Leah Davis and Barron Mayfield have advanced to the runoff election in the race for Associated Student Body president after none of the three candidates gained a majority of the student body’s vote. After 5,514 votes were counted, Mayfield had won 38.79% of the vote compared to Davis’s 32.08%. Mayfield, a junior public policy leadership […]
James Thomas’s nose crinkles when he smiles, which is more often than his Twitter followers might think. “I get the sense that people who don’t know me well think that there’s this sociologist on campus who puts out these confrontational things, a one-note person,” he said. “I’m not that. I’m a very good classroom instructor. […]
While neo-Confederate protesters were marching 1,000 feet away in the Circle, eight Ole Miss men’s basketball players knelt during the national anthem at The Pavilion before the team’s home game against Georgia on Saturday. Players including KJ Buffen, Devontae Shuler, Terence Davis, Brian Halums, DC Davis, Franco Miller Jr., Luis Rodriguez, Breein Tyree and Bruce […]
Students and community members have organized a counterprotest against the rally planned by Confederate 901 and the Hiwaymen. The counterprotest’s leader plans for the march to be just as large as the pro-Confederate protest on Saturday. Will Pipes, the organizer of the counterprotest and a senior marketing major, said the counterprotest will occur in the […]
University administration and student groups are responding to the neo-Confederate “Mississippi Stands Rally” scheduled for Saturday afternoon with events planned throughout the week and on the day of the event. Confederate 901 and the Hiwaymen, neo-Confederate groups not based in Mississippi, will organize in Oxford on Saturday afternoon to protest the removal and contextualization of […]
Tiny, inked clusters of needles jut out of a miniature cactus on Bianca Martinez’s ankle. Her first tattoo, she got it to remind herself where she came from. “Reynosa in Tamaulipas, Mexico,” she said, trilling her “r”s and rolling her “l”s in all the right places. However, she identifies just as much as American as […]
The IHL Board announced Jeffrey Vitter’s intent to resign as Ole Miss Chancellor on Friday morning. Vitter will serve as Chancellor of the university until January 3, 2019, and continue as a tenured Distinguished Professor in the School of Engineering’s Department of Computer and Information Science. “It has been an extraordinary honor and privilege to […]
Sandwiched between paragraphs outlining James Zachariah George’s biography, the George Hall contextualization plaque says, “George was most responsible for crafting the ‘Mississippi Plan,’ a program of voter intimidation, violent repression and riot aimed at returning his state to white Democratic rule.” The plaque goes on to say this repression was “bitter and bloody,” and that […]
SHA’ SIMPSON “I’ll put it to you like this,” Sha’ Simpson says, leaning back in her chair and defiantly looking me straight in the eyes. “For me, being a woman of color, being a lesbian — and then being a woman, period — to certain people can be intimidating. I’m just locked and loaded to already […]
David Sanders, a computational physicist and research scientist in the University of Mississippi Physics Department, looks through a telescope in Kennon Observatory on Sunday night. UM students and Oxford families were offered a cloudless nighttime view of the Moon, Jupiter, Saturn and Mars on Sunday during the first astronomy open house of the semester. The […]
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