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By 1968, Ole Miss had around 100 African American students, [55] and by the 2019–2020 academic year, African Americans constituted 12.5 percent of the student body. [56] In 1972, Ole Miss purchased Rowan Oak, the former home of Nobel Prize–winning writer William Faulkner. [57] [58] The building has been preserved as it was at Faulkner's ...
The Daily Mississippian, commonly called The DM, is the student newspaper of the University of Mississippi.The first issue of The Mississippian was published in 1911. It is operated as an independent student-run newspaper, and is published in print one day a week and online daily.
The Lyceum is an academic building at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi. Designed by English architect William Nichols, it was named after Aristotle's Lyceum. It purportedly contains the oldest academic bell in the United States. The building served as a hospital for Confederate wounded during the Civil War.
C. M. "Tad" Smith Coliseum is an 8,867-seat multi-purpose arena on the campus of the University of Mississippi. Through the first part of the 2015–16 basketball season, it was home to the University of Mississippi Rebels men's and women's basketball teams, but was replaced by a new arena, The Sandy and John Black Pavilion, in January 2016.
[4] [5] Its official United States Postal Service designation is "University, Mississippi", with a ZIP Code of 38677. The population at the 2010 census was 4,202, [6] while the 2014 enrollment for Ole Miss was 20,112 in 2014. [7] The University CDP is an enclave surrounded by the city of Oxford, west of its downtown area.
In 1989, star Ole Miss women's basketball player Kimsey O'Neal became the first black student to gain the title "Miss Ole Miss." One year later, in 1990, Roy Lee "Chucky" Mullins, the Rebel athlete who suffered a devastating football injury in 1989 that left him a quadriplegic, was elected "Colonel Reb" by the student body. In 2013, the ...
May 4—OXFORD — What began as a desire to rid themselves of a few lamps has turned into a prize-winning business idea for four Ole Miss students. Four Ole Miss students were recently awarded ...
The University of Mississippi School of Medicine (UMSOM) is the medical school of the University of Mississippi in the U.S. state of Mississippi. The UMSOM was created in 1903 on the Oxford campus. In 1955, it was moved from the Oxford campus to the state capital of Jackson and was expanded to include the third and fourth years of training.