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Volume 108, No. 10

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Board approves lynching memorial

Dorm mischief floods Deaton

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A mob hanged Harris Tunstal behind the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1885. Will McGregory was shot on the courthouse lawn in 1890. William Chandler was hanged from a telegraph pole in 1895.

The three African American men were among seven local lynching victims who may soon be memorialized on the courthouse lawn.

The Lafayette County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 on Monday to approve language for a marker that would be placed on county land in the center of the Square. If accepted by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, it will be unveiled on Nov. 17.

The marker would be located near the monument honoring Confederate soldiers, which was erected in 1907 by the United Confederate Veterans.

Lydia Koltai, a member of the Steering Committee for Lynching Memorialization in Lafayette County, a community organization, said memorialization markers are important because they help the community see parts of its history that sometimes go unnoticed.

“Oxford has been really good at telling one story about itself for a long time now, and we’re coming into a time of, I think, telling the more full story of our history,” Koltai said. “And I think that’s important for the community to see as a way to move forward and heal from things that haven’t ever been dealt with.”

Last year, a marker was erected on the corner of North Lamar Boulevard and Molly Barr Road in memory of Elwood Higginbotham, Oxford’s last known lynching victim.

Both markers were funded by the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing legal defense to individuals on death row since

Students living in Deaton Hall were forced out of their dorm rooms early Sunday morning because of heavy flooding caused by a stray lacrosse ball toss.

What started as typical dorm shenanigans quickly escalated as a group of students tossing a lacrosse ball in the hallway clipped a sprinkler head on the fourth floor, causing it to burst open and spray water across the hall.

The student who threw the ball said that as soon as it hit the ceiling, four tiles immediately started leaking and water poured onto the floor and down the stairs.

On estimate, a single sprinkler emits 8-24 gallons of water per minute according to the People’s Burn Foundation, a nonprofit educating students on fire safety.

Oxford Fire Department Deputy Chief Adam Patton said the fire department had the situation under control within an hour, and once his officers had assisted University Facility Management with shutting off the water, they left the scene.

According to residents, the flooding started around 12:30 a.m. and was accompanied by a fire alarm. The water flowing from the sprinkler quickly spread across Deaton Hall, soaking rooms, rugs and drywall, as well as students’ personal property.

“It went off at 12:30 (a.m.), and then we had to all evacuate, you know, people were in boxers and stuff across the street,” Deaton Hall resident Jared Grover said. “They told us we couldn’t get in originally that night, so then we waited around for two hours.”

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Top: Will West celebrates the announcement that he is in the runoff election for Mr. Ole Miss.

West received 19.8% of the vote. Bottom: Stefano Subauste celebrates the announcement that he is in the runoff election for Mr. Ole Miss. Subauste received 17.9% of the vote.

1994. EJI regularly donates lynching memorials in partnership with community members in areas all over the South.

According to the EJI website, EJI has documented 4084 racial terror lynchings in 12 southern states from 1877 to 1950.

April Grayson, director of community building at the William Winter Institute and Steering Committee member, said the committee chose the courthouse lawn as the site for its next marker because of the history of the location.

“The courthouse lawn specifically in Lafayette County is significant because one of the seven lynchings actually took place on the courthouse lawn, and at least one

I think that’s important for the community to see as a way to move forward and heal from things that haven’t ever been dealt with.” - Lydia Koltai Steering Committee member

more was in sight of that space, but historically many lynchings took place on courthouse lawns across the South and other parts of the country,” Grayson said.

Lawson Patton was shot and hanged on the grounds of the

Lafayette County Courthouse in 1908 after being accused of the murder of a white woman.

Grayson also said that the Steering Committee is hoping to install markers for every known lynching victim in Oxford, but they’re still going to do as much research as they can into each victim and trying to find possible descendents in the area.

Darren Grem, associate professor of history and Southern studies and former member of the Steering Committee, said the Higginbotham marker did more for the community than memorialization.

It provided Higginbotham’s family with answers.

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“I love it when I find somebody amazing that nobody’s heard of, and you can kind of bring them back to life and share their story,” artist Lee Harper said.

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‘Crossing Borders’ Sarahfest showcases cultural diversity and unknown histories NIGEL DENT

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For 14 years, Lee Harper has created skeleton dioramas celebrating the fascinating and untold stories of people lost in history.

Starting as a fun art project for Halloween with a “macabre version of Elf on the Shelf,” Harper was shocked to learn that her husband, Andy, had been sharing her work on social media without her knowledge. She garnered a significant fan base.

The projects became more intricate over the years, and after the push from a friend, Harper finally decided to start sharing her work on Instagram. She was hesitant, but she finally held a launch party for the Instagram page and website of History Bones in 2017.

Megan Wolfe, a photographer from Holly Springs, and Harper are showcasing their art at Sarahfest, a celebration of art, music and writing that showcases female and queer creators. This year’s theme is “Crossing Borders.”

Harper said she loves the theme because many of her pieces reflect individuals who were the first to do something.

“I love it when I find somebody amazing that nobody’s heard of, and you can kind of bring them back to life and share their story,” Harper said.

Harper doesn’t purposefully

seek out stories about certain races or genders. She looks for the most captivating stories, but “most of the forgotten history is about women and minorities,” she said.

Harper was never interested in history in school but discovered that she was a self-proclaimed “history nerd” years later. She said that digging into the past often uncovers some inspiring, and even terrifying, stories.

One of her favorite pieces, Frances Glessner Lee, is also one of her greatest inspirations. Lee revolutionized forensic science with her Nutshell Studies, a series of miniature crime scene replicas.

Harper was enamored by the fact that Lee’s parents never allowed her to pursue her interest in forensics and that she had to wait until they died to follow through with her dreams. Lee used her skills from sewing clothes and building dollhouses to create the crime scene dioramas, which are still used to train detectives today.

Harper recreates history using skeletons because it prevents people from presuming anything about the person, forcing them to read the story behind it. There is a storycard beside every diorama.

“There’s something beautiful about bones being the great equalizer,” Harper said on her website.

“They represent all of us, no matter the gender, race or nationality.”

Theresa Starkey, an instruc-

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Lee Harper adjusts one of her pieces displayed for 2019 Sarahfest. tional associate professor of gender studies and associate director of the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies, which organizes Sarahfest along with the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council, said that showcasing the work of artists who have been marginalized increases understanding.

“The world becomes more diverse,” Starkey said. “We can cross borders and imagine new realities and worlds that are more equitable, fair and just for all.”

Starkey also thinks Harper and Wolfe’s art was perfect for this year’s Sarahfest.

“It inspires us to think about space and gender in unexpected ways,” Starkey said. “(Harper’s) dioramas are a form of storytelling that is funny, smart and macabre.”

Megan Wolfe fell in love with photography as a freelancer and has been doing it professionally for 10 years.

Wolfe thinks that after years of photographing products and events, she is close to ending her career in commercial photography in favor of doing more personal work.

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and speaking about their work,” c o Wolfe said.

Wolfe spoke about the impact of increased awareness of femalef artists. Sometimes, little girls area surprised by her, and they approachw her to hold her camera or take aS picture, she said.

“So, to kind of put that in theM mind of a kid that, ‘Hey, if youd want to, you could do this,’” Wolfea said, “to me, that’s something that’si very unique. And that really kind ofs s motivates me a little bit.”

“There’s something Price Walden is a musiciant beautiful about bones from Booneville. The senior wasp r being the great equalizer. approached by Starkey to perform in Sarahfest in 2017, and he did so They represent all of us, in collaboration with the Livingo no matter the gender, race Music Resource, a musical perfor-h mance group at Ole Miss. or nationality.”

“What’s fun about Sarahfest isc - Lee Harper that you can bring in all these differ-b Artist ent departments and people to tryh to bring something new and fresh tor s be greeted by an instillation of the campus,” Walden said. furniture wrapped with Wolfe’s Influenced by women compos-w photography. A couch is draped ers and church music, Walden with the image of a drag queen has played piano for 18 years wearing studded black bodysuit. and started writing music in high To the right is a chair covered in school. fabric with another photo of the Identifying as a queer Christian, same drag queen. On the wall above a lot of Walden’s work grapples hangs an enlarged photograph of with the “gap between the beauty of another queen playing the guitar. the hymns (he) grew up loving and Gold streamers and smaller photo- the homophobia” he experienced. graphs hang on either side of the Thinking about the theme, image.

Walden said it is important to think Drag is a good example of beyond the binaries that society ‘Crossing Borders,’ Wolfe said, upholds. He also appreciates the because it challenges other people’s sense of community that surrounds comfort. She wanted to use her Sarahfest. installation by wrapping images of “I think it’s really important these queens around pillows and to find these people whose voices blankets as a way to make people were shut out of the conversation comfortable with them. and bring them to the forefront,” During her time in San Fran- Walden said. cisco, Wolfe was one of a handful The Sarahfest Art Show started of active female artists on the scene on Sept. 4 and will continue until for several years.

Sept. 27 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at “It’s so important to have qual- the Powerhouse Community Arts ity female artists actually out there Center.

“Anything to do with the queer community, local community, like, that stuff is more personal for me,” Wolfe said. “I enjoy that on a different scale.”

Seeing how dimensional Harper’s work is, Wolfe wanted to add some dimension to hers, pondering how she could bring her photos to life.

Anyone walking into the Powerhouse Community Arts Center will

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Voter turnout hits record high MADDY QUON CAT ROMAINE ELEANOR HOOVER

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Elections for homecoming king and Mr. and Miss Ole Miss are heading to a Thursday runoff.

Before announcing the winners, Associated Student Body Attorney General Austin Fiala announced that 6,443 students voted in the 2019 Homecoming Elections, marking the largest voter turnout in Ole Miss campus election history. Students cast over 1,300 more votes than last fall’s personality elections.

Will West and Stefano Subauste will face off in a runoff election for Mr. Ole Miss. This race was the most contested of this year’s election, with six candidates running for the position. West, a senior public policy leadership major, and Subauste, a senior mathematics major, received 19.1% and 17.9%, respectively.

“We’re so excited for the next two days,” West said. “Our campaign strategy has really been to change the idea of what Mr. Ole Miss has become lately.

We’re trying to bring it back to a service-oriented campaign.”

Subauste also touted his campaign platform, focusing on inclusion on campus.

“The platform (I ran) on is for the inclusion of all students, and making the campus welcoming for all students,” Subauste said.

The election for Miss Ole Miss featured three candidates, with Cecilia Trotter and Taran Carrasco advancing to the runoff. Trotter, a senior public policy leadership major received 43.2% of the vote, while Carrasco, also a public policy leadership major, received 28.2%.

Trotter’s campaign focuses on raising awareness for mental health on campus.

“If elected, I hope to continue to empower students by raising awareness for mental health, but ultimately collaborate with our Mr. Ole Miss to seek all opportunities that will continue to empower our

students to reach their full potential,” Trotter said.

If elected, Carrasco plans to partner with Student Disability Services on campus.

“Miss Ole Miss is supposed to be all about the students and giving back and serving this community,” Carrasco said, “so by working with our student disabilities services we can improve the lives and the education of students here on our campus.”

BILLY SCHUERMAN / THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN In the moments before Fiala announced the results of the Cecilia Trotter celebrates after it is announced that she is in the runoff election for Miss Ole Miss. Trotter university’s first ever election received 43.23% of the vote. for homecoming king, he notified the crowd of roughly 250 people gathering outside the Lyceum that there would be a runoff. The race’s two candidates, Park Shull and Carl Tart, garnered 49.2% and 48.4% respectively, with neither candidate reaching the 50% threshold necessary to win.

Fiala acknowledged this was a unique outcome, but noted that because voters have the option to write-in a candidate’s name, the threshold for victory wasn’t reached.

“The reason this could’ve happened is simply through the fact that a primary election on campus is allowed to have a write-in candidate,” Fiala said.

There were 134 write-in votes cast in the election for EMMA ROSE DAVIS / THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN homecoming king.

Taran Carrasco (center) is named in the runoff for Miss Ole Miss. Carrasco received 28.17% of the vote.

Ciara Knapp, a senior biology major, was crowned as homecoming queen, winning 52.1% of the vote.

In addition to personality elections, voters had the opportunity to vote in an ASB referendum that asked students whether or not they supported raising the student activities fee from $5 annually to $10.

After unanimously passing through the ASB Senate last week, the referendum was met with a resounding ‘no’ from students, as nearly 64% of respondents voted to decline the proposed increase.

Filling out the remainder of the homecoming court, Elizabeth Turner was elected as freshman maid, Scout Hodges was elected as sophomore maid, Chessie Kay was elected as KATHERINE BUTLER / THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN junior maid and Sally Boswell was elected as senior maid.

Sally Boswell celebrates after she was announced as senior homecoming maid.

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Rebel Rewards’ new look

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Ole Miss athletics has partnered with Coca-Cola this year to bring a new look to their Rebel Rewards app.

“We’re doing a couple of different things with the app, but for the most part there’s going to be more content in the app that fans can use to direct them to more Ole Miss sports, news, dates, pictures, and there’s more of a fan-friendly user interface to the app,” Associate Director for Marketing and Fan Experience Paris Buchanan said.

Rebel Rewards is an app that fans can use at Ole Miss sporting events to gather rewards points throughout the year that go toward different prize levels. The app is enabled by Bluetooth, so when FILE PHOTO: REED JONES / THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN fans are at events, they can turn on Bluetooth and receive different Jerrion Ealy (9) stands ready before a kick return. Ealy passed Dexter McCluster for all-purpose yards in a single game for freshman. prizes.

“It’s free, and it encourages fans to come to home events, use the app and get rewarded for it,” Buchanan said.

The app can be used at all Ole Miss ticketed sporting events.

Each event is given a point value that attendants can earn, such as Saturday’s football game, which is worth 10 points.

Jason List, associate athletic director for marketing and fan experience, said every year the prizes offered are updated while JOSHUA CLAYTON also keeping fan favorites, but this thedmsports@gmail.com year, they are adding bonus prize The Ealy Show was in opportunities. Prizes include items like concession coupons, mono- full effect on Saturday with the running back showing grammed wallets and purses.

“With the bonus prize oppor- his five-star potential in a tunity, it makes every game fans record-breaking performance attend a potential they could win against SELA on the ground, something,” List said. “Anytime in the air and on special teams you add a partner like Coca-Cola, with 94 yard kickoff return it’s fantastic. We have been work- touchdown for his opening act.

The true freshman finished ing closely with them to add to the program, and I think fans will like the game with 273 all-purpose yards, breaking the record for some of the stuff planned.”

The app has close to 20,000 total yards from a freshman in downloads, but the goal is to get a single game previously set by those people to use the app when Dexter McCluster in 2006. The performance begs the question they are at events.

“People know about it to an of Ealy’s potential in his next extent, but they are still not really few years in Oxford and if he sure what it is,” Buchanan said. can reach or even surpass the “We’re still kind of developing a level of the Rebel legend.

To compare these two playcouple of different strategies that will go out explaining how to use it makers, we can start with the measurables. Both Ealy and and what it is.”

Junior exercise science major McCluster stand at 5-foot-9.

Maggie Jones said she found out Although Ealy has about 20 about the app during her fresh- pounds on college freshman FILE PHOTO: BILLY SCHUERMAN / THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN man year in her EDHE class and McCluster, the two have a similar build and similar game. has used it at football games.

Jerrion Ealy escapes an Arkansas defender. Ealy returned a kick for 94 yards against South east Louisiana.

The two, however, had “I think it’s a great idea because it’s a really easy idea to get fans totally different paths to Ole involved to win prizes for going to Miss. While Ealy came in to McCluster’s breakout game to burst onto the scene. The production in his rookie season events,” Jones said. “A lot of people Oxford as the third-ranked came immediately against utility back out of Jackson in order to reach six wins in are all about football, so this app is running back in the country Memphis in the 2006 season Prep posted only nine total 2019. To do that he’ll need a good way to get people to go to with offers from college foot- opener. He put up 268 yards in rushing yards in the first two more explosive performances ball behemoths Alabama and his debut using 60 yards rush- games against Memphis and against much better teams. other sports, also.”

List said a lot of people have Clemson, McCluster didn’t ing, 86 yards receiving and 122 Arkansas. Ealy added to his 172 His first real test comes this started going to other sports they have the same suitors. yards returning kickoffs. His return yards with 95 rushing week against the California The Largo, Florida, native’s single touchdown came from yards and a touchdown as well Golden Bears, who boast one of never attended prior to downloading Rebel Rewards in order to get top offers outside of Ole Miss the famed “McCluster Flus- as one catch for six yards. the most dynamic defenses in included West Virginia, Akron ter,” an old fumblerooski trick more points.

McCluster finished his the nation. Offensive coordina“Once they are at those sports, and Idaho according to Rivals. play that allowed McCluster freshman year with only 574 tor Rich Rodriguez is charged we hope they enjoy themselves and com, with serious interest only to scoot 32 yards unseen and all-purpose yards after battling with finding creative ways to come back,” List said. “If Rebel coming from the Rebels. He untouched by the Tigers at the injury halfway through the get Ealy the ball in space this Rewards is the platform that gets only achieved three-star status start of the second half. season. The Rebels will need week. them through the door the first before signing with Ed Orgeron Ealy took a few extra weeks Ealy to have much more time, then that is a big success for and Ole Miss. us.”

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MEN’S GOLF

Ole Miss places second in Illinois MADELINE CLICK

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The Ole Miss men’s golf team is off to a hot start with a third place finish at the Badger Invitational last week and a second place finish in the Windon Memorial Classic on Monday and Tuesday.

The Rebel team at Conway Farms Golf Club in Lake Forest, Illinois, was made of up Jackson Suber, Sarut Vongchaisit, Veeti Mahonen, Jack Gnam and Chip Getz.

Suber was in the top position this week after finishing in the top four in the Badger Invitational, shooting a career low 7-under par.

Ole Miss was going strong heading into the final round on Tuesday. The Rebels were in second place overall — four strokes behind Notre Dame and two strokes ahead of South Florida in third.

Vongchaisit and Suber were both in the top ten individually. Vongchaisit was tied for second individually after two rounds, going 5-under par with 11 birdies, including four of the last five holes in round one.

Suber also had 11 birdies after two rounds shooting 1-under par, tied for seventh place. The Rebels led the field in birdies with 41 going into Tuesday.

To start Tuesday, Gnam birdied on the third hole to bring Ole Miss within three strokes of the lead, but the Rebels could not close the gap any more. Ole Miss finished second in the tournament with a team score of 5-under par, five strokes behind the winner,

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Suber shot a 2-under in the final round, finishing the tournament at 3-under par in the final round and tied for fifth individually, the highest Rebel ranked. He logged only one bogey in his final 18 holes. He also ended tied for first in birdies throughout the tournament with 14.

Vongchaisit had a tough go on Tuesday, shooting 4-over for the day, but he still finished in the top 10 individually with a score of 1-under par. He ended the final round on a positive note with a birdie, giving him 13 in the tournament.

Mahonen shot an even score for the tournament, ending the competition tied for 24th in the freshman’s first appearance in the starting five.

Gnam earned his highest ranking yet with his first top-10 individual finish as a Rebel, ending tied for 9th and finishing just one stroke shy of his career best 54-hole total, with 212 this week.

Getz rounded out the team with a score of 7-over par, finishing 42nd individually.

Collectively, Ole Miss concluded with three players in the top 10, the most of any school. The team notched the highest number of birdies on the course with 55. The Rebels also scored the best of any team on par-5 holes, averaging 4.67 strokes with a total score of 15-under on the par-5 holes.

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TENNIS

Ole Miss climbs up preseason ITA rankings JOSHUA CLAYTON

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Rebel tennis is primed for another impressive fall as both the men’s and women’s teams return impact players and welcome new faces looking to take the competition to a new level.

The new Intercollegiate Tennis Association Preseason Rankings released this week came out in favor of a few Rebels preparing for the upcoming slate of tournaments and invitationals. Senior Tim Sandkaulen was slotted as the No. 25 singles player in the nation, one of seven SEC players in the top25, just under No. 24 Giovanni Oradini of Mississippi State.

Sandkaulen finished the 2019 spring season at No. 48 after falling as the lone Ole

Miss representative in the NCAA Individual Championships. He boasts back-to-back All-SEC honors in the past two seasons.

He and his doubles partner, fellow German Lukas Engelhardt, were tabbed the No. 52 ranked duo in the nation. Sandkaulen and the freshman out of Augsburg, Germany, showed some gusto in the Four-in-theFall tournament last weekend.

Senior Alexa Bortles and junior Sabina Machalova found their names on the women’s rankings as well, coming in as the No. 17 doubles pair in the nation. Bortles, a 2018 doubles All-American, and Machalova, ITA’s 2019 South Regional Player to Watch, teamed up halfway through conference play and found chemistry.

Machalova was also slotted as the No. 58 singles player in the nation.

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Sandkaulen is ranked No. 25 on the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Top 125 players.

The men launched their fall campaign last weekend at the Four-In-The-Fall tournament when the team split between Nashville and Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Sandkaulen, Engelhardt and sophomores Simon Junk and Jan Soren Hain represented the Rebels in Tuscaloosa, while Cotter Wilson, Sebastian Rios and freshman Nikola Slavic played in Nashville.

Sandkaulen fell to Alabama’s Riccardo Roberto in the singles Crimson Draw Championship in a close matchup. Englehardt fell to Roberto in the semifinal.

Rios grabbed two victories in Nashville with a win in singles and doubles, teaming up with Grant Kelly out of Belmont to beat a Vanderbilt duo.

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When the university is silent, we should listen

GARRETT FELBER

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It was the first day of the semester, and The Daily Mississippian’s headline simply read: 173 Days. That same day, a cardboard sign appeared at the base of the Confederate statue: 172 Days.

It was a moment of surprising coincidence yet unexplained dissonance, like two grandfather clocks programmed to chime at midnight a time zone apart.

But these clocks were charting two different silences. The first, the days since the university learned that three students had posted a photo of themselves armed with assault rifles in front of a bullet-ridden memorial to Emmett Till, a lynching victim who was 14 years old at the time. The second, the days following the unanimous Associated Student Body vote to remove the Confederate statue.

This disjointed countdown revealed a coincidence many had not connected. Purely by chance, and ironically, it was only when emphasizing the

university’s inhibition that these echoes could finally be heard. What other patterns of silence exist on our campus?

One is Vardaman Hall.

Named after the Mississippi governor who campaigned under the banner: “A Vote for Vardaman is a Vote for White Supremacy,” the building was recommended for renaming by the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on June 16, 2017.

The so-called “white chief” once told a crowd that if “it is necessary every Negro in the state will be lynched; it will be done to maintain white supremacy.” 824 days after the recommendation, Vardaman Hall remains.

The other is the School of Journalism and New Media, whose building features a conspicuous indentation after donor Ed Meek’s name was removed last fall. Following his racist and sexist rant accompanied by photographs of black women students, I joined over 100 signatories in calling for Meek’s name to be replaced with the trailblazing journalist, feminist and anti-lynching crusader from

Holly Springsi: Ida B. Wells.

The #UpWithIda Twitter campaign also generated support from The New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones and Wells’ great-granddaughter, Michelle Duster. Then-Chancellor Vitter and the administration responded with silence.

344 days of it.

What does it mean that the university was silent when asked to honor the country’s most famous anti-lynching campaigner in the same year that it was reluctant to hold students accountable for glorifying the country’s most notorious lynching? How might a campus with a building named for Ida B. Wells (or without one named for James Vardaman) respond differently to a photo of armed white men in front of a lynching memorial?

As the clocks tick by their various days – 196, 344, 824 - let us listen when and where the university is silent.

Garrett Felber is an assistant professor of history at the University of Mississippi.

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Lafeyette County has seven lynchings in its history. The Lafayette County Board of Supervisors voted to approve a marker memorializing their lives.

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continued from page 1 “They had heard stories about Elwood Higginbotham (and) why the lynching occurred,” Grem said. “Some of them were true, some of them were half-truths, but the research that we were able to provide more context for them and a certain amount of coming to terms with that lynching or even a semblance of closure about it if closure is even possible.”

Board of Supervisors Vice President Chad McLarty was the only dissenting vote of the morning. McClarty took issue with the description of the lynching of Will Steen who was killed in 1893 after an alleged affair with a white

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woman. McLarty thought the description was “too vague.”

“I told them that if they could tweak it or change the language, then I would support the memorial marker, and they just didn’t want to change it,” McLarty said.

Grayson said that the Steering Committee’s work on memorialization could sometimes cause anxieties in the community, but it’s meant to be a way to bring people together.

“Memorialization work is a really important stepping stone in a process of healing and racial reconciliation … it’s not about reopening old wounds, but it’s really about helping a community acknowledge a more complete story, and therefore actually grow in wholeness as a community,” Grayson said.

Deaton Hall, which has approximately 50 rooms, was fully evacuated following the burst.

“A bunch of people were being idiots upstairs,” said Grover. “My library books were screwed up.” He said he is hoping the library will waive any fines under the circumstances.

Grover added that many of the students who were displaced went to stay in Stewart Hall, which had vacant rooms.

As late as Tuesday morning, the hum of drying fans and dehumidifiers filled the hallways, the elevators were not operating, portions of the ceiling were crumbled — complete with exposed pipes and wires — and a stench of mildew filled the air.

One student on the fourth floor was seen lying in bed Tuesday morning as a maintenance worker fixed his air conditioning.

Deaton Hall resident Jonathan Briggs said many of the rooms on various floors were affected as a result of the burst, and he and his roommate lost multiple rugs as well as a few pairs of shoes.

“I’m on the second floor, and we had, like, a centimeter of water in our room,” Briggs said.

Briggs and Grover were not the only students affected by the flooding.

One student said that when

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Rugs laid out to dry after the lacrosse ball hit the sprinkler, water poured into the hallway, flooding Deaton Hall. he returned home at 9 a.m.

Sunday morning, he still had water on his floor, and he and his roommate had to grab towels and mop it up.

Both Briggs and Grover mentioned that they knew a student who lost an Xbox, as well as another student who lost an entire gaming computer setup.

Many students had to move their rugs to the balconies on each floor, as well as other soaked clothes, shoes and couch cushions.

Deaton Hall resident Cole Bullock, an Ole Miss cross-country athlete, said he had a recruit in his room during the incident.

“The fire alarm went off.

We thought it was our alarm clocks at first, but it was pretty obvious after a second,” Bullock said. “We walked out of the

door. We didn’t know what was going on, and it sounded like a waterfall upstairs.”

The two left the dorm and waited on the sidewalk with the rest of the displaced students.

UM spokesman Rod Guajardo said that by Monday afternoon, the students who relocated to vacant dorm rooms had moved back into their rooms in Deaton.

The University Communications Department did not respond to requests for comment about the cost of the damages.

When asked what kind of advice he would give to students who might think throwing a lacrosse ball in the hallway is a good idea, Bullock said, “Definitely go outside.

Be smart. Go to bed. Wake up.

That’s about it.”

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