The Ole Miss softball team will welcome the Missouri Tigers to Oxford for a three-game weekend series starting Friday afternoon at 3 p.m. The Rebels are in good shape with a 28-10 overall record and a 7-4 record in the tough SEC. The team was ranked No. 9 in the latest Softball America poll and […]
At the end of August 2018, Gov. Phil Bryant signed legislation authorizing a lottery in Mississippi. In recent months, a five-member board of directors has worked to establish a $400 million Mississippi Lottery Corporation. At the moment, Mississippi is still one of six states that does not sell lottery tickets, but that is expected to […]
Members of Kappa Alpha Theta were given the news on Nov. 1, 2018, that they were losing their chapter at the University of Mississippi because of low rates of member retention. Despite the news, former members have chosen to compete together in Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity’s annual philanthropy football tournament. Though the team can’t compete […]
The Ole Miss men’s and women’s tennis teams each have two matches left in the regular season, and they’ll be looking to round into peak form before the SEC and NCAA tournaments. The No. 49 women’s team is coming off a near-upset on the road against then-No. 6 Vanderbilt that they lost 3-4. The Rebels […]
Local musicians Anne Freeman and Kate Teague are teaming up with The End of All Music to release a Record Store Day title that is limited to 300 copies. All proceeds from the album’s sales will go to Memory Makers, a local nonprofit care program for those with dementia and other memory disorders. Memory Makers […]
Last semester, the Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning approved the University of Mississippi’s request to remove prominent university donor Ed Meek’s name from the School of Journalism and New Media, but Meek still maintains indirect connections to the university through HottyToddy.com and the Center for Graphene Research and Innovation. Meek founded the news website HottyToddy.com […]
Four weeks passed between the time of Ed Meek’s controversial Facebook post and the day that the state college board gave the university approval to remove the “Meek” name from the School of Journalism and New Media. The name was soon taken down. The four letters were removed from the side of Farley Hall and […]
Four aging men sit around a booth at the Beacon. It’s late afternoon, and the steady drip of a slow Oxford rainstorm is tapping on the tinted windows of the oldest restaurant in town. The rain isn’t louder than the hum of the conversation, which drifts from who’s really running City Hall to socialism and […]
4/12/2019: This article has been updated to show that comments made by James Thomas reflect his own views and not those of the authors of the UM Race Diary Project. In the wake of Ed Meek’s viral post, a faculty-led attempt to move Ole Miss forward was lost in the tumult. The fallout that came […]
When Mahoghany Jordan opened the door to Ki’yona Crawford’s apartment a few weeks ago, she was greeted with a shriek of approval. “You look fine!” Ki’yona exclaimed, praising Mahoghany’s outfit, and Mahoghany responded, “You look fine!” Mahoghany was in a zip up jean dress under a red flannel shirt with black booties on. Ki’yona was […]
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