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Earlier this month, Oxford Police Department Chief Joey East recommended new city ordinance changes to the Board of Aldermen about the Oxford Square. East introduced plans to designate the Square as a special “Downtown District.” The district would have different laws...

At Saturday’s homecoming game against Vanderbilt, Savannah Smith will make her debut as Miss Ole Miss. Smith, a public policy and journalism double major from Corinth, captured 80 percent of the vote during the personality elections. “It was a Tuesday,...

Christina Lawler has dedicated her last three years at Ole Miss to bettering the campus and promoting the university, and on last month, all of the dedication paid off when she was elected homecoming queen. “A flood of emotions hit me...

Tucker Fox was born into the Ole Miss family. Even though the newly elected Mr. Ole Miss was born and raised in Memphis, Fox knows Oxford. He traveled down for game days with his family as a kid. The senior managerial...

Hogan Gidley doesn’t see too many ‘Ole Miss Alumni’ bumper stickers on his drive home from Capitol Hill. The 1998 alumnus wrapped up his first day on the job as deputy White House press secretary last night, and he said...

Members of the Lafayette County, Oxford and Ole Miss community filled the Gertrude C. Ford Ballroom at The Inn at Ole Miss on Wednesday afternoon to hear Chancellor Jeffrey Vitter give his "State of the U" speech at the university's second...

Repair work began Monday on the Confederate soldier statue that a pickup truck crashed into last month. Ryan Whittington, assistant director of public relations for social media strategy for the university, released a statement about the repairs earlier this week....

Today is the 29th National Coming Out Day. In honor of this year’s National Coming Out Day, students Kristen Walker and Malik Pridgeon, along with UM Pride Network and Queer People of Color, are creating a video project to shed light on...

A resolution to adopt the Landshark as the official mascot passed 29-15 -1 Tuesday evening on the ASB Senate floor. Before the vote, Chancellor Jeffrey Vitter and Athletics Director Ross Bjork fielded senators' questions regarding Friday’s announcement to change the...

To help celebrate Mississippi's yearlong bicentennial, United States Chief Justice John Roberts paid a visit to the Magnolia State. While here, the chief justice gave Ole Miss law students the opportunity to argue a fictional case before him in a...