JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Leaders of a Mississippi college town voted Tuesday to permit a gay pride parade, reversing a previous denial and moving to defuse a lawsuit alleging discrimination and free speech violations. Starkville Mayor Lynn Spruill broke a 3-3 tie to allow the parade to go forward, after an alderman who previously had […]
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Longtime Republican Sen. Thad Cochran of Mississippi, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, told The Associated Press on Monday that he will resign April 1 because of health problems. Cochran, who turned 80 in December, stayed home for a month last fall with urinary tract infections, returning to Washington in October […]
Monday 8:30 a.m. – Yoga in the Gallery – UM Museum Tuesday Noon – The Remarkable Life of Theora Hamblett – Faulkner Room, J.D. Williams Library 6:30 p.m. – Ole Miss baseball versus Austin Peay – Swayze Field 7:30 p.m. – LMR Live with Kate Teague – David H. Nutt Auditorium 7:30 p.m. – Russian Folk […]
On Feb. 26, Gov. Phil Bryant posted on his official Facebook page a piece from the Clarion-Ledger. The piece centers around a Southern Poverty Law Center report of active hate groups in the United States that rates Mississippi as having the third most hate groups per capita. The report from the SPLC lists 15 recognized […]
Jazz and Gershwin fans alike will gather at 7:30 p.m. today at the Ford Center for a performance by the world-renowned Julian Bliss Septet. This year, the group is touring the United States with its concert titled “Celebrating Gershwin: A Stroll Down Tin Pan Alley.” Composed of some of the most talented musicians in Great […]
Monday 8:30 a.m. – Yoga in the Gallery – UM Museum 1 p.m. – Southern Music Symposium kicks off – Overby Center 5 p.m. – Steve Cavanagh with “The Plea” – Off Square Books 9 p.m. – The Busty Petites – Rafters Tuesday Noon – Luncheon with Donna Everhart – Off Square Books 4 p.m. – Ole Miss Baseball versus Murray State […]
Executive members of the UM Pride Network, Queer People of Color, OUTGrads, OUTLaw and The Sarah Isom Center for Women’s and Gender Studies signed a statement responding to the city of Starkville denying the permit for a Pride Parade. Read the full statement below: In light of recent events in Starkville, we, the UM Pride Collective, have been in […]
The Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Oxford, or UUCO, will host renowned musicians Reggie Harris and Greg Greenway with its program “Deeper Than the Skin” at 7 p.m. Saturday in Nutt Auditorium. “Deeper Than the Skin” will feature a collection of songs, both covers and originals, and stories designed to spark a dialogue about racial divisions. […]
A statement was released by university faculty members calling on tenured and tenured-track faculty to “use their relative positions of power to actively support their non-tenure-track faculty colleagues” who want full representation in the Faculty Senate. The statement has collected 144 signatures thus far. Fifty-six percent of the signatures are from tenured or tenure-track faculty […]
The University Police Department sent out an email reporting a sexual assault had taken place on campus around 3:30 a.m. Friday in a residential hall. By the time the email was sent at 5:30 a.m., the suspect had been identified. The email included more information and tips on how the UM community can help create […]
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