Medical marijuana will be on the ballot for Mississippi voters in November, but the choices may be confusing. There will be three options for Mississippi voters on the ballot. First, voters will choose to approve or reject the creation of a medical marijuana program in Mississippi. Second, they will be able to reject or […]
Over a month has passed since the university created an asymptomatic testing program for university community members — which will end this month — but the majority of students, faculty and staff invited to participate are ignoring the invitation. The Sentinel Testing Program offers free asymptomatic COVID-19 tests to students, faculty and staff on […]
Senior integrated marketing and communications major Cade Slaughter was named Mr. Ole Miss last week. Slaughter, a native of Hattiesburg, is the first member of his family to attend the university, though no one would tell you they were surprised he chose Ole Miss. Slaughter’s father, though not an alumni university, raised him to be […]
A petition urging the University of Mississippi to install a pass/fail grading system for fall semester has gained nearly 4,000 signatures. The petition calls on the university to ensure that students do not lose any academic progress they may have made by receiving poor grades this fall because of less than desirable course delivery methods. […]
Personality elections concluded today with Cade Slaughter, named Mr. Ole Miss and Lilli Gordon named Miss Ole Miss. Slaughter, a public policy leadership and integrated marketing communications major, won with 58.48% of the vote while Gordon, a biology major, won 52.95% of the vote. Homecoming elections were also decided with Detarrian Jones, a […]
The university has launched a new dashboard to track data from the COVID-19 asymptomatic testing program on campus. The dashboard is located on the same webpage as the original COVID-19 dashboard, but it will only be updated each Friday. Currently, the dashboard shows that most students, faculty and staff who were invited to participate […]
Elections for Mr. and Miss Ole Miss are headed to a runoff on Thursday, Oct. 1. Cade Slaughter and Cole Barnhill will be on the ballot for Mr. Ole Miss on Thursday, and Cameron Sadler and Lilli Gordon will be on the ballot for Miss Ole Miss. Approximately 125 more students voted in the election […]
Attorney Rob McDuff sent out a statement on Friday claiming that his client, associate professor of sociology James Thomas, did not break Mississippi law when he participated in a two day “scholar strike” earlier this month. Thomas participated in the nationwide scholar strike in which academics across the country stopped working for two days to […]
Defense attorney Tony Farese is requesting a psychiatric evaluation for former Oxford Police Officer Matthew Kinne, who is awaiting trial for the murder of Dominique Clayton. Kinne was charged with the murder of Clayton, a Black woman with whom he allegedly had a romantic relationship, in Aug. 2019. Kinne is accused of breaking into Clayton’s […]
Last week, the university released the results of the campus climate survey that kicked off in February 2019 after former Chancellor Jeffery Vitter resigned, Ed Meek’s name was removed from the journalism school and university professors published the UM Race Diary Project. The university now plans to hold forums on Sept. 29 and 30 with […]
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