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Thursday, October 24, 2024
Volume 114, 113, No. 98
ASB recommends parking ticket policy change JORDAN ISBELL News Staff Writer
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Hurricanes induce anxiety in students from Florida AVA ROSETTI
News Contributor
After the chain of storms in the Southeast this fall, University of Mississippi students from Florida, which saw some of the worst of both Hurricane Helene and Milton, continue to worry from a distance about the destruction and distress in their hometowns.
“Once you don’t hear from your family for a certain amount of time, you realize that they have lost power,” McCall Jewett, a junior journalism major from Tampa, Fla., said. “But once it surpasses a couple of days, the only thing you can do is panic. I was completely unaware if my family was okay and if my house was okay. I didn’t know
if I was going to have a house to go home to for the holidays.” Helene made landfall in Florida’s Big Bend region on Sept. 26 as a Category 4 hurricane, destroying communities and homes as it moved up the East Coast. Just under two weeks later, Milton blew into Siesta Key, Fla., as a
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The Associated Student Body passed bills and resolutions regarding Americans with Disability’s Act maintenance requests and a new parking ticket warning policy during a meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 22. ASB discussed and voted on three resolutions and one bill. Resolution 24-6 proposed changing the University of Mississippi Department of Parking and Transportation’s warning policy to one warning for unauthorized parking per academic semester. The current policy gives students one warning per academic year. The resolution passed unanimously. A resolution, if passed, is an official recommendation or request to university leadership. ASB senate leadership then advocates for implementation of the resolution to any university leadership that might be impacted, according to ASB Vice President Jack Jones. Brady Moore, a sophomore public policy leader-
ship major who served on the Department of Parking and Transportation Student Appeals Board, authored the bill. He believes the change would bring better communication for students who were unaware of the warning policy. “Our students were caught in this lapse where they didn’t know the policy because it’s not listed anywhere on the parking website,” Moore said. He also clarified that the resolution does not apply to legal penalties, such as parking in a handicapped spot without a parking sticker. Resolution 24-7, authored by senior public policy leadership major Brittany Bustillos, urges the department of student housing to add dorm common space and ADA-related maintenance requests to the student maintenance request form. The resolution passed with a unanimous vote. “We’re trying to make
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POOKIE AND JETT
FOOTBALL PREVIEW
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Influencers Campbell and Jett Puckett will visit UM as guest speakers for the Building Brands event.
The Rebels face off against the Oklahoma Sooners on Saturday, Oct. 26.
After a successful 2023-24 season, the No. 20 Ole Miss Rebels enter year 50 with a lot of promise.
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Cooking up camaraderie in a dorm kitchen NATE DONOHUE A&C Staff Writer
Sundays are quiet days in Oxford, and many students prefer to spend the waning hours of their weekend relaxing in their dorms or doing homework. However, in Residence Hall 1, a group of students has chosen to put this time towards organizing Sunday “family” dinners. Emmey Stewart, a freshman studies major from Mobile, Ala., and Addisyn Smith, a freshman southern studies major from Savannah, Ga., are founding participants of the dinner group. Smith said that these gatherings sprang from missing home. “I was like, ‘I want a home-cooked meal,’” Smith said. “So I went and got pancake mix. We ended up making way too many for just us. So we texted everyone, and were like, ‘Come downstairs, come get pancakes.’”
have prepared tacos, pasta, ramen, cookies, pancakes and cake. Other times they order pizza. The girls usually begin by texting everyone in their family dinner group chat, which consists mostly of students on floor two of Residence Hall 1. Later on, they message the group chat for all of Residence Hall 1 to invite anyone who is hungry to come eat the extra food, which tends to attract some new faces. “We’ll text, ‘Hey, we have pizza,’ or ‘There’s pasta tonight,” Stewart said. “And then everyone just comes down, including the frat boys.” Approximately 20 to 30 people pop REESE JOHNSON / THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN From left to right: Emmey Stewart, Addisyn Smith, Elle Simmons, Sydney Schoen and Mary in and out over the course of the meal, with new faces appearing every time. Claire Waters “It’s a great opportunity to meet new people,” Smith said. “When peoThe dinners take place every sisting of students sitting and chat- ple come in and grab food, we’re like, week in the kitchen of the dormi- ting, doing homework, studying tory around 8 p.m. The gatherings and watching football on television. SEE COOKING PAGE 5 are laid-back affairs, typically conSometimes the girls cook. They