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7 Funny Things Southerners Say About Cold Weather

Judging the weather based on numerical temperatures is boring. Besides, if it’s 35 or 40 degrees, who can tell the difference? Southerners love a...

Ole Miss' Aubrey Edie And Craig Engels H. Boyd McWhorter Nominees

Aubrey Edie of the Ole Miss volleyball team and Craig Engels from the Rebel track and field team have been nominated for the H....

Yoknapatawpha Sculpture Trail Ready To Be Unveiled At Monthly Art Crawl

In March, 10 new sculptures were added to the Yoknapatawpha art trail in Lamar Park after the art council received 68 submissions. On April 25,...

Dalton Minton Selected MACJC Pitcher Of The Week

Northwest Mississippi Community College sophomore left-hander Dalton Minton was named the MACJC Pitcher of the Week on Tuesday after a vote of the league's...

Oxford Native Brings 20 Years Of Big City Experience To UM Business School

In her quaint, meager office, proudly showing off the new School of Business Administration’s logo she created, one would not have guessed that this...

Dr. Jeff Wilson Set To Speak Thursday At Master Gardeners' Spring Lecture Series

The Lafayette County Master Gardener Association (LCMGA) began the Spring Lecture Series at the University of Mississippi Museum in early April. Speaker Susan Haltom, president of the...

Unconquered And Unconquerable: Mississippi's Indian Tribes

This story was republished with permission of the Meek School of Journalism and New Media. Few Mississippi residents realize just how many Native...

New National Association Launched In Oxford To Facilitate Graphene Commercialization

OXFORD, MISSISSIPPI April 18, 2017 -- Graphene, the strongest and thinnest material in the world, got a boost today with the launch of the...

Ole Miss Musings: Former Football Rebels Gather To Honor Great Coach

Members of the 1977 football Rebels along with other former Rebels recently met in Oxford to honor their former coach, Jack Mason Carlisle. Coach...

People Are Sadly Out Of Step With The Legislature

The press and the public are out of step. We keep thinking the Legislature deals with big picture topics such as budgets and taxation,...

Mississippi Quote Of The Day

April 18, 2017  "A fact is not a truth until you love it.”—Shelby Foote "The Mississippi Book of Quotations" by David Crews was published by...