Effective Sept. 27, All American Drive will close to public vehicles, due to the construction of the Jim and Thomas Duff Center for Science and Technology Innovation Building. Construction, bus and service and emergency vehicles are the only permitted vehicles to travel on All American Drive. Pedestrians may still walk from University to All American […]
The Oxford Community Market earned second place in the American Farmland Trust Grant competition on Sunday Sept. 19. In July, Oxford Community Market entered in the American Farmland Trust 13th Annual American Farmland Celebration contest. The contest ran from June 21 to Sept. 19, and shoppers and supporters from all around the nation voted on […]
The Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning voted to ban all Mississippi universities from mandating the COVID-19 vaccine on Sept. 17. “Individual universities have been prohibited by the board from implementing a COVID-19 vaccine mandate as a condition of employment or enrollment except for clinical settings,” Caron Blanton, IHL Spokesperson, said. J. Walt Starr, the President […]
Local businesses on the Square voice their reactions to the new mask mandate Oxford issued on Aug. 25. The mandate requires all indoor and outdoor facilities to enforce mask wearing when social distancing is not possible. Square Books has been mandating masks from the beginning of the pandemic, ensuring the safety and health of all […]
A week after classes began at the University of Mississippi, there has been an uptick of COVID-19 cases. Classes began Monday Aug. 23, and the university returned to full operations with a temporary mask mandate. As of this week there are 103 active COVID-19 cases with 93 cases being students and the remaining cases faculty […]
The Oxford Police Department reported that a recent University of Mississippi graduate was murdered at The Links apartment complex on Aug. 22. John Adams was shot and killed at the age of 24. Adams graduated with his bachelor’s degree from the university in May 2021. Police have Keith Lamont Jr., 19 of Batesville in custody, […]
The Food and Drug Administration officially approved the first COVID-19 vaccine on Aug. 23. Under the approval of the FDA, the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine will formally change its name to Comirnaty. Pfizer-BioNTech initially used an Emergency Use Authorization, which expedites the roll out of premature vaccines in a global pandemic. According to the most recent Centers […]
Faculty and students hold differing opinions after the temporary mask mandate was issued on Aug. 4 by Chancellor Glenn Boyce. The University of Mississippi requires all vaccinated and unvaccinated people to wear masks in indoor facilities. According to the Mississippi Department of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American College Health Association […]
A panel of researchers answered questions about the COVID-19 vaccine students from all eight Mississippi public universities submitted at a virtual town hall meeting Jackson State University coordinated and broadcasted on Facebook April 27. “Our universities want to give students an opportunity to have their questions about the COVID-19 vaccines answered in hopes they will […]
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