biggest thing that I conflict resolution and student authority figures accountable, want students to understand conduct office for information and to have this conversation.” Tracy Murry, director of the is we are also a resource for and help. “We don’t want (the UM Office of Conflict Resolution them,” Dawson said. “Although and Student Conduct, said her they may end up in our office conversation) to end this week,” office wants to provide proactive for a violation, we strive to also Hunter said. “Take this to your information and encourage connect students to additional families at Thanksgiving, talk education and healthy dialogue resources to help them be about this at Christmas and talk about this with your friends.” concerning drugs and alcohol successful.” ASB’s judicial council is among Ole Miss students. working to find ways to address
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Six arrests were made in Oxford on Friday, Nov. 13 for procuring prostitution as apart of a joint undercover human trafficking investigation, according to a statement from Mississippi Attorney General’s Office and the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation Special Victims Unit. The Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics, the Lafayette County Sheriff’s Office and the Oxford Police Department also assisted in the investigation. “My office will continue to work with private and public federal, state and local partners, including our partners at MBI, to hold those who engage in this modern slavery accountable to the fullest extent of the law and seek justice for those who are its victims,” State Attorney General Lynn Fitch said. Michael Keenum, Tarus Hervey, Roy Thompson, Kenneth Gurley, Jason Carothers and James Moore were arrested in the sting and charged with procuring prostitution. Hervey was also charged with resisting arrest. Lieutenant Colonel Lee Morrison, director of the MBI, said the operation was part of a state-wide operation to end the “continued scourge of sex trafficking” in Mississippi. “The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation will continue to conduct such operations throughout the state targeting those who traffic the vulnerable and those who purchase or seek to purchase human beings,” Morrison said. Citizens who have information about human trafficking are encouraged to call the National Human Trafficking Hotline at 1-888-373-7888.
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Ole Miss vs. Texas Rifle A&M postponed team finishes with win KELBY ZENDEJAS
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The Ole Miss vs. Texas A&M football game, originally set for this Saturday, has been postponed due to quarantine players on the Texas A&M program. The Southeastern Conference (SEC) announced the postponement on Monday morning. The SEC intentionally scheduled the week of Dec. 12 as a week for any postponed games or cancellations due to COVID-19. However, Texas A&M already has a rescheduled game on Dec. 12 against Tennessee. Therefore, the Ole Miss and Texas A&M game time will be evaluated and announced at a future date. The possibility of playing another opponent is still being
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The No.3 ranked Ole Miss Rifle team concluded its 2020 fall season undefeated. The final match ended on Tuesday, Nov. 17 with a thrilling victory that went into center shots, taking down No. 5 Alaska Fairbanks in a match that ended 469-4697 tie and a 308-297 win. The team had a little rust at the beginning of the match as they competed for the first time in a month, starting off shooting a mark of 2,323. However, the Rebels finished strong, breaking the air rifle program record with a score of 2,374. Freshman Leah Horvath tied her personal best with an aggregate score of 1,189, and junior Kamilla Kisch notched her career-high by 3 points with 1,176. Kisch started her day of competition off with four perfect strings of 100 to briefly tie the program record at 597. After a 9.4, she rallied to shoot 24 perfect shots, tying another school record. The career highs didn’t stop there. Senior Sophia Cuozzo fired a career-high in air rifle of 1168, and freshman Martina Gratz tied her careerbest at 591. Junior Erin Walsh gave a strong performance shooting 1,172, while Alaska’s Kellen McAferty shot a 587 in smallbore and 592 in air rifle for an aggregate score of 1,179. With the win, the Rebels stay undefeated (3-0) for the fall as they conclude their competition for the semester. The team will resume competition in January against Nebraska at the neutral site of Columbus, Ohio, as they seek to continue to put together a historic season.
considered as Ole Miss could potentially play LSU or Mississippi State, according to UM head coach Lane Kiffin. “It looks like we’re not going to play. There’s still a small possibility that someone could be moved up if they don’t have an opponent,” Kiffin said. “We’re still figuring that out, exactly how we’ll do the schedule. We have figured out because of the COVID we’re going to keep them here through the weekend. We’re still looking at (the practice schedule), don’t know exactly what we’ll do.” The 2020 football season has seen many cancellations due to COVID-19, but this postponed game marks the first that has directly impacted the Rebels’ schedule. Four SEC matchups were postponed last week,
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The game against Texas A&M was postponed because of the amount of players quarantined for the Aggies. leaving only three SEC teams to compete including UM against South Carolina. “I think we’re going to make every effort to make up the game,” Vice Chancellor for Intercollegiate Athletics Keith Carter said in a press conference on Monday. “I know ev-
eryone wants to play. It will all come down to, do you have the dates?” Coming off the 59-42 victory over the Gamecocks, the Rebels will start to prepare for what is now their closest scheduled upcoming game: the Egg Bowl on Nov. 28.
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The Ole Miss Rebels are 3-4 on the season, but they have had an incredible offense that often gets overlooked by the strength and power that is the SEC West. The 2020 season has not been an easy one, including playing an all-SEC schedule that leaves no guarantees for even playing a game. However, there has been no shortage of record-breaking playmakers this season. It almost seems like talking about how well wide receiver Elijah Moore has been this season is like beating a dead horse, but ignoring him would be remiss. Moore is the best player every time he walks on the field. It doesn’t matter what position he is in. In the past two games he has played, Moore had over 200
yards. Through seven games, he has over 1,000 yards, making him the fastest player in Ole Miss history to ever reach that number. The fact that Moore accomplished that with an allSEC schedule makes him all the more impressive. In the South Carolina game,
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Moore caught 13 passes for 225 yards and ran for 45 more and 6 touches. The electrifying pair, quarterback Matt Corral and Moore, teamed up for an impressive 91-yard touchdown pass that helped secure the win for the Rebels. With Moore’s quickness and Corral’s ability to
find hands, these two have set the Rebels up for an entertaining rest of the season. Corral is playing lights out. If it weren’t for the Arkansas game, he would be up for Heisman right now. He has thrown for over 2,359 yards, 22 touchdowns and has a quarterback ranking of 91.9. In the South Carolina game, Corral went 28 out of 32 for 513 yards with four touchdown passes, two of which went to Moore. The Ole Miss offense will continue breaking records this season and upsetting everyone while they do it. With no game this weekend because of quarantined Texas A&M players, fans are eager to see this powerful offense in action against the Bulldogs during the Egg Bowl on Nov. 28.
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5 TIPS FOR STUDYING DURING A PANDEMIC 1. Change Your Surroundings You may not be able to go to the coffee shop or the cafe with social distancing rules still in place. But this doesn’t mean you can’t get out of the house. Grab your laptop or your printed notes and find a quiet place to study, such as in the Grove, your own backyard or even just a different room in your house. 2. Develop a Daily Routine Find a groove that works for you and then stick with it. Set a dedicated time to rise each morning, dedicated times for meals, and dedicated times for study. By writing your goals down, you’re at least 1.2 times more likely to reach them, say the experts. Answer to crossword on Page 7
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Despite a postponed Ole Miss vs. Texas A&M game, The Daily Mississippian predicted the rest of the SEC’s matchups with games like LSU vs. Arkansas and Mississippi State vs. Georgia to be played on Saturday, Nov. 21. While the virus single-handedly controlled much of the SEC last week, many of those teams are
back in action. Florida vs. Vanderbilt Kelby Zendejas Considering Vandy has had a winless season, I’d say the Florida Gators (5-1) have this one easily. Quarterback Kyle Trask is on the Heisman watch list, and honestly, I can see why. The player holds 2,171 yards and 28 touchdowns in just six games. I see the Gators taking this win in the first quarter. Florida 51, Vanderbilt 14
Mississippi State vs. Georgia - Barrett Freeman You better believe that players and fans at Moo University are shaking in their boots this week. After their last performance of barely scraping by an abysmal Vanderbilt team, the inferior Bulldogs have to travel to Athens to face a Georgia Bulldogs team that is still ticked off from their recent flat performance against the Florida Gators. After all the hype about their defense, Georgia gave up over 40 points to the Gators two weeks ago and might have let a chance at competing in the SEC title game slip from their fingers. The Georgia Bulldogs are out to prove that they are still the toughest in the East while praying for a Florida loss down the line, and Mississippi State is the first team on their list to bulldoze through. Meanwhile, the Mississippi State players know in the back of their mind that the Egg Bowl — their end-all, be-all for the season — is the next week away,
and they are still struggling with an offense that fails to show any power or consistency. Moreover, their defense can’t even put teams like Vanderbilt away for good. Starkville is nervous, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they aren’t already looking ahead to their trip to Oxford next week, given that Matt Corral and Kiffin are likely living rent-free inside of their heads. Georgia 42, Mississippi State 7 LSU vs. Arkansas - Ruby Draayer
The matchup this week between Arkansas and LSU is the perfect way for one team to show that they are less average than the other team. The LSU Tigers are sitting at 2-3 this season, while the Arkansas Razorbacks are 3-4. The winner of this game will move one team to a .5 winning percentage. Myles Brennan is out for the season, forcing LSU to play a true freshman quarterback. Arkansas quarterback Feleipe
Franks has had a decent season throwing for 1,678 yards and 16 touchdowns. The LSU defense is atrocious, so I think this one goes to the Woo Pig Sooie. Arkansas 30, LSU 21 Missouri vs. South Carolina James Minzesheimer
This is a tough one. Both teams have had some big wins this year, but neither is putting themselves in bowl contention. With that being said, South Carolina has an electric offense and put up over 21 points in every game but one. With Missouri’s trouble scoring, I would say that the Gamecocks will take this one. South Carolina 35, Missouri 14 Kentucky vs. Alabama Kelby Zendejas
Alabama is currently 6-0, while the Kentucky Wildcats are 3-4 and only beat Vanderbilt last weekend 38-35. My pick is Bama 100% because Mac Jones and Najee Harris are about to light up the Bama offense against Kentucky. Mac Jones has 2,196 yards and 16 touchdowns and is also in the running for the Heisman. There’s just no way that Kentucky’s offense can compete with an offense like Alabama’s. Alabama 45, Kentucky 14 Tennessee vs. Auburn James Minzesheimer
It has been a rough year for the boys in Knoxville. Whether it be COVID-19 or playing top10 teams, the Volunteers cannot catch a break. Tennessee comes into this one having dropped their last three games, and Auburn comes into this one having lost to LSU by 37 in the last game they played. Both teams desperately need a win, and I hope for that to make it a close game. Auburn 35, Tennessee 28
Corral and Broeker earn SEC Players of the Week KELBY ZENDEJAS
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After the Rebels collected a 59-42 win over South Carolina, a pair of Ole Miss football players garnered SEC weekly accolades with quarterback Matt Corral earning SEC Co-Offensive Player of the Week and offensive tackle Nick Broeker earning SEC Co-Offensive Lineman of the Week. In another historic game, Corral managed to break the Ole Miss single-game passing record, posting 513 yards and passing Shea Patterson’s 489yard performance in 2017. Corral completed 28 out of 32 passes and four touchdowns in the showdown against the
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Saturday’s win led to records broken and awards won by the Rebels. Gamecocks on Saturday. “He actually has more total yards per game than anyone in the conference including (Florida’s Kyle) Trask,” UM head coach Lane Kiffin said in a press conference. “That’s pretty impressive, and just a sophomore. He made some plays that have some Mahomes-type of arm angles in the game, which we don’t teach.” Currently, Corral holds 533 total yards, the second-most in
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Ole Miss history. Archie Manning still sits on the top with 540 total yards. In addition, the California native has had five games this season in which he passed for over 300 yards, tying him for the third-best in Ole Miss football history. Corral is also tied for fifth on the single-season record list with 22 passing touchdowns. Broeker helped the Rebels complete 708 total yards of offense on Saturday night against the Gamecocks, and he has played in every game so far this season. The Illinois native rushed for 195 yards and four touchdowns on his own. Corral and Broeke’s awards this week make four weekly accolades for the Rebels this season and two total for Corral.
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The secret to The Luv Shak’s success WILL CARPENTER
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The Luv Shak, no matter how small or hidden, has built more of a community than arguably any other restaurant in Oxford. Though, owner Dennis Van Oostendorp denies any credit. “It’s not about me,” he said. “It’s about the students.” While Oostendorp said there have been articles written about him, articles written about The Luv Shak, he said there have been none
written about the students who frequent it. In 2018, Bevin Winter, a sophomore IMC major, was headed to The Luv Shak for the first time. It was there that she first met Oostendorp. After finding out he was from her home state of New Jersey, the connection grew from there. “Being from New Jersey, we’re very loud and obnoxious people. The stereotype is true,” Winter said. “So we got along right away.” She said when she found The Luv Shak, it was “a cabin
behind a restaurant that nobody knew about.” Winter suggested that she make and operate an Instagram account for The Luv Shak, and within a week, the account had around 1,000 followers and business was picking up. “I didn’t expect it to blow up as much as it did,” Winter said. “I thought the bagels would definitely take well because they’re really good, but I think I was excited when it did because I proved to him that the Instagram was worth it.” Oostendorp has been in the
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kitchen for roughly 40 years. The precursor to The Luv Shak was his operation of the 6’n Tubbs food truck, which moved between different student residential complexes to serve bagels in the morning. Now, the only time he leaves his hidden location is to take his food trailer, Threeway Bagels, to the Hernando Farmers Market on Saturdays. The Luv Shak was established in 2015, its popularity travelling through word of mouth, building a tight community of patrons. Particularly among Ole Miss students. “I personally believe that the community was created on Dennis’s end,” Winter said. “I think that his personality and his caring is genuine. It’s a very carefree environment. The decorations on the inside, the pinball machine, the food is really good. I think he’s created it, then I think it kind of brought that out if everyone else. Winter emphasized that Oostendorp would disagree. She said he would argue that “the bagels make themselves” and give all the credit to the students. It is just in his selfless nature, according to her. “I don’t think the people did it,” she said. “I think it was him.” There have been times where students he knows catch a ride from bars on the Square to The Luv Shak just to eat before heading back out on the town. There was pride in his voice when he described Sundays before the pandemic when lines stretched far past the door and students gathered around the Shak and mingled. Strangers met while waiting for bagels and ended up hanging around, forming new connections. Reagan Hunter, a junior marketing major, is one of those students. She has been a Luv Shak regular since freshman year. In fact, if Oostendorp had not unplugged his pinball machine to shut down the restaurant at the start of COVID-19, you could find Hunter’s name next to the
third highest score on the leaderboard. “There’s not a lot like it in Oxford,” Hunter said. “A lot of stuff in Oxford shuts down or rotates pretty quickly, so you see a lot of places like this that are obscure and off to the side shut down really fast, but this place is such a community.” Whenever her family or friends come into town, she takes them by The Luv Shak. They usually accuse her of being crazy after at least half an hour in line, but when they reach the end they understand the food was worth the wait. “I think it really started out with professors and grad students,” Hunter said. “It kinda just expanded into undergrad. Now you have enough people who swear that it shouldn’t die.” Picasio Thompson, a university alumnus and regular, has been frequenting The Luv Shak almost twice a week for a year now. For Thompson, Sundays are for the everything bagel loaded with eggs, topped with crispy bacon, Taylor ham and cream cheese. When he’s looking for a pasta dinner, Thompson praised the Thursday night chicken parmesan. De’terris Fox, who Thompson introduced to The Luv Shak weeks ago, sat next to him and nodded his head, throwing in the Tuesday tortellini and Friday shrimp diablo as favorites. Each explained how someone might go somewhere else for Sunday breakfast, but for them, eating here is a tradition. “It’s a little rare treat, kind of like a little banana split in that way,” Fox said. Everyone on the porch out front of The Luv Shak listens and laughs while they wait in line, a common occurrence for those who brave the hour long wait to experience Oostendorp’s creations. “Most places don’t provide this environment,” Thompson said. “Most places, you go and sit down, but at this place everyone is in line together. You don’t have anything to do but talk, so you might as well talk to each other. It’s like waiting to get into the bars, except we’re waiting on food.”
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Insulin is far from “cheap like water” JOHN HYDRISKO
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For a brief moment during the first presidential debate, I found myself in the middle of a spat between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. As the two candidates bickered over healthcare, the president told the nation that he is making insulin “so cheap it’s like water.” This was certainly news to me, along with the other eight million insulin-dependent diabetics living and dying in the United States. To be clear, insulin is not cheap like water. The insulin in my refrigerator is more expensive — by volume — than human blood, printer ink, Chanel No. 5 or LSD. The President was probably referring to a handful of executive orders he signed over the summer, which might make some insulin for some diabetics somewhat cheaper. At any rate, these orders don’t go into effect until next year. So, in 2020, the average insulin-dependent diabetic in
the United States still spends $500 a month on the stuff. And there — but for the grace of Medicaid — goes John Hydrisko. Insulin keeps my blood from turning into an acid that will rot my body from the inside out, but it’s also a strong bit of rhetoric. Donald Trump threw it around during the September debate, Joe Biden discussed it during interviews and candidates frequently mentioned it during the Democratic primaries. The message is straightforward: without insulin, a diabetic will certainly die a horrible death; with insulin, a diabetic might live. The comparisons are clear: a diabetic in the United States pays $350 for a vial of Novolog; a diabetic in Canada pays $45 for the exact same vial of Novolog. The exploitation is obvious as producing a vial of its flagship insulin costs Novo Nordisk about $3. America represents 15% of the global insulin market but generates 50% of global insulin
revenues. In 1996, a vial of Eli Lilly’s Humalog sold for $21. As of last year, the same vial sells for $275. While politicians tend to blame this 1,200% increase on the complexities of American healthcare and on the failings of their political rivals, the scheme to hold American diabetics hostage is rather straightforward. Whereas most countries require that drug companies modify and improve drug formulas to retain patents, America only requires that companies modify formulas to retain patents. The three insulin giants — Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly and Sanofi — have made small changes to their formulas in order to keep their drugs under patent so that they will not have to compete with generic insulins. At the same time, the triopoly has increased prices in lockstep so that they will not have to compete with one another. America’s fetishization of free-market medicine
— with all of its talk of competition, affordability and innovation — has allowed a cartel to charge astronomical prices for a first drug discovered in 1921. American politicians will continue to talk about this injustice, but they are unlikely to take action against it. In 2019, these three companies spent $15 million on lobbying and made $3 million in political contributions. Their money went to both Republican and Democratic congressional campaign committees, to both Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Neither legislation about patent issues nor executive action against price-fixing is in the offing.
These astronomical prices only hint at an incalculable human toll. There are 300,000 diabetics in Mississippi. The poorest state in the nation suffers from the highest rate of diabetes, with about 14% of the adult population affected. When diabetic Mississippians are able to buy insulin, they are robbed of livelihoods. When diabetic Mississippians are unable to buy insulin, they are robbed of their eyesight, their kidneys, their feet and their lives. John Hydrisko is a senior English, philosophy and history major from Philadelphia, Penn.
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continued from page 1 “I came to Ole Miss in July 2012 and have interacted with Dr. Uddin every day since,” Yacoub Najjar, chair and professor of civil engineering, said in the press release. “He has been an exemplary faculty
member and we loved him. He was a wonderful person who cared for people a lot.” His work mostly consisted of researching transportation infrastructure, sustainable development, air quality and climate modeling and risk mapping and assessment of natural disasters. Uddin previously served as a pavement expert for the United Nations
and had more than 30 years of experience designing highways, airports, and related areas of transportation engineering and infrastructure management. Uddin’s book “Infrastructure Management” has been translated to Chinese and Japanese. He was also chief editor of the International Journal of Pavements and founding
president of the International Society for Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Transport Infrastructure. In 2014, he was inducted into the University of Texas’ Academy of Distinguished Alumni. The university established the academy to recognise the accomplishments and professional achievements of its graduates, a very
prestigious honor. “Dr. Uddin did an amazing job working with me throughout my time at the University of Mississippi,” Jessica Dilley, a planning engineer at the Mississippi Department of Transportation and former student of Uddin’s, said. “He was truly one of my lifelong mentors, and I will greatly miss him.”
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