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University of Mississippi eGrove Daily Mississippian Journalism and New Media, School of 9-21-2016 September 21, 2016 The Daily Mississippian Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline Recommended Citation The Daily Mississippian, "September 21, 2016" (2016). Daily Mississippian. 1013. https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline/1013 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Journalism and New Media, School of at eGrove. It has been accepted for inclusion in Daily Mississippian by an authorized administrator of eGrove. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Wednesday, September 21, 2016 THE DAILY Volume 105, No. 22 THEMISSISSIPPIAN STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SERVING OLE MISS AND OXFORD SINCE 1911 Visit theDMonline.com @thedm_news WHAT’S INSIDE... Guest columnists Mac Miller’s ‘The Divine Isaac Gross hopes to weigh in on the legacy of Feminine’ is not a party album help get the Rebels back the past but a journey of love on track SEE OPINION PAGE 2 SEE LIFESTYLES PAGE 4 SEE SPORTS PAGE 8 Students celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month Final diversity applicant interviews SLADE RAND [email protected] Memphis-born Katrina My- ers Caldwell is excited for the chance to come back home South. She’s spent her last 24 years above the Mason-Dixon line, teaching classes and managing programs at universities across Illinois. Now she wants to be the first Vice Chancellor for Diversity and Community Engagement here at Ole Miss. Caldwell is the last candidate to interview for the position. Caldwell is the assistant vice-president for diversity and equity at Northern Illinois Uni- versity, where she’s been since 2012. Before that, she direct- ed the Center for Intercultural Programs and Adult Student Affairs at DePaul University in Chicago. As she started her presenta- tion, Caldwell defined the words in her own job title. A lot of the time, she said, PHOTOS BY: ARIEL COBBERT broad terms like “equity” and “diversity” can lose their mean- As a part of Hispanic Heritage Month, the Center of Inclusion and Cross Cultural Engagement hosts Latin Dancing with the Stars on the Union Plaza Tuesday. Left: Salsa instruc- tor, Ari Mukherjee shows Abby Thorpe a few moves. Right: After learning a few basic steps, students from the salsa instructors pair up. SEE DIVERSITY PAGE 3 Bursar saves money by reducing printed statements SAMANTHA WHITTLE Ratliff said. “We have been [email protected] actively working on it since January and were finally able The Office of the Bursar to inform everyone about the has decided to no longer mail change in late spring and of- Paper Statements monthly paper bill statements ficially ‘go live’ over the sum- P to students’ mailing addresses. mer.” ostage The transition officially went According to Ratliff, the site into effect July 1, and students required a lot of testing in or- are encouraged to use the link der to make it simple and con- in their monthly email state- sistent across all platforms. ments from the Bursar’s Office “With any project, challeng- to pay their tuition and fees es are expected,” Provence online. said. “No problems that were The online statement site unexpected occurred with this was created by Bursar Edward project during the develop- Ratliff and senior technical ar- ment phase. With the prop- chitect Chris Provence, along er planning and the timeline with a team of people from we had for the project, it was each department within the not as difficult as we initially Bursar’s Office. thought it would be.” “We have been talking for UP TO PER MONTH years about starting e-bills,” SEE BURSAR 20,000 $2,000 PAGE 3 GRAPHIC BY: MARISA MORRISSETTE OPINION THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 21 SEPTEMBER 2016 | PAGE 2 GUEST COLUMN GUEST COLUMN Liberals denied the spirit UM should acknowledge of America before Trump its use of slave labor The old times here are not forgotten, yet of- ty of liberty. ALLEN COON JULIA GRANT ficial histories omit our university’s relation- Seriously? You can hardly talk [email protected] [email protected] ship with the peculiar institution of slavery. about our nation’s history without In 1848 the Mississippi Legislature char- Our buildings and halls honor white suprem- choking and spitting out disdain for tered the University of Mississippi – an insti- acy and its adherents, including slaveholders A series of events over the past few our “rich white” founding fathers. And tution “founded originally,” as UM Chancel- Lamar, Longstreet, and Barnard, and segre- years have left some Americans clutch- you want to criticize Trump’s follow- lor John Newton Waddel stated in 1870, “for gationists Paul B. Johnson Jr. and Trent Lott; ing our flags and nervously humming ing for refusing to acknowledge the the education of the white race.” This campus but UM has forgotten Jane, Marcus, and “The Star-Spangled Banner.” grandeur of a country whose reputa- prohibited blackness till James Meredith Martin, the “college negroes.” Whether it was students at the Uni- tion you have unabashedly attempted forcibly integrated UM, but our university The legacy of University of Mississippi versity of California, Irvine voting to to tarnish? was built upon the backs of enslaved Afri- is rooted in enslavement and exploitation, take down the flag or a professor at Republicans have never mourned can-Americans. but we have an obligation to build a future the University of New Hampshire the foundational values of the coun- All but one of UM’s original thirteen Board founded on principles of reconciliation and deeming the term “American” offen- try and Constitution we have fought of Trustee members owned slaves, and ac- healing. As an institution of higher learning, sive, patriots across the nation have so terribly to preserve. If you want cording to 1850 census data, they collectively our university must confront the dark truths broken out in cold, indignant sweats to talk lovingly of the Republic, we’re owned over 700 people. The Board of Trust- of our past, and attempt to atone. This pro- as they watch their country be sub- all ears. But no one likes a two-faced ees minutes indicate that local slaveholders, cess of soul-searching will raise difficult and jected to irrational demonization. opportunist — and the ridiculousness including Robert Sheegog, Jacob Thompson, complex questions: How can the University Their frustration culminated in a of being divided over something we J.E. Market, and unnamed others, leased of Mississippi reconcile its sins? What is the campaign founded on reactionary agree on borders on humor. Make up slaves to the university to assist in early debt that this institution owes? What steps fury, one that calls desperately and your minds. land-clearing and construction efforts. Slave must be taken to repay that debt? To whom decisively to “Make America Great If you’re ashamed to be an Ameri- labor built the Lyceum, the Croft Institute is that debt owed? What answers we may Again.” can, and you think Trump is the per- (formerly the Old Chapel), and the Barnard find will be controversial and painful. Yet UM The lure of this particular slogan is fect concoction of everything that is Observatory. University Presidents Augus- has a unique responsibility to its communi- not particularly elusive or erroneous wrong with the majority in this coun- tus B. Longstreet (10), Frederick A.P. Bar- ty and its students to publicly acknowledge — rather, it is the inevitable release of try, fess up — do not suddenly come nard (2), and John Waddel (7) owned slaves, and address the university’s relationship with citizens’ ragged rage of their country back with your head held high, trying and the 1860 Federal Census Slave Schedule slavery, and rectify the wrongs perpetrated being stripped away, piece by piece. to distract us from the tail between shows UM faculty members owned a total of against African Americans by the university. And yet, now the Left wishes to de- your legs. ride the spirit of Trump’s campaign by 118 slaves. Acts of violence and abuse against slaves were not uncommon: UM records ref- Allen Coon is a double major in public pol- pledging earnestly, dearly, sincerely Julia Grant is a public policy lead- erence the sexual assault of Jane, a female icy leadership and African American studies that this country is the best on Earth, ership and journalism major from and you, sir, are an insult to the beau- slave, in 1860, and “college negros” were fre- from Petal. Gulfport. quently beat and whipped. EDITORIAL STAFF: ADVERTISING PATRICIA THOMPSON The Daily Mississippian is published Monday CLARA TURNAGE LANA FERGUSON SALES MANAGER Assistant Dean, Student through Friday during the academic year, on days when classes are scheduled. editor-in-chief managing editor Ben Napoletan Media and Daily Mississippian [email protected] [email protected] Faculty Adviser [email protected] Contents do not represent the official opinions S. 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