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University of Mississippi eGrove Daily Mississippian Journalism and New Media, School of 9-20-2016 September 20, 2016 The Daily Mississippian Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline Recommended Citation The Daily Mississippian, "September 20, 2016" (2016). Daily Mississippian. 1012. https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline/1012 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, September 20, 2016 THE DAILY Volume 105, No. 21 THEMISSISSIPPIAN STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SERVING OLE MISS AND OXFORD SINCE 1911 Visit theDMonline.com @thedm_news WHAT’S INSIDE... More respect is needed for What’s better than one great art- Chad Kelly and Evan the national anthem during ist? How about two? Check out Par- Engram work together in their football games tridge and Lamar at Southside Gallery final season with the Rebs SEE OPINION PAGE 2 SEE LIFESTYLES PAGE 5 SEE SPORTS PAGE 7 Pharmacy students help prepare for flu season Replacement ready for memorial plaque CLARA TURNAGE [email protected] new plaque for the Confederate Memorial in the Circle will be placed soon, Chancel- Alor Jeffrey Vitter said. The text for the plaque was announced in a June 10 letter to the campus, after many campus groups contested the original wording, which was installed in March. The plaque on the Confederate Memorial is part of an effort of the university administration to contextualize historic, often-divi- sive sites. Vitter established the Chan- cellor’s Advisory Committee on History and Context in March to determine which buildings or monuments on campus need explanation. Vitter said the committee will PHOTOS BY: ALEEA BURGE announce which sites they have chosen for contextualization in Jenny Tran prepares a flu vaccination for fellow pharmacy students to give at the Grove. The goal of the operation is to increase the number of adults receiving immunizations. the coming weeks. At this time, Vitter said he did not know how Pharmacists arranged multiple individuals and immunized “These campus clinics just make ANNIE MAPP many sites the committee will opportunities for students, 95,321 patients alone in the it easier for students to get [email protected] recommend. faculty and Oxford residents 2014-2015 campaign. vaccinated.” “Part of the contextualization Students at the university’s to receive flu shots as a part of Operational Director of The goal of the operation is to effort is to acknowledge our past school of pharmacy offered flu their yearly Operation Immuni- Pharmacy Sandra Bentley said increase the number of adults and move to the future,” Vitter shots outside of the Union on zation campaign. receiving the vaccine is more receiving immunizations, while said. “I’m not interested in being Monday. According to the APhA-ASP than necessary. also bringing the public knowl- in this political debate that pits The Ole Miss chapter of the website, since 1997 Operation “The influenza vaccine pro- edge about the vaccine. people on one side against peo- American Pharmacists Asso- Immunization has provided vides the best protection from ple in the other. I’m interested in ciation-Academy of Student vaccines to more than 1 million contracting the flu,” she said. SEE FLU SHOTS PAGE 3 having dialogue and moving for- SEE PLAQUE PAGE 3 Law school hosts 10th annual Constitution Day MIA SIMS than a decade. said. “We continue to debate ine M. Portner work as editors [email protected] “I’ve organized the event since important constitutional issues for the Mississippi Law Jour- 2010,” Nowlin said. “The uni- in the courts every day. It is our nal and have written pieces on versity is very pleased to hold highest law and the foundation controversial issues in constitu- The university commemo- a Constitution Day commem- of our freedom and prosperity tional law. Each spoke on both rated the signing of the U.S. oration event each year and as a nation.” the meaning and importance of Constitution with a celebration the central administration has A panel of law students pre- the U.S. Constitution and the of the successes of published asked the law school to organize sented their recently published complications surrounding it. student authors in the Robert it.” and forthcoming articles con- Bruce discussed free speech C. Khayat Law Center Monday Nowlin said it is crucial for cerning various constitutional rights and how materials depict- afternoon. students to understand the issues to an audience of faculty, ing animal cruelty should not According to the law school’s depth of the Constitution and to students and community mem- be protected by the first amend- senior associate dean, Jack abide by it. bers. ment. Nowlin, the law school has held “The Constitution is not just Panelists Alexandra Bruce, the commemoration for more a historical document,” Nowlin Madison E. Coburn and Kather- SEE CONSTITUTION PAGE 3 Chancellor Jeffrey Vitter OPINION THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 20 SEPTEMBER 2016 | PAGE 2 COLUMN Every Ole Miss fan needs to respect the National Anthem ELIZABETH ROMARY toward the anthem and the “For the land of the free and claim to love this country slurs and curses, the ones [email protected] flag. During the singing of the home of the brave.” so much. They are the ones who would not give a min- the anthem (I would also like I understand that people who claim they understand ute of their time for silence to point out that it was being were getting caught up in the the full weight and meaning and respect: If you are going I noticed something this sung by a member of the excitement of the game, and behind it. to expel so much energy on past Saturday that made military) I did not hear the I also understand that they They are the ones who chastising someone for not me angry and upset. I could stadium fall quiet as everyone were exercising their right of cannot fathom someone sit- respecting our national an- not seem to wrap my head turned their attention to the free speech. ting, taking a knee or doing them, follow your own words around it. flag and placed their hands I am all for the first amend- anything that deviates from and respect it as well. For weeks now on the news over their hearts. ment. But freedom of speech standing to attention with a Stand to attention, ac- and social media, we have What I heard instead was is not the freedom of hypoc- hand over the heart. knowledge the flag and listen heard stories about the “dis- a plethora of rude language, risy. And yet, to me, they are be- to the music (or do not; just respect” toward the nation- un-paused conversations What is sad to me is that ing so much more disrespect- give respectful silence). Just al anthem from those who and the screaming of slurs I many of the people who bla- ful toward the flag, anthem, stop being hypocrites. choose to take a knee instead do not think I am allowed to tantly disrespected the time military service members and of stand, to raise a closed write down. of the flag and the anthem this country than any protest- Elizabeth Romary is a fist into the air, instead of This went on throughout like this are the ones who call ers ever will be. senior international stud- placing their hands over their almost the entirety of the an- out anthem protesters for Here is what I want to say ies major from Greenville, hearts. them until everyone stopped being disrespectful. to the people in the stadium North Carolina. 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