Clad in navy blazers, khaki pants, red polo shirts and brown leather loafers, fraternity pledges traded punches as the Rebels and Wildcats traded touchdowns in a close 22-19 win for Ole Miss in the football game against the University of Kentucky on Sat., Oct. 1. Two groups of pledges from currently unidentified fraternities at the […]
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, former Lt. Gov. of Maryland and daughter of Robert Kennedy, spoke at a documentary screening detailing her father’s involvement with Mississippi called “You Asked For The Facts,” at the University of Mississippi Law Center on Monday, Sept. 26. In 1967, then Sen. Robert Kennedy visited the Mississippi Delta, and he was struck […]
The results of the 2022-2023 Homecoming Runoff Elections are in: Harrison Foxworth and Lydia Robbins have been named Mr. and Miss Ole Miss. Eliza Peters has been named homecoming queen. The winners were announced the evening of Thursday, Sept. 22 at the Lyceum. Foxworth, a public policy leadership major from Columbia, Miss., edged out a […]
The Alcohol and Beverage Control Division of the Mississippi State Department of Revenue has increased the number of enforcement agents working in Oxford on football game days. “On Aug. 25, 2022, approximately 17 agents from across the state assisted with an enforcement detail in Oxford,” ABC Bureau of Enforcement stated. According to the bureau, agents […]
Ole Miss Athletics is hosting a water drive until Friday, Sept. 9, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Tad Pad Ticket Office to provide relief to Jacksonians without clean water. Anyone interested in donating to the drive should bring sealed gallon jugs of water and cases of water bottles. Those interested in donating […]
Throughout this summer, The Daily Mississippian is publishing dispatches from our staffers about their vacation and study abroad experiences. University of Mississippi Chinese Flagship students studied abroad in Taiwan this summer, spending two months in the country and taking a language pledge to speak only in Chinese in order to improve their language skills and […]
On April 25, the UM First-Gen Student Network, Center for Inclusion and Cross Cultural Engagement, Center for Student Success and First-Year Experience, Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College and the University of Mississippi Graduate School hosted the inaugural Evening of First-Gen Excellence to celebrate the accomplishments of graduating first-generation students. First-generation undergraduate and graduate students took […]
Thomas Hayes Mayo, a junior finance major and Oxford local, passed away on Thursday, April 14. He turned 21 years old only 12 days before his tragic death. “We mourn the passing of Thomas Mayo, an Oxford native and a young man who was beloved by many including classmates and community members,” Brent Marsh, assistant […]
On April 14, University of Mississippi juniors Jilkiah Bryant and Andy Flores received the Harry S. Truman Scholarship, making state and university history as the first time two Truman Scholarships have ever been awarded to the same university in the state of Mississippi. The University of Mississippi is among six universities nationwide to receive multiple […]
Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has cemented a hard truth that our generation must reconcile with: ours is an age of increasing authoritarianism that we must fight against. Motivated by nationalism and facilitated by Russia’s authoritarian, undemocratic political system, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has brought an unseen level of violence to Europe since the […]
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