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University of Mississippi eGrove Daily Mississippian Journalism and New Media, School of 4-27-2018 April 27, 2018 The Daily Mississippian Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline Recommended Citation The Daily Mississippian, "April 27, 2018" (2018). Daily Mississippian. 284. https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline/284 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 27, 2018 THE DAILY Volume 106, No. 107 MISSISSIPPIANTHE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SERVING OLE MISS AND OXFORD SINCE 1911 Visit theDMonline.com @thedm_news Double Decker Festival returns 38655 PHOTO BY: CHRISTIAN JOHNSON xonians, students and visitors will come together this weekend to celebrate the music, art and food that make this small Mississippi town a hub of Southern culture. Check out today’s lifestyles section to get all the information you need so you’re ready to dance to Othe soul stylings of Liz Brasher and the roots rock of the Delta Saints. At TheDMOnline, you’ll find everything you need to enjoy the whole weekend – from features on double-decker bus drivers to the UM alumna behind this year’s poster design. SEE PAGES 7-9 GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATION BY: ETHEL MWEDZIWENDIRA DM STAFF REPORT Students’ app wins Chick-fil-A CEO to speak UM Gillespie Business as part of leadership series Plan Competition Dan Cathy, CEO and Luncheon series that dessert cards to the first BLAKE ALSUP Honors College and is a for- chairman of Chick-fil-A, takes place on campus 1,500 people at the event. [email protected] mer sports writer and editor is set to speak in two loca- each spring. This year’s A protest of Cathy’s for The Daily Mississippian. tions in Oxford today. event is sponsored by Ole speech has been planned Tribble is a member of the Cathy’s first appearance Miss Athletics, Ole Miss by junior general studies Junior accounting major Omicron Delta Kappa honor will be at an LOU Lead Business, the Meek School major Jaz Brisack, who Sam Harres and junior en- society, the Ole Miss Cycling Talks event presented of Journalism and New was recently named the gineering major Will Tribble Club, Delta Psi fraternity, by the Oxford-Lafayette Media, the UM Department university’s 15th Harry S. are the 2018 winners of the Sally McDonnell Barksdale County Chamber of Com- of Nutrition and Truman Scholar. annual Gillespie Business Honors College and is an ed- merce and Chick-fil-A. The Hospitality Management A Facebook post she made Plan Competition. The event itor for the UM Undergradu- hour-long event will be at and hottytoddy.com. cites the CEO’s support of is hosted by the Ole Miss ate Research Journal. the UM Jackson Avenue The event will be at 11 “anti-gay and anti-woman business school and encour- Organized each year by Center in Auditorium A a.m. in The Pavilion, and hate groups” as the reason ages and rewards students the School of Business Ad- and is open to the public. according to a post on the for organizing the protest. who create plans for their ministration, the compe- Breakfast will be provided Facebook page of Oxford’s The protesters will be own businesses. tition has been held every by Chick-fil-A. Chick-fil-A on West Jack- passing out flyers before Harres is a member of Beta April since 2005 and is open The on-campus event son Avenue, the restaurant and during the speech. Alpha Psi, Phi Kappa Phi, to any undergraduate or is part of the Leadership will be giving away free Delta Psi fraternity and the Sally McDonnell Barksdale SEE GILLESPIE PAGE 4 IN THIS ISSUE... OPINION LIFESTYLES LIFESTYLES SPORTS Effects of social media Double Decker Festival Alabama energy in Oxford Ole Miss receives NCAA response How social media makes us vain Follow our online coverage of the festival St. Paul and the Broken Bones will play NCAA’s Committee on Infractions has delivered and insensitive and use the hashtag #DMDoubleDecker its soulful music at the Lyric on Saturday its response, which UM has yet to release PAGE 3 SEE THEDMONLINE PAGE 10 PAGE 11 PAGE 2 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 27 APRIL 2018 OPINION THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN EDITORIAL STAFF: SLADE RAND editor-in-chief [email protected] DEVNA BOSE managing editor [email protected] DAVID NOWICKI copy chief [email protected] BLAKE ALSUP news editor TAYLOR VANCE BRITTANY BROWN assistant news editors [email protected] JUSTIN DIAL sports editor BEN MILLER assistant sports editor [email protected] CHRISTIAN JOHNSON photography editor ANDREW LONG assistant photography editor [email protected] LIAM NIEMAN lifestyles editor MARY LIZ KING assistant lifestyles editor [email protected] COLUMN GEORGE YOUNG opinion editor [email protected] Anti-discrimination laws hide true colors HAYDEN BENGE REAGAN MEREDITH Americans are not a lesser freedom to pick and choose cake shop would have lost ETHEL MWEDZIWENDIRA [email protected] people because of the color their clientele, students, and business, and subsequently design editors of their skin. It would be employees freely, hence, the would have had to reconsider [email protected] impossible to speculate free market. his course of action. Instead, On February 1, 1960, what was going on with To make another position a Supreme Court decision is KIMBERLY RUSSELL four African-American the man’s convictions, but clear, I think that private looming six years later. online editor college students from North there is an unavoidable fact. businesses and entities who In fact, KMGH-TV, the SARAH HENDERSON Carolina Agricultural and After the sit-in, Woolworth’s discriminate in these ways local ABC News affiliate assistant online editor Technical College decided lost $200,000. Adjusted with no legitimate purpose in Denver, reports that [email protected] to have lunch and coffee at to inflation today, that is a (e.g., a legitimate purpose Masterpiece Cakeshop has IVANA NGUYEN Woolworth’s in Greensboro, modest 1.67 million dollars. being a Christian church not lost 40% of their business. social media editor North Carolina. If Woolworth’s decided hiring a pastor because he is This is how the free market [email protected] The brave young men not to desegregate, they gay) are run by truly amoral works, and circumventing it knew what they were getting would have easily gone out and evil people. by forcing people to serve into. They understood that of business. However, I believe that people who they do not ADVERTISING the white patrons around the Another unavoidable fact they should have a freedom want to serve is suppressing SALES MANAGER restaurant were glaring at is that if anti-discrimination to do so. people’s true colors. Blake Hein them from the surrounding laws would have been in Consider the upcoming The free market cares [email protected] tables. place at the time, nobody Masterpiece Cakeshop about one thing. That thing After finishing their SALES ACCOUNT would have known that the Supreme Court case. The is money. coffee, they stayed in their EXECUTIVES owner of Woolworth’s was owner of the shop, based in Anti-discrimination laws seats until the five-and- Rebecca Brown a racist. The free market Colorado refused to design attack freedom and suppress dime closed. Cameron Collins brought out this person’s a cake for the wedding of a the exposition of racists, A few days later, the Sam Dethrow racism, and his business homosexual couple in 2012. bigots, homophobes, anti- courageous young men Ethan Gray suffered because of it. If anti-discrimination laws Semites, etc. returned, but brought 300 To make my position did not exist, here’s how the The bottom line is this: other students with them. clear, I am against anti- free market would have hurt I have no right to your S. GALE DENLEY Woolworth’s desegregated discrimination laws. the man’s business: services, and you have no STUDENT MEDIA CENTER in July of 1960. One might Anti-discrimination laws The couple writes to the right to mine. PATRICIA THOMPSON wonder why the restaurant prevent a free market place. editor at the local newspaper Assistant Dean would desegregate. The idea of a free market is or the producer at the local Reagan Meredith is a Student Media Maybe it was because the Daily Mississippian Faculty so private business owners, news channel. The story sophomore political science Adviser owner had a change of heart employers, colleges, and would have been picked major from Monroe, and decided that African- universities have the up and the owner of the Louisiana. FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA THE DAILY The Daily Mississippian is published Mondays, Wednesdays, THE DM NEWS TWITTER MISSISSIPPIAN Thursdays, Fridays in print during the academic year, on days @thedm_news when classes are scheduled. New content is published online seven days a week. THE DM SPORTS TWITTER S. Gale Denley Student Media Center Columns do not represent the official opinions of The 201 Bishop Hall, @thedm_sports University of Mississippi or The Daily Mississippian unless P.O. Box 1848 specifically indicated. University, MS The Daily Mississippian welcomes letters to the editor. THE DM LIFESTYLES TWITTER 38677-1848 @DM_lifestyles Letters should be e-mailed to [email protected]. 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