University Marketing and Communications (UM&C) representatives Jim Zook, Rod Guajardo and Ryan Whittington attended the Faculty Senate meeting Tuesday night to get feedback regarding the new communications policy draft. No faculty members spoke in support of the policy, and many called for further review of the proposal by more campus constituencies. Randy Watkins, associate professor […]
University faculty and staff held a meeting in the Overby Center on Monday afternoon to discuss the draft of communication policy changes with university communication officials Jim Zook and Rod Guajardo. No changes were made in the proposed policies after the meeting. Most attendees of the meeting were faculty from the journalism school, but there […]
The Courthouse Square Preservation Commission (CSPC) approved the demolition of the building at 208 S. Lamar — the former location of Stella Restaurant — at its special meeting this morning. City building official Chris Carter said that contractors recently drilled into mortar supporting the bricks that make up the building’s exterior walls. After drilling into […]
Around 80 students attended the Associated Student Body (ASB) senate’s Meet Your Senator Night on Tuesday to discuss how the ASB senate serves their interests. ASB Vice President Charlotte Shackelford, who organized the event, ran her campaign platform last spring on redefining the way ASB connects with the student body. “I’m so excited that everyone […]
Chancellor Glenn Boyce addressed the university community again on Monday in an email regarding the relocation of the Confederate monument. This statement echoes Boyce’s previous email that was sent after the Institutions of Higher Learning Board of Trustees (IHL) struck the monument relocation from its January meeting agenda. “We’re committed to working with the board […]
As a kid growing up on the South Side of Chicago, Sergio Brack’s parents didn’t want him to leave the house. They were afraid of the negative influence that his neighborhood could have on him, so Brack devoted all of his time indoors playing video games and quickly fell in love with the first-person shooter […]
It’s not your parents’ Greek system anymore — at least that’s what the university hopes new training programs accomplish by mandating diversity training for every potential Greek student. Provost Noel Wilkin committed to providing diversity training for all students going through Greek recruitment at the Provost forum on Sept. 12 in response to a photo […]
A mob hanged Harris Tunstal behind the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1885. Will McGregory was shot on the courthouse lawn in 1890. William Chandler was hanged from a telegraph pole in 1895. The three African American men were among seven local lynching victims who may soon be memorialized on the courthouse lawn. The Lafayette County […]
Diversity training for all Greek students, transparency about efforts to relocate the Confederate statue and bringing in speakers to talk about the UM Creed were some of the many commitments that Provost Noel Wilkin made to faculty and students Thursday afternoon at the Provost Forum on recommendations made in response to bias incidents on campus. […]
Some might consider a fraternity house backyard decorated with a basketball goal and a large SEC logo painted on the ground to be an unusual place for a Christian church service. But Drew Narmour, who preached at the year’s first Ole Miss Night of Worship on Sunday, said event organizers wanted to break that stigma. […]
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