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Website. olemiss.edu. The University of Mississippi ( byname Ole Miss) is a public research university in University, Mississippi, with a medical center in Jackson. It is Mississippi's oldest public university and is the state's second largest by enrollment. [ 4] The Mississippi Legislature chartered the university on February 24, 1848, and it ...
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). [1]
United States. Murder. Alexandria Kostial was a 21-year-old University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) student who was found dead near a Mississippi lake in July 2019. A fellow Ole Miss student, 22-year-old Brandon Theesfeld of Fort Worth, Texas, was arrested and charged with murder after Kostial's remains were discovered by a Lafayette County deputy.
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 applicant James Meredith.
Theesfeld was arrested on Monday, two days after the remains of 21-year-old Kostial were found near Lake Sardis in Harmontown, Miss., about 20 miles from Ole Miss's campus in Oxford.
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.
Updated May 5, 2024 at 11:25 AM. The University of Mississippi has opened at least one student conduct investigation after videos of pro-Palestinian protesters surrounded by counterprotesters ...
Four Ole Miss students were recently awarded first place at the 18th annual Gillespie Business Plan Competition at the University of Mississippi. Patrick Phillips, Tanner McCraney, Sam Pennock and ...