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Graeme Phillip Harris is in trouble. Harris is one of three white men under investigation for last February’s Sunday night desecration of the statue of James Meredith, part of a monument commemorating the university’s 1962 integration. The statue was discovered that morning with a noose looped around...

I’m sure we have all seen the suit-wearing preacher in the Union Plaza who tells people where they are going in the afterlife – that place usually...

Earlier this semester, my professor was discussing being a nun in Japanese culture. While he lectured, my mind went on a tangent, and I legitimately considered...

Editor’s Note: This letter is in response to O.U.T. of options, published March 17, 2015.   Mr. Jonathan de Steuben: The Oxford University Transit...

We need to talk about speaking truth to power and the usefulness of anger — or, as any good product of the Bible Belt calls it, righteous indignation....

To the Members of the Board of Trustees: Dan Jones was chosen to become the university’s next chancellor only a few weeks after a new student-led staff...

I have followed, with great interest and disappointment, the Mississippi IHL Board decision to not renew the contract of Ole Miss Chancellor Dan Jones. ...

Conversation regarding Ole Miss and the idea of progress is a lightning rod for the usual ahistorical mumbling. An eerie amount of opposition to Dr. Dan...

University of Mississippi Chancellor Dan Jones speaks in his office on the campus in Oxford, Miss., Friday, March 20, 2015. (Photo/Thomas Graning) The...

As I read the Chancellor’s email Friday afternoon, my heart sunk and my stomach churned. And as difficult as it was to try and simply comprehend IHL’s...