University of Mississippi eGrove Daily Mississippian 1-23-2019 January 23, 2019 The Daily Mississippian Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline Recommended Citation The Daily Mississippian, "January 23, 2019" (2019). Daily Mississippian. 122. https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline/122 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, JANUARY 23, 2019 | VOLUME 107, NO. 56 MISSISSIPPIAN THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI | SERVING OLE MISS AND OXFORD SINCE 1911 WELCOME BACK, REBELS! REBELS FALL TO New year, newspaper. OLE MISS ALABAMA CRIMSON TIDE Be sure to pick up the print edition See thedmonline.com every Monday, Wednesday, for full coverage of Thursday and Friday. Follow us last night’s loss in on Facebook, Instagram and 53 Tuscaloosa. The Rebels 74 hope to rebound Twitter, subscribe to our newsletter and check thedmonline.com to against Iowa State stay in the loop this semester. at home Saturday. Strides of Retiring after 25 years, changeDonald Cole will be remembered for his heart, humor and fast pace toward progress. FILE PHOTO: ARIEL COBBERT Assistant Provost and Associate Professor of Mathematics Dr. Donald Cole retired from the University of Mississippi on January 15. pushed for many sweeping reforms on dents protested the treatment of black and expelled from the university. TAYLOR VANCE campus to make it more inviting for students in 1968. He marched on the “(Being arrested) was horrible,” he [email protected] minority students. chancellor’s lawn and presented him a said. “I came to the university to get a Donald Cole was a student at the “I love the university, and I have list of demands. degree. There were a lot of people who University of Mississippi six years worked very diligently and very hard The demands included hiring black had supported me. I come and in a lit- after the university’s first black stu- with the university to make it a better faculty and staff members, recogniz- tle over a year, I had been dismissed. I dent, James Meredith, was admitted place for others,” Cole said. “I have ing the Black Student Union as an couldn’t get in any other state institu- to the university — a time when black made a lot of personal sacrifices for organization, integrating The Daily tion. I was in jail for the first time in students had little to no rights on the university to make it a university Mississippian staff and recruiting my life.” campus. of the 21st century.” black athletes. Sparky Reardon, the former dean Cole, who retired last week from his Cole sacrificed his college career The protest resulted in Cole and positions as an Assistant Provost and when he and many other black stu- seven other students being arrested mathematics professor, has seen and SEE COLE PAGE 4 University removes Meek’s name from Farley Hall School of Journalism and New composed of faculty members. offer implicit bias training for speech,” Simmons said. HADLEY HITSON Media Jennifer Simmons said Simmons serves as the commit- the journalism school faculty. Now that Meek’s name has [email protected] she believes it happened on Dec. tee chairperson. The training was conducted by been officially removed from the The university has officially 17 or 18. “Our charge was never to come Vice Chancellor for Diversity and school, Simmons said, the com- removed Ed Meek’s name from The name came down fol- up with a process or a new name Community Engagement Katrina mittee is planning to cut back its Farley Hall, leaving an open lowing months of discussion for the school,” Simmons said. Caldwell the week before classes weekly meetings to bi-monthly space for a new namesake of the after Meek published a post on “Making sure that all students began. in order to give its members time School of Journalism and New Facebook that members of the felt included as well as making “The committee is working to draft final committee recom- Media. Oxford and Ole Miss community it a welcoming environment so on making more suggestions mendations for Will Norton, the The removal took place during condemned as racist. people know that this one situa- to the dean about things that, Dean of the School of Journalism winter break, when most faculty One solution the university tion doesn’t define the school as as a faculty, we could do with- and New Media, by April. and students were away from devised to mend relations after a whole, that’s the committee’s in the classroom to encourage Meek publicly responded to campus. While many faculty the Meek controversy began last focus.” inclusion, acceptability and the removal of his name in an- members are unsure of the exact September was the Common The first recommendation open-mindedness while still date that Meek’s name was Ground Committee, which is made by the committee was to reserving people’s right to free SEE MEEK removed, Assistant Dean of the PAGE 4 PAGE 2 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 23 JANUARY 2019 COLUMN 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 assistant news editor [email protected] JUSTIN DIAL sports editor [email protected] CHRISTIAN JOHNSON photography editor [email protected] LIAM NIEMAN arts & culture editor ELIZA NOE assistant arts & culture editor [email protected] HAYDEN BENGE design editor [email protected] COLUMN ETHEL MWEDZIWENDIRA opinion and design editor Remembering Ed Perry’s fiery legacy [email protected] down the bottomless pit of A seasoned lawmaker and with the charm and bravado SARAH HENDERSON degradation by the contents lawyer by trade, Perry served which defined the Southern multimedia editor of a bottle juxtaposed with in the Mississippi House of politician of the 20th century. ANNIE SHARP images of friends sharing the Representatives from 1968 to I am far too young to claim online editor same bottle which destroyed 1999 and as House clerk, the witness to Perry’s formative [email protected] another in brotherhood and highest ranking administra- years in public service, or IVANA NGUYEN happiness. Perry concluded tive position in the chamber, even to remember his lat- social media editor his speech, over the sound of through the mid-2000s. In er moments, yet we all live [email protected] applause, “If you mean that his passing, he was remem- proudly in the shadow in drink, the sale of which pours bered for his strong advoca- his achievements — at the into our treasuries millions cy in defense of the state’s university, on the Square and ADVERTISING of dollars to help our little colleges and universities, his perhaps around a bottle of SALES MANAGER WILL HALL crippled children, our blind, skills as an orator and his Tennessee whiskey Rebecca Brown [email protected] our deaf, our pitiful aged and friendship to nearly all those with friends. Perry shaped [email protected] infirm, to build highways, with whom he served in the the state in which we live, To describe the life of Ed hospitals and schools, then Capitol. In his time as a legis- from the waters of Gautier Perry without mentioning his SALES ACCOUNT certainly I am for it. This is lator, the Southern Democrat to the halls of the Lyceum. delivery of what would go on EXECUTIVES my stand. I will not retreat. I chaired the House Appro- Our state lost a legislator, but to be known as the “Whiskey Cameron Collins will not compromise.” priations Committee and the we should take comfort in Speech” is to miss one of the Sam Dethrow For most people, life is Judiciary Committee, serving knowing that somewhere be- greatest moments in his lega- Isaiah Pugh comprised of collections of his constituents through peri- yond our world stand a great cy in public service. Delivered Michael Rackers brief moments where one’s ods of great change. many of those who passed, on the 100th anniversary of Morgan Stone character shines bright Perry was one of Oxford’s gathering around that great the opening of the Mississippi through the facades we build great treasures and an un- oil of conversation which is Capitol, to carry on through the trials apologetic defender of the consumed when fellows get Perry recounted a fiery S. GALE DENLEY and tribulations of everyday interests of those whom he together and that Perry spoke defense of corn liquor initially STUDENT MEDIA CENTER life. But for all who knew represented. These days, it of at the Mississippi Capitol delivered by Noah S. “Soggy” Perry, it seemed like his mo- feels like there aren’t many all those years ago. PATRICIA THOMPSON Sweat Jr. of Corinth in 1952 Assistant Dean/Student Media ments burned a little longer politicians who carry the in favor of legalizing spirits. Daily Mississippian Faculty and shone a little brighter. On mantle of public service as Will Hall is a senior Perry regaled lawmakers Adviser Jan. 15, Perry passed away at graciously as Perry once journalism major from with stories of good Chris- his home in Oxford — he was did — and far fewer who are Atlanta. tian men and women led 76 years old. known to command a room FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA The Daily Mississippian is published Mondays, Wednesdays, THE DM NEWS TWITTER THE DAILY Thursdays and Fridays in print during the academic year, on @thedm_news MISSISSIPPIAN days when classes are scheduled.