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See inside for the 2017 Double Decker edition Thursday, April 27, 2017 THE DAILY Volume 105, No. 133 MISSISSIPPIANTHE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SERVING OLE MISS AND OXFORD SINCE 1911 Visit theDMonline.com @thedm_news OPD prepares for 60,000 at Double Decker Budget BRIANA FLOREZ cuts may [email protected] More than 60,000 people affect will venture to the Square this weekend for the 22nd public annual Double Decker Arts Festival. Double Decker is argu- library ably Oxford’s most popular JAQUELINE KNIRNSCHILD event. Created in 1996, the [email protected] event was inspired by the Double Decker bus Oxford With the recent rollbacks in imported from England in the Mississippi state budget, the 1994. Since the festival’s be- Lafayette County and Oxford Public Library may have to cut ginning, it has demonstrat- down on staff. ed the great passion Oxford According to the Associat- has for the arts and boasted ed Press, in the current budget the town’s diverse food and year, Gov. Phil Bryant has re- music taste. duced budgets across the state During its first year, the by a total of $171 million. festival’s musical artists Judy Card, interim director of First Regional Library, said that played in the bed of a pickup as of now, she is unsure if those truck, and only a few art and cuts will affect library budgets. food vendors participated in The Mississippi Library Com- the event. mission, an independent state Now, 166 art vendors, 25 agency serving public libraries, food vendors and 11 musical will notify the First Regional Li- artists will be featured for a brary if any cuts are made, Card variety of entertainment. said. “We will just have to wait Jimmy “Duck” Holmes, and see,” Card said. “We will an award-winning country hear from them as soon as they blues musician, will kick off know.” the festival’s entertainment Laura Beth Walker, the head Friday night, in addition to librarian of Lafayette County Thacker Mountain Radio, and Oxford Public Library, said a live radio show hosting she thinks budget cut decisions could come out in the next cou- a range of musical perfor- ple of months. mances, as well as author “The federal government is readings. looking at cutting the Institute of PHOTO BY: CAMERON BROOKS Museum and Library Services, SEE DOUBLE DECKER PAGE 4 More than 60,000 people are expected at the Square this weekend for the 22nd annual Double Decker Arts Festival, featuring musical artists, art and food vendors and other entertainment options. SEE LIBRARY PAGE 4 NFL executive balances tradition with technology that and the traditions of the tradition with evolution is BRIAN SCOTT RIPPEE game creates the best prod- the NFL draft, which begins [email protected] uct. Thursday night. It’s become “We definitely take a lot of a tradition to enter the pick In some aspects, Michelle feedback and try our best to via phone and submit it on McKenna-Doyle’s job is meet their requirements,” a card, when in reality picks about balance. Balancing the McKenna-Doyle said. “De- could be entered into a com- time-honored traditions of pending on the type of tech- puter in an instant. a game that is 100 years old, nology, for example, anything “We choose to preserve the while innovating new forms we put on the sideline and tradition and the honor of of technology in order to we’ve put a lot in the last two that,” McKenna-Doyle said. avoid being archaic. years around player health “It’s great television.” Oh yeah, and she does this and safety, and how we review She’s overseen the imple- for the most successful pro- that data and who reviews it. mentation of tablets teams fessional sports league in the They don’t get a lot of input can use on the sidelines history of the world. McKen- on that. That’s very much a during game preparation and na-Dole is the vice president league policy. But how they during the game to study cov- and chief information offi- use those tablets and what erages, schemes and defen- cer of the National Football they use, not only do we get sive lapses. League. She’s responsible for their feedback but give them McKenna-Doyle also helps overseeing and implementing the option to use it in their grow the game. The NFL is COURTESY: PAGE 23 MEDIA new technology into the game game preparation.” McKenna-Doyle will speak at the C Spire Tech Experience at 5:30 p.m. today in of football. But she also un- Another example of mixing derstands that a mix between SEE NFL PAGE 4 The Pavilion. PAGE 2 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 27 APRIL 2017 OPINION COLUMN A crossroads of discipline and comfort in Bryant college classes, one of which home to the departments Whatever it was, it’s kept institution. was Philosophy 103 in the of philosophy, religion and me coming back. I rarely have a reason to upstairs lecture hall of Bryant, classics after a renovation. Even when it’s full of be in Bryant. Besides that in a high school summer Part of that renovation students lounging on the single introductory class two program at the university. was the cozy sitting room, couches, working quietly at summers ago, I haven’t taken Since then, I’ve taken designed by alumna and 1960 the tables and talking among a philosophy, religion or it upon myself to defend Miss America, Lynda Mead themselves, Bryant is a refuge. classics course, and I’m not Bryant as the best place to Shea. It features beautiful I might be working to turn sure that I ever will. I’ve only get work done on campus and rugs, well-worn armchairs something in by an imminent ever gone to a few meetings the second most beautiful and a strange painting of a deadline, but I never feel too that took place there. building on campus, behind fish and a flowerpot. Without stressed when I’m doing it in Maybe this whole thing Barnard Observatory. the wall murals and furniture one of those homey, beat-up seems ridiculous, that I’m LIAM NIEMAN Built in 1911, Bryant you’re scared to break, it’s leather armchairs. writing with such passion [email protected] originally housed the main sort of a poor man’s Lyceum. There’s something about about some random building university and medical school I don’t remember exactly how comfortable and on campus, but I don’t really libraries, along with the what it was that first struck inspiring the inside of this care. Go check it out and fall There’s a heavy rain falling university museum, reading me so much about Bryant. building is, considering that in love for yourself. outside. Those fat, summer- rooms, faculty offices and a Maybe it was that Bryant appears megalithic If it’s a busy day and you’ve storm droplets are hitting, makeshift gymnasium in the intricately designed iron gate and imposing on the outside. got some free time, duck into then sliding down, the leaves basement. The current name at the top of the stone steps With its combination of Bryant Hall at the center of of the Catalpa tree outside the came in 1984, in honor of that guards the building. Or detailed, ordered architecture campus for what will surely window. I’m lying on one of former Vice Chancellor W. that huge, in-your-face globe that makes the outside stately be a well-spent pause. the big, comfy couches in the Alton Bryant. right when you walk in that and the deliberate, inventive living room of Bryant Hall, It’s changed hands a few spins so slowly you’d never interior design that makes the Liam Nieman is a freshman waiting for my classmates to times, becoming the “fine notice, mimicking the Earth. inside welcoming, Bryant is a economics and Southern finish their tests. arts” building in 1952 and Or those massive, reaching melding of the comfort that studies major from Mount This was nearly two years housing the arts and theater windows in the main room makes Ole Miss home and Gretna, Pennsylvania. ago, in the summertime, arts departments until that fill it with natural light the discipline that makes the when I took my first two 2007, when it became the during the day. university a rising academic COLUMN Highlighting a rising star in Mississippi’s legislature history, speak about reaching I discovered that it’s not just find that Rep. Anderson of strides in the work he is doing for your dreams and ways the president or your senators Moss Point is a model public at the state level. to make a difference in your who make a difference; even servant whom future state The lessons he taught me local community, even at a our state legislators have a legislators, both Democratic through his speech, as well as young age.