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Thursday, October 16, 2014 THE DAILY Volume 103, No. 36 THE STUDENTMISSISSIPPIAN NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SERVING OLE MISS AND OXFORD SINCE 1911 Visit theDMonline.com @thedm_news opinion lifestyles sports Boys might be Riverside Ole Miss Hoops boys: musings Voodoo at to host Square of a transgender Proud Larry’s Jam student Page 2 Page 5 Page 6 Pi Kap moves into LCFD ensures community safety former Sig Ep house MITCHELL REDD chartering of our fraternity go [email protected] hand-in-hand with the excite- ment of getting into the house Since the closing of the Mis- for the first time,” Schmidt sissippi Alpha Chapter of Sig- said. ma Phi Epsilon at The Uni- Despite the excitement versity of Mississippi, their the brothers share over their house sitting at 309 Frater- long-fought path of getting nity Row has been dormant. the house, Schmidt described Last week, Pi Kappa Phi fra- the process as being quite ternity moved in. lengthy and containing more The Pi Kappa Phi chapter steps than they initially real- was originally established at ized. the university in 1927. How- “When Sigma Phi Epsilon ever, due to many members lost their chapter at the uni- enlisting to fight overseas in versity in the spring, our fra- war, the fraternity left the ternity’s housing corporation university in 1949. was contacted by their frater- Several attempts to recolo- nity’s housing corporation. nize were made, but they fad- We were immediately excit- ed. In the spring of 2013, Pi ed for the future of Pi Kappa Kappa Phi made a comeback. Phi,” Schmidt said. PHOTO BY: THOMAS GRANING A group of about 65 men suc- Pi Kappa Phi also plans to cessfully established a colony. Lafayette County firefighters battle a house fire on County Road 105 on Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014. The fire started as a car fire and make great use of their new- spread to the structure. This past Saturday marked est addition. Schmidt de- a special event for the frater- tailed that the house will be on what to do if a fire should fake fog and show kids how to nity: Pi Kappa Phi received MOIRA ANTHONY used as a grounds of meeting ever start around them. crawl on the ground and stay their charter, which means [email protected] for many events, including For Johnson, educating cit- away from fire.” their chapter is a full-fledged formals, chapter meetings With October marking the izens on fire safety at a young Netherland and others also member of their national or- and many social events. beginning of fire prevention age is crucial. agreed that an extremely dan- ganization. In addition to using the month, the Lafayette County “If we can catch them at an gerous household item that The Alpha Lambda Chapter house for social events and Fire Department has focused early age, we are able to mold will cause many calls to the of Pi Kappa Phi is the largest meetings, Schmidt is also its efforts on informing the them from fire safe children department during the fall charter in the history of the hopeful that it will provide a public, especially during the to fire safe adults,” Johnson and winter months are heat- fraternity. common place to meet that week of Oct. 5 through Oct. 11. said. ers, especially space heaters. The brothers were able to will increase the bonds of The week was especially Firefighter John Nether- “Remember, space heaters enter the house last week and brotherhood between their significant because it was the land explained the process of must be three feet from any had the opportunity to utilize members. official fire prevention week, informing children about fire combustibles,” Johnson said. the house during the charter- “We are so very excited according to the station’s fire safety. “If you’re using wood-burning ing process this past week- about it, but we still have a coordinator, Jerry Johnson. “We take it to schools, and heaters, you [must] make sure end. long way to go,” Schmidt said. During that week, the mem- we give kids a little instruc- that they’re checked out and Pi Kappa Phi President “Just having a place to chill, bers of the LCFD took their tional class about what to do are operating properly.” Phillip Schmidt said the watch television, study and fire safety trailer, equipped if there’s a fire,” Netherland Firefighter Taylor Marks group acquired the house at a bring our lunch will be nice.” with smoke detectors and fake said. “We can flip a switch, admitted that some of the good time. Pi Kappa Phi member and fog, to different elementary and it will get warm in there, calls the station receives re- “It felt great having the SEE HOUSE PAGE 3 schools, daycares and church- and [then] we pump in some es in order to educate people SEE LCFD PAGE 3 Former Sig Ep members join Phi Tau KYLE WOHLEBER [email protected] Members of the dissolved Sigma Phi Epsilon were able to disaffiliate from their fra- ternity and join other frater- nities on campus following the closure of the Mississip- pi Alpha Chapter last spring. Many of the members chose to join Phi Kappa Tau, a fra- ternity that, before this year, had been one of the smallest fraternities on campus. PHOTO BY: PAYTON TEFFNER PHOTO BY: PAYTON TEFFNER Left to right, Jack Fitzpatrick and Nico Blanco study on the porch of the Phi Tau frater- The Pi Kappa Phi fraternity house is seen Wednesday. SEE MEMBERS PAGE 3 nity house Wednesday. opinion PAGE 2 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 16 OCTOBER 2014 | OPINION THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN EDITORIAL STAFF: LACEY RUSSELL editor-in-chief [email protected] SARAH PARRISH managing editor [email protected] MACKENZIE HICKS copy chief [email protected] LOGAN KIRKLAND MAGGIE MCDANIEL news editors [email protected] KYLIE MCFADDEN assistant news editor DYLAN RUBINO sports editor [email protected] CLARA TURNAGE lifestyles editor [email protected] SIERRA MANNIE opinion editor [email protected] CADY HERRING COLUMN photography editor [email protected] ALLI MOORE Boys might be boys MADDIE THEOBALD ELLEN WHITAKER has happened to me, I think it’s on Converses, jeans and a but- If you don’t think much about design editors a wonder we don’t go around ton down and pull my leather how other people read your gen- speaking directly into each oth- wallet out of my back pocket, I’m der, then congratulations, you’re THOMAS GRANING er’s crotches. left wondering what else I could probably cisgender. multimedia editor As a transgender man, pass- possibly do. Don’t get offended. It’s not [email protected] ing (having my gender identity Should I get the “male” sym- a slur. It just means you’re not correctly interpreted by others) bol tattooed somewhere on me? trans; that you never disagreed KRISTIN JACKSON has been a struggle for me for That little circle with the very with the doctor who proclaimed, digital content coordinator years. Fortunately, now that I’m phallic upward pointing arrow “It’s a blank!” And while I don’t on hormone replacement ther- is pretty cool, but I don’t know if hold that against you, I do think apy, my voice doesn’t give me I’d want it on my forehead. you’re a lucky son of a gun. ADVERTISING STAFF: MORGAN PHILLEY away nearly as much as it used Should I wear flannel all day Next time you go out, try and [email protected] MATT ZELENIK to. Bi-weekly injections of tes- every day? count how many times people advertising sales manager “Can I take your order, Sir… tosterone are a hell of a drug, Trouble is, we live in Mis- call you “sir” or “ma’am” or say [email protected] Ma’am… Uh…?” but this whole “second puberty” sissippi, and as much as I love “he” or “she.” When you’re no- People get funny when they gig sucks. plaid, summer would be the ticing it, that number gets really EMILY FORSYTHE can’t immediately figure out I get that I’m not the most death of me. high really quick. DAVID JONES your gender. If you haven’t had masculine looking guy around. Maybe I could pretend to know So, until my ratio of male to fe- EVAN MILLER any personal experience with My round face makes me look enough about cars or football to male to “oh God go away quickly account executives this, take it from an expert. You either like a woman or a twelve- have normal “manly-man” con- so I don’t have to pick” ends up year-old — not that there’s any- versations, but that seems like it with me getting called the guy MARA BENSING can practically watch the wheels thing wrong with those things. would involve a lot of research I that I am every time, spare a KIM SANNER spinning frantically in their creative designers head.