Wiz Khalifa Captivates Audience with Pavilion Performance
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University of Mississippi eGrove Daily Mississippian Journalism and New Media, School of 8-28-2017 August 28, 2017 The Daily Mississippian Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline Recommended Citation The Daily Mississippian, "August 28, 2017" (2017). Daily Mississippian. 183. https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline/183 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Journalism and New Media, School of at eGrove. It has been accepted for inclusion in Daily Mississippian by an authorized administrator of eGrove. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Monday, August 28, 2017 THE DAILY Volume 106, No. 5 MISSISSIPPIAN Wiz Khalifa captivates audience with Pavilion performance BY: OLIVIA MORGAN he highly anticipated and controversial appear- ance of hip-hop artist Wiz Khalifa had the Pavilion at Ole Miss bouncing Friday night. Herds of stu- dents wrapped around the basketball arena from theT front entrance and down around the parking garage on Hill Drive almost three hours before doors opened. A’Maya Jones, a theater major from Crystal Springs, was one of the fi rst to sprint across the tarp-covered basketball court at 8 p.m. and claim her spot in the front row. The pit soon was fl ooded with students, cresting past the sound stage and into the stadium seats. “I’ve been a fan as long as I can remember,” Jones said while waiting in the elbow-to-elbow front of the pit. She reminisced on when the rapper’s single “Black and Yel- low” topped the Billboard charts in February 2011, when she was in middle school. “I’ve got my Chuck Taylors on, so he’s got to play that ‘Taylor Gang,’” she said, lifting one of her sneakers to show her loyalty. Chants of “Hotty Toddy” and “We want Wiz” cropped up in the crowd as the students mingled before the lights went down. San Diego-based rapper Rob Stone took the stage fi rst, hyping up the crowd with his songs including “Chill Bill” and “Rolling Stone (I’m Almost Ready).” Around 10 p.m., Wiz Khalifa took the stage, opening with a fl ash of lights, fog and his 2016 collaboration with Travis Scott, “Bake Sale.” Jones was able to hear both of her requests, as the rapper jaunted through a mix of some of his most popular songs span- ning his 12-year career. At one point, Khalifa even played Nir- vana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” Khalifa’s stage presence captivated the Pavilion, as he led the audience through song after song with waving hands, an echo- ing chant of lyrics and, at one point, an arpeggio of “yeahs.” Before ending the show with a string of hits including “Work Hard, Play Hard,” “Young Wild and Free” and stadium pre- SEE WIZ KHALIFA PAGE 6 PHOTO BY: MARLEE CRAWFORD Houston-area students react to Hurricane Harvey JOHN TOULOUPIS continue to across southeast- integrated marketing commu- ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR ern Texas,” the National Hur- nications major from Bellaire, ricane Center's tweeted. “Do Texas, said his family woke up Category 4 Hurricane Har- not attempt to travel if you Sunday morning with water in vey touched down on the coast are in a safe place, and do not their house. of Texas on Friday night, ham- drive into fl ooded roadways.” “My parents packed up and mering cities like Houston, Five deaths have been re- went over to the neighbors Rockport and Galveston with ported, and the Coast Guard with the highest house,” Smith winds of more than 130 mph has responded to hundreds said. “There are around 30 and severe fl ooding. of calls to help evacuate and people over there, including Weather offi cials report an rescue stranded families and children and pets.” estimated 24 inches have fall- people. Ole Miss students Houston Mayor Sylvester en in the past 24 hours alone from the Houston area have Turner told everyone to stay and estimate some parts of the watched the storm from a put, opting not to evacuate coast will receive more than distance and relied on family the city’s six million residents. 50 inches of rainfall. members to assess the dam- Smith said he knew a lot of As of Sunday, the National age to their hometowns. Many people who were mad about Hurricane Center still warned are used to the tropical weath- the lack of an evacuation no- against the storm damage to er the area gets each year, but tice. come in the following week. PHOTO COURTESY: NOAA the powerful storm still took “In the past two hurricanes, “Ongoing catastrophic and Hurricane Harvey made landfall on the Texas coast at approximately 10 p.m. some locals by surprise. life-threatening fl ooding will Friday. King Smith, a sophomore SEE HARVEY PAGE 5 IN THIS ISSUE... OPINION NEWS LIFESTYLES SPORTS What's important in Texas? 'A queer celebration' Zombies rise from the kudzu Volleyball starts off strong Investigating Texas' immigration policy in the Third annual pride camp celebrates Mississippi-made movie subtly tackles Going 3-1 in the Rebel Invitational, coach wake of Hurricane Harvey identity and offers support health and veganism McRoberts’ squad shows promise for 2017 PAGE 2 PAGE 4 PAGE 9 PAGE 12 PAGE 2 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 28 AUGUST 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] DEVNA BOSE lifestyles editor [email protected] JONATHAN GIBSON COLUMN assistant lifestyles editor [email protected] Texas law prioritizes policy over people LIAM NIEMAN caused by the storm.” legalize and normalize pro- leave any country, includ- opinion editor JAZ BRISACK COLUMNIST Associating a marginal- filing by police. ing his own, and to return [email protected] ized group of people with All officers – including to his country.” Further, Ar- As Hurricane Harvey “crime” to normalize dis- those on university cam- ticle 15 states “No one shall HAYDEN BENGE made landfall on the Texas crimination is a classic puses – will be allowed to be arbitrarily ... denied the ETHEL MWEDZIWENDIRA coast as a Category 4 storm racist dog whistle. Because question and check the im- right to change his nation- design editors and Gov. Greg Abbott au- anyone without certain migration status of those ality.” [email protected] thorized a massive evacua- documents will be deport- they detain and will then be International law, there- tion effort, the Customs and ed, this blanket policy puts required to deliver the un- fore, requires all people be ANESSA GUESS Border Protection Agency countless innocent people documented to ICE. allowed to travel and return social media editor (CBP) announced that its at risk. This heartless bill will re- safely under normal con- anti-immigrant agenda was Making matters worse, inforce a culture of fear. ditions. How much more ADVERTISING more important than the this policy change comes And so, the government should people be able to SALES MANAGER safety of Texas residents. just four days before Tex- is occupying the paradoxi- flee an emergency without Blake Hein In previous administra- as implements its anti-im- cal position of encouraging fear? [email protected] tions, checkpoint opera- migrant Senate Bill 4. This people to trust and comply Our unjust and racist im- tions ceased during natural SALES ACCOUNT law, which passed earlier with its recommendations migration policies destroy disasters. No one checked EXECUTIVES this year, targets sanctuary while simultaneously giv- lives. They tear apart fam- the papers of Texans flee- Cary Allen cities. These municipali- ing them every reason not ilies. They take away liveli- ing Hurricane Ike in 2008, Cameron Collins ties, which include Hous- to do so. As Texas Sen. Syl- hoods. They force refugees Isaac in 2012 or Matthew Sam Dethrow ton, Austin and Dallas-Fort via Garcia said during the back into deadly situations. in 2016. While emergency Ethan Gray Worth, currently refuse to debate over the bill, people And now, they force peo- shelters and food banks are Kathryn Hathorne turn undocumented resi- are going “from a broken ple to choose between brav- continuing to comply with dents over to federal immi- taillight to a broken family ing the winds and waves of this standard protocol, Bor- gration officers for deporta- to broken trust in the sys- a Category 4 hurricane and S. GALE DENLEY der Patrol is diverging dan- tion. tem.” facing the potentially great- STUDENT MEDIA CENTER gerously from precedent. The bill will punish ju- Article 13 of the Inter- er dangers posed by a gov- PATRICIA THOMPSON Announcing that its road- risdictions that refuse to national Declaration of ernment claiming to want Assistant Dean side checkpoints will re- comply with Immigration Human Rights declares to “protect” them. Student Media main open during the evac- Daily Mississippian Faculty and Customs Enforcement “Everyone has the right to Adviser uation efforts, Border Patrol (ICE) and other agencies’ freedom of movement and Jaz Brisack is a junior said it “will remain vigilant demands, slapping them residence within the bor- general studies major from FOLLOW US ON against any effort by crim- with fines of $25,000 a day. ders of each state,” and Oxford. 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