Author Archives: Christoff Ludwig
MOVE ASIDE, CHICAGO There’s a new windiest city in the game. According to the USA Today, Jackson is the No. 1 windiest city in the U.S. In fact, Chicago didn’t even make the top 10. The information comes from recent weather data analysis by CoreLogic, a research and consulting firm. For the beginning of 2015, data shows the highest wind speed in Jackson being...
Rent Like A Champion, a weekend house rental company that operates in Oxford and many other college towns across America, will have the chance to gain national exposure tonight. The CEO of Rent Like A Champion, Mike Doyle, and co-founder Drew Mitchell will appear on the American Broadcasting Company primetime hit television show “Shark Tank” at 9 p.m tonight. The men...
Dear Editor: A couple of weeks ago, I was walking past the Capitol in Washington, DC on my way to watch an Ole Miss football game with other DC alumni. In a park off to the side, about a dozen or so white men and women were waving the Confederate battle flag. They were some yards away from me, and separated from a seething multitude of black men and women by steel fences...
Dear UM, I am sickened by the news that the University has decided not to fly the state flag. It is bad enough about all of the other political correctness Ole Miss has kowtowed to over the past 20 years with the banning of the Rebel flag, no Dixie, no Colonel Reb and now this. This is almost as bad as ISIS blowing up ancient sites in Syria! What are you going...
The University of Mississippi will host its first TEDx UM Talk at 9 a.m. Saturday at the Gertrude Ford Center for Performing Arts. The event will include 10 guests speaking on the theme “In Plain Sight,” referring to simple concepts that hold a deeper meaning. Senior international studies and French major Elizabeth Wicks coordinated the event and said the theme...
Ole Miss head coach Hugh Freeze addressed the injury status of junior defensive tackle Robert Nkemdiche and junior defensive back Tony Conner on Wednesday. Nkemdiche has been cleared to play by the medical staff and the status of Conner is still day-to-day as he is recovering from surgery on his torn meniscus. “Robert (Nkemdiche) is ready to go. He just has...
