• Abstract and Figures
• Public Full-text

University of Mississippi eGrove Daily Mississippian Journalism and New Media, School of 4-24-2014 March 25, 2014 The Daily Mississippian Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline Recommended Citation The Daily Mississippian, "March 25, 2014" (2014). Daily Mississippian. 580. https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline/580 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Journalism and New Media, School of at eGrove. It has been accepted for inclusion in Daily Mississippian by an authorized administrator of eGrove. For more information, please contact [email protected]. TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 2014 VOL. 102, NO. 109 THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI | SERVING OLE MISS AND OXFORD SINCE 1911 Police arrest man after indecent Major changes exposure incident Monday morning to Old DM STAFF REPORT [email protected] Taylor The University Police Depart- ment arrested a man Monday Road morning who allegedly exposed himself near the Ford Center. The approved arrest comes after similar crimes were committed on campus March BY CHEKAREY HAILEY 20. [email protected] UPD Chief Calvin Sellers said the man arrested Monday is the Officials approved the con- same man who committed last struction renovation of Old week’s crimes. Taylor Road last month after “We got a couple calls this morn- the Mississippi Department ing, and we had an officer in the of Transportation awarded area,” Sellers said. “I’m happy we $6 million to Talbot Broth- got this guy, and I hope everyone ers Contracting Company. can feel safe.” Talbot Brothers Contracting Sellers said the man was initially Company agreed to complete charged and booked in the Lafay- the construction renovations ette County Detention Center for in 18 months. driving with a suspended license, “There are many proj- and the indecent exposure charge ects going on,” said Mitch was added later Monday. The Turner, District 2 engineer man, whose name was not released for MDOT. “The work you to The Daily Mississippian before see them doing right now is publication, bonded out Monday taking place to expand and afternoon. THOMAS GRANING | The Daily Mississippian modify pipes, constructing a Sellers also said the man arrested Police officers detain a man suspected of exposing himself on campus Monday morning. is not a student at Ole Miss. See ROAD, PAGE 5 ESPN Senior VP to share insight and innovation at marketing conference BY KATELYN MILLER to represent a personal expres- nications, himself especially. back. authority, intimacy and urgency. [email protected] sion,” King said. “I like people,” King said. “I like “I will try to make sure that it’s Sports, like all great stories, move He said that this trend in person- to read, hear, watch stories. You better to think of this as a jour- and connect us.” Rob King, senior vice president al definition has created a mutual have to want to take in informa- ney, rather than a career,” King King also recognizes that Ole of SportsCenter and news for benefit system between news and tion if you hope to be good at said. “A lot of folks these days Miss is, as a university, on a ESPN, will be giving the keynote consumers. dispensing (information),” King get in a plane or a train or a car journey of its own to grow and speech at a marketing conference “Marketing is more targeted to and never bother looking out the improve. He termed it “fascinat- on campus Thursday. The con- specific demographics,” King window to take in what’s moving ing,” saying that “Ole Miss is ference, Expand Your Brand, will said. “News reports are delivered around them. Folks in their late in the middle of an important be hosted by the Meek School of with less dispassion and more teens and early 20s should look American undertaking. That’s Journalism and New Media in opinion. And everyone is moving out the window.” to be admired, as we’ll all learn Farley Hall. The conference will faster to match the torrent of so- No stranger to the journey him- here.” focus on the idea of using social cial media.” self, King received his under- Ultimately, King said the great- media and new media as market- This increased focus on person- graduate degree in English, be- est thing he hopes to accomplish ing tools. alization and human connection Courtesy ESPN gan working at a newspaper and, with his participation in the con- King said he sees social media as reflects what King said is the real years down the road, worked his ference is to stress that journalism a new expression of an old psy- heart of journalism and commu- Rob King way up to senior vice president people in general are important. chological mandate: to connect nications -— storytelling. of a major sports news and en- He said he also wants to empha- with other people. He said that “Journalism not only informs us, said. tertainment network. size that the hard work that peo- social media helps people not it empowers us,” King said. “In King said he hopes that those His professional path, he said, ple put into their jobs is worth it. only to connect with one another that way, it is a precious form of attending his speech, particu- “went through a lot of twists The Expand Your Brand con- but to express themselves as well. storytelling.” larly students, walk away with and turns, but all have been con- ference will be held March 27 “There’s an inherent emotional King believes storytelling and the understanding that the stress nected by storytelling — identify- in Farley from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. charge within every post, as every a love of stories are integral to and demands required to create ing unforgettable characters and Tickets for the conference are one, even a retweet, is intended someone working with commu- a career shouldn’t hold students narratives and sharing them with $150. OPINION SUBSIPPI TO PREMIERE IN OXFORD THIS WEEKEND SPORTS MORE INSIDE DIAMOND REBELS LOOK WHAT IS WITH THE 1%? Opinion .............................2 TO CONTINUE WINNING Lifestyles ..............................4 News .............................5 STREAK Sports .............................7 THEDMONLINE.COM See Page 2 See Page 4 See Page 8 @thedm_news OPINION PAGE 2 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 25 MARCH 2014 | OPINION THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN EDITORIAL STAFF: ADAM GANUCHEAU editor-in-chief [email protected] PHIL MCCAUSLAND managing editor [email protected] GRANT BEEBE senior editor SARAH PARRISH copy chief [email protected] CATY CAMBRON ALLISON SLUSHER news editors [email protected] TIM ABRAM opinion editor [email protected] EMILY CRAWFORD lifestyles editor [email protected] CLARA TURNAGE asst. lifestyles editor [email protected] HAWLEY MARTIN sports editor [email protected] CASEY HOLLIDAY KENDYL NOON online editors [email protected] BRACEY HARRIS multimedia editor [email protected] THOMAS GRANING photography editor [email protected] COLUMN TISHA COLEMAN NATALIE MOORE What is with the 1%? design editors ADVERTISING STAFF: number to call for more progres- same report from which the 35.4 contributing 1.9 percent of all sive tax structures. As President percent number comes, found taxes. What do these numbers MATT ZELENIK Obama puts it, we should “ask that the greedy 1 percent paid 35 mean? For starters, it means that advertising sales manager some of the wealthiest Ameri- percent of all taxes, compared to Obama does not understand [email protected] cans to pay their fair share.” only 31.74 percent from the bot- what fair share means, though I EMILY FORSYTHE The Occupy movement was tom 90 percent. The numbers have already addressed that issue DAVID JONES BY TRENTON WINFORD born out of the belief that the for the 1 percent are equal: 35 before in this spot. [email protected] JAMIE KENDRICK “99 percent” were being treated percent of wealth and 35 percent These numbers also tell us EVAN MILLER unfairly when compared to the 1 of taxes. Yet the left continues to that the current tax structure is account executives If you have paid attention percent. Last week, Politico ran a claim that they do not pay their fairly set up for the top earners, to politics in America for more story about the 1 percent gearing fair share. but gets progressively less fair as MARA BENSING than five minutes, then you have up to “strike back” against eco- When the numbers are bro- it goes down, though not in the FARRELL LAWO likely read an article or opinion nomic policies that might hurt ken down to the top 20 percent, direction the left will have you KRISTEN SALTZMAN column or seen a news report or them. These are talking points rather than the 1 percent, the believe. KIM SANNER analysis on the income dispar- that crop up over and over, with numbers actually do become un- Instead of focusing on rhetoric creative designers ity between the “1 percent” and seemingly little change from one equal. The top 20 percent owns and party mantra while masking the rest of the nation. It does not year to the next. Why is it that 59.1 percent of the nation’s the reality of the situation, per- S. GALE DENLEY take long at all to see a debate on so much rhetoric is thrown about wealth, yet it pays 64.3 percent haps we should focus on policies STUDENT MEDIA CENTER this issue played out. regarding the unfairness of the of the taxes. that will bring the bottom up, From the left, you will hear the 1 percent, yet little ever really Interestingly, Obama does not rather than pulling the top down.

Load more

  9

Copy Link