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THE DAILY FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2018 | VOLUME 107, NO. 23 MISSISSIPPIAN THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI | SERVING OLE MISS AND OXFORD SINCE 1911 VITTER TO CONSIDER REMOVAL OF MEEK’S NAME MAGNOLIA BOWL The Council of Academic Administrators voted to remove the SHOWDOWN name of Ed Meek from the School of Journalism and New Media Ole Miss Football after the Graduate and Undergraduate Councils both voted heads to Baton to do so. The proposal now heads to Chancellor Jeffrey Vitter, Rouge to face who will decide whether or not to make a recommendation Louisiana State to the state Institutions of Higher Learning Board of Trustees, University which will have the final vote to remove the name. SEE PAGE 8 SEE THEDMONLINE.COM FOR CONTINUING COVERAGE UM community reacts to Kavanaugh hearing PHOTO COURTESY: AP | ANDREW HARNIK, POOL PHOTO COURTESY: JIM BOURG, ABACA, SIPA USA (SIPA VIA AP IMAGES) Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is sworn in to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, who accused U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of a sexual assault, is Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday. sworn in to testify before a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing for Kavanaugh on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday. Kavanaugh and senators, both “The details of that night — that Thursday. He said there is a “frenzy JORDAN HOLMAN Democrat and Republican, during bring me here today — have been on the left” to block his confirmation. [email protected] the hearing, which is part of his U.S. seared into my memory, and (they As the hearing came to a close Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Supreme Court confirmation process. have) haunted me episodically as an Thursday evening, the Ole Miss Kavanaugh delivered emotional This past summer, Ford wrote adult,” Ford recalled before the Senate history department hosted a Gender testimonies before the Senate a letter to a senior Democratic Judiciary Committee on Thursday. History Pop-Up in Bishop Hall Judiciary Committee on Thursday, lawmaker, U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Kavanaugh upheld his rejection of featuring a discussion centered regarding Ford’s allegations that in which she outlined how Kavanaugh Ford’s allegations during Thursday’s around the hearings and other topics Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her assaulted her more than three decades hearing. like the #MeToo movement. more than 30 years ago. ago during their time as high school “This has destroyed my family and students in suburban Maryland. my good name,” Kavanaugh said on Tensions were high between SEE KAVANAUGH PAGE 3 Oxford businesses see decreased sales tax revenue Antonow said. “The state Oxford Sales Tax Revenue for Each Fiscal Year and Percentage Gained or Lost CHRISTIAN OSBORN will receive the revenue, and [email protected] then it will be distributed back to the cities. This won’t 2008 $6,036,322 The 2018 fiscal year happen until the end of the 2009 $5,756,524 4.64 percent loss marked the first time since year, and it will be phased 2010 that sales tax revenue in, gradually.” 2010 $5,464,500 5.07 percent loss collected in Oxford declined. Sales tax for the state The decline is due, in of Mississippi is seven 2011 $5,822,718 6.56 percent gain part, to the rise of online percent. Under the new shopping, according to law, 18 percent of sales tax 2012 $6,479,753 11.28 percent gain Oxford Alderwoman Janice revenue collected will be 2013 $7,069,861 9.11 percent gain Antonow. She said that, redistributed from the state before the recent enacting back to its cities. 2014 $7,457,265 5.19 percent gain of a state law that allows According to the Mississippi to collect sales Mississippi Office of the State 2015 $8,142,926 8.42 percent gain tax from online retailers, only Auditor, sales tax revenue brick-and-mortar stores were for the city of Oxford totalled 2016 $9,146,938 12.33 percent gain required to pay sales taxes. $9,721,820 for the 2017 $9,721,820 6.28 percent gain “A (state) law was passed fiscal year. In 2018, revenue 2017 where all online purchases do have to be taxed,” 2018 $9,679,239 .44 percent loss SEE REVENUE PAGE 3 GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATION: HAYDEN BENGE PAGE 2 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 28 SEPTEMBER 2018 OPINION THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN EDITORIAL STAFF: SLADE RAND editor-in-chief [email protected] DEVNA BOSE managing editor [email protected] DAVID NOWICKI copy chief [email protected] BLAKE ALSUP news editor TAYLOR VANCE BRITTANY BROWN assistant news editors [email protected] JUSTIN DIAL sports editor BEN MILLER assistant sports editor [email protected] CHRISTIAN JOHNSON photography editor [email protected] LIAM NIEMAN COLUMN arts & culture editor ELIZA NOE assistant arts & culture editor When oppression runs dry [email protected] We have a long history of illustrates the direct involvement? According to HAYDEN BENGE bias in the United States. correlation of parental income Alexander, the difference does design editor Our skepticism of skewed and higher standardized test not come from the intellectual [email protected] representational statistics scores. Are the children of superiority of higher- in any situation seems well the rich simply just more income students versus their ETHEL MWEDZIWENDIRA founded. There must be intelligent? Not exactly. lower-income counterparts. opinion and design editor prejudice involved. Right? There is a significant Much more important is [email protected] As our awareness of bias correlation between income how students spend their becomes more institutionalized and test scores from summers. Alexander’s study and our mechanisms for kindergarten through high determined that continual SARAH HENDERSON selection become less corrupt, school. However, it isn’t educational stimulation online editor the disparity between exactly clear that income throughout summer breaks [email protected] participants and their group has much to do with it. was much more impactful IVANA NGUYEN JOSH BAKER representation requires a Karl Alexander, a sociology when determining educational social media editor [email protected] much deeper level of study. professor at Johns Hopkins testing achievement and [email protected] Blind auditions for orchestral University, reached a different postgraduate success. When positions started eliminating conclusion in his 2007 study examining the school year Bias is often the assumption ADVERTISING selection bias in the 1950s. titled “Lasting Consequences of gains in testing ability, made when a controversial SALES MANAGER What about today? A modern the Summer Learning Gap.” surprisingly, the middle- story or an uncomfortable Rebecca Brown example of this is the same “We find that cumulative income students took a slight study that points to a [email protected] “blind” effect of women’s (testing) achievement gains lead over both high- and low- supposedly clear narrative participation in chess. The over the first nine years of income testers. emerges. Occasionally, it is proliferation of online ratings children’s schooling mainly Complex entities like SALES ACCOUNT what it appears to be: prejudice for the highest levels of chess reflect school-year learning, America’s education system EXECUTIVES disguised as objectivity. would seemingly eliminate whereas the high (income)– aren’t single-variable issues. Sofi Ash Take the 1896 Supreme the underrepresentation of low (income) achievement gap They contain hundreds, if not Cameron Collins Court ruling in Plessy vs. female players. However, at ninth grade mainly traces to thousands, of moving parts — Ferguson, which affirmed Sam Dethrow an inverse effect happened. differential summer learning each easily capable of tearing public segregation in the Isaiah Pugh Men still are overwhelmingly over the elementary years. down the entire structure. court’s worst ruling in history. Michael Rackers overrepresented in the top 100 These early out-of-school When dealing with such Interracial marriage remained global chess rankings. summer learning differences, volatile and complex problems, illegal until 1967, with the What about educational in turn, substantially account it is important that we leave S. GALE DENLEY stigma lasting much longer. On opportunities? Statistically, for achievement-related ideology at the door. Maturity STUDENT MEDIA CENTER the other hand, gender bias in and by perception of the differences by family’s must become the most valuable hiring decisions has also been PATRICIA THOMPSON public, higher-income socioeconomic status in high tool in our modern landscape. slow to evaporate, requiring Assistant Dean/Student Media students typically dominate school track placements extraordinary measures — Daily Mississippian Faculty standardized testing scores (college preparatory or not), Josh Baker is a junior such as blind auditions for Adviser and are far more likely to high school noncompletion and economics and mathematics professional orchestras — to attend college. The New four-year college attendance.” major from Houston, Texas. result in higher levels of York Times published a story So, what is to blame? successful female candidates. in 2009 which graphically Income? 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