Donald Cole: Assistant provost, assistant to the chancellor for multicultural affairs and associate professor of mathematics Q: How have the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life, death and legacy shaped your world? A: MLK has been the standard by which my life has been guided. He appealed to my parents as a leader – something […]

The Ethics Bowl team squared off in the Great Debate on Tuesday night in Bryant Hall over consensual sex. Though the idea of whether consent is necessary was never in question, debaters did argue which should be the normal standard for sexual consent. Seven students – five men and two women – comprised two teams: […]

“Not one more” was the cry of Oxford High School teenagers as they led a crowd marching around the Square on Saturday morning. The March for Our Lives Oxford event was a part of a national rally to end gun violence. The movement follows a recent increase in the nation of both mass shootings and […]

More than 2,000 students filed into The Pavilion early Saturday morning to participate in the largest community service project in Ole Miss history, the eighth annual Big Event. Mary Morgan Coburn and Savannah Smith, this year’s co-directors, welcomed students and thanked them for volunteering. “Our mission is simple: to show our gratitude to our community,” […]

Sen. Thad Cochran has certainly made his mark on the state of Mississippi and his alma mater, Ole Miss, during his 40 years in the U.S. Senate. And now he’s retiring. Cochran earned a psychology degree and then a law degree from the university, which is now home to the Thad Cochran Research Center that […]

James Meredith, the university’s first black student who enrolled in 1962, expressed a change of heart on two issues following an emotional weekend. The civil rights icon said he’s become more receptive to his statue as well as to the school’s Black Alumni Reunion. “This is really a time for change in me and in […]