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Tuesday, July 7, 2015 THE DAILY Volume 103, No. 138 THE STUDENTMISSISSIPPIAN NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SERVING OLE MISS AND OXFORD SINCE 1911 Visit theDMonline.com @thedm_news online lifestyles sports A look into the This Summer Position Horizons program in music preview Page 8 thedmonline.com Page 4 Pavillion construction projected New Liberal Arts Dean to be complete January 2016 to start Fall semester LOGAN KIRKLAND & pleased to learn that he was in- CLARA TURNAGE vited to campus for an on-site [email protected] interview. Cohen said the over- After about a year of searching whelming amount of support has for a new dean for the college of really solidified the decision that liberal arts, Dr. Lee Cohen, will the university is where he and his serve as the new dean this fall family need to be. semester. “I recall that when I got home, I Cohen said he first learned told my wife that this was a place about the position opening from I really wanted to be and when I an email sent by Dr. Michael Al- got the offer I was thrilled,” Co- len, Professor and Chair of the hen said. “Since then, my wife Department of Psychology, to and kids have been so incredi- the members of the Council of bly supportive of the decision, Graduate Departments of Psy- and numerous people affiliated chology . SEE DEAN PAGE 2 “Within a couple of days of seeing Dr. Allen’s email, a good friend and colleague of mine forwarded the job ad to me and encour- aged me to apply – and I did,” Cohen said. Cohen said he had recently begun consid- ering applying for dean positions at a very se- lect group of schools. “The more I learned about the University of Mississippi and the city of Oxford, the more excited I became about PHOTOS BY: LOGAN KIRKLAND the possibility of com- According to the Department of Facilities Planning the new basketball arena, the Pavillion, is pro- ing here,” Cohen said. After an initial Skype jected to be completed January 9, 2016. That will also be the first home game for the Rebels. COURTESY: UM COMMUNICATIONS interview, Cohen was Southern Foodways Alliance hosts history workshop SUAD PATTONBEY historians or writers to find southern cuisine. The organi- down the road once in a while the field. [email protected] them.” zation strives to place a com- for historians who are trying Wood observed during last Guest speakers will include mon thread across racial and to find all of the facts.” year’s workshop that many of locals, mainly, including social lines; to remember the Wood also said memories the students had either just The Southern Foodways Al- Tina Antolini, Andy Harp- past and envision the future. are a significant in capturing started or were far into an liance will host a workshop er, Alysia Burton-Steele and “Oral history is essentially oral history. oral history project of their on oral history from July 13- award-winning University of a first-person account of an “Memories are a very inter- own. 17. This year’s workshop will Massachusetts professor Erin event or a story,” said Sara esting and complicated thing This year’s workshop will have only six students, to cre- Anderson, who has complet- Wood, oral historian for the as well.” take a different approach, ate a less crowded, more inti- ed with digital publishing and Southern Foodways Alliance. Research has shown that a Wood said. She said she has mate space for the students to experimental work with oral “When I go out into the field, person’s account of a recent found it interesting to take share their ideas and apply it history. we usually pick a project event can change drastically people into the field to learn to their own work. “I think, in the last decade stemmed around that.” with time, Wood said. fieldwork techniques. She “I think the interesting or so, people who work in Oral historians try to give Former SFA oral historian thought it would be particu- thing about oral history is oral history are trying to find the unsung a chance to speak Amy Cameron-Evans found- larly useful to those who were that, traditionally, it’s always ways to bring those stories to their personal truth, even ed the oral history workshop already in the field, stuck, or been processed for an aca- the surface outside of the ar- when accounts don’t line up a few years ago. Evans’s pro- were trying to process certain demic archive,” Wood said. chive, and to put them into a with previous personal or his- cess includes an introduction materials. “So, once the interviews are consciousness of mainstream torical records, Wood said. to oral history, defining what The application was open collected, they’re put right in audience,” Wood said. “I think that plays into the it was, its methods and prac- to both undergraduates and to the archive of a library or The Southern Foodways Al- whole idea of folklore,” Wood tices, how to collect inter- graduate students. SFA re- an institution and they kind liance records, studies ,and said. “But at the same time, views and how to process ma- of sit there for researchers or celebrates the diversity of I think it complicates things terials after returning from SEE WORKSHOP PAGE 2 opinion PAGE 2 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 7 JULY 2015 | OPINION THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN SUMMER EDITORIAL STAFF: LOGAN KIRKLAND editor-in-chief photography editor [email protected] CLARA TURNAGE managing editor news editor [email protected] TORI WILSON copy chief [email protected] CODY THOMASON sports editor [email protected] ZOE MCDONALD lifestyles editor [email protected] ASHLEY NORWOOD multimedia editor [email protected] ADVERTISING STAFF: EVAN MILLER advertising sales manager [email protected] COLUMN LEAH UNDERWOOD account executive Manipulating Faith I think it’s fair to say that, is the first place to turn when Jesus is a symbol of love, and does. SARAH DRENNEN lately, the United States has our communities deal with I don’t think he would view What a lot of Christians don’t CLAIRE HUBACEK experienced its fair share of un- hard-hitting social issues. Now, gays as embodiments of sin. I realize is that much of the gay creative designers rest. From Ferguson and Balti- there isn’t necessarily anything believe that homosexuality is community identifies as Chris- more to Caitlyn Jenner, to the wrong with that. Personally, not a choice, which forces me tian. That is, people don’t have Confederate Flag and Charles- I’m religious, and I believe that to acknowledge that homosex- to be either Christian or gay. S. GALE DENLEY ton, to the Supreme Court’s rul- faith is a good tool for guiding uals are created that way. For They can be both — so, when STUDENT MEDIA CENTER ing that led to the legalization of us in life, but it must be used this reason, I don’t think that talking to them, remember that PATRICIA THOMPSON gay marriage in all fifty states, properly. Most of the articles I Jesus would want them to try maybe they love Jesus too. Your Director of Student Media and it really has been one controver- have seen on social media that to change or to stop loving each right to adhere to a religion is Daily Mississippian Faculty sial event after another popping discuss how Jesus would treat other. I think Jesus would be equivalent to everyone else’s Adviser up on the evening news. I have each issue don’t remind me of happy that they’ve found love. right to do so. Lastly, the Bible witnessed plenty of disagree- the Jesus I’ve come to know. This Moreover, it isn’t as much about seems to condemn homosexu- ROY FROSTENSON Assistant Director/Radio and ment from those trying to share was especially the case when what these articles are saying ality, but many of those verses Advertising their opinions on everything gay marriage was legalized in but how they are said. The au- come from the same books of that happens, whether it be on the past week or so. The articles thors write as though they are the Bible that say that we should DEBRA NOVAK social media, the internet or that some of my companions talking down to gay communi- stone women and cast out lep- Creative Services Manager around town, and it seems that were sharing would say things ty, but Christianity would never ers. Nowadays, we generally MARSHALL LOVE everyone has to have the final like, “Jesus would want more advise anyone to treat another admire women and give lepers Daily Mississippian word. for gay people” and, “Jesus will human being with anything the cure, so maybe we should Distribution Manager Being a student at the Univer- be there for you” and, “Even Je- less than respect. These articles pay more attention to what Je- sity of Mississippi in the heart of sus was tempted sometimes.” essentially express the disgust sus would really do.