The University of Mississippi is pulling all affiliated resources and involvement in the 2025 Oxford Pride Parade in an effort to comply with the new Mississippi law restricting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices in public schools. The parade will go on as planned this Saturday at 2 p.m. as part of the wider Oxford […]
Students seeking to participate in the Nov. 5 elections must ensure they are registered to vote — a process that can differ from person to person. The University of Mississippi’s Voting Engagement Ambassadors guide students through the voting process by hosting outreach events on campus and in the Lafayette-Oxford community. Marshall Pentes, a senior economics […]
Mississippi State Auditor Shad White spoke at the Ole Miss College Republicans’ first meeting of the school year on Tuesday, Aug. 27. “Young people can make a huge difference in Mississippi, and I saw that when I was a College Republican here getting involved in campaigns,” White said. “One of the reasons I love coming […]
Discussions about mental health and anxiety are becoming more common among University of Mississippi students. “University students in today’s world as a whole seem to have a significant amount of anxiety,” Kris Brasher, instructor of therapeutic recreation for the Department of Health, Exercise and Recreation Management, said. “We discuss topics like anxiety in class relatively […]
University of Mississippi students donned glasses and gazed into the sky with the hopes of capturing a glimpse of the solar eclipse on Monday, April 8. Although Oxford did not have a view of the total solar eclipse (at peak totality, only 94.59% of the sun was covered) people still gathered in droves around campus […]
The election for the top two Associated Student Body executive positions, president and vice president, will head into a runoff today and four Senate categories will be on the ballot due to technical issues that occurred with Tuesday’s election. The results for other executive positions and most senate positions were announced Tuesday, March 26. The […]
Ahead of the Associated Student Body’s election day on Tuesday, March 26, 14 candidates running for positions on the executive board gathered on Tuesday, March 19, at the Weems Auditorium in the Robert C. Khayat Law Center to answer questions submitted by the student body. The judicial chair candidates mutually decided not to debate, according […]
Students and staff at the University of Mississippi are gearing up to vote in the 2024 presidential primary elections. The Democratic and Republican primaries will be held in Mississippi on Tuesday, March 12. Both primaries will award 40 delegates to the winning candidate in their respective contests, a stepping stone on the path to accruing […]
For many, Wednesday, Feb. 14 was all about hearts, flowers and the color pink. For others, the day had an additional meaning: People across the world bore dark, smudged crosses on their foreheads in observance of Ash Wednesday, a Christian holy day marking the beginning of Lent. Students turned out in droves to receive their […]
On Jan. 9, Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves was sworn in for his second and final term after the state’s closest gubernatorial election since 1999. In his inaugural address, Reeves spoke of the various challenges Mississippi has faced over the course of his first term and touted his accomplishments over the past four years. Among other […]
