University of Mississippi eGrove Daily Mississippian Journalism and New Media, School of 9-8-2017 September 8, 2017 The Daily Mississippian Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline Recommended Citation The Daily Mississippian, "September 8, 2017" (2017). Daily Mississippian. 189. https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline/189 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Journalism and New Media, School of at eGrove. It has been accepted for inclusion in Daily Mississippian by an authorized administrator of eGrove. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Friday, September 8, 2017 THE DAILY Volume 106, No. 11 MISSISSIPPIANTHE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SERVING OLE MISS AND OXFORD SINCE 1911 Visit theDMonline.com @thedm_news A.J. Brown hoping to build on early success Hundreds See page 12 for a preview of tickets of this Saturday’s game See page 9 for staff picks remain for on the big games in college football football COLTON NECAISE STAFF WRITER game KENDALL PATTERSON ast weekend, A.J. STAFF WRITER Brown shattered the Ole Miss school With about 300 left, Ole Miss record for receiving student season tickets have yet Lyards – not a bad start to the to sell out as the football team season. approaches its second game of Brown’s averaged 29 yards the season against UT Martin, per reception, totaling 233 according to Matt Cook, associ- yards on eight catches. To ate director of ticket operations. put this landmark in per- Cook said he believes this is due spective, Brown totaled 412 to the lack of big rivalry home yards last season. In the first games scheduled for this season. week, he already surpassed “We don’t have Alabama, Au- the halfway point to his pre- burn or Mississippi State,” he vious record. said. Brown has handled the Ole Miss students, however, spotlight well so far; his im- have different ideas of why there pressive first season led into is such a delay in student tickets a promising Grove Bowl, selling out. where he led all receivers Students Mary Catherine Rus- with 133 yards and a TD on sell and Savannah Irwin said they five catches. With on-field believe it’s more than just that success arriving early and of- and is possibly due to the NCAA ten, the sophomore hopes to allegations and former head continue enjoying Oxford’s coach Hugh Freeze’s resignation. game day atmosphere. “We can’t look forward to win- “I can’t explain it, but it ning,” Russell said. “And there was definitely a different is no postseason, no bowl game, vibe,” Brown said. “I could and Hugh Freeze was calling es- tell before the game that we corts.” were going to play well. I “It’s the end of the Freeze era,” could feel it. I just knew it.” Irwin said. Even with all the obstacles fac- PHOTO BY: TAYLAR TEEL SEE A.J. BROWN PAGE 11 A.J. Brown is all smiles after a touchdown made against South Alabama last Saturday. SEE TICKETS PAGE 4 Plan approved for 100 low-income homes in Oxford TRENTON SCAIFE laboration between the city of homes will help bridge a fi- help,” she said. where in Mississippi. STAFF WRITER Oxford and LOU-Home and nancial gap that’s kept work- This financial gap that put “We pursued Section 42 has a budget of $20 million. ers outside the city. many of Oxford’s workers funding because it allows for A new housing develop- Proposed by land develop- Amberlyn Liles, superin- outside city limits is allevi- the construction of extremely ment is on its way to Oxford’s er Stewart Rutledge in 2016, tendent of Oxford’s envi- ated, through Section 42 of high-quality homes under a outskirts with plans of cre- these will provide city em- ronmental services, said city the Internal Revenue Code. lease-to-own model and has ating affordable housing op- ployees who make less than workers could benefit from Through this, the government generated strong and stable portunities for resident and $24,000 a year with new the development. Liles has gives tax credits to those who communities for us time and non-resident city workers housing options closer to the employees living out past invest in land development. again,” Rutledge said. “It’s alike. city. The median rent in Ox- Panola County, a 30-minute For the eventual tenants, this very fulfilling.” The 96 new homes, set to be ford – $1,073 for a two-bed- drive from Oxford, and bring- not only means rent will be Liles predicts that once complete in 2020, will be built room apartment – has driven ing them closer will improve low, but after 15 years, they’ll the houses are available, the east of the Riverside Place much of the city’s municipal their quality of life. be able to call these homes intended occupants will fill apartments and an undevel- workforce to live in outly- “At least half of our em- their own. It’s a system Rut- them quickly. oped section of land between ing areas, such as Abbeville ployees live in another coun- ledge says he’s implemented “We’re so popular with our Brittany Woods and Oxford to the north and Alesville ty or at least 15 miles outside with overwhelming success school system and goings-on High School. The proposal to the west. At half the cost, of town, so I think [the new across 800 homes in Tennes- was passed Aug. 27 as a col- the three-room, 2 1/2-bath housing option] can only see, Florida, Texas and else- SEE HOUSING PAGE 4 IN THIS ISSUE... OPINION NEWS LIFESTYLES SPORTS A Grove full of symbols Ira Wolf Scholarship Lil Uzi’s ‘Luv Is Rage 2’ Thornberry heads to Walker Cup How Ole Miss tailgating traditions can tie to Croft student first to receive new Rapper’s latest album is colorful yet Ole Miss to be represented at international honoring the Confederacy scholarship to study abroad without form amateur golf tournament PAGE 3 PAGE 4 PAGE 8 SEE THEDMONLINE.COM PAGE 2 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 8 SEPTEMBER 2017 OPINION COLUMN 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] JOHN TOULOUPIS assistant news editor [email protected] SAM HARRES GRAYSON WEIR sports editors [email protected] MARLEE CRAWFORD TAYLAR TEEL photography editors [email protected] DEVNA BOSE lifestyles editor [email protected] COLUMN JONATHAN GIBSON assistant lifestyles editor Our digital drive is older than we think [email protected] LIAM NIEMAN with even the vaguest sign of In a very real way, this drive Spectacle,” Debord argues that opinion editor communication. has motivated artists, musicians the ubiquity of self-expression [email protected] However, I began to feel and poets for millennia. has sublimated our ability to genuinely uneasy the longer The late French philosopher designate the proper time and HAYDEN BENGE this went on. and social critic Michel Foucault place for self-exposition. ETHEL MWEDZIWENDIRA Before I go any further, I know dubbed this phenomenon In a sea of people clamoring design editors what you’re probably thinking: “confessional,” comparing it to for each other’s attention and [email protected] Who is this old fogey, and how the sacrament of reconciliation, validation, the average person did he register an opinion in a in which a person confesses must do increasingly greater ANESSA GUESS student newspaper? his or her sins. In doing so, an things to attract notice. Were he social media editor I’ll be the first to admit I’m individual gives a voluntary alive today, Debord would likely technologically retrograde. I and complete expurgation of point to violent films, squabbling ADVERTISING ANDREW HAYES don’t have Facebook, I’m averse the soul. Eventually, Foucault talk shows, a corrosive political SALES MANAGER COLUMNIST to Twitter and Snapchat and argued, the dynamic of landscape that thrives on I loathe Instagram. I hold no confession sept into almost controversy and backbiting Blake Hein Yesterday, as I was sitting in illusions that I am anything every interaction of our daily and even the Kardashians [email protected] class, the young lady sitting next more than a digital Luddite. lives. as fevered symptoms of this to me was unable to focus on SALES ACCOUNT It gives my life a simplicity Though he died before the disintegration. the lecturer for a solid minute EXECUTIVES that is worth sacrificing low- social media era, Foucault So let’s bring it back to you – a mere 60 seconds – at a Cary Allen resolution photos of others’ would likely consider its and me. Should we throw away time. Instead, her attention was Cameron Collins desserts. But before you put development to be the utmost our rectangles and give up on absorbed by the steady stream Sam Dethrow down this paper, hear me extension of this notion of social media? Not necessarily. of messages, images, videos Ethan Gray out: There’s a bigger point confession and self-revelation. Like it or not, it’s the ecosystem and emojis emanating from her Kathryn Hathorne underlying my concerns. However, in modern times, in which we now live, and good phone. You see, the impetus behind we no longer look to a priest for things definitely happen there. Dutifully, every 30 seconds or S. GALE DENLEY this relentless inhabitance validation of our self-disclosure But let’s check ourselves, before so, she would open her phone STUDENT MEDIA CENTER of digital space is older than but instead to our friends and we log on again, to make sure and be rewarded with the latest you might think.