October 24, 2014

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Friday, October 24, 2014 THE DAILY Volume 103, No. 42 THE STUDENTMISSISSIPPIAN NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SERVING OLE MISS AND OXFORD SINCE 1911 Visit theDMonline.com @thedm_news news lifestyles sports SFA brings Motel Art Show World Series conversation returns this shaping up to to the Saturday be a classic welcome table Page 3 Page 4 Page 6 Road Rebs looking forward to traveling to Baton Rouge FILE PHOTO THOMAS GRANING AP PHOTO GERALD HERBERT WILL CROCKETT For many Rebel fans, the road decision.” “My worlds are clashing when trip to Baton Rouge even though [email protected] trip to Baton Rouge is about more Connor Hennessey, a senior these two schools get together she doesn’t have a ticket to the than cheering on their team in a journalism major from Shreve- due to my ties to Louisiana, but I game. As the Ole Miss football team rivalry game. It’s personal. port, Louisiana, has been torn am all in for the Rebels,” he said. “I’m going because the Rebels travels to Baton Rouge to play in Chris Schell is not only a junior with the rivalry ever since he be- “Any game is magnified when are killing it, and they need just as the Magnolia Bowl, many Rebel business major at The University came an Ole Miss student. you’re having the success that Ole much support on the road as they fans have decided to make the of Mississippi, but also a Coving- “Going to Baton Rouge is al- Miss is having at this point in the do at home,” Kellum said. “And trip to Tigerland to cheer on the ton, Louisiana, native going to ways difficult for me,” Hennessey year, and I don’t think this one is I’ve never been to Baton Rouge, first 7-0 Rebel football team since Death Valley with a chip on his said. “My parents are season any different. I think it’s certain- so I’m interested to see what the 1962. shoulder. ticket holders down there, and I ly magnified because of how the ‘corn dog culture’ is like.” This season the game is draw- “Being from Louisiana, this cheered for the Tigers from those game ended last year as well.” Kellum doesn’t plan on let- ing even more attention due to game means a whole lot,” Schell seats for many years. I am a Reb- Louisiana natives may be go- ting her lack of a ticket keep her Ole Miss’s current undefeated said. “Mostly everyone from my el now, so it’s hard going down ing to Baton Rouge with some- from cheering on the Rebels with status and number three ranking senior class goes to LSU. Many there as a visiting fan and being thing to prove or for their love of fellow Ole Miss fans in Baton in the AP Poll, as well as ESPN’s chastised me for going to Ole treated like garbage by the LSU the Rebels, but others are simply Rouge. College GameDay being hosted Miss when I was a senior in high fans.” making the trip to experience the “Since I don’t have a ticket, I in Baton Rouge for the game. school, but when we beat LSU While Hennessey admits his atmosphere. plan on finding the bar with the Combine those factors with the last year, it really gave me an ties to Louisiana and LSU are KC Kellum, a senior communi- most red and blue clothing in it fact that Saturday is also LSU’s opportunity to get back at the strong, his allegiance falls only cative sciences and disorders ma- and watching the game there,” homecoming, this game is going people who told me it was a poor with the Rebels. jor from Itta Bena, is making the she said. to be a big one. NYC Big Gay Ice Cream Company comes to Oxford MALLORY LEHENBAUER dust, olive oil and sea salt, Shop in 2011, a second shop in [email protected] dulce de leche and many other 2012 and a third shop in Los rotating offerings. All of this is Angeles last spring. For the first time, Oxford dispensed the way ice cream The Big Gay Ice Cream will be hosting the Big Gay Ice should be – with humor and Truck will serve the general Cream Truck today outside of good cheer.” public today, and this Satur- Big Bad Breakfast, located at The origins of Big Gay Ice day it will be participating in 219 N. Lamar Blvd, starting Cream can be traced back to the Southern Foodways Alli- at 2 p.m. and closing at 9 p.m. the summer of 2009, when ance Symposium in Oxford. The stop in Oxford is part of co-owner Douglas Quint got Patty Devery, office manag- the company’s 2014 Southern his hands on an ice cream er for the company, is excited tour. truck, only looking “to do for the truck to serve in Ox- The company works to sell something fun” at the time ford. out-of-the-box ice cream. with fellow co-owner Bryan “We’re expecting people to According to their busi- Petroff. The seasonal truck be- come get ice cream and have ness profile, “Our menu com- came an instant favorite treat a good time,” Devery said. bines traditional soft-serve ice in New York, the publicity of “We’re excited to work with Courtesy: BIG GAY ICE CREAM cream with non-traditional which led to the duo opening John T. Edge and John Cur- toppings, such as wasabi pea Doug Quint is seen handing out an ice cream cone. up the first Big Gay Ice Cream SEE ICE CREAM PAGE 3 opinion PAGE 2 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 24 OCTOBER 2014 | OPINION THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN EDITORIAL STAFF: LACEY RUSSELL editor-in-chief [email protected] SARAH PARRISH managing editor [email protected] MACKENZIE HICKS copy chief [email protected] LOGAN KIRKLAND MAGGIE MCDANIEL news editors [email protected] KYLIE MCFADDEN assistant news editor DYLAN RUBINO sports editor [email protected] CLARA TURNAGE lifestyles editor [email protected] SIERRA MANNIE opinion editor [email protected] CADY HERRING photography editor [email protected] COLUMN ALLI MOORE MADDIE THEOBALD ELLEN WHITAKER My experience with microaggressions design editors JUSTINA GREER that of “a typical black per- lims, I’ve only seen one in my been talking about my friends. [email protected] son’s voice from someone whole life.” She began to tell She was perpetuating such a THOMAS GRANING who hadn’t been around black the tale of her first encounter negative stereotype. multimedia editor Microaggressions are de- people.” She started using with a Muslim. She told us How can Muslims be turned [email protected] scribed as exchanges where these hand motions, and then that she went to the grocery into such a monolith? a member or members of a she said things like, “Oh, baby store in Meridian, and she If we look at perpetrators KRISTIN JACKSON dominant race says or does you ain’t getting this spot.” saw a Muslim man there. She of mass shootings recently, digital content coordinator something that belittles or She said more offensive told us how quiet it was in the they’ve been white males. It’s mocks a member or members things I can’t put in here be- store in the area around him. not fair to call one group ter- ADVERTISING STAFF: of a marginalized race. cause of the obscenity. I de- She told us that he was buying rorists and not the other. It’s I had an encounter at the cided to give her another bananas. And then she told us not fair to label every black MATT ZELENIK Grove about three weeks chance – maybe she was tipsy, how she really felt. person as being “ghetto.” advertising sales manager ago and certain events have maybe she was just tactless. She said she saw him and These small encounters, [email protected] been turning in my head ever Later on into the festivi- thought, “I gotta get out of these tiny exchanges. They ties, Linda asked us how she here, because he’s gonna kill matter and they’re hurtful. EMILY FORSYTHE since. My roommate’s parents should accessorize her Grove me.” And then she laughed. I only ask that we, at the DAVID JONES brought a friend to their tent. attire. She couldn’t choose be- And I told her the only thing very least, take the advice that EVAN MILLER She was an older, white wom- tween a scarf and a necklace. that was on his agenda was we receive as young children CAROLYN SMITH an, who for the sake of this ar- I loved her outfit, and I sug- buying bananas. – “If you don’t have anything account executives ticle, I’ll call Linda. I told Linda that my girl- gested that she wear both. I wish I had said more. nice to say then don’t say any- MARA BENSING friend and I held the tent It’s the Grove, so why not? Even though Oxford is thing at all.” KIM SANNER space even after my roommate My girlfriend, who studies small, there is a sizable Mus- Or we can choose to alter creative designers came because he’s timid and Arabic and has been to the lim population.

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