The Daily Mississippian - November 28, 2016

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Monday, November 28, 2016

Volume 105, No. 65

T H E S T U D E N T N E W S PA P E R O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F M I S S I S S I P P I S E R V I N G O L E M I S S A N D OX F O R D S I N C E 1 9 1 1

WHAT’S INSIDE...

Finals week is upon us...

How does a student make it?

Review: A Tribe Called Quest reemerges with artful album

Dave Wommack retires after five seasons with Rebels

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Rebels’ season ends in blowout loss to State Ole Miss student dies before holiday DM STAFF REPORT

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Mississippi State defensive back Jamal Peters intercepts a pass intended for Ole Miss wide reciever Quincy Adeboyejo during the second quarter of the Egg Bowl. Adeboyejo finished the game with three receptions for 40 yards in Ole Miss’ 55-20 loss against Mississippi State.

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tumultuous season wrote one more painful chapter on Saturday afternoon as Ole Miss watched Mississippi State run wild, racking up 457 yards on the ground as well as run back to Starkville with the Egg Bowl Trophy after its 55-20

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trouncing of the Rebels.

“I felt like it would be a scoring fest, and we didn’t keep up with the scoring,” Head Coach Hugh Freeze said. “We had a chance to keep the game close and stay in it, keep the energy high and motivation high, and we failed at it.”

Time and time again, Mississippi State ran it right at Ole Miss and the Rebels did not have an answer. They were gashed for 250 yards on the ground in the first half alone, and trailed 27-20 at halftime.

The game seemingly got away from Ole Miss on its first

offensive possession of the second half.

Its struggling defense had just mustered a three-and-out to start the half, and the Rebels were threatening to tie the game. On fourth down and one, Akeem Judd was stopped short

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Preacher, father, transfer student: Dameon Cunningham LYNDY BERRYHILL

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An alarm clock blares just a little after the sun rises. With a lot of tasks to pack into each day, Dameon Cunningham’s feet touch the floor at 7 a.m. He often helps his wife get their children ready for school before he drives nearly 30 miles from Batesville to attend his own classes at the University of Mississippi.

Like a small fraction of college students, Cunningham is a non-traditional transfer student

studying to be a social worker.

School is not Cunningham’s only responsibility. It is not even his most pressing responsibility. His wife, children and church have needs as well, but school is the most stressful.

He is married with three sons.

His wife Brittany is the owner and stylist at Jus B Hair Salon and Spa. His son Omarion is 14 years old in the 9th grade, Kaleb is 9 years old in the third grade and Destin is 5 years old in kindergarten.

Cunningham is also the senior pastor at Liberty Hill

Missionary Baptist Church in Courtland, where he oversees church affairs such as preaching and teaching God’s word, visiting the sick, hospitalized and imprisoned in his community.

“It was a calling,” Cunningham said of his desire to preach.

“I felt like my purpose in life was to serve in the ministry.”

The reason Cunningham wants to become a social worker because he was already doing a lot of community work. He said he felt it was taking away time from his family.

Cunningham thought that

if he could support his family while still helping people, then he could be there more for his wife and children.

“What I had to do was make my passion my profession ... I wanted to help people on more than one level,” Cunningham said.

Cunningham has risen from a series of hard knocks. When he was 2, his mother died of cancer. When he was 12, his father died in an industrial work accident.

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An Ole Miss senior died unexpectedly from unknown causes before Thanksgiving break.

Raegan Barnhart, 21, of Hernando, died Friday, Nov. 18.

Barnhart is one of four Ole Miss students who have died since October of this semester.

Barnhart was a dietetics and nutrition major and a member of the Delta Gamma sorority.

University administration and Barnhart’s sorority both released statements regarding her death.

“With great sadness and heavy hearts, we inform you Ole Miss Delta Gamma has lost a sister,” a DG Facebook post said. “Raegan was an incredible asset to our chapter and loved by everyone who had the privilege of knowing her.

Please keep Raegan’s family and friends in your thoughts and prayers.”

University administration is encouraging students who are struggling with grief to visit the Counseling Center.

“The University of Mississippi community is mourning the death of one of our students,” Ole Miss said in a statement released over Thanksgiving break. “The university offers its deepest sympathies to Raegan’s family and friends as well as the many members of the community who knew her.”

Barnhart’s family received friends Wednesday at the Hernando United Methodist Church, where she was a member.

Barnhart was buried in Hernando Memorial Park.

“We are all deeply saddened to learn about Raegan’s passing,” said Melinda Sutton, assistant vice chancellor of student affairs and dean of students. “While so many of us are spending time with our families and friends during this Thanksgiving break, please keep Raegan’s friends, classmates and family in your thoughts and prayers.”

OPINION

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A few tips for surviving the stress of finals week

MIKALA TURNER

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It is the first week back on campus after Thanksgiving break and people are not very happy about it.

They had an entire week to relax or catch up on work, and

they have replenished their bodies with mass amounts of turkey and stuffing, but now realize they must come back to reality.

The actuality is that we are in the final stretch of the fall semester, and everyone seems to be freaking out. We have one week to prepare for those dreaded last exams, and I bet a lot of students here on campus are already doing the math to see what grade they must make on finals to get through their classes with a decent grade.

There is also a level of etiquette that diminishes here on campus around finals week.

People tend to start moving faster and with that they tend to

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do things like never saying excuse me when they bump into people, falling asleep in odd places all around campus, and even stop caring about their bodies.

Some students resort to depriving themselves of basic needs—like sleep and food.

People get so stressed out that they forget to eat. They are up all night studying.

One of my past professors once told us a horror story of a student who got so stressed out about finals that he forgot to shower that whole week.

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I get it—finals are stressful.

There is nothing about that fact that is ever going to change, so why should you put enormous amounts of stress on your body?

I am not saying do not study.

I am not saying do not spend a majority of your time studying.

I am just urging you to keep in mind that other people are going through the exact same thing you are and that you should work to make their lives easier during these stressful weeks, too.

With that, all students here on campus should try to go by a few rules of etiquette this week.

First, do not hog an entire

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table in the library. Everyone needs their space, but one person taking up an entire table meant for four is a little extensive.

Second, do not rush people when they are ordering at Starbucks or in line for Chic-fil-a.

Most of the time, they are just as crunched for time as you are, so remember that. Lastly, just be kind to people.

We are all stressed, but a little bit of kindness can change a person’s entire day.

Do not let the stress of finals ruin you. Be the person who makes another’s day better.

Mikala Turner is a sophomore social work major from Bruce.

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CUNNINGHAM

scribed four years to graduate. In Mississippi, one of the top five states for low-income transfer students, the completion rate for students seeking a bachelor degree within six years is 46 percent.

This is in part because many low-income students whose parents never attended college lack the financial stability to be a full-time student. In 2014, 61 percent of more than 7.3 million community college students were enrolled part time, according to the American Association of Community Colleges.

Students end up working full-time jobs while attending class to pay their way.

At 34 years old, he is paying his tuition with the fruits of his academic labor on a Lucky Day scholarship.

Nationally, only 36 percent of low-income transfer students complete their bachelor’s degree, contrasted with 44 percent of middle and upper income transfer students, according to the Community College Research Center.

Forty-four percent of students who attend a two-year college after high school have a family incomes of less than $25,000 annually, whereas only 15 percent of high-income students enroll, according to the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education.

Cunningham was one of Susan Tyler’s first students she taught in her Lucky Day transfer orientation class.

Tyler also works in the university’s financial aid office.

Afterwards she teaches studying strategies, professional development and learning how to be a university student.

It is a big transition, community college students go from a campus of a few thou-

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sand to a campus of more than 20,000.

In Tyler’s class, she focuses on feeling at home at Ole Miss.

“In my opinion, a general sense of belonging helps a student feel like they are not going through the big transition alone and helps with overall engagement with academics and the university,” Tyler said.

Tyler said a common fear from her students is that they feel unprepared by choosing more affordable education options.

A comprehensive 2006 study revealed that 58 percent of recent high school graduates who entered community colleges took at least one developmental course.

One of the common reasons students choose to attend a community college first is because they were unprepared by their high school, so some students spend their first year enrolled in a developmental classes, which are designed to elevate students to an acceptable college aptitude.

“Most of my transfer students have been somewhat intimidated by professors and seem to have to ‘grow into’ their confidence in their academic ability.”

Cunningham will complete his 4-year degree in social work in a handful of semesters.

His wife, Brittany, said he is an inspiration to many.

“I feel honored to be the wife of this man,” she said.

“When he shares his story it makes you think ‘my situation could be worst, I could have been him’ and it makes you thankful for whatever your situation is.”

In Cunningham’s 10-year plan, he imagines himself as the founder and director of

Cunningham said growing up in a variety of homes and being separated from his siblings was not easy for him.

After his parents’ deaths, Cunningham and his siblings were all separated; each sibling went to live with different family members over three different states until they were grown.

Cunningham grew up in Batesville, Courtland and “a little in Memphis.”

He made it all the way to the 12th grade at South Panola High School before his aunt PHOTO BY: LYNDY BERRYHILL took him out of school due to financial issues.

Dameon Cunningham “Education to me is an unhis own recreational center in much disappointment in his finished chapter in my life,” his home town. He still wants life has made him grow into a Cunningham said. to be the senior pastor of Lib- stronger, more accepting perWriting that chapter has not erty Hill, even possibly have a son. been easy. Cunningham said “It adds to the story of my doctorate in theology. he studied hard to earn his chapter,” he said.

“Even though he’s being GED. Twelve years later, he It has been a long chapter to shared between home, work, earned an associate’s degree write, but Cunningham said church, school and other acfrom Northwest Community he wants people to think: “If tivities, he balances everyCollege. he did it, then I can do it too.” thing well and without missHe graduated from North“So many odds were stacked ing a beat,” Brittany said. “I’m west with highest honors and against me,” Cunningham said. awaiting the day he becomes a 4.0 grade point average. He “I think that (my story) will be Dr. Dameon L. Cunningham.” was also named a member of very inspirational.”

Cunningham said having so Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society, and was selected to be a part of the 2015 All-Mississippi Academic Team.

Despite obstacles, Cunningham excelled. However, his first semester at Ole Miss was more of challenge. Cunningham dropped his classes and had to reevaluate his priorities. He came back in the fall after changing jobs.

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A Tribe Called Quest releases gem after nearly 18 years AUSTIN HILLE

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After two decades, the legendary hip-hop crew A Tribe Called Quest has made any sort of attempt to put out new music.

With a series of five records being released from 1990 to 1998, perhaps no other group radically changed the trajectory of hip-hop like the group did, and now, after the death of frontman Phife Dawg, the Tribe has re-formed for one final hoorah with “We got it from Here... Thank you 4 your Service.”

Any other group to make a comeback of this scale may be interpreted to have purely commercial interests, but given the timeliness of this release, both on a personal level for the group as well as current events unfolding around the nation, it is clear that Tribe just has a few more things they want to share with the world.

The opening track, “Space Program” does a fantastic job of really setting the tone for the rest of project. The simple chorus makes it very evident that this album will become somewhat of an exposition on race and politics.

Overdone? Possibly. But one can argue that no group is more fit to tackle these topics than this group that has elevated to such a legendary status in the black community while still earning respect from all

races and all nations over the past decade and a half.

The following track, “We The People...,” continues to push this agenda even stronger. In a mere three minutes, Tribe presents their case in a highly poetic fashion and with overproduction that resonates with both the old and new school.

The result is borderline breathtaking, and bound to give any hip-hop head chills.

The track also narrows down the focus of the project as a whole to clearly address Donald Trump. From this point forward in the project it is more than clear Trump’s candidacy and eventual election strongly inspired this project.

“Dis Generation” and “Kids...” both adopt a rather unique cypher-like style utilizing lyrics so deep that truly understanding them will take a myriad of listenings.

And perhaps that is what makes this project so exciting.

In many ways, I see this being very similar to Kendrick Lamar’s “To Pimp a Butterfly.” At some points it’s weird and very cryptic, but once you really sit and live with this album, it just becomes more and more beautiful.

Some other highlights of the project are tracks such as “Mobius” and “Movin Backwards” where lyrical content is matched by more than exceptional production. These tracks certainly stand out, but in a project like this, it’s hard

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to define the album by merely the highlights.

Over the span of 16 tracks Tribe sets out to accomplish something so much bigger than just making dope songs.

It’s something that has to be experienced by a full listening session, and then many more after that.

The project ends on “The

Donald” which ironically, may be the song that pertains to Trump the least, and instead serves as a tribute to the late Phife Dawg, wrapping up the wild ride on a heartfelt and sincere note.

“We got it from Here... Thank you 4 your Service” is definitely one of the greatest artistic success of our generation, and

possibly the biggest problem with reviewing it is that words cannot do it justice.

Race, politics, addiction, death, love and greed are all explored in-depth in the most poetic of fashion, and the only thing that will be greater than listening to it for the first time will be living with it for years to come.

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Review:‘True Memoirs of an International Assassin’ SARAH SMITH

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The new Netflix original film “True Memoirs of an International Assassin” was released on Nov. 11, and it’s not the best Kevin James movie ever made, but it doesn’t fail to highlight his charm.

James doesn’t fail us for a laugh, but it doesn’t seem as if he brought his all to the movie.

The movie begins with aspiring novelist Samuel Larson (Kevin James) down on his luck with publishing until a small e-book publisher gives him a call in the middle of the night. He answers, and to his surprise, he lands a book deal.

Even more to his surprise, his book, which his publisher (played by Kelen Coleman of “Scandal” and “The Mindy Project”), tells him will be the next “Twilight,” sells through the roof. After landing an in-

terview with Katie Couric, he flees to his apartment, where he’s kidnapped by a man who wants to run Venezuela. In fact, he was kidnapped by the man so he could assassinate the president of Venezuela.

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When she saves him, a delusional Sam Larson sees things as if they were in an action novel and begins thinking of lines for his next book. Throughout the movie, James’s character has an idea of what his hero would do in these circumstances, but Sam is nothing like the character in his story.

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With the help of Rosa and an old friend, he makes it through Argentina with his life while taking others in the process.

It’s funny, but it did have its hiccups.

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Rebels’ defensive coordinator retires after five seasons BRIAN SCOTT RIPPEE thedmsports@gmail.com

Two years, ago Ole Miss Defensive Coordinator Dave Wommack couldn’t bring himself to leave the profession he’d been in for nearly four decades. He’d just helped Ole Miss win eight games, and earn a birth in a New Year’s Six Bowl with the number one defense in college football.

“I almost (decided to retire) after the 2014 season, and we thought ‘Man, we are having fun so let’s keep going and all that stuff,’” Wommack said. “Then last summer, we solidified this is what we wanted to do.”

Wommack first met Head Coach Hugh Freeze when Freeze brought him on staff at Arkansas State to be his defensive coordinator. They’ve been together for the last six seasons.

“He has been in this business for 38 years and he has done some remarkable things. He has impacted young men and he is the type of guy you want in the profession,” Freeze said. “He cares about young men and has been very good at it for a long time. It is time for him to enjoy some time and then for me to figure out which direction to go next.”

The two won 49 games together in those six years. They put players in the NFL, and lead the programs to heights it had not seen in more than 50 years, but Wommack’s final year commanding the defense was a trying one.

“I was excited about building this program the way we built it the first four years, and it was just kind of downer this year,” Wommack said moments after Ole Miss’ 55-20 loss to Misssissippi State. “I think this game kind of accumulated the whole theme for the season.”

Ole Miss went through a lot of turnover between the 2015 and 2o16 seasons. It lost a lot of key pieces that Wommack used to build one of the best defenses in college football. The transition was not easy, and injuries didn’t make it any smoother.

“You can look an injury here or there. You can look at losing some leadership that was very important,” Wommack said. “But ultimately I think God puts adversity in our life and I think it makes you better in a long run. I won’t get another chance in football, but I can look back at my career and be extremely proud of the things I have accomplished.”

He lost Ken Webster, his best cover corner in the opening game.

Fadol Brown was nagged with a foot injury all year. Tony Conner never found his footing after tearing his meniscus a year ago. The Rebels also had a huge void to fill with their linebackers, and nothing ever materialized.

“In the spring I was really concerned about linebackers and linebacker play and hoped that the transfers might make a big difference for us,” Wommack said. “Really didn’t have anywhere

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Defensive Coordinator Dave Wommack talks to the media at a press conference. He has worked with Ole Miss five years of his 38-year career coaching football. to turn, and that is on us. I didn’t recruit the guys that we needed in here that could help us stop the run. That is something that need to be addressed immediately.”

Throw in the number of freshmen in the secondary, and it all equated to the worst defense in Freeze’s tenure. The poor linebacking play lead to the Rebels being gashed repeatedly on the ground as opponents ran as they pleased. That deficiency opened up the passing game where op-

posing quarterbacks preyed on the young secondary.

“It was all a perfect storm,” Wommack said. “Usually one of those groups is going to step up and do what they need to do. We weren’t able to do that.”

Saturday’s game was Wommack’s last, and it was a sour way to go out. But he helped Ole Miss ascend into the national spotlight with a defense that served as the backbone of the team for the first four years.

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“It was a tough year,” Wommack said. “But hopefully I was able to teach these kids some lessons. I hope I taught them integrity and character and being steady throughout how I coached.”

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continued from page 1 of a first down at the Mississippi State 17-yard line, thwarting any sort of momentum Ole Miss was attempting to garner.

“Definitely,” Freeze said.

“I thought the energy in the whole place kind of went down.

There was good energy at the beginning of the second half.

There was good energy in the stadium, and that was a crucial play.”

Mississippi State took complete control of the game after that, scoring 28 consecutive points while pitching a shutout en route to the win. Nick Fitzgerald ran for 258 yards and two scores, while his counterpart in the backfield, Aeris Williams, ran for 191 yards and two scores of his own. Fitzgerald averaged 18.4 yards in his 14 carries.

“We’ve got to look at everyone and everybody. We were not good,” Freeze said. “When you can’t stop their base stuff, we’ve got to figure out what exactly is it.”

It was a season filled with injuries, adversity and defeats, as the Rebels will be at home this bowl season for the first time in

Freeze’s tenure.

“It is very disappointing because we set the expectations so high coming in. You work with these guys all summer and all spring,” Javon Patterson said. “It hurts. It hurts bad.

You’ve just got to come back to work.”

Patterson was one of the few spared on a beaten and battered offensive line, and on Saturday night, the more the defense struggled, the more pressure weighed down on the offense.

“You kind of feel it throughout the game. When you go three-and-out, that’s not how it is supposed to go,” Akeem Judd said.

If there was a bright spot to pull from a sea of frustration, Judd ran for 107 yards on 19 carries in his final game in an Ole Miss uniform. The senior stabilized an Ole Miss run game that dealt with injuries early on in this 2016 season.

“When your name is called and the coaches want to run the ball a lot, you’ve just got to do what you can do,” Judd said. “We have great linemen.

We had some guys dinged up, and some of the schemes we went up against were a little difficult.”

This game was one final blow

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“It’s been the toughest (sea- and will do so with a new deThis seventh loss put person) of my professional ca- fensive coordinator. It was an- haps the most bitter taste of reer,” Freeze said. “Whether it nounced before the game that them all in the mouth Ole Miss, be from the disappointments to Defensive Coordinator Dave and the only thing it can do is the injuries to everything that is Wommack will retire after five hope to wash it out and look going on around our program, years at the school and 38 in ahead next season, because the it has been a very difficult sea- the coaching profession. one in its rearview mirror was son. I know the testing of your “He’s been in this business largely forgettable. faith produces endurance, and for 38 years and done some rewe’ll find out if you’re genuine markable things,” Freeze said. in who you say you are, and it is “He’s impacted young men, and

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