Just over six months ago, Ed Meek made a racist, sexist Facebook post that implied a relationship between the images of two young black women, both Ole Miss students, and a threat to “the values we hold dear that have made Oxford and Ole Miss known nationally.” Hours later, then-Chancellor Jeffrey Vitter condemned the “unjustified […]
Black women’s bodies have always been a focal point of conversation among white men who have no right to discuss them. Through a historical lens, commodification of the black body allowed for black female bodies especially to be objectified. Continuing beyond the era of American slavery, white men saw that is was OK to sexually […]
The Common Ground Committee, a group created to make recommendations to the School of Journalism and New Media on how to move forward after the Meek controversy, has yet to release its official recommendations, opting instead to host community events to reinforce the idea that hearing all opinions on sensitive matters is important. “A part […]
Editor’s Note: This article incorrectly stated the year that the university’s journalism department became the Meek School of Journalism and New Media. The school was formed in 2009, not 2007. Thanks to a $5.3 million gift from Ole Miss alumni Ed and Becky Meek, who received their degrees from the university in the 1960s, the […]
I grew up in the suburbs of Chattanooga, Tennessee. My childhood memory is imperfect, but I can only remember one black family out of all three neighborhoods that I grew up in. I attended a private school that was located in the white suburbs when it was founded in the ‘50s. However, by the time […]
It is an undeniable fact of the universe and all of the forces and principles that stitch it together that Newton’s cradle would keep passing energy back and forth, oscillating until the end of the time, if it weren’t for external forces acting upon the steel balls, friction slowing its swaying. It’s just its nature. […]
With two matches left in the regular season for both the men’s and women’s tennis teams, Ole Miss looks to end the regular season on a high note.
The University of Mississippi recently hired Annette Kluck as the new dean of the Graduate School, which currently has over 2,100 students enrolled across master’s and doctoral programs, and she has plans to foster relationships between departments on campus. “The graduate school is a place where we can combine resources to figure out how (can) […]
After coming off a hot offensive performance and series sweep of Florida this past weekend, the Rebel bats had a slow start but came back to beat Southern Miss 11-2 in Pearl on Tuesday night. A strong sixth inning and multiple errors from the Southern Miss defense combined to help push No. 10 Ole Miss […]
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