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University of Mississippi eGrove Daily Mississippian 9-13-2018 September 13, 2018 The Daily Mississippian Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline Recommended Citation The Daily Mississippian, "September 13, 2018" (2018). Daily Mississippian. 80. https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline/80 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, SEPTEMBER 13, 2018 | VOLUME 107, NO. 14 MISSISSIPPIAN THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI | SERVING OLE MISS AND OXFORD SINCE 1911 LISTEN UP: PODCASTS THAT OLE MISS PUTTING ANSWER UNANSWERED QUESTIONS FOCUS ON ALABAMA In the Arts & Culture section’s first Alabama comes to town this weekend weekly podcast column of the year, Ethel for its annual game against the Rebels. Mwedziwendira discusses podcasts for With SEC Nation coming to the Grove, curious people. They answer questions plenty of eyes will be on this matchup. about race, violence and more. SEE PAGE 4 SEE PAGE 6 Students campaign for personality elections Miss Ole Miss. Hallie Gillam LENNIS BARLOW is running unopposed for STAFF WRITER Homecoming Queen. The effects of campaign Campaign season for the season do not extend solely to university’s annual personality Business Row but also to social elections opened on Sept. 4 as media, where candidates post students began campaigning headshots announcing their for the titles of Mr. and candidacy with paragraphs Miss Ole Miss and other explaining their platform homecoming court positions and videos displaying their like Homecoming Queen, personality. Homecoming Maids and According to the ASB campus favorites. Constitution and Code, during During the window of time the duration of their terms, between the beginning of Mr. and Miss Ole Miss are campaign season and voting supposed to partner with a on Sept. 18, Business Row local charity of their choice. has become crowded with In this capacity, they work brightly painted wooden signs with the ASB director of bearing catchy slogans and community service to increase well-dressed students bearing awareness of the charity as smiling faces. well as to encourage students This year four candidates to volunteer with and donate are running for the title of Mr. to their selected charity. Each Ole Miss (Jarvis Benson, Mack candidate has based his or Hubbell, Mikhail Love and her campaign around an idea Chauncey Mullins) while three that can relate to a charity candidates (Hannah Bullock, organizations. Jessi Lockett and Jessica Tran) PHOTO: CHRISTIAN JOHNSON Candidates for Mr. and Miss Ole Miss campaign on Business Row on Tuesday. are competing to become SEE ELECTIONS PAGE 3 UPD updates protocol for assisting on-campus arrests officers escorted the suspect out, SLADE RAND a crowd of students gathered [email protected] on the Bishop Hall balcony overlooking that parking lot. University Police assisted UPD Lt. Adam Peacock said Mississippi Alcoholic Beverage the department will continue Control in arresting a student on to assist in serving arrest campus between classes on Aug. warrants like this on campus 28 but will handle similar arrest but that it plans to do so in a less warrants differently in the future. disruptive and public manner. University police and ABC He said UPD’s current protocol officers waited outside of a for assisting in serving arrest Political Science 101 class in warrants differs from the way in Bishop Hall 209 that Tuesday which officers handled this recent afternoon to carry out an ABC incident. warrant for the arrest of an The current department 18-year-old Ole Miss student. policy, which was established PHOTO: TREVISO DAVIS As the class let out, officers during the last few months, The Ole Miss Department of Parking and Transportation and the Office of Sustainability hosted the second University handcuffed the student and states that UPD officers should Transportation Fair on Business Row on Wednesday. “The intent with this event is to help students, faculty and staff led him through the crowded contact a student directly in learn about all the transportation options available to them,” Lindsey Abernathy, associate director of the Office of lobby to a squad car waiting in Sustainability, said. “As campus continues to grow, it’s harder and harder to drive around in a car, so we want people the parking lot between Bishop to know about options such as the bike share programs that are available.” Hall and Paris-Yates Chapel. As SEE UPD PAGE 3 PAGE 2 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 13 SEPTEMBER 2018 OPINION THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN COLUMN EDITORIAL STAFF: SLADE RAND Lessons learned from 16 Union lunches editor-in-chief [email protected] necessarily-bad food and greatly affect our perception too much time already to its single-file lines leading of it. Our articulation of leave and go somewhere DEVNA BOSE to food items and disposal our perception of time with else — intersect with the managing editor bins. The inhabitants of words that relate to our end of Panda Express’ [email protected] the market’s lines tend to spatially focused existence line, cross-scaring all move along at a relative proves how closely related newcomers away to greener, DAVID NOWICKI trot compared to those at the two are, at least in part. more agoraphobe-friendly copy chief the Student Union. This For example, I described pastures. [email protected] is because of the sheer time as “a short, straight I would encourage any \s+$ immensity of the lines in the line” at the end of the last student, probably a fellow BLAKE ALSUP union and the need for the paragraph. freshman who has not news editor LOGAN SCOTT food to be served to students If you have ever seen a already figured this out, to [email protected] TAYLOR VANCE per order, as opposed to the movie set on the West Coast just go to the Market for BRITTANY BROWN buffet style of the market. of the U.S., then surely you lunch. Instead of having I get out of Russian 111 assistant news editors The union’s lines are in have seen at least one shot food from the union every at 11:50 a.m. on Monday, [email protected] perfect juxtaposition with of criss-crossing highways, day, you can try out the Wednesday and Friday, and the temporal experience of looping and intersecting smorgasbord open to all at 12:15 p.m. on Tuesday JUSTIN DIAL waiting in line. Whereas above and below each other with the simple swipe of and Thursday. This puts sports editor the spatial aspects of the in a burning heap of asphalt your student ID. Sure, me squarely in lunch time BEN MILLER lines are long and winding, and vehicles. Imagine these the food is not that great, — really in the thick of it. assistant sports editor the time given for a student roads from a top-down but what are you going to Thick is indeed the word to [email protected] to wait in line, masticate perspective, then take away do about it? The lines are describe the capacity of our and get to class is a short, their verticality. Imagine all shorter, at least. Your Plus 1 free-for-all dining facilities CHRISTIAN JOHNSON straight line. the roads crossing through is best used at dinner, a time on campus, and a free-for- photography editor This dissonant experience each other — that’s how which sees the union’s lines all it is. [email protected] between time and space the union’s lines look. The not nearly as long and coiled I’m talking more about felt by those in the Student back-middle inhabitants of about the whole building the Student Union than the LIAM NIEMAN Union is often a part of the Chick-fil-A’s line become like a bloated python. Rebel Market, whose overall arts & culture editor human experience. Time fast friends with those atmosphere is comparable [email protected] and space are intimately waiting for their Which Logan Scott is a freshman to that of a secondary related, and the stagnation Wich sandwiches. Those in majoring in film production education cafeteria, with its HAYDEN BENGE of the physical location we, the middle of Chick-fil-A’s from Madison. not-high-quality but not- design editor at that time, inhabit can — those who have devoted [email protected] ETHEL MWEDZIWENDIRA opinion and design editor [email protected] LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dear DM Editor: Dear Editor, SARAH HENDERSON online editor DM journalist Taylor Vance has closely followed and reported well Let’s talk about Uber. The city of Oxford did its best to prevent [email protected] on the citizen challenge to the city of Oxford’s amendment to chapter 14 Uber from coming to town a few years ago but was overridden by IVANA NGUYEN of the code. It would be amusing — if it were not so sad — that Oxford’s the state legislature. Now Uber is in its third year in Oxford. It’s social media editor police chief and mayor say they “took offense” at allegations that the convenient, it’s on your phone and thousands of people use it. But [email protected] ordinance had racial motivation or bias. There are at least two aspects now we have a problem. The problem is how the university and of possible racial bias in an action. One is intent, and the other is the the city of Oxford are treating visitors to our city that elect to use practical effect. We can give the mayor and chief all the benefit of the Uber.