THE DAILY
MISSISSIPPIAN
Friday, January 27, 2017
Volume 105, No. 75
T H E S T U D E N T N E W S PA P E R O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F M I S S I S S I P P I S E R V I N G O L E M I S S A N D OX F O R D S I N C E 1 9 1 1
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First black female ASB president sees hope in future
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Student activists take supplies, donations to Standing Rock
SLADE RAND
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On the eve of President Donald J. Trump’s inauguration, two Ole Miss students found themselves in 20 degree weather pulling in to a security checkpoint at Standing Rock Indian Reservation. The duo representing Ole Miss’ Popular Resistance club was made up of sophomore general studies major Jaz Brisack and senior mechanical engineering major Timothy Steenwyk. The two made this 66-hour and 2,887-mile round trip to the reservation toting a trailer fully loaded with firewood and hundreds of dollars in warm threads. “It was about putting your money where your mouth is. I saw it as a pushback against the slacktivism we can see out there,” Steenwyk said. In November 2016, Brisack began raising money through Popular Resistance, a club she started. She said her efforts yielded $1,500 in donations mostly from students and the Ole Miss community. $60 of that money paid for firewood from the Amish sawmill in Pontotoc, and the rest went toward coats, food and some ever-essential snow chains. “It takes so much work
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Popular Resistance members visited the Oceti Sakowin Camp at Standing Rock, North Dakota when they took donations from the Ole Miss community. just to stay warm and keep yourself fed out there. Those things we take for granted,” Brisack said. Protests began at Standing Rock in spring 2016, and
since then demonstrators have built up a large presence in the North Dakota plains rallying against construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Brisack said
these activists refer to themselves as “water-protectors” instead of protestors. When the army announced plans to hold off on DAPL on Dec. 4, many protestors packed
their gear and headed back home. Trump re-ignited protestors like Brisack’s passion when he signed an execu
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Oxford boutiques bring in sales on Jackson Avenue HANNAH WARE
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The continuing growth of Ole Miss and Oxford has left local boutiques searching for convenient locations off the popular downtown Square that still bring foot traffic into their stores. Francesca’s and The Ivory Closet are two new boutiques beside one another in the new Highland Court Shopping Center off Jackson Avenue. They both opened fall 2016. Sarah Ciarloni, a sales associate at Francesca’s, said it works out well being next to The Ivory Closet because the stores complement each other. “It’s definitely different not
having the foot traffic from the Square because people are usually going from shop to shop,” Ciarloni said. “But I think that more or less, people come here because of the prices versus the Square.” Francesca’s is a clothing chain with stores across the country. Ciarloni said this helps the Oxford location because a lot of the customers specifically come in to Francesca’s having already shopped at one of their other locations before. “People who are familiar with Francesca’s know our prices will be cheaper than what they would find at shops on the Square,” Ciarloni said. Journalism major Taylor Lewis said she shops at Fran-
cesca’s since it is open later than most of the shops on the Square. Next door, The Ivory Closet is a local boutique with other locations in Southaven and Memphis. They don’t have the name recognition like Francesca’s, but Allison Lee, a sales associate at The Ivory Closet, said being off the Square has been good for business. “Our location is not as busy, and there’s better parking,” Lee said. “The shopping center is also starting to grow, and we’ve got some good stores coming in around us.” Journalism major Anna
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PHOTO BY: TAYLOR TEEL
Francesca’s, a new boutique in the Highland Court Shopping Center, sells an assortment of accessories and clothing.