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Some of the blue light phones, which can be used to report emer- gencies on campus, have been out for years. After working for a solu- tion since her sophomore year without much progress, Associ- ated Student Body Vice President Charlotte Shackelford is expected to finally see them fixed with the help of Chancellor Glenn Boyce. Shackelford ran on the prom- ise of repairing the blue lights last spring, and now she and Boyce are JEVAN PINKUS / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS working together to fulfill it by the Today, Eli Manning will announce that he will retire from the NFL. Manning played for Ole Miss from 2000 to 2003. end of the semester. Just after being announced as the new chancellor, Boyce said n illustrious football career spanning but immediately forced his way to the Giants, where that he wanted to put students at four award-winning collegiate seasons JOSHUA CLAYTON he eventually became the undisputed leader of one [email protected] the center of important conversa- A and 16 years in the NFL has officially of the most storied franchises in professional sports tions at the university. Since then, come to an end. with two Super Bowl MVP awards to show. he has been meeting with campus Ole Miss and legend Eli Manning will Manning burst onto the scene in Oxford in 2001 with constituents, mostly privately. announce his retirement from football on Friday, according 2,948 passing yards to go with 31 touchdowns and only 9 The emergency blue lights to ESPN. interceptions, earning a Conerly Trophy Award and a nod on are part of a system from Code The 39-year-old was selected with the first the Davey O’Brien Award finalist list. Blue, the leading manufacturer overall pick by the San Diego Chargers in the 2004 NFL Draft, SEE MANNING PAGE 4 for emergency phones, according to Code Blue’s chief design officer David Fleming. The lights were initially created after the University of Illi- nois at Chicago put out an all-call How to meet the chancellor next week to inventors to create something to keep students safe on campus over the selection of the as a result of the Clery Act being HADLEY HITSON chancellor and demands for signed in 1990 after 19-year- [email protected] more transparency in his role. old Jeanne Clery was sexually “We hope this is the start assaulted and murdered at Lehigh The Lyceum will open of a new tradition for the UM University. next week for the university Community that provides an Shackelford said that she has community to meet and opportunity to develop genuine been trying to fix the lights since speak with senior university connections among students her sophomore year, her first year leadership for the first “Open and senior leadership,” Mead in the ASB Senate. She worked Doors” event. said. “Given the casual nature with the University Police Depart- All senior leaders, including of the event, we believe ment and those in charge of the Chancellor Glenn Boyce, Open Doors is an excellent LiveSafe app but was told that it Provost Noel Wilkin and opportunity for students to not was not feasible, she said. Athletics Director Keith Carter only learn about the various “I worked with previous are committed to attending roles of senior leadership administrators that basically the first Open Doors event but also start meaningful just slammed the door my face and hearing from students, conversations that will and said, ‘No,’” Shackelford said. according to Assistant Vice hopefully continue beyond the “Boyce was the first person to give Chancellor for Diversity event.” me a yes.” FILE PHOTO: BILLY SCHUERMAN / THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN Shawnboda Mead. This comes Shackelford said that Boyce after a semester of controversy The Lyceum will invite students to meet prominent school faculty, SEE OPEN DOORS PAGE 8 including chancellor Glenn Boyce. SEE BLUE LIGHTS PAGE 8

TYREE VS. EDWARDS: ON CAMPUS BAR A SCORER’S PARADISE COMING THIS SEMESTER Saturday’s matchup between Ole Miss You can buy a beer in Vaught- and the Georgia will feature two teams Hemingway, and now you can looking for a turnaround after a slow have a beer after class. The Inn start in the SEC, but most notably at Ole Miss is getting a bar. it will showcase two of the most prolific scorers in the conference. SEE PAGE 2 SEE PAGE 5 PAGE 2 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 24 JANUARY 2020 On-campus bar set to open by the end of the semester

Between discussion and MASON SCIONEAUX design, the process of reno- [email protected] vating McCormick’s has taken longer than a year. The possi- The university’s on-cam- bility of featuring a bar on pus hotel, The Inn at Ole Miss, campus was made possible in plans to open a new bar-and- 2018 after the state of Missis- grill before the end of the sippi granted resort status to semester. the Inn, allowing it to serve McCormick Café, which beer at select events. Before previously only served break- then, only wine and liquor fast to hotel residents, will could be sold, and only by soon rebrand as McCormick’s, third-party vendors. featuring a full-service bar, Then, in July 2019, the restaurant and lounge. It will Inn applied for and attained be the first bar on campus a liquor license. This allowed and is named in honor of the Inn to serve any type of UM graduates David and Sue alcohol and prompted the McCormick. installation of a bar on-site. Kirk Purdom, execu- The hotel’s resort status tive director of the Ole Miss exempts it from alcohol Alumni Association, said by rules that govern the rest of featuring an in-house restau- campus. rant and bar, the Inn will be Purdom said the process more competitive with other of converting the café into high-end hotels in Oxford. a bar has been a challenge NANCY MANROE / THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN “We have a lot of guests that because it is on campus, but come in, and they just want to hotel guests have been inquir- A new bar will open at The Inn at Ole Miss in spring 2020 get a beer or just sit down and ing about an in-house bar for grab a hamburger,” Purdom years. said. “So this just makes us “There were a lot of obsta- still serve breakfast to hotel they’re 21 or not,” Purdom to start construction as soon more of a full-service hotel and cles. Otherwise, we would guests, is expected to open at said. “That’s really important as possible in order to open gets us up to the same level of have had it a long time ago.” 3 p.m. on weekdays and all to us, that (underage people) before the end of the semes- our competition in town.” McCormick’s, which will day on weekends, but simi- wouldn’t be able to have alco- ter. Purdom said that the lar to other hotel bars, it hol.” goal is to be finished in time will most likely close at 10 Once completed, McCor- to accommodate guests of p.m., Purdom said. It will mick’s will feature a Double Decker Arts Festival, be open to everyone, but he 2,000-square-foot indoor graduation and orientation. has issued strict orders about and outdoor space. The bar’s “The sooner we get it open, checking identification for menu has been designed by the more revenue we’re going alcohol sales. Ole Miss alumnus Ben Napier, to make,” he said. “We want to “The one thing I’ve told who appears in the HGTV be able to have (McCormick’s) Let Our Legal Team Work For You all of our staff (is that) we series “Home Town.” available to our guests. That’s are checking everyone’s I.D., Negotiations are underway the biggest thing.” Defense of Persons charged with: regardless of if they look like with contractors, with plans D.U.I. - 1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th Offense, Public Drunk, M.I.P., Fake I.D., Simple Assault Possession of Paraphernalia and/or Drugs Possession with Intent, Sale of Drugs, Aggravated Assault and All Other Midsdemeanor and Felony Charges 662.281.0438

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FILE PHOTO: CAROLINE NIHILL/ THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN The Fiber Arts Festival will continue through Sunday at the Powerhouse and hosts a variety of events.

Fiber Arts Festival takes off

from around the country to inspire, educate and CAROLINE NIHILL come to Oxford for opportu- promote all kinds of fiber [email protected] nities to sell, teach and learn arts. The tenth annual Fiber fiber arts. Wirtz, like many other Arts Festival is in full swing. “We have a very support- vendors,teaches classes The market opens at 10 a.m. ive community in Oxford for throughout the event. With today at the Powerhouse, the arts in general, and many different techniques asso- and there is a reception from of our residents support the ciated with fiber arts, Wirtz Rebel Radio 5 p.m. - 8 p.m tonight at the fiber festival every year,” said she is excited to teach Oxford Treehouse Gallery. Bedsworth said. other experimental ways to Festival admission costs $2 Artist Liza “Q” Wirtz is weave and create. auditions will be per day and $5 for the entire participating in her first “I love teaching free-spir- weekend. festival this year. After hear- ited, unstructured weaving The festival started on ing about the festival, Wirtz and art-batt carding — two held next week! Thursday and will end on said she was approached by of the arts I practice in my Sunday. The festival hosts Bedsworth at her business studio — and talking about events around Oxford includ- in Huntsville, where she them to a variety of people, ing activities for kids, a encouraged Wirtz to become from established fibery fans multi-vendor market, classes involved. to those who are just consid- and demonstrations. “She’s a great evangelist ering dipping a toe into fiber- The market is hosted for the event, and it sounded crafting,” Wirtz said. “I firmly primarily at the Powerhouse, like a terrific festival,” Wirtz believe that everyone is an but it is not managed by the said. artist at heart, and I’m always Yoknapatawpha Arts Council. Bedsworth, a fiber artist looking for new chances to Director Wayne Andrews said herself, was given the posi- get folks started exploring that he views the festival as a tion by previous leadership their creativity through the key example of the council’s in 2016 and said she wants to fiber arts. The Oxford Fiber role in Oxford’s community. reach as many people through Arts Festival sounded like “(The Fiber Arts Festi- the festival as possible. a terrific opportunity to do Sign up at myrebelradio.com val) provides a unique expe- The festival has grown this.” rience for residents to see into a large fiber market with Though the festival’s high-skilled craftspeople many demonstrations in the calendar is posted on the and artisans while creating past 10 years. Yoknapatawpha Arts Council an economic opportunity for “The fiber festival has website, Bedsworth said there those small businesses such continued to grow since its is a small change to Sunday’s YOU DONT WANT as the yarn, rug and quilters inception,” Bedsworth said. schedule of events. There will in our community,” Andrews “It originally began as a small be no market or activities this THEM RESPONDING said. gathering and has continu- Sunday, but the festival will Festival coordinator Andi ally grown to include many offer one class in the confer- TO YOUR TEXT. Bedsworth said that the vendors and teachers who ence room in Newk’s, pending market holds 20 vendor spots travel from several states to enough advanced registra- and has a minimum atten- teach and sell their wares.” tion. dance of 1000 people. Artists Bedsworth said she wants

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@RealSkipBayless @RapSheet Eli Manning: good guy, Peyton’s With Eli Manning retiring, my one brother, Archie’s son. Not a Hall of Eli story: I was 25 & working at the Famer. If not for the Luckiest Pass in Clarion-Ledger in Mississippi. Flew Super Bowl history, and one “bad” to NY to write a feature on the ex- Tom Brady pass that should’ve been Ole Miss QB. I requested a 1-on-1, caught by Welker, Eli would have no expecting nothing. I was nobody. He rings, a .500 record and three NFL gave me 15 minutes in a sit down. interception titles. Just classy, cool & appreciated.

@JordanRaanan @JaySaysWords Eli Manning made a quarter-billion Eli Manning dollars chuckin a football. First completion: Tiki Barber (Week $252,000,000. 1, 2004) First TD: Jeremy Shockey (Week 11, He wins. 2004) mackenzie Last completion: Sterling Shepard @diannaESPN (Week 15, 2019) Last TD: Darius Slayton (Week 15, Drew Brees on Eli Manning “you can 2019) not write the story of the NFL without inclduing Eli Manning.” #giants

@KirkCousins8 Congrats to Eli Manning on a great @KVanValkenburg career. Much respect for him as a My favortie Eli Manning anecdote is player, competitor and person. True when Rory Mcllroy was at the gym at legend of the game. 6 am during the Masters and Brady and the Mannings walked in and Rory told the press later: Wow it was @art_stapleton so inspiring to see how Tom and Peyton grind during the off-season, As far as the debate between Eli just so cool. And Eli was there also. Manning, Ben Roethlisberger and Philip Rivers, I wholeheartedly believe this much is true: PHOTO COURTESY: KEITH ALLISON VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS @Ian_OConnor Neither Roethlisbergernor Rivers ILLUSTRATION: KATHERINE BUTLER / THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN would have survived New York and Eli Manning’s Hall of Fame case: had the success here Eli did. The More TDs than Montana & Elway trio ended up where they were More passing yards than Montana supposed to end up. & Elway snapped during the 2017 season when 222 Consecutive starts (including MANNING Manning was benched for Geno Smith, postseason) continued from page 1 football fans will remember Manning as 1 of 5 men to win multiple Super @NYGDaily he was in his runs to Super Bowl XLII and Bowl MVPs XLVI. Beat greatest QB & coach ever in 2 Eli Manning is going to the Hall The New Orleans native improved upon Manning pulled out some of the gutsiest Super Bowls of Fame. Stop wasting your time that with 3,401 yards in 2002 and 3,600 playoff performances of all time, escaping getting mad at people online who in 2003, proving he was the best college the Patriots defense and completing the Case closed. are creating new metrics to judge quarterback in the nation. on the way to a go-ahead how players get voted into the HOF. By the time he graduated from Ole score to win his first title and defeating the @darrenrovell #10 is going to be in Canton. Miss, Manning had a Maxwell Award, SEC Tom Brady again with a late drive in 2011. Most Valuable Player Award, First-Team Manning’s performances on the biggest Eli Manning retires as highest All-American nod and a Cotton Bowl win, stage in those clutch situations puts him earner in NFL history ($252 million). in the Hall of Fame conversation and he’ll Current No. 2? Peyton ($249 million) @DanSchneierNFL just to name a few accolades. Eli’s heroics as a Rebel combined with certainly be considered when he’s eligible 2011 is most misremembered in Eli the name on the back of his jersey puts him in 2025, despite his struggles toward the @mortreport end of his career. Manning’s career. People think he into a different stratosphere in of Ole Miss Eli Manning is certainly defined by was OK that year behind a “great” D folklore, which is why many Ole Miss fans Whether Eli continues his work in football on the sidelines coaching, in two Super Bowl wins over @Patriots #Giants defense finished bottom 5, followed him all the way up to New York but ask 2011 @49ers defense and when he started his professional career. the booth commentating or relaxing on rushing offense bottom 5, pass they will tell you what a warrior Eli Even as the arm talent faded and the the beach, his work on the field will be OL dead last. was in NFC championship game that streak of 210 regular season starts was remembered for years to come. He willed them to 9 wins and a SB @Giants won 20-17 in OT in SF. Eli with a bad roster. took a beating, kept getting off the Outlier year, sure, but it happened. grass to deliver.

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MEN’S Tyree vs. Edwards Why this weekend’s game will be a scorer’s paradise

through 18 games. Georgia fell to Kentucky 89-79 JOSHUA CLAYTON Edwards is liable to take when he scored 16. [email protected] the ball up the court and pull While relying on Edwards from the top of the perimeter might not be a formula for Saturday’s matchup or use his size to set a screen winning gamesbasketball, between Ole Miss and Georgia before getting to the rim or there is a legitimate point to will feature two teams looking popping out for a 19-foot be made: wWhy have an for a turnaround after a slow jumper. NBA lottery talent if you’re not start in the SEC, but, most You won’t see Tyree setting going to use him? notably, it will showcase two any screens at 6-foot-2 and, This is where the problem of the most prolific scorers in 195 pounds, but the only lies for Ole Miss. While Tyree the conference. senior on the Ole Miss team is not the draft prospect that The showdown between uses his fours -years of expe- Edwards is, the Rebels have the Bulldogs and the Rebels rience to get to his spots on had to lean on his offense could be a footrace between the perimeter and work in the as iflike he wereis. Edwards two of the SEC’s top- three midrange to pile up points has attempted 81 more shots scorers in Anthony Edwards every night. than the next Bulldog, and and Breein Tyree. The two are The Bulldogs are 1-4 in the Tyree has 87 more times than currently tied at 18.9 points league and are not a bad team anyone else playing for Ole per game, accounting for the by any stretch, but they do rely Miss. lion’s share of the offensive heavily on Edward’s produc- This brand of basketball production forof their respec- tion considerably, which, as is not sustainable for success tive teams. Rebel fans know, is not always over a full season, but it could The stat lines and aver- a good recipe. make for an entertaining back- ages are nearly identical for Prior to the season, Geor- and-forth game on Saturday the two, but the methods that gia beat Memphis by three FILE PHOTO: JOSH ALINSUB / THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN afternoon. result in the production are before being defeated by ILLUSTRATION: KATHERINE BUTLER / THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN We’ll see both players glid- different, and that’s apparent Kentucky and Auburn. The Breein Tyree is the leading scorer for Ole Miss and averages almost 19 ing around the court, trading just from looking at them. Bulldogs’ only conference points per game. shots to muster any type of In one corner, we have’ve win wascame against Tennes- offense, and both of their got Edwards. Listed at see when Edwards scored 26 leading scorers should be fun at least 10 points in every SEC They most recently suffered 6-foot-5 and, 225 pounds, the points with six rebounds and to watch play while both teams game where Edwards didoes an embarrassing 91-59 loss freshman looks like a bona- three assists. are struggling. not score more than 20 points. where Edwards scored 19, and fide one-and-done prospect The Bulldogs have lost by PAGE 6 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 24 JANUARY 2020

COLUMN Why everyone is watching season two of “You”

hiding behind corners and involved in the lives of his CAROLINE NIHILL later locking people in the landlord and her family. [email protected] weird glass box he keeps in a Despite his intentions to be storage unit. Many fans also good and to keep his landlord’s He’s moderately attractive, hint that Joe could be forgiven young sister away from well read and caring, and he’s or that he could — in theory — an older comedian named back to his old habits. Most be a good guy. Henderson, Joe’s solution to people with a Netflix account In a Variety Actors on the issue is to get rid of the know resident serial killer Joe Actors interview between comedian permanently. This Goldberg. Badgley and actress Gina happens while he pushes his Penn Badgley, who plays Rodriguez, he talked about agenda for Love to become as Joe, is admittedly good- how people respond to his obsessed with him as he is with looking. I personally loved him character and how sometimes her. in “Gossip Girl,” but his most Joe can be more charming While the show gives the recent murderous character than creepy to viewers. audience a glance into Joe’s belongs behind bars. “The cultural norms incline past that involves a violent Not only do many people us to forgive a certain kind of household and trauma, this is know about him, but they person — namely someone not an excuse for his behavior. are fans of Joe while still who looks like myself — less It does give causation for the acknowledging his disastrous so, someone who looks like PHOTO COURTESY: “YOU” VIA NETFLIX crimes he’s committed; Joe habits that include injuring you,” Badgley said. “The ILLUSTRATION: KATHERINE BUTLER / THE DAILY MISSISSSIPPIAN does have a knack for “helping” people, killing them and titular character, in my case, the ones he loves. stalking victims. His is someone who is doing Joe often thinks he is or audience forgiveness of Joe, During the first season, murderous tendencies happen unforgivable things, yet we helping when, in reality, he and rightfully so. Despite how Joe kills Beck’s friends and after he isn’t able to control his keep performing backflips to worsens the situation for harmless Joe looks in every boyfriend. After Beck figures girlfriends, or his girlfriends’ figure out how it is that we’re himself and others. He inserts episode, he still ruthlessly kills out what has been going on, friends or exes. going to forgive him.” himself into situations that he without feeling much regret. Joe kills her, too. 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fake draft letters. Tweets in Iraq, where U.S. troops solved before we venture into but also frames the worldview KATIE DAMES with videos of a rapper started fighting to topple the ideological conflicts abroad. of a generation that doesn’t [email protected] dancing with the caption, regime of Saddam Hussein But why is the U.S. still remember a time when the “me dodging Iran’s bullets.” in 2003 and have been risking resources and lives U.S. was not at war in the As college students As U.S. involvement in the combating the threat of ISIS in the Middle East? It’s Middle East. in the U.S. anticipated Middle East continues, since 2014. As much content not for oil or Communism; War has become a their returns to their confusion, frustration and as there is on war, there’s Secretary of State Mike national punchline at respective campuses, 3,000 misinformation about little discussion of whom war Pompeo suggested America’s the expense of American troops prepared for their American objectives in would truly impact and why a goal is to “expel every last soldiers fighting abroad, deployment to the Middle the region persist. Joking war would matter to America. Iranian boot” from Syria. The their families and those in the East following increased about being “dead inside” Similar to the Vietnam answer is far from simple, Middle East who are suffering threats of retaliatory as a reaction to world events War era, people who and the confusion persists, from ongoing U.S. military action by Iran. The Trump connects social media project the most anxiety are even among those who have engagement. However, we Administration followed its users. However, the memes those who are more likely grown up in a world where cannot completely fault pattern of unexpected, and lose their humor when we to be disproportionately the U.S. is always at conflict those who are fearful of often risky, foreign policy recognize that actual people, impacted by a war with in the Middle East. the consequences of U.S. moves by killing Maj. Gen. including U.S. military Iran. The draft for Vietnam On TikTok, a platform actions in Iran for sharing Qasem Soleimani, the second personnel, are suffering and disproportionately affected where many World War III their anxieties on Twitter most powerful man in Iran, dying as a result of reckless black men, so it’s worth memes are surfacing, 41% and using memes as a coping on Jan. 3 at the Baghdad U.S. foreign policy decisions. noting that black Twitter was of the users are between mechanism. The problem International Airport in Iraq. Through digging in the the first community to widely the ages of 16 and 24. Many of U.S. involvement in the In the standard meme trenches of Twitter, share World War III memes. of these users weren’t even Middle East is complex, and “Generation Z” manner I repeatedly saw memes Dr. Martin Luther King alive during 9/11, before the solutions and reactions to it (this generation includes suggesting that the fighting Jr., who we celebrated this U.S. initiated engagement are just as confusing. people born after 1996), was going on in Iran, which week, was both a civil rights in its longest conflict, the we combatted our fears of is one of the foundations of and anti-war activist. In his War in Afghanistan. The Katie Dames is a junior catastrophe with memes. misunderstanding about the “Beyond Vietnam” speech, meme culture does not only international studies major We saw fake Snapchat maps current situation with Iran. he noted that problems with represent Generation Z’s from St. Louis, Missouri. of friends partying in Iran. The U.S. has no bases in Iran democracy at home, like tendency to express shared TikToks of people trashing - the U.S. killed Soleimani racial inequality, must be anxieties over social media

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important small businesses closer connections with their an amendment to create represented by a person who EMILY STEWART are to our state. In fact, 99.3% employees. Small business outreach to small businesses isn’t tied down by definitions [email protected] of Mississippi businesses owners have the privilege impacted by retaliatory and can advocate for what are small businesses, and of speaking face-to-face tariffs (H.Amdt.682). He’s we need, when we need it. Nearing the 2020 federal almost 50% of Mississippi with their employees and had his chance for the last Try not to let the label scare elections, Mississippi’s first employees work for them. community and know what five years; it’s time for fresh you, especially when it could congressional district has Mississippians do not just each needs to thrive –– not blood. benefit your future. stepped into the spotlight. count on small businesses, just survive. “Democratic Socialist” is Mississippians, if you’re HOW TO PLAY Antonia Eliason, an associate they depend on them –– if Since small businesses an intimidating label for a lot tired of a political climate law professor at Ole Miss not for their income then for are so important to our state, of folks in our state –– it is that doesn’t seem to serve Complete the grid so and a Democratic Socialist, countless conveniences in why does the National Small often incorrectly associated its constituents, then try that every row, column is running for Congress. their daily lives. Business Administration with Communist regimes something new and vote and 3x3 box contains the Trent Kelly, the Republican Eliason knows this. She’s (NSBA) only receive 6% of across Europe and Asia. Democrat (it doesn’t turn you incumbent, is running numbers 1 through 9 with an expert in the field of the Commerce Department’s Socialism is used as a scare into one). against her. In an interview economics. At our law school, budget? Why do hardworking tactic even though few people no repeats. with Y’all Politics, she Antonia has taught, among Mississippians continue can agree on its definition. Emily Stewart is a explained that she decided other things, International to struggle? The answer However, Mississippians’ freshman international DIFFICULTY LEVEL to run because she wanted to Trade Law, International is in our congressional needs are constantly studies and Arabic major ensure that a Democrat runs Investment Law, Contracts, representation. changing, so we should be from Columbia, Tennessee. against Kelly. Eliason is the EU Law, the Law of Armed Kelly does not have first to run as a Democratic Conflict. She knows how congressional history of Opinion Policies: Socialist in Mississippi. the economy works, and she helping Mississippians. In Eliason sees eye-to-eye knows that large corporations 2019, Kelly voted against Columns do not represent the views of The University of with progressive superstars do not favor Mississippians. multiple bills that had the Mississippi or The Daily Mississippian. The Daily Mississippian Bernie Sanders and Building businesses opportunity to help small, welcomes letters to the editor, which should be emailed to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, from scratch and cultivating and often vulnerable, [email protected]. Letters should be no longer than 300 but if you are a conservative local economies is what businesses. These include who is tired of false promises words. They may be edited for clarity, brevity and libel. Third- Mississippians do best, the Raise the Wage Act party letters and those with pseudonyms or no name will not be from the GOP, she might be and it comes with a lot (H.R.582), the Farm the best candidate for you. published. Letters are limited to one per individual per month. of advantages. Small Workforce Modernization Letters should include contact information, including relationship Let me explain. businesses are able to have Act of 2019 (H.R.5038) and You probably realize how to the university, if applicable. PAGE 8 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 24 JANUARY 2020

campaign for vice president, many people in the Lyceum Mannery thinks that while said that she was not aware of who are dedicated to ensuring the university will continue to BLUE LIGHTS the issue with the blue lights on OPEN DOORS that the student experience be face controversy, if students continued from page 1 continued from page 1 campus until she heard about it as pleasing and accessible as are given the opportunity to thought it was unbelievable that no from the campaign. The idea originated in possible.” interact “with the people they one else tried to fix the emergency “Having easy access to UPD a meeting between Vice have been trained to hate,” blue lights before him. made me feel very safe on campus, Chancellor for Diversity and there might be a chance for “He recently followed up with and it was part of the reason I ended Community Engagement increased collaboration and “In all actuality, there me at the end of last semester (to up choosing Ole Miss. I’ve never felt Katrina Caldwell and Joshua cooperation between students let me know) that he’s taking a golf unsafe on campus, but having the Mannery, a junior English are so many people in the and administrators when future cart ride around campus and iden- blue lights gives my parents peace and political science major problems arise. Lyceum who are dedicated tifying all the blue lights that need of mind since I’m thirteen hours who serves as the Associated “This event is necessary to ensuring that the work,” Shackelford said. away from home,” Endorf said. Student Body Director of because, if my short stint as Boyce could not be reached by “I wasn’t pleased to hear that Campus Outreach. student experience be as outreach director has taught the time of publication. they didn’t work, but I’m very opti- From there, Mead worked me anything, it’s that the pleasing and accessible as The ASB Infrastructure mistic for the changes that are with Mannery to assemble the senior leadership here at the Committee is also taking a look at going to be made. I know it’s an Open Doors Committee, a team possible.” University of Mississippi are - Joshua Mannery the emergency blue lights to help issue that students and administra- comprised of ASB and Columns some of the most kind-hearted, ASB Director of Outreach fix them. tion can both get behind, and I’m Society students and university compassionate leaders I have Ella Endorf, a sophomore excited to see what changes will be staff, to organize the gathering. had the chance to interact public policy leadership major made regarding student safety and Mannery said the main Mead said Open Doors will with,” Mannery said. and a member of Shackelford’s comfort in the future.” purpose of the event is to give build upon The Longest Table Students are welcome to students a chance to engage dinner that the university come and go to Open Doors with their administrators in hosted in the Grove on Oct. as they please, but the Office person and humanize them as 27. This was Boyce’s first of Diversity and Community individuals. public appearance since his Engagement encourages all who “There has always persisted controversial appointment as plan on attending to register GET CLASS CREDIT! the idea that administration the university’s 18th chancellor, online so that it can provide can be condensed down to and it came after over three enough food and beverages. Take SCUBA one faceless entity to which weeks of students and faculty Thus far, over 50 students have students directed all of their protesting and condemning registered, and the first 100 at Ole Miss ire and anger whenever things the Mississippi Institutions students to show up will receive of Higher Learning Board of a free t-shirt. The event is next EL142 went wrong,” Mannery said. Text Turner at “In all actuality, there are so Trustees for their decision to Tuesday from 5:30-7:00 p.m. appoint him. 662-202-4433 for info!

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