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THE DAILY FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 2018 | VOLUME 107, NO. 8 MISSISSIPPIAN THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI | SERVING OLE MISS AND OXFORD SINCE 1911 THE MASCOT SAGA: FROM ‘THE THE DM WILL BE ON THE GROUND FLOOD’ EMERGES’ THE LANDSHARK’ IN HOUSTON THIS WEEKEND Tony the Landshark is the product Check out our social media pages for of several retired and failed mascots live updates throughout the weekend. in the University of Mississippi’s Follow @thedm_sports on Twitter and 170-year history. How many mascots @thedailymississippian on Instagram to have we had since 1848? keep up with the Rebels’ season kickoff. SEE PAGE 4 SEE THEDMONLINE.COM AND SOCIAL MEDIA Oxford REBELS HEAD WEST police JOSH GOLLIHAR [email protected] maintain Kickoff has arrived. The Ole Miss Rebels will presence take on the Texas Tech Red Raiders on Saturday in a neutral-site game at on Square NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas. This clash of two similarly high-powered BRITTANY BROWN and high-scoring offensive [email protected] philosophies will likely yield a For nearly two years, Oxford shootout. Police Department has dedicated Rebel cornerback Myles a team of officers to helping Hartsfield said he’s been looking downtown business owners feel forward to this matchup because more secure during crowded nights he feels that going head-to-head on the Square. against the Ole Miss offense in The Downtown Unit was formed practice has prepared the team for in January 2017, after OPD’s Flex the challenges that the Red Raiders Unit ended. The Flex Unit consist- will present. ed of four officers who patrolled “You do not get better than the Square during peak hours, CHRISTIAN JOHNSON CHRISTIAN our receivers,” Hartsfield said. ILLUSTRATIONS: PHOTO especially Friday and Saturday. “The tempo we face in practice is These officers were responsible for something that Texas Tech does patrolling Oxford, in general, but well.” always ended up on the Square on He does, however, notice a the weekends. certain difference in the execution Noticing this pattern, OPD creat- of the air raid offense that the two ed the Downtown Unit. teams employ. Sgt. Craig Baker, the officer in “They use screen (passes) more,” charge of OPD’s Downtown Unit, Hartsfield said. “They are not a big said the unit manages a unique running team. They use the screen work schedule on the Square. game as their running attack. They “We’re always busy. It’s a get the five or so yards that way, different dynamic for us because because they want to throw the when we come to work, we’re not ball.” busy. We get busy after 10 p.m. Red Raider head coach Kliff and when the bars close,” Baker Kingsbury has enjoyed potent said. “We’re used to not being busy SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 8 SEE DOWNTOWN UNIT PAGE 3 UM Arabic program receives Flagship designation professor of Arabic and co- “The designation of our curriculum after the UM Lauren Burns, a senior BLAKE ALSUP director of the university’s second Flagship language Chinese Language Flagship double-majoring in Arabic [email protected] Arabic Flagship Program, program is a testament to the Program and used the and International Studies, said the Arabic program on University of Mississippi’s functional approach to said she was shocked when Ole Miss has been named a campus started in 2008 in sustained leadership in the language learning in and out she heard the university was recipient of an Arabic Flag- hopes that it would one day field of international educa- of the classroom,” Clark said. granted a Flagship program ship Program, a prestigious be designated a Flagship tion,” Chancellor Jeffrey Vit- According to Clark, a but is grateful and excited language curriculum that Program. ter said in a press release. “It typical student who graduates to be a part of it before she will expand the previously The two-year grant that aligns perfectly with our goals from the UM Arabic Flagship graduates. established Arabic language comes along with the program as a flagship university and program will have an 8 During her time at the program on campus. will allow the university to furthers our reputation as a percent chance of reaching university, she has studied The flagship programs are hire new faculty, add courses hub for student internation- “superior” proficiency and a abroad in Amman, Jordan, awarded by The Language and increase funding for al experience and language 69 percent chance of reaching thrice as part of her degree Flagship, an organization es- study-abroad opportunities, immersion.” “advanced” proficiency requirements. tablished in 2002 that focuses according to a University of The Chinese Language during their four-year tenure. Burns said the biggest perk on “designing, supporting and Mississippi Communications Flagship Program was estab- He said there are currently of being in the Flagship pro- implementing a new para- press release. lished on campus in 2003, 75 students enrolled across gram is the Capstone project digm for advanced language The program will receive and it currently has around all levels of Arabic classes — where students study abroad education,” according to the $274,999.41 for the first 60 students enrolled. 28 at the 100 level, 15 at the in Meknes, Morocco after organization’s website. year and is expecting around “We patterned the UM 200 level and 32 at or above Allen Clark, associate $325,000 for the second year. Intensive Arabic Program’s the 300 level. SEE ARABIC PROGRAM PAGE 3 PAGE 2 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 31 AUGUST 2018 THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN EDITORIAL STAFF: In memory of the Queen of Soul SLADE RAND editor-in-chief [email protected] DEVNA BOSE managing editor [email protected] DAVID NOWICKI copy chief [email protected] BLAKE ALSUP news editor 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] AP PHOTO | PAUL SANCYA, POOL Aretha Franklin lies in her casket at Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History during a public visitation in Detroit on Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2018. Franklin HAYDEN BENGE died Aug. 16, 2018, of pancreatic cancer at the age of 76. design editor [email protected] dancing in my living room MYA KING and screaming the lyrics at the [email protected] ETHEL MWEDZIWENDIRA top of my lungs, though not opinion and design editor knowing at the time the true Sitting in my living room, I meaning of the song. As I grew [email protected] felt frozen in time and defeated older, I began to understand by shock. Aretha Franklin’s the time period and the SARAH HENDERSON death sent a wave of grief across powerful effects of Franklin’s online editor the world that is still felt today, music. Whether on- or off- [email protected] with farewell and funeral plans stage, her voice was heard and IVANA NGUYEN continuing this week. Greater unparalleled. social media editor Grace Temple in Detroit will Franklin was a prominent [email protected] host a homegoing for Franklin figure during the Civil Rights on Friday featuring addresses Movement. She accompanied from Bill Clinton, Jesse Jackson the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. ADVERTISING and the Rev. Al Sharpton. on the Walk to Freedom tour in her hometown of Detroit. Her SALES MANAGER Franklin’s strong and compelling vocals touched and voice and spirit did more than Rebecca Brown captured the hearts of many. just entertain — they inspired [email protected] Although she was most notable past generations and continue for her musical talents, to me to, today. She had the honor of SALES ACCOUNT she meant so much more. For performing at three presidential EXECUTIVES me, as a black woman who came inaugurations — her most Sofi Ash from a similar background and notable being that of former Cameron Collins grew up in a church, her music President Barack Obama. On PHOTO COURTESY: Sam Dethrow was something I could connect the day of her death, Obama WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Isaiah Pugh with on a personal and — even tweeted, “Aretha helped define of Billboard No. 1 songs, but her soulful legacy lives on. Michael Rackers more so — spiritual level. the American experience. In her received 18 Grammys out Her empowerment of women — Beyond just my admiration voice, we could feel our history, of 44 Grammy nominations especially black women — along for Franklin’s ability to perfectly all of it and in every shade — and in 1987, made history with her work and love for her S. GALE DENLEY blend classic blues, a little bit our power and our pain, our by becoming the first female people will continue to touch darkness and our light, our STUDENT MEDIA CENTER of “good ole” church and pure inducted into the Rock and Roll the souls of generations to soul, I found myself loving quest for redemption and our Hall of Fame. She paved the come. May a truly phenomenal PATRICIA THOMPSON being a black woman more. hard-won respect.” His tweet way for notable artists such as woman rest in power.