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TO THE DM MORNING BRIEF, SUBSCRIBE OUR NEW NEWSLETTER GO TO THEDMONLINE.COM AND CLICK NEWSLETTER TO SIGN UP Thursday, March 8, 2018 THE DAILY Volume 106, No. 83 MISSISSIPPIANTHE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SERVING OLE MISS AND OXFORD SINCE 1911 Visit theDMonline.com @thedm_news ASB holds runoff elections for Women’s History president, secretary today Month celebration continues on campus DEVANTE TOLES of the Isom Center. “They are STAFF WRITER opening up this space where suddenly voices are heard. The university is hosting Those that have been sort of panels, speakers, a leadership silenced are now finding that retreat and more to celebrate and there is something sort of Women’s History Month to brave and fierce about that.” honor and explore the role of This year’s keynote address women throughout history. will be delivered by Burke, “It’s always useful to have who created the #MeToo at least a month to focus and movement. say, ‘Hey, what’s happening “The #MeToo movement with women’s contribution has been such an influen- to culture and history?” said tial movement that, I think, Jaime Harker, director of the bringing in the founder is Sarah Isom Center for Wom- a really nice opportunity to en and Gender Studies. “For think about it more broad- us, it’s really just a great op- ly,” Harker said. “University portunity to remind people is supposed to open up the that (women’s history), just world of ideas to students, PHOTO BY: MARLEE CRAWFORD like black history, is not just so when you have the oppor- Students hand out campaign stickers in front of the ASB candidate signs on Business Row this afternoon. The runoff results for one month but all year.” president and secretary will be announced on the Lyceum steps Thursday. tunity to bring folks who are This year marks the first smart, interesting and doing TAYLOR VANCE “I think the university needs to have a hybrid Women’s History Month things that are having a huge of upgrading personal computers in academic STAFF WRITER since national attention cultural impact, it’s always a buildings,” Hitt said. “I also think we should has been brought to sexu- benefit for students.” our candidates will be on the have a technology center on campus to where al misconduct of powerful ballot for the Associated Student Burke’s address will be part students can bring their personal computers to individuals such as Harvey of the fourth annual Wom- Body runoff election today after no have them upgraded to the most cutting-edge Weinstein and Kevin Spac- single candidate gained a majority en’s Empowerment Awards, technology.” ey that spearheaded move- and she is expected to speak F of the votes in the secretary and Cady Cooper and Reagan Moody are the ments such as #MeToo and about the genesis of the #Me- presidential races. candidates for the secretary election after start- Time’s Up. Elam Miller and Wister Hitt are the can- Too movement. ing out as write-in candidates and not having “What you’re witness- The event’s organizers at- didates for the presidential runoff after they their names on the ballot in Tuesday’s election. ing right now are a bunch nearly tied in Tuesday night’s election. Miller tempted to include topics Cooper received 44.99 percent of the vote, and of social movements that pertaining to women nation- received 36.34 percent of the vote, and Hitt re- Moody received 31.89 percent of the vote. are unfolding where people ceived 35.63 percent of the vote. ally and here on campus. Cooper said her platform includes increas- are finding their voices and “It’s sort of this collabora- Miller, the current ASB vice president, is ing the transparency of ASB’s public records they are finding their voices running on a platform of greater transparency tive effort of people coming even further. through the bravery of (Ta- together and talking about and student involvement within ASB and “I want to make it to where the ASB Senate rana) Burke,” said Theresa promotes ideas such as starting an “idea- meetings are available to view 24 hours after Starkey, associate director tracker” for legislation. the Senate adjourns,” Cooper said. “I also want SEE HISTORY MONTH PAGE 3 “We’re going to have this idea-tracker that to make the senators’ voting records public re- will be on our ASB website,” Miller said. “And cord instead of (students) having to individual- (students) will be able to see it and say, ‘This is ly request them.” the idea I submitted.’” Moody’s platform focuses more on smooth- Miller also wants to create a codified shared ing out the transition of power that occurs after governance model to hold the university ASB elections. administration more accountable to the “I want to have each executive officer can- student body. didate write down what their strengths and “I really want to hold the administration weaknesses were in their office,” Moody said. accountable to the student voice,” Miller said. “Then they would give it to the incoming per- “So, this means more student representation son for a smoother transition.” on standing committees and trying to find a Attorney General Dillon Pitts said the runoff way for our Senate to have a voice when we do elections will be conducted in the same man- pass legislation.” ner as was the first election and that he’s look- Hitt is running to increase communication ing forward to the results of the runoff election. efforts between ASB and students by enacting “We had a great turnout (on Tuesday),” Pitts a constitutionally mandated town hall event. said. “We need everyone to come out and vote “I want an annual State of the University ad- on Thursday.” dress,” Hitt said. I want to include an executive Voting in the runoff elections will take place officer, a member of the Faculty Senate and the from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., and students can vote chancellor.” through their myOleMiss accounts under the Hitt also wants to bring a technology upgrade “Get Involved” tab. PHOTO BY: MARLEE CRAWFORD to campus to better serve students’ needs. James Thomas, sociology, professor speaks during the “Affordable Housing is a Feminist Issue” discussion, a Women’s History Month event, at the Burns-Belfry Museum on Wednesday night. PAGE 2 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 8 MARCH 2018 OPINION COLUMN COLUMN THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN EDITORIAL STAFF: LANA FERGUSON Wicker is a steady McDaniel will stand editor-in-chief [email protected] leader, state advocate up to political elite SLADE RAND managing editor [email protected] MAGGIE MARTIN copy chief [email protected] RACHEL ISHEE MADDIE MCGEE news editors [email protected] HUNTER FOOSHEE WILL HALL GUEST COLUMNIST STAFF COLUMNIST BLAKE ALSUP assistant news editor It was a typical sweltering Mississippi summer day when I first Since his election to the Mississippi state Senate [email protected] heard the junior U.S. senator from Mississippi, Roger Wicker, in 2008, Chris McDaniel has proven himself speak at the Neshoba County Fair. We are both from Pontotoc, as one of the nation’s most valiant defenders of SAM HARRES but our paths had never crossed before then. constitutional liberties and God-given freedoms GRAYSON WEIR It was exciting to finally meet the man who had transformed at the state level. sports editors his upbringing into a life of public service, representing not only As recipient of the American Conservative [email protected] Mississippians but all Americans. We have encountered each Union’s Award for Conservative Excellence other multiple times since then, and Sen. Wicker hasn’t changed. in 2016 and two 100 percent scores from that MARLEE CRAWFORD That is one of his hallmarks – leadership that is steady and organization’s independent ranking of legislators BILLY SCHUERMAN sure. in 2014 and 2015, Sen. McDaniel has never backed photography editors Mississippi is constantly subjected to outside judgment and away from a fight. He championed the Student [email protected] flagrant misconception. However, despite what many people Religious Liberties Act and even led counsel in a might say, Mississippi has improved throughout the last few lawsuit against the federal government targeting DEVNA BOSE decades. Sure, we aren’t where we want to be, but Sen. Wicker Obamacare’s individual mandate in an effort to lifestyles editor brings nearly three decades of policy experience to take our state bring an end to that disaster. [email protected] further. While Sen. McDaniel was fighting for the rights During his time as Ole Miss student body president, he focused of average Mississippians, Sen. Roger Wicker sat LIAM NIEMAN on improving the school for future generations. He took the lead- in the Washington swamp. He supported Obama’s opinion editor ership skills he developed on campus and has been cultivating disastrous budgets, cut checks from big-time [email protected] them ever since. lobbyists and took interviews with his friend, Sen. His position as chair of the National Republican Senatorial Cory Booker, in which they agreed that the state HAYDEN BENGE Committee from 2015 to 2017 speaks to his reputation as a leader flag of Mississippi should be lowered, against the ETHEL MWEDZIWENDIRA among his colleagues in the U.S.

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