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Music echoed throughout the University of Mississippi campus every Tuesday and Thursday during the fall of 2016. Synchronized claps, shouts and stomps permeated the damp Mississippi air, from the Paris-Yates Chapel to the Gertrude C. Ford Center. Blurs of vibrant...

The Oxford Food Pantry welcomed hundreds of guests to the Oxford Conference Center yesterday afternoon for its 16th annual Empty Bowls Lunch. Photo by Katherine Butler Attendees purchased homemade craft bowls for $20 and filled those bowls with their choice...

Hannah Perrigin was crowned 2019 Most Beautiful last night at the 68th annual Parade of Beauties. For Perrigin, a junior exercise science major from Columbus, Mississippi, her victory didn’t mark the first time that she’d walked across the Gertrude C....

Students Against Social Injustice (SASI) recently met with university administrative officials to discuss removing the Confederate statue and creating a hate speech policy on campus, but SASI members said administrators “beat around the bush” during the meeting. Quay Williams, the...

A petition in support of legalizing medical marijuana in Mississippi has gained more than 3,000 signatures on campus. The petition, circulated by Medical Marijuana 2020, is part of a campaign to include a proposed state constitution amendment on the 2020...

The Associated Student Body Senate passed a resolution at its first meeting of the semester on Tuesday night in support of two bills that failed in the Mississippi House of Representatives. “Even if it’s killed legislation, they have to know...

Hannah Perrigin is crowned Most Beautiful by Miss Mississippi Asya Branch following the Parade of Beauties pageant on Wednesday. Photo by Reed Jones Miss Mississippi Asya Branch emcees the 2019 Most Beautiful pageant alongside Miss University Blair Wortsmith. Photo by...

The University Police Department has established a Campus Safety Committee with the Associated Student Body in response to vehicle-pedestrian accidents that occurred on campus last semester. UPD Chief Ray Hawkins said the idea behind the Campus Safety Committee is to...

Former Chancellor Jeff Vitter is not teaching any classes this semester following the announcement that he will serve as a tenured distinguished professor in the School of Engineering's Department of Computer and Information Science. Dawn Wilkins, chair and professor of...

A sexual assault was reported on Jan. 28 to the University Police Department, making it the first on-campus sexual assault reported this semester. UPD Lieutenant Jeremy Cook said the alleged assault happened in the Luckyday Residential College and that the...