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Two Mississippi political veterans discussed the results of the country’s 2018 midterm elections Wednesday night at the Overby Center. Brandon Jones, a former Democratic state representative and attorney at Baria-Jones Law Firm, and Austin Barbour, a Republican strategist and partner...

Photo courtesy: Pride Publishing One week ahead of the debate between former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Mike Espy (D) and Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R), Ole Miss students will have the chance to hear from four seasoned analysts of Mississippi politics at...

Mississippi organizations concerned with the state’s ongoing struggle with opioid abuse came together on campus Tuesday night to highlight the importance of students’ involvement in combating the crisis. The Mississippi Board of Pharmacy partnered with The Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics,...

The Election Reform Task force will host its second forum Wednesday night in Lamar 131 to discuss potential changes to campus elections. The task force, led by former ASB Attorney General Katherine Sistrunk and ASB Co-Director of Inclusion and Cross-Cultural...

Chancellor Jeffrey Vitter. File photo. Jeffrey S. Vitter Chancellor and Distinguished Professor November 13, 2018 It is bittersweet to write this note after announcing on Friday my decision to step down as chancellor and return to the faculty. Serving as...

Tony Boudreaux, director of the University Center for Archaeological Research, and his archaeology students held a Public Archaeology Day at Rowan Oak to display antebellum artifacts and explore the history of the property. Known as the home of acclaimed author...

An era that was ushered in by a Sugar Bowl victory and a Carnegie academic research honor came to a close on Friday with the state education board's announcement that Chancellor Jeffrey Vitter will step down from his position in...

Ole Miss Chancellor Jeffrey Vitter announced his plans to resign from his position as chancellor and instead become a tenured professor in the computer science department after January. Ole Miss students had varied responses to the announcement and the legacy...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A newly published video shows a white Republican U.S. senator in Mississippi praising someone by saying: “If he invited me to a public hanging, I’d be on the front row.” Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, who faces a...

With Chancellor Jeffrey Vitter preparing to resign, The Daily Mississippian compiled a timeline of noteworthy moments from throughout Vitter’s three years at Ole Miss.