University of Mississippi eGrove Daily Mississippian Journalism and New Media, School of 4-28-2017 April 28, 2017 The Daily Mississippian Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline Recommended Citation The Daily Mississippian, "April 28, 2017" (2017). Daily Mississippian. 1120. https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline/1120 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]. Friday, April 28, 2017 THE DAILY Volume 105, No. 134 MISSISSIPPIANTHE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SERVING OLE MISS AND OXFORD SINCE 1911 Visit theDMonline.com @thedm_news WHAT’S INSIDE... Reasons why we should kill Local artist shares story Engram selected in the death penalty behind Double Decker poster fi rst round of NFL draft SEE OPINION PAGE 2 SEE LIFESTYLES PAGE 7 SEE SPORTS PAGE 12 Tech expert talks man and machine at CTX New ASB president outlines goals for campus JOHN TOULOUPIS [email protected] Dion Kevin sits under the shade of the oak trees in the Grove, feeling comfortable in the place he grew up. Born and raised in Oxford as the oldest of fi ve, Kevin knows no other home. “Everyone thinks that grow- ing up here, you are exposed to the university and every facet of it all the time,” Kevin said. “The only interaction schools in Ox- ford really have with Ole Miss are sporting events and maybe, like, a science fair or two.” PHOTOS BY: MARLEE CRAWFORD Stepping onto the University of Mississippi’s campus freshman LEFT: Brian Uzzi, Northwestern University professor, explains the use and necessity of machine learning in everyday life. RIGHT: Pepper demonstrates her dancing ability year as a student rather than a Thursday at The Pavilion fan was a transformative experi- have to know where it’s valu- and people are wary of it. This, proposed that society should ence. CLARA TURNAGE able,” Uzzi said. he said, is partially because of start thinking of how it can work “People expect to have a 13th [email protected] Uzzi, a professor at North- the competitive mentality many in collaboration with technolo- grade when they come to Ole western University, spoke about bring to innovative technology. gy. Miss, but that hasn’t been the When Brian Uzzi spoke to three multi-million dollar com- Uzzi told the folktale of John “The idea is not to think about experience for me at all,” Kevin the crowd of more than 200 panies that own relatively little: Henry. In Henry’s time, the machines the way John Henry said. students and visitors to The Pa- Amazon, Uber and Facebook. story was simple. Man versus thought about them – as a com- Kevin got involved on cam- vilion, he had one goal in mind: These industries primarily rely machine: The machine may petitor – but as a collaborator.” pus by joining Phi Delta Theta Make machine learning ap- upon machine learning to rec- have had more strength, but a Perhaps the closest example of fraternity, service organization proachable – even interesting – ommend new friends, new pur- human’s brain was far superior. machine learning – and the fear Lambda Sigma and College to the layman. chases and to coordinate Uber But now, that’s changing, Uzzi that surrounds us – was Pepper, Corps. Through College Corps, Uzzi, an artifi cial intelligence drivers, but they don’t produce said. a highly intelligent, humanoid Kevin pledged 300 service hours expert who spoke at Thursday’s content, have stocks from which “Machines have begun to chal- robot that can detect emotions at Leap Frog, an after-school tu- C Spire Tech Experience, said a user can purchase or own any lenge us in the places we thought and speak in sentences. toring program for kids in fi rst machine learning can benefi t the cars. we couldn’t be challenged,” Uzzi Upstairs, Pepper spoke in full through third grade. everyday person. Despite the benefi ts that can said. sentences, gestured and asked “I’ve been involved with Leap “You don’t have to learn how come from using machine learn- Instead of a dichotomy of to do machine learning. You ing, Uzzi said many businesses man versus the machine, Uzzi SEE C SPIRE PAGE 3 SEE KEVIN PAGE 3 Theora Hamblett: ‘Gone, but not forgotten’ LYNDY BERRYHILL seasons turn and the leaves life of Paris. Bright shades she came from.” [email protected] change. Later, these vistas of yellow, orange, blue Jones is disap- of rural Mississippi would and purple brighten farm pointed when most inspire paintings hanging scenes in Hamblett’s dis- people instantly Just south of Oxford in in American embassies, tinct primitive style. know about William Paris, a small stand of trees the Museum of Modern Art “The brushstrokes Faulkner, Oxford’s and knee-high golden grass and the private galleries weren’t the greatest in the literary icon, or El- shield a family cemetery of fabulously wealthy men world, but it was how the vis Presley, Tupe- where graves date back to like Nelson A. Rockefeller. pictures are presented to lo’s musical legend, the 1800s. Only a few yards Now, Paris native Harvey you,” Jones said. “There but overlook Ham- away from the cemetery, Jones guards the hallowed are women out there who blett’s significance artist Theora Hamblett was ground where she is in- made great things for the to Southern art. born in 1895, the daughter terred. state of Mississippi, and He once tried of a 72-year-old Civil War Jones said his favorite they’re not mentioned to get a portion of veteran and his wife. part of Hamblett’s paint- as often as the men are. I Highway 315 named She grew up on the family ings is the bright colors she just wish that more people chicken farm, watching the used to illustrate the past knew about her and where PHOTO BY: CAMERON BROOKS SEE HAMBLETT PAGE 4 Harvey Jones at Hamblett’s grave. PAGE 2 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 28 APRIL 2017 OPINION COLUMN The death penalty goes against goals of justice This debate, though, should penalty and lower crime to eliminate murder through doesn’t allow for this type of have been settled a long rates. In fact, states without execution, more innocent lives justice. Instead of considering time ago. There are few good capital punishment have lower are lost. the facts of what actually reasons to support the use of murder rates than those with This begs the question: deters crime, it is an emotional capital punishment, and its it. Why do we keep the death reaction of meeting violence many flaws make it a nearly The death penalty does not penalty around? One reason with more violence. It makes untenable position in today’s only fail to achieve its purpose is the human instinct to meet society more dangerous, not America. as a punishment but also violence with violence. When safer, for the innocent. The main reason the death causes a great deal of harm and the public sees a horrific Capital punishment penalty is supported in the injustice. crime, the first reaction is often also rejects the notion of world today is the myth that The exoneration of someone extreme punishment to satisfy redemption for criminals. it deters other violent crimes. on death row is not uncommon; a thirst for revenge. Instead of allowing them the DANIEL PAYNE A study found that 88 percent for every 10 people who have While “an eye for an eye” opportunity to change their [email protected] of experts in criminal justice been executed since the death worked as a justice system in ways and become contributing studies denied the claim that penalty was reinstated in the ancient times, we have the members of society, even if Two men were executed capital punishment actually U.S., one person has been set ability to move past it for a that is while incarcerated, Monday night in Arkansas deters future criminals. free. more progressive, restorative execution cuts their lives short. in the nation’s first double Crimes that merit such It’s not difficult to imagine, sense of justice. The old ways of When trying to decide execution since 2000. severe punishments are often then, the number of people thinking about justice revolved what justice is, we should Oklahoma and Louisiana, done hastily or by those in who aren’t recorded in this around what the wronged felt contemplate the goal of our on the other hand, have need of mental healthcare. statistic because they were and what revenge they desired. system. If it is to make a recently worked to end capital Neither of these scenarios executed before they could Now, our views of justice healthier, more whole society punishment in their states, involve a careful weighing of be exonerated. One study should progress, being where redemption and safety even if only temporarily. the consequences of crime. estimates that for every person centered on the healing of all are priorities, we should move The sudden strides across the The difference between life who was exonerated, another parties involved. Perhaps our past the death penalty. country in different directions in prison or death probably was wrongly killed. justice system can work for have reignited the debate on means very little to someone This is the tragic irony the best outcome of the victim, Daniel Payne is a freshman the efficacy and morality of the considering such heinous acts.