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Editor-in-chief R.L. Nave said Mississippi Today writers covered the 2018 Senate races with an interesting approach: focusing on community reactions to the Senate candidates. Editor-in-Chief R.L. Nave and reporter Adam Ganucheau of Mississippi Today are introduced along with the topic...

The university has officially removed Ed Meek’s name from Farley Hall, leaving an open space for a new namesake of the School of Journalism and New Media.   The removal took place during winter break, when most faculty and students...

Donald Cole was a student at the University of Mississippi six years after the university’s first black student, James Meredith, was admitted to the university — a time when black students had little to no rights on campus. Cole, who...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYGZAhUTS7k   Light spread across the court, spilling into the stands and onto the stairwells of the beloved Tad Pad. But something was missing. One light, a large bucket light, had burned out, leaving a shadowy area on the court...

University leaders released a letter today aiming to clarify the administration's commitment to academic freedom and to address comments made by Chancellor Jeffrey Vitter last month. "We are aware that an op-ed published in The Daily Mississippian earlier this semester...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAL8TSK-qbM   A group of students and other community members marched through the Circle and the Lyceum on Wednesday in protest of  the Confederate statue located in the center of campus. Student activists and members of Students Against Social Injustice...

College campuses are often at the center of the ongoing debate about how far-reaching the First Amendment’s protection of free speech should be. With several protests from groups from both ends of the political spectrum in recent weeks, Ole Miss...

The Ole Miss chapter of Beta Theta Pi fraternity is facing charges related to hazing and alcohol. “We met with the Office of Conflict (Resolution and Student Conduct) today, and we will be facing charges related to hazing, providing alcohol...

“What’s disgusting? Racist statues. What’s outrageous? UM values.” That phrase was chanted by around 60 students Wednesday afternoon during a protest in the Circle and the Lyceum. The protest, organized by Students Against Social Injustice (SASI), delivered a letter to...

United Campus Workers (UCW) has officially chartered the first registered labor union at the University of Mississippi. The campus chapter will become the “local,” or founding chapter of UCW, for the state of Mississippi, but the charter can expand to...