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Thursday, April 30, 2015 THE DAILY Volume 103, No. 128 THE STUDENTMISSISSIPPIAN NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SERVING OLE MISS AND OXFORD SINCE 1911 Visit theDMonline.com @thedm_news news lifestyles sports Covering Katrina: The Lazarus Crow selected 10 years later Project to join US National team Page 5 Page 6 Page 12 Sinkhole forces traffic, highway detour Students DREW JANSEN [email protected] A sinkhole caused by the address separation of two segments of a subterranean drain emerged in the right lane of Highway 6 sexual eastbound Wednesday morn- ing, causing traffic delays. Two sections of a 24-inch diameter drain separated, al- assault on lowing moisture to accumu- late underneath the asphalt and erode the highway sec- campus tion, Mississippi Department of Transportation public in- formation officer Jason Scott DREW JANSEN said. [email protected] Until the concrete piping can University Police Department be replaced, MDOT is rerout- issued a warning Sunday regard- ing traffic on Highway 6 East- ing a report of sexual battery at bound from approximately a approximately 2 a.m. in the rear quarter-mile west to a quar- parking lot of Stewart Hall. ter-mile east of the sinkhole Enforced by the United State onto the right lane of Highway Department of Education, the 6 westbound. Federal Jeanne Clery Disclosure Though traffic on Highway 6 of Campus Security Policy Act of is open both directions, MDOT 1988 requires colleges and uni- advised travelers to avoid the versities to disclose reports and PHOTO BY: CADY HERRING area until construction is com- A sink hole on Highway 6 near Chucky Mullins Drive causes delayed traffic on Wednesday morning. statistics of crime on and around SEE SINKHOLE PAGE 4 campuses. There were 13 cases of forcible sexual offense reported to UPD from 2011 to 2013, according to the department’s most recent Class of 2015 creates service scholarship annual report mandated by the LANA FERGUSON Nutt said. Clery Act. Of these crimes, nine [email protected] Past legacy gifts have in- occurred in campus residential cluded benches, plaques and facilities. This year’s legacy other tangible gifts ranging The university defines forcible gift from the graduat- in worth from $800-$6,000. sex offenses as any sexual offense ing class of 2015 will This year’s graduating class not involving incest or statutory be a $20,000 endow- has more than doubled the rape. ment for a scholarship amount of money needing to The same report said three forc- named after Chancel- be raised. ible sex offenses were reported to lor Dan Jones that will Nutt said $20,000 was other university officials within be awarded for years an ambitious goal, but 2015 the same timeframe and not in- to come. is graduating an ambitious vestigated by UPD. Senior Class Presi- class. University of Mississippi Vi- dent Grady Nutt has “Not only did I want to olence Prevention Coordinator been in charge of or- pick something that had nev- Lindsey Bartlett Mosvick said, in ganizing the efforts for er been accomplished, but I some cases, victims do not want the gift and chose to wanted to take on a project investigations. create the “Chancellor that would make an impact “I think there’s often shame and Dan Jones Service Be- for as long as the university’s embarrassment associated with fore Self Scholarship.” doors were open,” Nutt said. this happening to you in the first “As chancellor, Dan “A legacy gift has never raised place,” Bartlett Mosvick said. “If Jones serves as the that much money, but there you move forward with an inves- face of our university, has also never been a gradu- tigation, a lot of people are going and we want to show ating class like ours.” to know.” our gratitude for his The gift is an endowment, Sophomore integrated market- years of great service meaning the sum being do- ing communications and French nated will be broken into FILE PHOTO: LOGAN KIRKLAND while, in the mean- double major Corbin Smith advo- time, celebrating the smaller amounts and used cated a required semi-annual sex- Chancellor Dan Jones talks about Arch Dalrymple III at the dedication for the department of many accomplishments over time. Individual scholar- ual assault education program for history in front of the Lyceum Monday. of the Class of 2015,” SEE SCHOLARSHIP PAGE 3 SEE ASSAULT PAGE 3 Student Union Available YEARBOOK Now thru April 30 FREE* Must have Student ID *Free for students who have paid full tuition for the 2014-2015 school year. 11am-2:30pm opinion PAGE 2 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 30 APRIL 2015 | OPINION THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN EDITORIAL STAFF: LOGAN KIRKLAND editor-in-chief [email protected] CLARA TURNAGE managing editor [email protected] TORI WILSON copy chief [email protected] DREW JANSEN TAYLOR BENNETT news editors [email protected] LANA FERGUSON assistant news editor DYLAN RUBINO NATALIE RAE ALLEN sports editors [email protected] ZOE MCDONALD MCKENNA WIERMAN lifestyles editors [email protected] BRANDON LYNAM opinion editor [email protected] COLUMN KAYLA BEATTY photography editor [email protected] Do we really care about Nepal? BRANDON LYNAM out. We sent people. We sent and went on with our day. had ulterior motives. Just as RACHEL GHOLSON [email protected] money. We sent messages. We If we prepared the surprise America had with Japan. ALLI MOORE sent support. party of a lifetime for Japan’s My criticism is that even ELLEN WHITAKER A few days ago, in one Why? birthday, we sent Nepal a when it comes to sending sup- design editors half of the world, President It surely wasn’t because we Hallmark card with $20 in it port to people that are hurt- Obama and other members genuinely felt bad for Japan— a day late. ing, politics still plays the lead of the U.S. government were if that was the case, then Ne- Meanwhile, China not only role in how we (re)act. laughing and joking at the pal would’ve received similar sent $3.2 million in aid but Why can’t we put forth our White House Correspondents’ ADVERTISING STAFF: treatment. was also the first country to greatest effort to send support Dinner. No, the real reason we sent have a support group set foot because we legitimately care? Meanwhile, in the other such “genuine” support was in Nepal, and China’s chair- Why can’t we postpone a fan- EVAN MILLER half, Nepal was erupting in because of power politics. man, Xi Jinping, even sent a cy dinner because the Nepal- advertising sales manager panic and terror. In its initial After we wrecked Japan with personal letter. ese people matter and deserve [email protected] response to Nepal’s capital, atomic bombs, Japan was in The U.S. government our respect? America is never Kathmandu, being decimat- the perfectly defenseless po- doesn’t seem to understand altruistic for the sake of altru- EMILY FORSYTHE ed by a 7.9 magnitude earth- CAROLYN SMITH sition for us to “come to their (or doesn’t seem to care) that ism; we always have to have quake, the U.S. government aid” with military bases to it’s about more than just send- some kind of personal gain. PIERRE WHITESIDE decided to send $1 million in account executives “protect them” from invasion. ing money, it’s about show- About a century ago, Chi- aid. In the same way, sending ing support. Yeah, Nepal can na discovered what happens It’s great that America de- MARA BENSING an “outpouring of support” to use $1 million, and they are when you’re convinced the cided to send aid at all, but Japan following the tsunami certainly thankful for it, but world revolves around you— SARAH DRENNEN the incredibly disingenuous was the perfect way for us to when over 4,000 people die, a you would think America KIM SANNER nature of our response to Ne- creative designers get more leverage in the Pa- community deserves heartfelt would have learned from that. pal reveals how little we ac- cific theater and to coerce a support. Throwing money at tually care about the people “mutualistic” relationship be- people doesn’t automatically Brandon Lynam is a soph- themselves and how much we tween the two of us. solve problems. omore international stud- care about power politics. We don’t have any use for Don’t think I’m using Chi- ies and Chinese major from S. GALE DENLEY When the Tōhoku earth- Nepal, so we sent some pity na’s example as a way to bash Knoxville, TN. STUDENT MEDIA CENTER quake and tsunami hit Ja- money to show other devel- America. China, a country PATRICIA THOMPSON pan in 2011, America freaked oped nations that we “care” that borders Nepal, clearly Director of Student Media and Daily Mississippian Faculty Adviser THE DAILY The Daily Mississippian The Daily Mississippian welcomes letters to the editor. Let- MISSISSIPPIAN is published Monday ters should be addressed to The Daily Mississippian, 201 ROY FROSTENSON through Friday during Bishop Hall, P.O.