Experience transition frustrates students as class registration continues

Students began encountering difficulties with Experience, the website that houses the University of Mississippi’s new registration system, as priority registration opened on Monday, April 13.  Problems included difficulty logging onto the Experience platform, submitting registration requests and being prohibited from enrolling in classes because the system did not recognize earned pre-requisites for certain courses. Some […]

ASB rings in new team, endorses attendance resolution

The 2025-26 Associated Student Body term concluded Tuesday, March 31 with a joint senate meeting between the newly inducted ASB executive board and senators and the 2025-26 ASB team. This joint senate marks the end of this past senate’s term, and the beginning of the new senate’s term.   The ASB senate passed SR 26-2, which […]

Overby Center hosts documentary screening on famed ‘whiskey speech’

University of Mississippi students, faculty and members of the local community gathered Tuesday, March 24, at the Overby Center for Southern Journalism for a pre-release screening of the documentary film “The Whiskey Speech: Soggy Sweat and the Power of Storytelling.” The event was sponsored by the UM School of Law, the Mississippi Judicial College and […]

UM Center for Community Engagement celebrates the United States’ 250th anniversary with Voting Rights Summit

The University of Mississippi’s Center for Community Engagement hosted a Voting Rights Summit from March 17 to March 21, as part of its work promoting voter engagement to the greater university community. The program’s purpose is to educate eligible voters in the university community about their voting rights and the history behind them. The Voting […]

Work of Lafayette County Remembrance Project culminates in National Park Service study on lynching sites

The National Park Service (NPS) held a listening session Tuesday, March 3, in the auditorium of the Lafayette County & Oxford Public Library for its special resource study, collecting information for potential inclusion of historical lynching sites in Oxford as a future unit of the national park system. The NPS is conducting the study on […]

‘Survivor’ pops up at Union Plaza, offers immunity idol

Competitive CBS reality show “Survivor” hosted a marketing event at the University of Mississippi campus on Thursday, Feb. 19 to celebrate its upcoming 50th season. The event is part of the Survivor 50 Challenge, where the show’s producers hide 50 immunity idol props in all 50 states. The prop prevents contestants on the show from […]

Blackboard Ultra receives mixed reviews from students and instructors

Spring 2026 marks the first semester that instructors at the University of Mississippi are required to use the Blackboard Ultra course view, phasing out the original viewing format in the course management system. Now, three weeks in, professors and students have mixed reviews on the new interface, with some appreciating new user-friendly features such as […]

Student Affairs administrators speak at first ASB informal senate meeting of the year

At the first Associate Student Body informal senate meeting of the year on Tuesday, Feb. 10, recently-appointed Dean of Students Bradley Baker and Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Shawnboda Mead discussed fall break plans, the relationship between the Division of Student Affairs and the Associated Student Body and the future of Student Affairs. The first […]