University of Mississippi eGrove Daily Mississippian Journalism and New Media, School of 10-20-2017 October 20, 2017 The Daily Mississippian Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline Recommended Citation The Daily Mississippian, "October 20, 2017" (2017). Daily Mississippian. 213. https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline/213 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Journalism and New Media, School of at eGrove. It has been accepted for inclusion in Daily Mississippian by an authorized administrator of eGrove. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Friday, October 20, 2017 THE DAILY Volume 106, No. 35 MISSISSIPPIANTHE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SERVING OLE MISS AND OXFORD SINCE 1911 Visit theDMonline.com @thedm_news WHAT’S INSIDE... SPORTS Getting home: Toledo’s golden boy faces How one Ole Miss family weathered the storm LSU Tigers Shea Patterson’s first Magnolia Bowl comes with a lot of extra motivation PAGE 16 OPINION Photography’s physical connection How looking at a photograph shows how close we are to disarray PAGE 2 PHOTO COURTESY: GABY ALTIERI A fallen power line blocks part of a road in Puerto Rico. Hurricane Maria made NEWS landfall on September 20, 2017, and has left many roads unusable. Civil rights museum her sister, Mayra Rosas- aunt were staying still does Museum director discusses museum’s Rexroade, were preparing not have lights or running historic opening for Mississippi PHOTO BY: BAYLEE MOZJESIK to fly back to the states water. Banks, gas stations Gaby Altieri poses with some of her favorite trinkets brought from Puerto Rico. She PAGE 7 after visiting a relative in and grocery stores are still keeps the engraved flag on her bedside table. the hospital. experiencing hourslong SLADE RAND Gaby Altieri said. “I know that Hurricane Maria made lines, and many roads are MANAGING EDITOR was kind of a punch in the heart landfall in Puerto Rico still closed. right there.” on Sept. 20 as a Category “I cried the other day he coquis Altieri is a junior 4 storm with 155 mph pumping gas, because my stopped political science major winds. President Donald aunt had to make an eight- chirping when from Brandon. Born in Trump called the storm a hour line to get gas to make Hurricane Memphis and raised “monster” and the National it to the airport,” Altieri said. Maria hit. On a in Mississippi, she’s a Weather Service Miami Maria struck the coast the typicalT night, the nickel- Southerner with a hearty warned that areas could day before Altieri’s mom LIFESTYLES sized frogs dominate the Puerto Rican bloodline. be “uninhabitable” for and aunt were scheduled island air with their high- Her parents, Frank Altieri months. Now, weeks after to fly back to the states. Melody in mourning pitched call, reminiscent of and Wendy Rosas-Altieri, the storm hit, more than Not only did the storm Two years after her son’s suicide, Pam cicadas in the Mississippi grew up 10 minutes apart a third of the island still devastate their travel plans, Smith has been using her grief to summer. For the past on the western side of lacks drinking water, and 3 but it also meant the sisters raise awareness in the community month, nothing has been the island and moved million American citizens’ had no way of talking to stateside 26 years ago on power remains off. their family overseas. It PAGE 8 typical in Puerto Rico, and the coquis have been quiet. their wedding day. When Altieri said her family’s was a week before Altieri “There’s something missing,” Maria began swamping the house where her mom and LIFESTYLES island, Rosas-Altieri and SEE PUERTO RICO PAGE 5 20 years of Thacker Thacker Mountain Radio celebrated its anniversary with blues and books PAGE 10 AG says relocating war statues lawful MADDIE MCGEE In a statement to The Dai- SPORTS NEWS EDITOR ly Mississippian, Ryan Whit- Pick ‘em returns for week 8 tington, assistant director of public relations for social me- Chancellor Vitter joins the guys as a Debates surrounding Con- dia strategy for the universi- special guest picker federate monuments and ty, said the attorney general’s their potential messages of PAGE 14 letter will have no effect on history and racism have in- the work the Chancellor’s Ad- tensified across the country, visory Committee on History and Oxford and Ole Miss now and Context is doing. find themselves at the center “As an educational institu- of it all regarding the possi- tion, our guiding principle is ble relocation of Confederate that we have a duty to learn statues. and teach from history, and A recent opinion issued contextualization was deter- by Deputy Attorney Gener- mined to be the most effective al Mike Lanford said statues approach for our campus. We could be relocated as long as feel that contextualization, SPORTS it remains on public, county properly done, is an additive Soccer fights for 2-2 draw property. The opinion applies process and is an important to both the statue located on Rebels overcome late red card to extension of our university’s PHOTO BY: TAYLAR TEEL the Square near the court- salvage a home draw house and the memorial in The contextualization plaque and decorative base of the Confederate statue in the SEE STATUE PAGE 6 Circle are fixed after a driver crashed into them earlier this semester. SEE THEDMONLINE.COM the Circle. PAGE 2 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 20 OCTOBER 2017 OPINION COLUMN THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN EDITORIAL STAFF: ‘Looking at old photographs’ LANA FERGUSON editor-in-chief [email protected] SLADE RAND managing editor [email protected] MAGGIE MARTIN copy chief [email protected] RACHEL ISHEE MADDIE MCGEE news editors [email protected] SAM HARRES GRAYSON WEIR sports editors [email protected] ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO MARLEE CRAWFORD looks at the changing image of more to the thought, and it ends really looked and thought about TAYLAR TEEL photography editors the American South through happily and naively. Rather than the photographs that capture [email protected] documentary photography. let this happen, Coates insists our campus’s great tragedy. I Recently, we turned our focus that we must assume guilt and remember how I couldn’t shake to these civil rights era images, ask why we would have done the thought that those rioters had DEVNA BOSE lifestyles editor taken by photographers like that. children and grandchildren who [email protected] John Vachon, Gordon Parks and The core of the second part are living, that they probably go Charles Moore. of Coates’ argument, based on to school with me, that, ignoring Specifically, we began looking “a muscular empathy rooted my being a Yankee, that could’ve JONATHAN GIBSON at pictures from the riot that in curiosity,” is that there is no been me. assistant lifestyles editor rocked Oxford in 1962 when reason why we could knowingly Though there is a visual [email protected] James Meredith tried to enroll at think we would do anything less connection, as presented in a LIAM NIEMAN the university. As Sept. 30 rolled than the most evil actions in the Time magazine article and cover LIAM NIEMAN OPINION EDITOR into Oct. 1., a crowd comprised of past. Coates writes, “The fact that comparing 1968 to 2015, between opinion editor Oxonians, students and complete we — and I mean all of us, black photographs of the classical civil [email protected] In one of the most powerful outsiders ravaged the campus and white — are, in our bones, rights movement and the Black and telling images of the civil and town. Much of this chaos no better than slave masters is Lives Matter movement of our HAYDEN BENGE rights era, a white teenager was captured through the lenses chilling.” own era, I’m more interested in ETHEL MWEDZIWENDIRA angrily shouts at a black teenager of courageous photojournalists. And this logic makes sense — the real and physical connection, design editors clutching a textbook to her chest In these photos, lawmen the chemicals that comprise our the forced muscular empathy of [email protected] and stoically walking to school. joke and laugh wickedly as they bodies and drive our thoughts photographs. The black woman, one of the wait for the inevitable tumult are the same ones that comprised It’s one thing to look at a first nine black students at Little to begin, young men proudly our forebears’ bodies and drove photograph of the present EMILY HOFFMAN Rock Central High, is Elizabeth wave Rebel flags and others take their thoughts. day and say it looks similar to social media editor Eckford; the white woman, on the National Guardsmen Photographs, rather than something that happened in the another Central High student, is charged with keeping the peace words, are far better at tangibly past. It’s another thing to say that, ADVERTISING Hazel Bryan. in Oxford. communicating this abstract given the visual similarity and SALES MANAGER There are many photographs This subject made me connection. Reading a story or our humanity, the photographed Blake Hein just like this of the civil rights contemplate thoughts that’ve even a witness’s description of event could happen today. [email protected] struggle of the ‘50s and ‘60s. been churning in my head a past event, it is easy to forget Sure, these civil rights era In them, angry white people — for a long time about the the physical, human connection photographs provide a glimpse SALES ACCOUNT brutal police officers, laughing connections between history and between the characters and into our past. But they also EXECUTIVES young men or seemingly photography, especially on this think of them as far different undeniably say something harmless schoolgirls — abuse Cameron Collins campus.