Monday, July 24, 2023
Biden set to establish monument for civil rights icon Emmett Till Akayla Gardner Bloomberg News
Till was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 when “Let’s be clear, I do believe this is not only about the he was 14 years old. Photos of his deformed face state of Florida. There’s a national agenda.” were immortalized in Jet magazine after Till-Mobley Black voters are a key constituency for Biden insisted on having an open casket at his funeral, as he seeks reelection in 2024. The president will drawing national attention to racial violence. need to reenergize the bloc in places like Georgia, WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will The Biden campaign and the White House have where he won by narrow margins in 2020. fulfill a years-long effort by conservationists to blasted efforts in some states to suppress teachings Earlier this year, members of the Till family establish a national monument to preserve landmarks about slavery and Black history in public school joined civil-rights leaders for a screening of the tied to the killing of Emmett Till, a catalyst for the classrooms. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a leading movie Till at the White House during Black civil-rights movement. candidate in the GOP presidential primary, has History Month. Biden signed legislation last year to Biden will sign a proclamation Tuesday to defended new state curriculum regulating lessons on officially designate lynching as a federal hate crime, create a memorial in honor of Till and his mother, race, which has drawn outrage from educators and legislation Till’s family has advocated for years. Mamie Till-Mobley, in Illinois and Mississippi. The civil-rights leaders. signing will fall on the day that would have been “They want to replace history with lies,” Vice Till’s 82nd birthday, a White House official said. President Kamala Harris said Friday in Florida. See Biden on page 6
Gundy says game clock rule change will ‘be a big factor in games’
Braden Bush Sport Editor
control. “Now if teams have the ability to rush the ball with a clock that continues to move on first downs, very similar to what you see in the NFL, the game is going to expire much quicker and it’ll be considerably different to what it’s been in the past,” Gundy said. The clock will continue to stop inside the final two minutes of each half, as it has in years past, which lengthens the final minutes and allows room for a late comeback. “That’s important,” Steve Shaw, NCAA secretary ruleseditor and officials coordinator, told ESPN, “because the beauty of the difference in our game, and it allows a team late in the game, even without timeouts, to have a chance to advance the ball and come back and that sort of thing. So we’re still going to stop it in the last two minutes.”
As OSU coach Mike Gundy says he wants to get back to focusing on the running game more, new rules in college football give more game-control advantages to rushing the football. In April, the NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel approved a rule change that will allow the clock to run after first downs in all divisions except Division III. This is a rule that the NFL has already adopted. At Big 12 Media Days, Gundy said many of his earlier teams put more emphasis on the run and often utilized three backs, and he added that he plans to transition back to more rushing. With the new rules, a viable rushing attack paired with fewer stoppages can lead to even better clock See Gundy on page 4
Saul Steinberg, Untitled, 1975 Steinberg was best known for his illustration contributions to The New Yorker over a span of nearly six decades
Saul Steinberg exhibit coming to OSU’s Museum of Art Lauren King Staff Reporter
File Photo OSU coach Mike Gundy said the new college football game clock rule changes will make the game much quicker.
which are both aesthetically pleasing and intellectually engaging,” said curator Christina Elliott. Steinberg’s life is unlike Oklahoma State University’s many others; his artistic journey Museum of Art will display is unique in that he suffered the Romanian modernist artist Saul weight of many foreign political Steinberg through the exhibit “Line and economic tensions during his of Thought: The Work of Saul lifetime. Steinberg,” featured from July 25 to Steinberg was born in Sept. 30. Romania to a Russian Jewish Steinberg was best known for family. It was there that he his illustration contributions to The experienced antisemitism during New Yorker over a span of nearly the 1920s, which he remembered six decades. Steinberg was skilled with much bitterness for the rest of in areas such as sketching, painting, his life. print, collages and sculptures. Seeking refuge, Steinberg “His drawings combine eventually moved to Milan in 1933 humor, satire and social where he studied architecture at commentary, resulting in designs the University of Milan. During his
time at the university, Steinberg contributed to the Italian newspaper Bertoldo, which presented his humorous cartoons. Seeking a way out of Italy, Steinberg began sending his illustrations to periodicals in the United States. Steinberg’s work appeared in four different popular periodicals due to the help of an illustrator’s agent in New York who was a close friend. In 1943, Steinberg joined the U.S. Naval Reserve and became a U.S. citizen. During this time, Steinberg traveled to China, India, North Africa and Italy illustrating war propaganda for The New Yorker – a collaboration he would maintain throughout his career. See Exhibit on page 6