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University of Mississippi eGrove Daily Mississippian 8-23-2018 August 23, 2018 The Daily Mississippian Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline Recommended Citation The Daily Mississippian, "August 23, 2018" (2018). Daily Mississippian. 69. https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline/69 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 THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 2018 | VOLUME 107, NO. 3 MISSISSIPPIAN THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI | SERVING OLE MISS AND OXFORD SINCE 1911 LOCAL ART: TWO MISSISSIPPI PAINTERS AT SOUTHSIDE TIGHT ENDS EAGER FOR BIGGER ROLE Paintings by Jerrod Partridge and The tight end position was Jonathan Kent Adams cover the overshadowed in the Evan gallery’s walls. Partridge’s work Engram era and even more so fi nds beauty in everyday life, with the inception of the “NWO.” while Adams’ reckons with his Dawson Knox is ready to change identity. the narrative. SEE PAGE 5 SEE PAGE 8 Cost of campus parking passes continues to rise GRACE MARION Parking cost increase over six years [email protected] $ 350 When student parking pass sales opened in mid-July, many students noticed $300 a jump in prices from the previous year. Commuter and residential parking passes rose from $200 to $210 and $300 $ 250 to $325, respectively, for the 2018-19 school year. That’s a cost increase of 5 percent for commuter passes and just over $ 200 8 percent for residential passes from the previous year. “I personally think that’s way too $150 much,” freshman graphic design major Lauren Taylor said. “Having a car on cam- pus isn’t a necessity, but it is very helpful to have for off-campus extracurricular $100 activities, grocery runs and travel to and from home.” Money made from passes this year will be used for transportation improvements, $ 50 according to Ole Miss Director of Parking and Transportation Mike Harris. Harris said the price increase in 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 parking passes will go towards “purchas- ing new buses for various routes on- and off-campus and adding additional routes COMMUTER = to service the new Recreational Facility and South Oxford Center.” GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATION: ETHEL MWEDZIWENDIRA RESIDENTIAL = INFORMATION COURTESY: OLE MISS PARKING SERVICES SEE PERMIT PRICES PAGE 3 Athletics offers monetized tailgating experience BLAKE ALSUP atmosphere focused on fans [email protected] and donors. He said the goal is to carry on a positive momentum from The Ole Miss Athletics the spring semester, during Foundation is launching a new which the athletics department tailgating experience for game hired new coaches and had suc- days this fall. cessful seasons with baseball This seemingly all-inclusive and track and field. tailgating will provide game day “So the fall is essential,” attendees with a 10-by-20 tent, Brown said. “Our goal here tables, chairs, TVs and more at is to provide the ultimate fan the north end zone plaza near experience and something new. Vaught-Hemingway Stadium — That’s what we’re all about — for a price. just having that new energy.” These tailgates will cost The price tag also includes $17,500 per tent for the entire a parking pass for an adjacent 2018 season, which amounts parking lot and close proximity to $2,500 per game. to a designated kids’ play area The athletic foundation’s and restrooms. assistant director of Other benefits include development, Da’Ron Brown, concierge and security staffs. said the tailgating experience Brown said although security is wasn’t set up to earn money present throughout the Grove but to provide a family-friendly PHOTO: CHRISTIAN JOHNSON SEE TAILGATE PAGE 3 Ole Miss has begun setting up tents for its new tailgates, which are available to fans who want a “no-headaches” tailgate. PAGE 2 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 23 AUGUST 2018 THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN EDITORIAL STAFF: SLADE RAND editor-in-chief [email protected] DEVNA BOSE managing editor [email protected] DAVID NOWICKI copy chief [email protected] BLAKE ALSUP news editor continued from page 1 TAYLOR VANCE BRITTANY BROWN assistant news editors [email protected] JUSTIN DIAL sports editor BEN MILLER assistant sports editor [email protected] CHRISTIAN JOHNSON photography editor [email protected] LIAM NIEMAN lifestyles editor [email protected] HAYDEN BENGE design editor [email protected] On the mascot issue: UM jumped ETHEL MWEDZIWENDIRA the Shark opinion and design editor [email protected] university does business in recent further sense of community at be a cold day in hell before I call years, there was something truly the university, they should have myself an Ole Miss Landshark. SARAH HENDERSON peculiar about this decision. Other consulted all students, not just online editor than a few children who participated the over-enthusiastic liberal Will Hall is a senior journalism [email protected] in a photo shoot with the new minority that fanatically orbits the major from Atlanta. IVANA NGUYEN mascot, the Landshark seems to administration’s power structure. social media editor have no supporters besides its This issue is not about voicing [email protected] design committee. support for one mascot or another, With the Landshark receiving it’s about understanding that CORRECTIONS: ridicule from sports commentators, the selection of the Landshark ADVERTISING state political leaders and a clear continues to lead Ole Miss down a An article in Monday’s SALES MANAGER majority of both students and destructive path. I would challenge WILL HALL alumni alike, the university has every single fan, student and issue of The Daily Rebecca Brown [email protected] [email protected] truly outdone itself in yet another alumnus to search out someone Mississippian incorrectly episode in its series of brutal who supports this selection and reported that the Oxford SALES ACCOUNT Two weeks ago, Ole Miss self-imposed humiliation, which simply ask what he or she hopes the Lafayette Humane EXECUTIVES Ahletics unveiled the official design is entirely the responsibility of Landshark will achieve because, Society now only accepts Sofi Ash for the university’s long-awaited university leadership. thus far, that has been far from a animals from Lafayette Cameron Collins new mascot, Landshark Tony. Despite how much the flawed clear answer. County. The OLHS is still Upon Tony’s reveal, media message of unity will be pushed in This is not to say that the Sam Dethrow accepting animals from outlets across Oxford feverishly the coming weeks, Landshark Tony selection of the Landshark will Isaiah Pugh outside of Lafayette Michael Rackers rushed to the defense of the peculiar does nothing more for our school not have a lasting effect on the humanoid shark, insisting that Tony than to further erode its national university, especially with the tens County. was a wild success among both perception from that of a football of thousands of dollars the school S. GALE DENLEY students and alumni and citing last powerhouse full of southern is bound to waste on promotion, Campaigning for STUDENT MEDIA CENTER year’s student vote — orchestrated tradition to a politically correct merchandise and the costs homecoming court PATRICIA THOMPSON by the Associated Student Body — laughing stock in the style of the associated with inevitable drafting elections does not begin Assistant Dean/Student Media that showed 81 percent support of University of Missouri in 2015. committee for what will become our on Friday. The ASB will Daily Mississippian Faculty the Landshark. 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Letters from students should include grade classification and major; letters from faculty and staff should include title and the college, school or IN THE OTHER THE DM SNAPCHAT department where the person is employed. @thedm_news THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 23 AUGUST 2018 | PAGE 3 continues an upward trend in are now $800, Pavilion Garage Goldsmith said. “I do not want although our money is for ... PERMIT PRICES price over the past several years. Reserved passes are $450 to have to pay for the bus repairs passes for our cars,” Thompson continued from page 1 In 2013, a commuter pass cost and Park-N-Ride costs $105, and WiFi if I will not even be said.