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The University of Mississippi’s Student Activities Association hosted a watch party for the Miss America finale last night, as one Ole Miss alumna and one student were in the competition.   Both Miss Mississippi 2018 Asya Branch, a senior integrated...

Established just last year, the University of Mississippi’s eSports club will begin competing against teams from other colleges and universities this year. The club, founded in January 2017, was intended to create a community for gamers on campus in which...

Freshmen at Ole Miss participate in the annual Rebel Run during the university's home opener versus Southern Illinois University on Saturday. Rebel Run is consistently listed on many "freshman bucket lists," and the Student Activities Association limited the Rebel Run...

Miss Mississippi 2018 Asya Branch is representing the University of Mississippi in this year’s Miss America competition, but she will not be the first Rebel to grace the Miss America stage. Miss America 1960 Lynda Lee Mead — who has...

Tropical Storm Gordon swept over the Mississippi-Alabama border Tuesday night, knocking out power for thousands of Mississippians in the storm’s path. It was expected to make landfall as a hurricane but never reached sufficient strength. On Wednesday, Gordon was reclassified...

Regular season NFL football returned this week and so did the widespread controversy surrounding players’ right to protest. A Nike promo released Monday for the 30th anniversary of the “Just Do It” campaign featured former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J — Asya Branch, Miss Mississippi 2018, is in Atlantic City competing to become Miss America. The goal of her platform is helping children with incarcerated parents — something that is close to home for her. “My platform...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Confederate heritage group has no special status to try block the University of Mississippi from adding historical context to Old South symbols, a state appeals court said Tuesday. Sons of Confederate Veterans sued the university...

Several residents of the LOU community have come forward with reports that pets they adopted or fostered from the Oxford Lafayette Humane Society have contracted canine parvovirus, or parvo, and died just days after adoption. Canine parvovirus is a highly...

Ole Miss is rescinding its two-strike drug and alcohol policy and instead will now judge drug and alcohol offenses on a case-by-case basis. Since 2006, the university’s two-strike policy has mandated minimum sanctions for alcohol and drug offenses on campus...