The Daily Mississippian - October 31, 2016

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THE DAILY

MISSISSIPPIAN

Monday, October 31, 2016

Volume 105, No. 50

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

WHAT’S INSIDE...

Why do Ole Miss employees need higher wages? SEE OPINION PAGE 2

Ready to get spooked? Check out the winner of the scary story contest SEE LIFESTYLES PAGE 5

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Caldwell suspended indefinitely from football team SEE SPORTS PAGE 7

Rebels mauled by Tigers

Fraternity raises money for emergency call pole SAMANTHA WHITTLE thedmnews@gmail.com

PHOTO BY: MARLEE CRAWFORD

Auburn defense tackles Taz Zettergren after a reception in Saturday’s game.

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he hits keep on coming for Ole Miss as it dropped its third consecutive game to Auburn on Saturday night. The Rebels started well, as they have for much of the year, but as the game wore on the Reb-

CODY THOMASON els found themselves unable to keep pace with the Tigers and eventually lost the game 40-29. “It’s kind of been indicative of our season. The way our kids fought tonight, I was very proud,” Head Coach Hugh Freeze said. “I think we were

playing a team that’s playing as well as anyone in the country right now, particularly defensively into this game, and running the ball extremely well. We battled them toe-totoe for most of the game, but like I said, for whatever reason

in this game, you have years where the margin of error for a team is just so small and one or two plays make such a huge impact.” The punters were glued to

SEE REBELS PAGE 8

Blue emergency call poles are an important part of keeping students safe, but there are some areas on campus that don’t have them. Emergency poles, first installed in the early ‘90s, allow someone who might be in an emergency to contact the University Police Department. Fraternity Row does not have emergency poles right now. The University of Mississippi’s chapter of Chi Psi Fraternity targeted its philanthropy mission this year at campus safety and sexual assault awareness. Chi Psi President John Cooper Lawton and members are raising money to place an emergency pole outside of their house, The Lodge, on Fraternity Row. They also plan to refurbish old poles that may have gone out of order.

SEE POLLS PAGE 3

SPECIAL TO THE DM

University garden partners with Boys and Girls club

SHELICE BENSON

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The University of Mississippi Garden Club has created a mentorship program that helps kids at the Boys & Girls Club upkeep their very own gardens. Last year, the Boys & Girls Club started sending kids to the University of Mississippi garden, located behind the Residential College, to help plant crops and prepare the garden for winter. This semester, the Boys & Girls Club started their own garden so more kids could get involved and get active. “The kids love the thought of being outside and doing fun activities,” Denae Bradford, coordinator of the UM Garden Club, said. When Bradford joined the

sustainability team in August 2016, she said her goals were to expand the garden club and develop a more active program. It was her idea to start sending members of the garden club over to help the kids learn more about gardening and its benefits. “We have lesson plans that we create every week so that the kids have some structure and can learn,” she said. “We assign a student to about five children there at the Boys & Girls Club, and they are responsible for teaching those children whatever the lesson is for that day.” The UM Garden Club meets every Monday afternoon to create 30-minute lessons that they will repeat two to four times in rounds of 15 to 20 kids. Zach Wehemeyer, FoodCorps’ ambassador at the Boys

& Girls Club, said the UM Garden Club has been beneficial to the kids and UM students. He said the garden club allows the Boys & Girls Club to reach more kids without having to sacrifice individualized attention. “The garden club members simultaneously gain real experience that impacts their immediate community, and [this] also allows them an outlet to share their personal passions with the kids,” he said. “Through this symbiotic relationship, the greater sense of community here in Oxford is strengthened.” Kendall McDonald, a UM sustainability fellow, said the club’s biggest problems have been raising awareness and getting more volunteers to partici-

SEE GARDENPAGE3

PHOTO BY: ARIEL COBBERT

The UM Garden Club is located behind the RC South. Students grow produce for the UM Food Bank. Their workdays are biweekly Wednesdays from 5-6 p.m.


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