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All week long, Mississippi high school students will learn about how government works by starting their own. The university is hosting the Boys State program for the second year. The leadership program has fostered future governors, senators and congressmen since the first one in Mississippi was held in...

Photo by Lyndy Berryhill The new roundabout being constructed was designed to decongest the area, but residents in the area and summer school students...

Carolyn Ellis Staton’s life and legacy extended beyond Ole Miss and Oxford, leaving a lasting impression on former Secretary of State and presidential...

Some people stop. Some people stare. But many people pass without a glance at the man who has spent the last three years creating conversations in the...

January Students came back for the spring semester as renovations for a new Student Union underway. To compensate for the closed food court, the university responded with the POD Market Truck and the popular Chick-fil-A food truck. Located on business row, the trucks became a hot spot for students hoping to grab a quick bite between classes or getting a late-night study...

Black suits filled the Paris-Yates Chapel yesterday as members of the Ole Miss family gathered to remember the 21 faculty, staff and students who died in the last year.  A string quartet opened the memorial service, and Brandi Hephner LaBanc, vice chancellor for student affairs, spoke after a rendition of Mozart’s “Andante Cantabile.”   “It was a very honorable...

Organizers of Ole Miss’s inaugural Rebel with a Cause week hoped to focus on small-scale changes to make a big community impact. The campaign, led by Mr. and Miss Ole Miss (Cole Putman and Acacia Santos), kicked off Tuesday and wraps up Friday. Tuesday, local group More than A Meal hosted a discussion on living affordably in Oxford. Student volunteers donated time...

Tilman Fertitta, host of the hit MSNBC reality television show “Billion Dollar Buyer,” is slated to speak at 11:30 a.m. Friday in The Pavilion. The...

A resolution to indefinitely suspend the Chancellor’s Committee on Context and History and a bill to have an invocation before every Senate meeting were...

The Isom Center and UM Pride Network will host Oxford Pride Weekend for the second consecutive year Friday through Sunday, celebrating inclusion with a...