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Updated Feb. 22: This original article about the university’s policies on weapons referred incorrectly to the policy that existed before Feb. 15. Under that policy, weapons were in fact allowed on campus in public or nonsensitive areas with an Enhanced...

Interim Chancellor Larry Sparks said achieving student representation on the state college board would be a difficult feat to accomplish because of the fact that the board’s makeup is determined by the Mississippi State Constitution. Larry Sparks addresses ASB senate...

Assistant Vice Chancellor and Dean of Students Melinda Sutton Noss. Photo courtesy: Southern Methodist University Dean of Students and Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Melinda Sutton Noss will leave Ole Miss at the end of this semester to take...

Organizers of a counterprotest in response to the pro-Confederate rally planned for Saturday have moved their event from the Circle to the Jackson Avenue Center to ensure the safety of participants. Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Brandi Hephner LaBanc announced...

“Fill up your jukebox with the right songs and just let it play,” Brian Foster said Foster, a university Southern studies and sociology professor who graduated from the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College in 2011, served as keynote speaker for...

Students and community members have organized a counterprotest against the rally planned by Confederate 901 and the Hiwaymen. The counterprotest’s leader plans for the march to be just as large as the pro-Confederate protest on Saturday. Will Pipes, the organizer...

Circumstances surrounding the relocation of Students Against Social Injustice’s “United Students Against Sweatshops” national conference have shifted considerably in the last week. SASI officers initially planned to host a conference at the Jackson Avenue Center this weekend in coordination with...

University administration and student groups are responding to the neo-Confederate “Mississippi Stands Rally” scheduled for Saturday afternoon with events planned throughout the week and on the day of the event. Confederate 901 and the Hiwaymen, neo-Confederate groups not based in...

Several black student organizations have come together to host the Black History Month March at noon Thursday. The march will begin at Lamar Hall and end at the Confederate statue in the Circle. “The purpose of this protest is to...

Mary McDaniel, a sophomore psychology major, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when she was three years old and has been prescribed insulin most of her life. McDaniel is reliant on insulin, so there’s no choice but to pay the...