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‘He changed our world’: Friends and family remember Sansing’s legacy

Family, friends, faculty and former students were moved to tears on Wednesday as loved ones gave their accounts of historian and professor emeritus David...

OPINION: Letter to the Editor: The student body has not spoken

Most students have recently heard for the first time about Resolution 19-4 being voted on and “unanimously” passed by the ASB senators. What all the...

Lynching memorialization plaque to be unveiled Saturday

A plaque memorializing Elwood Higginbottom, the seventh and last person known to be lynched in Lafayette County in 1935, will be installed this Saturday...

Community makes strides to honor lynching victim

Efforts to memorialize the 1935 killing of Elwood Higginbottom, the seventh and last person known to be lynched in Lafayette County, continued on Tuesday...

Late students and faculty remembered at memorial service

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...

Memorial for deceased professor today

A memorial service honoring University faculty member James Chambers will be held at 4 p.m. today at the Gertrude C. Ford Center. Chambers was the Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs in the School Of Engineering. Chambers, age 47, died March 13 in a fire at his home in Oxford. Guests attending the memorial service are encouraged to wear casual attire because...

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