Lafayette County Sheriff Joey East and Oxford Police Department Chief Jeff McCutchen took a stance at a press conference on Tuesday against ballot Initiative 65, which will legalize medical marijuana in Mississippi if passed in November. Some members of the medical community also spoke at the press conference, which State Sen. Nicole Boyd and Rep. […]
College students, faculty and staff can now receive free COVID-19 testing from the Mississippi State Department of Health at county health departments throughout the state on scheduled days. The tests are administered in a drive-thru, and an appointment is required. Appointments can be placed on the MSDH website. Wednesday is the first day that the […]
UMiss Housing Demands (UHD), a self-described group of six current and former community assistants (CA) and community desk assistants (CDA), posted an open letter anonymously on Twitter with demands that the university improves working conditions for student housing workers amid the COVID-19 pandemic. By the time of publication, the letter has 62 signatures from students, […]
As outbreaks continue to rise in student housing, community assistants are facing a new set of challenges this year. They are responsible for making sure students wear masks and social distance inside dorms, but many say their environments are not safe, and they aren’t being equipped with enough information or resources to do their job […]
Students on the second and third floors of Crosby Hall say they are being told to quarantine in place after at least three people on each floor tested positive for COVID-19. While the UM COVID-19 dashboard states that on-campus quarantine beds are at 58.6% availability, it is unclear if the university is offering quarantine housing […]
A week and a half after returning to the University of Mississippi, many students who live in campus housing are in quarantine and isolation. Here’s what we know. Not all students in quarantine are staying on campus Ashley Mejia, Gabby Carmosino and Jordan Pastro were still searching for a place to stay at 9:30 p.m. […]
The Oxford Board of Aldermen is challenging the Lafayette County Board of Supervisors over ownership of the Confederate monument on the Square that has long been a point of contention for community members. In an Aug. 18 letter from the city to the Board of Supervisors, the city claims to have minutes from Board of […]
As school districts across Mississippi decide how or if they will reopen for in-person learning, nearly 200 student teachers at the University of Mississippi are preparing for the school year under ever-changing conditions. Education majors spend their senior year student teaching in schools throughout north and central Mississippi. They assist a teacher several times a […]
As peaceful protesters met on the Square on Saturday, the Confederate monument that sits at the Circle on campus was vandalized. The words “spiritual genocide” were spraypainted in black across all four sides of the base, and “SG” was painted toward the bottom. University Police Department (UPD) arrested suspect Zach Borenstein, a 38-year-old white man, […]
University faculty and staff held a meeting in the Overby Center on Monday afternoon to discuss the draft of communication policy changes with University Marketing and Communications (UM&C) officials. One associate journalism professor who was present, Kristy Swain, said the meeting made clear that “anyone running afoul of the policy could face disciplinary sanctions for […]
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