THE Daily MISSISSIPPIAN Monday, November 11, 2019 theDMonline.com Volume 108, No. 33 BASKETBALL Best recruit in Ole Miss history commits a top-50 recruit. The four- attended Whitehaven High Murrell was in high demand and Devontae Shuler might CAMERON RICHARDSON star guard is ranked as the School in Memphis before garnering attention from leave the program early. Both [email protected] No. 45 recruit in the nation transferring to IMG Academy Auburn, Florida, Texas and players are integral parts of Kermit Davis and the Ole and No. 9 shooting guard in in Florida. Vanderbilt among other the team, and Murrell would Miss basketball program the class of 2020. Murrell has performed schools. Vanderbilt hired fill that high profile guard landed their highest-ranked The commitment comes at well on the AAU stage, aver- Faragi Phillips, Murrell’s spot on the roster. recruit in program history on a good time for coach Kermit aging roughly 15 points and high school coach in Murrell will join Shon Saturday afternoon. Davis and the Rebel basket- a couple boards a game from Memphis. Robinson next year, hoping Matthew Murrell, a ball program, with top target Team Thad, a program of the Murrell will be a welcome to help elevate to a rising Ole 6-foot-4, 190 pound shooting Jaemyn Brakefield recently Young for Youth Foundation addition to the Rebels in Miss basketball program. guard, is a commitment from committing to Duke. started by NBA player Thad- 2020 with senior Breein In came Murrell, who deus Young, in Memphis. Tyree gone after this season, Off the ropes Ole Miss Outdoors hosts first bouldering competition WILL STRIBLING [email protected] “You’ve got this! Great form — I love it! That’s my roommate!” Natalie Clark’s friend cheered as Clark attempted to scale the 12-foot climbing wall at the South Campus Recre- ation Center on Sunday afternoon. Right before she could reach the section’s last yellow hold, Natalie slipped, fell to the padded ground below and immedi- ately stood back up with a grin on her face. “Dang it – next time,” Clark, 19, said. At the same time, more than 30 other climbers were spread across the length of the wall, attempting to climb their way to the top of Ole Miss Outdoors’s first boul- dering competition. Indoor rock climbing has been only available in Oxford since August, with two options avail- able for ascent. One is top-roping, the more well- KERRIGAN HERRET / THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN Natalie Clark scales the rock wall at the South Campus Recreation Center for the Rockin’ Rodeo Bouldering Competition on Sunday. This SEE BOULDERING PAGE 3 was the first time Ole Miss Outdorrs has hosted this event. JOHN RHYS PLUMLEE IS THE OFFER MORE THAN PLATITUDES, STARTER. WHERE DOES THAT ESPECIALLY ON VETERANS DAY LEAVE MATT CORRAL? “The United States continues John Rhys Plumlee took most of to neglect the health, security, the snaps at quarterback for Ole opportunity and dignity of its Miss again. The first time Matt veterans,” writes opinion columnist Corral was seen in the game John Hydrisko. “If this nation’s debt was late in the third quarter and of gratitude is any real debt at all, attempted only two passes. then the United States has slid to the brink of moral bankruptcy.” SEE PAGE 4 SEE PAGE 7 PAGE 2 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 11 NOVEMBER 2019 28243 ANNABELLE HARRIS / THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN From Left: Nave Graham on flute, Austin Smith on oboe, Adam Estes on bassoon, Leander Star on horn and Michael Rowlett on clarinet. The Quintet is comprised entirely of Ole Miss faculty. Health Expo + Basketball For Sons, Dads, Grandfathers, Brothers, and Uncles! Faculty Quintet explores ‘memory’ baroque style of music popular playing that doesn’t lay well in ANNABELLE HARRIS in the late 1600s and early 1700s. the fingers, and on top of that, the [email protected] This also happened to be one of parts do not fit together easily,” Smith’s favorite pieces. Graham said. “It takes just a Five members of Ole Miss “Of course, my favorite was the moment of inattention to pull music faculty joined forces on Ravel because it features the oboe. apart from the ensemble, and Sunday to perform five pieces of It was really great to put together then it becomes quite difficult to music centered around memory. since I had never done it before,” get back on track. I have to be sure The Faculty Woodwind Quin- Smith said. to be 110% focused the entire time, tet featured two new members The second half of the perfor- not allowing my mind to wander of Ole Miss music faculty: Nave mance was comprised of two for a second.” Graham on flute and Austin pieces, “Memoria,” by Esa-Pekka, Smith, was torn on whether his Smith on oboe. Michael Rowl- and “Salonen and Spirituals: Steal favorite piece was “Le Tombeau ett, on clarinet, also performed; Away,” arranged by Valerie Cole- de Couperin” by Maurice Ravel or Adam Estes played bassoon and man. “Memoria” by Esa-Pekka Salonen. Leander Star played French horn. “Memoria” is contemporary He appreciated the differences in The quintet began their in comparison to the other four, the two pieces. performance with “Quintet No. having been finished in 2003. In “Memoria” Smith played 1,” written by Giuseppe Cambini. Star called it more avant garde both oboe and English horn. This piece is the earliest known than the others. He explained to Graham also doubled on alto flute for this combination of instru- the audience that, although the and flute. ments. piece is technical, it ends with a “Well, the Ravel was more The second piece, “Cinco chorale completely different from tactical, but the Salonen is just (While Tickets Last) Elegia” by Eurico Carrapatoso, the rest of the piece, which was kind of relentless — like it doesn’t was written to honor the greatest written in remembrance of the really stop. Yeah, whereas the composers of the 20th century. composer’s teacher. Reval has individual movements. Each of the five parts of this piece For Graham, it was the most So you have a break,” Smith said. was written in the style of the challenging pieces she had ever “I don’t want to say it’s hard. composer it is meant to honor. played in a quintet. They’re just so different.” “Le Tombeau de Couperin” by “It involves tons of technical Maurice Ravel, featuring Smith, closed the performance. This musical selection alludes to the THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN PROUD PARTNER EDITORIAL staff with OLE MISS DINING Sun.-Wed. 10:30am-Midnight, Thurs.-Sat. 10:30am-2:00am DANIEL PAYNE 28220 editor-in-chief [email protected] ELIZA NOE managing editor [email protected] ERIN KILLION PLACE YOUR TRYING TO SELL copy chief [email protected] THE DM AD HERE! SOMETHING? OR LOOKING FOR A GRIFFIN NEAL CLASSIFIEDS news editor NEW HOME? [email protected] WORK! LOOK HERE FOR AN AD! NEED A JOB? JOSHUA CLAYTON sports editor [email protected] THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 11 NOVEMBER 2019 | PAGE 3 BOULDERING continued from page 1 This week known method in which a rope is anchored above the climber. In the other, bouldering, there at Ole Miss is no rope is involved. Climbing the much taller wall in top-rop- ing requires endurance more MADDY QUON [email protected] than anything, where the latter is all about technique. Don’t miss out on anything Once a niche activity, indoor that’s happening this week on rock climbing has rapidly grown in popularity in recent years. campus. So much so that sports climb- Transit of Mercury: ing will make its Olympic debut Watch Mercury pass in front next year in Tokyo. of the sun, a once-in-a-decade The climbing walls are why event, through a telescope Max Costa has been in the South today. This event takes a few Rec Center nearly every day hours and is visible through this semester. He said it’s also telescopes only. The next time a sport he thinks has a univer- Mercury passes in front of the sal appeal. sun will be in 2032. Admission Faculty Quintet explores ‘memory’ “I’ve seen five-year-old kids is free, and the event is open to climb all the way up there at the the public. same time as adults,” Costa, 21, Time/Location: Monday, said. 9 a.m.-12 p.m. at Kennon Joseph Currie came from Observatory Tupelo for the competition ‘1984’ by Aquila Theatre because he likes the mental Company: The Aquila Theatre aspect of bouldering. He Company’s production of said there’s a reason that the ‘1984,’ based on the novel by sequence of moves for a boul- George Orwell, will open for one dering climb are called “prob- night only. Tickets range from lems.” NANCY MANROE / THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN $25-30. “Bouldering is like a puzzle Time/Location: Tuesday, to solve, and that’s why it’s fun,” Students lace their shoes in anticipation of the bouldering event hosted by Ole Miss Outdoors. 7:30 p.m. at the Gertrude Ford Currie, 30, said. Petit said that he tries to map Center There were 34 problems for out the climb in his head before Wellness Climb with climbers to tackle at the compe- starting, with varying results. Stacy Bare: Go to the South tition, split between beginner, “You think you can, and then Campus Recreation Center intermediate and advanced you usually find out you’re prob- categories. Two climbers got as and listen to The North Face ably wrong about something.