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COURTESY NICK CHAMBERLAIN

JACKSONIAN NICK CHAMBERLAIN

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ackson resident Nick Chamberlain began to see the potential that education and hard work could provide as a battalion commander of the Jackson Public Schools Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps and a member of the trans-disciplinary International Baccalaureate Program while he attended Jim Hill High School. Chamberlain, 27, is originally from Columbus, Miss., and moved to Jackson in August 1999.

When Chamberlain was assigned to a JROTC course as a freshman at Jim Hill, he saw it as a sign that the school faculty felt he could make something of himself through the program. Ultimately, he made good on that assessment. “JROTC does a great job of motivating students and providing a level of structure that is very beneficial to their education,” Chamberlain says. “It helped to break me out of my shell. It got me to do things like public speaking and after-school events and was great for my growth and development.”

Chamberlain and his fellow JROTC members did things such as serve as emcee for a military ball and participate in community service efforts, including building homes with Habitat for Humanity. He stayed involved with the program following his undergraduate studies, acting as a tutor for the Jim Hill academic-bowl team and helping students with ACT preparation.

He graduated from Jim Hill in 2006 and enrolled at Brown University in Providence,

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R.I., where he received his bachelor’s degree in human biology in 2010.

He then went to medical school at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson in August 2012, where he is specializing in internal medicine. Chamberlain will graduate from UMMC in May 2016, after which he will apply for a residency position.

His grandmother, Mattie Burks Kelly, kick-started his interest in medicine when he was 3 years old.

“Grandma was always saying, ‘He’s gonna be a doctor one day,’ and it didn’t really make sense to me at the time because there aren’t any doctors in our family,” Chamberlain says. “As time went on, though, my mother, (Jean Chamberlain), came to agree with her and also encouraged me to pursue medicine.

It also helped that, all my life, I saw a lot of members of my family come down with really serious illnesses. It spurred me on in studying the subject.”

Chamberlain’s future plans include studying infectious diseases after he completes his residency. He is also part of a new panel at UMMC that brainstorms ways to recruit young, black males into medical school.

“I want to inspire young people to pursue careers in medicine or to think outside the box,” Chamberlain says. “I want them to know that they don’t have to be afraid to shoot for the moon and be an overachiever.”

—Dustin Cardon

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by Nathan Latil/Ole Miss communications

9 Reading Rainbow

Instead of waiting on the State of Mississippi to do it, several organizations are working together to improve childhood literacy.

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“Since the members of psychedelic-indie-rock quartet Fides first met as students at Clinton High School, they have made it their mission to create music that is serious and thoughtful while maintaining a not-so-serious attitude about life.”

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EDITOR’S note

by Donna Ladd, Editor-in-Chief

Donald Trump’s Most Vicious Lie, Yet?

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t’s a tough contest, but Donald Trump just spread his most poisonous lie yet in his race to become the führer of the 21st century. It’s a deep-held myth that festers right at the root of America’s most insidious, divisive challenge: the fear of black crime.

On Nov. 22, Trump tweeted a graphic claiming to break down murders by who committed them: black, white, police. One number stuck out in the graphic listing its “source” as “Crime Statistics Bureau: San Francisco”: “Whites Killed By Blacks: 81%.”

The graphic also shows a masked muscular young, black man pointing a gun.

Trump wants his angry, scared followers to believe that black people are hunting down and killing white people in droves. Of course, the graphic is no more accurate than a Klan flyer: FBI data show that, in 2014, white people committed 82 percent of white homicides, consistent with recent decades.

Trump’s tweet, still in his timeline with no correction, is a sick scam. The graphic was first tweeted by an account using a neo-Nazi symbol; the Crime Statistics Bureau doesn’t exist. The vast majority of people are killed by someone of their own ethnicity. America has a crime problem, period. It always has.

This is an old trick, but not usually played as blatantly. The Republican Party has two-stepped with fear-of-black-crime rhetoric for white votes since President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act, and the GOP’s new southern strategy of playing to white bigotry became a thing. Remember George Bush I’s “Willie Horton” ad that scared white voters into thinking that Democrat Michael Dukakis wanted to free black men who were repeatedly raping white women?

Bush’s campaign manager was the nowdeceased Lee Atwater, who honed the strategy of scaring up the bigot votes with fearful rhetoric. He explained in a 1981 interview how racist campaigning had to be more subtle by then. “You start out in 1954 by saying,

‘N*gger, n*gger, n*gger.’ By 1968 you can’t say “n*gger”—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states’ rights and all that stuff. You’re getting so abstract now (that) you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is (that) blacks get hurt worse than whites,” Atwater said on tape.

Atwater’s deputy was a young Haley Barbour, who rode the strategy to the top

Black-crime rhetoric is as low as those guys can pander. of the Republican National Committee and, later, used a wink-wink quip comparing Head Start with whorehouses to become governor of Mississippi. A later RNC chairman, Ken Mehlman, publicly apologized in 2005 for the GOP’s strategic use of racial polarization, but Barbour never has.

Meantime, the continual barrage of race-coded messages—see the anti-Initiative 42 TV ad about that scary Jackson judge, which one GOP candidate slipped and admitted was “black”—has desensitized many Americans to the strategy. So we graduate down to Trump, who says Mexican immigrants are rapists and criminals, tweets lies about black-on-white crime, and wants to register all Muslims in America, á la Hitler.

Beyond a troll for racist votes, this hideous ploy is designed to get white folks to keep doing what many already do: Live and school kids separately; support drug-war pol-

icies that fill prisons disproportionately with people of color; accept massive arrests for minor crimes in certain neighborhoods; blame unarmed black victims for harsher policing; fight to keep tax dollars from helping end poverty that segregation created; and reject any effort at ensuring that majority-black schools have adequate funding because those people should figure it out their own damn selves. Root causes don’t matter, we’re told.

Black-crime rhetoric is as low as those guys can pander, with our history of white supremacy and the violence it takes to sustain it, from slave torture and rape, to public lynchings, to support of KKK efforts to terrorize black people trying to claim rights.

Blaming the people most victimized by historic crime is yet another way to dehumanize: They’re (supposedly) the most criminal now so they deserve the blame. Really?

America’s long, often-legal reign of terror has certainly had residual effects of creating conditions, especially poverty, proven to breed more crime. It’s remarkable that more Americans don’t want to yank out the poisonous roots of today’s crime, if for no other reason than to make all of us safer. Sadly, it seems more important to continue the sickness that caused it in the first place.

Racism in America has always relied on white people being afraid that black people are going to hurt us. We’re taught that it’s not because of what whites have done to them, or still do—see videos of LaQuon McDonald’s murder in Chicago, Walter Scott in South Carolina or the black kids at the Texas pool—it’s because they’re the violent ones.

The proof is on The Donald’s Twitter feed.

Or, read a book. Over the last century, one after another pseudo-intellectual academic has been rewarded handsomely for trotting out “science” that “proves” people of color are intellectually inferior—or even more “mesomorphic”—thus born to be criminals. Much of the pablum appeared in

smart-sounding books the Citizens Council distributed in our state to justify segregation.

It didn’t stop there. Two Harvard professors supported by conservative think tanks, Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein, wrote a best-selling 1994 book, “The Bell Curve,” arguing that many black people are so “cognitively challenged” that investing in crime prevention, public education and poverty reduction wouldn’t do any good; the answer is locking away stupid, violent people—often people of color with low IQs. Their premise, developed with a cadre of other respected scientific racists, was roundly debunked because they ignored evidence of any conclusion other than mass incarceration and defunding social services.

Still, their beliefs led to a stunning amount of criminal policy in recent decades, not to mention Trump’s style of racist rhetoric.

The first Bush administration, for instance, appointed drug czar William Bennett, who was cozy with pseudo-academics predicting a multiplying wave of unstoppable young, black “super-predators” terrorizing the nation by 2000. They were flat wrong: Crime has steadily dropped since the 1990s, including among young black men, even as these ideas fueled harsher juvenile-justice policies that actually increase recidivism.

They also pushed blaming “the black family.” I like to ask: “So why do you believe the black family doesn’t do enough?” Silence is the answer because “well, they’re black” isn’t something many whites, at least pre-Führer Trump, are still willing to say publicly.

Repeating the lie that “the black family” is accepting of crime, of course, is as racist as saying that black people are more criminal by nature, or that white supremacy has nothing to with today’s crime.

Our job is to challenge these cycles of nonsense; none of us win if we’re stuck in them. Except, maybe, a hateful, dishonest reality-show star named Donald Trump.

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News Reporter Arielle Dreher is working on finding some new hobbies and adopting an otter from the Jackson Zoo. Email her story ideas at arielle@jackson freepress.com. She interviewed former University of Mississippi chancellor Dan Jones.

News Editor R.L. Nave is a native Missourian who roots for St. Louis (and the Mizzou Tigers)— and for Jackson. Send him news tips at rlnave@jackson freepress.com or call him at 601362-6121 ext. 12. He wrote about city revenue challenges.

Assistant Editor Amber Helsel enjoys music, art, food and food-related art. She hopes to soon be able to add to her tattoo collection (she currently has three) and is probably an elf or a hobbit. She wrote a story about Cathead Distillery.

Staff Photographer Imani Khayyam is an art lover and a native of Jackson. He loves to be behind the camera and capture the true essence of his subjects. He took many photos for the issue.

Music Editor Micah Smith is married to a great lady, has two dog-children named Kirby and Zelda, and plays in the band Empty Atlas. Send him gig info at music@jacksonfreepress. com. He interviewed comedian and actor Eddie Izzard.

Editorial Assistant Maya Miller is a senior psychology major at Jackson State University. She’s learned that adulthood means choosing her own bedtime, and she’s not equipped for that responsibility just yet. She wrote a story about the band Fides.

Ad Designer Zilpha Young has dabbled in every medium she could get her hands on, from blacksmithing to crocheting. To see some of her extracurricular work (and lots of cephalopods) check out zilphatastic.tumblr. com. She designed the cover.

Sales Assistant Mary Osborne is a Lanier Bulldog by birthright and a JSU Tiger by choice.

She is the mother to Lindon “Joc” Dixon. Her hobbies include hosting and producting Freeda Love Show, which airs on PEG 18.

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Thursday, November 26 The presidents of France and Russia agree to tighten cooperation in the fight against the Islamic State group through increasing intelligence sharing, intensifying their airstrikes against IS in Syria and cooperating on selecting targets.

Saturday, November 28 A gunman named Robert Lewis Dear opens fire inside a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colo., killing three people and wounding nine others before being arrested after a gunfight with authorities. â&#x20AC;Ś Australian David Richards breaks the Guinness World Record for most lights on an artificial Christmas tree by illuminating a tree in downtown Canberra with 518,838 lights.

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Monday, November 30 Jury selection in the first trial of the six police officers indicted in the death of Freddie Gray begins in Baltimore.

Tuesday, December 1 The Jackson City Council forms a new downtown entertainment district and paves the way for Cathead Vodka and possibly others to have resort status.

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by R.L. Nave

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arking in downtown Jackson is like a perverse kind of casino. Instead of the odds being in favor of the houseâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in this case, the Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the players are more likely to get lucky in finding a broken meter or getting away unscathed by the ticket books of meter readers.

In the end, even though individuals often win this game, the City and its treasury have been the big losersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars in lost revenues every year.

Recent action from the Jackson City Council could represent a correction, putting the odds back in the Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

favor. On Nov. 19, the council voted 4-to-1 in favor of a resolution asking Mayor Tony Yarber to solicit proposals for firms to operate more than 1,000 parking meters, all of which are in the downtown business district.

Ward 6 Councilman Tyrone Hendrix, who co-sponsored the resolution seeking RFPs, cites the loss of revenue from poorly maintained meters as well as the loss of potential cash because the ubiquity of debit cards these days. Hendrix said the possibility exists to also install meters outside downtown, such as near Jackson IMANI KHAYYAM

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State University and Fondren. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The City positively, absolutely needs to increase revenue,â&#x20AC;? Hendrix told the Jackson Free Press.

Intense Backlash For many cities, outsourcing parking meters has provided a quick injection of badly needed funds; in some of those cities, these privatization deals met with intense backlash from residents and fiscal watchdogs. The poster child for dubious parking-meter deals is the City of Chicago. In December 2008, the city council and then-Mayor Richard Daley approved a deal to lease 36,000 parking meters in the Windy City for 75 years for $1.15 billion.

Despite an analysis from Chicago Alderman Scott Waguespack showing the meters could have been worth $4 billion and the proposal for some rates in the City to go from $3 per hour to $6.50 an hour within five years, aldermen overwhelmingly approved the contract. In August 2009, a taxpayer group sued, arguing that Chicagoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leaders misled residents and officials about the deal and that governments could not legally lease public assets.

Subsequently, New York City and Los Angeles briefly considered similar proposals but eventually backed off partly due to Chicagoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s experience. A watchdog lawsuit also followed a 2014 parking-meter privatization deal worth $92 million in Cincinnati. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Chicago would not be the model,â&#x20AC;?

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West Rankin Looks For Home Advantage in Sewage Battles

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The West Rankin Utility Authority is using the slow pace of progress on removing 305,000 wet tons of sludge from the Savanna Street Wastewater Treatment Plant as ammunition in two legal disputes with the City of Jackson.

City of Jackson alleging that Jacksonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;years of sludge mismanagement which directly resulted from the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s failure to repair severe breaks, cracks, and holes in the Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wastewater

and the City could be locked into a longterm lease agreement.

Stamps would prefer that the City buy a couple of multi-space meters, then use the revenues to purchase more to install throughout Jackson. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Personally, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see a loss. How is that you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have money to buy something that makes you money? To me, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a justifiable expense,â&#x20AC;? Stamps said.

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Parking revenue in Jackson has dropped precipitously over time. Fifteen years ago, the City collected $466,205 from the meters, a 2009 study from Downtown Jackson Partners Inc. shows; through September of this year, collections were just above $136,000 with budget writers forecasting $150,000 in revenue for the 2016 fiscal year.

Five days a week, between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., drivers pay 25 cents to park at one of Jacksonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1,191 meters for a half-hour (for quicker trips, the machines also accept dimes for 12 minutes and nickels for just six minutes of parking fun). Mike Peters, owner of the Fondren Corner Building

collection systemâ&#x20AC;? resulted in higher costs for the WRUA and its customers.

In addition, Turner said, the slow pace of progress on the removal of 305,000 wet tons of sludge is central to the WRUAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s argument that Jackson has ignored problems at the Savanna Street Wastewater Plant and breached its contract with WRUA by not making repairs that would have kept the authorityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rates from increasing.

In November, the Jackson City Council voted down a proposal to award a $13 million contract to a joint venture between Russellville, Ark.-based Denali Water Solutions and a local firm, Socrates Garrett Enterprises Inc. Under the consent decree, Jackson would have to pay daily fines if a January 2018 deadline for removing the material is not met. Mayor Tony Yarber has said he hopes to avoid the fines, telling the Jackson Free Press after a city council work session on Sept. 21 that his administration has alerted the EPA that the City might be in violation.

Yarber has also said that it would take at least a year to reissue a request-for-proposals for the biosolids contract.

In an order on Nov. 24, U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan said the federal courts have no jurisdiction in the dispute between Jackson and the WRUA and remanded the case back to Rankin County Chancery Court.

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and other properties around the city, said he would oppose a parking plan that includes installing meters in Fondren unless the revenues go back into infrastructure or public safety in the arts district. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What are you going to do with the new revenue, because if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re taking it from people who are buying things and paying sales tax and you run them off, then what are you going to do?â&#x20AC;? Peters said.

Hendrix said the potential that more meters would represent an economicdevelopment disincentive initially gave him pause until he came across studies that conclude more parking meters have a positive impact on the local economy.

After Seattleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parking-meter overhaul led to griping from business owners and residents, the Seattle-based Sightline Institute analyzed gross receipts by ZIP code and found nearly across-the-board increases. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It may sound counter-intuitive at first, but on inspection it turns about to be totally sensible. By increasing turnover in on-street parking and ensuring that spaces are available for customers, well-calibrated parking policies really can increase patronage. After all, would you rather grind

through congested downtown streets in the rain while hunting for a parking space or pay a few bucks to stash the car curbside until 8 (p.m.)? In fact, boosting business is exactly what Seattle set out to do when officials adjusted meter rates and extended paid hours downtown,â&#x20AC;? the Instituteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eric de Place wrote in March 2012.

Unlike Stamps, who wants the City to go it alone, Hendrix does not believe the City has the wherewithal to replace all the meters at once or the workforce to aggressively monitor the machines.

Hendrix also proposes a series of public hearings for citizens and business owners before any firm decisions are made. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see how we leave that revenue on the table if weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re furloughing employees and talking about cutting services,â&#x20AC;?

Hendrix said.

Marshand Crisler, a top Yarber deputy, told members of the council on Nov. 17 that the administration has â&#x20AC;&#x153;a significant amount of interestâ&#x20AC;? in a parking-meter arrangement and that a request-for-proposals would be finalized in December.

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cities he believes did it well. In 2006, Houston approved a $15-million proposal from Affiliated Computer Services of Dallas, now a division of Xerox Corp., to install and manage 1,500 meters that enabled parkers to use coins, credit, and debit cards or their smartphones; Houston and Indianapolis have also privatized their parking meters in the past decade.

When the Indianapolis City Council privatized meters there, officials cited Chicagoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s controversial deal in crafting a contract.

That deal included $20-million upfront payment and an estimated $300-million to $600-million revenue split for the term of the 50-year lease. Under that deal, Indianapolis receives 30 percent of the revenues up to a certain dollar amount and then 60 percent of the revenues after that, providing a big incentive for the City to aggressively monitor the meters and issue tickets.

Ward 4 Councilman Deâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Keither Stamps agrees that parking meters remain an untapped source of revenue for the City, but was the lone vote against Hendrixâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s resolution because he would prefer the City go it alone. By contracting with a private firm, Jackson would have to share the revenue, parking rates could soar,

A hearing on the WRUAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s request to send the case to Rankin County is scheduled for late December, Turner said.

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mbroiled in a two-front battle with the City of Jackson over the wastewater-treatment issues, the West Rankin Utility Authority hopes to fight it out on its home turfâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in Rankin County.

Part of the saga started in 2011, when the WRUA asked state environmental regulators for a permit to construct a new wastewater-treatment plant in part because of Jacksonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ongoing challenges maintaining its sewer-treatment system. That resulted in a 2013 settlement with the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over the years-long dumping of untreated sewage into the Pearl River.

The settlement, or consent decree, requires the City to upgrade its sewer system and remove sludge from holding lagoons at wastewater-treatment plants.

In April 2015, the MDEQ approved the permit application from the WRUA to build a $125-million sewertreatment plant on the banks of the Pearl River. The City of Jackson contested the approval, first administratively and then through a lawsuit filed in Hinds County Chancery Court to block the permit, arguing that state law encourages regionalization of wastewater treatment while a new plant would represent â&#x20AC;&#x153;deregionalization.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;We think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the wrong jurisdiction,â&#x20AC;? said Keith Turner, an attorney for the WRUA, which wants the case heard in Rankin County Chancery Court.

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Creating a Hub for Early Learning and Creativity

by Arielle Dreher

has sponsored an online hub for early childhood educators in Mississippi to find curriculum, trainings and discounts for products needed in their daycare centers.

The website, msearlylearningresources. org, is completely free and run by the Mississippi Alliance for Early Learning Resources.

The program’s director, Angela Carson, calls the site a “one-stop shop for resources” for early childhood educators.

She said the site has template forms, PowerPoints with trainings, discounts and other resources all on one website.

“All of that helps to improve the quality of services and education they can provide for the children,” Carson said. “We want to

able when she first started her center.

“I had the certification, but I knew nothing about actually running a daycare or resources we needed in the daycare,” she said. “I had to depend on other people and centers and kindergarten teachers.”

Sylvester’s center has children from 8-week-old babies to 5-year-olds, and she uses trainings and procedures from the alliance to train her teachers. She said the website also helps her center save money on things they buy in bulk.

Most importantly, however, Sylvester said information about Mississippi Early Childhood Standards, which start with 3and 4-year-olds, and lesson plans for chilIMANI KHAYYAM

Getting Creative About Literacy Education experts often site pre-K collaboratives and early education as the key to success in literacy and school later in life. In Mississippi, however, funding for early education is scarce.

The Mississippi Department of Education has started early education initiatives and requested $9 million in funding from the Legislature in the upcoming year to expand the program, but there are currently only 11 early learning collaboratives statewide serving 1,714 4-year-olds.

Daycare centers, parents and community organizations know they cannot wait for funding to take early education seriously and are developing programs to serve their young learners and prepare them for kindergarten.

GyElla Hinton has been a member at the Mississippi’s Children Museum for almost three years. Her son, Caleb, is now 4

years old, and she brings him to the museum and occasionally to the literacy programs when he is on school breaks and during the summer. Hinton is a high-school teacher and recognizes the importance of developing fine and gross motor skills through crafts.

“When you’re coloring, holding a crayon or marker translates to being able to hold a pencil and write,” Hinton said. “Cutting things out is an important motor skill, so all of those things play into early literacy.”

Reiss said programs like hers can help parents and educators begin to see what kind of learner their child will be whether they are visual, audible or kinesthetic.

“Some moms have figured out if they’re

Owen Williamson (left) and Caleb Hinton (right) create paper turkeys on Nov. 25 at the “ABC, Come Play with Me” workshop at the Mississippi Children’s Museum.

left-handed or right-handed in this class— that’s a developmental skill we can provide rather than the mom being home with her child and handing her the object,” she said.

The Mississippi Children’s Museum received a $5,000 grant from a Seattle-based timber company, the Plum Creek Foundation, which will help keep “ABC, Come Play with Me” active and buy materials to support the program.

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see them at a higher level.”

The alliance is hosting trainings for early educators to learn how to navigate the website and use all of its resources. Training is not mandatory to use the site, however, and educators can go to the site and register. Carson said the alliance has trained almost 300 centers statewide.

Nancy Sylvester, executive director of the Global Connections Learning Center in Jackson, has gone through training on the site and uses its resources in a lot of her work.

She only wishes the website had been avail-

dren to reach those standards are available on the site. Her center uses checklists for teachers to track reading, math and science skills in students. These checklists are shared with parents too, so parents can see where their child needs extra help at home. “(The hub) let us know what those standards are, so you know what you need to work with them on to be prepared for kindergarten,” Sylvester said.

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ho knows what today is?” Patti Reiss asked a half-full party room of kids at the Mississippi Children’s Museum on Nov. 25.

After a pause, some kids piped up: “Thanksgiving!”

“Almost! Thanksgiving is always on a Thursday. And today is Wednesday.”

Reiss, the assistant director of programs at the museum, teaches a weekly early literacy program, “ABC, Come Play with Me.” The class meets every Wednesday at 10 a.m. and is included in admission to the museum or free for members.

The program caters to children anywhere from 1 to 4 years old and encourages them to express themselves creatively. Reiss reads a story and interacts with the children throughout the piece. Then, the kids do a craft afterward. Reiss won’t show the kids a model project for the craft and encourages them to use their own ideas to create whatever they are making that day.

“We not only reinforce literacy in the program, but we also reinforce gross motor and fine motor skills,” Reiss said.

For children not at regular daycare centers, options like “ABC, Come Play with Me” give parents a break from teaching their children at home and provide new ideas for preparing children for kindergarten.

Leah Williamson has two children, and both Macy and Owen have frequented the class. Macy is 2 years old now and beginning to make small gains in literacy, Williamson said.

“Programs like this are fun and exciting,” she said. “We put a craft with a story which helps her remember, and we talk about the book.”

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Advocates: ‘Safe Campus Act’ Not Safe

by Arielle Dreher

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their attackers off campus. Internal investigations through Title IX offices are those that can result in university judicial hearings with suspensions or expulsions as potential consequences.

The National Task Force letter asserts that this change “conflates the roles of colleges and universities and the criminaljustice system in responding to campus

Under the legislation, universities would only be allowed to temporarily suspend individual students for no more than 15 days and student organizations that facilitate or condone the actions, such as a fraternity, for no more than 10 days.

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wo Mississippi organizations focused on keeping women safe are opposing the Safe Campus Act, a bill currently working its way through the U.S. House of Representatives, because it would make it harder to remove rape suspects from campus and limit the investigative avenues a student victim can pursue after an assault.

If successful, the legislation would change how victims report campus sexual assault and how those cases are investigated at all universities that receive federal funding. More than 200 organizations aligned with the National Task Force to End Sexual and Domestic Violence Against Women, including the Mississippi Coalition Against Domestic Violence and the Mississippi Coalition Against Sexual Assault, submitted a letter to members of the U.S. House of Representatives on Nov. 2 opposing the bill that they say “will threaten to undermine the protections of Title IX” for students on college campuses nationally.

The letter points to the core element of the Safe Campus Act as a problem: streamlining how sexual assault is handled into one system that gives more enforcement powers to local law enforcement and takes investigative powers away from the colleges.

“We completely reject the argument that only one system in our nation should be held accountable for keeping young people safe from sexual violence,” the letter states.

The Safe Campus Act would amend several parts of the 600-page Higher Education Act of 1965 dedicated to campus sexualassault procedures.

Its biggest change would require universities to receive written consent from the alleged victim and then report and refer the allegation to the local law enforcement agency associated with the local government with jurisdiction in the area in order for disciplinary action to occur.

While getting local police involved might seem like a smart move, the bill would bar the educational institution from carrying out “any institutional disciplinary proceeding with respect to the allegation” once the victim gives consent for the university to contact local law enforcement. This means that a Title IX or internal university investigation of an assault cannot be conducted once the case is turned over to local police, who may or may not handle the case well.

Currently, the Title IX officer and university internal investigators have the ability to work separately from criminal investigations, and students can report to either the Title IX office or the law enforcement agency alone or both. The Safe Campus Act essentially cuts off the separate line of investiga10 tion that victims rely on to potentially get

Wendy Mahoney leads the Mississippi Coalition Against Domestic Violence, one of two Mississippi organizations that oppose the Safe Campus Act, a federal bill to change university reporting procedures for sexual-assault victims.

sexual violence.”

Jackson State University’s Title IX coordinator, Thomas Hudson, said the Safe Campus Act is at odds with the guidance his office receives from the Office of Civil Rights under the U.S. Department of Education.

If the bill passes, Hudson’s office—and Title IX offices around the country—would have to change the way they currently respond to sexual assaults, with investigations that can lead to campus judicial hearings and potentially result in suspension or expulsion for perpetrators.

“Any law that requires students to go to public safety in order to initiate a Title IX investigation would cause big changes because not all students are comfortable going the actual criminal route,” Hudson said.

Protecting Groups Over Victims?

The Safe Campus Act allows institutions to implement interim sanctions for victims only if such actions “promote campus safety and student well-being.”

conduct—forcing them to find and punish individuals.

U.S. Reps. Matt Salmon, R-Arizona and Pete Sessions, R-Texas, introduced Bill 3403 at the end of July. It was referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, which will consider it before sending it to the floor.

In a July press release, Salmon emphasized the importance of protecting the rights of student organizations with the bill, calling the Safe Campus Act a “much-needed piece of legislation to protect the fundamental due process rights of all parties in campus sexual assault cases.”

The Safe Campus Act is arriving on the coattails of the Campus Sexual Violence Elimination Act, or the SaVE Act, which amended the Cleary Act to become law in March 2013, and was enacted a year later in 2014. Universities were expected to be compliant to the new rules by October 2014.

The SaVE Act set guidelines for college disciplinary proceedings and required universi-

ties to specifically categorize and keep track of sexual-violence statistics on campus and publish that data in annual reports.

The Safe Campus Act would undermine the SaVE Act’s requirements for victims who want both criminal and university investigations conducted simultaneously. If it passes, a student must give up a Title IX investigation if they want to press criminal charges.

‘Rape Is Rape’ Edwith Theogene, national program coordinator at the Feminist Majority Foundation, said student activists and Feminist Majority campus chapters throughout the country are speaking out against the Campus Safety Act as well as holding their universities accountable to the SaVE Act standards. Jackson State University students held a protest in October, as well as forming three women’s rights activist groups (GIRL Feminist Majority, Generation Action and Essence of a Lady Tiger) on campus. Theogene said she thinks the progress on JSU’s campus is good.

“These are the students, and these are policies that affect their day-to-day experiences there (on campus),” she said. “It’s up to them.”

While not offering a specific opinion on the bill, Hudson said his office would support student activists speaking out on the issue.

“We support our students’ efforts in having a voice in this area and really bringing these issues to the forefront,” Hudson said.

Wendy Mahoney, the executive director of the Mississippi Coalition Against Domestic Violence, knows little about the Safe Campus Act specifically but said that domestic violence on college campuses is often not reported as such largely due to a lack of understanding.

Domestic violence, Mahoney said, is any pattern of behavior used to intimidate, manipulate or humiliate a partner.

“What we have missed the mark a whole lot on when it comes to domestic violence is not even mentioning the sexual assault,” Mahoney said. “We tend to focus so much on the physical battering.”

Domestic-violence statistics are higher in college-aged females, and Mahoney said women aged 18-24 are at higher risk for intimate partner violence, especially in relationships. Domestic violence is more than physical abuse—it includes sexual violence, too.

Coercion, even from an intimate partner, to have sex against one’s will is sexual assault.

“Rape is rape if you know or don’t know the person,” Mahoney said.

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Why it stinks: Maybe Sen. Cruz is reading different news media than the rest of usâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;OK, he most certainly isâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but when was the last time a transgender leftist was a suspect in a mass shooting, let alone one at an abortion clinic? More evidence to refute Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; silly statement came out of Dearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own mouth, when he said something to law enforcement officers about â&#x20AC;&#x153;no more baby parts,â&#x20AC;? which is a rallying cry on the right. For Cruz to deny that the anti-abortion rhetoric is spurred on by the right wing and members of his own party is not only disingenuous; it is extremely dangerous.

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he Nov. 27 shooting at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood is a case study in the anatomy of political rhetoric and the reallife danger of spreading inciteful rhetoric.

That afternoon, a gunman, whom authorities have identified as Robert Dear, went on a rampage that left three people dead, all parents to young children. Law enforcement have not discussed a possible motive, although several media outlets reported Dear mumbled something about â&#x20AC;&#x153;no more baby parts,â&#x20AC;? during an interview with law enforcement.

The meaning of Dearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s words has been subject to wide speculation and likely will be for the foreseeable future.

Pundits have also wondered whether Dearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s alleged actions were prompted in whole or in part by the videos that went viral in circles on the political right earlier this year. In the videos, Dr. Deborah Nucatola, Planned Parenthoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s senior director of medical services, believing she is talking to officials from a company that provides scientific researchers with tissue from aborted fetuses, discusses the process of getting consent from patients, as well as how Planned Parenthood clinics typically interact with the companies that take the tissue from the clinics to the researchers.

The video figured into many political races around the country, including in Mississippi, which has one Planned Parenthood clinic in Hattiesburg, though it does not perform abortions.

Dearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exact motivations are not important; the

fact that we have to wonder is a testament to the power of anti-abortion rhetoric that is not only political fodder but also informs policy.

When the Mississippi Legislature passed a law in 2012 to require admitting privileges for doctors at freestanding abortion clinics, Gov. Phil Bryant and Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves said the new law would bring about the end of abortion in Mississippi, where only one abortion clinic remains.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worth noting that the clinic in question, the Jackson Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Health Organization, is the target of frequent protests and has a restraining order against one regular, Roy McMillan, who once told clinic employees they look like â&#x20AC;&#x153;birds on a wire waiting to be shot.â&#x20AC;?

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take six degrees to connect McMillan to the men and women who push antiabortion policies through the state Capitol year after year. For that reason, Mississippiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Republican leadership, which has been unnervingly silent about the shootings at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood, should disavow that attack and come up with a plan to protect Mississippians from homegrown terrorism.

This is especially important considering most elected officials in this state profess to be pro-life and anti-terrorism. For example, Republican Gov. Phil Bryant recently vowed to prevent Syrian refugees from entering the state.

But the more serious threat is right here at home, and if our leadership wants to keep blood off their hands, they should end and condemn the rhetoric that fuels the actions of madmen.

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UENOS AIRESâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in the his formative years in New York City. century-old ConfiterĂ­a Ideal lisAt a time when Republican politicians tening to the mother of all tan- in the U.S. are demanding a ban on Syrian gos, â&#x20AC;&#x153;La Cumparsita,â&#x20AC;? and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m immigrants and a wall between the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s thinking about the somewhat different southern border and Mexico, Argentina has world into which the tango was born. one of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most open policies toward Jorge Luis Borges describes it perfectly immigration. Laws were passed in 2004 and in his short story, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Streetcorner Man.â&#x20AC;?

2013 guaranteeing equality and workplace â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was admired for the way he han- protection to the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 100,000 Paradled a knife,â&#x20AC;? Borges says about the Slasher, guayan domestic workers. They get matera barrio gang leader in his story. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sharp nity leave, paid holidays, and they cannot be dresser, too. He always rode up to the forced to work more than 48 hours a week. whorehouse on a dark horse, his riding gear Migrants are a global phenomenon. decked out in silver. â&#x20AC;Ś He usually wore a Between 2000 and 2010, their number grew soft hat with a narrow brim â&#x20AC;Ś it would sit from 150 million to 214 million. Add war in a cocky way on his long hair, which he and political strife to economic pressures, slicked straight back.â&#x20AC;? and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got huge portions of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Then one night, the Slasherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s enemyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; population in a constant search for a better whom they called the Butcherâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;challenged life. Exacerbating those economic pressures him for his woman. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He called to the mu- are neo-liberal policies that exploit cheap sicians to play loud and strong, and he or- migrant work through trade agreements like dered the rest of us to dance.

NAFTA and the Trans-Pacific From one end of the hall to Partnership. These agreements the other, the music ran like may enrich hedge fund operawildfire. â&#x20AC;Ś â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Make way, boys, tors on Wall Street and fatten sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all mine now!â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? the coffers of the politicians The tango was the who support them but usually music of immigrants, Italbring nothing but misery on ians mostly, who came by working people. the millions to Argentina Tango dancers Argentina was one of in the late 1800s to work in in Cafe Tortoni the first victims of neo-liberits fields, ports and factories. in Buenos Aires, alism, plunging into national Argentina The music was sad, fatalisbankruptcy and depression tic, reflecting homesickness in 2001. The economy has and resentment against the greatly recoveredâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;thanks â&#x20AC;&#x153;patrĂłnâ&#x20AC;? who made their lives hell. They in part to 12 years of pro-worker Peronist spoke a distinct dialect, lunfardo, the lan- rule by the late NĂŠstor Kirchner and his guage of some of the greatest tangos. wife Cristinaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but recent elections that The dance, sensuous beyond all other put wealthy former businessman Mauridances, tells of the importance of women cio Macri into the presidency could signal in their lives. Women were greatly outnum- a shift back to the austerity principles that bered in those Wild West years of Argentina, earlier put Argentina on the rack and more and when a man got one on the floor, he recently, Greece. held her close, cheek to cheek, and his sharp, Workers in Argentina worry that Maclunging steps were like the wave of a stiletto, ri may turn the immigration issue against a warning to other men to stay away. them by opening the floodgates to cheap, Unlike these United States, where poli- non-organized foreign workers from Bolivia ticians from Donald Trump to Phil Bryant and other countries. â&#x20AC;&#x153;How do you care for demagogue the immigrant as the source Argentine workers if you open the doors like of endless problems, Argentina knows and what was done in the 1990s?â&#x20AC;? Hernan Pose, values its immigrant heritage. By 1914, 58 a member of the CTA (Central de trabajapercent of Argentines were first- or second- dores de la Argentina) workers organization, generation immigrants. Seventy percent of told me as he handed out anti-Macri leaflets Buenos Airesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; population was foreign-born. in Buenos Airesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; busy Calle Florida.

They were key to Argentinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rise to one of His colleague and fellow CTA memthe worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sixth richest countries by 1920. ber Rodolfo Olmos nodded. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yes, it is a big Argentinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most famous military lead- problem.â&#x20AC;? So immigration-friendly Argeners, politicians and artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;from JosĂŠ de San tina isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t immune from tensions over miMartĂ­n and Juan Peron to writer Borges and grant workers. Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hope its politicians donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t tango crooner Carlos Gardelâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;were either look northward toward that big behemoth immigrants or exiles during their lifetimes. beyond the Rio Grande for models in how â&#x20AC;&#x153;Deep down, (Astor) Piazzolla himself was handle those tensions. always something of an uprooted, nostalgic Joe Atkins is a veteran journalist, colummigrant,â&#x20AC;? MarĂ­a Susana Azzi and Simon nist and professor of journalism at the UniverCollier write in their biography of the cre- sity of Mississippi. Email him at jbatkins@ ator of so-called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nuevo Tango,â&#x20AC;? who spent olemiss.edu.

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cus on both research and patient care in the area of treating patients with hypertension or high blood pressure.

So in my first years on faculty, I was doing a combination of patient care in patients with high blood pressure, teaching and research. And that’s kind of the typical portfolio for a position in academic environment, so I enjoyed all three aspects of the career in academia.

Do you prefer teaching to research?

I am a balanced guy—I like it all. I’ve ROBERT JORDAN / OLE MISS COMMUNICATIONS

oaches at Warren Central High School told Dan Jones he couldn’t play football past ninth grade—he was too small and slow, but he was welcome to be a trainer instead. Thus began Jones’ interest in medicine.

“I got exposed to the team physician and to the joys of helping people with physical problems, and that got me interested in medicine,” Jones says. “And that’s why I pursued medicine as a career, and it’s been a very fulfilling career for me.”

Jones, a doctor by trade, recently returned to the University of Mississippi Medical Center after a six-year tenure at the university’s main campus as chancellor.

Despite being diagnosed with lymphoma in November 2014, Jones is back researching obesity at UMMC, working as the director of clinical and population science at the Mississippi Center for Obesity Research.

After growing up in Vicksburg, Jones moved to Jackson to attend Mississippi College, where he graduated in 1971 with a chemistry degree. He started medical school at UMMC immediately afterward. He then worked in private practice in Laurel for seven years, then moved to South Korea and worked for seven more years.

After Jones returned to Mississippi in 1992, he went back to UMMC to work as a professor and a researcher, specializing in hypertension (high blood pressure) and obesity.

He was the dean of the medical school when he made the switch to become chancellor at the University of Mississippi in 2009.

As chancellor, Jones worked to diversify and push the university forward past its historic racism and into a new era of reconciliation. Jones presided over the university during difficult incidents that attracted international media attention, from the students who placed a noose around the neck of the James Meredith statue on campus to a nearriot between black and white students the night that President Obama was re-elected.

The Jackson Free Press sat down with Jones in his UMMC office to talk about his 14career path and how the University of Missis-

make myself a candidate for that position. It seemed like an unlikely fit initially, but I was eventually convinced to offer myself as a candidate, and the board selected me and asked me to do it.

Were you hesitant about leaving Jackson?

Sure. Not so much leaving Jackson, as much as leaving the medical center and the life in medicine. Medicine had been my career, and certainly to be chancellor was a large diversion from what I’d done in my career. I had been in leadership positions before, including the position here, but I knew that leadership of a university would be different than leading our academic medical center.

So that was my hesitation, and (why I was) not wanting to offer myself for being a candidate for some time—just not seeing how it would be a good fit or how my skillset my translate into that position. But you know, I eventually was convinced to offer myself, and certainly had a rich and fulfilling experience as chancellor.

During your time as chancellor, you pushed for a lot of change in terms of the race dynamics on campus.

Talk about your role in that.

As chancellor at the University of Mississippi, Dan Jones (center) said he tried very hard to listen to students’ needs and desires—especially those students with different life experiences than his own.

What was your biggest takeaway or lesson you learned after medical school?

enjoyed every aspect of medicine: the teaching, patient care, research and leadership.

People are people wherever you are, and I certainly learned a lot from patients in both of those locations (Laurel and South Korea). I learned from my international experience that we’re all more alike than we are different.

How did you end up being chancellor at the University of Mississippi?

When you came back, what were you doing at UMMC in 1992?

My original position was assistant professor of medicine, so I had developed a fo-

I had been in a leadership position here (at UMMC), the vice chancellor for health affairs and dean of the school of medicine, so I was serving in that role from 2003 until 2009. And when our chancellor at that time, Chancellor Robert Khayat, decided to retire, there was a search for his replacement, and I was encouraged by a number of people to

(My role included) some combination of leadership and cheerleading and facilitating. Our university has been blessed with many good students with good hearts who want the world to be a better place, and much of what people may give me credit for in terms of moving forward on inclusion and diversity at the university were issues that were being driven by our students.

I was so proud to work alongside our students in addressing these broad, large, societal issues that tend to have a stronger focus in deep southern states. We did have students who were interested in being sure that we had an inclusive and fair and safe environment for everyone—an environment where everyone regardless of their background felt welcome and comfortable. I was glad to be a part, I think, of helping our university make progress in that direction. And certainly my predecessor, Robert Khayat, during his time

How did you gauge student interest coming into that new role, especially coming from the world of medicineâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; how were you able to go in and field the student needs and requests?

Were you able to add perspective to some studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; experiences?

I grew up around people who were both the victims of injustice and around people who were the perpetrators of injustice, and you know, every Mississippi community had a lot of that in the 1960s.

had really struggled her freshman year.

Then she went on to tell me that she had developed friendships with classmates who were a big help to her and an encouragement to her, and (she) had developed relationships with a couple faculty members who had taken a particular interest in her, who had advised her and helped her with her academic strugglesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and then a big, broad smile broke out on her face. And she said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;And now Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a sophomore.â&#x20AC;? And you know, she said it to me like (she had) just received the Rhodes scholarship.

It was a very large accomplishment in her lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;she had been the first in her family to go to college, and now she was the first to make it to her sophomore year, and she realizedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;as I realizedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that making it to the sophomore year made it very likely that she would get to the end of her course and graduate from the university. What a great story of personal triumphâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;triumph for her family and triumph for the community that she came from where not many in that community went on to college.

So, this is the way you change the world. And it was good relationships at our university that were making a difference in her life. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why I was happy about being chancellor.

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Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll point to two things. First is a desire to listen and to recognize that I had one set of life experiences. I was given the opportunity to be around peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;especially our studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that had different life experiences than me, so you know, I tried very hard to listen to studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; needs and desires.

Then probably not a small thing is having grown up in Mississippi. When we dealt with issues of race, they werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t foreign issues to me. I had grown up during the civil-rights struggle in this state, and my parents had been great examples for me of treating everybody in your sphere of influence with dignity and respect. They lived that out in a tangible way during a very difficult period of history in Mississippi.

So, growing up in Mississippi and being exposed to the issues of fairness and injustice (were important). I went to segregated public schools in Mississippi, but lived in my young adult life through the period of racial integration in Mississippi, so having lived here, at least it was not a new set of exposures for me.

am proudest of is our progress in retention rates for students in the university, especially students who come from vulnerable backgrounds. With the help of a lot of people, including Morris Stocks (the interim chancellor at UM), we initiated more programs to provide financial support and academic support for students who come from vulnerable backgrounds in Mississippi. And we made substantial progress, especially for students who come from disadvantaged communities and retention rates at the university, and I am really very proud of that.

The story that I will share is of a young lady who I encountered sitting on the steps of the Lyceum, our administration building. I had left my office to walk out and get a breath of fresh air and take a break. She was sitting on the steps, so I sat down beside her. She didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t recognize me at first, so I engaged her in conversation. I learned from her and she eventually figured out who I was and got nervous.

But I was asking her about how she was doing academically, so she told me that

Talk about the University of Mississippi in the context of whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going on with Mizzou (and other campuses) right now with race relations.

Where do you think Ole Miss falls when it comes to being progressive on race relations nationally?

And where do you think the university can go from here?

In 2012, we celebrated 50 years of racial integration for our university, and we used two words in a very purposeful way. We used the word â&#x20AC;&#x153;celebrateâ&#x20AC;? and we used the What was your biggest word â&#x20AC;&#x153;commemorate.â&#x20AC;? There was challenge as chancellor? much to celebrate; you could cerThe real challenges and frustainly point to a lot of progress. trations were trying to understand You may have seen the story that how best to use the resources of was critical of the number of black the university to address the hardfaculty members at the University Dan Jones served as the chancellor of the University core issues in Mississippi: poverty of Missouri, and one of the comof Mississippi from 2009 to 2015; he is credited with being at the top of that list, low parisons it used was the Southeastpushing racial reconciliation to new levels at an institution with a dark history of race relations. education levels, healthcare disern Conference of universities and paritiesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;many of the things that their percentage of black faculty. are residual of the long history of Among those 14 universities in the unfairness during slavery and the southern part of the U.S., the UniJim Crow years. So how to provide oppor- she had come from a home where no one versity of Mississippi has the largest percenttunities for every Mississippian to move their had ever gone to collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;she was the first age of black faculty members. Now itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a life forward using the resources we haveâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; in her family to go to collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and during big number, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still under 7 percent, but the our primary resource being an opportunity her freshman year, she had struggled a lot fact that we have in a purposeful way tried to for an education (was a big challenge). academically. She said many of (her) friends pay attention to diversity and make decisions had family members that they could call on about hiring faculty and have had more sucDo you have a particular memory of for advice when they had problems or had cess than a lot of our sister universities have a student who illustrates that? tests that were hard or they werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t perform- had, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a sign of real progress.

A story that I share from time to time ing well in school. She noted that she didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Though we still donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have nearly the at a podium illustrates the opportunities have anybody in her family to call on for black student representation that would that are there through a university. What I help during hard times like that and that she represent the number of black students in

Mississippi, we probably come close to being representative of the college-eligible black students in Mississippi. So we have about 17 percent African American students, and the pathway over the past number of years has been very purposeful to increase our diversity. (Editorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s note: UMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2015-2016 enrollment data shows13.4 percent of students are

â&#x20AC;&#x153;In todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s light I am seen as a pivotal figure, but others before me had worked very hard on these issues. â&#x20AC;Ś I am greatly in their debt.â&#x20AC;?

African American).

We were at 50 years of racial integration, and there were things like that to celebrate, and yet, on our campus and on campuses across the country and in other settings across our country, discrimination based on race is a daily occurrence. And you know, we have hadâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;like other universitiesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;some negative public incidents related to race. We are the University of Mississippi, and we have such a dark history of race and the past because we resisted the social change of racial integration in such a harsh wayâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;not only our university, but our state resisted it.

We are the poster child for race issues in a university, and you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wave a magic wand and make all of that disappear. As we celebrated a lot of progress, we recognize, acknowledge, celebrate, and commemorate that the social change took place and recognize that thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of social change that still needs to take place.

How far has the university come?

If you compare the University of Mississippi today to the University of Mississippi in 1962 when we first integrated, here are the big changes, starting with our students. The majority of students on the Ole Miss campus in 1962 were white, and the majority did not want racial integration. And there were large numbers of students who participated in public events that made it clear that they didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want Mr. (James) Meredith to be a part of our university.

So, the majority of students and our state leadership were vehemently opposed to integration, and our institutional leadership was relatively passive about the issues. Move forward 50 years plus, (and) the vast majority of our students are embracing diversity, inclusiveness, fairness, justiceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the vast majority of our students do. Look at the leadership from our students on the flag issue recentlyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;by a large majority vote our student Senate voted to support a resolution asking our university administration to not fly the

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JF R O NES O M PA G E 1 5 Mississippi flag, so this is not a small group of radicals. This is our elected representatives of the student body. Certainly the leadership of the institution is committed to openness and fairness, diversity and inclusion.

We (do) still have students on our campus who have non-progressive attitudes who discriminate, who do things that are hateful, say hateful things and do hateful acts, but rather than being in the large majority now, those students are in the small minority. Now, they’re a loud, vocal, obnoxious minority, but we have not rid the world in Mississippi or Missouri of people who have hateful attitudes, sadly.

In your time as chancellor do you feel as though there was a turning point?

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How would you respond to those who find “Ole Miss” as a term offensive? As well as the mascot and other symbols at the university?

These symbols are very complicated issues. One of the issues at the University of Missouri right now is a statue of Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson was a slaveholder—he certainly was a person who had, by today’s standards, racist views about a number of things, and some of that is borne out in his contribution to the Constitution and so forth, but his statue is in a lot of places around the country.

Like all of us, there was good in him, and

public in Mississippi and nationally, overwhelmingly the majority of people associate the term (“Ole Miss”) with a progressive southern university and not anything else. So as we have reviewed our association with the Confederacy and the old South, and have tried to make rational decisions in today’s world and with the help of consultants and the help of students and so forth—some of the things we decided to change.

Before I became chancellor, the old mascot (Colonel Reb) was not used anymore, and then during my time of leadership, the students wanted to select another mascot, so there was a student-led process that led us to another mascot.

One of the changes that we made in the last year or so was to change the street IMANI KHAYYAM

In today’s light I am seen as a pivotal figure, but others before me had worked very hard on these issues. Gerald Turner, who was chancellor in the early ’90s; Robert Khayat who preceded me; many, many, many faculty and administrators at the university; and certainly students at the university have worked hard over the years, and a lot of people have worked sacrificially.

I’ll use one example. Dr. Don Cole was an undergraduate student at Ole Miss in the 1960s, and he was part of the small group of black students two or three years after Mr. Meredith was admitted, so there was a very small group of black students (on campus).

And they were asking the administration for some changes to make the environment more welcoming to black students, and (even though they didn’t engage in) violent actions, those student protesters were arrested and put in jail.

So he had not done anything illegal or really inflammatory, but the environment at that time was intolerant of any kind of social protest, so he wound up in jail as an Ole Miss student. Don wound up finishing his degree some other place but eventually made the decision to come back to Ole Miss to get his Ph.D. in mathematics and stayed on faculty at Ole Miss. He grew up in Jackson and loved Mississippi, and he wanted Mississippi to be a better place.

We talk about micro-aggressions these days; (Cole) experienced macro-aggressions most of his time at Ole Miss. He was put in jail, and being a black person on a historically white campus in Mississippi during the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s was not an easy thing. During my time of leadership, he was a special assistant to the chancellor for multicultural affairs and was a chief adviser to me on issues of diversity and inclusiveness. So his name will be known by fewer people because he’s not the chancellor, and he has a lower public profile, but so many people have given so much for this state to be a better place and this university to be a stronger, better place. I am greatly in their debt—starting with Mr. Meredith, 20 who is an extraordinarily courageous person

who sacrificed a lot for Mississippi to be a better place.

Could you tell me what happened with the end of your contract and how you ended up not renewing your contract?

It’s been well documented. The board and I had disagreements about a number of things; a lot of them had to do with finances here at the medical center. We had legitimate, honest differences of opinion, and so at some point in time, they decided that they were unhappy with some of the ways I was supervising the leadership here at the medical center, and management contracts and management finances. They made the decision to not renew the contract.

And you know, over the six years that I was chancellor, that was not the only disagreement that the board and I had. I am sure that there were lots of other things in the background, but the contract issue (at UMMC) is the one they pointed to for the reason for not renewing the contract, so that’s the one that’s in the public record. I was sad to not continue as chancellor, but very happy to have had an opportunity to come back to the medical center and stay in Mississippi to make contributions to try and make our state a better place. (I am) very happy with the opportunity to re-engage in my research career, focusing on obesity, which is obviously an important problem in Mississippi.

What do you plan to tackle first in your new research?

Dan Jones returned to the University of Mississippi Medical Center this fall in a research-based role, leading the clinical and population science division at the Mississippi Center for Obesity Research.

there was some not-so-good in him, and so what’s the appropriate way to honor or to recognize his role in the founding of our nation? Is it appropriate or inappropriate to have a statue of him? Who knows?

No one knows with certainty how the term “Ole Miss” began to be used in association with the university. It was used for our yearbook—it was the name of the yearbook in the early 1900s, and then eventually the university began being called Ole Miss. The person who suggested that name for the yearbook didn’t write anything down about doing this, (but) “Ole Miss” was a term that was used to indicate the wife of the owner of the plantation in slaveholding days, so some view it as a racist term now. A dozen other words that we use in our usual nomenclature have some racial attachment from the past.

In my time of leadership, we did a lot of analysis about all of our southern symbol associations and what they mean in today’s world, the mascot being a part of that. And both for black and white students and for black and white alums and for the general

name for Confederate Drive, so there were some things that were eliminated. As part of that, we made a commitment to a purposeful plan to be more inclusive as we named anything in the future. At the Manning Center, which is our football practice facility, the lobby (now) bears the names of our first two black athletes (Ben Williams and James Reed).

Another important decision that was made was to try to identify some things that were attached to a periods of time that were not all healthy periods of our history—Confederate statues, the names of some of our buildings like Vardaman Hall, named for the former governor who had racist attitudes— to try to provide historical context for some of those.

We are in the process for a plan that has some plaques added to those places that provides historical context that makes clear that having the Confederate statue is a memorial to our students who died (in the Civil War) and not a sign of devotion to the principles of the Confederacy.

It’s a complicated issue—one of the reasons I am interested in it as a research topic is because it’s a complicated science issue. There are people who are genetically predisposed to obesity, so the genetics is a part of this and, certainly, lifestyle is an important part of it.

We have many communities in Mississippi where good options for healthy food don’t exist. So that’s an issue. Obesity has a strong association with a lot of social issues, particularly poverty and low education.

So the two main areas of focus for me: one is to support basic science that is being done here at our institution and other places.

Just as there have been good medical solutions for problems like hypertension and diabetes, I think, through science, we’ll develop better options of how to help people manage obesity medically. … And importantly, a focus on a better understanding of the social determinants of obesity and the things that come from obesity like diabetes and hypertension and so forth. Those are particularly important here in Mississippi to understand the connection between the lack of early childhood education support and the health problems that our children have and health problems they have as they become young adults, so that’s a large area of interest that I’ll be pursuing in my research.

Read and comment on this interview and earlier stories about Ole Miss, including more about Dr. Don Cole, at jfp.ms/olemiss. Email Arielle Dreher at Arielle@jacksonfreepress.com.

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n a day in the middle of November, a lot of commotion is happening in a warehouse space off South Farish Street behind the Jackson Convention Complex and Mississippi Museum of Art. Worker crews dig up dirt in small concrete areas of the space’s parking lot, preparing to plant patches of grass. Some workers unload materials such as lumber from the back of trucks and carry them into the vast warehouse space.

At one point, a worker jackhammers a spot near the building’s front entrance, making it hard to hear much of anything else. Just inside sits the framework for offices and a lab. Three tall cylindrical stills, one with a large copper pipe, are near the back of the space and sit in from of an empty room that will eventually house whiskey barrels.

Cathead Distillery, Mississippi’s oldest distillery, is in the process of moving to downtown Jackson from its space in Gluckstadt after five and half years of business.

Owners Richard Patrick Jr., who is from Alpharetta, Ga., and Austin Evans, a Jackson native, met and became good friends while studying small business at the University of Alabama. After Evans graduated in 2004 with a bachelor’s degree in small business, he moved to Charleston, S.C., and convinced Patrick to do the same after he graduated with the same degree in 2005. There, they both worked in the alcohol and beverage industry, with Evans working on the restaurant and bar side as a server and Patrick working as a marketing representative for a business that imported wine, beer and Scotch from all over the world. They worked in South Carolina for about 11 years before moving back to Jackson to start Cathead.

Patrick says that in college, they knew they wanted to own a business together, though at that time, they didn’t know it would be a distillery. For them, owning a small business made sense because both of their parents owned small businesses—Evans’ father, John, owns Lemuria Books in Jackson, and Patrick’s father, Richard Patrick Sr., owns a machine fabrication business.

Evans says that the alcohol and beverage industry struck him as a fun, fast-paced industry, and once he started learning more about it, it continued to pique his interest.

In May 2010, Cathead Distillery went to market as the first distillery in Mississippi.

“At the time we started a distillery in Mississippi, it was one of the last states in the country that didn’t have a distillery, 22 so we thought that was kind a unique point of difference,”

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Cathead Distillery co-owners Austin Evans (left) and Richard Patrick Jr. (right) says the business outgrew its space in Gluckstadt. So they’re moving downtown.

Patrick says. “We wanted to basically create a value add for the state in a sense that (a distillery) was something that was missing.”

The name derives from the phrase, “That cat can play,” meaning that a blues musician was respected by his peers in the blues and folk-art community. Blues musician and artist, James “Son Ford” Thomas, was known for sculpting “Catheads” featuring other blues artists. Patrick and Evans used the name to pay homage to Mississippi’s deep blues roots.

The business’ first home was in Gluckstadt near the Mississippi Alcohol Beverage Control warehouse, which houses the state’s liquor before it gets distributed. “It made sense because we were right there,” Patrick says.

At first, because of state law, distilleries couldn’t do tastings, which meant that Cathead didn’t do tours.

But a couple of years ago, Mississippi state legislators passed a bill that allows for four-ounce pours, or tastings, which is part of the reason Cathead is currently making the transition into Jackson.

“Once that bill passed, (it) validated everything moving forward for us,” Evans says.

Patrick says that their location in Gluckstadt wasn’t as inviting as the space in Jackson will be.

“We’ve outgrown (the Gluckstadt location), and we wanted something that was, I guess, more inviting to the general public, and (had) more square footage. We needed a building that could accommodate more space,” Patrick says.

Having more square footage (the South Farish Street space has more than 20,000 square feet, compared to 2,000 in the old building) in the new space will allow them to produce more spirits such as whiskey.

Patrick and Evans plan to do bourbon whiskey, bourbon, rye and wheat whiskeys, and single malts.

“The ability to move into downtown Jackson and offer tours and tastings and have a storefront and have people come by and see the production aspect, it’s a really neat thing, and hopefully it’s really beneficial to the movement that’s going on in the city,” Evans says.

To make Cathead vodka, Patrick says that they start off with a mash, which is essentially a beer, and then distill it to get it to a higher proof (190 is the minimum for vodka).

Then, they filter it and add water back into it, bringing the proof down to 80. For Cathead’s Bristow gin, they steep the vodka with botanicals and then blend all the distolates together. The company produces vodka in flavors such as honeysuckle and pecan, and creates Bristow gin and Hoodoo chicory liqueur.

“It’s been kind of a dream since we started this business to move downtown,” Evans says. “It was just looking for the right time and space to do so. Being born and raised in Jackson, my father having a small business in Jackson, it was a long-term goal to establish a footprint and establish my business’ domain here in Jackson.”

Cathead Distillery (422 S. Farish St.) will have a ribbon cutting Dec. 8 and host a grand opening Dec 12. For the grand opening, the cover charge is $10. Music will start at 1 p.m., and Hal & Mal’s will provide food and drink. For more information, visit catheaddistillery.com or find the business on Facebook.

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THURSDAY 12/3

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SUNDAY 12/6

The December Art Reception is at Fischer Galleries.

The Jackson Audubon Society’s First Saturday Bird Walk is at LeFleur’s Bluff State Park.

Cookies with Santa is at Campbell’s Bakery.

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History Is Lunch is at noon at Old Capitol Museum (100 S. State St.). Retired Delta State University president John M. Hilpert discusses his book, “American Cyclone: Theodore Roosevelt and His 1900 Whistle-Stop Campaign.” Sales and signing to follow. Free; call 601-576-6998; mdah.state.ms.us. … The TeamJXN Holiday Social is from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Arts Center of Mississippi (201 E. Pascagoula St.). Free; call 601-960-1500; teamjxn.com.

David Spencer plays Ebenezer Scrooge in New Stage Theatre’s production of “A Christmas Carol” Dec. 4-20.

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The 39th Annual Chimneyville Fine Crafts Festival is from 7 to 10 p.m. at Mississippi Trade Mart (1200 Mississippi St.). The theme is “Celebrating Excellence.” Shop for gifts from more than 150 juried members. The preview party is Dec. 3, and the festival is Dec. 4-5. Additional dates: Dec. 4, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. and Dec. 5, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $60 Dec. 3, $10 Dec. 4-5; call 601-856-7546; craftsmensguildofms.org.

email arden@ardenland.net; missjazzfoundation.com. …

“A Christmas Carol” is at 7:30 p.m. at New Stage Theatre (1100 Carlisle St.). The play is based on Charles Dickens’ classic tale about a miser’s encounter with three Christmas spirits. Visit the website for SchoolFest Matinee show times.

Additional dates: Dec. 5, 7:30 p.m., Dec. 6, 2 p.m., Dec. 1012, 7:30 p.m., Dec. 13, 2 p.m., Dec. 15-19, 7:30 p.m. and Dec. 20, 2 p.m. $28, $22 seniors and students, $18 per person for groups of 15 or more; call 601-948-3533, ext. 222; newstagetheatre.com.

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The Central Mississippi Record Convention is from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). VenBY MICAH SMITH dors from Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama and Tennessee buy and sell used and records, JACKSONFREEPRESS.COM cassettes, CDs and other types FAX: 601-510-9019 of music media. $5 from 9-10 DAILY UPDATES AT p.m., then $3; call 601-874JFPEVENTS.COM 2190 or 904-228-9319; email arden@ardenland.net. … Stäge at Brent’s—Steakhouse Redux is from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. at Brent’s Drugs and Soda Fountain (655 Duling Ave.). Enjoy a six-course dinner from chef Tom Ramsey. Reservations required. For ages 21 and up. $53.7; call 601-366-3427.

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Night of Musical Artistry is at 7 p.m. at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). The Mississippi Jazz Foundation presents the 12th annual concert with actor Palmer Williams Jr. as the host. The Good Times Brass Band, Mike Burton and PJ 24 Morton perform. $35; call 601-594-2314 or 800-745-3000;

SUNDAY 12/6

The Mississippi Boychoir Holiday Concert is at 2:30 p.m. at St. Philip’s Episcopal Church (5400 Old Canton Road). The theme is “Good Tidings We Bring!” Free, donations welcome; call 601-665-7374; mississippiboychoir.org.

“Don’t Get Caught Dead in That Sweater” Dinner Theater is at 7 p.m. at Georgia Blue (111 Colony Crossing, Madison). Mississippi Murder Mysteries presents the play about embezzling, infidelity and naughtiness at a ugly Christmas sweater party. Includes a three-course meal and an ugly sweater contest. Seating at 6:30 p.m.

RSVP. $45; call 601-898-3330; email 601-941-3816 or 601-850-2318; fringedinnertheatre.com.

Author Robert E. Luckett Jr. signs copies of his latest book, “Joe T. Patterson and the White South’s Dilemma,” at 5 p.m. at Lemuria Books (Banner Hall, 4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 202). Reading at 5:30 p.m. $65 book; call 601-366-7619; email info@lemuriabooks.com; lemuriabooks.com. … The PFLAG Jackson Meeting and Holiday Party is from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Fondren Presbyterian Church (3220 Old Canton Road). Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) is the host. Includes a meeting and a party following at 7 p.m. Guests can enjoy a door prize, food and a Dirty Santa game. Free; call 601-842-2274; pflagjacksonms.wordpress.com.

WEDNESDAY 12/9

“Elf Jr. the Musical” is at 7:30 p.m. at Actor’s Playhouse (121 Paul Truitt Lane, Pearl). The performance featuring young local actors is based on the popular film starring Will Ferrell. Additional dates: Dec. 10-11, 7:30 p.m., Dec. 12, 2 p.m., Dec. 12, 7:30 p.m. and Dec. 13, 2 p.m.

Admission TBA; call 601-664-0930; actorsplayhouse.net.

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Enjoy Christmas carols from choirs in the rotunda.

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*&0 30/.3/2%$ /i>Â&#x201C; 8 Ă&#x160; Â&#x153;Â?Â&#x2C6;`>Ă&#x17E;Ă&#x160;-Â&#x153;VÂ&#x2C6;>Â?Ă&#x160;Dec. 2, 5:307:30 p.m., at Arts Center of Mississippi (201 E. Pascagoula St.). Free; call 601-9601500; teamjxn.com. Â&#x153;Â&#x2DC;`Ă&#x20AC;iÂ&#x2DC;½Ă&#x192;Ă&#x160; Â&#x2C6;Ă&#x20AC;Ă&#x192;Ă&#x152;Ă&#x160;/Â&#x2026;Ă&#x2022;Ă&#x20AC;Ă&#x192;`>Ă&#x17E; Dec. 3, 11 a.m.-11 p.m., in Fondren. Studio Chane hosts the mostly monthly neighborhood event formerly known as Fondren After 5. Includes shopping, food vendors, live music, open houses, a pet adoption drive and more. Free; call 601-720-2426; fft.city. Â&#x2C6;Ă&#x192;Ă&#x192;Â&#x2C6;Ă&#x192;Ă&#x192;Â&#x2C6;ÂŤÂŤÂ&#x2C6;Ă&#x160; Â&#x153;Ă&#x17E;VÂ&#x2026;Â&#x153;Â&#x2C6;Ă&#x20AC;Ă&#x160; Â&#x153;Â?Â&#x2C6;`>Ă&#x17E;Ă&#x160; Â&#x153;Â&#x2DC;cert Dec. 6, 2:30 p.m., at St. Philipâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Episcopal Church (5400 Old Canton Road).

This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s theme is â&#x20AC;&#x153;Good Tidings We Bring!â&#x20AC;? Free, donations welcome; call 601665-7374; mississippiboychoir.org. Ă&#x203A;iÂ&#x2DC;Ă&#x152;Ă&#x192;Ă&#x160;>Ă&#x152;Ă&#x160; Â&#x2C6;Â?Â?Ă&#x192;>ÂŤĂ&#x192;Ă&#x160; Â&#x153;Â?Â?i}i]Ă&#x160; Â&#x153;Ă&#x20AC;`Ă&#x160; V>`iÂ&#x201C;Â&#x2C6;VĂ&#x160; Â&#x153;Â&#x201C;ÂŤÂ?iĂ?Ă&#x160;(1701 N. State St.) UĂ&#x160; Â&#x2C6;Â?Â?Ă&#x192;>ÂŤĂ&#x192;Ă&#x160;-Â&#x2C6;Â&#x2DC;}iĂ&#x20AC;Ă&#x192;Ă&#x160; Â&#x2026;Ă&#x20AC;Â&#x2C6;Ă&#x192;Ă&#x152;Â&#x201C;>Ă&#x192;Ă&#x160; Â&#x153;Â&#x2DC;ViĂ&#x20AC;Ă&#x152;Ă&#x160;Dec. 4, 7 p.m. The ensemble presents their annual concert in the recital hall. Free, donations welcome; call 601-974-1000; millsaps.edu.

UĂ&#x160; Â&#x2026;Ă&#x20AC;Â&#x2C6;Ă&#x192;Ă&#x152;Â&#x201C;>Ă&#x192;Ă&#x160; `Ă&#x203A;iÂ&#x2DC;Ă&#x152;Ă&#x160; iĂ&#x192;Ă&#x192;Â&#x153;Â&#x2DC;Ă&#x192;Ă&#x160;>Â&#x2DC;`Ă&#x160; >Ă&#x20AC;Â&#x153;Â?Ă&#x192;Ă&#x160;Dec. 8, noon Enjoy traditional carols and hymns in the recital hall. Free; call 974-1000; millsaps.edu. nĂ&#x17D;Ă&#x20AC;`Ă&#x160; Â&#x2DC;Â&#x2DC;Ă&#x2022;>Â?Ă&#x160;-Â&#x2C6;Â&#x2DC;}Â&#x2C6;Â&#x2DC;}Ă&#x160; Â&#x2026;Ă&#x20AC;Â&#x2C6;Ă&#x192;Ă&#x152;Â&#x201C;>Ă&#x192;Ă&#x160;/Ă&#x20AC;iiĂ&#x160;Dec. 4-5, 7:30 p.m., at Belhaven University (1500 Peachtree St.). At the Athletic Bowl. Dr. Christopher Shelt conducts the singing forces made up of the 70 Belhaven Choral Arts singers along with 60 additional students, faculty and staff. Free; call 601-9746494; belhaven.edu. Âş/Â&#x2026;iĂ&#x160; Ă&#x2022;Ă&#x152;VĂ&#x20AC;>VÂ&#x17D;iĂ&#x20AC;ÂťĂ&#x160;Dec. 4, 7:30 p.m., Dec. 5-6, 2 p.m., at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pascagoula St.).

Ballet Mississippi brings E.T.A Hoffmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s classic

holiday story â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Nutcracker and the Mouse Kingâ&#x20AC;? (1816) to life in the annual performance.

Guest dancers include Adiarys Almeida and Carlos Lopez. Dec. 4 is Ballet, Blue Jeans and Beer Night. $12.5-$32.5; call 601-960-1560; balletms.com. Âş Ă&#x160; Â&#x2026;Ă&#x20AC;Â&#x2C6;Ă&#x192;Ă&#x152;Â&#x201C;>Ă&#x192;Ă&#x160; >Ă&#x20AC;Â&#x153;Â?Âť Dec. 4-5, 7:30 p.m., Dec. 6, 2 p.m., Dec. 10-12, 7:30 p.m., Dec. 13, 2 p.m., Dec. 15-19, 7:30 p.m., Dec. 20, 2 p.m., at New Stage Theatre (1100 Carlisle St.). The play is based on Charles Dickensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; classic tale about a miserâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s encounter with three Christmas spirits. Visit the website for SchoolFest Matinee show times. $28, $22 seniors and students, $18 per person for groups of 15 or more; call 601-948-3533, ext.

222; newstagetheatre.com. /Â&#x2026;iĂ&#x160;-Ă&#x2022;}>Ă&#x20AC;Ă&#x160;*Â?Ă&#x2022;Â&#x201C;Ă&#x160; >Â&#x2C6;Ă&#x20AC;Ă&#x17E;½Ă&#x192;Ă&#x160;/i>Ă&#x160;*>Ă&#x20AC;Ă&#x152;Ă&#x17E;Ă&#x160;Dec. 5-6, noon, at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). The Ballet Mississippi Guild is the host. Includes a seated lunch, live music and visits from characters featured in the ballet â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Nutcracker.â&#x20AC;? Bring a camera for pictures with the Sugar Plum Fairy. 10 people per table. $30 per person; call 601-960-1560; balletms.com. /i``Ă&#x17E;Ă&#x160; i>Ă&#x20AC;Ă&#x160;/i>Ă&#x160;Dec. 5, 3-4 p.m., at King Edward Hotel (235 W. Capitol St.). Includes storytelling, photos with Santa and kid-friendly treats. $25, children under 12 months free; call 969-8544. Âş VÂ&#x2026;Â&#x153;iĂ&#x192;Ă&#x160;Â&#x153;vĂ&#x160; Â&#x153;Â?`ÂťĂ&#x160;Dec. 5, 7 p.m., at St. Richard Catholic Church (1242 Lynwood Drive). The Mississippi Chorus hosts a talk at 7 p.m. and gives a Christmas concert at 7:30 p.m. Free; call 601278-3351; mschorus.org.

Â&#x153;Â&#x153;Â&#x17D;Â&#x2C6;iĂ&#x192;Ă&#x160;Ă&#x153;Â&#x2C6;Ă&#x152;Â&#x2026;Ă&#x160;->Â&#x2DC;Ă&#x152;>Ă&#x160;Dec. 6, 2-4 p.m., at Campbellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bakery (3013 N. State St.). Includes cookies and milk, and photos with santa. Proceeds from photo sales benefit the Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Advocacy Centers of Mississippi. Free cookies and milk, $15 photo session; call 601-362-4628. Â?Ă&#x2022;iĂ&#x160;>Â&#x2DC;`Ă&#x160;7Â&#x2026;Â&#x2C6;Ă&#x152;iĂ&#x160; Â&#x2DC;Â&#x2DC;Ă&#x2022;>Â?Ă&#x160; Â&#x153;Â?Â&#x2C6;`>Ă&#x17E;Ă&#x160; iÂ?iLĂ&#x20AC;>tion Dec. 8, 6-9 p.m., at Jackson Medical Mall (350 W. Woodrow Wilson Ave.). In the Community Room. The Jackson-Hinds Alumni Chapter of the Jackson State University National Alumni Association is the host.

Wear upscale blue and white attire. RSVP by Nov. 23. Donate toys, cash or canned goods for charity to enter; call 601-954-4662; email gwash80@hotmail.com.

7Â&#x2C6;Â&#x2DC;Ă&#x152;iĂ&#x20AC;Ă&#x160; Â&#x153;Â?Â&#x2C6;`>Ă&#x17E;Ă&#x192;Ă&#x160; Ă?ÂŤĂ&#x20AC;iĂ&#x192;Ă&#x192;Ă&#x160;Mondays, noon-4:30 p.m., Tuesdays-Fridays, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Saturdays, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. through Dec. 23, at William F. Winter Archives and History Building (200 North St.). Enjoy the festively-decorated model train town of Possum Ridge. Free; call 601576-6850; mdah.state.ms.us.

+)$3 Âş Â&#x2C6;Ă&#x192;Â&#x2DC;iĂ&#x17E;Ă&#x160;Â&#x153;Â&#x2DC;Ă&#x160; Vi\Ă&#x160; iĂ&#x152;½Ă&#x192;Ă&#x160; iÂ?iLĂ&#x20AC;>Ă&#x152;itÂťĂ&#x160;Dec. 3, 7:30 p.m., Dec. 4, 10:30 a.m., Dec. 4, 7 p.m., Dec. 5, 2 p.m., Dec. 5, 6 p.m., Dec. 6, 1:30 p.m., Dec. 6, 5:30 p.m., at Mississippi Coliseum (1207 Mississippi St.). Join Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald and Goofy as they celebrate a Very Merry Unbirthday Party. $12-$60; call 800-745-3000. Ă&#x203A;iÂ&#x2DC;Ă&#x152;Ă&#x192;Ă&#x160;>Ă&#x152;Ă&#x160; Â&#x2C6;Ă&#x192;Ă&#x192;Â&#x2C6;Ă&#x192;Ă&#x192;Â&#x2C6;ÂŤÂŤÂ&#x2C6;Ă&#x160; Ă&#x2022;Ă&#x192;iĂ&#x2022;Â&#x201C;Ă&#x160;Â&#x153;vĂ&#x160; >Ă&#x152;Ă&#x2022;Ă&#x20AC;>Â?Ă&#x160;-VÂ&#x2C6;ence (2148 Riverside Drive) UĂ&#x160;-Â&#x2DC;Â&#x153;Ă&#x153;vÂ?>Â&#x17D;iĂ&#x160;-VÂ&#x2C6;iÂ&#x2DC;ViĂ&#x160;Dec. 4, 10 a.m.-noon.

Experiment with â&#x20AC;&#x153;hot snow,â&#x20AC;? make your own paper snowflakes and explore the properties of dry ice. Included with admission ($6, $5 seniors, $4 ages 3-18, children under 3 free); call 601576-6000; mdwfp.com/museum.

UĂ&#x160; Â&#x2026;Ă&#x20AC;Â&#x2C6;Ă&#x192;Ă&#x152;Â&#x201C;>Ă&#x192;Ă&#x160;vÂ&#x153;Ă&#x20AC;Ă&#x160;Ă&#x152;Â&#x2026;iĂ&#x160; Â&#x2C6;Ă&#x20AC;`Ă&#x192;Ă&#x160;Dec. 5, 10 a.m.-noon.

Create edible ornaments for your outdoor trees.

Included with admission ($6, $5 seniors, $4 ages 3-18, children under 3 free); call 601-576-6000; mdwfp.com/museum.

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Reservations required. For ages 21 and up. $53.7; call 601-366-3427.

Ă&#x203A;iÂ&#x2DC;Ă&#x152;Ă&#x192;Ă&#x160;>Ă&#x152;Ă&#x160; iÂ&#x201C;Ă&#x2022;Ă&#x20AC;Â&#x2C6;>Ă&#x160; Â&#x153;Â&#x153;Â&#x17D;Ă&#x192;Ă&#x160;(Banner Hall, 4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 202) UĂ&#x160;Âş >VÂ&#x17D;Ă&#x160; Ă&#x20AC;Â&#x2C6;Ă&#x192;Ă&#x152;Â&#x2C6;Â?\Ă&#x160;6Â&#x153;Â&#x2C6;ViĂ&#x160;Â&#x153;vĂ&#x160;Ă&#x152;Â&#x2026;iĂ&#x160; -1Ă&#x160; Ă&#x2022;Â?Â?`Â&#x153;}Ă&#x192;ÂťĂ&#x160;Dec. 4, noon. Sid Salter signs books. $26 book; call 601-366-7619; lemuriabooks.com.

#/--5.)49 Â&#x2C6;Ă&#x192;Ă&#x152;Â&#x153;Ă&#x20AC;Ă&#x17E;Ă&#x160; Ă&#x192;Ă&#x160; Ă&#x2022;Â&#x2DC;VÂ&#x2026;Ă&#x160;Dec. 2, noon, at Old Capitol Museum (100 S. State St.). Retired Delta State University president John M. Hilpert discusses his book, â&#x20AC;&#x153;American Cyclone: Theodore Roosevelt and His 1900 Whistle-Stop Campaign.â&#x20AC;? Sales and signing to follow. Free; call 601-576-6998; mdah.state.ms.us. Ă&#x203A;iÂ&#x2DC;Ă&#x152;Ă&#x192;Ă&#x160;>Ă&#x152;Ă&#x160; Â&#x2C6;Â?Â?Ă&#x192;>ÂŤĂ&#x192;Ă&#x160; Â&#x153;Â?Â?i}i]Ă&#x160; Â&#x153;Ă&#x20AC;`Ă&#x160; V>`iÂ&#x201C;Â&#x2C6;VĂ&#x160;

Â&#x153;Â&#x201C;ÂŤÂ?iĂ?Ă&#x160;(1701 N. State St.) UĂ&#x160; Â&#x2C6;Â?Â?Ă&#x192;>ÂŤĂ&#x192;Ă&#x160; Ă&#x20AC;Â&#x2C6;`>Ă&#x17E;Ă&#x160; Â&#x153;Ă&#x20AC;Ă&#x2022;Â&#x201C;Ă&#x160;Dec. 4, 12:30 p.m.

In room 215. The Student Humanities Symposium takes place at the final forum of the year. Free; call 601-974-1061; email kenneth. townsend@millsaps.edu; millsaps.edu.

UĂ&#x160; Â&#x2C6;Â?Â?Ă&#x192;>ÂŤĂ&#x192;Ă&#x160; Ă&#x20AC;Ă&#x152;Ă&#x192;Ă&#x160;EĂ&#x160; iVĂ&#x152;Ă&#x2022;Ă&#x20AC;iĂ&#x160;-iĂ&#x20AC;Â&#x2C6;iĂ&#x192;p Â&#x153;Â&#x153;Â&#x17D;Â&#x2C6;Â&#x2DC;}Ă&#x160; Â&#x2DC;\Ă&#x160; Ă&#x17E;Ă&#x160; Â&#x153;Ă&#x2022;Ă&#x20AC;Â&#x2DC;iĂ&#x17E;Ă&#x160;Ă&#x152;Â&#x153;Ă&#x160;Ă&#x152;Â&#x2026;iĂ&#x160; Â&#x2C6;Ă&#x152;VÂ&#x2026;iÂ&#x2DC;Ă&#x160;Dec. 8, 7 p.m. Chef Tom Ramsey shares how his love of food led him from the corporate world to the culinary arts. $10, $5 students; call 601974-1130; millsaps.edu/conted.

34!'% 3#2%%. Â&#x2C6;Â?Â?iĂ&#x20AC;Ă&#x160; i>âĂ&#x160;Dec. 5, 8 p.m., at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). The stand-up comedian performs. $20 in advance, $25 at the door, $3 surcharge for patrons under 21; call 601-292-7121; email arden@ardenland.net; ardenland.net. *Â?>Â&#x2DC;iĂ&#x152;>Ă&#x20AC;Â&#x2C6;Ă&#x2022;Â&#x201C;Ă&#x160;-VÂ&#x2026;i`Ă&#x2022;Â?i Mondays-Fridays, noon, Saturdays, 1 p.m. through Dec. 31, at Russell C. Davis Planetarium (201 E. Pascagoula St.).

Options include â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lasers in Space,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Let It Snowâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Winter Holiday (Laser Adventure).â&#x20AC;? $6.50; $5.50 seniors; $4 children (cash or check); call 601-960-1550; thedavisplanetarium.com.

#/.#%243 &%34)6!,3 Ă&#x17D;Â&#x2122;Ă&#x152;Â&#x2026;Ă&#x160; Â&#x2DC;Â&#x2DC;Ă&#x2022;>Â?Ă&#x160; Â&#x2026;Â&#x2C6;Â&#x201C;Â&#x2DC;iĂ&#x17E;Ă&#x203A;Â&#x2C6;Â?Â?iĂ&#x160; Â&#x2C6;Â&#x2DC;iĂ&#x160; Ă&#x20AC;>vĂ&#x152;Ă&#x192;Ă&#x160; iĂ&#x192;Ă&#x152;Â&#x2C6;Ă&#x203A;>Â?Ă&#x160;Dec. 3, 7-10 p.m., Dec. 4, 9 a.m.-6 p.m., Dec. 5, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., at Mississippi Trade Mart (1200 Mississippi St.). The theme is â&#x20AC;&#x153;Celebrating Excellence.â&#x20AC;? Shop for holiday gifts from more than 150 juried members. The preview party is Dec. 3 and the festival is Dec. 4-5. $60 Dec. 3, $10 Dec. 4-5; call 601-856-7546; craftsmensguildofms.org. Ă&#x203A;iÂ&#x2DC;Ă&#x152;Ă&#x192;Ă&#x160;>Ă&#x152;Ă&#x160; Ă&#x2022;Â?Â&#x2C6;Â&#x2DC;}Ă&#x160; >Â?Â?Ă&#x160;(622 Duling Ave.) UĂ&#x160; Â?Â&#x153;Ă&#x153;Ă&#x160;/Ă&#x20AC;Â&#x2C6;LiĂ&#x160;Dec. 3, 8 p.m. The funk and rock band performs. $10 in advance, $15 at the door, $3 surcharge for under 21; call 601-292-7121; email arden@ardenland.net; ardenland.net.

UĂ&#x160; Â&#x2C6;}Â&#x2026;Ă&#x152;Ă&#x160;Â&#x153;vĂ&#x160; Ă&#x2022;Ă&#x192;Â&#x2C6;V>Â?Ă&#x160; Ă&#x20AC;Ă&#x152;Â&#x2C6;Ă&#x192;Ă&#x152;Ă&#x20AC;Ă&#x17E;Ă&#x160;Dec. 4, 7 p.m. The Mississippi Jazz Foundation presents the 12th annual concert with actor Palmer Williams Jr. as the host. The Good Times Brass Band, Mike Burton and PJ Morton perform. $35; call 601-594-2314; email arden@ardenland. net; missjazzfoundation.com.

UĂ&#x160; iÂ&#x2DC;Ă&#x152;Ă&#x20AC;>Â?Ă&#x160; Â&#x2C6;Ă&#x192;Ă&#x192;Â&#x2C6;Ă&#x192;Ă&#x192;Â&#x2C6;ÂŤÂŤÂ&#x2C6;Ă&#x160;,iVÂ&#x153;Ă&#x20AC;`Ă&#x160; Â&#x153;Â&#x2DC;Ă&#x203A;iÂ&#x2DC;Ă&#x152;Â&#x2C6;Â&#x153;Â&#x2DC;Ă&#x160;Dec. 5, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.Vendors from Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama and Tennessee buy and sell used and records, cassettes, CDs and other types of music media. $5 from 9-10 p.m., then $3; call 601-874-2190; email arden@ardenland.net.

>VÂ&#x17D;Ă&#x192;Â&#x153;Â&#x2DC;Ă&#x160; Ă&#x2022;`Ă&#x2022;LÂ&#x153;Â&#x2DC;Ă&#x160;-Â&#x153;VÂ&#x2C6;iĂ&#x152;Ă&#x17E;Ă&#x160; Â&#x2C6;Ă&#x20AC;Ă&#x192;Ă&#x152;Ă&#x160;->Ă&#x152;Ă&#x2022;Ă&#x20AC;`>Ă&#x17E;Ă&#x160; Â&#x2C6;Ă&#x20AC;`Ă&#x160; 7>Â?Â&#x17D; Dec. 5, 8 a.m.-noon, at LeFleurâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bluff State Park (2140 Riverside Drive). An expert birder leads the walk. Meet at the picnic area.

Free with $4.04 car entrance fee; call 601-8326788; jacksonaudubonsociety.org. Ă&#x2022;Ă&#x192;Ă&#x152;>Ă&#x20AC;`Ă&#x160;-ii`Ă&#x160;"ÂŤiÂ&#x2DC;Ă&#x160; Â&#x153;Ă&#x2022;Ă&#x192;iĂ&#x160;Dec. 5, 10 a.m.3 p.m., at The Mustard Seed (1085 Luckney Road, Brandon). Includes a family bake sale, a ceramics raffle and a seconds sale. The Bells of Faith perform at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Free; call 601-992-3556; mustardseedinc.org.

½Ă&#x192;Ă&#x160; Â&#x2C6;vĂ&#x152;Â&#x2026;Ă&#x160; Â&#x2C6;Ă&#x20AC;Ă&#x152;Â&#x2026;`>Ă&#x17E;Ă&#x160; iÂ?iLĂ&#x20AC;>Ă&#x152;Â&#x2C6;Â&#x153;Â&#x2DC;Ă&#x160; Dec. 5, 5-8 p.m., at Mississippi Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Museum (2145 Highland Drive). Includes the naming of the museumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shrimp boat and a bake-off with metro Jackson bakeries. Included with admission ($10, children under 12 months free); call 601-981-5469; mississippichildrensmuseum.com.

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Â&#x2C6;Â?iÂ&#x201C;Â&#x201C;>Âť Dec. 8, 5 p.m. Robert E. Luckett Jr. signs books. $65 book; call 601-366-7619; lemuriabooks.com.

#2%!4)6% #,!33%3 Âş/Â&#x2026;iĂ&#x160; Ă&#x20AC;Ă&#x152;Ă&#x160;Â&#x153;vĂ&#x160; iÂ&#x2C6;Â&#x2DC;}ÂťĂ&#x160; `Ă&#x2022;Â?Ă&#x152;Ă&#x160; VĂ&#x152;Â&#x2C6;Â&#x2DC;}Ă&#x160; Â?>Ă&#x192;Ă&#x192;Ă&#x160;Dec. 5, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., at New Stage Theatre (1100 Carlisle St.). Actor Yohance Myles (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Into the Badlands,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Containmentâ&#x20AC;?) is the instructor. Registration required. For ages 18 and up. $150-$150; call 601-948-3533, ext. 232; email education@ newstagetheatre.com.

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iViÂ&#x201C;LiĂ&#x20AC;Ă&#x160; Ă&#x20AC;Ă&#x152;Ă&#x160;,iViÂŤĂ&#x152;Â&#x2C6;Â&#x153;Â&#x2DC;Ă&#x160;Dec. 3, 5:30 p.m., at Fischer Galleries (Dickies Building, 736 S. President St., fourth floor). See paintings from Richard Kelso. Free; call 291-9115; fischergalleries.com. "ÂŤiÂ&#x2DC;Â&#x2C6;Â&#x2DC;}Ă&#x160;,iViÂŤĂ&#x152;Â&#x2C6;Â&#x153;Â&#x2DC;Ă&#x160;vÂ&#x153;Ă&#x20AC;Ă&#x160; Â&#x2C6;Ă&#x192;Ă&#x192;Â&#x2C6;Ă&#x192;Ă&#x192;Â&#x2C6;ÂŤÂŤÂ&#x2C6;Ă&#x160; Ă&#x20AC;Ă&#x152;Â&#x2C6;Ă&#x192;Ă&#x152;Ă&#x192;½Ă&#x160; Ă&#x2022;Â&#x2C6;Â?`Ă&#x160; Ă&#x2022;Ă&#x20AC;Â&#x2C6;i`Ă&#x160; Â&#x2C6;Â&#x2DC;iĂ&#x160; Ă&#x20AC;Ă&#x152;Ă&#x192;Ă&#x160; Ă?Â&#x2026;Â&#x2C6;LÂ&#x2C6;Ă&#x152;Â&#x2C6;Â&#x153;Â&#x2DC; Dec. 3, 6-8 p.m., at Spectacles Gallery (Highland Village, 4500 Interstate 55 N., Suite 143). See works from Rebecca Cupples, Jeneane Mixon, Kay Watts, Janet Lushbaugh, Clint McHann, Gay Simpson and Dianne Norman. Show hangs through Feb. 5. Free; call 662-528-6887; mississippiartistsguild.org.

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Check jfpevents.com for updates and more listings, or to add your own events online. You can also email event details to events@jacksonfreepress.com to be added to the calendar. The deadline is noon the Wednesday prior to the week of publication.

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Bottle Tree Art Orchard

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bottle trees â&#x20AC;&#x201C; often referred to as â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;poor manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stained glassâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x201C; are â&#x20AC;&#x153;joie de vivre on a stick,â&#x20AC;? writes horticulturalist Felder Rushing.

DECEMBER 2015

BYOB: Beginning Thursday December 10, the public is invited to bring thier own bottles and/or bottle trees to add to the installation. @MSMUSEUMART.ORG

This December, the Mississippi Museum of Art embraces this symbol of the everyman by hosting a community orchard of the native folk art in The Art Garden. Felder Rushing, respected horticulturalist, gardener, and scholar of all things green and growing, gives two talks about the history and significance of glass in the garden on Thursday, December 10 (11:30 AM and 6 PM). His talks are followed by signings of his book Bottle Trees and the Whimsical Art of Garden Glass.

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to say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Hang on. The gods mustâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve created Steve.

Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to be furious.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; But no one ever seemed to put that idea forward, probably because the religious guy had a certain amount of charisma and a big hat.â&#x20AC;?

Izzard describes his surreal stand-up comedy as a blend of Richard Pryor and the Monty Python troupe, though in recent years, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s put more effort into adding layers. As an analogy, he pointed to two classic Python entries: the silliness of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fish Slapping Danceâ&#x20AC;? skit and the more nuanced social commentary of the feature film, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Life of Brian.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was trying to hold a mirror to a whole lot of aspects of life, particularly in religion,â&#x20AC;? Izzard said of the latter. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a much more layered approach. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what you do as you get older. You sort of want to put the layers in because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s much more difficult, and if you get it right, it can be very intriguing.â&#x20AC;?

Another difficult area that Izzard has explored recently is subverting his naturally funny persona in various acting projects, including recent turns as the criminally insane Dr. Abel Gideon on NBCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hannibalâ&#x20AC;? and as the villain Wolfe on PlayStation Networkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Powers.â&#x20AC;?

Izzard said that acting and comedy are almost opposites.

In comedy, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s playing the biggest version of himself, so the focus is on reworking the material, but in acting, the material is provided, and his task is to create the character and determine what drives him. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s odd,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve compartmentalized them. If you learn to ride a bicycle and then learn to drive a car, which a lot of us do in life, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had to compartmentalize things. The leaning-over thing that you do when you go around a corner on a bicycle, you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need to do in a car, so you just donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t bother doing it. And yet, you can quite British comedian Eddie Izzard happily go from one to the other because you performs Monday, trained yourself that way.â&#x20AC;?

Dec. 7, at Temple Eddie Izzard performs at 8 p.m., Monday, Theater for the Dec. 7, at Temple Theater for the Performing Arts Performing Arts in Meridian.

(2320 8th St., Meridian, 601-693-5353). Tickets are $30 to $40 through ticketmaster.com. For more information, visit eddieizzard.com.

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ddie Izzard considers himself a â&#x20AC;&#x153;British European.â&#x20AC;?

Like many of his countrymen, the internationally known comedian, actor and writer is embroiled in a deep sense of historyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;not all of it good. However, the current Europe is much more united than the constantly warring continent of the past, he said. So why not promote that idea through his comedy? â&#x20AC;&#x153;We said: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Enough is enough. Can we not try to link together and work together in some way, shape or form?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; I believe in that idea,â&#x20AC;? Izzard said in a phone interview. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the only way the world is going to make it, and we have to make it work in Europe. I thought, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Well, what can I do?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; And I came up with, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Why donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t I try doing performances in other languages?â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

Launched in April 2013, Izzardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s current stand-up tour, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Force Majeure,â&#x20AC;? includes performances on five continents, and in 28 countries and every U.S. state, including a stop in Meridian, Miss., on Dec. 7.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the shows overseas that have garnered the most attention, though. In order to perform in the native language of the countries he travels to, Izzard learned his entire show in French and German with plans to add Russian, Arabic and Spanish, as well. But he said one thing has helped him while performing for these different audiences: They arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t that different at all. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve discovered is thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no national sense of humor,â&#x20AC;? Izzard said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One would assume, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;OK, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an American sense of humor, so American comedians play well in America,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; but in fact, there isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no American sense of music. There are different types of music, but if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a great American jazz player, you could also be a great Chinese jazz player. You can do that. You can be from anywhere.â&#x20AC;?

The trick is to avoid references to â&#x20AC;&#x153;very British things,â&#x20AC;? he said. Instead, he begins his show with an unfortunately universal topic: human sacrifice. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Why did anyone ever say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Hey, the weather is bad, the crops have failed, so weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to kill Steve because the gods are pissed off â&#x20AC;&#x2122;? Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crazy,â&#x20AC;? Izzard said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Why did we ever kill Steve? Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an insane idea, but we did it for hundreds upon thousands of years. â&#x20AC;Ś All blood sacrifice, there shouldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been someone standing next to the obvious religious person saying, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re gonna kill Steve,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;

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Bobo, guitarist Dean Harrison and drummer Cody Sparkman draw inspiration from classic rockers such as Led Zeppelin and key psychedelic-funk influences from artists like Prince to create the basis of Fides.

Each member of the band began his musical journey in the AttachĂŠ Show Choir at Clinton High School. Harrison, Smith and Sparkman all performed in the choirâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s band, while Bobo took the stage as a singer and dancer. Smith says that their love for classic rock and post-rock led them to link up and pursue the music scene seriously. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We just started getting together and jamming out because we were all together in the show choir,â&#x20AC;? Smith says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We started booking some gigs, bar cover sets playing rock covers like Zeppelin or blues like B.B. Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;just bar music. I think that (show choir) had an impact on our chemistry together. We all learned how to play with each other and make not-so-interesting things interesting. After doing cover gigs, we all started buckling down and began playing original music, because I had a few songs Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d already written.â&#x20AC;?

Fides released its self-titled debut EP in 2013 before hitting the studio to record a full-length record titled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Olive Branch,â&#x20AC;? which they released in February of this year. The album isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a far leap from the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first tracks stylistically, but Smith says it offers a more mature sound that includes stronger vocals on songs such as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Press Recordâ&#x20AC;? and harder guitar riffs, like that on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Empty Space.â&#x20AC;?

Starting early next year, Smith says the musicians hope to begin recording their next project. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s already begun writing lyrics for the new music, though he says theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re searching for the balance between a more

Though the musicians have been friends for years, Smith says one of the biggest challenges in progressing as a band is finding time to get together and perform, as three of the members have been embroiled in college courses. Smith is a senior at Delta State University, working toward a bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree in music industry studies with an emphasis in audio engineering; Harrison is a senior at Mississippi State University, where he is studying industrial engineering; and Bobo graduated from Mississippi College this spring with a bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree in nursing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a learning process,â&#x20AC;? Bobo says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We want to play as many shows as we can, but sometimes, other obligations (like school) come up.â&#x20AC;?

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The Mississippi high-school football championships are in Oxford Dec. 4-5. You can catch all six games on TV with channel 35 (WLOO) or on radio with 87.7 FM. THURSDAY, DEC. 3 NFL (7:25-11 p.m., CBS): Former MSU cornerback Darius Slay will try to help the home-standing Detroit Lions beat the Green Bay Packers.

FRIDAY, DEC. 4 College basketball (7-9 p.m., FS1): Southern Miss could still be looking for its first win of the season when the team hosts Alabama.

SATURDAY, DEC. 5 College football (11 a.m.-2:30 p.m., ESPN2): Southern Miss looks to win the C-USA football championship for the first time since 2011 by beating Western Kentucky. â&#x20AC;Ś College football (3-6:30 p.m., ESPNU): Alcorn State looks to win its second straight SWAC football title against Grambling State.

SUNDAY, DEC. 6 NFL (3:25-7 p.m., Fox): The New Orleans Saints look to pull off one of the biggest upsets this season by beating the undefeated Carolina Panthers.

MONDAY, DEC. 7 NFL (7:30-11 p.m., ESPN): Former MSU star Preston Smith will try to help Washington in a home against the Dallas Cowboys.

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WEDNESDAY, DEC. 9 College basketball (6-8 p.m., ESPN2): A new No. 1 team in college basketball is the Kentucky Wildcats, who host Eastern Kentucky.

The 3A and 4A championship matches this year are rematches of last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s title games. Bassfield High School looks to repeat in 2A, and Oxford High School looks to win 5A after falling short last year.

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o matter what happens this Saturday, Dec. 5, in the Conference USA Football Championship, where the University of Southern Mississippi will take on the University of Western Kentucky, USM has completed one of the biggest turnarounds in college football this season.

The Golden Eagles will be looking for their first C-USA football title since 2011, right before the wheels came off in the 2012 season. Head Coach Todd Monken should not only be C-USA Coach of the Year, but several national coaching honors should come his way.

All three Mississippi FBS schools have found solid coaches, and the programs seem to be on sound foundations.

After the regular football season ended Sunday, Nov. 29, several coaches got the ax, and in the coming days, several more will likely be out the door.

In some cases, coaches simply donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t meet expectations. The University of Georgia, at which only a national championship season will do, fired Head Coach Mark Richt, even though he only had one losing season (6-7 in 2010) in 15 years and finished this season with a 9-3 record.

Louisiana State University almost paid $15 million to force out coach Les Miles before public opinion swayed the decision. Miles has never had a losing

season in 11 years with the Tigers and has won at least eight games every year, with a national championship in 2007 and a loss in the 2011 championship game against Alabama.

Meanwhile, one former Southern Miss coach could play his way into the national title picture. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill coach Larry Fedora has the Tar Heels in the ACC Championship. It was Fedora leaving that led to the hiring of Ellis Johnson, which led to the USM program crashing and the subsequent hiring of Monken.

As college-football coaching jobs open up, the University of Mississippi and Mississippi State University probably donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to worry about Hugh Freeze or Dan Mullen leaving. Both have a chance to play for national titles just because they are in the SEC, and very few jobs could open that would pay more money and

provide a quicker path to a title.

The same canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be said for Monken and Southern Miss. The turnaround job this season will make plenty of programs around the country take notice of the Golden Eagles head coach. Not every job opening should worry USM fans, although job vacancies in the Power Five conferences should. Fedora left for a job with a Power Five team, after all.

Right now, jobs available in power five conferences include ones at the universities of Georgia, Miami, South Carolina, Missouri, Maryland and Virginia, as well as Rutgers University and Syracuse University. Even more positions could become available as the week goes on.

The new fear for Southern Miss fans is that another university might swoop in to poach the programâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hot young coach once again. And the next coaching hire may well be another Ellis Johnson in disguise.

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