The Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH) approved to university’s plans to relocate the Confederate monument on campus to the Confederate cemetery behind the Tad Smith Coliseum. The unanimous approval on Friday leaves one more vote to decide whether...
An earlier version of this story should have reported that Kentrel Bullock was a running back from Columbia, MS, not Columbus, MS. Since the university announced that Matt Luke would not return as the head football coach, several recruits from...
Ole Miss announced Sunday night that head football coach Matt Luke was fired, setting off passionate reactions, including players storming out of a team meeting, fans rejoicing and Luke rushing back to Oxford from an Alabama recruiting trip where he...
Ole Miss offensive coordinator Rich Rodriguez has built the image of Ole Miss’ attack. That image is of quarterback John Rhys Plumlee dashing past flat-footed defenders for explosive touchdowns, and the potential for the true freshman running the offense successfully...
Enrollment at the University of Mississippi has decreased 3.5% over the past year, according to a Thursday afternoon press release from the Institutions of Higher Learning. Illustration by Katherine Butler. This is the third consecutive year that enrollment has fallen,...
Following a sudden cancellation last week, an event featuring conservative commentator Elisha Krauss has been rescheduled to be in the student union on Wednesday. The event, hosted by the university chapter of conservative student organization Young Americans for Freedom (YAF),...
An NCAA board voted unanimously on Tuesday to explore modifying its rules to allow college athletes to profit from their names, images and likenesses. The board released a statement calling divisions of the NCAA to begin determining how to specifically...
At a Monday afternoon meeting in the Lyceum, Provost Noel Wilkin told the deans of the academic schools that newly appointed chancellor, Glenn Boyce, would not entertain the idea of flying the Mississippi state flag on campus, keeping the Confederate...
A group of protesters cancelled its plan to have a sit-in protest on Friday at the Lyceum. The plans to have a sit-in protest were outlined in UM Solidarity’s meeting minutes from a meeting on Sunday. UM Solidarity, a progressive...
The university’s newly named chancellor, Glenn Boyce, coached football at three so-called “segregation academies,” Madison-Ridgeland Academy, Canton Academy and Tri-County Academy, in the 1980s and 1990s. The information came to light during The Daily Mississippian’s efforts to gain a comprehensive...