The green room below the Proud Larry’s stage is a humble one. Low ceilings and fraying couches greet artists who walk past the restaurant’s storage shelves. Touring bands won’t find champagne on ice or a red carpet down there, but that didn’t matter to Spafford. Larry’s is the club of these guys’ dreams. Around 5 […]
Update – 3:00 p.m. Sunday A video posted by ESPN identifies Devontae Shuler as the first of eight Ole Miss players to kneel during the national anthem on Saturday. Shuler’s decision to kneel during the anthem was followed by teammates Brian Halums, Luis Rodriguez, KJ Buffen, D.C. Davis and Bruce Stevens. Breein Tyree and Franco Miller […]
Former Chancellor Jeff Vitter is not teaching any classes this semester following the announcement that he will serve as a tenured distinguished professor in the School of Engineering’s Department of Computer and Information Science. Dawn Wilkins, chair and professor of computer and information science, said she was unaware of Vitter’s desire to return to faculty […]
Larry Sparks is an insider, and he thinks that’s just what the university needs right now. He became the school’s interim chancellor on Jan. 2, departing from the Office of Administration and Finance to replace Jeffrey Vitter, the university’s shortest-tenured chancellor. “What’s needed most is consistency,” Sparks said last week. “There’s not a lot of […]
University leaders released a letter today aiming to clarify the administration’s commitment to academic freedom and to address comments made by Chancellor Jeffrey Vitter last month. “We are aware that an op-ed published in The Daily Mississippian earlier this semester engendered unintended questions about the validity, integrity, and ethical nature of the scholarship conducted by […]
The state college board took seven months to select a new chancellor following former chancellor Dan Jones’ ousting in March 2015. It’s been just two weeks since Chancellor Jeffrey Vitter resigned from the same position, but many in the Ole Miss community already have their eyes fixed on the future. Jones’ and Vitter’s legacies are […]
One week ahead of the debate between former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Mike Espy (D) and Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R), Ole Miss students will have the chance to hear from four seasoned analysts of Mississippi politics at the Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics. Overby Center Fellow Curtis Wilkie and Overby Center Chairman Charles Overby […]
An era that was ushered in by a Sugar Bowl victory and a Carnegie academic research honor came to a close on Friday with the state education board’s announcement that Chancellor Jeffrey Vitter will step down from his position in January 2019. Vitter will resign as the shortest-tenured Ole Miss chancellor since George Holmes retired […]
Ole Miss fell to the South Carolina Gamecocks 44-48 on Saturday for the Rebels’ fourth conference loss this year, bringing the team to 5-4 on the season. The 11 a.m. kickoff quickly gave way to an offensive showdown. These two struggling SEC teams put up 27 points apiece and a combined 749 yards of offense through […]
Before the dust even began to settle around Ed Meek’s offensive Facebook post, the university had taken a public stance and the student body had made its opinion clear. Within a few hours of Meek’s post, Chancellor Jeffrey Vitter condemned its racial tone and a student’s petition had garnered more than 600 signatures calling to […]
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