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Regardless of which design flies across the state after November, creators of the potential new state flag and its runner-up share a similar goal for Mississippi. When Sue Anna Joe saw Gov. Tate Reeves sign the bill ordering for a...

Maurice Carlos Ruffin, the newest Grisham writer-in-residence, is teaching an advanced fiction workshop at the University of Mississippi for the 2020-21 academic year, while creating new works of his own. “I am looking forward to getting a lot of work...

Over the past several years, Greek houses on Sorority Row and Rebel Drive have continued to propose and execute grandiose home renovations. As these announcements continued throughout the summer and even during the height of the Black Lives Matter protests...

Currently, Oxford has no plans to bring back curbside recycling pickup in 2021, according to Alderman Jason Bailey.  “We don’t have it in the next year’s budget, so it will not be for 2021, but it may be looked at...

Provost Noel Wilkin announced in an email that the university will begin offering free asymptomatic COVID-19 testing as outbreaks continue to rise at the University of Mississippi. Active campus outbreaks are now up to 24, and active confirmed cases are...

Health guidelines issued by the university and the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life’s #MaskUpFSL campaign did not stop fraternity members from hosting several in-person bid day events without following mask and social distancing guidelines.    In photos obtained by The...

It has been almost two months since Mississippi legislators passed a resolution to remove the old state flag from its position, and now the state flag commission has narrowed down the search for a new state flag to the final...

When Joshua Mannery won the race for student body president in April, he knew he would play a different role than past presidents. The world had already been plunged into disaster aversion from the COVID-19 pandemic, and the University of...

Although many students in Oxford will remember Hurricane Laura’s impact as a rude, ten-minute warning siren at 6 a.m., others were anxiously expecting destruction for their hometowns, hosting their evacuating family and friends and organizing relief efforts for beloved communities....

As outbreaks continue to rise in student housing, community assistants are facing a new set of challenges this year. They are responsible for making sure students wear masks and social distance inside dorms, but many say their environments are not...