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Yusef Salaam, one of five teenagers wrongfully convicted – and later exonerated – in the 1989 Central Park jogger case, visited the university on Tuesday to give the Black History Month keynote speech about the hope for change and how...

Around 80 students attended the Associated Student Body (ASB) senate’s Meet Your Senator Night on Tuesday to discuss how the ASB senate serves their interests. ASB Vice President Charlotte Shackelford, who organized the event, ran her campaign platform last spring...

Adam Ganacheau Mississippi Today  Rep. Trey Lamar wants to amend the Mississippi Constitution to limit the governor’s power to appointInstitutions of Higher Learning trustees— a response to a controversial chancellor search the IHL conducted at UM last fall. Lamar, a...

Joshua Mannery, a junior double major in political science and English, has been named a finalist for the Harry S. Truman scholarship.   The Truman scholarship is a prestigious national scholarship which provides recipients up to $30,000 for graduate studies. The...

Escorted by police officers and university officials, dozens of university students marched from Lamar Hall to the Confederate monument in the Circle on Monday evening to commemorate Black History Month.  “I feel like this walk is important because it represents...

With the 2020 primary and general elections looming, student voting accessibility is being monitored both nationally and locally. Despite continual efforts to establish a polling place on campus, including an Associated Student Body (ASB) resolution, Lafayette County circuit clerk Jeff...

Every spring for the past seven years, hundreds of university students gather to dance and raise money to benefit the only children’s hospital in the state through RebelTHON, and this is the fourth consecutive year that the event has concentrated...

Nearly a hundred people gathered to memorialize alumnus and media mogul Harold Burson on Saturday in Paris Yates Chapel, a place his closest friends and family said he would consider home. Some of those closest to Burson delivered eulogies in...

The Ole Miss softball team traveled to Birmingham, Alabama, for the Blazer Classic over the weekend and brought home a trio of wins and a pair of losses.  The Rebels beat the Oklahoma State Cowgirls and the UAB Blazers after...

For University of Mississippi students, the dream of launching their own businesses can become a reality through the UM School of Business Administration’s Gillespie Business Plan Competition. The Gillespie Business Plan Competition is hosted by the university’s Center for Innovation...