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Ole Miss also owns University-Oxford Airport, which is located north of the main campus. North Mississippi Japanese Supplementary School, a Japanese weekend school, is operated in conjunction with Ole Miss, with classes held on campus. It opened in 2008 and was jointly established by several Japanese companies and the university.
James Howard Meredith (born June 25, 1933) is an American civil rights activist, writer, political adviser, and United States Air Force veteran who became, in 1962, the first African-American student admitted to the racially segregated University of Mississippi after the intervention of the federal government (an event that was a flashpoint in the civil rights movement).
The University of Mississippi was the first college in the Southeast to hire a female faculty member: Sarah McGehee Isom in 1885. The nickname "Ole Miss" dates to 1897, when the student yearbook was first published. A contest was held to solicit suggestions for a yearbook title from the student body, and Elma Meek submitted the winning entry.
The Ole Miss Associated Student Body—the university’s student government—said in a statement that at the protest, “unacceptable remarks were made that departed from our cherished values.”
Doha Madani and Curtis Bunn. Updated May 5, 2024 at 2:25 PM. The University of Mississippi has opened at least one student conduct investigation after videos of pro-Palestinian protesters ...
The Ole Miss riot of 1962 (September 30 – October 1, 1962), also known as the Battle of Oxford, [1] was a violent disturbance that occurred at the University of Mississippi —commonly called Ole Miss—in Oxford, Mississippi, as Segregationist rioters sought to prevent the enrollment of African American man James Meredith.
Hubert Creekmore (1907–1966), author. Ellen Douglas (pen name of Josephine Haxton, 1921–2012), novelist. Winifred Hamrick Farrar (1923–2010), Mississippi poet laureate [4] John Faulkner (1901–1963), plain-style writer, brother of William Faulkner. William Faulkner (1897–1962), author, Nobel laureate.
Tony the Landshark, an anthropomorphic shark, is the mascot of the Ole Miss Rebels, the collegiate athletic teams of the University of Mississippi. It replaced Rebel Black Bear as the mascot in fall 2018. History. The landshark derives from a gesture invented by linebacker Tony Fein during the 2008 football season.