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PRODUCER DISCUSSES STAFF PICKS: HALLOWEEN SATURDAy’S SHOWCASE Check us out online at SCREEN WRITING P. 4 MUSIC TREATS P. 6 SPECIAL FOR FREEZE P. 12 theDMonline.com THE DAILY T UESDAY , O C to BER 30, 2012 | V O L . 1 0 1 , N O . 5 1 MISSISSIPPIAN T HE S T UDEN T N EW S PAPER OF T HE U NIVER S I T Y OF M I ss I ss IPPI | S ERVING O LE M I ss AND O XFORD S INCE 1 9 1 1 ONE YEAR LATER, A LEGACY LIVES ON Exactly one year since the tragic car accident that took the lives of three Ole Miss students, news briefs a lantern release in remembrance of the students will take place for the campus that remains DM STAFF REPORTS affected by their legacy. DICKIE SCRUGGS ASKS FOR PRISON RELEASE FILE PHOTO (QUENTIN WINSTINE) | The Daily Mississippian Oxford attorney Richard due to be released from his first “Dickie” Scruggs, who is cur- sentence on Nov. 6 and is serv- rently in prison for attempting ing a five-year sentence for the to bribe a judge in Calhoun attempted bribery. Scruggs has City, is asking to be released not begun serving his second from prison while his second conviction and wants to be re- judicial bribery conviction is leased until the appeal of that being appealed. Scruggs, 66, is conviction is heard. LEFT TO RIGHT: Mason Wilbanks, Walker Kelly and Sam Clayton Kelly, COURTESY SHELBY MOORE BY ADAM GANUCHEAU On Oct. 30, 2011, Sam intramural fields at 8:15 p.m. [email protected] Clayton Kelly, Walker Kelly to honor the boys and the and Mason Wilbanks were legacy they left at the univer- A lantern release tonight at killed in a one-vehicle ac- sity. HURRICANE SANDY MAKES LANDFALL 8:15 p.m. will allow Univer- cident on their way back to Shelby Moore, freshman COURTESY AP | Bebeto Matthews sity of Mississippi students to Oxford after surprising their occupational therapy major pay respects to and remem- families with a weekend trip and girlfriend of Walker Kel- Hurricane Sandy made storm. Some major cities, in- ber three students who were home to Madison. ly, created the event. landfall last night and is pre- cluding New York City, Bos- killed one year ago today, Anyone who knew the stu- “This lantern release is dicted to affect about 60 mil- ton, Washington, D.C., and showing that the boys’ lega- dents or who would like to lion people along the East Baltimore, are taking major cy at Ole Miss has not faded. honor them is invited to the See LEGACY, PAGE 4 Coast and Northeast, ranging precautions, including evacua- from North Carolina to Maine. tions and flood planning. San- According to meteorologists, dy is expected to bring tropi- the storm is unprecedented cal storm-force winds, major ‘Ghosts of Ole Miss’ premieres tonight on ESPN because of the combination flooding and snowstorms over of a cold front and tropical the next few days. “Ghosts of Ole Miss,” a “30 for 30” documentary written by ESPN.com writer and Oxford resident Wright Thompson and directed by Fritz Mitchell, premieres tonight at 8 p.m./7 CT on ESPN. The film examines the 1962 undefeated Ole Miss football team and the integration of the university. faulker ESTATE SUING SONY, WASHINGTON POST AND NORTHROP GRUMMAN BY AUSTIN MILLER [email protected] The Peabody Award-win- ning ESPN documentary series “30 for 30” continues with tonight’s episode, “Ghost of Ole Miss.” The narrative, FILE PHOTO | The Daily Mississippian based on the long-format William Faulkner’s estate Nun.” The estate is also suing story by ESPN.com writer is suing Sony Pictures Clas- The Washington Post Co., and Oxford resident Wright sics for misquoting Faulkner and Northrop Grumman Thompson, who wrote and in Woody Allen’s 2011 Corp., a defense contractor, narrated the 1-hour docu- film, “Midnight in Paris.” for using a Faulkner quote in mentary, explores the inter- In the movie, actor Owen a newspaper advertisement. COURTESY ESPN Wilson slightly misquoted The lawsuit was filed last Fri- See 30 FOR 30, PAGE 9 ‘Ghosts of Ole Miss’ writer and narrator Wright Thompson. Faulkner’s “Requiem for a day in Jackson. 26496 OPINION PAGE 2 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 30 OCTOBER 2012 | OPINION THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN EDITORIAL STAFF: EMILY ROLAND editor-in-chief [email protected] AUSTIN MILLER managing editor [email protected] JENNIFER NASSAR campus news editor [email protected] ADAM GANUCHEAU city news editor [email protected] GRANT BEEBE asst. news editor [email protected] PHIL MCCAUSLAND opinion editor [email protected] DAVID COLLIER sports editor [email protected] MADISON FEATHERSTON lifestyles editor [email protected] QUENTIN WINSTINE photography editor GRAPHIC BY CAIN MADDEN | The Daily Mississippian [email protected] This poll was posted on theDMonline.com from Oct. 22 to Oct. 29. This poll, which 197 people responded to, indicates that more than three-quarters of respondents (150) believe that the various problems within the economy are the most important issue in the upcoming election. Please take our newest poll on theDMonline.com to EMILY CEGIELSKI vote on which bowl game you think Ole Miss will attend, if any. The results will be published next Tuesday. senior editor [email protected] TISHA COLEMAN COLUMN design editor IGNACIO MURILLO Obama, Romney and the progress of America lifestyles design editor KIMBER LACOUR & riots, tens of thousands of in chief in this country. It years. SARAH PARRISH National Guard soldiers and wasn’t without struggle ei- It’s true that Mormonism co-copy chiefs the loss of two lives before ther. fundamentally opposes the accepting integration. Kennedy was highly scru- socially liberal values of Although it required force, tinized outside of the North- many Democrats. Mormon LEANNA YOUNG it was a necessary evil in or- east. Part of his vetting pro- doctrine also isn’t very well sales manager BY ALEC JONES der to remove an archaic, cess as a candidate included aligned with Evangelical [email protected] [email protected] bigoted system of injustice his historic speech to Bap- voters who overwhelmingly and replace it with the civili- tist ministers at the Greater compose the Republican MICHAEL BARNETT We celebrate the 50th an- ty and equality written in the Houston Ministerial Asso- South. RYAN HERGET niversary of integration at Constitution. Our Founding ciation, assuring them of his Still, independent and MEGHAN JACKSON Ole Miss this year. This an- Fathers intended for every- loyalty to the Constitution middle-of-the-road voters COREY PLATT niversary happens to take one to have life, liberty and rather than the Pope. Still, rally around Mitt Romney account executives place four years after the the pursuit of happiness: without the Southern Demo- because of what his plan is nation watched the man natural rights endowed to us crat Lyndon Johnson as his for the country. Mitt Rom- JAMIE KENDRICK who would become the first by our Creator. VP, he may have never even ney’s own campaign manag- KRISTEN SAltZMAN black president debate his It’s somewhat of a para- made it to the White House. er, Stuart Stevens, is a native creative staff opponent right here in Ox- dox, but the Founding Fa- This 50th anniversary is of Jackson. Romney’s per- ford. We should all take a thers also established a na- also significant because it sonal aide is from Brookhav- JEFF HAMM moment to appreciate just tion in which separation coincides with the first time en and graduated from Ole marketing & digital strategy how far our nation and com- of church and state was an in our nation’s history that Miss just a few years ago. munity have come. essential cornerstone. Presi- neither party has nominated If Mississippians rallying JON HAYWOOD We’ve evolved dramati- dent Kennedy, that same a white Protestant to run behind a presidential can- senior multimedia editor cally in the past several de- man who deployed troops for president. America will didate from Massachusetts cades but the growth has not on the City of Oxford, was either choose a black man isn’t progress then I don’t come without pains. This the first Catholic to hold or a Mormon to lead the S. 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