More than $300 million of aid — a new record — was processed as of July 31, 2018, to Ole Miss students. Laura Diven-Brown, director of the Office of Financial Aid, said she encourages students to apply for as many forms of aid as they can to “cobble together as many things as you can […]
Tropical Storm Gordon swept over the Mississippi-Alabama border Tuesday night, knocking out power for thousands of Mississippians in the storm’s path. It was expected to make landfall as a hurricane but never reached sufficient strength. On Wednesday, Gordon was reclassified as a tropical depression. Since then, the storm has dropped heavy rains across Mississippi but […]
West Residential parking permits sold out in five hours this year, and Central Residential permits were gone within a day. Commuter permits followed, selling out in under a month. In the two weeks since classes began, the Department of Parking and Transportation has received complaints about overselling and lack of available parking spots across campus. […]
Traveling 367 miles from Atlanta to Memphis by car would take almost six hours. By bus, it would take almost nine. But on foot, it’s taken Terence Lester a month. Lester marching between the two cities against poverty and in commemoration of the legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. About four and a […]
Senior psychology major Kathryn Forbes overcame anxiety and depression in high school and said she never thought she would have to deal with them again. But after coming to Ole Miss and taking harder classes, Forbes said that wasn’t the case. By the end of her freshman year, Forbes began experiencing feelings of depression and […]
Based on writer and civil rights activist Audre Lorde’s quote, “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence. It is self-preservation,” the third annual Sister2Sister Retreat will focus on African-American women understanding the importance of their mental, physical, sexual and emotional health. Co-sponsored by E.S.T.E.E.M., Luckyday, National Pan-Hellenic Council, the Career Center and Ole Miss Athletics, the […]
Since Mike Harris joined the university as director of the Department of Parking and Transportation in February 2014, the numbers of citations for offenses like parking and obstructing traffic have decreased. There were 46,356 total citations from July 2014 to June 2015 and 52,764 from July 2015 to June 2016. In the previous school year […]
Since its inception in 2003, charity luncheon Empty Bowls has raised an annual average of $15,000 for local food bank The Pantry, which operates solely from donations and volunteer work. In hopes of expanding this year’s audience to further benefit The Pantry, event organizers Ron Dale and June Rosentreter asked second-year integrated marketing communications graduate […]
U.S. Sen. James Z. George did many things. Known as Mississippi’s “Great Commoner,” he was a successful politician in the early 1800s, fought in the Mexican War under Jefferson Davis, would later become a lawyer and also work for the Supreme Court of Mississippi. More than a century after his death, people are discussing all […]
Three UM departments will host a four-day symposium to introduce students and the community to the challenges and successes of entrepreneurship in the inaugural Women and Entrepreneurship Week, set for Tuesday to Friday next week. Cobie Watkins, the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) director of student and alumni programs, said the speakers and panelists, […]
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