Student campaign volunteers spent months doing campaign work that culminated on Election Day yesterday. On campus, several students worked as volunteers on campaigns to elect specific candidates in Mississippi and to support voting in the state. Alec Ashby, treasurer of Ole Miss College Democrats, worked on Democratic candidate Jeramey Anderson’s Congressional campaign. Anderson lost to […]
Writers around the nation have embarked on a month-long journey to pen a 50,000 word novel as part of National Novel Writing Month. Nicknamed “NaNoWriMo,” the month-long event in November sets markers for participants to write 1,667 words each day in order to hit their goal. Members of the LOU community have long participated in […]
Lindy Goodson’s “College Week in My Life” vlog begins with a montage of her making coffee, getting ready for class and hanging out in the dining room of the Phi Mu house. Scenes of her walking through campus, shopping on the Square and eating at Ajax flip by to an upbeat tune. “My first class […]
Despite a smoke-free policy on campus, some students have noticed an uptick in the use of electronic cigarettes such as Juuls on university property over the past few months. The 2013 policy prevents the use of cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco and any electronic cigarette that emits smoke on university-owned facility or property. “The policy banned […]
Fifty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, cities across the nation honored King yesterday by ringing bells 39 times, signifying his age at the time of his death. Ole Miss was one of the many institutions that joined in the moment of respect by ringing the bells of Paris-Yates […]
More than 800 alumni registered for the 2018 Black Alumni Reunion, bringing the alumni and their friends and family back to Oxford to celebrate. The four-day weekend full of concerts, panels and galas reunited friends and highlighted the impact African-Americans have made on the university. Notable events from the weekend included Thursday’s #BAR18 stand up […]
The 2018 Black Alumni Reunion kicked off a four-day weekend yesterday with a wide range of activities including an alumni and student networking panel and a standup comedy show, underscoring this year’s expanded programming. The Black Alumni Reunion, which takes place every three years, draws as many as 800 attendees from across the country and […]
A team of 15 University of Mississippi students earned 25 awards at this weekend’s 32nd annual Southeast Journalism Conference, including 17 Best of the South awards and being named 1st Place Journalism Champions for the on-site competitions. Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas, hosted the 2018 conference, which was attended by students and faculty from colleges […]
Because parking in Oxford is a problem for students, Oxonians and visitors alike, the Downtown Parking Advisory Commission is preparing to begin construction on the Square’s first parking garage. The timeline for construction of the parking garage has been slightly delayed from its original January 2018 start date and is now scheduled to last for […]
The Interfraternity Council voted to require each of its members to attend educational sessions about sexual assault, hazing, substance abuse and available resources on campus every year they are a part of the organization. In the past, most of the educational forms were mainly for new members. Bennett Wilfong, IFC president, said the idea for […]
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