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Thursday, September 21, 2017 THE DAILY Volume 106, No. 18 MISSISSIPPIANTHE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SERVING OLE MISS AND OXFORD SINCE 1911 Visit theDMonline.com @thedm_news UM celebrates Rosh Hashanah New bike-sharing program arrives on campus KIARA MANNING This new bike-sharing STAFF WRITER allows participants to rent bikes, giving them two In an attempt to promote hours per day of free ride biking on campus, the uni- time. After two hours, the versity has implemented a cost will increase to $4 per new bike-sharing program hour when using Gotcha through Gotcha Bike. The Bike’s “university” plan. program launched last The program is the latest week and has seen a suc- addition to campus trans- cessful start. It allows stu- portation. Ole Miss has also dents, faculty and commu- expanded its bus system in nity members to rent bikes an effort to reduce parking on an as-needed basis. struggles on campus. The program boasts 50 “We are always looking to bikes and six transporta- add additional options to tion hubs, with locations at our ever-expanding trans- the Student Union, Lucky- portation demand man- day Residential College, agement program,” Harris Lamar Hall, Minor Hall, said. “We looked at other the Ole Miss Bike Shop, institutions and how they the Robert C. Khayat Law handle transportation, and School and downtown Ox- this seemed like it would be ford near City Hall. a good fit for us.” “It’s going to be a great Bike-sharing programs alternative for getting have been common in cities around on campus,” Mike for years, and Gotcha Bike PHOTOS BY: MADISON WREN Harris, the university’s di- has operations on several Students and people from the Oxford community gather Wednesday in Paris-Yates Chapel to celebrate Rosh rector of parking and trans- college campuses, includ- Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. portation, said. ing Auburn University and the Jewish Federation of Oxford hosted the Harris said the bike-shar- Florida State University. JACQUELINE KNIRNSCHILD Gotcha Bike also imple- STAFF WRITER historic holiday service, which celebrates ing program is something the Jewish New Year and is the start of a 10- the university has been ments technology to make As the sun set, families with giggling chil- day period of refl ection that culminates in pushing to implement on finding and renting a bike dren, Ole Miss students and faculty, along Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement. campus for years. easier. By using the compa- with other members of the Oxford Jewish Rosh Hashanah is observed as the day “Biking on campus has ny’s app or website, partic- community, gathered last night at Par- God created Adam and Eve, which, to mem- been something that we have ipants can find and reserve is-Yates Chapel for the fi rst local observanc- bers of the Jewish faith, marks the birth of seen grow year after year, bikes. Once a bike has been es of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. and we think this service will The University of Mississippi Hillel and SEE SERVICE PAGE 5 be popular,” Harris said. SEE BIKES PAGE 4 University prepares for upcoming flu season RACHEL ISHEE and third week of school, a good way to help prevent NEWS EDITOR and we can expect that to illness. continue through the rest Students from the phar- With classes in full swing, of the semester,” Yates macy school vaccinated students at Ole Miss are said. “The reason for that students Wednesday in the beginning to get sick, and is just multiple exposures Circle, something they plan this outbreak of illness has to many students who are to continue throughout the many worried about catch- ill all across this campus of semester. ing the flu later this fall. 20,000 students.” “We do this every year,” Dr. Travis Yates, direc- Yates advises students to pharmacy student Katie tor of University Health wash their hands frequent- Bruchman said. “We do Services, said he normally ly and avoid contact with several locations, and we starts seeing an increase in sick people. try to pick the high-volume student illness around this “If they are sick, just areas at different times of time of the school year. don’t expose yourself to day and at different loca- “The viral upper respi- them if that is possible to tions around to get as many ratory type illnesses do in- do,” Yates said. PHOTO BY: WILSON BENTON crease starting the second Getting a flu shot is also SEE FLU PAGE 4 Pharmacy students give fl u shots to students in the Circle on Wednesday. IN THIS ISSUE... OPINION LIFESTYLES LIFESTYLES SPORTS Being mindful of campus workers Crime, comedy, confrontation Psychedelic rock hits the Square Soccer faces Georgia at home Paying attention to those preparing your food Find a new favorite with our resident Chris Robinson Brotherhood brings West The 7-1-1 Rebels play their fi rst home SEC game can make us aware of inequality podcast expert Coast swampy keys, guitar riffs to Lyric today against the Bulldogs PAGE 2 PAGE 6 PAGE 9 PAGE 12 PAGE 2 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 21 SEPTEMBER 2017 OPINION THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN EDITORIAL STAFF: LANA FERGUSON editor-in-chief [email protected] SLADE RAND managing editor [email protected] MAGGIE MARTIN copy chief [email protected] RACHEL ISHEE MADDIE MCGEE news editors [email protected] JOHN TOULOUPIS assistant news editor [email protected] SAM HARRES GRAYSON WEIR sports editors [email protected] MARLEE CRAWFORD TAYLAR TEEL photography editors [email protected] COLUMN DEVNA BOSE lifestyles editor [email protected] Being more mindful of workers on campus JONATHAN GIBSON assistant lifestyles editor behind the counter, hardwork- these workers already? Are we Coates considers this escap- [email protected] ing low-wage workers respond really going to make them earn ism: a majority of all genders, mechanically and diligently to more money by being more ages and levels of income and LIAM NIEMAN opinion editor our coff ee orders. For many mindful of them? By casually education of self-described [email protected] of them, a job is not just a re- recognizing our own privilege, whites voted for Trump. sume-building experience to are we really going to destroy There are some critiques to HAYDEN BENGE take up their free time during the long-lasting institutional Coates’ views, but his argument EMILY HOFFMAN college. Their low-paying jobs inequalities holding back mi- is strong and eye-opening. It ETHEL MWEDZIWENDIRA can be the only way to access nority low-wage workers? makes it clear that we tend to design editors higher education or a neces- Of course, being more mind- view economic insecurity as [email protected] sary source of income. ful or considerate to the in- an unjust position for whites, This is not to say that every- dispensable workers of our while we see it as a more nor- ANESSA GUESS FRANCISCO HERNANDEZ social media editor STAFF COLUMNIST one getting food or coff ee on campus is not going to bring mal status for minorities. campus is a privileged aristo- immediate change. It is, how- No politician called work- crat or that everyone serving ever, a great fi rst step. ing-class minorities a “basket ADVERTISING They prepare our food in the Union, serve us our coff ee those same goods is a Dickensi- If we learn to recognize in- of deplorables” because he or SALES MANAGER an pauper. But it is undeniable equalities at the individual lev- she simply didn’t need to. That Blake Hein in the library, clean our class- that there are some social and el, it will become much easier view is already implied in the [email protected] rooms and bathrooms and do many other indispensable jobs racial inequalities at play that to understand the bigger pic- way we unconsciously think of SALES ACCOUNT for our university. we very often overlook. ture of the economic and social minorities doing some of the EXECUTIVES Yet the low-wage workers After all, low-wage workers realities of minorities. In turn, low-paying, highly insecure Cary Allen who make this campus func- on our campus are much more that will make us more con- jobs we require every day. Yet Cameron Collins tion every day get very little diverse — signifi cantly more scious, engaged and, hopefully, when Clinton said it — wrongly Sam Dethrow time in our thoughts and con- black or brown — than the more responsive with the kind — about a group of whites, out- Ethan Gray siderations. customers or benefi ciaries of of leaders we support. rage followed. Kathryn Hathorne The line at the Starbucks their labor. And it is somewhat Ta-Nehisi Coates, the most Realizing these inequalities provides a good example. We shocking that we so often take necessary and one of the most at the level of our campus and S. GALE DENLEY generally just stand there star- those diff erences for granted. brilliant writers in the U.S. our town is a crucial fi rst step STUDENT MEDIA CENTER ing down at our phones, slowly Surely, we must know better right now, off ers an incredible toward repairing our social marching toward our doses of than thinking low-wage jobs insight on these inequalities.