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Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Volume 103, No. 104

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Jones support rally today at noon University officials dispute IHL claims CLARA TURNAGE

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Senior public policy major Sara E. Baker signs a book of thanks and gratitude for Chancellor Dan Jones on campus Tuesday.

Students for Dan Jones are hosting a rally at noon today in front of the Lyceum to protest the non-renewal of Jones’ contract.

JACKSON - The University of Mississippi Medical Center responded Tueday to allegations made at the state College Board meeting on Monday.

The Institutions for Higher Learning Board of Trustees cited the medical center in many of the criticisms that led to the non-renewal of the contract of Chancellor Dan Jones last Friday.

James Keeton, former vice chancellor and dean of health affairs at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, said the allusions made in Monday’s meeting did not accurately represent the current state of the medical center.

“Could we do better? Yes,” Keeton said. “Did we do wrong?

Was there any loss of money?

Was there any fraud or stealing?

No. There was none of that.”

Jones offered a response to the mismanagement allegations

to NewsWatch 99 in a telephone interview Tuesday.

“I was aware that we were working on making this better, and I got reports from time to time, but did I review individual contracts? Absolutely, not,” Jones said. “It wouldn’t be appropriate leadership for me to spend my time doing that.”

Many of these allegations centered around contract management at the medical center which Keeton said has been drastically improved in the past three years.

Keeton said UMMC noticed the contracts before the implementation of a new system in 2012, “ran over, sometimes the contracts were not renewed in time, sometimes they were overspent.”

In 2012, the medical center put in a contracts management office which further organized the process.

One of the accusations

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UM Faculty Senate approves resolution without opposition CLANCY SMITH

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The University of Mississippi’s Faculty Senate approved a resolution asking the Institutions of Higher Learning to immediately renew Chancellor Dan Jones’ contract without opposition at their meeting Tuesday night.

Senate Chair Michael Barnett dove right into the issue after a brief call to order, reviewing the problem, Jones’ accomplishments and public statements of support made by other organizations.

“There is a great deal of support that has been generated for Chancellor Dan Jones,” Barnett said. “Tonight, I hope that we will be joining in that and adding our voice to that support.”

Associated Student Chairman of External Affairs Austin Powell and Staff Council President Carl Hill both read resolutions written by their organizations in support of Jones.

Before introducing the resolution, Barnett said it was clear that faculty were upset about the IHL board decision to fire

Jones and wanted to take action.

“Over the past four days, starting Friday around 4 o’clock, I have received in excess of 400 different forms of communication from faculty throughout this campus, the medical center and regional campuses expressing their concern and anger over these actions,” Barnett said.

The two-page resolution, written over the weekend by the Faculty Senate Executive Council, expresses shock at the non-renewal of Jones’ contract.

“We tried to embody the spirit of the community and communications we have received which have expressed uniform support of Chancellor Jones,” said Vice Chairman Oliver Dinius. “We highlighted the success of Jones in the broadest possible fashion so that it would relate to the most people without getting too particular.”

The last lines of the resolution call for the renewal of Jones’ contract: “We teach our students that hard work and demonstrable

Members of the Faculty Senate vote on amendments to the resolution in Bryant Hall on Tuesday. success will be rewarded. The Faculty Senate of the University of Mississippi calls on the Board of Trustees of the State Institutions of Higher Learning

to act by those values and affirm its commitment to the future of our students, institution and state by renewing the contract of Chancellor Dan Jones.”

PHOTO BY: KAYLA BEATTY

A few members of the Senate took time to speak about why they believed the faculty should support Jones.

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Letter to the Editor I have followed, with great interest and disappointment, the Mississippi IHL Board decision to not renew the contract of Ole Miss Chancellor Dan Jones. In the interest of full disclosure, I am a 1986 graduate of the Ole Miss law school.

I received my undergraduate degree from the University of Southern Mississippi. While a student at Southern Miss, I was a friend and later a political opponent of the current IHL Commissioner Jim Borsig.

I am a member of the Ole Miss Alumni Association and deeply care about the welfare of both Mississippi universities I attended.

While I don’t agree with all of his past decisions, Dr. Jones has done a remarkable job of advancing Ole Miss to a national standing among other universities. Student enrollment and fund raising are at record highs. New growth and signifTHE DAILY

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icant achievements are evident all over the Ole Miss campus.

Dr. Jones had the great advantage of building upon a solid foundation put in place by former Chancellor Robert Khayat.

As an undergraduate student at Southern Miss, I was heavily involved in student government affairs and, as a result, had occasional personal contact with IHL members. I found them to be out of touch and basically clueless to the concerns of students and faculty. IHL members were in their positions because they were political supporters of the governor that appointed them and they were not accountable to anyone else for their actions. Most IHL members had no background or qualifications to manage and run a university. Unfortunately, all these years later, nothing has changed.

When current IHL Commis-

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sioner Jim Borsig was appointed to his current position, it was revealed the IHL did not conduct a search or even interview other candidates for the job. It is obvious Borsig is in his current role because of inside political connections and back room deals. The citizens of Mississippi and students enrolled in the universities deserve better. There should have been a nationwide search for the most experienced and qualified individual to become the new IHL Commissioner. Instead, the board handpicked an individual that has never worked for an educational institution outside the state of Mississippi and is not qualified himself to lead a great university like Ole Miss. According to the IHL website, Borsig is basically a career bureaucrat and has had a string of jobs working in local government positions.

The Daily Mississippian welcomes letters to the editor. Letters should be addressed to The Daily Mississippian, 201 Bishop Hall, P.O. Box 1848, University, MS, 38677-1848, or e-mailed to dmletters@olemiss.edu.

Letters should be typed, double-spaced and no longer than 300 words. Letters may be edited for clarity, space or libel.

Third-party letters and those bearing pseudonyms, pen names or “name withheld” will not be published. Publication is limited to one letter per individual per calendar month.

Letters should include phone and email contact information so that editors can verify authenticity. Letters from students should include grade classification and major; letters from faculty and staff should include title and the college, school or department where the person is employed.

In a recent video of questioning of Borsig by student reporters for The Daily Mississippian, Borsig dodged and weaved and never gave a solid explanation for the decision to end the employment of Chancellor Jones.

Supporters of Ole Miss deserve straight answers to exactly why Dr. Dan Jones is now forced to leave his position.

I believe the current IHL system should be abolished and a new system, as suggested by former Chancellor Khayat, should be substituted in its place. I encourage the students and supporters of Ole Miss to not rest until the decision to remove Dr. Jones is reversed and the old IHL system is abolished.

David Ragsdale

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NEWS | 25 MARCH 2015 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | PAGE 3

Associated Student Body votes to support chancellor will never happen again,” Howell said. “We want our voices to be heard.”

ISABELLA CARUSO

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The Associated Student Body Senate approved a resolution in support of Chancellor Dan Jones with a vote of 35 in favor, three against and 14 in abstention. The statement will be announced today at the rally in support of Dan Jones.

The ASB resolution states, “The Associated Student Body provides its full support to Dr. Dan Jones and all efforts to increase student input in the decision making process of the Mississippi Board of Trustees of the State Institutions of Higher Learning.”

Some senators debated over the idea that a message of silence is equally as strong as issuing a public statement for the university.

“We have a lot of concerns about how he was removed,” said Cody Smith, chair of governmental operations committee.

One point during the debate was that it is the ASB’s duty to respond to issues like the contract non-renewal. The statement is worded so it simply expresses their concerns about the issue, according to Sen. Michael Howell.

“We want change to where this

IN OTHER ACTION:

University of Mississippi Chancellor Dan Jones speaks in his office on campus Friday.

FILE PHOTO: THOMAS GRANING

Sen. Cody Smith introduced a bill proposing to raise the current vacancy limit in the campus Senate from 10 percent to 20 percent.

Smith also passed another bill, which will increase the number of election commissioners monitoring elections from five to 10 members.

Other bills that passed included downsizing a section of the Student Associated Body Code to provide clarity, and allowing free giveaways of promotional campaign items, with the exception of food, as long as each item has a value of no more than $1 per unit.

The resolution to create the role of a chaplain within the Student Body Senate was not passed and was sent back to the Governmental Operations Committee for further review.

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continued from page 1 made by the IHL board concerned a delay in implementing a contract management system called Lawson Contract Management Module which was purchased in 2008.

Louann Woodward, current vice chancellor and dean of health affairs, said this was not due to any delay on the medical center’s part.

“I was involved in that implementation,” Woodward said. “At that point in time, the Lawson Company let us know that the Lawson Contract Management Module was very new and, in their words, ‘buggy.’”

Woodward said this delay in operation was held until the Lawson Module underwent significant updates and was ready for complete usage.

“The implementation of this

has taken some time, but there has been a lot of back and forth in trying to figure out from the standpoint of an academic medical center, what is the best system to use?” Woodward said. “Yes, it has been slow, but it has not been slow for our lack of activity or lack of effort.”

Director of contracts management Stacy Baldwin said the program had to be reevaluated in 2012 when the contracts management office was formed.

“When I came to contracts administration we decided that rather than just implement what we had, we needed to make sure what we purchased years ago is what we needed now and in the future,” Baldwin said.

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“No, that’s not so,” Keeton said. “We have implemented the aspects of the contract management that he was referring to.”

Perry also cited the purchase of an unused gamma knife, a surgical instrument used to remove brain tumors, as poor allocation of funds.

Jones countered his statement by explaining that although the medical center wasn’t prepared to install the equipment at the time of its purchase, they were saving money by buying it in bulk.

“The university did not lose any money and all the decisions that were made about the piece of equipment were honest and made in consultation with lots of informed people,” Jones said. “Like everything else, in retrospect you can question the business decision, but no money was lost for the university.”

Keeton said the allusions made to financial instability in the medical center were also unfounded.

“It was implied in some of the statements that we were in trouble financially – we are not in trouble financially. You can look at our financials. We are not losing money,” Keeton said.

“In the past ten years there has only been one year that we have lost money at the University

Medical Center. We are up now better than we’ve been in quite some time.”

Keeton said the medical center and the chancellor’s office have worked closely together and that he believes the issues that were alluded to have been addressed.

“I can’t speak to what Mr. Perry thinks about that,” Keeton said. “But the medical center has done everything it’s supposed to and there hasn’t been anything egregious here or anything where the state of Mississippi has lost money because of the university medical center.”

In regards to Dan Jones, Keeton said he has been extremely supportive of the medical center.

“It’s been a pleasure for us because he was over this,” Keeton said. “We talked to him two and three times a week. He’s never been in the dark about the things that are going on here.”

Keeton said he and his staff at the medical center did not suspect that any problems with the center would result in the non-renewal of Jones’ contract until Friday.

“I’m not happy,” Keeton said.

“He’s a hell of a physician with great integrity. He cares about (the University Medical Center) and he cares about Ole Miss.”

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“I’ve been immensely impressed by his openness, transparency, incredible leadership and intelligence,” said Greg Love, chair of committee on university services.

“The fact that he comes to the Senate and entertains our discussions and arguments is refreshing and surprising. When it comes to the faculty it’s hard to imagine a stronger supporter.”

At least one senator expressed his skepticism to his colleagues about the legitimacy of the resolution.

“I have the utmost respect for the chancellor. However, in this particular situation there are a few fundamental concerns that I have,” said Sen. Dwight Frink. “For one, we don’t know anything that happens behind closed doors so we’re asking the board to review things based on information we don’t have, which makes me concerned.”

Within 45 minutes, Senate members read, discussed, amended and approved the resolution. Out of the 53-member Senate, 45 voted in favor of the resolution, 2 abstained and no one opposed.

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Conference of the Book speaker: Maryemma Graham that she has undoubtedly gained from her experiences and studies. “(I encourage aspiring literary professionals to) read broadly and not narrowly,” Graham said. “As you know, the South still has some interesting divisions between the white South and the black South.

There is an Old Southern Studies model that perpetuated some of these divisions. There is a New Southern Studies that I hope will forge unity between these two entities.”

Students who are aware of Walker and her literary presence, as well as the great time and dedication of Graham’s scholarship, can appreciate such words of advice.

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ceived her undergraduate degree in English from Northwestern and later attended the University of Iowa for graduate school. Walker’s first published poem was published in the W.E.B. DuBois’ “Crisis,” and her first book of poetry, “For My People,” was published in 1942. Walker’s most critically acclaimed work was her only novel “Jubilee” (1966), a work that tells of Walker’s great-grandmother’s experiences with slavery and of her new life after Reconstruction.

The book won the Houghton-Mifflin Literary Fellowship and took her 30 years to write. Walker was also a professor of English at Jackson State University for 30 years.

“James Thomas extended an invitation because I am Walker’s official biographer and have done the most work on her,” Graham said. “The biography, titled ‘The House Where My Soul Lives: The

Life of Margaret Walker,’ is due out from Oxford in 2016.”

However, Graham’s studies of Walker are not her only connection to the talented writer.

“I met Walker when I was a grad student at Northwestern,” Graham said. “She was visiting there for a quarter, and it was where she had done her undergrad work. We remained in touch, and, when she learned that my husband and I were being recruited to Ole Miss, she called me and encouraged me to take the job and work more closely with her, which is exactly what happened.”

Within the conference’s handout, Graham’s bio picture is thoughtful and complex and one can only gather that this is because of the large amount of knowledge

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If you happen to find yourself looking through the newly printed pages of the 2015 Conference for the Book handout, you will get all the information you need about this accumulation of creative talent. On the cover, you will find a smiling charismatic picture of Margaret Walker accompanying the who, what, when and where technicalities of the conference.

This year’s Conference for the Book is dedicated to Mississippi writer Margaret Walker and begins with an exhibition and a keynote lecture by Maryemma Graham at 1:30 p.m. today in the Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics.

According to her multiple bios, Graham is a professor of English and African-American studies at the University of Kansas. She has taught at the University of Kansas since 1998, including the year she spent as the Langston Hughes Visiting Professor. Graham is the author and editor of 10 books, many of which were studies of Walker herself.

“The conference is dedicated to Margaret Walker, who would have been celebrating her 100th birthday this year,” said James Thomas, the director of the conference and the university’s associate director for publications at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture. “Maryemma Graham is the preeminent Margaret Walker scholar in America. She’s done an immense amount of scholarly writing on Walker.”

Walker was a poet, novelist, biographer and essayist who grew up in a family of intellectuals that seemingly influenced her literary lifestyle as a child. She finished high school at the age of 14, re-

“I have read some of Walker’s works for class, and, while they were assignments, it was still interesting to read and study her,” political science major Amber Goode said. “I think it is always great to study writers and professionals from the familiar areas. To me, it is inspiring and, an aspiring writer myself, I look to the writings of authors such as Margaret Walker. I will be attending the keynote lecture because it would be cool to hear what Dr. Graham says about a great writer that she herself knew.”

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2015 Conference of the Book Schedule 6:30 p.m. Opening Reception Barksdale-Isom House (Requires Purchased Ticket)

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Injury concerns highlight spring practice CODY THOMASON

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In week three of spring practice for Ole Miss football, injuries have provided some tough challenges for the team to work through, with sophomore wide receiver Markell Pack and senior wide receiver Cody Core recently getting hurt.

“We’re struggling just to stay healthy,” head coach Hugh Freeze said. “We’re losing kids to some freak injuries that will certainly make reps more difficult, but that’s part of the game.”

The offensive line has also been struck by the injury bug, with only eight linemen going in practice.

“Offensive line, I think we’re down to about eight guys right now and it’s a struggle. Doesn’t look like we’re going to get any of those back for spring,” head coach Hugh Freeze said, listing injuries for junior Laremy Tunsil, senior Aaron Morris, sophomore Daronte Bouldin, junior Robert Conyers, sophomore Christian Morris, junior Talbot Buys, sophomore Davion Johnson and freshman Sean Rawlings.

“We’re trying to get some quality work but (the injuries) certainly make it more challenging.”

Freeze said the injuries to the offensive line have complicated the evaluations of the quarterback position, which is one of the hottest position battles of the spring.

“It’s made it difficult. When (the defense) is who they want to be it’s been quite challenging to have successful plays for sure,” Freeze said.

The competition is between redshirt sophomores DeVante Kincade and Ryan Buchanan and junior college transfer Chad Kelly. Buchanan gave his thoughts on the injuries to the offensive line affecting play.

“It’s tough, but guys that are younger and guys that are new are trying to step up and you’re

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Head coach Hugh Freeze celebrates during the Chick-fil-A trophy celebration after the first game last season in Atlanta. never going to get better if you don’t get thrown into that situation,” Buchanan said.

With the result of the depleted offensive line, the quarterback position won’t be decided in the spring and the starting signal caller will not be named until fall practice.

“We’re charting every throw and it’s really close between all three. It kind of depends on the day,” Freeze said. “Ryan (Buchanan) has had his great days, (DeVante) Kincade’s done well at times and so has Chad (Kelly).”

Freeze went on to talk about what he wants to see from his signal callers the rest of spring camp and leading into the start of the 2015 season.

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“We’re searching for some consistency among all three of them. Dan (Werner) and I just have to continue to coach them and try to make solid plays on every snap that we get. It’s been a very physical spring for us so far,” Freeze said. “I’m hoping Saturdays, when we get to there, we’ll have enough healthy guys to have a quality scrimmage and see if we’ve made some significant improvements, cause we’ve been spending an enormous amount of time on technique and individual work.”

Freeze said he was very pleased with how the defense has performed in the spring, highlighting junior college transfer Tony Bridges along with other mem-

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“He’s a long athletic corner that’s physical, he and Tee Shepard both, and they’re playing really well at corner right now,” Freeze said. “A little too aggressive sometimes, particularly when they’re on an island, but they’re very aggressive and long.”

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Rebels in the double header.

Ole Miss’ normal midweek starter, sophomore left-hander Evan Anderson, took the ball in game two.

Anderson ran into trouble early, allowing two runs in the first inning. Anderson gave up three runs on six hits in 3.2 innings of work for the day.

Ole Miss managed just three hits and two walks as they struggled to find base-runners in game two.

Timely hitting plagued Ole Miss yet again. The Rebels threatened in the third after freshman infielder and reigning SEC freshman of the week Will Golsan led off with a double and senior first baseman Sikes Orvis drew a walk. Ole Miss could not do any damage after that and stranded both runners.

Sophomore catcher Henri Lartigue had two of the Rebels’ three hits, including a single in the second that scored Orvis and ended up being the Rebels’ only run of the day. Golsan recorded the Rebels’ other hit and had a hit in each game of the double header.

Ole Miss brought the tying run to the plate in the seventh and final frame after Lartigue led off with a base hit. The Blazers yet again were able to get out of the jam with a game-ending double play.

Ole Miss continued their nonconference struggles and dropped to 13-12 (3-3 SEC) on the season. OIe Miss returns to action Thursday as they travel to Fayetteville to take on the Arkansas Razorbacks in a three-game series.

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Diamond Rebels swept in doubleheader against UAB BRIAN SCOTT RIPPEE

bsrippee@go.olemiss.edu

GAME 1- UAB 6, OLE MISS 1 Ole Miss dropped the first of two seven inning games with the UAB Blazers by a score of 6-1.

The Rebels out-hit the Blazers 8-6, but UAB scored in four of the seven frames en route to the win. Ole Miss stranded six runners in game one, and is still in search of finding consistent timely hitting offensively.

Senior right-hander Sam Smith took the hill in game one and struggled. Smith gave

up four runs on three hits in just three innings of work.

Smith first ran into trouble when UAB plated two runs in the second inning and followed up with another in the third.

Junior right-hander Jacob Waguespack came on in relief and gave up two unearned runs in three innings of relief.

Junior left-hander Matt Denny pitched a scoreless seventh inning in relief as well.

Senior first baseman Tyler Mims led the charge offensively for the Blazers. Mims went 2-4 with two RBIs as well as scoring three of the Blazers’ six runs. Senior center fielder

Chase Davis also added a pair of hits for the Blazers.

Six Rebels recorded a hit in the game, including two by sophomore shortstop Errol Robinson. Robinson went 2-2 on the day, including a double in the fourth that led to the Rebels’ only run of the day after sophomore designated hitter Colby Bortles hit a double that scored Robinson.

UAB would go on to score two more runs in the sixth.

The Rebels would try and make a late comeback in the final inning with Robinson and junior outfielder CamerFILE PHOTO: JASON ZHANG on Dishon reaching base, but the Blazers held on to take the Henri Lartigue runs to first base after a hit against UAB Tuesday. first game.

Ole Miss fell to 13-11 on the year with the loss.

Ole Miss fell to UAB 3-1 in game two as they swept the

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