The City of Oxford’s Board of Aldermen voted in a special board meeting on Tuesday to lift the city-wide mask mandate. The decision comes after cases of COVID-19 nationwide, statewide and locally have been on the decline. Unvaccinated city employees are still required to wear masks inside city buildings. Despite the city’s decision to lift […]
The Declaration of Independence Center for the Study of American Freedom hosted their first event of the year. The DOIC hosted Aaron Rice, the director of the Mississippi Justice Institute, in a conversation about the constitutionality of vaccine mandates. Due to the widespread national impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the contention surrounding the COVID-19 […]
The university has announced the return of a second COVID-19 testing center. Students, faculty and staff are eligible to receive testing weekly Monday through Friday from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Testing is available Saturdays, with the exception of home game days, from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. and Sundays, on home game weekends, from […]
Kenzee Blount and Bradford Stewart were elected homecoming king and queen after an exciting runoff election. Students gathered outside the Lyceum Thursday night surrounding the candidates they were supporting to hear the results. Blount, a senior general business major, campaigned on a platform that encouraged students to be authentically themselves. Blount is excited to continue […]
Della Davidson Elementary School of the Oxford School District was designated a National Blue Ribbon School. The National Blue Ribbon Schools Program, operated by the United States Department of Education, offers the distinction annually to outstanding schools across the nation. The local school, which serves third and fourth grade students, is one of four schools […]
The Mississippi Institutes of Higher Learning quietly voted to prohibit all public colleges and universities from mandating the COVID-19 vaccine, with exceptions. In the meeting, which took place Friday, Sept. 17, the board voted to amend a previous statement they made and ban universities from mandating the vaccine outright. On Aug. 27, IHL voted not […]
Ian Pigg and Madison Gordon have been named Mr. and Miss Ole Miss on Tuesday, in an announcement at the Student Union Ballroom. The homecoming king and queen elections are heading into a runoff on Thursday as a result of no candidates receiving at least 50% of the vote. With the second highest voter turnout […]
Approximately 60 University of Mississippi students gathered outside of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house Thursday night to protest alleged incidents of sexual assault. Over the course of an hour and a half, students stood in demonstration holding signs that read “protecting rapists is not brotherhood” and “coercion is not consent” while chanting “no means […]
The Associated Student Body Senate voted Tuesday evening to support the faculty senate’s resolution calling on the University of Mississippi to implement a campus-wide COVID-19 vaccination mandate. By a vote of 26-18, the ASB Senate passed SR 21-10, which reads, “Therefore, be it enacted that the ASB Senate support the faculty senate’s resolutions and call […]
As new COVID-19 cases nationwide and across Mississippi seem to be on the decline, health officials are turning their eyes toward another variant of COVID-19, the Mu variant, which has shown up in all 50 states. Many health officials have advised that the variant is not yet of concern, only accounting for 0.1% of all […]
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