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Friday, January 24, 2020
Volume 108, No. 45
ASB to repair blue lights MADDY QUON
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Today, Eli Manning will announce that he will retire from the NFL. Manning played for Ole Miss from 2000 to 2003.
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n illustrious football career spanning JOSHUA CLAYTON but immediately forced his way to the Giants, where four award-winning collegiate seasons he eventually became the undisputed leader of one thedmsports@gmail.com and 16 years in the NFL has officially of the most storied franchises in professional sports come to an end. with two Super Bowl MVP awards to show. Ole Miss and New York Giants legend Eli Manning will Manning burst onto the scene in Oxford in 2001 with announce his retirement from football on Friday, according 2,948 passing yards to go with 31 touchdowns and only 9 to ESPN. interceptions, earning a Conerly Trophy Award and a nod on The 39-year-old quarterback was selected with the first the Davey O’Brien Award finalist list. overall pick by the San Diego Chargers in the 2004 NFL Draft,
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How to meet the chancellor next week HADLEY HITSON
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The Lyceum will open next week for the university community to meet and speak with senior university leadership for the first “Open Doors” event. All senior leaders, including Chancellor Glenn Boyce, Provost Noel Wilkin and Athletics Director Keith Carter are committed to attending the first Open Doors event and hearing from students, according to Assistant Vice Chancellor for Diversity Shawnboda Mead. This comes after a semester of controversy
over the selection of the chancellor and demands for more transparency in his role. “We hope this is the start of a new tradition for the UM Community that provides an opportunity to develop genuine connections among students and senior leadership,” Mead said. “Given the casual nature of the event, we believe Open Doors is an excellent opportunity for students to not only learn about the various roles of senior leadership but also start meaningful conversations that will hopefully continue beyond the event.”
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The Lyceum will invite students to meet prominent school faculty, SEE OPEN DOORS PAGE 8 including chancellor Glenn Boyce.
Some of the blue light phones, which can be used to report emergencies on campus, have been out for years. After working for a solution since her sophomore year without much progress, Associated Student Body Vice President Charlotte Shackelford is expected to finally see them fixed with the help of Chancellor Glenn Boyce. Shackelford ran on the promise of repairing the blue lights last spring, and now she and Boyce are working together to fulfill it by the end of the semester. Just after being announced as the new chancellor, Boyce said that he wanted to put students at the center of important conversations at the university. Since then, he has been meeting with campus constituents, mostly privately. The emergency blue lights are part of a system from Code Blue, the leading manufacturer for emergency phones, according to Code Blue’s chief design officer David Fleming. The lights were initially created after the University of Illinois at Chicago put out an all-call to inventors to create something to keep students safe on campus as a result of the Clery Act being signed in 1990 after 19-yearold Jeanne Clery was sexually assaulted and murdered at Lehigh University. Shackelford said that she has been trying to fix the lights since her sophomore year, her first year in the ASB Senate. She worked with the University Police Department and those in charge of the LiveSafe app but was told that it was not feasible, she said. “I worked with previous administrators that basically just slammed the door my face and said, ‘No,’” Shackelford said. “Boyce was the first person to give me a yes.” Shackelford said that Boyce
SEE BLUE LIGHTS PAGE 8
TYREE VS. EDWARDS: A SCORER’S PARADISE
ON CAMPUS BAR COMING THIS SEMESTER
Saturday’s matchup between Ole Miss and the Georgia will feature two teams looking for a turnaround after a slow start in the SEC, but most notably it will showcase two of the most prolific scorers in the conference.
You can buy a beer in VaughtHemingway, and now you can have a beer after class. The Inn at Ole Miss is getting a bar.
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