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See inside for coverage of Pro Day PAGES 6-7 Wednesday, March 28, 2018 THE DAILY Volume 106, No. 90 MISSISSIPPIANTHE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SERVING OLE MISS AND OXFORD SINCE 1911 Visit theDMonline.com @thedm_news Backpack display raises suicide awareness UM hosts conference on Marks Mule Train BLAKE ALSUP ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR A two-day national conference PHOTO BY: TUCKER ROBBINS at the university to commemo- rate the Poor People’s Campaign Mule Train that trekked from Marks to Washington, D.C. 50 years ago kicks off today. The conference is officially called “Honoring the 50th Anni- versary of the 1968 Mule Train/ Poor People’s Campaign by Implementing Classroom The- ory in Marks, Mississippi” and will take place Wednesday and Thursday in several locations on and off campus, including Marks, which is where the cam- paign originated. PHOTO BY: TUCKER ROBBINS PHOTO BY: CHRISTIAN JOHNSON This conference is part of a LEFT: Active Minds representative Alexia Ruiz displays the contents of an interactive backpack during the Send Suicide Packing event Monday. TOP RIGHT: Active yearlong series of events to re- Minds placed backpacks throughout the Grove to raise awareness about suicide rates among students. BOTTOM RIGHT: Members of the Ole Miss chapter of Active member the 1,000 mile trip Minds Will Kennedy, Josh Martin and Katherine Sistrunk help put out backpacks for Send Silence Packing, the kickoff for Mental Health Week. from Marks (an hour west of Oxford) to the nation’s capital by JORDAN HOLMAN “Bright, funny, a free spirit, athlete, and suicide awareness and mark the beginning 28 wagons pulled by mules in an STAFF WRITER actress with a beautiful soul,” was written of Mental Health Week on campus. As effort to draw attention to pov- on another, before including the victim’s students walked between the backpacks, erty, according to a UM press Yesterday, students’ backpacks dotted favorite quote: “speak your mind, even if members of the organization passed out release. the Grove – totaling 1,100 in number, your voice shakes.” fliers and quietly inquired if they were OK Martin Luther King Jr. was set representing the more than 1,000 college “My husband,” another simply stated, or needed to talk. to lead the campaign against pov- students who die by suicide every year. before listing the ages of the widow’s four “It might seem disruptive and difficult,” erty after visiting Marks in 1966 The Send Silence Packing exhibition cast children. said Josh Martin, a freshman psychology and seeing the poverty-stricken a calm over the space as students walked In conjunction with the national Active and integrated marketing communications community. He was assassinat- from backpack to backpack, reading the Minds association, the Ole Miss Active major and member of Active Minds. “But ed April 4, 1968, shortly before stories attached to some. Minds organization held the event to raise people from all walks of life are vulnerable, the trip, which was initiated by “She should be eighteen,” one read. SEE ACTIVE MINDS PAGE 3 SEE MULE TRAIN PAGE 3 Black Panther author, alum returns to campus KATHRYN ABERNATHY said. “Lucas Films and Marvel ens: Finn’s Story” was released. STAFF WRITER would have never found me if I A month later, Marvel kept my passions hidden.” reached out to him to write a Jesse Holland, Ole Miss Holland has been writing book telling the origins of the alumnus and author of “Who is since 2005. His first book, Black Panther in order to in- the Black Panther,” returned to “Black Men Built the Capitol: troduce those characters before his alma mater Tuesday after- Discovering African-American the movie was released earlier noon to talk with students, staff History In and Around Wash- this year. and members of the communi- ington” was published in 2007, In September 2017, “Who is ty in the Overby Center about and his second book “The In- the Black Panther” was pub- his career as a writer. Holland visibles: The Untold Story of lished and now is sold out inter- also offered advice to students African American Slaves in the nationally. who are interested pursuing White House” was published in Holland emphasized the im- writing careers. 2016. portance of students having Holland encouraged people After those two books were mentors and connecting with in the audience to not be quiet published, he was approached those in the areas they want to PHOTO BY: LOGAN CONNER about what they love and want in 2016 to write a backstory for be in. to do. a character named Finn in the “I have mentors in journalism, Jesse Holland, author of “Who is the Black Panther” and UM alum, delivers the “I am loud and proud about newest “Star Wars” trilogy. In keynote address during the 2018 Mississippi Scholastic Press Association’s spring that I’m a comic book geek,” he September, “The Force Awak- SEE JESSE HOLLAND PAGE 3 convention at the Ford Center before speaking at the Overby Center on Tuesday. PAGE 2 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 28 MARCH 2018 OPINION THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN EDITORIAL STAFF: 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] BLAKE ALSUP assistant news editor [email protected] SAM HARRES GRAYSON WEIR sports editors [email protected] MARLEE CRAWFORD BILLY SCHUERMAN photography editors [email protected] DEVNA BOSE lifestyles editor [email protected] LIAM NIEMAN opinion editor COLUMN [email protected] HAYDEN BENGE ETHEL MWEDZIWENDIRA US healthcare fails mentally ill patients design editors [email protected] LAUREN MOSES tive means. mental illnesses with quick tal Health Care,” says, “It is STAFF COLUMNIST Though ADHD is not the fixes using drugs rather than much cheaper for insurance EMILY HOFFMAN leading mental disorder in the more permanent fixes companies to pay for medi- social media editor Americans, the comparison achieved through psycho- cation than ongoing psycho- The healthcare system has points to a scary question: therapy. therapy, and their lobbies KIMBERLY RUSSELL failed mentally ill patients. A do healthcare professionals Healthcare options for and the money spent on ad- online editor comparison between French choose drugs over therapy these individuals are often vertisements have slowly in- and American statistics of to help their patients? The scarce and expensive. Amer- fused our cultural thinking ADHD in children found answer to this question is ica’s mental health system about this.” ADVERTISING that 9 percent of American “yes,” and it’s becoming a boasts a measly D rating. Because of this, doctors SALES MANAGER children are diagnosed with huge problem. Exemplary of this is the often throw pills at the prob- Blake Hein the disease, while a mere 0.5 In 2013, antidepressants story of members a fami- lem, hoping the patient will [email protected] percent of French children were the most common pre- ly from Connecticut with a take them and end up fine. are diagnosed. scription psychiatric drugs child who has autism. They The mental healthcare SALES ACCOUNT To treat these children, to be filled, with a staggering decided to send their son system in America is severe- EXECUTIVES American doctors give kids 12 percent of adults saying to a therapeutic boarding ly flawed. Instead of work- Rebecca Brown psycho-stimulants like Rit- they had filled a prescrip- school. So far, the school has ing to rehabilitate patients, Cameron Collins alin and Adderall. What do tion within the past year. Of worked wonders for their doctors cripple them further Sam Dethrow French doctors do? They adults, 8.3 percent were pre- son, but it costs $49,000 a with prescription drugs that Ethan Gray provide psychotherapy and scribed sedatives, hypnotics year. have often proven useless family counseling. and anti-anxiety drugs, and With the median income without continued use. It seems like doctors in S. GALE DENLEY 1.6 percent were given anti- in the U.S. sitting between It is time that America the U.S. are much more will- STUDENT MEDIA CENTER psychotics. $57,230 and $59,039, our adopts a safe and effective ing to hand out potentially About 18 percent of adults current psychotherapy re- solution to mental illness. PATRICIA THOMPSON harmful drugs to the young- have a mental health con- sources are not affordable Assistant Dean est members of our society, Student Media dition, and with 17 percent for the average American Lauren Moses is a Daily Mississippian Faculty offering quick fixes for ill- of adults being prescribed a family. freshman accounting and Adviser nesses that could sometimes psychiatric drug, it is clear Lloyd Sederer, author of political science double be handled through alterna- that doctors are treating “The Family Guide to Men- major from Dallas. 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