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VIOLATIONS AND VICTORY The Associated Student Body presidential election took an unexpected turn last night. An hour before the results where announced, a preliminary investigation of potential violations was held with the administrations of both campaigns. Last night, both presidential candidates were found to have committed campaign violations, delaying the election results for the crowd waiting in front of the Lyceum. Current Associated Student Body Attorney General Matthew Kiefer said violations were reported by individual students and the Elections Commission independent of either campaign. “They have the highest priority and the highest value in their witnessing,” Kiefer said of the commission. Kiefer confirmed that both Gregory Alston and Maddie Fumi were cited for violations, but the fines were less than $100. Candidates would have been
automatically disqualified if their violation total exceeded $100. “I had received reports of sticker violations, flyers being misplaced and a few reports of violations that could warrant disqualification,” Kiefer said. He maintained that the results of the election would stand, adding that the most common violation was inappropriately placed campaign materials. “The outcome of the election would not change,” Kiefer said. “No matter if there were zero fines, or if the fines were enforced to the fullest.” Following a 30-minute deliberation, Alston and Fumi joined other candidates and supporters outside the Lyceum, where
current ASB executives announced the results of Tuesday’s election, in which 4,821 votes were cast. “We had a record number this year,” Associate Dean of Students Melinda Pullen Carlson said. “This shows students that this election process is important to the student body.” Alston headlined the winners of Tuesday’s election, securing his spot as the 2013-14 ASB president with 60.65 percent of the votes cast. Alston’s platform included the formation of University Creed Week and comprehensive attention to campus parking difficulties, proposing that students be allowed to pay their first
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This week the Supreme Court will hear the case of farmer Vernon Hugh Bowman. The Indiana man faces over $70,000 in fines for planting soybeans containing genes belonging to mega-corporation Monsanto without legally purchasing them. The company manufactures and subsequently patents soybean varieties T H E D A I LY
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known as Roundup Ready (weed and disease resistant), and farmers who use these seeds sign contracts agreeing to purchase them yearly from the company. Monsanto largely controls the distribution of soybeans nationally and globally, a departure from past agricultural practices of local seed distribution, management and reuse. The transition of farming from a local practice to large-scale agribusiness brings with it important questions regarding the ethics of food production. Monsanto’s genetically modified seeds produce high crop yields and will help provide large quantities of food in
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the face of global population growth and increasing food shortages, but these benefits come with negative consequences to individual farmers and the environment. Should a company be able to patent a seed? Vernon Bowman acknowledges that Monsanto’s seeds work. They allow farmers to spray weed killer without harming the crop. It seems reasonable that the company seek compensation for this technological development, but the matter becomes more complicated when considering that their product is a genetic alteration of a global food source planted for generations in a process
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their patent changes. In previous generations, farmers typically saved seeds and reused stronger varieties in future harvests. Monsanto’s patent requires farmers to dispose of seeds and repurchase from the company the following year, as the seeds remain Monsanto’s intellectual property. The changes to this process may have long-term environmental consequences we are unable to anticipate. Monsanto has sued many farmers aside from Bowman. Mississippian Homan McFarling faced over $300,000 in damages following a 2002 See VERNON, PAGE 3
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Where is our responsible media? BY E.M. Tran emtran3@gmail.com
Yesterday morning, a gunman went on a chaotic shooting spree in Southern California, killing four people, including himself, and injuring two. How many of you know about this shooting? As I was perusing my daily news sources, it struck me by how casual the news story seemed, shoved between a beer brewery story and a piece about a British man dying from a SARSlike virus. It was under the heading “More News,” a link amid a list of other links. In a society where news is instantaneous, I can’t really blame the public. The Internet and social media have made it hard to report quality information. News networks are constantly battling to have the freshest news, the first to report information, even if it may not be accurate or totally thorough. When the Newtown shooting happened, wrong reports about the shooter, how he got into the building, how many people were killed, and how he got the guns were splashed all over the front pages of news sites everywhere. And what else can we believe, if not the news? Responsible media seems out of our control.
On another level, it’s not just what we believe about stories, but which stories we actually care about that depend entirely on the media. They really do shape our historical memory. If news networks don’t talk about the Southern California shooter, then most people won’t either. Not many remember the shooting at the Sikh temple in Wisconsin because the media cared more about the Colorado theater shooting. It sounds harshly capitalistic, but the truth is that our news is shaped by what the media thinks will sell. A mass shooting at a wildly popular premiere for a Batman movie filled with families trying to enjoy a favorite pastime has a level of sensationalism that snatches the attention of a large audience who could easily imagine themselves in the same scenario. A deranged young man breaking into an elementary school and senselessly attempting to kill dozens of innocent children is the worst nightmare of all parents. That’s not to suggest that these aren’t inherently stories in their own right, because they obviously are; but what makes them any more of a story than any other mass shooting? We need to be careful about our selective memory.
Selective historical memory isn’t new; think about how we talk, or don’t talk, about the Civil War, World War II, the Civil Rights Movement (especially here in Mississippi) or the Vietnam War. But the difference now is that technology has made the presence of this selective memory more immediate than ever. I don’t want a story about a guy going on a murder spree in Southern California, or anywhere, to be normalized news. When I begin skimming headlines about death and mass murder, hidden between stories about the Beyonce documentary and genetically engineered babies, as if it’s old, then there’s a problem. Let’s not put all the responsibility on the media because that’s a cop-out. We cannot allow ourselves to become desensitized to violence in the news because that only means it’s OK that these things keep occurring. The less we care, the less our news outlets care. The less our news outlets care, the less we know about what’s actually happening in the world. It’s a two-way street, and right now, it feels like everybody’s standing still. E.M. Tran is in her first year of MFA graduate studies. She is from New Orleans, La. Follow her on Twitter @etran3.
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firms patenting living, mutable things. These inventions do not remain static when released into the environment, and we must carefully consider the ramifications. This is not to indicate that there should be no form of compensation for people who innovate within capitalism but rather to insist that profitdriven entities have no place controlling food production. We need a system that carefully monitors the effects of these seeds, for rarely does a product produce a miraclelike weed resistance without eliciting a corresponding change in its nearby environment. Most importantly, farmers should have a voice within the food system. Producing a seed is one thing, providing food to people is another. If the Supreme Court sides with Monsanto, farmers will lose the right to continue farming as they did prior to the development of agribusiness, and changes to these patterns should not occur with only money as their impetus.
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suit, which he also appealed to the Supreme Court, and Monsanto does not hesitate to prosecute farmers found using seeds that contain the company’s patented gene. It is important to emphasize that these seeds may not be manufactured by Monsanto. Because of the seed’s widespread use, the gene has become part of many other varieties’ genetic makeups as a result of natural processes and environmental interaction. The ability of seed varieties to change and interact illustrates the problem within Monsanto’s patent: it attempts to legally define and control an environmental process. We must primarily question the advisability of promoting such humanaltered food products in the first place, as we know little regarding the future impacts of these introduced seeds (though some predict chemically resistant superweeds and increased pesticide use). Meghan Holmes is a secondSecondly, we must advo- year graduate southern studies cate for farmers and those student from Arab, Ala. You can affected by Monsanto’s seed follow her @styrofoamcup. monopoly. What happens as global populations increase and a corporation controls many of our food sources? It is hard to imagine Monsanto in a benevolent light given their penchant for lawsuits against low income farmers. The outcome of this lawsuit affects not only Monsanto but also other biotech
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Free dental care for kids Thanks to a recent partnership between Lee Family & Cosmetic Dentistry and the Junior Auxiliary, 20 children in Oxford have been given roughly $4,000 of free dental care. BY Taylor Delandro tjdeland@go.olemiss.edu
Children in Oxford now have the opportunity to qualify for free dental care. Give Kids a Smile came to Lee Family & Cosmetic Dentistry in Oxford on Feb. 1, allowing Dr. Preston Lee to team up with the Junior Auxiliary of Oxford. The partnership has allowed for children whose families are unable to afford dental insurance to receive free dental care. Lee first began working with the Give Kids a Smile program in 2005 while in dental school and working at other practices. “Cavities are the number one chronic disease facing all children in the United States,” Lee said. “If I can do something to help prevent cavities or help to educate children about decay, how to brush their teeth and how to floss their teeth, that’s
what I’m all about.” The 2012 Junior Auxiliary Provisional class coordinated the Feb. 1 event to help Lee provide about $4,000 worth of free dental care to 20 children. The Junior Auxiliary worked with the Boys and Girls Club, More than a Meal, Oxford Medical Ministries, Christ Presbyterian Church, Leap Frog and local schools to help get families involved in this event. Joanne Bagley, the Junior Auxiliary’s vice president and provisional trainer, said many people look at Oxford and don’t see the need that is there. “I think Give Kids A Smile is an incredible program that our community will embrace and hopefully make successful,” Bagley said. “This year’s event was a great start. I hope that next year the project can grow to serve more children and involve more people.” Lee has already begun fol-
lowing up with kids from the recent event. “We had patients that we needed to follow up with; I had them back in my office this week,” he said. “They had problems that I couldn’t address during the event and we addressed them this week.” Lee said it’s heartwarming to see how excited the children were to visit the dentist for the first time. “Teaching these children how to care for their teeth and overall oral health was such a service and blessing,” he said. Plans are being made for a similar event next year, where Lee said he hopes to see five times as many children as he did at this year’s event. “Our group has already held a meeting to brainstorm ways to make Give Kids A Smile 2014 even better,” Lee said. “We hope to see more children served and educated.
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tickets through community service. He said he also hopes to make Flex and Express funds usable at all sporting events and wants to implement a five-day dead week before finals. Alston has most recently served as the ASB director of athletics, a member of the Sensitivity and Respect Committee and was voted Senator of the Year in 2012. “I’ve been involved in ASB for a while now, and I was really excited to see that so many people voted,” Alston said. “We just had a great turnout and that’s just huge — it’s hard to get the students to vote sometimes.”
The president-elect added that he realizes he did not win the election alone. “I just want to thank everybody — I had a great team, and there’s no way I could have done this by myself,” Alston said. “This is something I’ve been dreaming about, and I’m just looking forward to the next year.” Kimbrely Dandridge, current ASB president, expressed her optimism for the incoming administration. “I’m excited for the newly elected ASB officers,” she said. “I am confident that they will each contribute greatly to the entire student body, and I wish them all the best of luck.” Maddie Fumi was unavailable for comment regarding the election results.
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musicians, Dancers celebrate black history
Photos by Cain Madden TOP ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT: Ella Thevenin, 20 months, and her dad Eddynio listen to Tommy Burnette perform on the marimba. Vocalist and violinist Valencia Thevenin, Ph.D student, performs ‘Sinner Please Doan Let Dis Harves Pass,’ arranged by Harry T. Burleigh. Bass vocalist Hervert V. Jones, founding leader of The Pittsburgh Gospel Choir, performs ‘I want Jesus to Walk With Me,’ arranged by Edward Boatner. BOTTOM ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT: A member of the Ole Miss African Drum and Dance Ensemble dances to the Ga-Adangbe Social Dance Kpatsa. Saxophonist Kendra Jenkins, graduate student of music, performs ‘Romance’ by William Grant Still, accompanied by Terrance Evans on the piano. Members of the Ole Miss African Drum and Dance Ensemble dance to the Ga-Adangbe Social Dance Kpatsa.
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UM track athlete on new ESPNU show
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Ole Miss junior track athlete Ryan Smith will get his 15-minutes of television fame tonight on the ESPNU show Unite. The debut segment of “The Schwab” will see him compete against two other college students from SEC schools in a sports trivia contest.
this season and have lost three straight road games to Florida, Missouri and Texas A&M. Freshman forward Michael Carrera is South Carolina’s leading scorer and rebounder with 10.4 points and 7.1 rebounds per game. He’s scored over 15 points in four SEC games. Along with Carrera, junior guard Bruce Ellington averages 9.9 points and 2.3 assists per game. As a team, South Carolina gives up the highest field goal percentage to opponents in the SEC at 44.5 percent. South Carolina has allowed the most free throw attempts in the SEC, while Ole Miss leads the SEC and ranks 11th in the country in free throws attempted and has drawn the most fouls in the SEC. The Rebels average 23.6 free throws attempts per game. The game will tip off at 6 p.m. and will be televised on CSS. For continuing coverage of Ole Miss men’s basketball, follow @ Tyler_RSR and @thedm_sports on Twitter.
BY John Luke McCord mccordjohnluke@yahoo.com
In recent weeks, Ole Miss has been a regular name on ESPN. The Rebel football program recently signed a top-5 recruiting class, a class that saw many highly profiled prospects make their announcements on ESPNU. Now, it appears Ole Miss will again get some face time on ESPNU. This time it will be junior accounting major Ryan Smith. No, Smith is not a 5-star recruit. He isn’t a member of Hugh Freeze’s bowl-winning football team. He isn’t on Andy Kennedy’s postseason bound basketball team. He didn’t even play baseball for the Rebels who swept TCU this weekend. However, Smith is a member of the Ole Miss track team, where he serves as a distance runner. He co-hosts a sports
talk radio show for Rebel Radio. He also happens to be a very knowledgeable sports fan. ESPNU is home to a show called “Unite,” which airs five nights a week at 11 p.m. The show is a witty, humor-filled sports talk show hosted by comedian Reese Waters and ESPN analyst Danny Kanell. “Unite” has decided to add a segment on Wednesday nights each week with Howie Schwab, who was the star of “Stump the Schwab,” which aired on the ESPN family of networks from 2004 to 2006. The new segment on “Unite” will be called simply, “The Schwab.” The segment will feature three college students from different schools. They will test their sports knowledge against four categories: college sports, professional sports, pop culture and social media. The debut episode has already been taped and will air
tonight. It will feature students from SEC schools. Each week, the students will all be from schools of the same conference. The winner will move on to the next round. The show will operate with a tournament format. For Smith this was a great experience as he grew up watching Schwab electrify ESPN audiences with his sports knowledge in “Stump the Schwab.” He said he also felt “a lot of pressure.” “I wanted to continue the momentum of the football and basketball team,” Smith said. “It was cool to get the track team in the news. We don’t have that story in the paper every week like they do.” Growing up in Park Hills, Ky., Smith was never really aware of Ole Miss. He said he was drawn to Ole Miss just like many of the recruits Freeze landed on signing day.
Rebel softball hosts USM in doubleheader
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The Ole Miss softball team hosts the Southern Miss Golden Eagles (5-8) in a doubleheader today. The Rebels (4-7) played in the Mardi Gras Invitational this past weekend in Mobile, Ala., where they went 2-2. “With my new players having our first two weekends under our belt, we can go into week three now,” head coach Windy
Thees said. “Nothing’s new. Nothing’s shocking. We are just starting to get comfortable with how we all hit, how we all run and how the players understand what we are expecting out of them. I just look for us to really try to hit our stride this week.” Southern Miss is 2-3 away from home. The Golden Eagles hosted their tournament in Hattiesburg this past weekend, where they went 3-1. As a team, the Golden Eagles boast a 2.79
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“Once you come down here it’s amazing,” Smith said. “It’s one of a kind.” While the information is divided into categories and comes from all angles of the sports world, Ryan said that it is not something you can prepare yourself for and that, “you really either know the stuff or you don’t.” Host Reese Waters says that the biggest challenge for the contestants isn’t knowing the material but “not freezing up in the middle of answering a question.” “Ryan came in and he was pretty loose,” Waters said. “He did not disappoint.” While Ryan is an accounting major and said he would love to become a certified public accountant one day, he said he could see sports in his future and added this about his school: “I just love Ole Miss, especially the sports.”
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Rebels host UT-Martin Rebels look to get on win streak at SOUTH Carolina No. 8 Ole Miss hosts UT-Martin today for their first midweek game of the season. First pitch is set for 4 p.m. BY Matt Sigler mcsigler@go.olemiss.edu
Coming off a sweep of TCU this past weekend, the No. 8 Ole Miss Rebels welcome UT-Martin for a midweek matchup tonight at 4 p.m. The Rebels (3-0) will go with sophomore righthander Sam Smith on the mound, who made nine starts for them in 13 appearances last season, posting a 2-3 record with a 5.80 ERA. Ole Miss head coach Mike Bianco said the Rebels were looking at different guys to start the game, but Smith eventually got the nod. “I think it was two or three options, but I think we just thought he was the right guy,” Bianco said. “For one, his experience, and two, some of the guys we want to try to leave in the bullpen and see if we can develop them that way.” Smith said he is excited to get the start, but said he
knows there will be a few nerves before the game. “There are still going to be some nerves,” Smith said. “But I won’t really know until I start warming up and getting on the mound, but I’m ready. Yesterday in class, I got a text from coach (Carl Lafferty) and found out then. It was good. I was excited to hear that.” UT-Martin will go with sophomore left-hander Carter Smith on the mound. Last season for the Skyhawks, he made 16 appearances, seven of which were starts, earning three wins, which tied him for second on the team. At the plate, the Rebels will be led by sophomore center fielder Auston Bousfield who went 5-for-11 on opening weekend and drove in a run.
After a comeback win over Georgia this past weekend, the Ole Miss men’s basketball team heads to South Carolina, looking to get a winning streak going into the homestretch of its schedule. Tipoff tonight is set for 6 p.m. on CSS.
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Junior guard Marshall Henderson takes a shot during the Georgia game.
BY Tyler Bischoff tfbischo@go.olemiss.edu
With six regular season games left, Ole Miss men’s basketball will need to take advantage of every game to continue to improve its resume for the NCAA Tournament. “Our focus is just on trying to win games,” head coach
Andy Kennedy said in Monday’s Southeastern Conference Teleconference. “We have six remaining on our schedule, plus one in the SEC tournament. We have seven opportunities, and what we do with those seven opportunities will determine what happens next.” The next game for Ole Miss (19-6, 8-4 SEC) is a road trip
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to take on South Carolina (12-13, 2-10 SEC). Entering the matchup, South Carolina has lost six games in a row, including five by double digits. The Gamecocks’ RPI sits at 207, and they have just one win over a top-100 RPI team. Ole Miss has an RPI of 51 and is 14-0 against teams outside the top 100 in RPI. The Gamecocks’ head coach Frank Martin, who left Kansas State for South Carolina in the offseason, recently ripped his team after they lost to LSU by 18 on Thursday. “I’ve been doing this for 28 years, nine of which as a junior varsity high school coach,” Martin said after the loss. “That means I dealt with 14-year-olds. I’ve never been more embarrassed to call myself a basketball coach than I am today.” A loss to a team tied for last in the SEC would be detrimental to the Rebels’ NCAA Tournament chances. However, Kennedy is not overlooking this game, despite South Carolina’s struggles. “Frank (Martin) is a very good basketball coach, and his team is always going to be fundamentally sound,” Kennedy said. “Life is never easy on the road in SEC play.” Ole Miss is 5-4 on the road
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