While Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves — who recently tested negative for the coronavirus after a White House visit — let the mask mandate expire on Sept. 30, the Board of Aldermen in Oxford voted last week to keep it in place within city limits. The vote passed 5-1 in favor of requiring masks be […]
Personality elections concluded today with Cade Slaughter, named Mr. Ole Miss and Lilli Gordon named Miss Ole Miss. Slaughter, a public policy leadership and integrated marketing communications major, won with 58.48% of the vote while Gordon, a biology major, won 52.95% of the vote. Homecoming elections were also decided with Detarrian Jones, a […]
Between switching to telemental health and brainstorming new events, students and faculty alike have been working to adapt the University Counseling Center to the pandemic, but counselors are facing challenges with treating patients virtually. Bud Edwards, director of the UCC, said the counseling center redesigned the service delivery model to incorporate the telemental health option […]
Elections for Mr. and Miss Ole Miss are headed to a runoff on Thursday, Oct. 1. Cade Slaughter and Cole Barnhill will be on the ballot for Mr. Ole Miss on Thursday, and Cameron Sadler and Lilli Gordon will be on the ballot for Miss Ole Miss. Approximately 125 more students voted in the election […]
Over a dozen members of Students Against Social Injustice (SASI) participated in what they called a “die-in” on the afternoon of Sept. 16. Holding signs that read “Save our health, not UMiss wealth” and “People over profits,” the students gathered around the Lyceum to protest university administrators’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic. “We are here […]
The University of Mississippi is combining two administrative units that are currently in Financial Aid and Undergraduate Admissions to create the Office of Enrollment Management. The goal of this office will be to “show greater evidence of value for the cost of attendance before committing to enroll,” according to an email from Chancellor Glenn Boyce. […]
Some of the largest and most integral student organizations on campus are in the midst of reexamining their responsibilities and goals for the fall semester. From the Students Activities Association (SAA) and the Big Event to RebelTHON and the Columns Society, student leaders are finding new ways to fulfill the purposes of their organizations. Trevor […]
Dr. Deborah Birx, the coronavirus response coordinator for the White House Coronavirus Task Force, visited the University of Mississippi on Saturday amid recent reports that Oxford is one of the top metropolitan areas with the greatest number of new cases per capita. She also said that the report from The New York Times could be […]
After a long day jam-packed with classes and meetings, junior psychology major Meredith Brown sat down in the computer lab in the JD Williams Library to take her social psychology exam on Proctorio. What Brown didn’t expect was to fall asleep just a few minutes after starting. When she woke up, she felt disoriented and […]
Between classes being moved online for the rest of the semester, adjusting to using Zoom for lectures and having to suddenly move back home, the effects of the global pandemic COVID-19 have been devastating for students around the country. The effects the coronavirus has had on me are different from my peers, though. While most […]
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