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University of Mississippi eGrove Daily Mississippian 4-1-2019 April 1, 2019 The Daily Mississippian Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline Recommended Citation The Daily Mississippian, "April 1, 2019" (2019). Daily Mississippian. 157. https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline/157 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 MONDAY, APRIL 1, 2019 | VOLUME 107, NO. 90 MISSISSIPPIAN THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI | SERVING OLE MISS AND OXFORD SINCE 1911 THEY’RE BACK: ST. 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SEE PAGE 5 Presidential hopefuls address histories within ASB However, Fowlkes was HADLEY HITSON demoted to Senate liaison [email protected] then removed from the The three Associated Cabinet altogether in the Student Body presidential middle of last semester. candidates — Leah Davis, “After he had reached Tom Fowlkes and Barron the maximum number of Mayfield — addressed their absences allowed as Senate histories and gaps within liaison, I had no option but ASB service ahead of to remove him from his tomorrow’s election. position on ASB,” Miller’s All three candidates chief of staff Julia Grant are juniors who have had said. different experiences Fowlkes said his exit within ASB in their three from the Cabinet was not years at Ole Miss. “anybody’s decision,” and Fowlkes, a public policy he referred to the process leadership and account- of his departure from ing major from Memphis, ASB as a “fluid, open” is the only presidential conversation. He also said candidate not currently the reason for his absences serving in ASB. Following was a required accountancy last spring’s general elec- class with the honors tion, President Elam Miller college. “I couldn’t come to the PHOTO ILLUSTRATION: KATHERINE BUTLER selected Fowlkes to serve Tomorrow, students will cast their votes for Associated Student Body executive officer positions. All but one of the candidates as the executive liaison in chose to pass out stickers on Business Row this campaign season. Gianna Schuetz, the sole student running for ASB treasurer, his Cabinet. SEE ASB PAGE 3 was the only candidate who chose not to. DM STAFF REPORT Lyric shooter sentenced to 10 years in federal prison Desmond Bowen was the Square and said the incident release. “In the instant case, sentenced to 10 years in federal did not represent the “quality the individual discharging the prison on Thursday after firing of life and safety that people gun was prohibited by law from a weapon in April 2018 during a are used to in Oxford.” She even possessing a firearm or party inside The Lyric Oxford. expressed disappointment that ammunition.” U.S. Attorney William C. the shooting occurred during Bowen’s shooting led to Lamar said in a news release what she described as the most increased security measures that Bowen, a resident of well-attended Double Decker on the Square and to Tannehill Memphis and non-Ole Miss she had seen in her 23 years of meeting with local law student, was sentenced for working with the event. enforcement agencies about being a convicted felon in “Information presented as increased security at event possession of ammunition. part of the case against Bowen venues. Bowen pleaded guilty in showed that he attended a party Some Oxford residents have November for his role in the at the Lyric Theater in April on said the shooting led to the shooting at The Lyric Oxford on Double Decker Weekend when controversial alcohol safety and April 27, 2018. a fight broke out inside the security ordinance, which led The news release also stated theater,” the news release read. to increased security efforts on that Bowen fired a shot upward “Bowen fired a shot upward, the Square, the implementation after attending, and the shot which hit the underside of a of ID scanners to gain entry to hit the underside of a balcony, balcony, ricocheted and struck bars and a requirement for all which ricocheted and struck a patron.” businesses that serve alcohol to another patron at the venue. U.S. District Judge Michael install security cameras. The incident occurred during P. Mills called Bowen a “risk City officials denied claims Oxford’s Double Decker festival to the public” and noted the that the ordinance was a and drew attention from the senselessness of Bowen’s acts in response to the incident at The mayor, police department and discharging the weapon within Lyric and said the ordinance Board of Aldermen who saw it the crowded space. had been in the works for years. as a negative representation of “The discharge of a weapon The investigation of Bowen Oxford’s nightlife. Immediately inside a crowded public place was the work of federal and FILE PHOTO: BILLY SCHUERMAN Almost one year after the shooting at The Lyric Oxford, Desmond Bowen was after the shooting, Mayor demonstrates a reckless state law enforcement groups sentenced to 10 years in federal prison. Robyn Tannehill called for disregard for the safety of increased security at venues on others,” Lamar said in the news SEE LYRIC PAGE 3 PAGE 2 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 1 APRIL 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 JOSHUA CLAYTON assistant sports editor [email protected] KATHERINE BUTLER assistant photography editor [email protected] LIAM NIEMAN arts & culture editor ELIZA NOE assistant arts & culture editor [email protected] HAYDEN BENGE MACKENZIE LINNEEN MEAGAN TAPE design editors [email protected] ETHEL MWEDZIWENDIRA opinion and design editor [email protected] SARAH HENDERSON COLUMN multimedia editor ANNIE SHARP online editor The evolving ASB: What's next? DANIEL PAYNE assistant online editor effective strategy not only for unanimously agreed to It will be interesting to see [email protected] ALYSSA MONCRIEF gaining support but also for relocate the Confederate how the next set of officials IVANA NGUYEN [email protected] social media editor spreading awareness of each statue from the Circle because uses this momentum to create candidate’s platform. There is of student concerns about positive change when elected [email protected] On April 2, the Ole Miss no better place to share your what the statue represents. to their respective positions. campus will elect the next plans while in office than According to an article by The ADVERTISING Associated Student Body an Instagram story that 700 Daily Mississippian, 65% of Alyssa Moncrief is a SALES MANAGER officers, including president, classmates will watch. voters who participated in freshman political science Rebecca Brown vice president, secretary, Popular goals of the a Twitter poll claimed they and journalism major from [email protected] treasurer, judicial chair and candidates include wanted the statue relocated. Jackson. SALES ACCOUNT attorney general. transparency between Although the ASB has EXECUTIVES This election season has the student body and historically set motions in Cameron Collins been extremely competitive, ASB, accountability to place to support diversity CORRECTION Sam Dethrow specifically between communicate important and inclusion, such as Isaiah Pugh candidates for president and decisions to the students and Everybody’s Formal and the A front page article on Friday Michael Rackers vice president. The most accessibility to ASB. Although Inclusion and Cross-Cultural incorrectly stated that Maj. Gen. Morgan Stone popular campaign technique these platforms are typical Engagement Committee, (Ret.) Augustus Collins is the seems to be social media of past candidates as well, this decision proved how first African-American president S. GALE DENLEY use. This has made securing all of the students seemed effective ASB can be in voting STUDENT MEDIA CENTER votes even tougher for eager to begin work as soon on issues that affect not only of the Ole Miss Alumni Association. Rose Flenorl was PATRICIA THOMPSON candidates, as students of all as elected. The new attention the students of Ole Miss Assistant Dean/Student Media backgrounds, classifications that students are showing in but also the community and the first African-American GREG BROCK and majors have claimed campus and ASB has clearly state. This motion has even president of the association, Daily Mississippian Editorial their candidate through affected the decisions made received national coverage and Collins is the second Adviser Instagram stories, Snapchats by the current officers. from news outlets such as African-American to serve as and Facebook shares. 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