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See the back to school edition inside Monday, August 22, 2016 THE DAILY Volume 104, No. 144 THEMISSISSIPPIAN STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SERVING OLE MISS AND OXFORD SINCE 1911 Visit theDMonline.com @thedm_news Vigil honors plane crash victims In-state aid minimum rises to 15 credit hours LYNDY BERRYHILL Teacher Education Scholars For- [email protected] givable Loan and others will also need to enroll in 15 hours to re- ceive aid. ississippi students Out of the 20,827 students at may want to consid- the Oxford and regional campus- Mer adding an extra es for the 2015-2016 academic class to their fall schedule if they year, 4,365 students received still want to qualify for state fi- state aid assistance. An aver- nancial aid. age of 60 percent of incoming While the university and fed- students are in-state, according eral aid programs still recognize to the Ole Miss financial aid re- 12 hours as full-time status, mul- cords in 2015. tiple state financial aid programs The policy change has caused are now asking students to be Mississippi students like junior enrolled in a minimum of 15 nutrition major Mikayla Jekab- hours. sons to rethink their schedules. “We’re trying to pass the word Jekabsons has received state as widely as we can, because aid funds since her freshman there’s not a lot of time to react,” year at the university and said Director of Financial Aid Laura she normally signs up for 16 to Diven-Brown said. 17 hours of classes, but not for The decision to change qual- this fall. ifications for aid was made by She only signed up for 14 since the Mississippi Postsecondary she knew she would be busier Education Financial Assistance than usual. In addition to the Board and went into effect June normal responsibilities of being 1. a full-time student, Jekabsons Diven-Brown said since the also has a part-time job and is a decision was made recently, ed- member of the university’s Pride ucational institutions across the of the South marching band, state have been trying to tell stu- which has a vigorous practice dents as soon as possible in case schedule during football season. there are conflicts. “It was more difficult to ac- The decision does not impact commodate for the change in federal aid packages such as the middle of the summer than Pell Grant, but it does impact it would have been if we received more than Mississippi Tuition the notification around the time Assistance Grant recipients. we were registering for classes Students who receive the Law PHOTO BY: CHASE ROBERTS in the spring,” Jekabsons said. Enforcement Officers and Fire- Thousands gather in the Tad Pad for the celebration of lives vigil to remember plane crash victims. Three couples died Sunday, men Scholarship, critical needs, Aug. 14 when their plane downed in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. SEE STATE AID PAGE 4 SEE ARTICLE PAGE 6 William Winter scholarship, UM reacts to removal of ‘Dixie’ from sporting events MORGAN WALKER studies, said he commends have loved, cherished, and [email protected] Bjork and the athletics de- flourished under this tune.” partment for making the de- According to Soper, the cision. athletics department does Athletics Director Ross “I think it is an example of not demonstrate the key prin- Bjork’s decision to re- our institution moving for- ciples outlined in the UM move the song “Dixie” from ward,” he said. Creed: fairness, civility and all university sporting events Andrew Soper, Associat- personal and professional in- has sparked a heated debate ed Student Body senator and tegrity. among students, faculty and Our State Flags Foundation “This goes against the Ole community members. member said the removal Miss creed,” Soper said. “This The decision to remove the of “Dixie” was not an inclu- is not a fair process and was university’s unofficial anthem sive decision process.“This behind closed doors. This was is an attempt to make Ole was not voted on,” Soper said. not professional and a direct Miss a more inclusive and “It is an authoritarian deci- contradiction of the term in- welcoming environment for sion made by one man and tegrity. By definition, integ- all fans, Bjork said in a state- was a non-inclusive process. rity is the quality of being FILE PHOTO ment Friday. No stake holders, students, honest and the state of being Members of The Pride of The South, Ole Miss’ marching band, perform before the Professor Charles Ross, di- or alumni had a say in wheth- 2015 season opening game against UT Martin. The song “Dixie” will no longer be er to keep it or ditch it. Tens performed starting in the 2016 season. rector of African-American SEE DIXIE of thousands of graduates PAGE 5 OPINION THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 22 AUGUST 2016 | PAGE 2 STAFF EDITORIAL On ‘Dixie’: It’s time for us to make our own traditions n Friday, the University of Mississippi re- Others feel this move is not enough. Voices on this cam- The era of students who grow up immersed in the vestig- moved another tradition from its collection. pus cry out for change and are not satiated by the removal es of Ole Miss’ illustrious – and often dark – history is end- Athletics Director Ross Bjork announced his of a single antiquated tradition among the hoard that Ole ing. The toddlers who learn to walk in the Grove today will request that the band “create a new and mod- Miss possesses. grow up knowing a different Ole Miss than their parents ernO pregame show that does not include Dixie and is more The Daily Mississippian would not like to attack or in- and grandparents did. We must ask ourselves now what inclusive for all fans.” validate either of these opinions. We alone cannot change Ole Miss will mean to our children. “Dixie,” an unofficial anthem of the Confederacy, was the views of either person, but we would like to express our Did we intend for our university to be a unchanging once played every football game on campus, but that has opinion. thing? Have we already made all of the traditions we will changed with the entrance of a new generation of Rebels. The oldest natural seniors on campus were young when ever uphold? For whom does the university stand? For its In 2009, then-Chancellor Dan Jones asked Ole Miss’ Colonel Reb walked off the field. We were not here when history or its future? marching band, The Pride of the South, to stop playing “From Dixie with Love” was played for the last time in We, The Daily Mississippian staff, did not come to the “From Dixie with Love,” a Southern hymn similar to “Dix- Vaught-Hemingway stadium. We never saw Confederate university for its songs. ie.” Since, only bits and scraps of “Dixie” has been played flags waving in the hands of thousands of fans from the We did not come to this campus hoping to tear down at games. student section. These traditions are not our own; they are every symbol of its history but rather to create our own Many are angry that the song has now been officially re- a relic of an older time. traditions in a place that welcomes us, our friends and our moved from the band’s roster. Some say it is indicative of The oldest seniors were here, however, when a noose was community. We came to make Ole Miss our own with the the university’s continuous push towards being “politically placed on the statue of James Meredith in 2014. We were hope and knowledge that one day our children and grand- correct” or a forced attempt at inclusivity. Some feel it is here when the Ku Klux Klan came in 2015 to protest the children will do the same. a direct attack on the history of the university and on it’s removal of the Mississippi state flag from campus. We have fans. Removing the symbols of the Confederacy disrespects not experienced the traditions older generations loved, but We came to make history, not to relive it. those who fought in the Civil War, they believe. we have seen their aftermath. We, the undersigned editors of The Daily Mississippian, agree with this editorial. 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