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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 Grove in fall Trash Can Friday in The Grove. The Grove is the tailgating area located at the center of the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) campus. It is approximately 10 acres (4.0 ha) in size. The Grove takes its name from "the oak, elm and magnolia trees surrounding the area". [1]
Ole Miss was integrated by the enrollment of James H. Meredith, an African-American military veteran, on October 1, 1962. In Mississippi in the fall of 1962, there was violent resistance to court-ordered desegregation of the university. The violence required intervention by the Federal government to protect the safety of citizens.
Aug. 3—OXFORD — Wednesday felt a lot like the first day of school. Ole Miss started its fall camp Wednesday morning, which all leads up to its season-opening matchup against Troy on Sept. 3.
The campus' center is "The Circle", which consists of eight academic buildings organized around an ovaloid common. [14] The Lyceum was the first building built on the Oxford campus and was expanded with two wings in 1903. The university claims that the Lyceum's bell is the oldest academic bell in the United States. [15]
[citation needed] Prior to the early to mid-1990s, Ole Miss would play many of its big rivalry games, including the heated feuds with LSU, Mississippi State, Tennessee, and Arkansas at Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium in the state capital of Jackson, located approximately 170 miles (270 km) south of the Ole Miss campus; and to a lesser ...
OXFORD — Several dozen students were peacefully evacuated off of the University of Mississippi campus after a pro-Palestine protest turned into a shouting match between the protestors and ...
Ole Miss students and faculty ride free upon showing University identification. Mississippi Central Railroad provides freight rail service to the Lafayette County Industrial Park in Oxford. University-Oxford Airport is a public use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) northwest of the central business district of Oxford.