Oxford food truck owners have experienced their fair share of successes and difficulties as they try to keep their mobile businesses moving forward through the pandemic. Just off of Highway 30 sits Red’s Catfish, where Ata Eldalati has managed the rose-colored truck with his girlfriend for the past two months. Red’s hasn’t struggled in the […]
Independent film might have a chance to survive thanks to organizations like the Oxford Film Festival and its growing “pop-up” drive-in theater. The new series “OFF to the Drive-In” began in the summer in an attempt to maintain the in-person events presented by the festival. Melanie Addington, the executive director of the festival, felt that […]
On Tuesday, Mississippi Today hosted a conversation with former Grisham writer-in-residence and current UM English professor Aimee Nezhukumatathil in the third installment of its Mississippi Writers on Mississippi Politics series. Brittany Brown, a graduate student in the Southern studies program and Mississippi Today reporting fellow, focused her discussion on the importance of diversity in a […]
The biggest hurdle that college students say they face when it comes to voting in national and local elections is a lack of practical information about politics, according to a recent survey by the Knight Foundation. In preparation for the 2020 election, dozens of organizations and initiatives have cropped up across the nation to close […]
Bars on the Square have adopted many new health and safety regulations, but game days are still attracting bigger crowds and the evermore common issue of enforcing the new rules. “People will be walking around without masks, (and) there would be more than six people at a table,” Sandra Savage, a senior dietetics and […]
The Oxford Police Department and the University Police Department plan to maintain regular game day procedures for the season opener against Florida on Saturday. “We’re going to treat it like we would every other home game weekend, like we have in the past,” Public Information Officer Breck Jones said. “We’re going to work intersections and […]
The Ole Miss Food Bank, which recently changed its name to Grove Grocery, has struggled to meet the demand from students as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Demand for Grove Grocery’s services has grown exponentially in recent months. Economic downturn has left many students, especially those working in the service industry, struggling to afford […]
Despite being moved to an online format, last week’s Meet the Greeks week held by the National Pan Hellenic Council had a bigger turnout than previous years. Candace Bolden stepped into her role as NPHC president in April. She had to adapt quickly to figure out with the rest of the executive board how they […]
Just before beginning his tour, singer-songwriter and OIe Miss alumni Sam Mooney was deprived of his stage time because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has created an operational void for Mooney, cancelling the tour he had set for this spring. He was going to announce the tour on March 16, but on March 11, […]
As concerns about the coronavirus grow with each new reported case, the University of Mississippi announced on Wednesday that it is canceling or suspending all university-related travel to China, Italy, Japan, Iran and South Korea — countries under varying levels of government warning. In a campus-wide email detailing the travel restrictions, Provost Noel Wilkin also […]
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