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“Fill up your jukebox with the right songs and just let it play,” Brian Foster said Foster, a university Southern studies and sociology professor who graduated from the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College in 2011, served as keynote speaker for...

Students and community members have organized a counterprotest against the rally planned by Confederate 901 and the Hiwaymen. The counterprotest’s leader plans for the march to be just as large as the pro-Confederate protest on Saturday. Will Pipes, the organizer...

Circumstances surrounding the relocation of Students Against Social Injustice’s “United Students Against Sweatshops” national conference have shifted considerably in the last week. SASI officers initially planned to host a conference at the Jackson Avenue Center this weekend in coordination with...

University administration and student groups are responding to the neo-Confederate “Mississippi Stands Rally” scheduled for Saturday afternoon with events planned throughout the week and on the day of the event. Confederate 901 and the Hiwaymen, neo-Confederate groups not based in...

Several black student organizations have come together to host the Black History Month March at noon Thursday. The march will begin at Lamar Hall and end at the Confederate statue in the Circle. “The purpose of this protest is to...

Mary McDaniel, a sophomore psychology major, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when she was three years old and has been prescribed insulin most of her life. McDaniel is reliant on insulin, so there’s no choice but to pay the...

Assistant Dean of the School of Journalism and New Media Patricia Thompson was honored as Educator of the Year at the 33rd annual Southeast Journalism Conference last weekend. “I had no idea I was even nominated for the award, so...

Jeff McCutchen will prioritize increasing dialogue in the community as Oxford Police Department’s new interim police chief. McCutchen, a New Albany native, began working at OPD as a patrol officer and worked his way up to major of operations over...

For many college students, the only thing better than a frozen daiquiri is a frozen daiquiri drive-thru. Who Dat’s, a new a drive-thru daiquiri bar, opened Feb. 8 on Jackson Avenue within walking distance of campus. “As of right now,...

The number of reported sexual assaults of university students in Oxford has increased five-fold since 2008, according to crime reports from the University Police Department. Though the cause of the increase is not known, some officials say an increase in...