The Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning (IHL) has launched its search for a new chancellor. The board issued a call for nominations for members of the University of Mississippi Campus Search Advisory Committee as well as naming trustee Dr. Ford Dye of Oxford as the chair of the Board Search Committee. […]
James Thomas, a sociology professor with a history of controversial social media posts, was granted tenure by the IHL Board of Trustees on Thursday. Thomas’s name was pulled from a list of 77 tenure approvals in Mississippi’s eight public universities, and the decision to approve or deny his tenure was debated in a two-hour closed […]
Unita Blackwell, the sharecropper who later became the first black woman mayor in the state of Mississippi and advised six U.S. presidents, died Monday at age 86. Her son Jeremiah Blackwell Jr. told Mississippi Today his mother died Monday morning at a hospital in Biloxi after a long battle with dementia. Blackwell was an important […]
The fourth annual Oxford Pride Week is coming to Oxford April 28-May 5, and will honor the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, an event that served as a catalyst for the gay liberation movement. This year’s celebrations, organized by the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies and community group OutOxford, will feature […]
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy on Friday ordered that the Mississippi flag, which carries a Confederate emblem, be replaced by the American flag at a state park that overlooks the Statue of Liberty. Murphy ordered the removal of Mississippi’s flag from a display of each state’s flag at Liberty State Park, a preserve of more […]
The NFL Draft is all about opportunities. Of course 254 athletes get the opportunity to hear their name called over the roar of boos at Roger Goodell, but the best opportunity is for the analysts and talking heads to do what they do best: speculate wildly. After an endless barrage of mock drafts and scouting […]
The construction of a paid parking garage on the Square began last August and after several initial delays, the new completion date is set for September 19, 2019. With the parking lot nestled behind Boure and Uptown Coffee closed for the construction of the garage, approximately 234 free parking spaces have been unavailable for Square-goers […]
The Ole Miss men’s golf team finished the second round of the SEC Championship 2-under par as a team, sitting at ninth place out of 14 teams. The Rebels enter the third and final round of stroke play shooting 558 after a 275 on Wednesday and 283 on Thursday. The team is two shots behind […]
This weekend, the Ole Miss softball team will host the Tennessee Volunteers for a three-game series starting Friday at 6 p.m. On Wednesday, the Rebels faced the Southern Miss Golden Eagles, who came into the midweek matchup on an 11-game win streak. Thanks to timely hitting and phenomenal pitching, the Rebels were able to shut […]
For the majority of history, human minds have been occupied with how to survive. At every turn, there were bacteria, predators and scarcity that could kill entire tribes and villages of people. Today, many humans have the luxury of not worrying about physical survival. Instead, our minds have become inundated, for better or worse, with […]
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