With the regular football season delayed until Sept. 26 and training camps starting this week, the Southeastern Conference announced its COVID-19 management requirements on Friday. All 14 institutions must follow the standards in order to play this season. The plan includes twice-weekly COVID-19 testing for student-athletes during competition for sports including football, volleyball and soccer. […]
On Friday, the Southeastern Conference unveiled its new conference-only schedule, in which each of the 14 teams added two opponents. While the main headliners of this announcement were the newly scheduled games between Tennessee and Auburn, and Florida and Texas A&M, Ole Miss picked up games against the South Carolina Gamecocks at home and the […]
On the afternoon of July 20, nine Black student leaders — Nicholas Crasta, DeArrius Rhymes, Jailien Grant, Re’Kia Fairley, Candace Bolden, Amirah Lockhart, Asia Eichelberger, Chinwe Udemgba and Zuri Dixon Omere — met with Chancellor Glenn Boyce to discuss the future of minority representation and administrational transparency at the University of Mississippi. Black Student Union […]
Ole Miss will welcome Jaylan Davis, a longtime professional cheerleader, to campus as the new head cheerleading coach and spirit squad coordinator. Davis comes from San Marcos, Texas, where he served as the assistant coach for the Texas State Bobcat Game Day team. He led the Bobcats to a ninth place finish at the Universal […]
Several Ole Miss head coaches and athletic director Keith Carter visited Jackson on Thursday to lobby for the removal of the current state flag, and on Sunday, state lawmakers voted to do just that. Mississippi has flown its flag featuring the Confederate battle emblem for more than 126 years, but the state House and Senate […]
The Confederate monument located in the Circle and its relocation to the Confederate cemetery on campus has been a hot topic of conversation over the past several years. Now the discussion is coming to a head. Chancellor Glenn Boyce sent the university’s proposal for relocation to the state Institutions of Higher Learning (IHL) Board of […]
Hotty Toddy! Gosh Almighty! Who the Hell Are We? The Hotty Toddy cheer asks an important question (if you cut it off just right). Who the hell are we as the University of Mississippi community? UM is many things. Fundamentally, it is an arena for education, a place to learn and discover. That educational mission […]
For roughly thirty minutes on Saturday night, two men illuminated the Confederate monument on the Square with the words ‘TAKE IT DOWN,’ using a projector mounted atop their car on South Lamar Boulevard. Oxford Police Department (OPD) officers approached the protesters immediately to let them know that OPD was checking on whether they were legally […]
This past week, Ole Miss football historically announced the addition of Alcorn State to their future schedule, making this the first meeting between the in-state schools. The Rebels will host the Braves for the first time in program history on Sept. 9, 2028. This will be the first ever historically Black college and university (HBCU) […]
Shortly after the state college board voted on Thursday morning authorizing the University of Mississippi to relocate its Confederate monument, students, professors and community members grew angry and disappointed as details of the university’s plans circulated. Included on the last page of the 156-page proposal that Chancellor Glenn Boyce sent to IHL were two renderings […]
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