An unidentified driver struck an Ole Miss student walking on campus late Friday night in a hit-and-run incident now under investigation by University Police. The pedestrian was severely injured after being struck in the hit-and-run around 2 a.m. on Saturday near the intersection of Northgate Drive and Sorority Road, according to a media advisory released […]
Enrollment at the University of Mississippi has now dropped for two consecutive years across the university’s regional campuses and medical center. There were 23,780 students enrolled at the university during fall 2017 compared to 23,258 in fall 2018 — a decrease of 2.2 percent or 522 students. Last year’s decline of 1.9 percent was the […]
The Oxford Board of Aldermen unanimously passed the “Alcohol and Safety” ordinance Tuesday night, which will require students to scan their IDs to enter bars, will require sororities and fraternities to rent out venues with adequate security and will force businesses to install cameras on the interiors of their buildings. The ordinance will go into […]
Business leaders and political figures came together on Wednesday to discuss ways for Mississippi to move from the bottom to the top by embracing technology at the University of Mississippi’s third annual Technology Summit. Chancellor Jeffrey Vitter delivered the welcome address by emphasizing the need for technological research at the university. “As chancellor, I’m committed […]
Ole Miss has been named a recipient of an Arabic Flagship Program, a prestigious language curriculum that will expand the previously established Arabic language program on campus. The flagship programs are awarded by The Language Flagship, an organization established in 2002 that focuses on “designing, supporting and implementing a new paradigm for advanced language education,” […]
Efforts to memorialize the 1935 killing of Elwood Higginbottom, the seventh and last person known to be lynched in Lafayette County, continued on Tuesday night. A few dozen people lined the pews in the Tallahatchie Oxford Missionary Baptist Association church building for a public meeting hosted by the Lynching Memorialization in Lafayette County group. April […]
The Oxford Police Department will warn new and returning students about city ordinances they should be aware of as they arrive for the fall semester. Officers said they have noticed in previous years that each fall, as students leave dormitories for off-campus housing, they usually aren’t familiar with city rules. For several weeks at the […]
Uber Eats launched in Oxford on Thursday, offering food delivery from local restaurants and establishing itself as a direct competitor to Landshark Delivery, a locally owned delivery service. The Oxford launch comes in the same week Uber Eats began offering services in two Alabama college towns, Auburn and Tuscaloosa, according to Uber spokeswoman Evangeline George. […]
Named for the Six Flags AstroWorld amusement park in Houston, Travis Scott’s third studio album, “Astroworld,” was released on Aug. 3. Scott started making music after his favorite childhood theme park closed down in 2005. His 59-minute “Astroworld,” which flows like a roller coaster, is an appropriate homage. The album jolts to a start with […]
The Ole Miss Athletics Foundation is launching a new tailgating experience for game days this fall. This seemingly all-inclusive tailgating will provide game day attendees with a 10-by-20 tent, tables, chairs, TVs and more at the north end zone plaza near Vaught-Hemingway Stadium — for a price. These tailgates will cost $17,500 per tent for […]
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