The Ole Miss student chapter of the International Justice Mission will be hosting Justice Week this week to raise awareness of the numerous human rights abuses occurring around the world today. Twenty-seven million people are kept as slaves around the world, according to the International Justice Mission’s website. The University of Mississippi chapter of the International...
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Registration for the Oxford Park Commission’s annual summer day camp programs begins May 6 at 8 a.m. Every year, the Oxford Park Commission puts on summer day camps for children ages 5-13. Campers stay busy participating in baseball, dodgeball, kickball, flag football and swimming three days a week. Arts and crafts are also offered daily alongside many field trips...
Hard work, dedication and determination are some of many characteristics that led a man from rural Mississippi to the the Oval Office. Daniel Roberts, public policy leadership junior at The University of Mississippi, landed an internship at the White House this semester that puts him one step closer to achieving his dream of success. The selection process entailed rigorous...
BY TRENTON WINFORD tgwinford@bellsouth.net In 2010, Florida pastor Terry Jones announced that he would burn Qurans on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks by al-Qaida. This announcement sparked outrage around the world, particularly in Muslim countries, where riots and murders were the normal response to a simple announcement of intention to burn the Quran. The civilized...
BY LEXI THOMAN alexandria.thoman@gmail.com This past Friday, my senior-class colleagues in the Croft Institute for International Studies and I hit a milestone in our undergraduate education: We turned in the second drafts of our senior theses for edits and review. After beginning the projects in August, it was a relief to turn in nearly finished products and see the hard...
Kayla Carpenter krcarpen@go.olemiss.edu UM Library Ambassadors is working with Worldwide Book Drive to collect books through the semester, including two events during finals week. The University of Mississippi Library Ambassadors are teaming up with Worldwide Book Drive for a semester-long book drive. Of the multiple events hosted throughout the semester by the Ambassadors,...
Tuesday afternoon, Kimbrely Dandridge took her final action as Associated Student Body president by signing an executive order that created a task force charged with representing the National Pan-Hellenic Council member bodies on campus. Dandridge tweeted that the task force will make a proposal for NPHC housing space by September 2013 to the newly installed ASB administration. Speaking...
