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Editor’s Note: All Residential Assistants are quoted anonymously to prevent any repercussions from the comments made in this article.   With classes beginning Aug. 21, Ole Miss has spent the last few days greeting returning students and welcoming a plethora of...

Alpha Delta Pi Sorority House on Aug. 19, 2023. Photo by Emily Hollowell. Sorority recruitment week, a well-known tradition in Oxford, commenced on Aug. 12. Perfectly manicured hands nervously gripped canvas totes that read “Panhellenic” as girls raced to rounds...

Demolition of Kincannon Hall to begin soon. Photo by Haley Chiles. In an effort to accommodate its ever-increasing student population, the University of Mississippi is doing away with the old and ushering in the new.  Demolishing Kincannon Hall is the...

Oxford residents cast their ballots at the Oxford Conference Center on Tuesday for the runoff election for a Mississippi Senate race between Mike Espy and Cindy Hyde-Smith in 2018. Photo by Christian Johnson For Mississippians, Primary Election Day is swiftly...

Jimmie 'Jay' Lee, a 20-year-old University of Mississippi student, disappeared on Friday, July 8, 2022.  Courtesy: Oxford Police Department Saturday, July 8 marked a year since University of Mississippi student Jimmie “Jay” Lee disappeared. A 2022 graduate and prominent member...

Ole Miss student Jonah Tyler Greer Condon died May 28 at Baptist Memorial Hospital - Union County. He was 23 years old. Condon was a senior pursuing a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology. He was on track to complete...

The University of Mississippi’s Faculty Senate will be creating an ad hoc committee to investigate concerns that have been raised regarding the conduct of the Dean of the School of Applied Sciences, Peter Grandjean. The decision comes after the senate...

Michael Knowles speaking with attendees at the 2022 AmericaFest at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona. Photo via Wikimedia Commons. Conservative political commentator and Daily Wire host Michael Knowles spoke at the University of Mississippi on Thursday, May 4...

It has been a little more than a year since the governor of Mississippi signed the state’s medical marijuana bill into law and about three months since the first patient purchased medical cannabis from a dispensary in the state. Students...

Opponents of Mississippi’s medical marijuana initiatives feared the law would create an environment where almost anyone could get certified to use cannabis. More than a year after the law took effect, that hasn’t happened.  Slightly more than .003% of the...