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Ferguson: No Snow in a Mississippi Christmas

Mississippi may lack snow, but Christmas traditions, humor, faith, and gratitude make the season meaningful and full of joy.

Rebel Tennis Player Turning Pro

Lutjen plans on attacking the pro circuit with full force. For a typical student, graduating from college can be a frightening thing. Expectations are through...

Art Shirley Cartoon: Life Coach

Art Shirley graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1984 with a BA in Art. While at Ole Miss, Art drew the daily comic strip...

Poor, Uprooted and On the Margins

Writer Steve Stern's tales of old world Jews in Memphis' Pinch District When the one-legged, one-eyed rags peddler Lazar Malkin left on his journeys into...

‘Bonnamu’ An OM Rite of Spring

For the past two years, fraternities and sororities alike have looked forward to local Greek philanthropy “Phi Mu Bonnamu” –– an event that has...

UM Officials Developing Community as Arts Mecca

Chancellor's new fund for the arts will help bring artists to campus to teach and perform OXFORD, Miss. – Chancellor Dan Jones and a passionate...

OM Commencement History on Display at Library

There were no graduates when the University of Mississippi held its first Commencement in July 1849, less than one year after opening for its...

Greeks On the Rise at Ole Miss

The Greek community at Ole Miss has become so popular that the Panhellenic Council has decided that more organizations are necessary. “Our pledge classes and...

Barnard Observatory

Barnard Observatory was a U.S. astrophysical observatory owned and operated by University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi. Completed in 1859, the building was part...

City Slicker Knows Where Southern Crosses Dog

New Yorker has the goods in book set in Mississippi My name is Emily, and I am a Southern literature snob. Since that is all out...

Ricin Letters Case Sent to Grand Jury

The U.S. Attorney has convinced Federal Magistrate S. Allan Alexander that there is enough evidence against James Everett Dutschke to bind the case over...