Ole Miss’ Kayla Snow arrived in style at the Miss Mississippi competition wearing a red one-shoulder, ruffled M.M. Coutoure dress by Miss Me. During her pageant interview, Kayla wore an elegant, side-swept, dark blue Calvin Klein dress with a diagonal ruffle. Adorned with a jewel neckline, this classic yet flirty dress showed off...
1- Calvin James, 4, holds a 175th birthday balloon to his head to block out the sun. 2- Payton Bjork, 6, throws a ball in an attempt to dunk his father, Athletics Director Ross Bjork, in a pool of water. Payton dunked his father 15 times. 3- Athletics Director Ross Bjork is dunked in a pool of water. 4- Pressley Windham, 20-months old, pets a goat...
A number of activities are being offered on campus this week (April 30 to May 4) to help you relax before finals. During "Stress-Less Week," sponsored by the University Counseling Center and the Office of Health Promotion, students can participate in yoga classes, listen to live entertainment, play lawn games and enjoy several...
“Out on Highway 6, below the five white crosses, beneath five memorial dogwoods, a marker bears all their names. Margaret Emily Gardner. Mary Pat Langford. Elizabeth Gage Roberson. Robin Renee Simmons. Ruth Hess Worsham.” The tragic story of how five Ole Miss sorority sisters lost their lives 25 years ago is told in the May issue of “O, The Oprah...
Novelist and former Ole Miss instructor Jesmyn Ward was recently profiled in a Los Angeles Times article titled, "Jesmyn Ward ('Salvage the Bones') writes of Mississippi." The piece concentrates on her struggle for literary success, which she achieved in 2011 by winning the National Book Award for fiction. Ward's award-winning...
Gov. Phil Bryant signed House Bill 1390 yesterday, requiring all physicians performing abortions in Mississippi to be board-certifiied obstetrician-gynecologists and to have admitting priviliges at an area hospital. "Today you see the first step in a movement, I believe, to do what we campaigned on- to say we're going to try to end abortion in Mississippi,"...
Mississippi has the highest teen pregnancy rate once again, according to state data released on Tuesday. For 2010, Mississippi reported 55 births for every 1,000 teen girls aged 15-19. That number is 60 percent higher than the average birth rate for the whole country. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that although Mississippi's teen birth...
