University of Mississippi eGrove Daily Mississippian 2-27-2019 February 27, 2019 The Daily Mississippian Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline Recommended Citation The Daily Mississippian, "February 27, 2019" (2019). Daily Mississippian. 142. https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline/142 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by eGrove. It has been accepted for inclusion in Daily Mississippian by an authorized administrator of eGrove. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE DAILY WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2019 | VOLUME 107, NO. 76 MISSISSIPPIAN THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI | SERVING OLE MISS AND OXFORD SINCE 1911 DM STAFF REPORT Will the university relocate its Confederate statue? It could happen. Student Student Body senators university gathered at the base cemetery. These groups that the university or another leaders at the University approved a draft of a resolution of the same monument. represent some of the same “governing body” could make of Mississippi are taking in committee which would call According to a memo university bodies that were the decision to remove the steps toward removing the on university administration to dated Feb. 26 released by involved in the school’s decision monument. That memo, Confederate monument from relocate the monument. the Associated Student Body to remove the state flag from which was obtained by The the center of campus. The monument, erected in Senate’s committee on inclusion campus in 2015 and to remove Daily Mississippian, explains Campus senators met the Circle 1906 and dedicated by and cross-cultural engagement, Ed Meek’s name from the that the authority to remove with local historians and residents of Lafayette County, senators plan to seek support School of Journalism and New the monument does not lie administrators this month to served as a rallying point for from the Faculty Senate, Media in 2018. exclusively with the state discuss options for removing neo-Confederate protesters Graduate Student Council, Staff An earlier draft of that memo government “unless an attorney the university’s Confederate this past weekend. In 1962, Council and administration in dated Feb. 22 showed Erica general deems otherwise.” monument from the Circle, and students rioting against James order to relocate the monument McKinley, the university’s on Tuesday night, Associated Meredith’s integration of the to the town’s Confederate general counsel, implying SEE STATUE PAGE 4 Sparks yet to comment on players’ protest Students criticize campus housing HADLEY HITSON [email protected] Ole Miss students are questioning campus housing’s approach in managing problems with its residents, and some have voiced concern with housing employees’ recent reliance on PHOTO COURTESY: AP PHOTO/MARK HUMPHREY law enforcement officials. Ole Miss guard Devontae Shuler shakes hands with head coach Kermit Davis after the team defeated Vanderbilt on Jan. 5 . University Police Department is called to the aisle in the conversation presence on campus, but identified with the University JUSTIN DIAL residence halls approximately about the protest, and the it forces Oxford and the of Mississippi and its two to five times nightly JOSHUA CLAYTON sentiment from some national university to get to the root of Confederate past and the [email protected] and more on the weekends, media personalities has been why those groups were here in fact that the University of according to UPD Crime that the form of the players’ the first place. Mississippi has the strongest Prevention Coordinator The silent protest from demonstration is ineffective. Students and faculty identity of any school in Bishop Lewis. eight men’s basketball players “No, I don’t think (kneeling across campus are calling for America to the Confederacy Lewis also said housing during the national anthem during the national anthem) immediate action from the and what it represented,” relies heavily on UPD was seen and felt across the is effective,” Jason Whitlock administration to address Ross said. “The University of for enforcement of rules, nation, putting the national of Fox Sports told The Daily its identity. Director of the Mississippi has worked hard, specifically in regards to spotlight on the city of Mississippian. “It’s exactly university’s African American to an extent, to try to distance potential criminal offenses. Oxford, yet again. playing into the hands of studies program Charles K. itself, but there’s also an “There should always be While most of the national bigots, white nationalist Ross, who has a doctorate in argument that there’s a whole restraint before you go to law sports media outlets have groups (and) KKK groups. African-Americans in sports lot more that the university returned to their discussions enforcement, especially with (They) are fringe elements from Ohio State University, could be doing.” some of the minor issues,” of Zion Williamson, LeBron of American society and are said that the events over the He said the university James or the NFL Combine, Associated Student Body looking for attention and are weekend are all the more should be focussed on its Judicial Chair Alex Crouch the players’ protest of the neo- looking to provoke a response reason to take down the students rather than its Confederate groups will not said. “We need to have from people.” university’s Confederate athletic reputation. some tolerance for minor be forgotten anytime soon in The national story may have statue. “This issue is bigger Oxford. been that players were simply “These groups came on Voices flood both sides of protesting neo-Confederate campus because they have SEE KNEELING PAGE 8 SEE HOUSING PAGE 3 BLACK HISTORY MONTH SPEAKERS OLE MISS FACES CENTRAL EXPLORE RACIAL HISTORY ARKANSAS ON THE ROAD Tim Wise and Joy Degruy, prominent Ole Miss softball plays its final road scholars on race, delivered the Black History game until mid-March on Wednesday Month keynote address on Monday. They against Central Arkansas before starting addressed racial problems of the past and 14-game home stand. First pitch is what can be done to move forward. set for 5 p.m. in Conway, Arkansas. SEE PAGE 4 SEE THEDMONLINE.COM PAGE 2 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 27 FEBRUARY 2019 OPINION THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN EDITORIAL STAFF: SLADE RAND editor-in-chief [email protected] DEVNA BOSE managing editor [email protected] MEGAN SWARTZFAGER copy chief [email protected] TAYLOR VANCE news editor HADLEY HITSON GRIFFIN NEAL assistant news editors [email protected] JUSTIN DIAL GUEST COLUMN sports editor JOSH CLAYTON assistant sports editor [email protected] It starts here CHRISTIAN JOHNSON director Ross Bjork issued least amount of courage this own capital and condemn the photography editor ELLIE CAMPBELL statements supporting their past week, while our least- most obvious symbols of hate KATHERINE BUTLER JESSICA WILKERSON players’ decision. Davis said compensated and most- as “not us.” assistant photography editor the protest “was all about the vulnerable showed the most. Until our campus reckons [email protected] GARRETT FELBER JT THOMAS hate groups that came to our This is not surprising. The with its most prominent LIAM NIEMAN [email protected] community to try to spread statue glorifies those who symbol to racial capitalism — arts & culture editor racism and bigotry.” Bjork fought to maintain slavery, the Confederate statue — and ELIZA NOE Last week, students, faculty added that “we don’t want an economic system of the system that undergirds assistant arts & culture editor and staff sifted through them on our campus. … that’s racialized labor exploitation, it, official statements about [email protected] confusing communiqué not right because that’s not or “racial capitalism.” This our values and commitments and endeavored to make the Ole Miss that I know.” same system today shields remain milquetoast. HAYDEN BENGE informed decisions about But this group of hate- white administrators from We must address the design editor whether it was safe to come spewing neo-Confederates accountability to vulnerable relationship between unpaid [email protected] to their place of work and did not choose just any students and employees and underpaid labor on our ETHEL MWEDZIWENDIRA study. Meanwhile, students campus or weekend. They while entrenching racial campus — predominantly opinion and design editor organized to condemn the reacted to a student group, hierarchies. The Confederate by black students, student- [email protected] white supremacist march and Students Against Social rally did not originate athletes and staff — and the statue. Justice (SASI), that has outside of our campus. It was the statue that venerates SARAH HENDERSON Student groups called on the administration born from it, and it sought to that economic system. multimedia editor collaborated on open letters to remove the Confederate uphold the same values and Our campus community to the administration, and ANNIE SHARP monument and adopt a the same system from which has made it clear: Until online editor a separate letter garnered hate speech policy. Earlier our administrators benefit. the statue is gone, we will over 225 signatures in [email protected] this year, SASI announced As our million-dollar not feel safe, welcomed or just six days. On Thursday IVANA NGUYEN plans for a Students Against head basketball coach and able to work productively social media editor evening, the University of Sweatshops convention athletic director divert here. We demand that the Mississippi Gospel Choir [email protected] to be held on Feb. 23. The attention to the hate off university take immediate raised a Black Power fist white supremacists made campus that they “don’t action to remove the statue at the word “brave” while their decisions in order to recognize,” the players who from campus. It must start ADVERTISING singing the national anthem threaten those students, a made the courageous stand here. SALES MANAGER at a women’s basketball fact university officials have against that hate receive no Rebecca Brown game.