University of Mississippi eGrove Daily Mississippian 2-7-2019 February 7, 2019 The Daily Mississippian Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline Recommended Citation The Daily Mississippian, "February 7, 2019" (2019). Daily Mississippian. 131. https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline/131 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 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2019 | VOLUME 107, NO. 65 MISSISSIPPIAN THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI | SERVING OLE MISS AND OXFORD SINCE 1911 PARADEHannah Perrigin crownedOF 2019BEAUTIES Most Beautiful ‘MISSISSIPPI MADE’ NATIONAL SIGNING DAY The “Mississippi Made” mantra is finally becoming a reality under head football coach Matt Luke. Ole Miss locked up the No. 22 class on Wednesday and of 31 players signed in the class, 19 come from the state of Mississippi. SEE PAGES 10-12 PHOTO: REED JONES Hannah Perrigin is crowned Most Beautiful during the Parade of Beauties pageant on Wednesday. cited because of how much she them that confidence that KATHRYN ABERNATHY enjoyed meeting the 61 women they need and reassure them [email protected] who competed in the pageant. that this pageant is about annah Perrigin “Just going to class I would more than just being beautiful was crowned 2019 have never met all these and walking around on stage Most Beautiful last beautiful girls just on a daily — it’s got a lot more to it,” night at the 68th basis,” Perrigin said. “Com- Williams said. WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW NOW THAT Hannual Parade of Beauties. ing here and competing with Perrigin said that for OXFORD FILM FESTIVAL IS IN TOWN For Perrigin, a junior them is an amazing experi- anyone who does compete in exercise science major from ence, and I would encourage Parade of Beauties next year, Last night, hardcore punk band Negro Terror Columbus, Mississippi, her everyone to do that.” her biggest advice is to just played a live score alongside John Rash’s victory didn’t mark the first Eliza Williams, co-director “be yourself.” documentary about the group as part of the Oxford time that she’d walked across of pageants for the Ole Miss “Be confident in yourself Film Festival. Read more about “Negro Terror,” the Gertrude C. Ford Center Student Activities Association, and try not to compare student filmmakers whose work is in the festival stage. She had competed said her favorite part of the because that will not do and ways students can attend the festival in the two times prior. In her third whole experience was getting anything for you,” Perrigin Arts & Culture section’s first edition of &More. pageant, she was victorious. to know everyone involved. said. “Just know that God will She said she was mostly ex- “Just being able to give be with you on that stage.” SEE PAGE 5-8 Medical marijuana petition attracts student support suffer from painful medical 60 local public figures from GRANT MCLAUGHLIN conditions to have legal access health care, religious and [email protected] to medical marijuana. political fields have come out in In a previous interview with support of the initiative. A petition in support of The Daily Mississippian, Jamie In order to earn the legalizing medical marijuana Grantham, the communications amendment a spot on the in Mississippi has gained director for the campaign, said November 2020 ballot, the more than 3,000 signatures the ballot initiative process was campaign needs to collect over on campus. approved on July 30, 2018, by 86,000 signatures, verified The petition, circulated by the Mississippi Secretary of by local officials and the Medical Marijuana 2020, is State and Mississippi Attorney Mississippi Secretary of State, part of a campaign to include General’s office, and the before September. a proposed state ballot campaign has been collecting Adam Meyer is the Medical initiative on the 2020 general signatures ever since. Marijuana 2020 field leader election ballot that would “For this initiative, this is for who has been in charge of allow for medical marijuana very sick people,” Grantham gathering signatures on the Ole prescriptions in Mississippi. said. “A doctor has to approve Miss campus, and he said the Medical Marijuana 2020 is a the prescription, and this will petition currently has around PHOTO: MCKENZIE RICHMOND campaign based in Ridgeland be regulated by the Mississippi 40,000 total signatures from The Medical Marijuana 2020 campaign has earned more than 3,000 signatures with the ultimate goal of State Department of Health.” on campus to legalize medical marijuana in Mississippi by a state ballot allowing Mississippians who Grantham said more than SEE MARIJUANA PAGE 3 initiative. PAGE 2 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 7 FEBRUARY 2019 OPINION THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN EDITORIAL STAFF: SLADE RAND editor-in-chief across the state. [email protected] Thirty-one states, including Pennsylvania, Colorado, DEVNA BOSE Washington, California, managing editor Oklahoma and Florida, have all [email protected] legalized medical marijuana. MEGAN SWARTZFAGER Myer said his goal is to add copy chief Mississippi to that list. [email protected] Meyer said he hopes legalized medical marijuana will aid TAYLOR VANCE in ending the opioid crisis in news editor Mississippi by providing an HADLEY HITSON effective non-opioid option for GRIFFIN NEAL pain treatment. assistant news editors In a study published in [email protected] December 2018, the Center for JUSTIN DIAL Disease Control and Prevention sports editor found that an average of 130 JOSHUA CLAYTON Americans die every day from assistant sports editor opioid overdose. [email protected] The Medical Marijuana 2020 campaign is targeting college CHRISTIAN JOHNSON campuses as a primary site for photography editor recruiting signatures because KATHERINE BUTLER these campuses have large assistant photography editor crowds and many students [email protected] are more willing to participate than the average passerby, LIAM NIEMAN arts & culture editor according to Myer. “There are a lot of people who ELIZA NOE assistant arts & culture editor COLUMN support (legalized marijuana in Mississippi), not just medically, [email protected] but recreationally,” freshman HAYDEN BENGE Fyre Festival: What are we willing to sacrifice?economics major Tyler Glenn design editor said. “Just having the petitioners [email protected] gives the student body something film, that is exactly what I will without boring or confusing A big part of why the to stand behind, something to put ETHEL MWEDZIWENDIRA be critiquing. the viewer. The film explains promotions were so successful their name on.” opinion and design editor The Netflix film is composed the origins of Fyre Media, were the appearances of many In addition to the social [email protected] of mainly interviews that the company behind the world-class supermodels such support for legalizing marijuana, SARAH HENDERSON provide interesting back- festival, with a diverse range as Kendall Jenner, Bella Hadid multimedia editor stories and perspectives. of interviewees. We get to and Emily Ratajkowski, who Gabrielle Bluestone, a Vice hear from various bookers, have been been subpoenaed to ANNIE SHARP journalist, takes viewers back planners, videographers and answer questions about their online editor to where it all started for others regarding the roles that involvement in promoting this [email protected] many of the victims: when they played in this fiasco and festival. IVANA NGUYEN and how she found out about when they began to see red Even after watching the social media editor the Fyre Festival — on social flags or suspect that all may film and doing further [email protected] SUAD PATTON-BEY media, of course. not have been what it seemed. research about Fyre Festival, [email protected] She, along with other The hardest part for me to I still cannot bring myself to ADVERTISING influencers, retell the claims watch was the effects this sham comprehend how someone and promises of exclusivity had on the Exuma natives could manipulate thousands of SALES MANAGER The Fyre Festival will and luxury that were made in who were employed for Fyre people, leave them stranded in Rebecca Brown probably be recorded as the the Fyre Festival promotional Festival. Many workers went the middle of nowhere and not [email protected] greatest party to be planned. videos that lured people in. We unpaid, and the testimony look back. Or worse, how so The promise of supermodels, SALES ACCOUNT see behind-the-scenes footage of MaryAnn Rolle, with her many bright, intelligent people concerts and exclusive EXECUTIVES of the festival’s founders; Billy tears and loss, is enough to could be fooled by images they access duped thousands of Cameron Collins McFarland and Ja Rule, along make anyone angry. Because saw on their screens. millennials, leaving them Sam Dethrow with their groupies. of McFarland and Ja Rule, The Fyre Festival exposed stranded and starving in the Isaiah Pugh Their criminal activity aside, Rolle had to use $50,000 of the vulnerability and Bahamas. Michael Rackers I couldn’t help but notice the her own money to pay her weaknesses of humans, “Fyre Festival: The Greatest Morgan Stone very interesting bromance workers. Luckily, she has set especially us social media- Party that Never Happened,” between rapper Ja Rule and up a GoFundMe account and savvy millennials, and what we premiered on Netflix in McFarland, a white, upper- has since received $200,000 in are willing to give just to feel S. GALE DENLEY January, three days after Hulu middle class tech entrepreneur. donations. special, unique and important. STUDENT MEDIA CENTER released its documentary, Who would have thought that As of now, McFarland is Even if it’s just for a couple of PATRICIA THOMPSON “Fyre Fraud.” The two films these two would join forces currently serving a six-year days.