University of Mississippi eGrove Daily Mississippian 9-11-2019 September 11, 2019 The Daily Mississippian Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline Recommended Citation The Daily Mississippian, "September 11, 2019" (2019). Daily Mississippian. 7. https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline/7 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by eGrove. It has been accepted for inclusion in Daily Mississippian by an authorized administrator of eGrove. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE Daily MISSISSIPPIAN Wednesday, September 11, 2019 theDMonline.com Volume 108, No. 7 Before Faulkner Research details lives of enslaved people from the 1860s ARE WE WITNESSING A LANDSHARK DFEFENSE REVIVAL? The Rebel defense has been a surprising strength in Ole Miss’s first two games of the season.. SEE PAGE 5 BAD EDDY’S Bad Eddy’s is also a cultural hub where gamers and ‘nerds’ of all types can feel comfortable. SEE PAGE 3 MCKENZIE RICHMOND / THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN Evidence of slaves was found at Rowan Oak. Nobel Prize winner, William Faulkner, lived at Rowan Oak most of his life. MCKENZIE RICHMOND [email protected] New research has revealed details of the lives of An outbuilding that served as a smokehouse during enslaved people that lived at Rowan Oak, which would the Faulkner era once stood as a slave quarter for a later become the home of writer William Faulkner. third-generation cotton plantation owner, Robert Shee- 18 YEARS LATER, WE The findings are a result of an ongoing, multi-phase gog, in the 1840s. CANNOT FORGET research project conducted by the University of Missis- “The only reason it’s there today is because Faulkner “The American spirit sippi Slavery Research Group (UMSRG). bought the property, but the building has a much longer has proven it is stronger Following work to archive the history of enslaved history that really has nothing to do with Faulkner,” than any external threat,” people at Monticello, home of Thomas Jefferson, and Anne Twitty, a leadership team member of the UMSRG the Hermitage, home of Anderew Jackson, the UMSRG and associate professor of antebellum America and slav- writes opinion columnist conducted a preliminary dig at Rowan Oak in the fall Lauren Moses. of 2016 to begin the first phase of their archaeological SEE ROWAN OAK PAGE 8 SEE OPINION, PAGE 7 survey to uncover evidence of slave life. Greek Night of Worship opens to all wanted to break that stigma. ties have hosted Greek Nights KENNETH NIEMEYER “The idea for the guy who of Worship in the past, but [email protected] was running it was to get in changed the name to Ole Miss touch with all of the Greek Night of Worship this year to Some might consider a presidents and sort of invite attract people from outside the fraternity house backyard them there because they are Greek system as well. decorated with a basketball big platforms and because the The night included a goal and a large SEC logo Greek culture has a pretty bad student-led praise band, a painted on the ground to be reputation,” Narmour said. sermon by Narmour, who an unusual place for a Chris- “There’s a lot of people that is the associate pastor at tian church service. are not in fraternities or soror- Oxford’s Grace Bible Church, But Drew Narmour, who REED JONES / THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN ities that were there, but the and a performance by the UM The Ole Miss Cru band performing at the Greek Night of Worship. preached at the year’s first idea was to start with those big Ole Miss Night of Worship on platforms.” Greek organizations on campus sponsored a night of worship on Sunday, said event organizers SEE WORSHIP PAGE 2 Sunday. Fraternities and sorori- PAGE 2 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 11 SEPTEMBER 2019 multiple campus ministries of the Italian people, whom WORSHIP together for a single service. he called “un-reached,” and continued from page 1 “I think we just have a lot of said that Jesus had to do some students here that really want “pretty miraculous things to to reach out to others in their reach those people.” Gospel Choir. faith and so this is just a good “Hardly any (Italian) Event organizer and Alpha way to do something on campus people go to church anymore,” Tau Omega President Stuart where we get to invite people Narmour said. “In my experi- Gunner reached out to other from a ton of different groups ence, I’ve been there six times, Greek leaders and students to and get to come together under you can walk up to 10 people, help organize the event, which one name,” senior public policy and all 10 will say either, ‘I go he hopes will continue in the major Sloane Reid said. to church once a year’ or ‘I don’t future. He estimated that there Narmour’s sermon focused even think about it at all.’” were several hundred people in on Mark 7:24-30, a verse from Narmour also cited an the backyard of the ATO house. the Bible where Jesus speaks encounter he had in Italy “This is something that with the woman before expel- in which he ministered to we’d love to start being once a ling a demon from her child’s a student who converted to semester,” Gunner said. “They body. Narmour used the verse Christianity as an example of took last semester off, and it as an example of God reaching Jesus reaching out to people was something that was on a out to people in ways that they through unusual circum- lot of our hearts to bring back might not understand. stances. because we think it’s definitely “The sooner we get rid of the The UM Gospel Choir ended a positive for the Ole Miss idea that Jesus is never going the night with performances of community to have a night to to say anything that makes us “Melodies From Heaven” and come together like this and uncomfortable, the better,” “How Great Is Our God.” really just spend some time Narmour said. “We’re singing our melodies together.” Narmour said that people from heaven, and we want God REED JONES / THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN Students in attendance said sometimes find their ways to to rain down on us,” UM Gospel that they were glad to have Students worshipping at the Greek Night of Worship on Sunday. This faith through strange circum- Choir member Kejuan Hudson a single event that brought was the first year that non-Greek students were invited. stances. He used the example said. different student groups and Law school students visit Emmett Till memorial in Sumner District Judge Smith Murphey restorations to mirror the way MASON SCIONEAUX and the directors of the Emmett it appeared when Till’s trial [email protected] Till Interpretive Center. happened in 1955. In 2007, the In 2007, more than 50 years county courthouse was listed The Ole Miss School of Law after Till’s murder, the town of on the National Register of chartered a bus to Sumner Sumner issued a resolution of Historic Places. on Friday, to visit the Talla- apology to the Till family for “No field trip can rectify hatchie County Courthouse miscarriage of justice. Those what happened, but I think and Emmett Till Interpre- in attendance on Friday read this is one effort,” Duncan said. tive Museum. The visit came the full 414-word resolution, in “But if this in response to the photo of the same courtroom where his is all we do, it won’t three Kappa Alpha fraternity murderers were acquitted. be nearly enough. This is, members holding firearms Part of the resolution read: however, a strong symbolic act, at the river site sign, which “We the citizens of Talla- to visit this site. But it must be made national headlines this hatchie County believe that followed with actions.” summer. racial reconciliation begins Kathryn Simmons, an Afri- Susan Duncan, law school with telling the truth…We the can American first-year law dean, said that the purpose citizens of Tallahatchie County student at Ole Miss, said that of the visit was to educate acknowledge the horrific visiting the location where students to make them contin- nature of this crime. Its legacy Till was murdered gave her ually aware of events like that MASON SCIONEAUX / THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN has haunted our community. perspective. of the Till murder and to show The Sumner Courthouse is where the original trial for Emmett Till took We need to understand the “For me, it gives me a how derogatory the photo was. system that encouraged these place,” Simmons said. “It “I think it’s very important place. The Emmett Till memorial sign has been repeatedly vandalized. events and others like them makes a place for people to not for law students especially,” to occur so that we can ensure just be visible, but visible in a Duncan said. “(They) will be out of a negative situation, and occurred. Bryant and Milam that it never happens again. light that shows their truth and the leaders in their communi- I thought this was a step that later confessed to the crime in Working together, we have the their story, which is something ties and should be leaders on would help us do that.” 1956. power now to fulfill the prom- I can appreciate.” campus, so they can have an The students visited the In the courtroom, law ise of ‘liberty and justice for For more information open dialogue with each other second-floor courtroom of the students heard, in detail, the all.’” regarding the courthouse and about how we can make sure Tallahatchie County Court- story of the courthouse and Beginning in 2006 and the interpretive museum, visit things change.