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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 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2019 | VOLUME 107, NO. 72 MISSISSIPPIAN THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI | SERVING OLE MISS AND OXFORD SINCE 1911 Protesting the protest: Students respond to rally

‘Don’t give them a reaction. “Once you give people the DEVNA BOSE GRACE MARION Don’t give them the atten- infrastructure to offer up a [email protected] tion. Don’t give them the voice and counterargument, satisfaction.’ But I think, they’ll jump on,” Pipes said. Students and community after a point, (the neo-Con- He said the counterpro- members have organized a federate groups) are doing testers and protesters will counterprotest against the this not necessarily to get be separated by a 150-foot rally planned by Confederate a reaction or to get a rise “buffer zone” and that the 901 and the Hiwaymen. The out of people,” Pipes said. counterprotesters plan to counterprotest’s leader plans “They’re doing this because leave the Circle in an orderly for the march to be just as they feel safe.” manner. large as the pro-Confederate There are currently 59 “We designed the stag- protest on Saturday. people marked as planning gered exit to avoid actual Will Pipes, the organizer to attend the counterprotest physical contact with them,” of the counterprotest and a on the event’s Facebook page he said. senior marketing major, said and 195 marked as interest- Other student organiza- the counterprotest will oc- ed in attending. There are 89 tions have scheduled similar cur in the Circle on campus people marked as planning events ahead of both the to attend the Confederate neo-Confederate rally and from 2:30 until 3:30 p.m. on FILE PHOTO: CHRISTIAN JOHNSON Saturday. 901 protest and 352 marked The monument honoring Confederate veterans was dedicated by citizens of “I understand the ideal of as interested. SEE PROTESTS PAGE 5 Lafayette County and installed on the UM campus in 1906. Honors College Convocation Students Against Social Injustice relocates conference time to adhere to university GRIFFIN NEAL policies. [email protected] In a phone call with The Daily Mississippian on Monday Circumstances surround- afternoon, SASI secretary Em ing the relocation of Students Gill said the organization had Against Social Injustice’s “Unit- been planning the event since ed Students Against Sweat- August 2018 and that it was shops” national conference only recently canceled after the have shifted considerably in the university placed “limitations” last week. on the group’s event. SASI officers initially planned “Two weeks ago, the (uni- to host a conference at the versity) administration placed Jackson Avenue Center this some last-minute limitations on weekend in coordination with our group that would prevent the national group USAS, at the convention from proceeding which attendees would “build as planned,” Gill said. organizing skills, connect with However, in a phone call late student organizers and workers Monday night, SASI president and support (their) campaign Quay Williams attributed the against confederate iconogra- cancellation and subsequent phy,” according to SASI. relocation of their conference to Student officers originally a logistical error. said the conference was being SASI started advertising their moved because of disagree- event on the USAS web page ments with the University of in mid-November. However, Mississippi’s restrictions on the they never officially registered event, but university officials PHOTO: PARKER GALLOWAY later said SASI officers did not Ole Miss professor of Southern studies and sociology Brian Foster delivers the keynote speech at the Honors College spring SEE SASI PAGE 4 convocation last night. Foster sought to encourage an informal atmosphere and concentrate on remembering the past and file the proper paperwork in the present.

MASON SCIONEAUX College spring convocation and his college years. [email protected] last night at the Gertrude He ended each refrain C. Ford Center. He asked with, “I remember. I prom- students to think deeply “Fill up your jukebox with ise I do,” before challenging about their memories, and the right songs and just let it audience members to keep his Jukebox-themed speech play,” Brian Foster said. track of their own memories. followed his doctoral and Foster, a university South- “Always remember how current research on the Mis- ern studies and sociology things are now,” he said. sissippi Delta. professor who graduated “Never forget how they used Foster began his speech from the Sally McDonnell to be. I’m here to say one by reminiscing about his FILE PHOTO: SEMAJ JORDAN Barksdale Honors College thing, just one thing: that childhood, growing up in Members of Students Against Social Injustice march on campus Nov. 28, 2018, in 2011, served as keynote Mississippi, his adolescence demanding that administration remove the Confederate statue in the Circle. speaker for the Honors SEE HOCO PAGE 3 PAGE 2 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 20 FEBRUARY 2019 OPINION

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MEGAN SWARTZFAGER copy chief [email protected] TAYLOR VANCE news editor HADLEY HITSON GRIFFIN NEAL assistant news editors [email protected] JUSTIN DIAL sports editor JOSH CLAYTON assistant sports editor [email protected] CHRISTIAN JOHNSON photography editor KATHERINE BUTLER assistant photography editor [email protected] COLUMN LIAM NIEMAN arts & culture editor ELIZA NOE assistant arts & culture editor We must counterprotest in support of justice [email protected] at other critical moments. top. They are willing to use the brilliant white radical HAYDEN BENGE The idea of “waiting out violence to protect their said, is the man who leaves design editor the storm” is reassuring and self-image as well as their the meeting when the fight [email protected] relaxing. However, it is based privilege. They are afraid of begins. … Empathy: it is this ETHEL MWEDZIWENDIRA on an inaccurate premise. being exposed as impotent that divides radicals and opinion and design editor Counterprotesting on be- and incorrect. liberals. Radicals suffer with [email protected] half of justice, equality and Therefore, it is especial- the oppressed. They feel the solidarity does not endanger ly important that they be blows, they weep, they hun- SARAH HENDERSON our community's safety; that exposed. Allowing them to ger, they thirst. ... They try in multimedia editor safety will be violated the sec- march unchallenged means words that are 'half-battles,' ANNIE SHARP ond the groups come, whether forfeiting the opportunity to to quote Wendell Phillips, to online editor counterprotesters are present directly confront their hatred. force good people to rec- [email protected] JAZ BRISACK or not. They will certainly not In Washington, D.C., Atlanta ognize their complicity in IVANA NGUYEN [email protected] “pass quietly and quickly.” and elsewhere, anti-fascist systems of evil.” social media editor Rev. William Barber, ar- resistance to fascist rallies We are complicit in the evil [email protected] This article is in response to chitect of the modern Poor has resulted in low or even of the Hiwaymen and Confed- ‘Let’s wait for this storm to People's Campaign, has said no turnout among the latter erate 901 if we do not con- ADVERTISING pass’ published on Feb. 18. that we are in the midst of groups. Thus, protesting is front them. It is not enough SALES MANAGER a “Third Reconstruction.” not “giving them what they to hide. It is absolutely neces- Rebecca Brown Have you ever wondered The first two periods of the want;” rather, it has been sary to take a stand. [email protected] what you would have done Reconstruction — the peri- proven to deter them. Because if this is neither during the great conflicts of od following the end of the I urge those debating the time nor place to fight, SALES ACCOUNT history? Whether you would Civil War and the civil rights whether or not to counterpro- what is? You can't hide from EXECUTIVES have gone to Harpers Ferry movement of the 1960s — test to consider the words of Nazis and KKK terrorists Cameron Collins with John Brown or urged were met with eruptions of Lerone Bennett Jr., a Missis- today and then somehow Sam Dethrow “law and order?” Whether you backlash and violence from sippian and editor of Ebony emerge tomorrow to “fight Isaiah Pugh would have marched across white people afraid that Af- Magazine, written in 1964. against white supremacy” Michael Rackers the Edmund Pettus Bridge rican-Americans demanding He was urging white people once the white supremacists Morgan Stone or read about it later in the rights would result in the loss to take radical action rather have gone home. In this papers? Whether you would of white power and privilege. than hemming and hawing, context, the words of Hillel S. GALE DENLEY have walked a picket line with Similarly, the white su- which he called the “liberal” (aptly used in the 1960s by STUDENT MEDIA CENTER the United Farm Workers premacists who will march course of action. John Lewis) seem particularly or eaten lettuce and grapes on Saturday are protesting “The white liberal is the appropriate: “If not us, who? PATRICIA THOMPSON despite the boycott? increased rights and repre- man who was not there in If not now, when?” Assistant Dean/Student Media This weekend, neo-Confed- sentation. They are invested Montgomery and Little Rock GREG BROCK erates will march in Oxford. in their own incorrect per- and Birmingham; the white Jaz Brisack is a general Daily Mississippian Editorial What you do or don't do this ception of history, a histo- liberal is the man who was studies major from Oxford. Adviser weekend is as defining as ry in which, they believe, never there,” he said. “The what others did or didn't do they rightfully come out on liberal, as Saul Alinsky, FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA The Daily Mississippian is published Mondays, Wednesdays, THE DAILY Thursdays and Fridays in print during the academic year, on THE DM NEWS TWITTER MISSISSIPPIAN days when classes are scheduled. New content is published @thedm_news online seven days a week. S. Gale Denley Student Media Center Columns do not represent the official opinions of The THE DM SPORTS TWITTER 201 Bishop Hall, University of Mississippi or The Daily Mississippian unless @thedm_sports P.O. Box 1848 specifically indicated. University, MS The Daily Mississippian welcomes letters to the editor. THE DM A&C TWITTER 38677-1848 Letters should be e-mailed to [email protected]. @thedm_AandC Main Number: 662.915.5503 Letters should be typed, double-spaced and no longer than Business Hours: Monday-Friday, 300 words. 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He wanted to find what set Foster said he is learning how these people apart and what to tell a story. motivated them. “Coming back to Mississip- Following his graduation pi, as a man of color, takes from the University of Missis- purpose,” he said. “I want to sippi, Foster began pursuing remember just so I can forget, his graduate degrees at the so I can tell stories … that tell University of North Carolina what you’ve done and what at Chapel Hill. In the summer you want told.” of 2014, his research gave Foster then circled back him the opportunity to live in around to his original point: Clarksdale and study the ways remembering. He remarked in which the blues influences that in remembering people and is influenced by the cul- find their purpose and told ture of the Mississippi Delta. the audience never to cease “We have to be able to tell remembering the past. who people are to tell who we Mya Woods, a sophomore are,” he said. biology major, said she loved Foster’s career brought him the authenticity of his speech. back to the University of Mis- “Convocation isn’t always sissippi, where his research like this,” Woods said. “It’s on the blues continues. After normally more formal, more interviewing 316 people for polished. Tonight was raw. It more than 1,000 hours in a was awesome.” variety of settings — from PHOTO: PARKER GALLOWAY An Honors College student asks keynote speaker Brian Foster a question after his speech last night at the Honors College bars to clubs to backyards — spring convocation. tivate the mind and commit HOCO ourselves to the common good,” Sullivan-González continued from page 1 said. “Rare is the occasion when I get to see the Barks- y’all will remember the story.” dale dream come full circle Honors College Dean Dou- and watch our leaders grow glass Sullivan-González in- up and come back to the troduced Foster by speaking state.” about his time as a student Foster, who transferred to and emphasizing the Hon- Ole Miss in 2009, travelled ors College’s commitment in across North Mississippi to preparing the next generation meet young black men with of leaders. hip-hop aspirations for his PROUD PARTNER “We must continue to cul- Honors College dissertation. with OLE MISS DINING Sun.-Wed. 10:30am-Midnight, Thurs.-Sat. 10:30am-2:00am 39166

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Erica McKinley, chief legal tained a letter Tuesday morning SASI officer and general counsel to drafted by three university faculty continued from page 1 the university, disputed SASI’s members calling for the university claims on Tuesday. She said she administration to explain why had neither heard of nor received SASI wasn’t allowed to host their the event with the university. any documents regarding SASI’s conference on campus. Additionally, they did not become conference until Feb. 1. “We demand clarification as a registered student organization “I learned the first time then to why the university has made on campus until February. (Feb. 1) that this convention, it easier for white supremacists “We didn’t know all of the a USAS convention, had been to hold a rally on our campus on logistics that was required to do advertised sometime late No- their own terms, while making all of this,” Williams said. “We vember up until current day,” it nearly impossible for our own didn’t know we would have to do McKinley said. students to host a national confer- all of this paperwork to register McKinley said that although ence centering economic, gender through the university.” SASI was not yet a registered and racial justice,” the letter SASI’s Twitter account sent student organization at the time reads. “The students planning out a tweet Monday afternoon and had not filed the necessary the anti-Confederate march for that read, “The university placed paperwork to hold an event on Feb. 22 are our students. They are some last-minute restrictions on campus, she was willing to work guided by our faculty and staff.” our group specifically that would with the group to help schedule The letter additionally calls prevent our convention from their conference. for the university to cancel the proceeding as planned. Rather “I’m a reasoned person, so Confederate rally. than submit to these, we decided arbitrarily saying ‘no’ because UPD coordinated with leaders to hold the majority of our pro- they failed to comply with uni- from both sides of the protest to gramming in Memphis with the versity policy — while it would ensure elevated law-enforcement support of our local allies there.” have been the right thing to do presence along the route of the According to Stephen Steen- — I was trying to respond to the march and in the Circle, accord- wyk, a SASI member, the realities of where we are. Simply ing to a statement from Chief “last-minute restrictions” placed put, somebody dropped the ball,” Hawkins on Monday, Feb. 18. on SASI’s event concerned the McKinley said. “UPD has met with orga- time, place and manner in which FILE PHOTO: SEMAJ JORDAN McKinley met with Quay nizers of the groups who are they could congregate. Students protest the Confederate monument in the Circle on Nov. 28, 2018. Williams, Troy Nethers from preparing for the marches in an “We were not allowed to USAS, UPD chief Ray Haw- Avenue Center, the time they lines in hopes of going forward effort to create and maintain a demonstrate for any longer than kins and event planners from would be on campus for their with the event. safe environment for all,” read an hour. We had a very strict the Jackson Avenue Center to walking demonstration. (We In an email sent from Nethers the statement. “In addition, we route we would have had to fol- facilitate the scheduling of the discussed), literally, water, coffee to McKinley on Friday, Feb. 15, have shared with leaders of each low. We weren’t allowed to raise event, but the attempts were or tea, and if they needed a laptop Nethers informed the university group the university’s expecta- our voices above a certain point, eventually unsuccessful. or not.” that they would no longer be mov- tions concerning the time, place, and we couldn’t leave from the “I explained to them it’s not “We treated USAS no different- ing forward with their conference and manner of their marches, sidewalk,” Steenwyk said. “Any about their viewpoint. I don’t ly than we treated anyone else,” in Oxford. and university policies address- violation of these designated rules want to get into their messaging,” McKinley said. According to their Twitter page, ing conduct and weapons. This would have meant we were at risk McKinley said. “I wanted to talk McKinley said the univer- SASI still plans on holding a pro- includes a list of items prohibited of immediate termination of our time, place and manner. And we sity offered USAS and SASI a test of “Confederate Glorification” on our campus and university entire convention, which clearly reached agreements about the reduced rate for booking their at 3 p.m. Friday in Lamar Hall. policies regarding weapons.” didn’t seem worth the risk.” time they would be in the Jackson event and agreed to extend dead- The Daily Mississippian ob- Two choices for upscale, affordable living in Oxford

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PROTESTS continued from page 1 Pro-Confederate rally route from the Square to the Circle the counterprotest on Satur- day. Student minority groups are organizing a Black History Month March on Thursday to address the Confederate symbols on campus. “(The march) will be a pertinent reminder of the work that still needs to be done to move our university forward,” an email sent from the Black Student Union to its members read. Students Against Social In- justice is organizing a protest against “Confederate glori- fication” on Friday at 3 p.m. starting at Lamar Hall. The university announced Monday afternoon that it will hold a “Community Con- versation” on Wednesday to address the protests planned for later in the week. Several university administrators of- ILLUSTRATION: MACKENZIE LINNEEN ficials and administrators will versity community, and we chief Ray Hawkins said in an typically brings hundreds “I’m not sure that the light answer students’ and faculty want to provide a supportive announcement on Monday. of prospective students to that Mississippi is painted in members’ questions at the community environment to There are several events campus, is scheduled for the is always correct or flattering, forum regarding the protest. address those concerns.” scheduled for Saturday in same day. but I do think that Oxford has “It is an important educa- The University Police addition to the protests. Oxford Mayor Robyn Tan- the opportunity to show the tional moment for our uni- Department has made prepa- Vice Chancellor of Intercol- nehill expects that the week- rest of the world how great versity community to ad- rations with local and state legiate Athletics Ross Bjork end will be peaceful, consider- Mississippi can be.” dress challenging issues in a law enforcement agencies in will be speaking at a town ing all of the planning that has The Oxford Police Depart- manner that respects freedom advance of the events and hall event at The Manning gone into preparing for it, but ment and Lafayette County of expression,” a statement marches. Center at 12:30 p.m., the Ole still encouraged those present Sheriff’s Office could not be about the event reads. “Fur- “The best thing you can do Miss men’s basketball team to be mindful of their actions. reached for further comment ther, we know these events are to help keep our campus safe will play Georgia at home at “People are watching to see about how they are preparing causing anxiety and concern is to stay away from this area 2:30 p.m. at The Pavilion and how we respond in these types for the rallies on Saturday. among members of our uni- of campus on Saturday,” UPD Junior Preview Day, which of events,” Tannehill said.

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FOOTBALL Luke adds Nix to staff; Sumrall departs for Kentucky the hire, but Virginia Tech JOSHUA CLAYTON confirmed the report on Monday [email protected] morning with a tweet including a statement from head coach It’s one in, one out for the Ole Justin Fuente. Miss defensive coaching staff. “We appreciate the contribu- Linebackers coach Jon Sumrall tions that Tyrone Nix has made to is reportedly leaving Ole Miss our program at Virginia Tech. Our to return to his alma mater, staff wishes Coach Nix and his Kentucky. Sumrall spent three family the very best as he returns seasons at Troy and Tulane before to the state of Mississippi, a place being hired at Ole Miss last sea- where his family owns very deep son. He coached Mohamed Sa- ties,” Fuente said in the state- nogo, who finished fourth in the ment. “I certainly understand SEC in tackles as a sophomore. his desire to return to a place he Sumrall played middle line- considers home as well as the backer at Kentucky and led the opportunity to once again coach Wildcats with 72 tackles in his with his brother at Ole Miss.” FILE PHOTO: CHRISTIAN JOHNSON senior season, in 2005. Tyrone Nix spent one season in Head coach Matt Luke greets fans during the Walk of Champions on Oct. 6, 2018. Luke recently hired Tyrone Nix, who previously worked for Ole Miss football from 2008-11, to serve as a defensive coach. While the loss of Sumrall will Blacksburg, Virginia, serving as be felt, Ole Miss could be replac- the safeties coach for the Hokies ing him with a familiar face with in 2018. Before that, he worked In his first season as the Ole 2009 and has coached some of likely take over those duties while plenty of experience. under Houston Nutt as Ole Miss’s Miss defensive coordinator, the most productive rushers in Tyrone Nix fills Sumrall’s place to Former Ole Miss defensive co- assistant head coach, defensive Tyrone Nix had the defense Ole Miss history, including Dexter convert some of the current back- ordinator Tyrone Nix will return coordinator and linebacker coach ranked 20th in points per game McCluster, Brandon Bolden and ers and defensive ends to more of to Oxford and join his brother, from 2008-11. His other stops (19.0), 19th in yards per game Jeff Scott. a stand-up pass-rushing role. 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TRACK AND FIELD The story of Waleed Suliman, from Jordan to Oxford Given Mississippi’s dark DAVID BALLOWE past of racial tension, [email protected] Suliman’s Sudanese family As he crossed the finish did not think Ole Miss would line at the David Hemery be the place for him. They Valentine Invite, Waleed told him he wasn’t allowed to Suliman may not have go to Ole Miss after he said he realized it, but he had just would commit in the coming broken the Ole Miss record months. for the fastest mile ever run. He called Coach Vanhoy, His time of 3:56.78 is the who visited Suliman’s Rich- fastest mile time in the entire mond home to speak to his NCAA this season. family. They still were not Suliman has been making convinced. strides in the track and field Suliman told his parents he world since his move to the was going to Ole Miss de- in 2014, though spite their skepticism. Thirty not without his share of minutes after their conversa- hurdles. tion, he committed to run for Suliman’s family is origi- the Rebels, and he does not nally from Sudan in Northern regret it. Africa. His father, raised in “Honestly, I got things here Darfur, came to know a world I actually never thought I that wouldn’t accept him. would be able to get,” Suli- Racial discrimination made it man said. difficult for the elder Suliman He mentioned that he to make a name for himself in has had no issue with race his home country. relations at the school and Suliman’s father eventually said that he has experienced settled in Jordan and filed nothing but friendship within for protection with the Office the Ole Miss Cross Country of the United Nations High program. Commissioner for Refugees in “He’s a really funny 2006, hoping to secure docu- kid,” his teammate Mark mentation for himself and his Robertson said. “He is really family to move to either Aus- good, and he always had tralia or the United States. been, but he’s so down to “The main reason my dad earth, which I didn’t expect actually did that is he wanted when he first came in.” us to have a better educa- PHOTO COURTESY: TOM CONNELLY Much like his decorated tion,” Suliman said. Waleed Suliman runs in the David Hemery Valentine Invitational in Boston. He broke the Ole Miss record for fastest mile time. high school career, Suliman Suliman attended a Jorda- continues to make a name nian high school and eventu- From that day forward, and broke the Richmond-ar- Ryan Vanhoy. running for the Rebels. ally left after his sophomore Suliman’s life wouldn’t be the ea records for the mile, the Vanhoy invited Suliman to Suliman has been named to year to start his career at same. 1,600-meter and the 5K, all of Oxford, took him to a football the SEC All-Freshman and Douglas S. Freeman High Suliman said he is thankful which he still holds. game and gave him a tour of second team All-American School in Richmond, Virgin- that he joined the cross-coun- All of this recognition the town. teams during his short time ia, running for the Freeman try team. Without it, he may created quite an interest in Following the visit, Suli- in Oxford. Rebels. not have ever learned En- his talents, and by his junior man went on an official visit “There were a lot of things “(In Jordan) we had (En- glish. The team pushed him year, Suliman was a highly to NC State, and the magic that he had to do. A lot of glish) classes in high school, to learn English, and this led sought after athlete. After the was seemingly lost. He didn’t hoops to jump through just to middle school and elementary him to take English as a sec- Foot Locker Nationals, Suli- like the way the team ran on get to campus here,” Vanhoy school, but we honestly didn’t ond language class in school. man said, programs began to the streets, and he noticed said. “As great of a story as he care about it,” Suliman said. “During runs, we would reach out. the culture of the team just has had here so far, it almost With only a basic knowl- talk, and I would learn a Initially, he was interested wasn’t what he expected. never happened.” edge of the English language word or two,” Suliman said. in North Carolina State Uni- Suliman knew that Ole Miss at his disposal, Suliman came “We’d always joke about me versity, citing a personable would be the best fit for him, but to the U.S. and found it dif- messing up something, and coach and a cohesive team of his parents thought otherwise. ficult to make friends due to it always stayed in my mind friends as major factors in his the language barrier. like, ‘Alright, I cannot make decision. “I joined a cross-country that same mistake again, or “Then senior year came,” team, and I realized I actually I’m gonna get roasted.’” Suliman said. “Things just got could not communicate with While in high school, Suli- different.” any of them,” Suliman said. man won 10 state meets, was Once Suliman was eligible “As a foreigner who doesn’t recognized as a high school to receive calls from NCAA HOW TO PLAY speak the dominant lan- All- American twice, secured coaches, his phone rang guage, it’s really hard for you a position as a Foot Lock- constantly, driving him to Complete the grid so to make friends or actually er Nationals finalist twice, question his solid positioning that every row, column establish yourself within the was named Gatorade State with NC State. One of these and 3x3 box contains the community.” Runner of the Year in 2017 calls was from Ole Miss coach numbers 1 through 9 with Before he arrived in Vir- no repeats. ginia, Suliman had never thought of running either Thursday, Feb. 21 DIFFICULTY LEVEL track or cross-country. He 6 p.m. at Off Square Books was approached by the coach Thacker Mountain Radio of a local cross-country club team five months before he DEBORAH and his family left for the U.S. ON THE SQUARE “I was playing soccer,” IN OXFORD Suliman said “A club coach & JAMES came up to me and said, ‘You Call 236-2262 for seem like you’re pretty good, FALLOWS details or to reserve and you have really good form. sign (Pantheon, $16.95) signed copies Why don’t you try and run with OUR TOWNS: me in the club — I’ll be your A 100,000 Thousand-Mile Journey www. coach,’ and I was like, ‘I’ll try it into the Heart of America squarebooks out. I’ve got nothing to do.’” Can’t make it to the live show? .com

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MEN’S BASKETBALL Rebels stumble down stretch, fall to Gamecocks 79-64

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Ole Miss men’s basketball lost to the 79-64 on Tuesday night in Colum- bia, South Carolina, putting the Rebels at 18-8 (8-5) on the year with five games left in the regular season. The Rebels began the game on a 13-2 run before the Gamecocks responded with a 16-0 run of their own. After staring down 40-32 halftime deficit, Ole Miss slowly and surely chipped away at the distance before tying the game at 61-61 with 6:15 to play thanks to a string of critical jumpers from Blake Hinson and Breein Tyree. South Carolina went on a 14-2 run in the next 3:27 to put the game away for good, with PHOTO: ABIGAIL GREEN | THE DAILY GAMECOCK Hassani Gravett hitting a dagger Ole Miss guard Terence Davis dribbles the ball during the game against the South Carolina Gamecocks last night. Davis scored 18 points over the course of the game. three-pointer to put the Game- cocks up 75-63 with just under 5-of-23 shots from beyond the from the field. Miss big men struggled with fouls defense, which the Rebels have three minutes to play. arc while South Carolina knocked Devontae Shuler had a cold all game, as Olejniczak fouled out relied on throughout the year Ole Miss dropped to 8-5 in down 9-of-19 three-pointers. night in his return to his home and Bruce Stevens and Hinson to create turnovers and offense. conference play and is fifth in con- Ole Miss struggled down the state, as he only put up six points each had four fouls. Ole Miss was on the wrong side ference standings after the loss. stretch, not scoring a field goal in on seven shots from the field. Freshman guard A.J. Lawson of its normally positive turnover South Carolina moved to 14-12 the final six minutes of the game. Shuler did, however, contribute played a crucial role throughout margin. South Carolina forced overall and 9-4 in the conference, Ole Miss’s only points came from seven rebounds and high energy the game for South Carolina, put- nine steals to the Rebels’ three, now holding sole possession of the line, courtesy of Tyree and on the defensive end. ting up 15 points, nine rebounds, although the overall turnover fourth place in the SEC stand- Dominik Olejniczak. South Carolina forward Chris six assists and three steals. South margin was only -1 for the Rebels. ings — a position the teams were The Rebels were led by Terence Silva led the Gamecocks with 18 Carolina guard Hassani Gravett The Rebels will look to continue tied for before their matchup last Davis and Tyree with 18 and 17 points and three blocks, as he also dropped in 15 points and four building their resume for the night. points, respectively. K.J. Buffen began to outmatch the Ole Miss three-pointers off the bench. NCAA Tournament selection Ole Miss struggled from deep led the team with eight rebounds big men to lead the Gamecocks’ South Carolina played patiently committee when they play Geor- throughout the game, making just while shooting a perfect 3-for-3 late-second-half run. The Ole in the face of Kermit Davis’s zone gia on Saturday at The Pavilion.

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