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Today, Eli Manning will announce that he will retire from the NFL. Manning played for Ole Miss from 2000 to 2003.
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n illustrious football career spanning JOSHUA CLAYTON but immediately forced his way to the Giants, where four award-winning collegiate seasons he eventually became the undisputed leader of one thedmsports@gmail.com and 16 years in the NFL has officially of the most storied franchises in professional sports come to an end. with two Super Bowl MVP awards to show. Ole Miss and New York Giants legend Eli Manning will Manning burst onto the scene in Oxford in 2001 with announce his retirement from football on Friday, according 2,948 passing yards to go with 31 touchdowns and only 9 to ESPN. interceptions, earning a Conerly Trophy Award and a nod on The 39-year-old quarterback was selected with the first the Davey O’Brien Award finalist list. overall pick by the San Diego Chargers in the 2004 NFL Draft,
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How to meet the chancellor next week HADLEY HITSON
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The Lyceum will open next week for the university community to meet and speak with senior university leadership for the first “Open Doors” event. All senior leaders, including Chancellor Glenn Boyce, Provost Noel Wilkin and Athletics Director Keith Carter are committed to attending the first Open Doors event and hearing from students, according to Assistant Vice Chancellor for Diversity Shawnboda Mead. This comes after a semester of controversy
over the selection of the chancellor and demands for more transparency in his role. “We hope this is the start of a new tradition for the UM Community that provides an opportunity to develop genuine connections among students and senior leadership,” Mead said. “Given the casual nature of the event, we believe Open Doors is an excellent opportunity for students to not only learn about the various roles of senior leadership but also start meaningful conversations that will hopefully continue beyond the event.”
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The Lyceum will invite students to meet prominent school faculty, SEE OPEN DOORS PAGE 8 including chancellor Glenn Boyce.
Some of the blue light phones, which can be used to report emergencies on campus, have been out for years. After working for a solution since her sophomore year without much progress, Associated Student Body Vice President Charlotte Shackelford is expected to finally see them fixed with the help of Chancellor Glenn Boyce. Shackelford ran on the promise of repairing the blue lights last spring, and now she and Boyce are working together to fulfill it by the end of the semester. Just after being announced as the new chancellor, Boyce said that he wanted to put students at the center of important conversations at the university. Since then, he has been meeting with campus constituents, mostly privately. The emergency blue lights are part of a system from Code Blue, the leading manufacturer for emergency phones, according to Code Blue’s chief design officer David Fleming. The lights were initially created after the University of Illinois at Chicago put out an all-call to inventors to create something to keep students safe on campus as a result of the Clery Act being signed in 1990 after 19-yearold Jeanne Clery was sexually assaulted and murdered at Lehigh University. Shackelford said that she has been trying to fix the lights since her sophomore year, her first year in the ASB Senate. She worked with the University Police Department and those in charge of the LiveSafe app but was told that it was not feasible, she said. “I worked with previous administrators that basically just slammed the door my face and said, ‘No,’” Shackelford said. “Boyce was the first person to give me a yes.” Shackelford said that Boyce
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TYREE VS. EDWARDS: A SCORER’S PARADISE
ON CAMPUS BAR COMING THIS SEMESTER
Saturday’s matchup between Ole Miss and the Georgia will feature two teams looking for a turnaround after a slow start in the SEC, but most notably it will showcase two of the most prolific scorers in the conference.
You can buy a beer in VaughtHemingway, and now you can have a beer after class. The Inn at Ole Miss is getting a bar.
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On-campus bar set to open by the end of the semester MASON SCIONEAUX thedmnews@gmail.com
The university’s on-campus hotel, The Inn at Ole Miss, plans to open a new bar-andgrill before the end of the semester. McCormick Café, which previously only served breakfast to hotel residents, will soon rebrand as McCormick’s, featuring a full-service bar, restaurant and lounge. It will be the first bar on campus and is named in honor of UM graduates David and Sue McCormick. Kirk Purdom, executive director of the Ole Miss Alumni Association, said by featuring an in-house restaurant and bar, the Inn will be more competitive with other high-end hotels in Oxford. “We have a lot of guests that come in, and they just want to get a beer or just sit down and grab a hamburger,” Purdom said. “So this just makes us more of a full-service hotel and gets us up to the same level of our competition in town.”
Between discussion and design, the process of renovating McCormick’s has taken longer than a year. The possibility of featuring a bar on campus was made possible in 2018 after the state of Mississippi granted resort status to the Inn, allowing it to serve beer at select events. Before then, only wine and liquor could be sold, and only by third-party vendors. Then, in July 2019, the Inn applied for and attained a liquor license. This allowed the Inn to serve any type of alcohol and prompted the installation of a bar on-site. The hotel’s resort status exempts it from alcohol rules that govern the rest of campus. Purdom said the process of converting the café into a bar has been a challenge because it is on campus, but hotel guests have been inquiring about an in-house bar for years. “There were a lot of obstacles. Otherwise, we would have had it a long time ago.” McCormick’s, which will
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A new bar will open at The Inn at Ole Miss in spring 2020 still serve breakfast to hotel guests, is expected to open at 3 p.m. on weekdays and all day on weekends, but similar to other hotel bars, it will most likely close at 10 p.m., Purdom said. It will be open to everyone, but he has issued strict orders about checking identification for alcohol sales. “The one thing I’ve told all of our staff (is that) we are checking everyone’s I.D., regardless of if they look like
they’re 21 or not,” Purdom said. “That’s really important to us, that (underage people) wouldn’t be able to have alcohol.” Once completed, McCormick’s will feature a 2,000-square-foot indoor and outdoor space. The bar’s menu has been designed by Ole Miss alumnus Ben Napier, who appears in the HGTV series “Home Town.” Negotiations are underway with contractors, with plans
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The Fiber Arts Festival will continue through Sunday at the Powerhouse and hosts a variety of events.
Fiber Arts Festival takes off CAROLINE NIHILL
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The tenth annual Fiber Arts Festival is in full swing. The market opens at 10 a.m. today at the Powerhouse, and there is a reception from 5 p.m. - 8 p.m tonight at the Oxford Treehouse Gallery. Festival admission costs $2 per day and $5 for the entire weekend. The festival started on Thursday and will end on Sunday. The festival hosts events around Oxford including activities for kids, a multi-vendor market, classes and demonstrations. The market is hosted primarily at the Powerhouse, but it is not managed by the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council. Director Wayne Andrews said that he views the festival as a key example of the council’s role in Oxford’s community. “(The Fiber Arts Festival) provides a unique experience for residents to see high-skilled craftspeople and artisans while creating an economic opportunity for those small businesses such as the yarn, rug and quilters in our community,” Andrews said. Festival coordinator Andi Bedsworth said that the market holds 20 vendor spots and has a minimum attendance of 1000 people. Artists
from around the country come to Oxford for opportunities to sell, teach and learn fiber arts. “We have a very supportive community in Oxford for the arts in general, and many of our residents support the fiber festival every year,” Bedsworth said. Artist Liza “Q” Wirtz is participating in her first festival this year. After hearing about the festival, Wirtz said she was approached by Bedsworth at her business in Huntsville, where she encouraged Wirtz to become involved. “She’s a great evangelist for the event, and it sounded like a terrific festival,” Wirtz said. Bedsworth, a fiber artist herself, was given the position by previous leadership in 2016 and said she wants to reach as many people through the festival as possible. The festival has grown into a large fiber market with many demonstrations in the past 10 years. “The fiber festival has continued to grow since its inception,” Bedsworth said. “It originally began as a small gathering and has continually grown to include many vendors and teachers who travel from several states to teach and sell their wares.” Bedsworth said she wants
to inspire, educate and promote all kinds of fiber arts. Wirtz, like many other vendors,teaches classes throughout the event. With different techniques associated with fiber arts, Wirtz said she is excited to teach other experimental ways to weave and create. “I love teaching free-spirited, unstructured weaving and art-batt carding — two of the arts I practice in my studio — and talking about them to a variety of people, from established fibery fans to those who are just considering dipping a toe into fibercrafting,” Wirtz said. “I firmly believe that everyone is an artist at heart, and I’m always looking for new chances to get folks started exploring their creativity through the fiber arts. The Oxford Fiber Arts Festival sounded like a terrific opportunity to do this.” Though the festival’s calendar is posted on the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council website, Bedsworth said there is a small change to Sunday’s schedule of events. There will be no market or activities this Sunday, but the festival will offer one class in the conference room in Newk’s, pending enough advanced registration.
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Eli Manning: good guy, Peyton’s brother, Archie’s son. Not a Hall of Famer. If not for the Luckiest Pass in Super Bowl history, and one “bad” Tom Brady pass that should’ve been caught by Welker, Eli would have no rings, a .500 record and three NFL interception titles.
With Eli Manning retiring, my one Eli story: I was 25 & working at the Clarion-Ledger in Mississippi. Flew to NY to write a feature on the exOle Miss QB. I requested a 1-on-1, expecting nothing. I was nobody. He gave me 15 minutes in a sit down. Just classy, cool & appreciated.
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Eli Manning made a quarter-billion dollars chuckin a football.
Eli Manning First completion: Tiki Barber (Week 1, 2004) First TD: Jeremy Shockey (Week 11, 2004)
$252,000,000. He wins.
Last completion: Sterling Shepard (Week 15, 2019) Last TD: Darius Slayton (Week 15, 2019)
@diannaESPN Drew Brees on Eli Manning “you can not write the story of the NFL without inclduing Eli Manning.” #giants
@KirkCousins8 Congrats to Eli Manning on a great career. Much respect for him as a player, competitor and person. True legend of the game.
@KVanValkenburg My favortie Eli Manning anecdote is when Rory Mcllroy was at the gym at 6 am during the Masters and Brady and the Mannings walked in and Rory told the press later: Wow it was so inspiring to see how Tom and Peyton grind during the off-season, just so cool. And Eli was there also.
@art_stapleton As far as the debate between Eli Manning, Ben Roethlisberger and Philip Rivers, I wholeheartedly believe this much is true: Neither Roethlisbergernor Rivers would have survived New York and had the success here Eli did. The trio ended up where they were supposed to end up.
@NYGDaily Eli Manning is going to the Hall of Fame. Stop wasting your time getting mad at people online who are creating new metrics to judge how players get voted into the HOF. #10 is going to be in Canton.
@DanSchneierNFL 2011 is most misremembered in Eli Manning’s career. People think he was OK that year behind a “great” D #Giants defense finished bottom 5, rushing offense bottom 5, pass block OL dead last. He willed them to 9 wins and a SB with a bad roster. Outlier year, sure, but it happened.
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continued from page 1 The New Orleans native improved upon that with 3,401 yards in 2002 and 3,600 in 2003, proving he was the best college quarterback in the nation. By the time he graduated from Ole Miss, Manning had a Maxwell Award, SEC Most Valuable Player Award, First-Team All-American nod and a Cotton Bowl win, just to name a few accolades. Eli’s heroics as a Rebel combined with the name on the back of his jersey puts him into a different stratosphere in of Ole Miss folklore, which is why many Ole Miss fans followed him all the way up to New York when he started his professional career. Even as the arm talent faded and the streak of 210 regular season starts was
snapped during the 2017 season when Manning was benched for Geno Smith, football fans will remember Manning as he was in his runs to Super Bowl XLII and XLVI. Manning pulled out some of the gutsiest playoff performances of all time, escaping the Patriots defense and completing the helmet catch on the way to a go-ahead score to win his first title and defeating the Tom Brady again with a late drive in 2011. Manning’s performances on the biggest stage in those clutch situations puts him in the Hall of Fame conversation and he’ll certainly be considered when he’s eligible in 2025, despite his struggles toward the end of his career. Whether Eli continues his work in football on the sidelines coaching, in the booth commentating or relaxing on the beach, his work on the field will be remembered for years to come.
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@Ian_OConnor Eli Manning’s Hall of Fame case: More TDs than Montana & Elway More passing yards than Montana & Elway 222 Consecutive starts (including postseason) 1 of 5 men to win multiple Super Bowl MVPs Beat greatest QB & coach ever in 2 Super Bowls Case closed.
@darrenrovell Eli Manning retires as highest earner in NFL history ($252 million). Current No. 2? Peyton ($249 million)
@mortreport Eli Manning is certainly defined by two Super Bowl wins over @Patriots but ask 2011 @49ers defense and they will tell you what a warrior Eli was in NFC championship game that @Giants won 20-17 in OT in SF. Eli took a beating, kept getting off the grass to deliver.
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MEN’S BASKETBALL
Tyree vs. Edwards
Why this weekend’s game will be a scorer’s paradise JOSHUA CLAYTON
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Saturday’s matchup between Ole Miss and Georgia will feature two teams looking for a turnaround after a slow start in the SEC, but, most notably, it will showcase two of the most prolific scorers in the conference. The showdown between the Bulldogs and the Rebels could be a footrace between two of the SEC’s top- three scorers in Anthony Edwards and Breein Tyree. The two are currently tied at 18.9 points per game, accounting for the lion’s share of the offensive production forof their respective teams. The stat lines and averages are nearly identical for the two, but the methods that result in the production are different, and that’s apparent just from looking at them. In one corner, we have’ve got Edwards. Listed at 6-foot-5 and, 225 pounds, the freshman looks like a bonafide one-and-done prospect
through 18 games. Edwards is liable to take the ball up the court and pull from the top of the perimeter or use his size to set a screen before getting to the rim or popping out for a 19-foot jumper. You won’t see Tyree setting any screens at 6-foot-2 and, 195 pounds, but the only senior on the Ole Miss team uses his fours -years of experience to get to his spots on the perimeter and work in the midrange to pile up points every night. The Bulldogs are 1-4 in the league and are not a bad team by any stretch, but they do rely heavily on Edward’s production considerably, which, as Rebel fans know, is not always a good recipe. Prior to the season, Georgia beat Memphis by three before being defeated by Kentucky and Auburn. The Bulldogs’ only conference win wascame against Tennessee when Edwards scored 26 points with six rebounds and three assists. The Bulldogs have lost by
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Breein Tyree is the leading scorer for Ole Miss and averages almost 19 points per game. at least 10 points in every SEC game where Edwards didoes not score more than 20 points.
They most recently suffered an embarrassing 91-59 loss where Edwards scored 19, and
Georgia fell to Kentucky 89-79 when he scored 16. While relying on Edwards might not be a formula for winning gamesbasketball, there is a legitimate point to be made: wWhy h a v e a n NBA lottery talent if you’re not going to use him? This is where the problem lies for Ole Miss. While Tyree is not the draft prospect that Edwards is, the Rebels have had to lean on his offense as iflike he wereis. Edwards has attempted 81 more shots than the next Bulldog, and Tyree has 87 more times than anyone else playing for Ole Miss. This brand of basketball is not sustainable for success over a full season, but it could make for an entertaining backand-forth game on Saturday afternoon. We’ll see both players gliding around the court, trading shots to muster any type of offense, and both of their leading scorers should be fun to watch play while both teams are struggling.
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Why everyone is watching season two of “You” CAROLINE NIHILL
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He’s moderately attractive, well read and caring, and he’s back to his old habits. Most people with a Netflix account know resident serial killer Joe Goldberg. Penn Badgley, who plays Joe, is admittedly goodlooking. I personally loved him in “Gossip Girl,” but his most recent murderous character belongs behind bars. Not only do many people know about him, but they are fans of Joe while still acknowledging his disastrous habits that include injuring people, killing them and stalking victims. His murderous tendencies happen after he isn’t able to control his girlfriends, or his girlfriends’ friends or exes. On Twitter, many fans make fun of the odd nature of Joe’s stalking that features
hiding behind corners and later locking people in the weird glass box he keeps in a storage unit. Many fans also hint that Joe could be forgiven or that he could — in theory — be a good guy. In a Variety Actors on Actors interview between Badgley and actress Gina Rodriguez, he talked about how people respond to his character and how sometimes Joe can be more charming than creepy to viewers. “The cultural norms incline us to forgive a certain kind of person — namely someone who looks like myself — less so, someone who looks like you,” Badgley said. “The titular character, in my case, is someone who is doing unforgivable things, yet we keep performing backflips to figure out how it is that we’re going to forgive him.” Badgley publically dismisses any romanticization
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or audience forgiveness of Joe, and rightfully so. Despite how harmless Joe looks in every episode, he still ruthlessly kills without feeling much regret. In public, Joe is a quiet guy who has lost his past loves and really wants a simple life. What he does behind closed doors is also simple: he finds someone that gets in the way of his plan, and he kills them. In the first season, Joe stalks Guinevere Beck, who goes by her last name. He steals her phone, follows her around New York City and watches her through her apartment’s windows.
During the first season, Joe kills Beck’s friends and boyfriend. After Beck figures out what has been going on, Joe kills her, too. To recap the new season, Joe is up to his old tricks in Los Angeles. He steals an identity and keeps the real Will Bettelheim in a storage unit. From there, he begins stalking his latest victim, Love Quinn. Joe, once again, gets tangled in the lives of Love’s friends and family while fending off the consequences of his previous crimes and the crimes he commits in Los Angeles. In addition, he gets
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involved in the lives of his landlord and her family. Despite his intentions to be good and to keep his landlord’s young sister away from an older comedian named Henderson, Joe’s solution to the issue is to get rid of the comedian permanently. This happens while he pushes his agenda for Love to become as obsessed with him as he is with her. While the show gives the audience a glance into Joe’s past that involves a violent household and trauma, this is not an excuse for his behavior. It does give causation for the crimes he’s committed; Joe does have a knack for “helping” the ones he loves. Joe often thinks he is helping when, in reality, he worsens the situation for himself and others. He inserts himself into situations that he has no business being in at all and always finds the solution to be murder. Joe makes it hard to hate him; he protects others who would have little to no protection otherwise (i.e. Paco and Ellie) and is the perfect romantic guy when he needs to be. He’s also deeply hypocritical. When it is revealed that Love and Joe are more similar than he thought, Joe is disgusted by this turn of events because Love isn’t who he thought she was. Love has known about his previous crimes the entire season and has chosen him because of his ‘predatory attitude towards relationships.’ This leads to the iconic line, “I wolf you.” Overall, the show has an interesting look into a character with very deep issues. Joe does not deserve a redemption arc or to be forgiven by viewers, and Badgley agrees.
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OPINION Why ‘Gen Z’ uses memes to cope with threats of war KATIE DAMES
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As college students in the U.S. anticipated their returns to their respective campuses, 3,000 troops prepared for their deployment to the Middle East following increased threats of retaliatory action by Iran. The Trump Administration followed its pattern of unexpected, and often risky, foreign policy moves by killing Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani, the second most powerful man in Iran, on Jan. 3 at the Baghdad International Airport in Iraq. In the standard “Generation Z” manner (this generation includes people born after 1996), we combatted our fears of catastrophe with memes. We saw fake Snapchat maps of friends partying in Iran. TikToks of people trashing
fake draft letters. Tweets with videos of a rapper dancing with the caption, “me dodging Iran’s bullets.” As U.S. involvement in the Middle East continues, confusion, frustration and misinformation about American objectives in the region persist. Joking about being “dead inside” as a reaction to world events connects social media users. However, the memes lose their humor when we recognize that actual people, including U.S. military personnel, are suffering and dying as a result of reckless U.S. foreign policy decisions. Through digging in the meme trenches of Twitter, I repeatedly saw memes suggesting that the fighting was going on in Iran, which is one of the foundations of misunderstanding about the current situation with Iran. The U.S. has no bases in Iran - the U.S. killed Soleimani
in Iraq, where U.S. troops started fighting to topple the regime of Saddam Hussein in 2003 and have been combating the threat of ISIS since 2014. As much content as there is on war, there’s little discussion of whom war would truly impact and why a war would matter to America. Similar to the Vietnam War era, people who project the most anxiety are those who are more likely to be disproportionately impacted by a war with Iran. The draft for Vietnam disproportionately affected black men, so it’s worth noting that black Twitter was the first community to widely share World War III memes. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who we celebrated this week, was both a civil rights and anti-war activist. In his “Beyond Vietnam” speech, he noted that problems with democracy at home, like racial inequality, must be
solved before we venture into ideological conflicts abroad. But why is the U.S. still risking resources and lives in the Middle East? It’s not for oil or Communism; Secretary of State Mike Pompeo suggested America’s goal is to “expel every last Iranian boot” from Syria. The answer is far from simple, and the confusion persists, even among those who have grown up in a world where the U.S. is always at conflict in the Middle East. On TikTok, a platform where many World War III memes are surfacing, 41% of the users are between the ages of 16 and 24. Many of these users weren’t even alive during 9/11, before the U.S. initiated engagement in its longest conflict, the War in Afghanistan. The meme culture does not only represent Generation Z’s tendency to express shared anxieties over social media
but also frames the worldview of a generation that doesn’t remember a time when the U.S. was not at war in the Middle East. War has become a national punchline at the expense of American soldiers fighting abroad, their families and those in the Middle East who are suffering from ongoing U.S. military engagement. However, we cannot completely fault those who are fearful of the consequences of U.S. actions in Iran for sharing their anxieties on Twitter and using memes as a coping mechanism. The problem of U.S. involvement in the Middle East is complex, and solutions and reactions to it are just as confusing. Katie Dames is a junior international studies major from St. Louis, Missouri.
Conservatives, you should consider this Democratic Socialist EMILY STEWART
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Nearing the 2020 federal elections, Mississippi’s first congressional district has stepped into the spotlight. Antonia Eliason, an associate law professor at Ole Miss and a Democratic Socialist, is running for Congress. Trent Kelly, the Republican incumbent, is running against her. In an interview w it h Y ’all Polit ics, she explained that she decided to run because she wanted to ensure that a Democrat runs against Kelly. Eliason is the first to run as a Democratic Socialist in Mississippi. Eliason sees eye-to-eye with progressive superstars Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, but if you are a conservative who is tired of false promises from the GOP, she might be the best candidate for you. Let me explain. You probably realize how
important small businesses are to our state. In fact, 99.3% of Mississippi businesses are small businesses, and almost 50% of Mississippi employees work for them. Mississippians do not just count on small businesses, they depend on them –– if not for their income then for countless conveniences in their daily lives. Eliason knows this. She’s an expert in the field of economics. At our law school, Antonia has taught, among other things, International Trade Law, International Investment Law, Contracts, EU Law, the Law of Armed Conflict. She knows how the economy works, and she knows that large corporations do not favor Mississippians. Building businesses from scratch and cultivating local economies is what Mississippians do best, and it comes with a lot of advantages. Small businesses are able to have
closer connections with their employees. Small business owners have the privilege of speaking face-to-face with their employees and community and know what each needs to thrive –– not just survive. Since small businesses are so important to our state, why does the National Small Business Administration (NSBA) only receive 6% of the Commerce Department’s budget? Why do hardworking Mississippians continue to struggle? The answer is in our congressional representation. Kelly does not have congressional history of helping Mississippians. In 2019, Kelly voted against multiple bills that had the opportunity to help small, and often vulnerable, businesses. These include the Raise the Wage Act (H.R.582), the Farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2019 (H.R.5038) and
an amendment to create outreach to small businesses impacted by retaliatory tariffs (H.Amdt.682). He’s had his chance for the last five years; it’s time for fresh blood. “Democratic Socialist” is an intimidating label for a lot of folks in our state –– it is often incorrectly associated with Communist regimes across Europe and Asia. Socialism is used as a scare tactic even though few people can agree on its definition. However, Mississippians’ needs are constantly changing, so we should be
represented by a person who isn’t tied down by definitions and can advocate for what we need, when we need it. Try not to let the label scare you, especially when it could benefit your future. Mississippians, if you’re tired of a political climate that doesn’t seem to serve its constituents, then try something new and vote Democrat (it doesn’t turn you into one). Emily Stewart is a freshman international studies and Arabic major from Columbia, Tennessee.
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OPEN DOORS
continued from page 1 The idea originated in a meeting between Vice Chancellor for Diversity and Community Engagement Katrina Caldwell and Joshua Mannery, a junior English and political science major who serves as the Associated Student Body Director of Campus Outreach. From there, Mead worked with Mannery to assemble the Open Doors Committee, a team comprised of ASB and Columns Society students and university staff, to organize the gathering. Mannery said the main purpose of the event is to give students a chance to engage with their administrators in person and humanize them as individuals. “There has always persisted the idea that administration can be condensed down to one faceless entity to which students directed all of their ire and anger whenever things went wrong,” Mannery said. “In all actuality, there are so
Mannery thinks that while the university will continue to face controversy, if students are given the opportunity to interact “with the people they have been trained to hate,” there might be a chance for “In all actuality, there increased collaboration and cooperation between students are so many people in the and administrators when future Lyceum who are dedicated problems arise. “This event is necessary to ensuring that the because, if my short stint as student experience be as outreach director has taught pleasing and accessible as me anything, it’s that the senior leadership here at the possible.” University of Mississippi are - Joshua Mannery some of the most kind-hearted, ASB Director of Outreach compassionate leaders I have had the chance to interact Mead said Open Doors will with,” Mannery said. build upon The Longest Table Students are welcome to dinner that the university come and go to Open Doors hosted in the Grove on Oct. as they please, but the Office 27. This was Boyce’s first of Diversity and Community public appearance since his Engagement encourages all who controversial appointment as plan on attending to register the university’s 18th chancellor, online so that it can provide and it came after over three enough food and beverages. weeks of students and faculty Thus far, over 50 students have protesting and condemning registered, and the first 100 the Mississippi Institutions students to show up will receive of Higher Learning Board of a free t-shirt. The event is next Trustees for their decision to Tuesday from 5:30-7:00 p.m. appoint him. many people in the Lyceum who are dedicated to ensuring that the student experience be as pleasing and accessible as possible.”
BLUE LIGHTS
continued from page 1 thought it was unbelievable that no one else tried to fix the emergency blue lights before him. “He recently followed up with me at the end of last semester (to let me know) that he’s taking a golf cart ride around campus and identifying all the blue lights that need work,” Shackelford said. Boyce could not be reached by the time of publication. The ASB Infrastructure Committee is also taking a look at the emergency blue lights to help fix them. Ella Endorf, a sophomore public policy leadership major and a member of Shackelford’s
campaign for vice president, said that she was not aware of the issue with the blue lights on campus until she heard about it from the campaign. “Having easy access to UPD made me feel very safe on campus, and it was part of the reason I ended up choosing Ole Miss. I’ve never felt unsafe on campus, but having the blue lights gives my parents peace of mind since I’m thirteen hours away from home,” Endorf said. “I wasn’t pleased to hear that they didn’t work, but I’m very optimistic for the changes that are going to be made. I know it’s an issue that students and administration can both get behind, and I’m excited to see what changes will be made regarding student safety and comfort in the future.”
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