February 20, 2019

University of Mississippi eGrove Daily Mississippian 2-20-2019 February 20, 2019 The Daily Mississippian Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline Recommended Citation The Daily Mississippian, "February 20, 2019" (2019). Daily Mississippian. 138. https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline/138 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 THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN EDITORIAL STAFF: SLADE RAND editor-in-chief [email protected] DEVNA BOSE managing editor [email protected] 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.

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