THE DAILY
MISSISSIPPIAN
Friday, November 13, 2015
Volume 104, No. 59
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Students compare perception of flag in moderated discussion CLARA TURNAGE
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A dozen students gathered in room 404 of the Student Union Thursday for a town hall-style conversation on the Mississippi state flag. No one raised his or her voice, no one spoke angrily; it was a quiet discussion about individual perceptions, and it was just what Ole Miss needed, Eloise Tyner said. Tyner is a member of the committee on inclusion and cross-cultural engagement and deputy attorney general of constitution and code for the Associated Student Body, who helped organize and moderate the event. “I think these conversations are important so that everybody with every point of view still feels welcome in the Ole Miss family,” Tyner said. Tyner said she had the idea for the meeting in her Southern politics class when her professor said the decision the University made in removing the flag might lose momentum or even increase division between students if campus unity is not preserved. “I wanted it to be an intimate setting,” Tyner said. “We just came from a contentious debate where people were so focused on convincing each other that they weren’t focused on hearing each other. It’s integral for an
Ole Miss family like ours that we continue to handle this like family. We talk to each other. We really care about what the other person has to say, especially if they believe something different from what I do.” Tyner said continuing this discourse at the individual level is crucial for maintaining the unity on which the University prides itself. “I believe these conversations, especially between people who disagree, are so important,” Tyner said. “Or else you’re going to have embitterment and entrenchment and people turning away from their family.” Tyner asked Marvin King, associate professor of American politics, to moderate the discussion. King asked the students to speak in their groups on certain topics surrounding the state flag - such when the flag became pertinent to him or her and how each person felt when student governments voted to remove the flag from campus. The questions highlighted how differences in culture, ingrained beliefs and race can change the meaning of symbols to individuals – specifically the Confederate symbol in the Mississippi state flag. After each topic, students had the
SEE DISCUSSION PAGE 3
Rebels host NCAA tournament tonight COLLIN BRISTER
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The Rebels soccer team will take on the Murray State Racers at 7:30 p.m. today at the Ole Miss Soccer Stadium in an NCAA tournament contest. The Rebels are 13-5-2 on the season and have defeated ranked teams such as Texas A&M, South Carolina and Auburn. The Rebels are coming into the NCAA tournament on a two-game losing streak, but have won five of the previous seven. If the Rebels were to win, they would take on the winner of twoseed Clemson and 15-seed Fur-
man. If the Rebels were to face Clemson, they would travel to South Carolina to take on the Tigers, but if Furman upsets the Tigers, they would host Furman with a win. The Rebels share the bracket with North Carolina, who has garnered 22 national championships in program history with the most recent coming in 2012.
PHOTOS BY: LOGAN KIRKLAND
Above: Dominique Scott speaks in a small group at Thursday’s event. Below: Eloise Tyner sticks Post Its of different opinions on the wall during the moderated discussion.
UM annual Brain Brawl this weekend ALICE MCKELVEY
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High school students from across the Southeast will be competing in Ole Miss’s annual Brain Brawl this Saturday. Forty-two teams from Mississippi and its neighboring states will partake in a quiz bowl tournament to test their knowledge on topics such as history, science, literature and popular culture. “Brain Brawl is one of those competitions where anything can happen,” Matthew DeLoach, director of academic competitions, said. “A
lot of these teams are young, and Brain Brawl is probably their first actual tournament. I expect Lamar Hall will be generating a lot of brain power on Saturday.” Sophomore Andrew Lund at Lamar High School in Meridian said it will be a fun yet challenging day for his first tournament. “This is my first time ever doing the Brain Brawl, so I’m looking forward to it,” Lund said. “I think it should go well because we’ve been practicing a lot in preparation for it, but I guess we’ll have to wait and see
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