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MISSISSIPPIANTuesday, February 9, 2016 Volume 104, No. 81THE DAILY
T H E S T U D E N T N E W S PA P E R O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F M I S S I S S I P P I S E R V I N G O L E M I S S A N D OX F O R D S I N C E 1 9 1 1 V i s i t t h e D M o n l i n e . c o m @ t h e d m _ n e w s
sports
Rebs rake in the receivers Page 8
lifestylesReels: the five man (and woman) band
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news Students create fashion-sharing app
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University NAACP chapter receives national award
ASB to present resolution to rename Vardaman HallAssociated Student Body sen-
ators will present a resolution to remove the building name from Vardaman Hall on campus in a committee meeting tonight.
Co-author of the resolution Al-len Coon said he and the four oth-er co-authors seek to change the name of Vardaman Hall because it honors a man whose platform was ideas of racial violence and white supremacy.
James K. Vardaman was a Mis-sissippi governor from 1904 to 1908 and U. S. Senator from 1913 to 1919. The hall was built in 1929
to serve as a boys dormitory. Coon said many people who are
opposed to changing Confederate symbols on campus feel the his-tory of the symbol will be lost if items such as the Confederate me-morial are removed and buildings such as Vardaman are renamed.
“We want to make sure that we are not doing that,” Coon said. “This resolution not only seeks to change the name of Vardaman Hall, but also seeks to contextual-ize why that name was changed.”
A portion of this resolution re-quests that a plaque or inscription
be placed noting that the building was formerly named after James K. Vardaman, providing a ratio-nale behind the changing of the name, Coon said.
Coon said campus is actively talking about the issues of race and how it affects students. He said, with a renewed spotlight on these issues, it is very likely that other ASB senators will be recep-tive to this resolution.
“I think we have momentum,” Coon said. “I think we all under-stand that we have an obligation to take action.”
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Winners of the Chairman’s Award speak onstage during the 47th NAACP Image Awards at Pasadena Civic Auditorium on Feb. 5 in Pasadena, California. Among them, Dominique Scott, Tysianna Marino and Buka Okoye, members of the UM NAACP chapter and James Thomas, the chapter advisor, who accepted a national award for their work on the University campus this school year.
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The University of Mississippi branch of the NAACP received the 2016 Chairman’s Award at the NAACP Image Awards in Pasadena, California on Feb. 5. “The entire experience was surreal and extremely overwhelming,” Dominique Scott, secretary for the UM branch who accepted the award with members Tysianna Marino and Buka Okye and chapter advisor James Thomas. “I was on this stage in front of my heroes. Groundbreaking women of color, who unapologetically assert their value in the world.” The chapter received the award in recognition of its work to take down the Mississippi state flag from University grounds in
Oct. 2015. “When the screen went up and we looked out into the crowd, fists raised, every able bodied person in the room stood up and applauded us,” Scott said. “I almost lost it. If you look at the video, I am barely holding back tears, because all of the emotions that hit me at once.”
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The dos and don’ts for Black History Month
ARIEL COBBERT [email protected]
It’s that time of year again – Black History Month. If you guessed Valentine’s Day, that’s okay. Cupid and his arrows usually over shadow black history every February.
Please, I repeat please spare me your angry Wikipedia-re-searched, self-centered, my great great great great grand-father was a farmer letters.
My grandmother is older than Jim Crow, for goodness sake.
Let me make this clear: black history does not begin with slavery. The first en-slaved person of African de-scent arrived in Jamestown in 1619, but the history of Afri-can people began long before then.
Stop telling black people what Martin Luther King Jr. would say if he were alive. We would know if he were assas-sinated by the government. If King were alive, I believe he would be upset to see that some white people still treat race issues like they did in the 60s.
Complaining about not hav-ing a month or day solves nothing. Educate yourself first. If you do some research, you would know that African Americans are not the only
marginalized group that has a month. March is National Women’s History Month, May Asian Pacific American Her-itage, and Jewish American Heritage month June is Gay Lesbian Pride month, etc.
Open a book or surf the web and educate yourself about what people of African de-scent have suffered. 245 years of slavery and 77 years of Jim Crow African American’s de-serve a month. We deserve the entire year.
I understand that this gen-eration isn’t responsible for slavery itself. However, our generation isn’t too far re-moved from slavery and the Jim Crow era. Slavery end-ed in 1865 that was only 151 years ago. Jim Crow ended in the 1960’s, barley 50 years ago. Many of our parents and grand parents lived through
the Jim Crow era. Which wa-ter fountain did your grandfa-ther drink from?
Ask yourself the ques-tion Jane Elliott asked once, “Would you want to be treat-ed the way African Americans are in society?” Ask it until you feel comfortable answer-ing yes to that question. There is still work to be done. The fight for equality must contin-ue.
We will always need a Black History Month, until everyone realizes race is a social and economic issue. If you follow these dos and don’ts, the fight for equality will continue to grow strong. Most important-ly, don’t do blackface; it is never okay.
COLUMN
Ariel is an African-American studies major from Hatties-burg.
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Students create wardrobe-sharing platform: Nimble
Last year saw the rise of apps and services such as Airbnb and Uber. The format of peer-to-peer sharing services is more popular than ever, and now an Oxford startup com-pany is adopting a similar for-mat for their most recent app, Nimble Fashion.
“Nimble Fashion is just a way that women can wear a different dress to every sin-gle event, look fabulous and save money at the same time,” Nimble co-founder and senior Sara Kiparizoska said.
Although now successful, Nimble originally started as a simple idea between two stu-dents with empty pockets and an entrepreneurial spirit.
“I needed a dress to wear, and between all of my friends, I either couldn’t get a hold of them, had already asked them, or felt uncomfortable ask-ing,” Kiparizoska said. “I was just thinking of a way where I could see everyone’s dresses in Oxford, but I could just pay them to borrow the dress for one night.”
This idea became a reali-ty when Kiparizoska spoke to longtime friend William Ault about the possibility of having a Facebook group that stu-dents could post pictures of dresses they were willing to lend out for various events.
Ault took the idea one step further and suggested that the two design an app for that very purpose, which eventual-ly became the Nimble Fashion company.
“It felt like a pretty interest-ing idea,” Ault, who recently graduated, said. “At the time I was getting ready to grad-
uate and I was thinking about a business that I could poten-tially start.”
After months of hard work, Nimble officially entered the Apple app store as a digital marketplace for the fashion needs for women in Oxford.
All users of Nimble have the ability to list gently-used dresses for rent for other users within the Oxford community. The lender of the dress sets the rental price, Nimble collects a $5 fee from the renter, and af-ter the standard five-day rent-al period, the dress is returned to the owner.
The app has garnered over 500 users since its inception, and Kiparizoska and Ault said this is just the beginning.
“The goal for Nimble Fash-ion is to just transform the way that women are shopping for formal attire,” Kiparizoska said. “We want to create the mindset that, when you need a dress, you look on Nimble first because it is the most efficient option.”
Kiparizoska said she hopes to expand first to other univer-sities in the SEC, then eventu-ally, across the country.
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Sara Kiparizoska and William Ault are the co-founders of Nimble and the staff.PHOTO BY: ARIEL COBBERT
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Like reels of home mov-ie films, the band of the same name chronicles not only the growth of a person, but also the growth of what five musicians completely invested in their craft might create.
Kate Teague, with support from her friends and fellow musicians Jean Marie Lalande and Shane Prewitt, became
part of her first band during her last semester at the
University of Mississip-pi. Lalande and Prewitt
had seen Teague’s solo shows, and
they began experi-menting around
February of last year. Teague on vocals and guitar, along with Prewitt (drums) and Lalande (Saxophone), laid the groundwork of what is now Reels.
The threesome, in need of a bigger sound, eventually added Hershey Tate as a guitarist.
The last addition to the band was Lalande’s roommate, Jer-emiah Wills. Wills was experi-menting with music alone when Lalande noticed his talent and asked him to play bass for Reels— that is, after Wills ac-tually acquired a bass. (He had sold his own before pursuing his graduate degree.)
On May 8, one day before Teague’s graduation, came Reels’ metaphorical graduation into Oxford’s music scene. The fledgling band played their first set at the Cats Purring Dude Ranch.
“It was a three song show. It was really disappointing for the crowd,” Prewitt said.
As it turned out, three songs wasn’t enough, but the experi-ence left the band motivated to continue making music.
“It was like a taste,” Teague said. “And it made people want to hear more.”
Over the summer, Teague added more song lyrics to their repertoire; each member craft-ed their own additions. Reels prepared to record their first EP at Tweed Recording that fall.
They spent a few days in the
studio producing an EP made up of what were, at the time, three of the group’s newest songs.
A theme of sorts apparent in the EP, “The growth of a per-son.”
“You’re (Kate) just being open about like, ‘this is my transition through life in my twenties,’” Prewitt said. “If there’s a theme that’s what it is.”
Perhaps this is in part be-cause of Teague’s honest song-writing and soulful, raw and controlled delivery.
“When I write a song, it be-comes one of our songs… These are my songs, so it obviously shows how I’ve evolved,” said Teague.
Not only is a personal trans-formation taking place within Reels’ lyrics, but also a growth in songwriting, especially as other band members contrib-ute. In one example, Lalande, a native of France, worked with Teague on the French lyrics in their song “Secrets.”
“Even on Kate’s songs, we all write our parts, and a lot of times we’ll change the format of the song, add a chorus or re-peat something more times, so
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we’re all definitely involved in the writing process,” Tate said.
By late Nov. 2015, Reels’ first EP was on Bandcamp. Now, almost a year after initial ex-perimentation, the group has coalesced even more, and their sound is making a transition from an indie-fied 50s/60s sound to something much more indie-pop oriented– with a jazzy touch from Lalande’s saxophone. New songs like the slightly angst-y “Cool Enough,” and even more poppy “Low Life,” (a song Teague wrote on Oxford’s most recent snow day,) show not only Reels’ metamorphosis (even since their EP in November), but also their range as artists.
“Kate Teague and the Hate League,” the still popular “for-mer” band name has been a running joke amongst the members of Reels ever since they let Tate write one of their events on Facebook.
“We had never had that name, but people really liked it,” said Tate. “Everyone was
like ‘that should be your band name,’ And Kate didn’t want to do it because she doesn’t hate anything.”
Nevertheless, the name has followed Reels around since that event.
With eight songs under their
belts, the band is setting their sights on recording a second EP, performing in more cities around the South and continu-ing to explore their potential together.
Some people become stuck in the comfort of the “Velvet
Ditch.” But for Reels, perform-ing outside of Oxford gives them comfort that new ears will hear their songs each night. So far, they’ve planned a show in Chattanooga, Tennessee, which will take place on Feb. 19, a day after they perform at Ajax in
Oxford. Catch Reels in Oxford again
at Proud Larry’s on Mar. 5, when they open for Seratones. In the meantime, stream their EP at reelsoxford.bandcamp.com and visit their Facebook page.
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Kate Teague leads the Oxford-based band Reels at Yoknapalooza. PHOTO BY: TIMOTHY STEENWYK
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‘My Father, the Pornographer’ at Square Books
Chris Offutt was fumbling with his keys as he approached his of-fice, where we met to discuss his novel and upcoming reading. He explained, still searching, that his key ring had been enlarged by his acquisition of five local storage units.
“ I inherited 1,800 pounds of pornography, and it’s all in a stor-age unit,” Offutt said. “I’m just…thank goodness that stuff is out of my house.”
Offutt may be, in some ways, an eccentric figure, but the risqué materials in his storage unit are there not because he accumulated them, but because his father did.
Offutt’s father, Andrew Offutt, typically wrote under a series of pen names and authored more than 400 novels in his lifetime, some of them science fiction or
fantasy but a large portion of them pornograhic. When his father passed away, Offutt was confront-ed with the task of sorting and cat-aloging his father’s “collection.” In doing so, he discovered an incred-ibly large stash of pornographic writings and materials: 1,800 pounds worth, to be exact.
In his latest book, “My Father, the Pornographer,” Offutt grap-ples with his father’s complicated legacy and their at times difficult, strange relationship in insightful prose. This book is Offutt’s third memoir (a fact he notes as “em-barrassing, to be in your 60s and writing your third memoir…”) and said he believes this to be his per-sonal work.
“This book, in many ways, is either one I’ve been wanting to write all of my life or waiting to write all my life,” he said. “I tried to write about my father and my childhood before, but I couldn’t. I also don’t think I had the compas-
sion or the generosity or the un-derstanding of the world to write about him until I was over 50.”
The title of the book might sound vaguely familiar, as it is re-lated to a piece Offutt wrote that appeared in the New York Times Magazine in early 2015. The rela-tionship between the two pieces is close, but not quite complete.
“It is representative in some ways of part of the book,” he said. “But there’s another large part of the book that was not in that, hav-ing to do with dad’s childhood, my childhood, high school, my writ-ing, his other writing, 1970s sci-ence fiction conventions that he attended…”
“My Father, the Pornographer” doesn’t try to neatly recount all of these topics and package them to-gether for the reader. Instead, ap-propriately for the subject, he just describes things as they are, con-cluding that his relationship with his dad was largely unchanged, if better understood.
Offutt will be reading and dis-cussing his book at Off Square Books tomorrow at 5 p.m. Despite the potentially taboo or uncom-fortable nature of the reading, Offutt isn’t afraid to talk about the suggestive subjects that come up in his writing.
“I’m not talking about porn, I’m talking about my dad,” Offut said. “The pornography was ta-boo when dad wrote it. I’m writ-ing about my dad, my childhood and my mother, and the book is not pornographic in the way that dad’s were, it’s just sort of, ‘This is what he did.’”
Offutt said he hopes locals read-ers realize he wrote the book in Oxford, and appreciate the role the environment played in the completion of “My Father, the Pornographer.”
“I don’t think I could’ve writ-ten the book without the kind of acceptance that Oxford offers writers,” Offutt said. “I can’t imag-ine having written this book any-where else but here.”
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Super Bowl 50: Cam Newton had every right to be upset
Cam Newton was brief in his press conference after he and the Panthers lost the Super Bowl.
Newton’s answers consisted of the following phrases: “No,” “They outplayed us” and “I don’t know what you want me to say.”
Then, abruptly, he got up. He left. It later came out that Chris Harris of the Broncos was answering questions regarding
Newton’s performance on Sun-day.
“I’m done,” he said. It made people mad. It made
people upset. The guy who had done nothing to shy away from attention, with his dabbing and dancing, suddenly didn’t want the spotlight anymore.
From a media perspective, it’s interesting. Reporters complain of ‘coach speak’ and trained answers as oft as the sun sets in the West. So when a guy finally shows some emo-tion, we crucify him. When a
guy isn’t as gloomy as we think he should be, we label. When a guy that has just lost the biggest game of his life doesn’t respond the way you expect him to re-spond, we call him immature.
Newton wears his emotions on his sleeve. He was upset. Newton and the Panthers had gotten into the biggest game in American sports, and they came up short. He’ll take heat for it. He didn’t play particularly well. His emotion, however, is what makes him great. His emotion is what made him the MVP of
the league. His emotion is the reason his team played in the Super Bowl.
It’s okay for a 26-year-old to be upset by a loss in the big-gest game that he’s ever played. It’s okay for a fifth-year NFL quarterback not to be jolly and ecstatic after his team loses a game that meant everything. It’s okay for a guy that’s won more than he’s lost throughout his career to not handle failure the way we deem he should.
In a league that embraces a quarterback like Johnny Man-ziel, who had to go to alcohol rehab this off-season and is currently under fire for an al-
leged incident, they’ve crucified a guy that hands out footballs to children after touchdowns. In a league that embraces Ben Ro-ethlisberger, who has had many off-the-field incidents, they’ve crucified a guy that helps chil-dren with special needs.
Sure, he probably could have handled it better. Sure, he could have answered the ques-tions with more insight, but he didn’t. He didn’t make every-one happy.
He’ll learn, most likely, and it’ll be different the next time he’s in the Super Bowl, because he will be in another Super Bowl.
COLLIN [email protected]
Carolina Panthers’ Cam Newton sits on the field during the NFL Super Bowl 50 football game Sunday.PHOTO BY: ASSOCIATED PRESS (MATT YORK)
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A.J. Brown- The four-star wide receiver was the biggest steal of the 2016 class be-cause of his hometown. The Starkville product elected
to spend the next few years in Oxford as opposed to his hometown school, Mississip-pi State. Brown draws a lot of comparison to former Ole Miss star Laquon Treadwell because of the way he plays and because of his 6-foot-2-inch, 220-pound frame. Brown will likely be an imme-diate contributor in a deep re-ceiving core for Ole Miss next season.
D.K. Metcalf- Metcalf, a consensus four-star receiver, hails from right here in Ox-ford. Metcalf’s father, Ter-rence, was an All-American
offensive lineman for the Reb-els in the 1990s and 2000s. The younger Metcalf comes in at 6 feet 5 inches and 211 pounds. He looks to be a solid replacement for the depart-ing Cody Core. Metcalf, while not a burner, possesses decent speed. With his size, Metcalf is able to create mismatches for opposing defensive coordi-nators. Metcalf is also a very physical blocker, something that is necessary since the Rebels rely on the wideouts to spring the running backs to the outside.
Tre Nixon- The Viera, Flor-
ida, product chose Ole Miss over Georgia, giving the Reb-els another threat. Nixon is listed at 6-foot-1-inch, 165 pounds and is the most likely out of the group to redshirt, in part due to the depth the Reb-els currently have at receiver. He has a tremendous amount of speed, and might be Ole Miss’ fastest receiver. Nixon has the potential to develop into receiver and plays a little bit like Quincy Adeboyejo.
Ole Miss will have a stable of receivers returning to the rotation next fall. The Rebels return Damore’ea Stringfel-
low, Quincy Adeboyejo, Mar-kell Pack and Derrick Jones next year, and will also expect contributions from redshirt freshmen Van Jefferson and Damarkus Lodge, who were highly coveted talents in the 2015 class.
Chad Kelly will have a num-ber of different targets from which to choose, with a variety of different skill sets. The big-gest problem Ole Miss might have next year is finding a way to make all of these tar-gets consistent contributors in its offense next year - there is only one football to go around.
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Freeze continues recruiting ranked receiving classes
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Tre Nixon (right), D. K. Metcalf (top) and A. J. Brown (bottom) continue the tradition of excellent receivers in Hugh Freeze’s recruiting record.
