The Student Printz October 12, 2022 | Volume 108 Issue 7

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Aramark Unresponsive to Workers’ Claims of Mistreatment

ramark provides food to students, faculty and staff across cam pus, but one group is having discrimination served against them.

The group affected: international students from India. Due to fear of retaliation, many did not feel com fortable talking on the record. Those who did wanted their identities kept anonymous.

One person, referred to as Sasha to protect her identity, worked at the Fresh for two weeks before quitting.

“I can’t blame the whole Fresh, but yeah, there are two to three people who are very rude and very mean, so Aramark should seriously take action about this.”

Another person, referred to as Ei leen, described working at the Fresh as “demoralizing.”

“They don’t even consider what I need, you know? As a human, they don’t even consider if I need to get some water, or if I’ll be thirsty, or if I’ll be really exhausted, they don’t care about that,” Eileen said. “They just need their things to be done.”

Southern Miss Student Media -SM2- has reached out to Marcus White, Operation Director for Ara mark at USM. SM2 reached out to him first in April of this year. He has not responded to multiple requests for comment

That same month, SM2 sat down with Dee Dee Anderson, Vice Presi dent of Student Affairs at USM.

She had not personally heard of any allegations of discrimination from students working at the Fresh or Aramark.

“I would hope that the students would be comfortable enough to come forward and let someone know that this is happening so that it can be addressed,” Anderson said.

However, Sasha went to Aramark several months prior. She worked there in the fall 2021 semester.

“I called to Aramark Manager HR, and I gave complaint. I don’t know what actions they took,” Sasha said.

During the interview with Ander son, SM2 expressed its inability to reach out to Marcus White. An derson then provided the email of the Resident District Manager for Aramark at USM: Charles Dorsa.

SM2 has reached out to Dorsa multiple times since May of this year. He has not responded to our many requests for comment.

In September, Southern Miss Student Media contacted University Communications.

In the email, the Printz described the absence of communication from local Aramark representatives. It also expressed several of the grievances brought forward by the international students who spoke to SM2.

Five days later, USM Chief Com munication Officer James Coll pro vided a generic anti-discrimination statement from Aramark Corporate Communications.

“At University of Southern Missis sippi Dining, we believe that every one should enjoy equal employment opportunity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, ancestry, color, religion or religious creed......... or other characteristics protected by applicable federal, state or local law,” it said.

It also outlined several ways for

employees to file complaints to HR or a manager.

The statement did not direct ly address any of the points SM2 brought to Aramark representatives at USM or the University of South ern Mississippi.

As of now, USM has provided no official comment. No Aramark rep resentative on campus has provided any official comment.

Despite that, the claims made by these workers seem to be as numer ous as damning.

“After some point, I realized the way they treat us, especially interna tional students, they treat us more like slaves,” Eileen said.

Issues with Aramark do not seem to be isolated.

This past Labor Day, an anony mous group of Aramark employees at the University of Mississippi released an open letter on Insta gram. It relayed the struggle of many workers who have faced issues with the service company.

“We have worked ourselves to

the bone every day to try to keep the university fed and healthy while struggling to even pay our own bills. Aramark makes tens of millions of dollars off of our labor while we’re each forced to perform the work of several employees for poverty or near-poverty wages,” the letter said.

According to the Daily Missis sippian, the campus newspaper at Ole Miss, an Aramark representative referred to the remarks in the open letter as “inaccurate and misleading.”

The Director of News Media and Relations at the University of Mis sissippi claimed the allegations were false.

Aramark or USM have not laid out any plans to address the alle gations made by these workers and others.

Despite that, those who came for ward did so to make a change at the Fresh and Aramark for the future,

“My friends are whoever comes next semester or next semester.

They shouldn’t face the same issue,” Sasha said.

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Letter to the Editor

Editor, the Printz, This is to the person or people who keep rip ping down the Resist the Patriarchy signs from the LAB stairwell bulletin boards. You should remem ber that this country and this university protect speech whether you like that speech or not. As the Supreme Court stated in Cohen v California 403 U.S. 15 (1971), if you don’t like the speech, then you can simply avert your eyes.

Kate Greene Associate Professor of Political Science

A previous version of this letter to the editor misspelled Kate Greene’s last name.

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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARNESS MONTH IS HERE

Since 1989, October has been a dedicated month to promoting domestic violence awareness and recognizing its survivors. Domestic violence can hap pen to anyone at any time.

Domestic violence is de fined as patterns of toxic behaviors used by one part ner to gain control over the other partner in an intimate relationship. These acts of violence include but are not limited to sexual abuse, phys ical abuse, emotional abuse, financial abuse, verbal abuse and stalking.

Sexual abuse is any sexual act that is performed without consent. Physical abuse is any injury caused intention ally and geared to inflicting pain or harm. Emotional abuse is any non-physical act that is done to shame, guilt, manipulate or scare a person. Financial abuse is the act of holding pow er over one’s finances and controlling how it is spent.

Verbal abuse is the act of us ing your words to undermine a person and neglect their emotions. Stalking is the act of pursuing a person who does not want to be pursued.

According to ncadv.org, on average, nearly 20 people per minute are physically abused by an intimate part ner in the United States.

“One in four women and one in nine men experience severe intimate partner phys ical violence, intimate part ner contact sexual violence, and/or intimate partner stalking with impacts such as injury, fearfulness, post-trau matic stress disorder, use of victim services and contrac tion of sexually transmitted diseases,” said the National Domestic Hotline website.

The impact of domestic vi olence is severe. These types of abuse have the power to leave its victims with serious mental illnesses. How can we help?

There are several resources available to a person who is experiencing domestic vio

lence. First and foremost, if you are in immediate danger, stop and call 9-1-1. Another source for help is contacting the National Domestic Vio lence Hotline at 1-800-7997233. If you or someone you know witnesses a domes tic violent situation, con sider your safety and if you are wanting to approach the situation, be sure to never go by yourself. There is safety in numbers.

“Walk away. If they put their hands on you, they do not care for you and by accepting their apology when they sorry is like you are telling them that it was okay,” says Patricia Netto, a staff member at the Lighthouse Rescue Mission.

“Get away from it. Talk to anyone and everyone who will listen. There are so many channels that you can go through now to reach out for help. Do not keep yourself in that situation. There are so many people with loving hearts that can help you,” says Megan Bucher, a staff

member at the Lighthouse Rescue Mission.

Domestic violence does not discriminate against race, gender, or age. It shows no limitations. If you are some one you know is experiencing domestic violence, reach out and get the help you need.

“It’s still important to have hope. On average, it takes domestic violence survivors seven times to leave the re lationship for good, so if it’s physically and emotionally safe for you, try to continue offering support in any way you can. Believing and sup porting them can be a major factor in helping them stay safe or helping them find empowerment to leave when they’re ready,” said the Do mestic Violence Hotline.

You can show your support this October for the survivors of domestic violence by wear ing Purple. If you or anyone you know is experiencing domestic violence, call 9-1-1 or contact the National Do mestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233.

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Operation Pink: Breast Cancer 5K Run

day that is near the time of their charter day.

T

he Operation Pink: 5k Run was hosted by USM’s Kappa Iota Chap ter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Incorporated Satur day behind Century Park North on the Hattiesburg Campus.

Jeremy Hyde, an undergrad uate student and member of Kappa Alpha Psi Inc., said this run is to promote breast cancer awareness, not just women, but also men, women and different sexual orientations.

There was a total of eight peo ple that signed up to participate.

Not only were there students who present at the race, but a small number of community members passed through during their morning jogs and walk.

The Kappa Alpha Psi Frater nity Inc. held this event on a

Jacorey Brown, undergradu ate student and member of the fraternity, said the 5k run is to support breast cancer, and it is also in remembrance of our charter day; it is October 10, 1980.

“This is our 42nd charter day,” Brown said.

With the race aiming to sup port breast cancer awareness, it allowed students, females par ticularly, to become self-aware of the risk of getting breast can cer.

It is vital that young women examine themselves thoroughly for any “out-of-the-ordinary” lumps in their breasts. The Na tional Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) recommends that women who are at high risk get mammograms regularly starting at the age of 25. How

ever, if breast cancer is heredi tary, then you are eligible to get a screening done as early as pos sible.

Breast cancer awareness month will last the entire month of October but supporting breast cancer survivors can be done every day of the year. For more information about the up coming events of Kappa Alpha

Psi Fraternity Inc., follow their Instagram page at @kinupes.

To the young women who desire to know more about the risks of getting breast cancer, visit www.cdc.gov. For more in formation concerning the pro cess of getting a mammogram, visit cancer.org.

Southern Miss Powwow Returns

On Saturday, Oct. 8, Southern Miss Pow wow returned to campus. The event was managed by Dr. Tammy Greer and Jenna Dittman of the Golden Eagle Intertrib al Society. Native American tribes from across Mississippi came together for the event.

A powwow is a large social inter-tribal gathering featur ing music, dancing and cele brations of Native American culture. However, they are not exclusive to Native Amer icans. This event was free and open to everyone. Attendees were from a variety of back grounds, as well as Native Americans from tribes. This included the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, Porch Creek, the United Houma Na tion, and more.

The tradition came to the

school thanks to Southern Miss alumni Joe Bohannon, who also founded the GEIS. Since then, Southern Miss has held pow wows for over a decade, mostly off campus. This year’s powwow is the first since the pandemic be gan, and the first to happen on-campus in several years.

Psychology professor and GEIS director and advisor

Dr. Greer spoke on what she hoped people, regardless of their background, took away from the event.

“...we can gather and com monly celebrate something, even if we’re not the sameeven if we don’t understand it…even if it’s not our culture and we don’t quite under stand it, we can celebrate for that culture,” Greer said.

There were many oppor tunities for non-natives to see and learn about Native American culture. In addi

tion to the festivities, there were vendors, stands to make spirit sticks and corn husk dolls, free fry bread tacos, and more. Music and drums blasted from the center dance arena as gourd dancers, jin gle dancers, and more moved through the circle throughout the day. After the final clos ing, attendees were invited to enjoy the remaining food.

Jenna Dittman, graduate student and GEIS secretary, recalled one of her favorite parts of the powwows - the connections people make.

“My favorite part is when everybody’s getting food and talking and we get to go around and make our rounds, be paying our respects, or just making connections with dif ferent tribes…,” she said.

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OCTOBER 12, 2022

Southern Miss Joins Second Cohort of Gulf Scholars Program

Bettering the eco logical health of the Gulf of Mexico region through education is the focus of a professor’s project at The University of Southern Mississippi (USM) Gulf Park that has received the support of a prestigious five-year $450,000 grant from the National Acad emies Gulf Research Pro gram (GRP).

“The Gulf Scholars Pro gram provides an opportu nity to reach undergraduate students — many of whom have home ties to the Gulf region — and engage them in rigorous education and training on issues that directly impact their own communities,” said Karena Mothershed, senior pro gram manager of the GRP’s Board on Gulf Education and Engagement. “We hope this program inspires stu dents to envision a future in the Gulf region and work to make it an even better place to live, work, and thrive.”

Dr. Rebecca Powell, an associate professor of En glish at the Gulf Park Cam pus in Long Beach, was awarded the grant to es tablish the Southern Miss Gulf Scholars Program and Certificate, which will be housed in the USM School of Coastal Resilience. The interdisciplinary program will prepare students to address challenges at the intersections of social, environmental, and energy

systems to ensure a safer, more resilient, equitable, and sustainable Gulf region.

The centerpiece of the program is the Gulf Impact Project, designed to address sustainability and resilience challenges within the region through coursework, men toring and faculty develop ment, while also cultivating partnerships with commu nity, industry, and govern ment entities to create and promote student learning opportunities concerning sustainability and resiliency of the Gulf region.

Southern Miss Gulf Scholars will have oppor tunities to participate in service-learning, research, fieldwork, alternative ser vice breaks, and community internships, with the bulk of the grant supporting student research, fieldwork, and learning. To achieve this, the program will leverage existing univer sity resources to facilitate research and communi ty-based inquiry projects led by faculty and commu nity partners through cur ricular, co-curricular and extra-curricular pathways.

Dr. Powell believes the many pieces of the program (curriculum building, path ways, mentoring, events, experiential learning, com munity partners) will build the capacity of the univer sity, the region, and Gulf Scholars to creatively meet future and present challeng es.

“We want to inspire and

prepare undergraduate students to create a more equitable, just, and resil ient Gulf of Mexico region through developing inqui ry and its service-learn ing projects built on the foundations of sustainabil ity and interdisciplinary thinking,” Dr. Powell said.

“The Southern Miss Gulf Scholars can help create the next generation of leaders, thinkers, and researchers on the Gulf Coast.

“This program is the first USM Coastal Operations

endeavor to truly involve every school of the USM Coastal Operations, and we’re thankful for the op portunity to plan, think, and strategize how we might best serve our stu dents and region.”

The Southern Miss Gulf Scholars program will begin accepting student applica tions in Spring 2023.

Learn more about Dr. Powell and the School of Coastal Resilience at https://www.usm.edu/coast al-resilience/index.php.

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The Pride of Mississippi: A 102 years in the making

As the Pride of Mis sissippi marching band nears its 103 homecoming, many are thinking back on the lega cy the marching band contin ues to lead.

What is now nearly a 300-member band started with only 20 members. The Pride of Mississippi was cre ated in 1920, over 100 years ago, by Audie F. Fugitt. Just 10 years after people heard the band for the first time, the Pride of Mississippi was invited to perform at Frank lin D Roosevelt’s inaugural parade in the 1930s. Their growth didn’t stop there.

In 1977, The Pride of Mis sissippi played for yet another President. The marching band was invited by Jimmy Carter to be present when he was sworn in. The Pride even got to fly on the same plane as Carter’s family.

From the United States to England to Ireland, the Pride of Mississippi has traveled the globe to bring their pas sion of music to the masses.

In Ireland, the marching band won “Best Band Over all” in the Limerick Interna tional Band Championship, and “Best Adult Marching Band” in the Dublin St. Pat rick’s Day Parade.

The Pride of Mississippi is still working towards excel lence, Pride Director Travis Higa says. The bands goals are to always exceed their own expectations in a culture that is positive and always striving for their very best.

“They work extremely hard, tirelessly,” said Higa. ‘In addition to the culture, the strive for excellence is im portant to me.”

Travis Higa started as the Assistant Director of the Pride in 2019, right on the cusp of the band’s centennial year. He had never actually seen the Pride of Mississippi in person, but was so blown

away when he heard the band play for the first time, that he applied for the position im mediately.

He saw the band play live and in person for the first time in 2019, and was once again, blown away. Three years later and Higa is now the Director of the Pride of Mississippi marching band.

“That first game was ex tremely memorable to me,” Higa said about his first week with the Pride. “Because just to see how they work at a high level was incredible to me.”

Operating at a high level barely covers the work that is put into each home game, march, and concert. On top of this work, The Pride of Mississippi won’t be perform ing the same show twice this year. For every home game, watchers will get to enjoy a completely new show. This is all a part of the marching band’s stive for excellence in everything they do, especially entertaining a crowd.

“We started in 1920, and we just celebrated our centen nial year,” Higa said. “Some thing that I would love to see the Pride get back to is the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade again. In those ambitious plans, there’s also a lot of financial support needed as well.”

Members of the Pride of Mississippi marching band are not required to pay any fees to be involved. While this gives an opportunity for anyone to be a part of the band, it does make the fi nances a little tight.

If you would like to see the Pride of Mississippi marching band make it back to the Ma cy’s Thanksgiving Parade, you can reach out to the School of Music to make a donation.

The Pride of Mississippi will perform this Saturday at The Rock during the home coming game. They’ll have an entire new show with music that is sure to get you on your feet, singing along.

Southern Miss Homecoming Preview

Are you ready for home coming? This week get ready for some fun, football, band, and more that’s coming up this week. This is the University of Southern Mississippi week to host home coming. It’s getting ready to kick off with events that is going on across campus. It is a tradition in the university.

Students and Alums are getting rally up for this moment. Everyone from around the area is coming to this special events. Alums are join ing together to catch and have good time. While students get ready for the festivities that will be going on.

“There’s a lot of pieces going into Homecoming this year. There’s a lot of departments that work on it such as Student Alumni Associa tion orientation and transition pro grams, and then of course SGA.” said Bayley Busby, Chief of staff.

The Student Government As sociation started off the week with Where’s Waldo. Then early that morning, they had Seeking Sey mour. Students all around campus uses their phone to find clues, and

if they find him students will take a picture. It will end on Thursday.

“I’ve had the opportunity to be your SGA president, so I get to the opportunity to be a Waldo. Addi tionally, we’re finding Seymour, or seeking Seymour. Also, this week, we’re going to have a homecoming kickoff tonight, we’re going to have several other events. My most fa vorite event that we’re going to have though is going to be a Wednesday and that is going to be bringing on Eagle Style, which is a big home coming competition,” said Ashely Lankford, SGA President.

“It will be a lot of festivities this homecoming. They will be a blood drive from Tuesday through Thurs day. The faculty and staff have a community service project with the IMP office where people can come and bag lunches, and teams get point for that”, said Busby.

Thursday they will have Eagle escape room, and it will be in the Payne Center. Friday there will be the traditions, sitting at the fountains, doing trivia questions about Southern Miss. Saturday the homecoming court at the home coming breakfast with the team.

The parade will begin at 1 p.m. All of the homecoming court will have

a float.

The campus has a tradition that is coming back.

“So back in the day, we had yard displays, and you can see them at the front of campus right now and so we have brought that tradition back this year, and I know that we are also excited for it”, said Busby.

“This basically means teams are

staying up for hours to pop a little tissue paper and make a display that really shows like the theme you’re so golden Southern Miss.,” said Busby.

The deadline for the posters is Friday, and you will see them in on display in front of the school. It will be a fun week.

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Turnovers and sacks plague Southern Miss in 27-10 loss against Troy

outhern Miss came into Troy, Alabama, riding a two-game win streak with momen tum and confidence, but Troy took the fire out by beating the Golden Eagles 27-10 in its Sun Belt opener.

“I thought we played hard for a long time. They are an experienced ball club that’s battle-tested and they were at home. I thought they brought great energy and we brought great energy,” Head Coach Will Hall said. “I thought it was a great football game for a long time with a lot of hard hitting. We are just not a very good team on offense right now, and ultimately that’s what it came down to.”

After coming off a good game on offense versus Tulane, Southern Miss’s offense de railed on the road versus Troy.

Southern Miss only had a net total of 205 yards, with 66 of those yards coming in a garbage time drive at the end of the game.

A low-scoring game was to be expected, as Troy ranks fifth in defenses in the Sun Belt. But after coming off of a bye week, Southern Miss did not get the production it was expecting.

“All in all, we didn’t make the plays we needed to make offensively; credit to them as they ran the defense they ran all year. We did not play very well offensively and that’s on me as the head coach and in charge of the offense. We have got to get better,” Hall said.

All of the points in the first half came off of turnovers. Only ten of the 37 combined points did not come off of turnovers.

The turnover party began af ter both teams punted to start the game.

Southern Miss starting quar terback Zach Wilcke threw an interception on a third-down pass that went in and out of the hands of receiver Jason Brown lee. Cornerback Craig Slocum made a play on the ball and

intercepted it for the first of Wilcke’s three interceptions.

“He is gonna watch this tape and see things there. He made some plays early. I thought it was unfortunate that his first two picks were tough. The first one very well could have been pass interference, it was really tough, and that weighs on you as a quarterback. The second one was a tough deal on him as well. He may have let that get to him because on the next two plays, we had two guys wide open,” Hall said.

After the first interception, Troy went down the field and scored first with a field goal to take s 3-0 lead. The Golden Eagles defense responded as Cameron Harell intercepted Troy quarterback Jarret Doege on the ensuing possession to set up Southern Miss in the red zone.

Wilcke then found Brownlee in the endzone for a touch down pass that gave Southern Miss the lead at 7-3 early in the second quarter.

“They had a corner blitz, and they left me one-on-one with a safety. I beat him across the face, and Wilcke put a good ball on me and I just had to make a play,” Brownlee said.

Brownlee had a career-high 12 receptions for 105 yards.

After the Southern Miss touchdown, Troy marched down the field and had it first and goal inside the five. Doege tried to squeeze a ball in a tight space, but safety Jay Stanley stole the ball for a momen tum-shifting interception.

All seemed like it was going in Southern Miss’ favor, but Wilcke threw a ball over the middle that Markeis Colvin picked off and ran back inside the 30.

DK Billingsley punched it in later on the drive to put Troy back on top for good.

“We have had some progress, but if you look at the stats, they are very similar, outside of the turnovers. We are just not pro ducing a lot and that’s on me,” Hall said.

The Trojans got the ball to start the second half and had the best drive of the entire game for either team.

Troy went six plays and 83 yards in three minutes to open the second half, which extend ed their lead to 17-7.

“At some point, we have got to move the ball and score… when it gets to be a two-score and a three-score game, the game changes. I thought our in ability to score, and give credit to Troy and Coach Sumrall and their program, [it] was ultimate ly the difference in the game,” Hall said.

The Golden Eagles did catch a break, however. A bad punt set up Southern Miss in their territory. Even though the drive stalled out, the Golden Eagles added a field goal to bring the score within a touchdown at 17-10.

The Golden Eagle defense even gave the offense the ball back after stopping Troy on a third down. Nevertheless, that resulted in Wilcke’s third inter ception of the night.

Troy added a field goal, bringing the score to 20-10. Wilcke fumbled the ball on the ensuing possession, resulting in the final Troy touchdown.

The positive for the game was the defense, which held Troy in check and gave the offense at least the opportuni ty to win the game. They even had four sacks. However, the offense just was not ready quite yet to do so.

“We knew we were gonna be a team that was young offen sively and that our defense and special teams were gonna have to carry us. But we have to be able to make enough plays and not turn the ball over,” Hall said.

The team has had progress on offense, but the offense on display against Troy will not win many games. It did not win this one.

Southern Miss is back in action next Saturday against Ar kansas State for homecoming.

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Jason Brownlee catches the only touchdown of the game for Southern Miss on a pass from Zach Wilcke in the second quarter. Charlie Luttrell | 4th Street Sports Producer
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