University of Mississippi eGrove Daily Mississippian 1-24-2020 January 24, 2020 The Daily Mississippian Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline Recommended Citation The Daily Mississippian, "January 24, 2020" (2020). Daily Mississippian. 41. https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline/41 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 MISSISSIPPIAN Friday, January 24, 2020 theDMonline.com Volume 108, No. 45 ASB to repair blue lights MADDY QUON [email protected] Some of the blue light phones, which can be used to report emer- gencies on campus, have been out for years. After working for a solu- tion since her sophomore year without much progress, Associ- ated Student Body Vice President Charlotte Shackelford is expected to finally see them fixed with the help of Chancellor Glenn Boyce. Shackelford ran on the prom- ise of repairing the blue lights last spring, and now she and Boyce are JEVAN PINKUS / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS working together to fulfill it by the Today, Eli Manning will announce that he will retire from the NFL. Manning played for Ole Miss from 2000 to 2003. end of the semester. Just after being announced as the new chancellor, Boyce said n illustrious football career spanning but immediately forced his way to the Giants, where that he wanted to put students at four award-winning collegiate seasons JOSHUA CLAYTON he eventually became the undisputed leader of one [email protected] the center of important conversa- A and 16 years in the NFL has officially of the most storied franchises in professional sports tions at the university. Since then, come to an end. with two Super Bowl MVP awards to show. he has been meeting with campus Ole Miss and New York Giants legend Eli Manning will Manning burst onto the scene in Oxford in 2001 with constituents, mostly privately. announce his retirement from football on Friday, according 2,948 passing yards to go with 31 touchdowns and only 9 The emergency blue lights to ESPN. interceptions, earning a Conerly Trophy Award and a nod on are part of a system from Code The 39-year-old quarterback was selected with the first the Davey O’Brien Award finalist list. Blue, the leading manufacturer overall pick by the San Diego Chargers in the 2004 NFL Draft, SEE MANNING PAGE 4 for emergency phones, according to Code Blue’s chief design officer David Fleming. The lights were initially created after the University of Illi- nois at Chicago put out an all-call How to meet the chancellor next week to inventors to create something to keep students safe on campus over the selection of the as a result of the Clery Act being HADLEY HITSON chancellor and demands for signed in 1990 after 19-year- [email protected] more transparency in his role. old Jeanne Clery was sexually “We hope this is the start assaulted and murdered at Lehigh The Lyceum will open of a new tradition for the UM University. next week for the university Community that provides an Shackelford said that she has community to meet and opportunity to develop genuine been trying to fix the lights since speak with senior university connections among students her sophomore year, her first year leadership for the first “Open and senior leadership,” Mead in the ASB Senate. She worked Doors” event. said. “Given the casual nature with the University Police Depart- All senior leaders, including of the event, we believe ment and those in charge of the Chancellor Glenn Boyce, Open Doors is an excellent LiveSafe app but was told that it Provost Noel Wilkin and opportunity for students to not was not feasible, she said. Athletics Director Keith Carter only learn about the various “I worked with previous are committed to attending roles of senior leadership administrators that basically the first Open Doors event but also start meaningful just slammed the door my face and hearing from students, conversations that will and said, ‘No,’” Shackelford said. according to Assistant Vice hopefully continue beyond the “Boyce was the first person to give Chancellor for Diversity event.” me a yes.” FILE PHOTO: BILLY SCHUERMAN / THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN Shawnboda Mead. This comes Shackelford said that Boyce after a semester of controversy The Lyceum will invite students to meet prominent school faculty, SEE OPEN DOORS PAGE 8 including chancellor Glenn Boyce. SEE BLUE LIGHTS PAGE 8 TYREE VS. EDWARDS: ON CAMPUS BAR A SCORER’S PARADISE COMING THIS SEMESTER Saturday’s matchup between Ole Miss You can buy a beer in Vaught- and the Georgia will feature two teams Hemingway, and now you can looking for a turnaround after a slow have a beer after class. The Inn start in the SEC, but most notably at Ole Miss is getting a bar. it will showcase two of the most prolific scorers in the conference. SEE PAGE 2 SEE PAGE 5 PAGE 2 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 24 JANUARY 2020 On-campus bar set to open by the end of the semester Between discussion and MASON SCIONEAUX design, the process of reno- [email protected] vating McCormick’s has taken longer than a year. The possi- The university’s on-cam- bility of featuring a bar on pus hotel, The Inn at Ole Miss, campus was made possible in plans to open a new bar-and- 2018 after the state of Missis- grill before the end of the sippi granted resort status to semester. the Inn, allowing it to serve McCormick Café, which beer at select events. Before previously only served break- then, only wine and liquor fast to hotel residents, will could be sold, and only by soon rebrand as McCormick’s, third-party vendors. featuring a full-service bar, Then, in July 2019, the restaurant and lounge. It will Inn applied for and attained be the first bar on campus a liquor license. This allowed and is named in honor of the Inn to serve any type of UM graduates David and Sue alcohol and prompted the McCormick. installation of a bar on-site. Kirk Purdom, execu- The hotel’s resort status tive director of the Ole Miss exempts it from alcohol Alumni Association, said by rules that govern the rest of featuring an in-house restau- campus. rant and bar, the Inn will be Purdom said the process more competitive with other of converting the café into high-end hotels in Oxford. a bar has been a challenge NANCY MANROE / THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN “We have a lot of guests that because it is on campus, but come in, and they just want to hotel guests have been inquir- A new bar will open at The Inn at Ole Miss in spring 2020 get a beer or just sit down and ing about an in-house bar for grab a hamburger,” Purdom years. said. “So this just makes us “There were a lot of obsta- still serve breakfast to hotel they’re 21 or not,” Purdom to start construction as soon more of a full-service hotel and cles. Otherwise, we would guests, is expected to open at said. “That’s really important as possible in order to open gets us up to the same level of have had it a long time ago.” 3 p.m. on weekdays and all to us, that (underage people) before the end of the semes- our competition in town.” McCormick’s, which will day on weekends, but simi- wouldn’t be able to have alco- ter. Purdom said that the lar to other hotel bars, it hol.” goal is to be finished in time will most likely close at 10 Once completed, McCor- to accommodate guests of p.m., Purdom said. It will mick’s will feature a Double Decker Arts Festival, be open to everyone, but he 2,000-square-foot indoor graduation and orientation. has issued strict orders about and outdoor space. The bar’s “The sooner we get it open, checking identification for menu has been designed by the more revenue we’re going alcohol sales. 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