THE DAILY
MISSISSIPPIAN
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Volume 104, No. 114
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
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ASB announces newly elected 2016 officers Plaque language further discussed MORGAN WALKER
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ASB judicial chair with 95.5 percent and Austin Spindler won secretary with 94 percent of the vote. Even though he ran unop-
The four-member contextualization committee discussed the most recent community submissions proposing changes to the language on the plaque in front of the Confederate solider statue in the Circle in a closed meeting Tuesday afternoon. The meeting was one of many discussions the committee has conducted since the original language of the plaque was released earlier in March. Donald Cole, assistant provost and committee member, said the committee is currently in the process of assessing every recommendation submitted. According to Cole, the meeting was a continuation of reviewing the input the committee had received so far. “We’re trying to see if we understand it, and trying to assess its accuracy and trying to make sure we consider all of the input,” Cole said.
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Left: Austin Powell celebrates his election for ASB President. Right: Michael Howell reacts at the announcement of his election to ASB Vice President.
JENNIFER LOTT
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Members of the Ole Miss community gathered around the steps of the Lyceum, Tuesday to await the announce-
ment of next year’s Associated Student Body officers. Current officers handed over their titles with the announcement of the results. Austin Powell became the new ASB president with 94.5
percent of the vote alongside Michael Howell, who won the ASB vice presidential election with 95.82 percent of the vote. Brent Ferguson won the attorney general position with 95 percent, Hurston Reed won
ica, the model town of smalltown living, that’s what Shelby was,” Rose said. Rose knew everyone in town and everyone knew him. Everywhere he went, his dog Sputnik was following right at his side except for when he was at school and during his shifts at his daddy’s corner drugstore. The drugstore was filled with the townsfolk, soda fountain drinks and ice cream. After lots of practice, Rose had the perfect recipe for a cherry Coke mastered and could flip a scoop of ice cream in the air and catch it on the cone. “I would try to do the second scoop on top of that but I lost several of them on the floor that way,” Rose laughed. Eventually, Rose put his small town in the rearview and headed to Ole Miss not knowing
anything except that they had a dynamite football team and they were the best university in the state. Everything was unplanned but everything fell into place. Flash forward about five decades later and Rose is receiving the 2015 Samuel S. Talbert Silver Em award from the Meek School of Journalism and New Media, where his life as a newspaperman began. The award is the University’s highest award for journalism and is named after Rose’s first journalism instructor. Talbert, a William Faulkner look-alike and the chairman of the journalism department, was skeptical of Rose at first. “He let me take the course against his best judgement,”
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Overby fellow receives prestigious journalism award LANA FERGUSON
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“Do you have to be a journalism major to take the class?” “Yes, we prefer it.” “Well, I guess I’m a journalism major then.” Bill Rose’s life was changed in an instant. Rose’s snap decision to lie about his major paved the way for him to brush shoulders with some of the most influential people in the nation, travel the world and break news stories that would change the course of history. He just wanted an easy ‘A.’ Growing up in the Mississippi Delta, Rose had only known a simplistic life and he was okay with that. “Think model town in Amer-
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Professor Bill Rose recieves the Meek School of Journalism and New Media’s highest award.