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Wednesday, March 4, 2015 THE DAILY Volume 103, No. 95 THE STUDENTMISSISSIPPIAN NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SERVING OLE MISS AND OXFORD SINCE 1911 Visit theDMonline.com @thedm_news lifestyles lifestyles sports Book review: Greensky Women’s ‘The Secret Bluegrass basketball Wisdom of the performing prepares for Earth’ tonight SEC Tourney Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 2015 Associated Student Body election results announced ISABELLA CARUSO [email protected] The winners of the Asso- ciated Student Body officer elections were announced last night on the front steps of the Lyceum. Current Attorney General, Kelly Savage, read the names of the winning can- didates. Rod Bridges, who ran unop- posed, was elected ASB presi- dent with 93.36 percent of the vote. He will hold the execu- tive power of the ASB and be required to serve at least 40 hours a month toward student services. Bridges said he is ready to assume his new position. “I think in the past we’ve lost a connection with the student voice and hopefully through this year I can ask a student on campus come next PHOTO BY: CADY HERRING PHOTO BY: CADY HERRING May, ‘What did ASB do for ASB Attorney General Kelly Savage prepares to an- Rod Bridges and Madeleine Dear celebrate after he was announced ASB president in front of the Lyceum, Tuesday. you?’ and they’ll be able to tell nounce election results in front of the Lyceum, Tuesday.. me.” John Brahan was elected ASB vice president with 55.38 percent of the vote. Vice president serves as president of the senate and is required to serve at least 35 hours a month toward student services. “I am very grateful and thankful. I thank God and ev- eryone who supported me,” PHOTO BY: KAYLA BEATTY PHOTO BY: KAYLA BEATTY John Brahan speaks with his campaigners in front of the Student Union while campaigning Tuesday. Ingrid Valbuena shows the stickers she collected after walking SEE ASB PAGE 3 through the campaign zone in front of the Student Union, Tues- day. Highland Court retail development nearing completion MIA SIMS and adds some additional choic- The growth within Oxford [email protected] es for restaurants or retail shops and the university has contrib- in town. uted immensely to the increase The Highland Court retail de- Highland Court is just one of of real estate development in velopment, located on the old many new commercial devel- Oxford. Pegram said that as Ox- Canon Motors site off of Jackson opments in Oxford that is un- ford and the university experi- Avenue, is nearing completion. derway to help accommodate enced impressive growth during Planning of the project began the increasing population in the last decade, the commercial around late 2013, and construc- Oxford. There will be more an- real estate industry followed tion began June of last year. nouncements about the specif- closely. Randy Barber, building official ics of Highland Court at a later “There are several forces driv- for the city of Oxford, asserted date, such as the public release ing the real estate growth in Ox- that construction is ongoing, of some exciting tenants, ac- ford, and many of these are in- but the overall project is moving cording to Barber. dependent growth contributors in a timely manner. According Highland Court is expected to such as the tremendous growth to Barber, the location was cho- do fairly well in revenue from in the university, the great qual- sen based on the notion that not the businesses located inside, PHOTO BY: CADY HERRING ity of life, the central location many desirable parcels of com- and the complex is a part of the Work on Highland Court continues Tuesday. and now, the existence of more mercial land of this size and lo- expanding retail community of Pengram’s company works in tional and regional businesses. job opportunities,” Pengram ex- cation are left in Oxford. Oxford. Joe Pegram, vice pres- seven southeastern states and, “Through that unique per- plained. The complex will present mul- ident of Randall Commercial therefore, is familiar with many spective, there are not many Additional real estate expan- tiple alternatives for dining in Group, LLC, said that Oxford markets. markets as exciting and eco- sion is in Oxford’s future. Pe- Oxford. Barber said that it is a has grown tremendously since Pengram said Oxford is at- nomically sound as Oxford gram stated Oxford is becoming great location for Rebel Shop 2009. tracting attention from both na- seems to be,” he said. SEE CONSTRUCTION PAGE 3 opinion PAGE 2 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 4 MARCH 2015 | OPINION THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN EDITORIAL STAFF: Letters to the Editor LACEY RUSSELL editor-in-chief Dear editor, Dear editor, [email protected] My name is Autumn Bullard. I am a doctoral student Only a short time after the Ole Miss campus has had to at The University of Mississippi. I am well educated, I examine its real racism because of students hanging a noose am a humanist, I am a feminist and I am disgusted. around James Meredith’s statue, The DM has provided us SARAH PARRISH The cartoon in (Tuesday’s) issue, with the obvious ti- with an opportunity to see the real misogyny on campus managing editor tle “Men and relationships,” not only espouses the great through that disgusting cartoon that suggests that men want [email protected] heart/brain fallacy with a noted lack of grace, but it to kill the women in their lives. glibly suggests that men everywhere are torn between In an era where other campuses have had real discussions MACKENZIE HICKS domestic violence and paternalistic overprotection. A of rape culture, is The DM so backwater and so illiterate that copy chief war only solved by, what, being distracted by some oth- it did not see it was making a joke that tacitly advocates vio- [email protected] er piece of ass? I am appalled The Daily Mississippian lence against women? Or is it a deliberate attempt to make would reproduce an artifact so committed to making female students afraid? After all, women on other campuses LOGAN KIRKLAND light of domestic violence. are getting brutalized, why should Ole Miss women feel safe MAGGIE MCDANIEL We all know where that final speech bubble (“HEY -- is that the logic of the cartoon? news editors LOOK AT THAT ONE”) is pointing. It gestures to a phal- Do women need to carry firearms to Greek events? Why [email protected] lus The DM felt indelicate to publish. You have chosen not make a cartoon about the male brain thinking this over? to protect your viewership from the horrors of a cartoon Shame on you, penis (one I am sure would be as shoddily drawn as the KYLIE MCFADDEN other organs depicted) but not from the impropriety of Anne Babson assistant news editor domestic violence, systemic and harmful reproductions Graduate Student of patriarchal rhetoric, reductive notions of heteronor- English Department DYLAN RUBINO mative masculinity, a continuation of the pathetic fal- sports editor lacy that is the male sex drive, or any other metric of [email protected] good taste. As a result, I cannot help but question your Dear editor, priorities. As the current editor of The Daily Mississippian, you should already be aware that the newspaper published a cartoon (Tues- CLARA TURNAGE Quite apart from feeding off the worst case scenar- ios of any present minded young woman, this obnox- day) entitled, “Men and relationships.” This cartoon depicts— lifestyles editor and therefore promotes—a cavalier attitude toward domestic vi- [email protected] iously heteronormative cartoon actually suggests that the so-called rational male mind’s response to the so- olence. The illustration suggests that it is normal (and amusing) called irrational woman (which so niggles him) is that for men to think with regularity about killing their girlfriends. SIERRA MANNIE he empirically determines the best course of action is The joke, if we can call it that, is supposed to derive from the opinion editor to actually murder that woman. This cartoon mocks compartmentalization of the average man’s conflicting motiva- [email protected] the pain of women (and really anyone else that has ever tions in a relationship. The penis — which is curiously not de- been threatened by domestic violence) and insults any picted, as though that would be the offensive part of this cartoon CADY HERRING man that has ever held himself to a higher standard. It — objectifies a woman who is ostensibly not in the relationship. photography editor reduces men to a compartmentalized network of cogni- The heart wants to “love” and “protect” the woman, which is at [email protected] tive, emotive, and sexual impulses, and diminishes the odds with the brain that wants to “kill her and never get another functions of each to efforts of violence, paternalism, and one.” objectification. The implication is that the most rational part of a man is driv- RACHEL GHOLSON Perhaps I should thank your deft judgment and this en to kill his girlfriend. He has to fight this urge on a regular ALLI MOORE artist’s wry wit for so perfectly illustrating the point basis.