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In addition to requiring face coverings in all indoor spaces and implementing social distancing during the fall 2020 semester, students, faculty and staff will be required to participate in a daily COVID-19 symptom checker, a questionnaire that includes questions about...

Several Ole Miss head coaches and athletic director Keith Carter visited Jackson on Thursday to lobby for the removal of the current state flag, and on Sunday, state lawmakers voted to do just that.  Mississippi has flown its flag featuring...

The Confederate monument located in the Circle and its relocation to the Confederate cemetery on campus has been a hot topic of conversation over the past several years. Now the discussion is coming to a head.  Chancellor Glenn Boyce sent...

Since the state Institutions of Higher Learning (IHL) Board of Trustees approved the university’s request to relocate the Confederate monument, members of the university community have spoken out against certain details of the plan, including the addition of headstones to...

The fall semester will not continue after Thanksgiving, according to an email sent to the university community.  “The modified calendar reflects the university’s efforts to mitigate the potential impact of COVID-19 during the late fall months,” the email said.  The...

Almost 900 people tuned in to Facebook Live to watch the Lafayette County Supervisors’ meeting to hear community members’ arguments for and against relocating the Confederate monument in front of the county courthouse.  The board, which consists of only white...

In a letter sent to Mississippi legislators, almost 40 former student body presidents of public Mississippi institutions signed to urge legislation to remove and replace Mississippi’s current stage flag.  Mississippi’s current flag features a Confederate flag emblem in the top...

For roughly thirty minutes on Saturday night, two men illuminated the Confederate monument on the Square with the words ‘TAKE IT DOWN,’ using a projector mounted atop their car on South Lamar Boulevard.   Oxford Police Department (OPD) officers approached the...

Shortly after the state college board voted on Thursday morning authorizing the University of Mississippi to relocate its Confederate monument, students, professors and community members grew angry and disappointed as details of the university’s plans circulated.  Included on the last...

It’s done. After years of advocacy, several protests, at least four pieces of student and faculty legislation and thousands of signatures, the state Institutions of Higher Learning (IHL) Board of Trustees voted unanimously and without discussion to relocate the University...