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This story has been updated to clarify that the group Confederate 901 did not participate in the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia and to show that the rally occurred in 2017, not 2016. As the story correctly...

Bud Edwards attempted to ease students’ concerns about the University Counseling Center’s new restrictive policy Tuesday night at a forum sponsored by Active Minds.    The Counseling Center is located on the third floor of Lester Hall. Photo by Tucker...

The flu has swept through Oxford and the rest of Mississippi this winter with nearly 17,000 confirmed cases in the state.   Sandy Bentley, director of the student health center pharmacy, said the health center has not seen many more...

Carl Tart’s devotion to inclusivity and planning are what led him to be named executive director of the Student Activities Association this year. “This position holds a very special place with me because I am the first African-American to hold...

A photo in the University of Mississippi’s 1970 yearbook shows a member of the Delta Psi fraternity dressed in a Ku Klux Klan robe and hood, holding two flaming torches. “The leader of the ‘SECRET PSIs’ prepares to open their...

Josh Law is the third Ole Miss graduate to receive the Gates Cambridge Scholarship. The Gates Cambridge Scholarship is a program established by a donation from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to the University of Cambridge. Photo courtesy: Joshua...

Music echoed throughout the University of Mississippi campus every Tuesday and Thursday during the fall of 2016. Synchronized claps, shouts and stomps permeated the damp Mississippi air, from the Paris-Yates Chapel to the Gertrude C. Ford Center. Blurs of vibrant...

The Oxford Food Pantry welcomed hundreds of guests to the Oxford Conference Center yesterday afternoon for its 16th annual Empty Bowls Lunch. Photo by Katherine Butler Attendees purchased homemade craft bowls for $20 and filled those bowls with their choice...

Hannah Perrigin was crowned 2019 Most Beautiful last night at the 68th annual Parade of Beauties. For Perrigin, a junior exercise science major from Columbus, Mississippi, her victory didn’t mark the first time that she’d walked across the Gertrude C....

Students Against Social Injustice (SASI) recently met with university administrative officials to discuss removing the Confederate statue and creating a hate speech policy on campus, but SASI members said administrators “beat around the bush” during the meeting. Quay Williams, the...