The Daily Mississippian - October 13, 2015

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THE DAILY

MISSISSIPPIAN

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Volume 104, No. 36

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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Alpha Phi celebrates bid day Laremy Tunsil to start against Texas A&M DEVNA BOSE

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Alpha Phi sorority completed one of its final steps of colonization and distributed bids to its first pledge class at the University on Monday. Alpha Phi’s bid day festivities took place in the Grove at 4:30 p.m., where new members ran from the Lyceum to the Grove Stage to be greeted by other members of the Ole Miss Greek community. At 6 p.m., the new members were taken to the Lyric on the Square to have a celebration consisting of music, food, activities and bid day gifts. Each of the new members will be considered charter members of Ole Miss Alpha Phi. Destiny Slade, a freshman undeclared major and new founding member of Alpha Phi, is enthusiastic to begin this new chapter of her college life. “I am ready to make a lasting impact on Ole Miss as a founding member of Alpha Phi,” Slade said. “I want to help mold this organization to become a well-respected sorority here, as it is everywhere in the country.” Slade participated in formal PHOTOS BY: TAYLOR COOK recruitment but said Alpha Phi “felt right.” She decided to Alpha Phi recently established its first chapter on the Ole Miss campus and welcomed its first members.

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DYLAN RUBINO

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The Rebels played a majority of their 2015 season without the anchor of their offensive line junior left tackle Laremy Tunsil. The news finally broke Monday night from the Ole Miss Spirit that Tunsil has received a seven-game suspension and is eligible to return home against Texas A&M on October 24. The NCAA played the waiting game with Ole Miss, and the news finally makes sense after the long wait. After months and months of investigation, the NCAA determined that Tunsil received many impermissible benefits, including the use of three separate loaner vehicles over a six-month period without payment. The NCAA also found out Tunsil received a four-month interest-free promissory note on a $3,000 down payment over the purchase of a used vehicle, two free nights’ lodging at a local home, and an airplane ticket for a friend of a teammate. Along with the seven-game

suspension, the NCAA ordered Tunsil to pay the value of the extra benefits to charity, perform community service and repay all of the vehicle down payments. The NCAA also noted that Tunsil was not fully cooperative and forthcoming when first questioned by the NCAA investigators about the loaner vehicles. “I take full responsibility for the mistakes I made and I want to thank everyone for their continued support,” Tunsil said in his press release. “This was a learning experience, and I’m looking forward to being back on the field with my team and redeeming myself.” “We have been supportive of Laremy throughout this process, and we are thankful he can return to competition starting with the Texas A&M game,” Freeze said in the press release. “More important than his football ability is his character, and I am confident that Laremy will grow from this experience and continue to be a positive member of the University and our football team.”

State ballot initiative seeks removal of Mississippi flag AUSTIN HILLE

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Since the shooting of nine people on June 17 at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, activists around the country have raised many questions regarding the placement of Confederate imagery within state symbols. This controversy made its way to the state of Mississippi, the last state to retain the pattern from the Confederate battle emblem in its state flag. Mississippi Ballot Initiative Measure No. 55 is trying to put an end to the issue, along with any reference to the Confederacy in the state banner. “It is just time for a change,” Sharon Brown, civil rights advo-

cate and the official sponsor of the initiative, said. “It has been an on-and-off effort by various groups here in Mississippi.” She added, “After careful consideration and talks with various people, I decided to put it back up for a vote.” The campaign to support the initiative kicked off on Sunday with a march and a rally held in Jackson. Speakers at the event included rapper David “Mr. Mississippi” Banner, civil rights activist Myrlie Evers­ -Williams and South Carolina Rep. Jenny Horne, who delivered the impassioned speech to remove the confederate flag from her state’s capitol building. Christopher Johnson, member of the Flag for All Mississippians committee,

said the rally gathered 200-300 participants. “It was just a really tremendous showing of community support,” Johnson said. The last time the state voted on the flag was in a 2001 referendum. The vote originally stemmed from an NAACP lawsuit, in which the Mississippi Supreme Court found that a revision of laws in 1906 left the state technically without a flag. But with a 65 percent majority, voters revealed widespread support for the old flag design, which had been the de facto banner since 1894. Following the nationwide controversy regarding the display of the Confederate flag over

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People march in Jackson, Miss., Sunday, Oct. 11, 2015, en route to a change-the-flag rally SEE BALLOT PAGE 3 on the steps of the state Capitol.

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