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Saturday | US News & World Report

Segregationist Tells Ole Miss President to Back Off Student Body

As if the University of Mississippi needs more attention given to the subject, a segregationist has chimed in on the recent controversy surrounding a student chant.

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Related Topix: Mississippi Government, Mississippi

Fri Nov 06, 2009

WJTV Jackson

Um To Enforce Tailgating Rule

The University of Mississippi will enforce a rule bars tailgaters from putting up tents before 6 p.m. on Fridays.

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Related Topix: Mississippi Government, Mississippi

Thu Nov 05, 2009

Picayune Item

Burnham chosen to return as Miss. schools chief

Tom Burnham, who led Mississippi's public school system for five years in the mid-1990s, has been chosen to return to the position.

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Related Topix: Mississippi Government, Mississippi, Education Etc.

Tue Nov 03, 2009

The Mobile Register Online

Mississippi chooses Tom Burnham for schools superintendent; served in job in mid-90s

A state Department of Education spokesman says Tom Burnham, who served as Mississippi's superintendent of education in the mid-1990s, has been chosen to return to the job.

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CBS News

Government Takeover on Campus

Stephen Spruiell is a staff writer for National Review Online. The Obama administration is trying to strong-arm America's colleges and universities into complying with a bill that hasn't been signed into law yet.

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Related Topix: Non-Profit, Opinion, US Politics, US News

Sun Nov 01, 2009

Associated Content

Mississippi's Janice Carr Plans to Scale Mount Kilimanjaro

Janice Carr, an employee of the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi, is planning to climb her way to the top, the top of Mount Kilimanjaro that is.

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Related Topix: Oxford, MS, Travel, Malawi Travel, World News, Tanzania, Malawi Travel, Tanzania Travel, Africa, Tanzania

Fri Oct 30, 2009

Effingham Herald

Barnes to take over Georgia EPD

The Georgia Board of Natural Resources appointed F. Allen Barnes as the director of the Environmental Protection Division of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.

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Related Topix: Georgia, Georgia Government, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Atlanta, GA, University of West Florida

Wed Oct 28, 2009

The York Weekly

York filmmaker explores Navy prison

York filmmaker Neil Novello has taken a subject with which all of us are familiar from the outside, but few have seen from within.

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Related Topix: Prison, Portsmouth, NH, History in the News, Hampton, NH

Mon Oct 26, 2009

The Oregonian

Allen Barnes Nominated as Director of Georgia Environmental Protection Division

Sonny Perdue has nominated Allen Barnes to be the new Director of the Georgia Environmental Protection Division .

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Related Topix: Georgia, Georgia Government, Law, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Mississippi State University

Sunherald.com

Ole Miss freshman earns Lott Leadership award

A Resurrection High School graduate is one of six University of Mississippi freshmen selected as scholars in the Lott Leadership Institute.

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Related Topix: Trent Lott, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Biloxi Metro, Non-Profit

Sun Oct 25, 2009

MetaFilter

The South Will Not Rise Again

AP article about the chant "The South will Rise Again." In the past few years University of Mississippi officials have done away with both the waving of the Confederate Battle Flag at football games and Colonel Reb , the school mascot who resembles a white plantation owner.

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Fri Oct 23, 2009

Hickory Daily Record

Republicans wrongly accused of racism

President Jimmy Carter said the majority of the people who are dissatisfied with President Obama are dissatisfied because of his color.

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Related Topix: US News, University of Alabama, US Politics, Robert Byrd, US Senate, Democrat, Al Gore

Athens Banner-Herald

Law firms pay new hires to work for public good

If things had gone according to plan, Lindsay Murphy would be a big-city tax lawyer by now.

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Related Topix: Dallas Metro, Dallas, TX

Thu Oct 22, 2009

Sunherald.com

Ole Miss seeks to silence 'rising South' chant

JACKSON, Miss. -- The University of Mississippi wants to rid its football games of the chant, "The South will rise again." Ole Miss Chancellor Dan Jones said he's received complaints from alumni that the slogan is offensive.

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Related Topix: Jackson Metro, Jackson, MS

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John Phillips Award at Phillips Exeter Academy

Nicholas Katzenbach '39; P'67, P'68, Former Attorney General and Undersecretary during the Johnson Administration, Receives the John Phillips Award at Phillips Exeter Academy Exeter, NH - On Tuesday, October 13, 2009, Phillips Exeter Academy honored Nicholas deBelleville Katzenbach , former attorney general and undersecretary during the Johnson ...

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Related Topix: Exeter, NH, Princeton University, Yale University, University of Chicago

WLOX-TV Biloxi

Ole Miss Campus Makes Top Ten List for Safety

The University of Mississippi has been ranked at No. 9 among the top 25 safest colleges in America.

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Related Topix: Best of 2007, Mississippi Government, Mississippi, Journalism

Tue Oct 20, 2009

Mississippi Business Journal

McDaniel now practicing at St. Dominica s

Huey B. McDaniel, M.D., has joined the medical practice of St. Dominic's Cardiovascular Surgery Associates as a vascular surgeon.

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Related Topix: McDaniel, MD, Medicine, Surgery, Tulane University, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Mon Oct 19, 2009

KGW-TV Portland

Firms wonder if they should use Twitter

Twitter may seem like something that only kids use. But local public relations experts say it is a useful tool that can add value to a business, if used correctly.

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Related Topix: Twitter, Public Relations, Seattle Metro, Social Software

Sat Oct 17, 2009

WLMT

Black Panther Party Co-Founder Visits University of Mississippi

Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panthers, told students and faculty at Ole Miss about the history of the group, and he talked about how students can be activists today.

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Related Topix: Activism, Mississippi Government, Mississippi, US Military, US News, US Air Force

Fri Oct 16, 2009

Science News

Mental disorders don't hinder headache treatment

For an especially miserable time, mix recurring headaches with depression, anxiety or both.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Headache, Health, Ohio University, Mississippi, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Science / Technology

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