Fifty years ago this week, three protests for black equality on campus led to 89 arrests and changed the course of the university’s history. On Feb. 24, 1970, forty students from the Black Student Union presented 27 demands for inclusivity on campus to then-Chancellor Porter Fortune. At the same time, another group of black students […]
After years of debate, leaders of the United Methodist Church (UMC) have presented a plan to split into two denominations because of disagreements about the inclusion of LGBTQ people. Though the plan will need to be approved several times by UMC government bodies before being officially adopted, it leaves local congregations to decide which denomination […]
Jim Barksdale has quietly applied to be the next chancellor, according to three sources familiar with the search process. Barksdale is the chairman of the board and president of Barksdale Management Corporation, which manages philanthropic activities. He served as the president and CEO of Netscape Communications Corporation from 1994-1999. From 1983 to 1992, Barksdale served […]
Everyone wants to know who the next chancellor will be, but with the search committee bound by nondisclosure agreements and many candidates not publicly speaking about their interest, it’s hard for the university community to know what’s going on. Gerard Gibert is changing that: he has spoken openly about wanting the position. He’s the first […]
On March 1, three former Ole Miss Kappa Alpha fraternity members posed for a photo with guns in front of a bullet-riddled Emmett Till memorial. The three men in the photo now face a possible Department of Justice investigation. Till, a 14-year-old civil rights icon, was tortured and murdered in 1955. An all-white, all-male jury […]
The 13 Associated Student Body executive candidates gathered in the Overby Center on Monday night to debate the most prominent issues on the Ole Miss campus — mental health, student involvement and ASB transparency. Leah Davis, Tom Fowlkes and Barron Mayfield, the three candidates running for ASB president, all sought during the debate to emphasize […]
The Associated Student Body candidates began their debate at the Overby Center at 6 p.m. Monday night. There are three candidates for president, five candidates for vice president and two candidates for judicial chair. The candidates for attorney general, treasurer and secretary are running unopposed. Find more information about all the candidates here. The ASB […]
Updated: 7:20 p.m. Thursday The university faculty senate passed its resolution calling for the relocation of the Confederate monument in the Circle to the Confederate cemetery on campus with a unanimous vote at a special meeting tonight. This is the third out four campus government organizations to call for the monument’s relocation. The fourth organization, […]
The Associated Student Body Senate resolution calling for the relocation of the Confederate monument from the Circle to the Confederate cemetery passed the ASB Rules Committee on Thursday night. The Senate will hold a final vote at its meeting on Tuesday evening. The resolution states that the Confederate ideology “violates the tenets of the University […]
Kennedy Frain is afraid of going to the doctor, but it isn’t a procedure that scares her — it’s the cost. Frain, a junior studying elementary education and recreation administration, said that her finances get in the way of healthcare. She is able to attend the university through Pell Grants and the Ole Miss Opportunity […]
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