The Daily Mississippian won first place for best newspaper and best website in the Society of Professional Journalists Region 12 Mark of Excellence competition. Ole Miss students won 13 awards in the competition. There were seven first-place winners and six finalists. Students won first place in several different competitions: Billy Schuerman for sports photography, Daniel […]
Starting this semester, the Associated Student Body (ASB) will reward students for their academic successes with rewards cards. Scout Treadwell, the ASB director of Greek outreach, created an initiative allowing students who are on the Dean’s and Chancellor’s Lists to receive a discount card that applies to four restaurants in Oxford: Insomnia Cookies, Oxford Creamery, […]
UM students were named Grand Champions for the Onsite Competitions at the Southeast Journalism Conference last weekend, winning seven awards. Including awards from The Best of the South competitions, students at the University of Mississippi took home a total of 24 awards at the 34th annual Southeast Journalism Conference last weekend. The University of Southern […]
The University of Mississippi’s website will undergo its first major redesign in seven years, according to an unexpected announcement from Chancellor Glenn Boyce last week. After years of discussion, the redesign will have many steps to complete before the final rollout. Robby Seitz, the university’s webmaster, confirmed that the university — the marketing and communications […]
The University of Mississippi is restricting university-related travel to China as a result of the recent outbreak of the coronavirus in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province. Provost Noel Wilkin sent out a university-wide email on Jan. 29, announcing that academic programs have been suspended or canceled by university partners in China. “Students may not […]
To go from one place to another on campus, some administrators walk. Others would opt for a golf cart. Brent Marsh, however, chooses to longboard around campus. “At a prior university, the policy where students were allowed to ride skateboards had been prohibited for a while,” Marsh said. “Once that policy changed through the student […]
After Brandi Hephner LaBanc, formerly the vice chancellor for student affairs, announced that she plans to leave the University of Mississippi, assistant provost Charlotte Fant Pegues will be taking over as the interim vice chancellor for student affairs Nov. 13. Pegues has worked at the university for 26 years, previously acting as the assistant vice chancellor […]
Elections for homecoming king and Mr. and Miss Ole Miss are heading to a Thursday runoff. Before announcing the winners, Associated Student Body Attorney General Austin Fiala announced that 6,443 students voted in the 2019 Homecoming Elections, marking the largest voter turnout in Ole Miss campus election history. Students cast over 1,300 more votes than […]
On Tuesday, students will vote in homecoming elections, comprised of homecoming court and Mr. and Miss Ole Miss. This year is different. For the first time, students will also elect a homecoming king. The Associated Student Body voted to add a homecoming king to the homecoming ballot, but decided last year to delay the introduction […]
The Associated Student Body Senate unanimously voted to put a student activities fee increase on the ballot so ASB can take the bill to the Institutions of Higher Learning, raising the fee from the original $5 per semester to $10. ASB President Barron Mayfield, treasurer Gianna Schuetz, Sen. Morgan Atkins, Sen. Michael Messina and Sen. […]
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