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University of Mississippi eGrove Daily Mississippian 3-21-2019 March 21, 2019 The Daily Mississippian Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline Recommended Citation The Daily Mississippian, "March 21, 2019" (2019). Daily Mississippian. 151. https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline/151 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, MARCH 21, 2019 | VOLUME 107, NO. 85 MISSISSIPPIAN THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI | SERVING OLE MISS AND OXFORD SINCE 1911 WOMEN’S TENNIS HITS THE WRITTEN IN THE STARS: THIS GROUND RUNNING IN SEC PLAY YEAR’S ELECTION HOROSCOPES The Rebels have won three straight Election season is stressful. Fortunately matches in the conference after for this year’s ASB presidential dropping their first two. Senior Tea candidates, we’ve looked to the Jandric has stepped up and won stars to predict how the next two six consecutive matches herself. weeks of campaigning will go. SEE THEDMONLINE.COM FOR COVERAGE SEE PAGE 5 Student Methodists divided on LGBTQ exclusion media to try have broken the policies DANIEL PAYNE regarding LGBTQ inclusion in [email protected] the past. Rev. Karen Oliveto, host ASB in San Francisco, was voted The United Methodist the first openly lesbian United Church strengthened its oppo- Methodist bishop in 2016, sition to LGBTQ inclusion at its debate though the church’s highest global General Conference last court later ruled that her con- month. The Traditional Plan, secration violated church law. GRIFFIN NEAL which bolstered the standing Many Methodist ministers have [email protected] policy that banned same-sex performed same-sex weddings, For the first time in recent marriage and the ordination of and some have faced penalties, history, student media will LGBTQ people, passed with 53 varying by jurisdiction. host and moderate the Asso- percent of the vote. The Traditional Plan included ciated Student Body debate. The decision was recently stricter penalties for clergy who The four student media criticized for confirmed voting broke church law. A first offense organizations at Ole Miss errors, but it is unknown how carries a mandatory sentence of — The Daily Mississippian, the church will react. one year’s suspension without a NewsWatch, Rebel Radio United Methodist orga- salary. A second offense would and the Ole Miss Yearbook nizations in Oxford are now lead to losing credentials as a — will work with ASB to deciding what to do in response United Methodist minister. produce the debate. to the plan. “The result was devastating,” This Monday, all 13 candi- “At one level, nothing has said Helen Ryde, Southeastern dates running for the six ASB changed, and at another level, regional organizer for the Rec- executive cabinet positions everything has changed,” said onciling Ministries Network. will take the stage at the Over- Rev. Eddie Rester, the lead “Especially in the South, when by Center auditorium at 6 minister at Oxford University a large institution like the UMC p.m. to answer questions from United Methodist Church. makes a statement like this, it the student body. He said that the way the has a negative impact beyond In years past, ASB hosted community perceived the the walls of our church.” its own debates, and last year’s church would change from The Reconciling Ministries was moderated by Elections the vote, but the day-to-day Network is an organization that Commissioner and IFC operations would not. Oxford works for LGBTQ inclusion in President Bennett Wilfong. University UMC has not per- the United Methodist Church. At UMC’s General This year, student media formed a same-sex marriage or Nearly 1,000 Methodist com- Conference, held in St. leaders hope to offer students had an openly LGBTQ minister munities are a part of the net- Louis, the Traditional a wider opportunity to voice in its history. work, three of which are located Plan passed by a margin their opinions. Many United Methodist of 54 votes. churches across the coun- ASB President Elam Miller SEE METHODIST ILLUSTRATION AND GRAPHIC: MACKENZIE LINNEEN PAGE 3 said this year’s change offers the student body a transparent forum in which to hear directly from the candidates. 8,157 miles away: Local Muslims mourn “Being able to ensure transparency and an increased ELLIE GREENBERGER our community have always platform for students to eval- [email protected] been self-aware, given the rise uate their representatives is of Islamophobia in today’s going to make a lasting impact A small vase of flowers world,” Muslim Student on campus,” Miller said. gifted from an Oxford local sits Association member Norah Slade Rand, editor-in-chief on a table in the only Mosque Daghestani said. “But to now of The Daily Mississippian, in town. have more fear generated for said this year’s debate will be According to Muslim Student Muslims to attend to their more oriented to informing Association adviser Naeemul own sanctuary has been a the student body than offering Hassan, many community very difficult circumstance candidates a time to campaign. members have sent flowers and for Muslims, and it pains us “The hope is that this otherwise reached out during deeply.” year, students feel more in the past week. The effects of The Mississippi Muslim control of the debate pro- the New Zealand shooting that Association and the Muslim cess,” Rand said. killed 50 people and wounded Student Association at Interim Attorney General nearly 50 others worshiping at Ole Miss have released Anya Czerwinski echoed Mill- two mosques in Christchurch, statements regarding the er’s thoughts on transparency New Zealand, has impacted the attacks in New Zealand. and said having student media Oxford community from 8,157 The Mississippi Muslim AP PHOTO: VINCENT THIAN co-host the debate “is exactly Mourners lay flowers near the Al Noor mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, on miles away. what we need.” “Most of the members of SEE NEW ZEALAND PAGE 3 Thursday, March 21. PAGE 2 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 21 MARCH 2019 OPINION THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN EDITORIAL STAFF: SLADE RAND editor-in-chief [email protected] DEVNA BOSE managing editor [email protected] MEGAN SWARTZFAGER copy chief [email protected] TAYLOR VANCE news editor HADLEY HITSON GRIFFIN NEAL assistant news editors [email protected] JUSTIN DIAL sports editor JOSHUA CLAYTON assistant sports editor [email protected] KATHERINE BUTLER assistant photography editor [email protected] CARTOON: JIMMY WEST LIAM NIEMAN arts & culture editor ELIZA NOE assistant arts & culture editor [email protected] COLUMN HAYDEN BENGE MACKENZIE LINNEEN MEAGAN TAPE We need justice for George Robinson design editors [email protected] with a flashlight by police is one of 16 mayors who it’s necessary that the press ETHEL MWEDZIWENDIRA RYAN OEHRLI during a stop for a low- joined the “Smart on Crime” knows who the three involved [email protected] opinion and design editor level offense the day before, initiative, which seeks to officers — public servants [email protected] according to eyewitness promote and implement — were. Rare moments in Two years ago, Mayor accounts. An autopsy “smarter approaches to public crime transparency under SARAH HENDERSON Chokwe Antar Lumumba confirmed he suffered blunt safety and criminal justice Lumumba have come from multimedia editor promised to make Jackson, “the force trauma to the head, that are both fairer and public pressure. most radical city on the planet.” ANNIE SHARP but the coroner could not more effective than outdated There has been a Progressive media from online editor determine the cause of death. tough-on-crime tactics.” considerable amount around the country flocked [email protected] To date, the names of How can Jackson adopt of wrangling to avoid for interviews, eager to see IVANA NGUYEN the officers who stopped smart-on-crime policy when consequences. Despite the what was in store. It was social media editor Robinson have not been officers who killed a man fact that the name of any said that Jackson would be [email protected] released. In fact, the city of aren’t held accountable by officer who shoots someone the new home for worker Jackson and the Jackson the public? Bettersten Wade, is required to be released cooperatives. People’s Police Department, despite Robinson’s sister, deserves to within 72 hours, Lumumba ADVERTISING assemblies would reintroduce promising transparency in know who killed her brother. has said it’s not appropriate SALES MANAGER an old but reliable form their internal investigations, So does the press. So does that we know who killed Rebecca Brown of democracy by allowing have said very little about Jackson. And they deserve George Robinson right now. [email protected] citizens to air grievances Robinson over the last two to know who committed After all, he was beaten with a and plan solutions to local SALES ACCOUNT months. What’s more, they’ve this crime before facts are flashlight and body-slammed, problems. Participatory EXECUTIVES repeatedly sidestepped or distorted, as has been done not shot to death. budgeting would let them Cameron Collins outright ignored journalists’ in the past. Lumumba was elected handpick a project to fund Sam Dethrow questions. Police are supposed to because he promised to bring with city dollars. Isaiah Pugh This isn’t new. protect the community, radical change to Jackson. Some of these projects Michael Rackers A January WLBT report not body-slam and beat old Until he acknowledges that have advanced more than Morgan Stone says the news station has men to the point they die police, too, must answer for others. They are all worth “in more than one case” soon after.

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