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Tuesday, February 23, 2016 THE DAILY Volume 104, No. 90 THE STUDENTMISSISSIPPIAN NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SERVING OLE MISS AND OXFORD SINCE 1911 Visit theDMonline.com @thedm_news lifestyles sports sports Katy Simpson at Finally, a place Diamond Square Books for Lance Rebels to host today Stephenson Arkansas State Page 7 Page 6 Page 8 Hundreds remember Ty Laporte at memorial service Monday “The stories were the ones where the lights were off. Ty was real. She was honest.” -Coach Steven McRoberts “She had a knack for knowing people better than they did. She was herself 100 percent of the time and we loved you for it.” - Taylor Alexander sophomore, volleyball teammate “This was her family. She supported us. She protected us. She saw what people could really be and she pushed people to it. When someone believes in you that much you have to start be- lieving in yourself.” -Melanie Crow junior, volleyball teammate PHOTO: CAMERON BROOKS Several hundred people attended a celebration of student-athlete Ty Laporte’s life Monday in the Pavilion including athletes from multiple teams, students, school faculty and the Mississippi State volleyball team. The service opened with a three-song tribute by the UM Gospel Choir followed by “She ran toward the battle, she ran toward life. a reading of Laporte’s favorite scriptures by former Ole Miss basketball player and coach, Peggie Gillom-Granderson. She was a fighter. The quintessential rebel.” Athletics Director Ross Bjork, Volleyball Head Coach Steven McRoberts and Laporte’s teammates all spoke to Laporte’s memory. McRoberts wrote a poem about Laporte which he recited during his tribute which can be found at thedmonline.com. The service ended with a video with highlights -Ross Bjork from Laporte’s track and volleyball careers at Ole Miss. “This has reminded me of past Rebels that we’ve lost,” Bjork said. “One of Chucky Mullins’ teammates said that anyone who crossed his path never left the same. Anyone who crossed Ty’s path will never leave the same.” ALEXIS NEELY display until 1 p.m. today in the ed many more recent pervading [email protected] Union. cultural issues. Sankofa is a word of the Twi lan- “Had we shown our young boys sankofa guage of the West African country and young men the shackles that As an African-American of Ghana meaning “go back and were worn during slavery, they woman in her 60s, Jen- get it.” With artifacts and memo- would not be shackled the way nings said she has lived the rabilia tracing from the year 1860 they are in prison cells today,” struggle that today’s youth to the present, historian and cura- Jennings said. “Those are the know nothing about. She tor of the museum Angela W. Jen- very same shackles used during African decided to bring it to the nings has done just that. slavery. Teach them the struggle. forefront with the San- “The public school systems just Show them the struggle.” kofa African-Amer- American don’t do it justice,” Jennings said. Jennings’ desire to share such ican Museum on “I figured somebody has to do it knowledge resulted in her travel Wheels. The muse- justice and that’s why I decided to of the world, acquiring relics along um will be on Museum do this museum.” the way that possess historical and Jennings’ interest in shedding cultural significance to African on Wheels light upon the struggle of Afri- Americans and their journey from can-Americans peaked when slavery, to the Civil Rights move- she realized she did not want her ment, to the creation of inventions nephew to graduate from high and goods that would eventually school with no knowledge of self. be used on a daily basis by people She said she believes teaching all over. youth about the struggles their an- ILLUSTRATION BY: CAROLINE CALLAWAY cestors faced could have eliminat- SEE SANKOFA PAGE 3 opinion PAGE 2 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 23 FEBRUARY 2016 | 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 LANA FERGUSON news editors [email protected] LIZZIE MCINTOSH assistant news editor COLLIN BRISTER sports editor [email protected] BRIAN SCOTT RIPPEE assistant sports editor [email protected] ZOE MCDONALD MCKENNA WIERMAN lifestyles editors [email protected] HOLLY BAER opinion editor [email protected] ILLUSTRATION BY: CARA KEYSER ARIEL COBBERT CAMERON BROOKS photography editors COLUMN [email protected] CAROLINE CALLAWAY design editor From one white person to another: Stop ASHLEY GAMBLE TAYLOR MOORE think about how unfairly he or of this center may be common being unruly or had illegal online editor [email protected] she was treated. Think about knowledge, but if you’re like contraband. And even if they how you wouldn’t want to be in me and have been living under were disorderly or had drugs, JAKE THRASHER the situation that he or she de- a rock, you didn’t know about why do we believe that those CARA KEYSER It’s time to sit down and scribed. Think back on a time it until recently. If you are in- actions and possessions merit illustrators shut up. It’s time to close our in which you went through terested in an event, but don’t murder? mouths and use our eyes and something that other people want to go alone, email me and We need to reflect on our own ears. It’s time to not make ev- ADVERTISING STAFF: dismissed, you were called a I will happily go with you. behaviors behind closed doors, erything about ourselves. It’s liar or were told that you were This is not an attack on white and consider if we have partic- EVAN MILLER time to stop saying “all lives just weak. people. This is a call for empa- ipated in any of the behaviors advertising sales manager matter” in response to hearing Second, educate yourself on thy. that are used by police officers [email protected] “black lives matter.” We are your privileges and the oppres- Believe; don’t deny. Listen; as justifications of murdering white and we have an enor- sion that people of color expe- don’t ignore. Learn about the people of color. Have you ever CARY ALLEN mous amount of privilege and rience. This has been difficult struggles of other races. We jaywalked, shoplifted or got- BEN NAPOLETAN power, and it’s time to recog- for me; how do I understand must stop thinking that racism ten high? If you answered yes DANIELLE RANDALL nize that. something that I have never doesn’t exist. We have to admit to any of those, do you believe PIERRE WHITESIDE I would like to ask a few experienced? What has helped that we experience less pov- that you deserved to die in any account executives things of the white people me and inspired me to write erty, less police brutality and of those instances? GRACE BAIRD reading this. this piece was attending a dia- fewer hardships on average. If you really do think that all MADELEINE DEAR First, develop better listen- logue called “Black Lives Mat- We need to recognize that peo- lives matter, start acting like it. ROBERT LOCKARD ing skills. Don’t take it as a ter vs. All Lives Matter” that ple of color are stopped, arrest- Practice what you preach. ELLEN SPIES personal attack when you read was sponsored by the Black ed and killed by police officers or hear about a black person’s creative designers Student Union and the Center at a much higher rate than we Taylor Moore is a junior ge- account of a racist incident. for Inclusion and Cross Cultur- are. We need to stop assum- ology major from El Sobrante, Don’t assume he or she is ly- S. 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