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August 26, 2015 University of Mississippi eGrove Daily Mississippian Journalism and New Media, School of 8-26-2015 August 26, 2015 The Daily Mississippian Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline Recommended Citation The Daily Mississippian, "August 26, 2015" (2015). Daily Mississippian. 1186. https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline/1186 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]. Wednesday, August 26, 2015 THE DAILY Volume 104, No. 3 THE STUDENTMISSISSIPPIAN NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SERVING OLE MISS AND OXFORD SINCE 1911 Visit theDMonline.com @thedm_news opinion lifestyles sports Editorial: A plea Your monthly Freeze says to the student horoscope team feels body sluggish Page 2 Page 6 Page 12 Khayat shares experience at convocation Final listening session Thursday DM STAFF REPORT The members of the Board Search Committee in charge of selecting the next UM Chancellor will be leading a Campus Listening Session on Thursday, August 27 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m in the Inn at Ole Miss Ballroom. This will be the third and final Campus Listening Ses- sion. The previous sessions were held on July 13 on the Oxford campus and on August 20 at the UM Medical Center in Jackson. The event will consist of six sessions dedicated to dif- ferent constituencies with- SEE CONVOCATION PAGE 4 in the University, including students, faculty, staff, and alumni. “The Listening Sessions provide members of both the Board Search Committee and PHOTOS BY: ARIEL COBBERT the Campus Search Advisory Left: Chancellor emeritus Robert Khayat delivered the freshman convocation address. Top: Freshman students sing the Alma Mater. Middle: Freshmen wait their turn to sign Committee the opportunity the creed. Bottom: Freshman students receive memorabilia coins. to hear from all segments of the campus community,” said Glenn Boyce, Commission- er of Higher Education. “We Welcome week: a course in campus culture hope that many members of and the student organizations the Ole Miss family will take LANA FERGUSON a few minutes to attend the [email protected] to get plugged into,” SAA Di- rector Anna Leigh Phillips said. sessions and provide their Phillips said the week is orga- thoughts on the qualities they Welcome Week marks the would like to see in the next beginning of more than 125 nized in a way to show students what the university has to offer Chancellor.” events hosted by the Student The IHL Board of Trustees Activities Association on cam- them. “Hopefully students can announced on Sept. 14 that pus each year. they would not renew the SAA coordinator, Nathan walk away with an idea of how they want to leave their legacy contract of then-Chancellor Darce said the student-run Dan Jones. After student-led organization hosts Welcome on campus.” Phillips believes that this is the time of the year protests against the decision, Week to provide the opportuni- the board offered Jones a ty to both first-year and return- when student organizations are searching for new members to 21-month contract extension, ing students alike to participate but Jones refused. in fun events on campus. get involved. Welcome Week began last Former Provost Morris “These events are designed Stocks begins his tenure as for students to make friends Friday with a movie in the Grove. The beginning of the interim chancellor on Sept. and experience something 15. IHL’s selection of Stocks new,” Darce said. week was filled with social ac- tivities like a photo booth, the as the interim chancellor pro- During this week, the area hibits his nomination for the surrounding the Union be- “Get Involved Fair” and free snow cones. permanent chancellor’s posi- comes home to a variety of ac- tion. tivities for students to take part Students participating in in. Welcome Week activities are “Welcome Week is a great posting pictures on social me- way for students to become dia, one of the most popular PHOTO BY: ROYCE SWAYZE SEE EDITORIAL PAGE 2 familiar with everything ‘Ole SEE WELCOME PAGE 4 Free snowcones were provided to students during welcome week. Miss’- the campus, the culture, opinion PAGE 2 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 26 AUGUST 2015 | OPINION THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN EDITORIAL STAFF: LOGAN KIRKLAND editor-in-chief [email protected] CLARA TURNAGE managing editor [email protected] TORI WILSON copy chief [email protected] DREW JANSEN TAYLOR BENNETT news editors [email protected] LANA FERGUSON assistant news editor DYLAN RUBINO sports editor [email protected] ZOE MCDONALD MCKENNA WIERMAN lifestyles editors [email protected] SIERRA MANNIE opinion editor [email protected] ROYCE SWAYZE photography editor [email protected] DM STAFF EDITORIAL ARIEL COBBERT assisstant photography editor [email protected] Students: make your voices heard When The Daily Mississippian feels strongly about a subject that strongly affects the University or the students, the CAROLINE CALLAWAY editors collaborate to write an editorial. In the case of the college board and their actions concerning the University, the DANIELLE MINUS current staff felt it necessary to write candidly to the student body. design editors The editorial staff of The affected by the University’s session for students will be what is, at best, an educated ADVERTISING STAFF: Daily Mississippian have long long arm to voice ideas, sug- held at 3 p.m. Thursday in the guess as to what would be worked to forge a window into gestions and desires for the Inn at Ole Miss ballroom. best for us. EVAN MILLER the wall of the workings of the qualities of the new chancel- The editorial staff of The The student body has the advertising sales manager Mississippi Institutions of lor. Daily Mississippian implore chance and the right to de- [email protected] Higher Learning Board. If the objective was acces- the student body to attend mand the proper respect from Since its dismissal of our sibility, the board missed the this listening session so that the men and women chosen BEN NAPOLETAN former chancellor, whose mark. their voices may be heard to serve and represent it. The DANIELLE RANDALL contract was terminated un- The first listening session and, hopefully, considered in student body has the chance PIERRE WHITESIDE der murky conditions and not open to students was held in the selection of the new lead- to submit the ideal charac- account executives reinstated after exceptional the middle of summer, when er of the University of Missis- teristics for a chancellor that public outcry, the IHL Board the number of students on sippi. This time, the number represents the University. ROBERT LOCKARD became a point of particu- campus was small. The sec- must not be small. The board This chance, however, is the ELLEN SPIES lar interest for all those who ond, held in Jackson the week must learn that there are stu- only one for most students. creative designers love the University of Missis- before school started - when dents on this campus pas- To the board, we have one sippi and for those who seek most students were in the sionate about the University’s request. For the sake of this fairness and inclusion as it transition period between chancellor and about its inde- campus and all that it stands regards the choice of chancel- home and housing - yield- pendence. for, do what you promised — S. GALE DENLEY lor. ed a similar turnout. Those This is not the college listen. Take into account the STUDENT MEDIA CENTER Because of these events, the passionate enough about the board’s campus. They do not concerns of this campus. If PATRICIA THOMPSON IHL Board has held listening University’s leadership came walk our pathways, listen to you are not working for the Director of Student Media and sessions with the intention to hear and be heard, but they our lectures or thrive beneath welfare of the students, what Daily Mississippian Faculty of allowing the student body, were few. our management. They look are you working for? Adviser faculty, alumni and all those The third and final listening on from the outside and make ROY FROSTENSON Assistant Director/Radio and THE DAILY The Daily Mississippian The Daily Mississippian welcomes letters to the editor. Let- Advertising MISSISSIPPIAN is published Monday ters should be addressed to The Daily Mississippian, 201 through Friday during Bishop Hall, P.O. Box 1848, University, MS, 38677-1848, DEBRA NOVAK S. Gale Denley Student the academic year, on or e-mailed to [email protected]. Creative Services Manager Media Center days when classes are Letters should be typed, double-spaced and no longer than scheduled. MARSHALL LOVE 201 Bishop Hall, 300 words. Letters may be edited for clarity, space or libel. Daily Mississippian P.O. Box 1848 Third-party letters and those bearing pseudonyms, pen Distribution Manager University, MS Contents do not names or “name withheld” will not be published. Publi- 38677-1848 represent the cation is limited to one letter per individual per calendar KENNETH SESSIONS official opinions of month. Media Technology Manager The University of Main Number: Mississippi or The Daily Letters should include phone and email contact informa- JADE MAHARREY 662.915.5503 Mississippian unless tion so that editors can verify authenticity. Letters from stu- Administrative Assistant Business Hours: specifically indicated. dents should include grade classification and major; letters Monday-Friday, from faculty and staff should include title and the college, DARREL JORDAN 8 a.m.-5 p.m. ISSN 1077-8667 school or department where the person is employed. Broadcast Chief Engineer opinion OPINION | 26 AUGUST 2015 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | PAGE 3 COLUMN Teaching abstinence only is not working BRICE MCGEE Kids are learning what sex is ear- years.
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