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Oxford tonight Masters legacy SEE OPINION PAGE 2 SEE LIFESTYLES PAGE 6 SEE THEDMONLINE.COM Mental Health Week continues with ‘Southern Smash’ JACQUELINE KNIRNSCHILD ing stigmas and expecta- tions of body image,” Active SLADE RAND Minds President Kathryn [email protected] Forbes said. Active Minds manages a The Associated Student Twitter account where it Body and nonprofit group shares simple but encour- Active Minds at the Uni- aging messages for UM versity of Mississippi part- students. “Smile because nered together this week to you can” one tweet reads. host 2017’s Mental Health Another tweet reminded Week on campus. Wednes- students to always end the day, the Active Minds invit- day on a positive thought. ed students to smash scales “Southern Smash” served as with baseball bats and yet another platform for the sledgehammers in front of group to promote self con- the Grove stage to promote fidence among the student self confidence and weight body. consciousness. Wednesday afternoon, “Mental health is import- students also attached ant to every individual on cards with anxiety-causing our Ole Miss campus and thoughts written on them to it’s time to speak up, edu- balloons and released them cate ourselves, and make to the sky. Afterwards, stu- everyone aware. This week, dents were encouraged to we’re loving our minds and write down something they changing our habits,” ASB love about themselves to wrote on its Facebook page. hang up in a place where Southern Smash partici- they will see it every day. pants decorated the scales “Mental Health Week” has before smashing them, re- included other events, such placing the numbers with as a visit from the Humane phrases such as, “These Society’s puppies, free yoga numbers don’t define me” and meditation in the Grove and “You’re beautiful. Don’t and a student athletic pan- let your mind bully your el. body.” Active Minds also The organization will also hosted the week’s second host a Suicide Awareness free yoga session on the Event at 5:30 p.m. Thurs- Grove stage on Wednesday day at Farley featuring afternoon, shortly after the UPD, representatives from smashed scales were swept the counseling center and PHOTOS BY: XINYI SONG away. Rivers McGraw’s mother. Associated Student Body and nonprofit group Active Minds host “Smash the Scale” in the Grove as a part of Mental Health “We are trying to smash- Week to promote weight consciousness. Cancer survivor inspires Emmy-winning documentary cope as he fought the illness Ole Miss grounds crew. His JONATHAN GIBSON [email protected] and underwent treatment. parents said this was a turn- Farris’ best friend, junior ing point in his fight, giving Seth Dickinson, said he was him and the rest of the fam- Last summer the Ole blindsided by the diagnosis ily the motivation to keep Miss Sports Production as a child. pushing on. team took home a regional “I didn’t really understand By 2011, Farris was in re- Emmy for its work on the life and death and your life mission. documentary “Sam’s Story,” being threatened,” Dickin- The documentary, and on March 22, Ole Miss son said. “I remember the though, wouldn’t begin un- athletic director Ross Bjork day I found out, right be- til spring 2015. presented the documenta- fore we entered fifth grade, Farris reached out to Ath- ry’s subject with his own my mother told me Sam had letics Director Ross Bjork Emmy. cancer. In my mind I didn’t with his Make-A-Wish story Sam Farris was diagnosed comprehend it.” for the first time. He sent an with stage four neuroblas- That summer, the Make- email to Bjork with pictures toma, a rare form of child- A-Wish Foundation granted of the baseball field. hood cancer, in 2007. Over Farris’ wish to have a base- Ferris waited for a reply. the next five years, Farris ball field built in his back- and his family struggled to PHOTO BY: ARIEL COBBERT yard, with help from the SEE FARRIS PAGE 3 Sam Farris PAGE 2 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 6 APRIL 2017 OPINION COLUMN Contacting legislature is integral in tuition funding will receive aid through the university as a whole. body, have a chance to be out to our state representatives program that will award the There have been other states, proactive and preserve our and senators, sit down with larger amount… The following such as Arizona, where the tuition affordability so that them and voice our concerns. grants are included in this legislature has taken these very students, in-state, out-of- Acting in defiance to those new rule: Mississippi Tuition steps to slowly dial back from state and international, of all who subsidize this university Assistance Grant (MTAG), supporting public universities socioeconomic backgrounds without discussion will do Mississippi Eminent Scholars for a variety of political reasons. have the opportunity to attend nothing but tarnish our Grant (MESG), Higher Just within the past few the University of Mississippi. relationship with the state Education Legislative Plan years, as in-state tuition has To me, the University of legislature, alumni of this for Needy Students (HELP), increased from $6,300 in Mississippi has made decisions university and future students. Mississippi Law Enforcement 2010 to $10,640 in 2016 at within the past few years that The legislature is sending us NESTOR DELGADO Officers & Firemen Scholarship Arizona State University, were rushed, unwarranted and a warning, and if we act wisely, [email protected] (LAW), Nissan Scholarship.” student coalitions have been fueled by emotion rather than we will end the culture of This might mark the established, such as “Students reason. acting emotionally and instead beginning of the end of tuition for Affordable Tuition,” as a There are things in this state harvest an environment where The Mississippi legislature affordability at the University reaction to the state legislature that are worth looking into. we work with our legislature to has sent Ole Miss a warning. of Mississippi. removing significant However, we made decisions maintain affordable tuition at Just last week, the Office of It first begins with amounts of funding to public that some believed would the University of Mississippi. Financial Aid sent out an email amendments such as the one institutions. solve the problem but instead stating that “The legislature students received an email Given this, I believe we led to unintended political Nestor Delgado is a has eliminated the ‘stacking’ about, then the legislature are currently on the same consequences. sophomore public policy of undergraduate grants. If a decides to cut grant programs trajectory as Arizona State As a student body, we need leadership major from student is eligible for more than altogether, and then it University. to stop stepping on the heels Pascagoula. one grant program, students withdraws funding from the However, we, as a student of Jackson and instead reach EDITORIAL STAFF: ADVERTISING PATRICIA THOMPSON The Daily Mississippian is published Monday Assistant Dean, Student through Friday during the academic year, on CLARA TURNAGE LANA FERGUSON SALES MANAGER days when classes are scheduled. 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