The University of Mississippi Counseling Center has spread seven displays across campus — pegboards with paper notes written by passersby hanging from colorful ribbons. There were suns, hearts and flowers drawn around messages of hope on the square notes. “I have been there, and I’m extremely happy I did not go through with it,” one […]
Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann mistakenly claimed former Senator Thad Cochran was deceased in a speech to University of Mississippi students yesterday. After answering a question from a student about the relationship between Hosemann and Cochran, Hosemann said, “He’s deceased, so I’m not real close.” He later corrected himself after his speech ended. “Thad […]
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 […]
Members of the Ole Miss community spoke about personal struggles and lessons learned at the fourth annual TEDxUniversityofMississippi lecture series. Senior political science major Jakob Anseman was the only undergraduate student who gave a talk, and he spoke about his experience having Asperger syndrome and the struggles he and his peers face in society today. […]
Oxford residents and Ole Miss students gathered on the Square and on campus this afternoon not to join the protests but to watch them. While most spectators had opinions about the protesters, many said they were apathetic about the overall impact the protests may have on the community. Junior law studies major Bailey Easley sat in […]
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 […]
This story has been updated to clarify that the group Confederate 901 did not participate in the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia and to show that the rally occurred in 2017, not 2016. As the story correctly noted, that group’s founder and a number of current members did attend the 2017 rally […]
Delta Kappa Epsilon has returned to the University of Mississippi as of January 2019, pending approval from national headquarters. The new DKE colony was established after a group of friends, unsatisfied with their experiences during recruitment and pledgeship, decided to reinstate the fraternity. “Some of us ended up with fraternities. Some of us just dropped […]
Many of the students and faculty in attendance at an open forum on Title IX last night in Bryant Hall disagreed with the Trump administration’s proposed changes to the law. Rebels Against Sexual Assault hosted the discussion with Title IX coordinators and invited students to share their thoughts on the possible changes. “I feel like […]
Ole Miss Chancellor Jeffrey Vitter announced his plans to resign from his position as chancellor and instead become a tenured professor in the computer science department after January. Ole Miss students had varied responses to the announcement and the legacy that Vitter leaves behind. Vitter, the 17th chancellor of the university, has presided over some […]
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