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Last semester, the Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning approved the University of Mississippi’s request to remove prominent university donor Ed Meek’s name from the School of Journalism and New Media, but Meek still maintains indirect connections to the university through...

Four weeks passed between the time of Ed Meek’s controversial Facebook post and the day that the state college board gave the university approval to remove the “Meek” name from the School of Journalism and New Media. The name was...

Four aging men sit around a booth at the Beacon. It’s late afternoon, and the steady drip of a slow Oxford rainstorm is tapping on the tinted windows of the oldest restaurant in town. The rain isn’t louder than the...

4/12/2019: This article has been updated to show that comments made by James Thomas reflect his own views and not those of the authors of the UM Race Diary Project. In the wake of Ed Meek’s viral post, a faculty-led...

When Mahoghany Jordan opened the door to Ki’yona Crawford’s apartment a few weeks ago, she was greeted with a shriek of approval. “You look fine!” Ki'yona exclaimed, praising Mahoghany’s outfit, and Mahoghany responded, “You look fine!” Mahoghany was in a...

The Common Ground Committee, a group created to make recommendations to the School of Journalism and New Media on how to move forward after the Meek controversy, has yet to release its official recommendations, opting instead to host community events...

Editor's Note: This article incorrectly stated the year that the university's journalism department became the Meek School of Journalism and New Media. The school was formed in 2009, not 2007. Thanks to a $5.3 million gift from Ole Miss alumni...

It is an undeniable fact of the universe and all of the forces and principles that stitch it together that Newton’s cradle would keep passing energy back and forth, oscillating until the end of the time, if it weren’t for...

The University of Mississippi recently hired Annette Kluck as the new dean of the Graduate School, which currently has over 2,100 students enrolled across master’s and doctoral programs, and she has plans to foster relationships between departments on campus. “The...

Charlotte Shackelford was elected Associated Student Body vice president with 70.57% of the vote in a second runoff election on Tuesday night after 3,216 students voted in the election. Shackelford, a junior political science major from Mandeville, Louisiana, ran a...