A portion of Chucky Mullins Drive will be closing April 16 with plans to reopen in January 2019. The Oxford Police Department tweeted the news on April 6 followed by a report from the university that same day. The closure resulted from a joint decision made by the university’s Department of Facilities Planning, the Department […]
The university recently released a 2017 Pay Equity and Advancement Report through the Chancellor’s Commission on the Status of Women at the University of Mississippi. Including data gathered from 2007 to 2015, the report outlines the existence of a pay gap between male and female employees in each school at the university. According to the […]
A portion of Chucky Mullins Drive running from south of Highway 6 to Old Taylor Road will be closed April 16 through sometime in January. The Oxford Police Department tweeted the news Friday; however, the closure did not originate from the police department. “It is primarily a university and city project,” OPD Maj. Jeff McCutchen […]
Construction on campus is continuing at a steady rate as the Department of Facilities Planning and the Special Planning Committee work together to implement a construction plan as part of the university-wide strategy known as Flagship Forward. Flagship Forward was developed in 2016 under the leadership of Chancellor Jeffrey Vitter and focuses on five distinct […]
Yesterday, students’ backpacks dotted the Grove – totaling 1,100 in number, representing the more than 1,000 college students who die by suicide every year. The Send Silence Packing exhibition cast a calm over the space as students walked from backpack to backpack, reading the stories attached to some. “She should be eighteen,” one read. […]
Since the beginning of the semester, the J.D. Williams Library has been implementing a new schedule of operating hours. It now closes an hour earlier on Fridays – at 6 p.m. rather than 7 p.m. – and opens an hour earlier on Sundays – at noon instead of 1 p.m. “We chose this so that […]
The Oxford Police Department will be switching over from the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) system it currently uses to the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) within the next year. Overall, OPD hopes the new system will make its annual crime reports to the FBI more detailed. With the UCR program, the department summarizes its reports […]
Mississippi Blood Services in Oxford has declared a shortage due to the inclement weather and sickness that has swept over the state this month. According to supervisor Jackie Spencer, the service is about 1,000 units behind its usual monthly quota. “The weather really put us behind, because all the ice and snow meant people […]
As of this week, Ole Miss students now have an extra hour out on the Square on weeknights. A new policy was enacted earlier this month allowing bars in Oxford to stay open until 1 a.m. every night of the week except Sundays, when they will close at 9 p.m. Business hours at popular locations […]
Colorful lights fill the streets, holiday joy fills the air, and children eagerly wait to open gifts on Christmas morning. And this December, for the 20th year, Books and Bears will help university staff members celebrate the holiday season by giving gifts to their children. Donald Cole, assistant provost and one of the original leaders […]
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