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THE DAILY WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2018 | VOLUME 107, NO. 37 MISSISSIPPIAN THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI | SERVING OLE MISS AND OXFORD SINCE 1911 ON STAGE: UM THEATRE HOSTS FORMER QUARTERBACK CHAD KELLY READING OF RARE FAULKNER PLAY ARRESTED FOR CRIMINAL TRESPASSING Faulkner’s short play “The Marionettes” Former Ole Miss quarterback and was performed in what was potentially current Denver Bronco Chad Kelly the first onstage portrayal since the play was arrested for criminal trespassing was written. The reading gave faculty charges early Tuesday morning. and students new perspectives on what Faulkner was like as a young artist. SEE PAGE 7 SEE PAGE 5 University investigates mold in residence hall WADE JOHNSON throughout the weekend conditioning test was Ingram said her portable air “I noticed a significant TAYLOR VANCE talking with the students and completed on Monday filter in her dorm room has amount of dust in my room [email protected] parents,” Zook said. for elevated moisture and turned black. within the first few weeks, The Daily Mississippian mold, and the results turned “I have been sick since so my dad advised me to Crosby Hall residents have obtained an email sent to out to be “fine.” He said August,” Ingram said. “When put a filter on my vent,” reported being sick due to Crosby residents on Oct. 5 environmental tests for I went into the university Bone said. “I did so and was mold growing in their dorm by Lionel Maten, assistant elevated levels of moisture Health Center in August, they promptly told to remove it rooms and poor air quality. vice chancellor for student and mold were conducted on knew I lived in Crosby right (by maintenance) as it was Jim Zook, associate vice affairs and director of student Tuesday but the results have away and said that was the ‘causing’ dust. chancellor for strategic housing, which said the not been reported yet. reason I was getting sick.” Zook said the universi- communications and university will “be inspecting Kendra Ingram, a freshman Caitlyn Bone, a freshman ty has found a substance marketing, said the university rooms in the building and political science major who elementary education major growing in some rooms, but is aware of concerns of the working with facilities and lives in Crosby, said she was that also lives in Crosby said the university cannot confirm air quality among Crosby environmental services staff diagnosed with bronchitis she has been sick, but she what the substance is. residents and the “concerns to clean up areas as needed.” earlier in the school year and does not think it was caused Bill Sothern, a certified are being taken seriously.” Zook said a heating, has had a sore throat and by mold because she hasn’t mold expert and Chief “We’re working diligently. ventilation and air cough throughout the year. seen any in her room. We have had housing staff SEE MOLD PAGE 3 Alumni struggle in Hurricane Michael recovery efforts Rish; his wife, Patti; and ABBIE MCINTOSH their two dogs, Dutch and [email protected] Ginger, were without power for more than a week. PANAMA CITY, Fla. — Ole “To get air conditioning Miss alumni are struggling back, that’s like dying and with how to deal with the going to heaven,” Rish said. aftermath of Hurricane Fallen trees litter their Michael nearly two weeks front and back yards. Tarps after the hurricane first cover roof damage on made landfall. not only their house, but The category 4 hurricane, also their neighbors’ and which first made landfall thousands more. Rish said on Oct. 10, is the fourth that the wind was once so strongest storm to ever make loud that he couldn’t hear landfall on the continental the tall pine trees in his U.S. and the strongest to ever backyard snapping like twigs. hit the Florida Panhandle. But after seeing the damage, The destruction that Rish knew rebuilding wasn’t Michael caused has left Ole going to happen overnight. Miss alumnus Jeff Rish “We just take things one scrambling to pick up the day at a time,” Rish said. pieces. “You literally just do it a day “I’ve been on a chainsaw at a time and deal with what for the last nine days,” Rish you have to deal with.” said. “At some point in the Rish said when he realized day, I’ve spent several hours how strong Michael was on the chainsaw for the last going to be, it was too late. … I’ve lost track of time.” Before power was restored, Rish, who graduated from the Rishes had little Ole Miss in the 70s having communication with the earned both his bachelor’s outside world. and master’s degrees, “It’s something you deal has lived in Lynn Haven, with,” Rish said. “You PHOTO COURTESY: ASSOCIATED PRESS | DAVID GOLDMAN Florida, a suburb of Panama realize you don’t have A man walks by damaged boats in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael in Panama City, Fla., on Tuesday, Oct. 16. The storm made City, since the 1990s. His communications. You landfall in the Florida Panhandle on Oct. 10 and turned out to be the third-most powerful Atlantic hurricane to make landfall on one-story brick house only realize you can’t reach first the United States. suffered minor damage. SEE HURRICANE PAGE 3 PAGE 2 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 24 OCTOBER 2018 OPINION THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN EDITORIAL STAFF: SLADE RAND editor-in-chief [email protected] DEVNA BOSE managing editor [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 [email protected] ABBY HAMELTON assistant photo editor [email protected] LIAM NIEMAN arts & culture editor ELIZA NOE assistant arts & culture editor [email protected] HAYDEN BENGE design editor [email protected] COLUMN ETHEL MWEDZIWENDIRA opinion and design editor [email protected] The intersection of perspective and nuance SARAH HENDERSON voting. It is important to If mainstream parties, or difference between the two online editor note that approximately the outlying ones, were candidates — Donald Trump [email protected] 112 million voting-eligible to reach out and clearly and Hillary Clinton — were IVANA NGUYEN Americans didn’t vote in the establish what differentiates apparent with the lack of any social media editor 2016 presidential election. them, then our society’s nuance from other major [email protected] The perception of when we perceptions of how we view party candidates. fail to notice the nuances in other opinions would expand If you wish to grow as a our society and strictly look as a whole. person and push forward ADVERTISING to what we may see or hear We live in what people for a better community, and SALES MANAGER the most is when we start to like to call a melting pot, but world as a whole, then you Rebecca Brown socialize ourselves with polit- the irony of such is that the must change your perception [email protected] JONATHAN LOVELADY ically like-minded people — melting pot hasn’t melted by searching for differences [email protected] and many times fail to even in values simply because in a clouded world. There SALES ACCOUNT consider others’ opinions. people’s political principles are many ways to make EXECUTIVES The way a person perceives The nuance is what are different. The concept is that possible by exploring Sofi Ash things matters because seems to be missing from fine, but growth and empathy new hobbies and places and Cameron Collins people hold values, beliefs our atmosphere, which come from expanding one’s putting yourself in a certain Sam Dethrow and experiences, but one is contributing to the perception — and the only mindset. The world would Isaiah Pugh must not be too static in life loud discourse we seem way to do this is to expand be a much better place if we Michael Rackers and should strive to improve to have today. If all a your horizons of what allowed nuance in politics perceptions of the world person perceives is what information you expose on a mainstream platform, around himself or herself. is most apparent, then all yourself to. which would then expand S. GALE DENLEY In today’s age, our political STUDENT MEDIA CENTER dissimilarities of politics In the 2016 presidential people’s perception. Overall, culture is more divisive than are lost where the majority election, only approximately we are more alike than we PATRICIA THOMPSON ever, with lack of experience stands. According to a recent 138 million out of 250 are different. Assistant Dean/Student Media and understanding of certain Gallup poll, the percentage of million voting-eligible Daily Mississippian Faculty events and for other groups Adviser Independents is a staggering Americans voted. The two Jonathan Lovelady is a senior of people. 44 percent — compared to main candidates received sociology and geology major. The same idea of misun- 26 percent for Republicans near-equal shares of the derstanding holds true in and 27 percent Democrats. popular vote. 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