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‘We are Ole Miss, too’ Student groups march for representation HADLEY HITSON
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Yusef Salaam, one of five teenagers wrongfully convicted – and later exonerated – in the 1989 Central Park jogger case, visited the university on Tuesday to give the Black History Month keynote speech about the hope for change and how people can work to end racism and prejudice. Salaam spoke of his life expe-
In 1970, Fulton Chapel was the setting of a peaceful protest that resulted in major changes to the university and the suspension of eight students, now known as the Ole Miss Eight. Five of the students — Henriese Roberts, Kenneth Mayfield, Donald Ray Cole, Theron Evans Jr. and Linnie Liggins — joined Ralph Eubanks and the lawyer who represented them, on
Escorted by police officers and university officials, dozens of university students marched from Lamar Hall to the Confederate monument in the Circle on Monday evening to commemorate Black History Month. “I feel like this walk is important because it represents not only what we have achieved but what we will achieve in the future as black students here at Ole Miss,” Dee Harris, a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), said. The march was organized by “The Great Eight” black student organizations on campus: The Black Student Union (BSU), Educated, Successful, Talented, Evolving, Empowered and Motivated (ESTEEM), National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC), Men of Excellence, Black Gospel Choir, Minority Association of Pre-Medical Students (MAPS) and the Increasing Minority Access to Graduate Education Program (IMAGE). “Saying that we are Ole Miss, too, and doing this march — it’s showing that we’re not just tagging along, but we are incorporated in this school. We are overcoming so many things, even just growing the number of minorities here. A lot of times, being a minority at Ole Miss is a struggle,” Jada Broughton, a freshman psychology major, said. The groups registered the march with the university, and when they did so, they requested that the university place a podium behind the Confederate
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Arielle Hudson (center), president of the Black Student Union, leads a Black History Month march to the Circle.
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Yusef Salaam gave the keynote address for the Black History Month series hosted by the Center for Diversity and Community.
Students meet their ASB senators KENNETH NIEMEYER thedmnews@gmail.com
Around 80 students attended the Associated Student Body (ASB) senate’s Meet Your Senator Night on Tuesday to discuss how the ASB senate serves their interests.
ASB Vice President Charlotte Shackelford, who organized the event, ran her campaign platform last spring on redefining the way ASB connects with the student body. “I’m so excited that everyone has the opportunity to meet their ASB senator, get to know them and get to tell them
the things that they always wish they could say,” Shackelford said. Shackelford said that she has prioritized communication between the ASB senate and the student body this school year and set up a form on the ASB
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continued from page 1 monument in the Circle for student leaders to speak. However, when the march reached the Circle, the podium had been placed in front of the Lyceum instead. “They placed it in front of the Lyceum, but we decided that we wanted it where we said we wanted it, so we just picked it up and moved it,” Arielle Hudson, president of the BSU and the university’s first African American female Rhodes Scholar, said. Hudson said she did not want to speculate on whether the university officials’ placement of the podium in front of the Lyceum was intentional. Once the group reached the monument, the Black Gospel Choir led them in singing “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” which is often referred to as the Black National Anthem, and as the harmonizing faded, Hudson stepped up to the moved podium and spoke about the importance of inclusion on campus. “October 1, 1962, James Howard Meredith integrated the University of Mississippi as the first African American student at the university. He was the first African American student on this campus, but he wasn’t the first African American to be in this place,” Hudson said. “This place and the spaces around it were built by black hands, on the backs of black and brown people.” This was the second annual march organized by black students on campus to honor the lives and legacies of African Americans at the University of Mississippi. The event was centered around the phrase, “We are Ole Miss, too.” “One year ago today, we were standing in the same place, using the same tactic that those who came before us used and had been using for years,” Jailien Grant, the university’s NAACP president said. On Feb. 21, 2019, these same groups gathered in Lamar to participate in the first Black History Month march on campus. Hudson said that the meaning of last year’s walk was lost in the pro-Confederate marches that were happening in Oxford on the same weekend. “It was supposed to be like what this was today: a commemoration walk of all of the sacrifices and legacies of African American people,” Hudson said. “But last year, with everything that was going on with the Confederate statue and the Confederate 901 group, people saw that more as a protest, so they were more eager to jump in and be here, as you can tell by the crowd difference.” Tayonna Smith, a freshman member of the BSU and ESTEEM, said she has never participated in an event like the march. She also said it was especially important for her to march in honor of Black History Month because the university is a “PWI,” or predominantly white institution. “As a minority at a PWI, because of the things that had to happen in order for us just to go to this school, (a march like) this needs to be done,” Smith said. Student leaders of the march said they want to remind the university community that the remembrance that happens every February can and should be continued throughout the year. “People need to know that we value this place just as much as anyone else,” Kaylan Gilliam, the president of ESTEEM, said. “We belong here just as much as anyone else does.”
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continued from page 1 Monday to discuss the historical implication of their suspensions. “It was an opportunity to shed light on important issues,” Liggins said. The majority of the university’s population was white, and the school’s black population of just under 200 people faced frequent, overt racism on campus. A lack of social equality and representation fueled members of the Black Student Union (BSU) to protest on campus. Katherine Aberle-Flores, a Southern studies graduate student, directed “Black Power at Ole Miss,” a documentary that was screened Monday night. Her film told the stories of a handful of students who were arrested that day. Mayfield described his experience during this time at the university. “We’d study, go to class and
then start protesting,” he said. Mayfield said they knew this would be the only way to get the administration and student body to listen to their demands. A few of their 27 demands — which they gave to then-Chancellor Porter Fortune — included: a presence of African American faculty, abolition of the Confederate flag as a booster symbol and a minimum wage for employees. Roberts, Mayfield, Cole, Evans and Liggins agreed that the Black Student Union was motivated to achieve equality on campus for all future generations of African American students who enroll at the university. 50 years later, they are still advocating for change. “We live in a caste system,” Roberts said. “Our children are tracked for mass incarceration. I think it’s a problem that we need to learn to communicate about. We need to strive to build a better community.” Eubanks, who wrote an article for The New Yorker this week about the protests, moderated the panel. To conclude, Eubanks
riences — from growing up as a black teenager in the heart of New York City to spending six years and eight months in juvenile and adult penitentiaries and gaining his freedom after DNA evidence cleared him and the other four men of the crime. “Most of the young people will tell you, ‘We’re going to be dead or in jail by the time we’re 21,’” Salaam said. “My question is: who gave us that thought?” Salaam recognized that it is a hard question to answer, and many factors contribute to systemic racism and oppression. He said much of the racial and prejudicial issues that BILLY SCHUERMAN torment modern society stem THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN from media insensitivities and Top: Five of the eight former bias. One example Salaam students arrested for protesting provided in his speech was in 1970 returned to campus that of Pat Buchanan, a columfor the 50th anniversary of the nist who said that in order for event. They met in front of Fulton Central Park to be safe, the Chapel to share stories from their eldest teenager of the Central Park Five (now known as the experiences that night and from Exonerated Five) should be their time at Ole Miss. Middle: Yusef Salaam holds a copy of the “hanged in Central Park” and the others should be “stripped, ad that was bought in New York horsewhipped and sent to newspapers by Donald Trump prison.” calling for the death penalty of Salaam also mentioned those convicted in the Central Park that Donald Trump funded an advertisement in 1989 that read jogger case. Salaam was one of in capitalized letters, “Bring the five wrongfully convicted in back the death penalty. Bring 1989. Bottom: Marchers walk from back our police!” Lamar Hall to the Circle in honor of “This is a whisper into the darkest enclaves of society,” Black History Month. Salaam said, “For them to do to us what they did to Emmett Till.” Salaam recalled feeling that someone as famous as Trump calling for his death was very serious, but for Salaam, he said he sees his life’s journey as a lesson from God and an opportunity to educate minds on how to change their reality — both from within and without. Without his experience as one of the Exonerated Five, Salaam does not believe that he would have changed as many lives as he has, and he would not have been the person he is today. Noel Wilkin, the university provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs, attended the speech, and he said he was glad to see Salaam’s perspective and how he has had asked each of them to tell the audia ripple effect through the black ence what they would tell future community. African American students at the “I think these events help us university. to understand and expand our Evans shared a story about his perspective of what all students father’s influence on his perseexperience, and also issues that verance. For Evans’s father, an we face in society are critically education provided something important for our campus … to that could not be taken away. understand the broader context Mayfield received his law of the issues that society is degree and practiced as a civil rights lawyer. facing,” Wilkin said. Cole earned his doctorate in The Student Union Ballmathematics from the university room was full for the event, and and had returned to campus as a tickets sold out, with over 400 professor and assistant provost. students, faculty and commuHe retired last year, after 21 years nity members in attendance. of service. Jonte Williams, a junior Though Evans’s father never liberal studies major, said this received a full education, he said, event is “a point in history that “If you get an education, then they a lot of people overlook or may can’t deny you.” not have paid much attention Though Liggins completed all to.” of the credits for her bachelor’s He said many of his classdegree at the time of her suspenmates did not know about the sion, the university would not Central Park jogger case, and to give her a diploma. Fifty years him, that was proof that events later, Liggins finally received her like Salaam’s speech are critical diploma outside of Fulton Chapel to growth at the university. on Tuesday.
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Here comes the sun
Mannery named Truman finalist RABRIA MOORE
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The sun came out above campus for just a few minutes before the rain continued on Monday. It rained nearly two-thirds of the month of February.
The Truman scholarship is a prestigious national scholarship which provides recipients up to $30,000 for graduate studies. The scholarship is awarded to students pursuing careers as public servants Mannery was chosen out of 773 applicants from 316 colleges and universities across the world. “It reaffirms that everything I’m doing is making an impact, and people can see it,” Mannery said. He told Ashleen Williams, Rachel Coleman and Kayci Kimmons – three of his inspirations for applying for the scholarship – that he was not going to apply because he didn’t feel deserving of it. They rebuked him, telling him that he had an important story to tell. “I owe my biggest inspiration to those three and that conversation because I left that conversation saying that I’m going to try it
even if I don’t get it. I went for it, and here we are,” he said. Mannery plans to attend the University of Chicago to study civil rights law after graduating from the university. In 2036, Mannery would like to run for president, a dream he has had since high school. He said he understands that he will not accomplish that goal by being average. “Even outside the significance of being president, having that goal keeps me on track. It grounds everything I do, making sure I don’t reach too high for the stars but also making sure that I’m constantly pushing myself,” he said. “(Becoming president) is the final natural conclusion to my story.” Mannery will join other students from across the U.S. in Nashville on March 18, with hopes of becoming one of the 60 recipients of the scholarship. If he is selected, Mannery will be the university’s 16th Truman scholar.
Lawmaker aims to limit governor’s power over IHL
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Rep. Trey Lamar wants to amend the Mississippi Constitution to limit the governor’s power to appointInstitutions of Higher Learning trustees— a response to a controversial chancellor search the IHL conducted at UM last fall. Lamar, a UM alumnus whose mother sits on the IHL, filed two measures that would split IHL appointment power between the governor, lieutenant governor and speaker of the house. As chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and a confidant of House Speaker Philip Gunn, Lamar is one of the most powerful lawmakers. “It dawned on me over the last year that maybe it’s not the best policy to have all 12 board seats appointed by the same person, as is the case right now,” Lamar told Mississippi Today this week. “Especially after what happened last year (at UM), I think it’s worthy of some discussion and debate.” IHL members are appointed by the governor and confirmed by the Senate. After legislators amended
the constitution in 2004 to reduce terms from 12 years to nine, former Gov. Phil Bryant became the first governor in the state’s history to appoint every member. Because appointment power is in the state Constitution, Lamar’s proposal to change how IHL members are appointed is more complex than the passing of a typical bill. To amend the Constitution, lawmakers must file a concurrent resolution. Concurrent resolutions require a two-thirds majority in the House and the Senate to pass. If vote requirements are met, the resolution does not move to FILE PHOTO: MCKENZIE RICHMOND / THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN the governor’s desk; instead, the Former Gov. Phil Bryant was the first governor to appoint every member amendment would be placed on a ballot for voters. of the Institutions of Higher Learning Board of Trustees. In this case, state code must be changed to accommodate Critics of the search process, Lamar’s plan, so he filed a sepa- and Senate have to vote to override many of whom believed Boyce was the veto. rate regular bill. That bill, which The resolution and the bill must less qualified than other applicants, changes language in law to split signed petitions and called for IHL IHL appointment power, must pass for changes to be enacted. The IHL came under public reforms. Faculty at the university be approved by a majority in the House and the Senate. If passed by scrutiny in October when the board fumed and considered whether to the chambers, the bill would move skipped steps in their process to formally censure the IHL. appoint Glenn Boyce, the former Talk of reform became so wideto the governor’s desk. If the governor vetoes, a IHL commissioner, as chancellor at spread that lobbyists representing the eight universities met in late fall two-thirds majority in the House the University of Mississippi.
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Two Rebels get Player of the Week honors JOSHUA CLAYTON
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A pair of Ole Miss baseball players received Player of the Week honors on Monday after the Rebels’ series sweep against Xavier. Collegiate Baseball named Anthony Servideo the National Player of the Week With one of the hottest bats in college baseball, the lead-off hitter for the Rebels hit .500 and three home runs over the week. The shortstop started his dominant week on Wednesday when the Rebels hosted Alcorn State. Servideo saved the Rebels from a disastrous early season midweek loss going 3-5 and finishing the game in the 10th inning on a walk-off home run to right center. “Yeah,” Servideo said with a laugh when asked if he was swinging for the fences. “We were hanging around too long. It shouldn’t have gone 10 innings, but I’m really proud of how the team fought and came out with a win.” Servideo came back and went 4-9 in the weekend sweep of Xavier, knocking in five runs
in the process. He also had four home runs, his career best — tied for the team lead with Cael Baker, who was named SEC Co-Player of the Week in week one. Doug Nikhazy was also recognized for his performance this week as he was named SEC Pitcher of the Week. The lefthanded ace got the loss in his first start of the season last week against Louisville, but bounced back to his normal dominance against Xavier. Nikhazy feasted against the Musketeer lineup on Friday night, going 6.0 innings without allowing a hit before Drew McDaniel and Jackson Kimbrell took over to complete the combined no-hitter. Nikhazy struck out nine of the 20 batters he faced in the outing. “It was a great feeling,” Nikhazy said. “It’s awesome to see Drew and Kimbrell get in there (and) have so much success, and it’s good for us because Coach (Mike Bianco) was talking a lot about how we’ve had gritty wins, but let’s come out here and dominate
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Top: Doug Nikhazy pitched six no-hit innings to earn Player of the Week Right: Anthony Servideo had four home runs to become the other Player of the Week. both sides of the baseball.” With the commanding performance over the weekend, the Rebels vaulted up to No. 15 in the D1Baseball.com poll. The Rebels are 7-1 for the season after an important midweek test against Southern Miss Tuesday evening. The Golden Eagles are now 6-2 with a sweep of Murray State last week, a midweek win over New Orleans and two victories over Central Arkansas.
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How each former Rebel can improve NFL draft stock JOSHUA CLAYTON
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Even though win totals don’t reflect it, Ole Miss traditionally has a solid amount of professional talent at the top of the roster, and that usually shows at the NFL Draft Combine. Even with a 5-7 record in 2018 under Matt Luke, Ole Miss was well-represented in the combine last year with nine prospects invited. DK Metcalf was superhuman to the point of overnight stardom with his 4.33 40-yard dash time and impressive 27 bench press reps. A.J. Brown and Greg Little impressed enough to land in the second round. Dawson Knox showed his physical talents, and even Zedrick Woods made a name for himself by posting the best 40-yard dash time. Though Ole Miss doesn’t have that same first-round prospective talent arriving in Indianapolis, Josiah Coatney, Benito Jones, Scottie Phillips and Qaadir Sheppard hope to improve their draft stocks over the week. The former Ole Miss student-athletes will be measured physically and mentally by NFL teams looking to fill their rosters with impact players. The draft process will be strenuous (ask Joe Burrow), but testing well now can lead to life-changing money. Here’s what each Ole Miss draft prospect needs to do to make that happen: Defensive Lineman Josiah Coatney Coatney signed with Ole Miss as a junior-college transfer and started for three years with the
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Rebels. He’s racked up 174 total tackles with his best season coming in 2017. Coatney made 46 total tackles in 2019 with 3.5 tackles for loss and 2 sacks. The Douglasville, Georgia, native was invited to the Senior Bowl in Mobile, Alabama, where he impressed throughout the week. Coatney is listed a 6-foot-4 and 309 pounds and has the benefit of experience along the defensive line. He’s lined up on the interior
and on the edge, and he’ll need to show versatility in drills this weekend, as NFL teams value prospects who can add depth in multiple positions. Coatney’s greatest asset will be his utility and hustle. Defensive Lineman Benito Jones Jones burst onto the scene as a freshman at Ole Miss and earned All-SEC Second Team honors for his performance in 2019. The
Waynesboro native lettered all four years in Oxford, appearing in 48 career games and tallying 132 total tackles — 31 of those for loss. He was also invited to the Senior Bowl alongside Coatney and flashed that potential to scouts. Jones, listed at 6-foot-1, 321 pounds, is a pure nose tackle made for a 3-4 defense but has surprising lateral speed on the interior. His sneaky speed could raise some eyebrows in Indianapolis this
weekend, and he could find himself taken somewhere in the mid-late rounds. NFL.com currently rates him as a 6.20 prospect and a good backup who could become a starter. Running Back Scottie Phillips Phillips made a huge impact as the workhorse in 2018 and was on his way to 1,000 yards rushing before an injury sidelined him at 928 yards. He finished with 12 rushing touchdowns in his junior season. Phillips didn’t have the same production in 2019 with Jerrion Ealy and Snoop Conner joining the backfield and had 542 rushing yards and 5 touchdowns as a senior. NFL teams are generally hesitant to take tailbacks, so the 5-foot8, 211 pounds Phillips will need to show utility as an all-around back who can be a valuable piece on a roster. Walter Football projected him to go somewhere between rounds 3-5. Outside Linebacker Qaadir Sheppard Sheppard’s draft stock is nearly non-existent after a lackluster senior season with only 25 tackles and no sacks in 2019. Even with a slow senior season, the edge defender boasted 48 tackles and 10 tackles for loss in 2018. An invite to the NFL Draft Combine is usually a good sign as Sheppard gets the opportunity to meet with teams to see what needs improvement before the draft. The NFL Draft Combine will run through Feb. 27 – March 1 and will broadcast on NFL Network.
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Leatherwood homer lifts Rebels over Southern Miss JAKE DAVIS
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The Ole Miss baseball team came away with a 4-3 win on Tuesday in a thriller at home against Southern Miss, using a two-run homer from freshman Hayden Leatherwood in the bottom of the seventh for the win. Ole Miss took the lead early but struggled to preserve a lead as Southern Miss knocked on the door in nearly every middle innings. The Golden Eagles had a breakthrough in the fifth inning, thanks to a pair of errors by the home side that allowed a run to come in unearned. Freshman Jackson Kimbrell came into the game for the Rebels and allowed his first base runner because of a poor throw by Chatagnier, which first baseman Cael Baker was unable to scoop out of the dirt. After a deep flyout to center, Kimbrell allowed a single to right field, putting runners on first and second with two outs in the inning. He conceded another single through the left side of the infield, and the runner scored from second after a poor throw home from left fielder Justin Bench.
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Peyton Chatagnier watches a pitch go by in the 4-3 win over USM on Tuesday. Kimbrell allowed the first two batters to reach base in the sixth and was hooked in favor of senior Austin Miller. Miller struck out the first
two batters before allowing a walk to load the bases with two down. A second straight walk plated the tying run before Miller got a key strike out with the bases still loaded.
Southern Miss took its first lead of the game in the seventh on a leadoff homer but quickly saw its lead disappear in the bottom of the inning. With a runner on first and
one out in the bottom of the seventh, outfielder Hayden Leatherwood came to the plate to pinch hit for Tim Elko. Leatherwood ripped the first pitch over the right field wall to give the Rebels the lead late in the game. “First pitch fastball (and) right down the middle,” Leatherwood said about the pitch. “I was sitting on it.” Leatherwood, a native of Collierville, Tennessee, attended Northwest Community College for the first two years of his collegiate career before transferring to Ole Miss. “It’s indescribable,” he said. “As a child I dreamed of playing here, (and) now I’m hitting a couple home runs and actually making an impact on this team. It’s indescribable.” Sophomore Braden Forsyth came in in the top of the ninth to get the save but not before the Golden Eagles gave one last scare. With runners on the corners and one out, Forsyth came up with two huge strikeouts to end the game and record his second save of the season. Forsyth was the sixth pitcher of the night for the Rebels, none of whom lasted more than two innings.
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BTS’s new installment in the “Map of The Soul” series — “Map of The Soul: 7” — further establishes the Korean boy-band as a worldwide juggernaut, no longer a crossover novelty, in the music industry. Doing it, as always, in their own terms. In anticipation of the album release, the band’s label, Big Hit Entertainment, released a four-phase “Comeback Map.” The phases included art installments by twenty-two artists in London, Berlin, New York, Buenos Aires and Seoul, titled “CONNECT, BTS.” In addition, they released an art film for their single “Black Swan” performed by MN Dance Company, two
comeback trailers, four sets of album concept pictures and a “Kinetic Manifesto Film: Come Prima” for the lead single, “ON.” “MOTS: 7” continues the band’s work influenced by Jungian psychology which explains the human psyche archetypes. In this installment, BTS once again succeeds at ambitiously experimenting with a diverse array of musical styles under a cohesive grand theme. Visiting themes and lyrics from past projects such as Agust D’s “The Last” and collaboration in Halsey’s latest “Manic.” “Interlude : Shadow” has main rapper Suga (Min Yoongi) getting honest about the dark shadow that grows in the bright light of success. While sampling their 2013 song “Intro : O!RUL8,2?,” he
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OPINION GUEST COLUMN
UM, pay me what I’m worth SETH SPENCER
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I am a graduate instructor at the University of Mississippi, and I live on the brink of poverty. My story, unfortunately, is a common one. My stipend is $11,500 a year. This unconscionably low salary forces me to seek employment over the summer while attempting to balance an active research agenda. As I strive to meet the deadlines set by my dissertation committee during the semester, I also answer emails from students, plan lessons, grade assignments, meet with faculty, hold office hours, undergo countless rounds of writing revisions, apply for grants and perform a host of other responsibilities. I invoke the powerful
words of Civil Rights Heroine Fannie Lou Hamer: “I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired.” I, too, am sick and tired. I’m sick and tired of the annoyed looks I get at the grocery store when my EBT card is declined. I’m sick and tired of plunging half of my paycheck into my monthly rent. I’m sick and tired of turning down professional development opportunities and conferences in my field because I can’t afford the travel expenses, but most of all, I’m sick and tired of a university that so blatantly devalues my labor. I paint this shocking portrait of the economic reality faced by many instructors and campus workers not to shame any particular department; rather, I do so to highlight the problematic ways university administrators frame academic labor and
to underscore the income inequality epidemic that plagues academia. Those in positions of power who set instructors’ wages either willfully ignore or are blissfully unaware of the array of responsibilities and professional expectations faced by graduate instructors and other campus workers in increasingly demanding fields. I hope it’s the latter, because I cannot imagine a justifiable reason for this level of systemic exploitation. What university administrators fail to take into account are the numerous hours of “invisible” and academic labor graduate instructors are expected to perform, much of it without pay, in order to succeed in our respective programs. In addition to the aforementioned list of responsibilities, graduate
instructors in my field are expected –– if they want a sliver of a chance of finding a job in an absurdly competitive marketplace –– to publish articles in peer-reviewed journals, present papers at conferences and serve on various academic committees. Thus far, I have performed all of these tasks with enthusiasm and gratitude –– I, like many of my colleagues, am passionate about my research. I cannot put a price on the level of professional development and personal satisfaction I cultivate by performing these tasks. Do I expect to be compensated for these acts of service to my department, university and field? Of course not. What discourages me is the fact that university administrators, knowingly or unknowingly, refuse to acknowledge and legitimize
this labor when they set workers’ salaries. To the administrators of the University of Mississippi, Chance llor Boyce , the Institutions of Higher Learning Board of Trustees and state legislators of Mississippi – I implore you. Pay instructors and campus workers a living wage. You have the power to do so. Stop hiding behind generalities and foot-dragging rhetoric, like: “We need to establish an exploratory committee” or “We need to conduct a survey.” Enough is enough. Pay us for our visible and invisible labor, which is vital to the function of this university. Seth Spencer is a Ph.D. student and graduate instructor in the English Department.
Amid flooding, Mississippians can count on each other ALYSSA MONCRIEF
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Mississippians are no strangers to Southern hospitality, and that fact is never more evident than when their own need help. Members of the Jackson metro area were recently forced to prepare for disaster as the Pearl River reached dangerous, record-breaking levels. This caused chaos as approximately 1,000 homes were flooded, sports fields were destroyed and much of northeast Jackson was damaged. Despite the sudden displacement and panic felt by residents of the flooded areas, local businesses and individuals stepped up to serve their community and focus on the path to recovery. Mississippians help neighbors like no other
–– we are not afraid to come together to help friends, family or strangers when their homes and communities are threatened. Even businesses in the metro area offered support to those affected by the flood. Lowe’s in Flowood, Jackson and Ridgeland pledged to donate buckets of resources such as cleaning supplies, dust masks and bug spray to residents in need. Dozens of charity groups, such as Matthew 25: Ministries, local Salvation Armies and churches, have stepped up to help victims who had to evacuate or have lost their belongings. On Feb. 16, Cups — a Mississippi coffee shop chain — offered a free beverage to all first responders who were monitoring the flood gates that keep the reservoir secure, and this generous
act has been shared over 700 times on Facebook. Comments of love and su p p ort for the p e op le helping the relief effort were seen on Cups’s post and all over social media. In order to gain a more personal perspective of the floods, I reached out to residents who have been impacted by the flooding. Katelyn Walker, a sophomore at Ole Miss, said she felt love and admiration by how her hometown, Flowood, has reacted to this natural disaster. “It’s so awesome to see everyone from home banding together to help each other out,” said Walker. “It’s really inspiring and makes me appreciate my community,”. In Morgantown, where flood levels are still dangerously high, residents are doing everything they can
to help each other to safety. Diana Bates, a Morgantown resident, said, “I think everybody is trying to help everybody that they can help. My husband has been helping friends and stuff they got, and they’re helping everybody around here.” Support has been coming from not only natives of the areas impacted but others as well. Governor Tate Reeves tweeted that President Donald Trump called and expressed concerns for the
affected areas and offered support for relief efforts. The support given to those in need during the flooding showed the humanitarian hearts that Mississippians have. Whether donating money, labor or a cup of coffee, volunteers and Jackon’s neighbors contributed what they could to help their communities. Alyssa Moncrief is a junior political science and journalism major from Jackson.
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continued from page 1 website called “submit your opinion,” where students can use their university emails to contact their senators. “I’ve upset senators before, and I’ve upset people in my cabinet, but any time I think students aren’t going to get enough (of a) chance to know about something that we’re voting on, I make the decision that we’re not doing it,” Shackelford said. Meet Your Senator Night is the first event this year that ASB has hosted specifically for students to meet and speak with their representatives, though ASB holds similar events during ASB Kick Off Week at the beginning of the school year for new students to learn about student government. Leah Jackson, a junior
questions about her role in ASB. She also noted that most students who have concerns about issues on campus during the semester bring them to her personally. “I think when people have issues that they care about, they’ll reach out to us more and use us as a resource, especially if they get us in settings like this “I don’t want people to where we really are open their feedback,” Hall said. always expect (students) ASB cultural/multicultural senator Chelsea Boone said her to have to come to us; I constituents don’t usually reach want us to be going to out to her outside of events like Meet Your Senator Night, and them.” - Charlotte Shackelford most of her interactions with ASB Vice President her constituency come from her reaching out to students first. “I like having a relationship “I know, a lot of the time, with them so that if I ever need we put it on the responsibility anything or have questions, I of other students to learn know who to go to,” Jackson about what we’re doing, so we said. probably need to work on our Hall said most of her communication more,” Boone constituents who came to said. Dean of Students Brent the event asked her general integrated marketing and communications major, came to the event to speak to the ASB senator for the School of Journalism and New Media, Anna Hall. Jackson said that she checks in with ASB regularly to stay up to date with leadership of student organizations.
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Nearly 80 students attended the ‘Meet Your Senator’ event held by the ASB on Tuesday. Marsh was in attendance, as well. He said most of the student body doesn’t know much about what ASB does for them and their campus, but he thinks events like this will help them to connect with student government. “I think the reality with ASB is that they do so much great work behind the scenes to make improvements to the student experience, and I think it’s great that ASB is trying to get more students to understand what they do and engage with the process,” Marsh said. ASB graduate assistant Kendrick Wallace said most of ASB’s communication with students comes through social
media. “I think we’re kind of moving to a place where social media is a good place to meet students where they are,” Wallace said. “That’s one of the things they say in higher education; ‘Meet them where they are,’ and they’re online most of the time.” Shackelford said that she has left behind material for future ASB leaders to run events like Meet Your Senator Night. “I don’t want people to always expect (students) to have to come to us,” Shackelford said.I want us to be going to them.”