While The Pride of the South band plays the national anthem before kickoff at Ole Miss football games, another type of band files onto the field: the HandBand. Dressed in navy blue shirts, white pants and white gloves, members of the Ole Miss HandBand perform “The Star-Spangled Banner” in American Sign Language. Reagan McCullough, the […]
Local filmmaker and artist Deborah Freeland has spent decades preserving Oxford history and art through her photography and films. Her latest project highlights another piece of Oxford’s rich artistic culture. For over a year, Freeland has been documenting the creative process of sculptor Bill Beckwith. Beckwith, a nationally recognized sculptor based in Taylor, Miss., was […]
Many years before the Grove became a sea of red and blue tents and elaborate buffet spreads, fall Saturdays in Oxford looked considerably different. Thomas J. “Sparky” Reardon, a 1972 Ole Miss alum and the dean of students from 2000 to 2014, has witnessed many variations of tailgating in the Grove. During his own undergraduate […]
The Center for Practical Ethics hosted its “Are These Wars Just?” panel in the gallery of Bryant Hall on Monday, Sept. 21. The discussion centered around the morality of modern wars and featured Instructional Assistant Professor in Philosophy and Religion Katherine Moses and Adjunct Professor of Intelligence and Security Studies Jamie Barnett. Borrowing on their […]
Months before Ole Miss Football fans fill Vaught-Hemingway Stadium, boutiques on the Square are already preparing for the football season and all the fashion trends that the season will require. Game day preparation for retailers in Oxford begins in February. Store owners and managers study upcoming trends, learn the Ole Miss football schedule, attend clothing […]
On the evening of Monday, Sept. 10, 2001, the average student at the University of Mississippi had one thing in mind: football. Following a tough loss to Auburn, the Rebels were gearing up for their upcoming game against Vanderbilt that Saturday. By the next morning, talk of tailgating plans was replaced by fear and disbelief. […]
Moving to a new city for college requires finding new businesses and services to meet daily needs. For Ole Miss parent Chlee Lisi, the solution for her daughters was compiling all this information together in a mobile app called The Local: Oxford. Lisi is the mother of Ava Cathryn Henderson, a junior marketing student, and […]
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