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University of Mississippi eGrove Daily Mississippian Journalism and New Media, School of 3-9-2017 March 9, 2017 The Daily Mississippian Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline Recommended Citation The Daily Mississippian, "March 9, 2017" (2017). Daily Mississippian. 1090. https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline/1090 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]. Thursday, March 9, 2017 THE DAILY Volume 105, No. 104 MISSISSIPPIANTHE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SERVING OLE MISS AND OXFORD SINCE 1911 Visit theDMonline.com @thedm_news WHAT’S INSIDE... Is your smart TV Music makes the boys come Rebel baseball falls to watching you? together. Check out 7 South unranked Georgia State SEE OPINION PAGE 2 SEE LIFESTYLES PAGE 5 SEE SPORTS PAGE 8 Filmmakers take stage at Honors Convocation DM STAFF REPORT Fall rush dates amended After much controversy, con- versation and 2,716 signatures on a petition, the university re- scheduled formal fraternity and sorority recruitment to Sept. 17- 24. Donald Abels, coordinator of the university’s Office of Fra- ternity and Sorority Greek Life, released the changed dates in an email Wednesday afternoon. “Recruitment dates for Col- lege Panhellenic and the Inter- fraternity Council are as follows: September 17-24, 2017,” Abels wrote. Marketing major and Pan- hellenic member Di Law began an online petition to reschedule the original recruitment dates, PHOTOS BY: CINDY NGUYEN which interfered with the away LEFT: Self-taught animator Brent Green performs at Honors Convocation at the Ford Center Wednesday. RIGHT: Oscar-nominated filmmaker Sam Green speaks football game at Alabama on during his short-story style presentation. Sept. 30. The petition garnered more than 2,700 votes and the JACQUELINE KNIRNSCHILD Sally McDonnell Barksdale “Honestly, I would have paid Francisco fog or a middle-aged Spring Honors Convocation a lot of money to watch this,” diabetic. attention of Greek Life leaders. STEPHEN GRAY Wednesday night appeared Wesley Craft, a freshman pub- One documentary, “116 Can- Representatives from the uni- [email protected] more like a group of friends lic policy major, said. “I feel like dles,” discussed the phenom- versity administration, IFC and hanging out. I know them.” enon of holding the world re- Panhellenic met to discuss mov- When award-winning film- ing the dates. makers Brent and Sam Green “Live Cinema” featured sev- The chancellor’s art- cord of the oldest living person en short films with live music ist-in-residence, Bruce Leving- in the world. With the death of The Rebels have a bye week- are asked permission to screen end in their schedule on Sept. their films, they decline. They and in-person narration by Os- ston, played the piano with the each record holder, the door to car-nominated filmmaker Sam ensemble in one performance. the past is swung shut. 23, the only Saturday of the sea- perform every showing in-per- son without a game. The final son with a full band. Green and animator Brent Each film explored everyday “I was inspired,” freshman Green, whose films have been concepts many may take for public policy major Sophie rounds of formal rush will hap- The musicians and filmmak- pen this day instead of on the ers who took the stage at the performed at the Sundance granted, like being the oldest Film Festival. person in the world, the San SEE CONVOCATION PAGE 3 morning of Alabama game day. Oxford participates in International Women’s Day the same day. JACQUELINE KNIRNSCHILD “Anyone, anywhere, can UM without its woman workforce SLADE RAND join by making March 8 ‘A [email protected] Day Without a Woman,’ in Mothers, daughters and one or all of the following sisters in Oxford and around ways: Women take the day the world tapped into pas- off, from paid and unpaid sions left over from the Jan- labor. Avoid shopping for uary Women’s March on one day (with exceptions for Washington to stand in sol- small, women- and minori- 4 out of 10 vice chancellors are women more than 50% of all faculty are women idarity with women workers ty-owned businesses. Wear on Wednesday. RED in solidarity with ‘A Organizers behind the Day Without A Woman.’” How people protested protest on the morning after Both the march and day President Donald Trump’s off were sponsored primar- inauguration called for ily by Planned Parenthood American women to make and the National Resources March 8 “A Day Without a Defense Council. The orga- Woman.” The organization’s nizers’ site claims inspira- tion came from New York website outlined ways wom- wearing red not shopping not going to work en could show their sup- City’s recent Bodega Strike port with the International GRAPHIC BY: MARISA MORRISSETTE Women’s Strike planned for SEE WOMEN’S DAY PAGE 3 SOURCE: UM OFFICE OF INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH, EFFECTIVENESS, AND PLANNING; WOMENSMARCH.COM PAGE 2 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 9 MARCH 2017 OPINION COLUMN Secret surveillance: The CIA, your smart TV and you In a recently released doc- I mean … not that I talk to rorism. One statistic Pres- dium-scale terrorist plots. ument collection, WikiLeaks my microwave often. ident Donald Trump has Even further, the United claims the CIA can infiltrate Anyway, an alarming been touting lately is how States does not even rank everything from Android number of people are tak- Chicago has had its steepest among the highest target- phones to Samsung smart ing a lethargic approach murder rate increase in the ed countries. On the Glob- televisions. The CIA wrote to this. A lot of people say last 50 years. Since the in- al Terrorism Index, an at- a program called Weeping something like, “Well, if I duction of the Patriot Act in tempt to quantify how much Angel that puts the Sam- have nothing to hide, I don’t 2001, we have had the larg- terrorist activity occurs in a sung TV into a false off need to worry, right?” No! est mass shooting on United country, the United States state, in which it proceeds Not right! Not caring about States soil in Orlando, Flor- ranks 34th, far behind Chi- to collect conversations and the right to privacy is like ida, the Boston Bombings na and Russia, which sit send them to a CIA server. saying you don’t care about and the 2015 Chattanooga at 23 and 24, respectively. JAMES HALBROOK I hesitate to even imagine your right to free speech Shootings, just to name a So, to sum everything up, [email protected] how easily the CIA can col- because you have nothing few. Since 2010, there have the CIA is allegedly hack- lect data from my Google to say. Further, the notion been 41 acts of terrorism ing televisions to spy on us, I have long dreaded this Home, whose job it is to lit- that one’s country is doing in the United States. One and it hasn’t been shown to day. I was hoping that it erally listen to everything I so much spying on its citi- would think that with such prevent the terrorism that wouldn’t come, but it’s here. say. The same can be said zens should incite fury. This intense surveillance that has we’re not highly at risk for It’s time to don our tinfoil about Amazon’s Alexa, but is America! The land of the been unmasked, the United anyway. hats, because it looks like that’s not really the point. free! The only other coun- States would be more pro- that crazy uncle of ours who The point is how far the CIA tries that can even compete tected. According to The James Halbrook is always said, “They’re listen- is taking this whole “spying with this level of intrusion Intercept, which, admitted- a sophomore chemical ing to us!” was right. Except on its people” thing. If it is are Russia and China. ly, does lean left, there has engineering major from the “they” he is talking about getting so creative as to use The only positive I could been no evidence that Na- Brandon. may be much closer than we TVs to collect information, see of such intense spying tional Security Agency or could have imagined. I imagine soon I won’t be would be if this spying actu- CIA mass surveillance has able to trust my microwave. ally stopped crime and ter- thwarted any large- or me- EDITORIAL STAFF: ADVERTISING PATRICIA THOMPSON The Daily Mississippian is published Monday Assistant Dean, Student through Friday during the academic year, on CLARA TURNAGE LANA FERGUSON SALES MANAGER days when classes are scheduled. Ben Napoletan Media and Daily Mississippian editor-in-chief managing editor Faculty Adviser [email protected] Columns do not represent the official opinions [email protected] [email protected] of The University of Mississippi or The Daily S. Gale Denley Student Media Center Mississippian unless specifically indicated. LYNDY BERRYHILL MCKENNA WIERMAN SALES ACCOUNT 201 Bishop Hall, SLADE RAND ZOE MCDONALD EXECUTIVES P.O. Box 1848 The Daily Mississippian welcomes letters lifestyles editors Cary Allen University, MS to the editor. 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