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Friday, April 10, 2015 THE DAILY Volume 103, No. 115 THE STUDENTMISSISSIPPIAN NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SERVING OLE MISS AND OXFORD SINCE 1911 Visit theDMonline.com @thedm_news DM STAFF REPORT IHL Commissioner Borsig requests to step down Incoming Institutions of working with the board, both my career over 30 year knows Higher Learning Commis- as a university president and as I’ve dealt with hard things and sioner Jim Borsig announced commissioner-elect. The Board dealt with controversy,” Bor- Thursday that he has request- is fully dedicated to the success sig said. “That has absolutely ed to step down from his posi- of the university system and I nothing to do this.” tion with the IHL and intends share in this goal. After reflec- Details regarding the search to remain president of the Mis- tion and prayer, I have realized for a new Commissioner of sissippi University for Women. that my true passion — and my Higher Education will be dis- Borsig was appointed commis- calling at this point in my life cussed by the board at its next sioner by the Board of Trustees — is to serve our state as a uni- regularly scheduled meeeting and was scheduled to assume versity president.” next Thursday in Jackson. his new position on April 15. Borsig told The Clarion-Led- The state College Board “I first want to make it per- ger the controversy surround- made the decision not to renew fectly clear that I am in full ing the non-renewal of Chan- Jones’ contract in March. The support of the board of trust- cellor Dan Jones’ contract did board’s reasonings for the FILE PHOTO: LOGAN KIRKLAND ees,” Borsig said in a press re- not affect his decision. Jim Borsig talks to media after an executive session at the IHL Board meeting in lease Thursday. “I have enjoyed “Anyone who has followed SEE BORSIG PAGE 4 March. More than a number When Robert Conyers met Park Stevens in the spring of 2013, a bond was created that would not be broken. Following a car accident that resulted in Stevens’ death, Conyers chose to wear the number 75 in honor of his friend. BRIAN SCOTT RIPPEE next he was back home escorting [email protected] a special needs girl to her prom. It was just the kind of person Park very football player must Stevens was. He lived to care for choose a number. Some other people.” Echoose a lucky number, Conyers and Stevens quickly others choose it based on an ath- became close friends. They be- lete they grew up admiring. came roommates and spent the Ole Miss offensive lineman summer of 2013 in Oxford taking Robert Conyers’ number means classes and going through sum- a great deal more than that. It mer workouts. represents the life and legacy of Later that summer, as the COURTESY: GALE STEVENS his beloved friend and teammate Fourth of July approached, Co- Park Stevens. nyers, who was from Miami and During spring practice after unable to go home, planned to go Conyers’ freshman year, he met home with Stevens to Columbus Park Stevens. Standing at 6-foot- for the weekend. Stevens left Ox- 8 with long blond hair, Stevens ford on July 3. Conyers ended up was a goofy and fun-loving walk- having a test that day and instead on offensive lineman who trans- planned to drive down the next ferred from East Central Com- day to meet Stevens. munity College. Stevens was about an hour “At first, I see him, and he is away from home when an like 6-foot-8, and he’s got this 18-wheeler pulled out to cross long blonde hair, and I’m just like four lanes of traffic. Stevens hit ‘Man, who is this big goofy guy?’” the back of the 18-wheeler in his Conyers said. “He was just one of pickup truck and was killed on those guys that you felt like you impact. knew for your entire life. He had Stevens’ parents were vacation- that kind of impact on people.” ing in the mountains with their Park Stevens, affectionally older two children and their fam- known around his home town of ilies at the time of the accident. Columbus as “the gentle giant,” They received a call from a rela- was a caring young man. tive with the devastating news. “One year, I’ll never forget, he It was an unbelievable shock, a FILE PHOTO: CADY HERRING had first asked for a PlayStation 3 devastating loss and a test of faith ABOVE: Park Stevens, his sister Tina Beth Stevens and Robert Conyers pose for a photo before the 2013 Grove Bowl. BELOW:Wear- for Christmas, and about a month to a close-knit family. ing Park Stevens former number, Robert Conyers celebrates a touchdown with Cody Core in a game against Boise State last season. before, he asked us if we would “You’re just numb to it all. buy his teammate Mike a North You do everything with this ar- your first thought in the morning their son. his number to 75, Stevens’ num- Face jacket instead because he mor around you. You’re trying to and your last thought at night.” “Park had a dream, and we ber. didn’t have a jacket of his own,” prove to everyone that you can be Shortly after Stevens’ death, his made an agreement to finish that “I wanted to make his parents his mother Gail Stevens said. strong, and it’s hard,” Gail Ste- family made the decision to stay dream,” said Gail Stevens. feel the way they should feel “One weekend, Stevens was play- vens said, describing the first year involved with the football pro- Conyers also made a decision SEE CONYERS PAGE 5 ing in the Grove Bowl, and the after Park’s death. “It is literally gram and carry out the legacy of after Stevens’ passing to switch opinion PAGE 2 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 10 APRIL 2015 | 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] COLUMN CLARA TURNAGE lifestyles editor [email protected] Privatization and the new slaves ROBERT MCAULIFFE able, that must be maintained at American public policy did not most egregious example of why SIERRA MANNIE [email protected] a certain price and level of quality change much until the late 1970s, privatization is a problem can be opinion editor for society to operate optimally, when more and more libertari- seen when we look at the trend of [email protected] Privatization represents the ul- were nationalized, that is, owned an-influenced politicians gained prison privatization in the United timate realization of the free-mar- by the nation. public office — many, but not States. ket libertarian worldview: it ren- Nationalization protected these all, through the Republican Par- Prison privatization, while not CADY HERRING ders services, industries and jobs industries from the natural price ty. The Reagan administration unheard of in the early 20th cen- photography editor previously owned and paid for by fluctuation of the capitalist sys- in the 1980s ushered in a new tury, took off with full force in the [email protected] the nation-state into the hands of tem. Sanitation services, police era of deregulation and govern- 1980s with the founding of the privately owned individuals and forces, emergency responders, ment shrinkage unprecedented Corrections Corporation of Amer- RACHEL GHOLSON corporations. The ideological jus- national defense, airport securi- in American history. Inspired by ica in 1983. At the same time, ALLI MOORE tification behind this shift in own- ty, prisons, postal services and Margaret Thatcher, Reagan made the Reagan administration was ELLEN WHITAKER ership is rooted in the Randian schools are all industries provid- privatization of government assets pushing a new “War on Drugs,” design editors capitalist tradition – ideally, that ed for by the state or federal gov- a viable political option. While he a “tough-on-crime” approach to putting government assets in the ernment in the United States. In only privatized one government the drug problem that saw as a hands of private corporations en- KRISTIN JACKSON many other otherwise-capitalist holding (Conrail, sold for $1.6 solution harsh sentencing, violent courages competition, that so-of- digital content coordinator countries that further embrace billion), he set the precedent that enforcement of drug prohibition ten-invoked process by which nationalization, key industries privatization was the new political and the massive incarceration of different economic players try like coal, oil and gas are owned by reality for the United States – a re- thousands of otherwise innocent ADVERTISING STAFF: their hardest to reduce price and the federal government to ensure ality carried out by both the Clin- Americans. increase efficiency, in whatever EVAN MILLER that important exports are main- ton and Bush administrations. Since 1975, the prison popu- way possible.