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Controversy surrounding flag sparks interest Busy weekend for OPD TAYLOR BENNETT

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The decision to temporarily remove the Mississippi state flag from the city’s public buildings Tuesday has solicited varying reactions from Oxford residents. Mayor Pat Patterson and the Board of Aldermen voted unanimously to remove the Mississippi state flag from public buildings for a two-week period in anticipation of a more permanent decision at the group’s next regular meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 1. Following the meeting Tuesday, Oxford resident Devin Miller protested the decision by waving a Confederate banner in front of the Confederate soldier statue on the Square. While Miller did not SEE FLAG PAGE 4 PHOTO BY: ROYCE SWAYZE

While the Board of Aldermen met to discuss the future of the state flag in Oxford last Tuesday, Devin Miller, a 16-year-old student at Lafayette High School, expressed his support for the state banner by waving a Confederate flag on the Square.

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The University is implementing a new attendance policy starting fall 2015 in response to a Federal Department of Education program review in January. The policy, branded “Go To Class” by UM Financial Aid, mandates attendance verification on a random meeting of all classes within the first two weeks of each academic term. Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Brandi Hephner Labanc said, in addition to meeting the required federal standards associated with receiving federal financial aid, the University

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aims to create a campus-wide culture that places greater value on and holds students more ac-

countable for regularly attending class. “Students are here to go to

class,” Labanc said. “The best way to be successful is to make consistent attendance a priority.” Financial Aid director Laura Diven-Brown said a task force has been assigned to designing and preparing this system for implementation since the University was officially notified of its necessity in April. This committee included representatives from the Provost’s Office, Division of Outreach and Continuing Education and the Center for Student Success and Financial Aid. The university will now hold

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The Oxford Police Department conducted a prostitution sting operation in Lafayette County on Friday night, concluding a weekend full of increased operation for the department. Late Friday night, OPD ran a joint prostitution sting in conjunction with Lafayette County Metro Narcotics, the FBI, and the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office. Three were arrested for misdemeanor prostitution and one was arrested for felony promotion of prostitution. According to a department press release on Saturday, they began investigations into a series of criminal events in the winter of 2014. The investigations unveiled a connection between the criminal events and electronic advertisements for prostitution. The names of the suspects and location of the crime scene have not been released. OPD also responded to an armed robbery on North Lamar on the Square Thursday night. The armed robbery occurred at approximately 9 p.m. According to Oxford Police Chief Joey East, both the victim and the suspect were in a vehicle when the crime occurred, and the victim managed to exit the vehicle near Proud Larry’s. The suspect fled the scene, but was later identified from eyewitness and victim reports according to East. A weapon was recovered at the scene, but no shots were fired. Details on the weapon and the name of the suspect have not been released.

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“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” Benjamin Franklin, one of America’s founding fathers who had a reputation of being an “early-riser,” strongly believed in the notion that the healthiest, wisest people were ones who woke up early. Although Franklin was a very wise man in his lifetime, his quote most certainly does not apply to teenage students today, especially concerning sleep cycles. When I was a teenager, waking up to an alarm clock in the early morning on a school day was always a constant struggle for me. Even worse were those allnight study sessions, keeping yourself awake because you had a stressful test to take at 8 a.m. Taking the bus at 6:50 a.m. to school, attending classes while

suffering from chronic drowsiness, could easily summarize my discomforting high school experience. You could even extend this notion to college freshmen frantically adjusting to college life, such a strain that an Adderall fix becomes a dangerously normal routine for some students to keep themselves awake. When I found out my old high school changed its schedule to start at 8:15 a.m., I was disappointed that they only made this change long after I graduated. Starting school later should become a universal trend. An extra 45 minutes in the morning is a godsend when it comes to staying awake for lectures all day and performing well on tests. Thus, all public high schools in the United States should adjust their schedules to accommodate students’ sleep cycles. If the costs and benefits are considered, our nation’s policymakers should consider making this change

mandatory for high schools, primarily to ensure optimum student performance on standardized assessments. While sleep is important for people of all ages, it is most critical for adolescent health: teenagers in grades 9-12 require at least 9 and one half hours of sleep to ensure proper mental development. Critics may argue that it is the parent’s responsibility to ensure that teenagers sleep early because they cause their own sleep difficulties (like staying up too late from playing video games). However, teenagers stay up later because the hormone responsible for inducing sleep — melatonin — releases later in the night, affecting a teenager’s circadian rhythm by delaying signs of sleepiness. Simply put, teenagers are biologically programmed to stay up late. A study published by the American Academy of Pediatrics in February 2015 found that only 43% of 15-year olds get over

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7 hours of sleep on a daily basis today, compared to 73% in the 1990s. The organization declared this problem to be a public health crisis, pointing the finger at K-12 school schedules as the culprit because they begin too early, as this insufficient sleep amongst adolescents affects the health and academic achievement of high school students. It says much about our public education system when pediatricians say schools are the reason teenagers have sleeping problems. Thus, the politicians who run our public K-12 education system must answer their wake-up calls to make needed school schedule adjustments. If schools start past 8:15 a.m., teenagers may be rested enough so as not to suffer the effects of sleep deprivation (which is correlated to lower test scores). Since the study noted that teens are going to sleep past 11 p.m. because their body forces them to do so, tying school

opinion schedules to student sleep cycles will not only yield benefits to students, but also to high schools. There are specific benefits that schools can measure: a University of Minnesota study found that when school starts after 8 a.m., test scores in math, reading, history and science improve across the board, regardless of the economic status of a student. Attendance increases while tardiness decreases. A Wyoming high school found that crashes from teen drivers decreased significantly when it changed its schedule to start at 8:55 a.m. Interestingly, since students stay in school later in the day, drug abuse and juvenile crime decreases. A United Kingdom

school changed its starting time to 10 a.m. and found that test scores improved overall, with disadvantaged students showing the most improvement. Most importantly, the University of Minnesota studied 9,000 high school students in three states, finding that 66% of them got more than 8 hours of sleep when schools started at 8:55 a.m. Only 34% of students got 8 hours when schools started at 7:30 a.m. Clearly, sleep deprivation is directly linked to academic performance. Administrators should salivate at these findings, as it means giving high school students more time to get to sleep will improve the chances of increasing student achievement. However, there are

challenges to implementing this policy reform. The challenges of changing school start and end times are logistical. The change mostly burdens parents when school bus transportation is sparse. This change would significantly impact bus schedules, as any change in the bus routines can be very costly to schools when picking up and dropping off students. Additionally, bus schedules would become much more complex when only high school schedules are changed to start later in the day when elementary and middle school schedules do not, which may prevent students of all grades from riding together. There are also other questions

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to consider when implementing a schedule change, especially if a poor high school implements this change: what if a student needs to take care of a younger sibling while the parent(s) is/are working, unable to afford daycare? What about students holding afternoon jobs? How would extracurricular activities work, since these activities cannot be expected to last past dinnertime? This reform would significantly affect parents who drop and pick up students before work and later in the day. Despite these lo-

gistical issues (which have been addressed by some schools in different ways), the benefits of improving student performance outweigh the challenges of implementation in the long-term. If high schools expect their students to excel on standardized tests, they must ensure students are well-rested by changing when school starts its day. With more schools changing their starting times to accommodate teenage sleep cycles, it’s time to wake up, America… later, that is.

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continued from page 1 brandish a state flag, he explained his gesture concerned the state flag and its removal from city buildings. “It is a daily battle to fly the flag now because so many want to bring it down,” Miller said. Protests from both sides of the issue have continued outside the Lafayette County Courthouse throughout the week. Despite the city’s decision, the state flag still flies outside the courthouse. This flag, along with any others on county property, lies outside city government jurisdiction. There has been no discussion of the issue among the county’s Board of Supervisors, according to County Administrator Joseph Johnson. Following a series of testimonies from Oxford residents at the meeting Tuesday, Patterson initially proposed a motion to fly both the current state flag and its predecessor, which features a Magnolia tree and has become an alternative symbol for some Mississippians. Mississippi’s first official state flag, the “Magnolia Flag,” was adopted in 1861 and remained the state banner until after the Civil War, when the Mississippi Legis-

lature adopted the current flag. Alderwoman Janice Antonow then suggested an alternate motion that the city remove the state flag and fly no flags for the time being. The board unanimously approved this motion. Though city hall flies neither banner, neighboring Neilson’s Department Store currently displays the “Magnolia Flag” atop its storefront where the state flag once flew. Store president Will Lewis said behind this choice was a desire among the owning family to not offend Oxford residents and visitors. “We’re not trying to get in anyone’s face, but that’s how we feel,” Lewis said. Neilson’s flew the same “Magnolia Flag” during the 2001 state referendum in which 65 percent of voters chose the current state flag over an alternate submitted by former Governor William Winter and a redesign committee. According to Lewis, customer compliments on the flag have outnumbered complaints. “I have some friends that feel strongly about keeping the flag,” Lewis said. “It would be easier to stay out of it and not run the risk of turning away any business, but I think our normal customer will understand.” Oxford-Lafayette County Chamber of Commerce president and CEO Jon Maynard advocated

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While city officials voted to remove the state flag from city property last Tuesday, several supporters of the flag exchanged lively conversation with those wishing to change the flag’s design in front of the courthouse on the Square.

for the removal of the state flag. Maynard said the controversy behind its confederate symbolism deters business owners and entrepreneurs from participating in the state’s economy. “When we go out to market the state of Mississippi, our flag, our history, does show,” Maynard said. “Will taking the flag down or changing the flag create a flood of jobs and companies into Mississippi? No. That’s not the way it’s going to be. But [the flag] doesn’t help.” Oxford resident Michael McMurray cautioned in his testimony against the use of what some

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call the “Magnolia Flag,” arguing that its history is largely misunderstood. McMurray argued that the Confederate symbol within the “Magnolia Flag” made it an unsuitable replacement for the state’s current flag. While the current state flag contains the Confederate battle flag, the “Magnolia Flag” contains the first Confederate banner, a single white star on a blue background. “It’s really about competing mythologies,” McMurray said. “The Magnolia Flag is actually the flag of secession.” In her remarks on the flag, Al-

derwoman Robyn Tannehill proposed a resolution that would explicitly call for replacement of the current state flag by the Mississippi Legislature. Oxford resident Joseph Marshall said after the meeting Tuesday that the city’s refusal of a state symbol sets a dangerous precedent. “This is no small matter,” Marshall said. “As a municipality, the city of Oxford is not just showing disrespect, but it’s showing contempt for the political and legal process that establishes and changes public policy in this state.”

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Federal Title IV Financial Aid funds that are not disbursed before the start of each semester until a student’s attendance of at least one course is verified. Title IV funds include federal student loans and Pell Grants. “Going forward, we will continue to urge students not to wait until the last minute to complete their financial aid requirements every year,” Diven-Brown said. “Because if everything is ready to go, they can qualify for early disbursement, prior to the start of the term.” The policy does not require faculty to change their attendance policy or take any attendance outside the randomly selected session for verification. Data collection for verification will rely on a variety of methods to encompass study abroad courses, online classes, and internships. Financial Aid will finalize enrollment by September 14, the mandatory drop date for the fall 2015 academic term based on students’ verified class schedules. The department will then review all financial aid packages and make any necessary changes. “Remember that failure to attend class could not only result in loss of financial aid eligibility, but students can actually be dropped from their courses,” Diven-Brown said. Senior finance major Madison Portie supports the policy and its aims to prioritize attendance. Portie cited a similar rule within the School of Business Administration which makes attendance mandatory throughout the first week of each academic term as another example of success in this area. “If students aren’t going to take their commitment to the university seriously, then they are wasting resources.”

Though average response time to an incident takes up to around three minutes, East said the response time to the crime was within seconds. East said the department did not increase officer presence on the Square after the incident. According to East, there are 64 full-time officers in the department. All were on schedule to work over the weekend in response to students returning to Oxford to start classes on Monday. “What we did was when we put the plan together for this weekend, we basically maxed out everyone we had,” East said. “What we want is behavioral expectations,” East said. “There’s a lot of new people coming into Oxford and we want to set the right example.” East said the department feels like having more officers

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on the Square will help people make better choices and prevent future crimes. “Those things are not just isolated events,” East said. “They trickle and cause problems down the road. Incidents are going to happen. We will respond.” The University Police Department was also working with the department to prevent crimes on campus said Oxford Police Chief Joey East and University Police Chief Tim Potts. East said the department understands the university officers may not work off campus, but still strives to communicate with them about what is happening in the rest of the city. “We extend our hands to each other,” East said. According to Potts, the university is also using all of its officers to monitor the campus at this time. “During this time of the year, we restrict time off for our officers, because it’s so busy with so many events taking place and kids moving

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back,” Potts said. In response to the armed robbery on Thursday, Potts said, “Hopefully that was a one-time event and doesn’t happen again.” Last year over 600 DUIs were issued in Oxford and around 160 burglaries were reported. Both departments are working to lower the numbers of DUIs and other crimes in Oxford over the next year.

“We’re not up there trying to make it difficult for anyone. We’re trying to make it safer for everyone,” East said. “At the end of the night, when you come home safe, you’re gonna know and we’re gonna know we did what we were supposed to do.”

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2015 expectations high for Ole Miss defense of them all with the addition of Tee Shepard and Tony Bridges at corner and safety, respectively. The goal for any defense is to Wommack seemed excited when be better than the year before and addressing the subject of the improve so that they may play at group of corners. “We have five guys that we’re their full potential. After the Ole Miss defense ranked first in the playing at corner, rotating in there nation in scoring defense last sea- a lot,” Wommack said. “I think son, the goal will be to return to Tony Bridges has made huge that high level of play despite the strides in learning the defense. I loss of some big seniors and two think Tee (Sheppard) has come All-Americans in the secondary. along farther than I thought he While the secondary certain- would in the spring, and he’s ly takes a big hit with the loss of stayed healthy and competed.” Senior free safety Trae Elston Senquez Golson and Cody Prewitt, defensive coordinator Dave said he felt good about the makeWommack said he thinks this up of the secondary and makeup year’s group is the deepest he’s of the defense as a whole. “We’re looking pretty fast on had while at Ole Miss and still has a lot of potential at cornerback defense, and the offense is starting to pick it up a little bit,” Elston and safety. “I think they’re coming said. Many players are vying for time along. We just have to keep developing,” Wommack said of the at linebacker, including senior safety group. “I’m liking what C.J. C.J. Johnson, whom Wommack Hampton is doing. He’s a young said has had an excellent offseaguy who’s doing a great job for son. “We’re playing him at both deus. A.J. and C.J. (Moore), both of them are doing a nice job, so fensive end and linebacker, and I’ve been impressed with them. he’s doing a great job at both of I think we can play more people them,” Wommack said. “He’s back there than we have in the been doing a great job at leading the team, so I’m proud of him.” past three years.” Earlier in the offseason, it apThe cornerback position could be the most talented and deepest peared the depth at linebacker

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could be a big issue for the Rebels, but Wommack said, thanks to the emergence of players like sophomore Ray Ray Smith, junior Temario Strong, sophomore Demarquis Gates and junior Terry Caldwell and the consistency and improvement of players like sophomore Tayler Polk and senior Christian Russell, it is not a cause for concern. “I really have a difficult situation because I have so many guys who are pretty good, and I need to really limit some of the PHOTO BY: LOGAN KIRKLAND reps so four or five of themTrae Elston speaks at a press conference after practice. get really good,” Wommack said. “It’s very competitive land (Speaks) and D.J. (Jones),” spots. and I think that’s helped them get Wommack said. “I think we’re “We’re gonna play eight to ten better out there, it’s a very athletic stronger across the board there, guys in there, and that will be very group of guys.” and it’s a good defensive line.” good for us,” Wommack said. One place the defense can imWommack also said the line has Junior defensive end Fadol prove on is the run support, as the depth to run different looks Brown also felt good about the power-running teams like Ar- for the different situations they depth on the defensive line and kansas and LSU gave the defense will face, such as a bigger and saw the important role the line some trouble last year. The key to more physical group with defen- could have this season. improving the team’s run defense sive tackle Robert Nkemdiche “We look at the defense as evstarts up front with the defensive sliding to defensive end oppo- erything starts up front, no matter line, which Wommack has high site Fadol Brown. Another look how you look at it,” Brown said. hopes for this season. is a pass rush-oriented look with “Every Saturday we have to come “I think that we improved our sophomore Marquis Haynes and with it.” self from last year because of Bree- C.J. Johnson at the defensive end

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Senior offensive tackle Fahn Cooper didn’t have much time to prepare before being thrust into the starting right tackle role last season. Now, with a year in the SEC and a full offseason under his belt, Cooper said he feels much more comfortable. “Last year I didn’t have spring ball, I just had June and July. Then we were playing ball,” Cooper said. “Having gone through that whole spring and being around the guys and watching extra film has made it a lot easier.” While Cooper seemed comfortable at the right tackle spot when he had to move to

left tackle in relief of Laremy Tunsil, Cooper struggled and wasn’t nearly as effective, pointing out the Auburn game as a time when he struggled at left tackle. Cooper thinks he improved after spring practice and summer workouts. Cooper talked about “the switch” he plays as an offensive lineman. He said this shouldn’t be an issue like it was last year. “I was working a little bit at left tackle, a little bit at right and just making sure the transition is a lot easier as opposed to last year,” Cooper said. Perhaps the biggest change in Cooper from last season to this season is in his weight; he dropped down to about 300 pounds.

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In the game against Alabama, lineman Fahn Cooper blocks. “Last year I was about 325,” Cooper said. “Now I’m back into having my body feel right, and it makes everything else and the mental part a lot easier.” With the fast-pace that head coach Hugh Freeze likes to run, it’s important for the offensive line to be in top shape when it comes to properly executing the offense. Not only did that factor in for Cooper, but there were other motivations as well. “After the season, I really thought about it and I really feel like I’ll be a much better player if I can get my weight back down to how I was when I was a sophomore,” Cooper said. Cooper put a lot of effort in maintaining a healthy diet and nutrition plan in order to

be in top shape. “A big part of it was talking with our nutritionist, eating right, staying after to do extra stuff in the weight room,” Cooper said. “The biggest part of it was that I wasn’t alone. On the offensive line there was a group of about six, seven or eight guys, and we all had to lose weight. And we all did.” Cooper said the group lost around 200 pounds all together. “We all were working and pushing each other to do extra stuff, so we could lose the weight and run this no huddle offense efficiently,” Cooper said. With head coach Hugh Freeze’s offense based heavily around getting the play off quickly and moving fast in

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between snaps, the offensive line losing so much weight should help with the speed of the offense and the conditioning that will be necessary to run long sets of plays in a row without breaking for a huddle. Cooper said the tempo was much faster and explained how this improved speed would pay dividends on the field next season. “If you can get lined up faster, you can get the plays off faster, and it makes everything easier for the quarterback,” Cooper said. “And it just causes chaos for the defense.”

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continued from page 12 knocked it in the upper corner of the net past the diving Boise State keeper. Freshman forward and defender CeCe Kizer scored the first goal of her Ole Miss career in the 50th minute. Junior midfielder Sara Coleman escaped down the right side and sent a cross into the box. The ball fell to Kizer, who finished into the top corner off the hands of the Broncos keeper. In the 64th minute, junior defender Georgia Russell pounced on a bad pass by Boise State, ran into the box and was knocked down, earning a penalty kick. Senior forward and midfielder Olivia Harrison sent the Bronco keeper the wrong way and converted the penalty to give Ole Miss a 4-0 lead. “This was definitely the day we decided we were going to put the ball in the back of the net, and it was time to start scoring some goals,” Forbus said. “We had options moving off the ball and I really think

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that helped us find a flow in the attack.” Defensively, the Rebels prevented the Broncos from taking a single corner kick or shot. “We put a lot of early pressure on the ball that didn’t allow them to serve the ball behind us,” Mott said. “We knew they wanted to try to get the ball behind us, so when they did try to serve it we were in good position. The defenders stepped in and won a lot of balls.” The Rebels will continue their seven-game home stand Friday night against LouisianaLafayette. Kickoff is slated for 7 p.m.

The soccer team celebrates after scoring their first goal during Sunday’s game.

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Rebels shut out Boise State 4-0 in home opener csludwig@go.olemiss.edu

The Ole Miss soccer team opened their home schedule with a dominant 4-0 win

over the Boise State Broncos Sunday afternoon. The Rebels improved their record to 1-0-1, while the Broncos fell to 0-2-0. “I’m really pleased,” Ole

Miss head coach Matthew Mott said. “We came out and had great energy and great focus. We wanted to come out and set the tone of the game early, and we did that.”

After lightning in the area delayed kickoff for nearly an hour, the Rebels came out aggressive and didn’t let up. Junior forward and midfielder Addie Forbus opened the scoring in the third minute for the Rebels. Forbus shot from a tight angle, and though the Boise State goalkeeper made the save, the rebound came back to Forbus. She was then able to knock it home. “One of our goals is to be the first ones to put the ball in the back of the net,” Forbus said. “It was a great ball from

Gretchen [Harknett]. We looked at each other and just knew it was the time to play it, and it worked out.” Junior forward Danielle Gray scored her first goal as a Rebel to give Ole Miss a 2-0 lead. In the 31st minute, the transfer from Kennesaw State sliced through the midfield and laid a pass off to Forbus at the near side of the box. Forbus returned the pass to an open Gray, who

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Danielle Gray scores a goal for the Ole Miss Rebels.

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