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Religion, Republicans Dominate Modern Southern Politics, Say Scholars, Angela Moore Nov 2004

Religion, Republicans Dominate Modern Southern Politics, Say Scholars, Angela Moore

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Red states, race and evangelical Christianity dominated discussions on the history of the South and its future Friday and Saturday at the University of Mississippi.


Students, Staff Prepare Food Baskets For Community's Needy, Staff Report Nov 2004

Students, Staff Prepare Food Baskets For Community's Needy, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

(l-r) Stacy Malone, an AmeriCorp VISTA member, helps University of Mississippi senior Tymingie Flowers of Batesville and sophomore Christopher Brooks of Starkville prepare food baskets for needy Lafayette County families Friday morning in the Student Union ballroom. UM faculty, staff and students donated enough food and money for 76 Thanksgiving dinner baskets as part of the Mississippi Universities Service into Caring program. The baskets, which contain canned and dry goods, and a supermarket gift card to buy perishable items, are being delivered today.


Ihl Board Name Richard Crofts Interim Commissioner, Ihl Staff Nov 2004

Ihl Board Name Richard Crofts Interim Commissioner, Ihl Staff

University of Mississippi News

JACKSON, Miss. - The Mississippi Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning (IHL) today named Richard Crofts interim commissioner. He begins his duties in the new post Dec. 1.


Southern Leaders Championing Ideas Of 35-Year-Old Lamar Society, Jennifer Southall Nov 2004

Southern Leaders Championing Ideas Of 35-Year-Old Lamar Society, Jennifer Southall

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Consensus among the nearly 100 Southern leaders gathered through Saturday at the University of Mississippi to consider the region's future is that progress has been made but much work remains.


Mall Property To Be Purchased For Innovation & Outreach Center, Tobie Baker Nov 2004

Mall Property To Be Purchased For Innovation & Outreach Center, Tobie Baker

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - The University of Mississippi received approval Thursday from the Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning to purchase additional property at the Oxford Mall for a new Innovation and Outreach Center.


Mergers And Acquisitions Expert Available To Discuss Kmart, Sears Deal, Deidra Jackson Nov 2004

Mergers And Acquisitions Expert Available To Discuss Kmart, Sears Deal, Deidra Jackson

University of Mississippi News

The news that discount retailer Kmart Holding Corp. is combining with Sears, Roebuck & Co. in an $11-billion deal to create the nation's third largest retailer thundered through Wall Street today. But University of Mississippi marketing professor Chuck Ingene believes the new company, Sears Holdings Corp., won't survive because Kmart and Sears "have little in common."


Friends Of The Children Fund Offers Assistance For Families, Kezia Pigford Nov 2004

Friends Of The Children Fund Offers Assistance For Families, Kezia Pigford

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - University of Mississippi employees and students with critically ill children can get help through a new program started by Ole Miss faculty, staff and students.


Leading Business Pioneer Shares Secrets To Success, Grant Brashier Nov 2004

Leading Business Pioneer Shares Secrets To Success, Grant Brashier

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss – Bill Rayburn, CEO of the nation's leading provider of software products for the collateral industry shared with University of Mississippi students several insights to running a successful business and revealed the company's plans for a campus recruiting session to fill job openings.


Scholarship Endowment Honors Beloved Law Professor, Natashia Gregoire Nov 2004

Scholarship Endowment Honors Beloved Law Professor, Natashia Gregoire

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - University of Mississippi law students love to share stories about professor George Cochran. They dread his constitutional law classes before they enroll, but by semester's end, they thank him for caring.


32nd Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Conference Invites Papers On "Faulkner's Inheritance", Donald Kartiganer Nov 2004

32nd Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Conference Invites Papers On "Faulkner's Inheritance", Donald Kartiganer

University of Mississippi News

As much as the fictional character closest to him - Quentin Compson - William Faulkner was "an empty hall echoing with sonorous defeated names... a commonwealth... a barracks filled with stubborn back-looking ghosts." The names and ghosts, of course, were not just those of the Old South and the war fought on its behalf, but the world that grew up in the wake of their passing....


Rare Volumes On Indian Tribes Go On Permanent Display In Library Archive, Tobie Baker Nov 2004

Rare Volumes On Indian Tribes Go On Permanent Display In Library Archive, Tobie Baker

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Two distinguished University of Mississippi alumni recently provided a custom-designed exhibit case to display at the J.D. Williams Library their 1992 gift of an extremely rare three-volume folio edition of "The Indian Tribes of North America." The work contains 120 hand-colored lithographs of early tribal leaders.


Researchers Explore Swamp Plants' Potential In Battling Breast Cancer, Mitchell Diggs Nov 2004

Researchers Explore Swamp Plants' Potential In Battling Breast Cancer, Mitchell Diggs

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Many people might imagine the search for new cancer drugs goes on in sterile laboratories, where scientists wearing white coats use shiny equipment to synthesize medicines for zapping tumors. But University of Mississippi researchers - wearing hip waders to search through wetlands in rural Benton and Desoto counties - may have discovered in the marshes a powerful new weapon for fighting breast cancer.


Southern Leaders, Visionaries Converge To Consider Region's Future, Jennifer Southall Nov 2004

Southern Leaders, Visionaries Converge To Consider Region's Future, Jennifer Southall

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - It's as true now as ever that you can't eat magnolias - or at least you probably shouldn't. "You Can't Eat Magnolias" is the title of the 1972 manifesto written by a group of progressive Southerners with a vision for the region that included overcoming racism, poverty and ignorance.


Moss Point Student Eager To Learn From Chancellor, Jennifer Southall Nov 2004

Moss Point Student Eager To Learn From Chancellor, Jennifer Southall

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - After two months at the University of Mississippi, freshman Seth Walley said he "couldn't see (himself) at another place." In fact, Walley was considering a couple of universities closer to his Moss Point home until he learned last February that he'd received the Robert C. Khayat Ole Miss First Scholarship.


Internet Security Expert To Address Cybercrime Conference Tuesday, Joe Thompson Nov 2004

Internet Security Expert To Address Cybercrime Conference Tuesday, Joe Thompson

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - The chief security officer of eBay and former chair of President George Bush's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board is scheduled to speak at the University of Mississippi Tuesday (Nov. 16) on methods of combating cybercrime.


Two Killed, Two Injured In Construction Site Accident, Staff Report Nov 2004

Two Killed, Two Injured In Construction Site Accident, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Two construction workers died and two others were injured Thursday afternoon when a lift crane toppled at a renovation site at the University of Mississippi.


Yearbook Receives Gold Medal Honors, Natashia Gregoire Nov 2004

Yearbook Receives Gold Medal Honors, Natashia Gregoire

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - The University of Mississippi's 2004 yearbook Ole Miss, with its sleek black cover and glossy photography, has received a Gold Medal Certificate in the Columbia Scholastic Press Association Annual Critique.


Piano Series Presents Grammy-Nominated Jazz Pianist Judy Carmichael In Concert Nov. 16, Deborah Purnell Nov 2004

Piano Series Presents Grammy-Nominated Jazz Pianist Judy Carmichael In Concert Nov. 16, Deborah Purnell

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Grammy-nominated jazz pianist Judy Carmichael performs a solo recital Tuesday (Nov.16) at the University of Mississippi as part of the 2004 Piano Series.


Opera Theatre Presents Annual Fall Opera Scenes Program At Meek Hall Auditorium, Nov. 18-19, Joe Thompson Nov 2004

Opera Theatre Presents Annual Fall Opera Scenes Program At Meek Hall Auditorium, Nov. 18-19, Joe Thompson

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - The University of Mississippi Opera Theatre Ensemble offers "An Evening of Music Theatre" on Thursday and Friday, Nov. 18-19, at Meek Hall Auditorium.


Tupelo Newspaper Teams With Um To Train High School Journalists, Staff Report Nov 2004

Tupelo Newspaper Teams With Um To Train High School Journalists, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - University of Mississippi journalism professors are joining forces with local journalists to spread enthusiasm for the profession among the state's youth.


Knight Funds Support Training For Journalists To Cover Nonprofits, Staff Report Nov 2004

Knight Funds Support Training For Journalists To Cover Nonprofits, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - The only national training program to help American journalists better understand how the nonprofit community operates is to continue and expand at the University of Mississippi.


Reading Marks Release Of Book Based On Wwii Letters, Diaries, Tobie Baker Nov 2004

Reading Marks Release Of Book Based On Wwii Letters, Diaries, Tobie Baker

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - The University of Mississippi hosts a reading and book release party Sunday (Nov. 14) for "'til then," a collection of World War II love letters and diary entries.


New Lou Symphony Orchestra To Perform Inaugural Concert Nov. 15 At Ford Center, Deborah Purnell Nov 2004

New Lou Symphony Orchestra To Perform Inaugural Concert Nov. 15 At Ford Center, Deborah Purnell

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - The Lafayette-Oxford-University Symphony Orchestra performs its inaugural concert Monday (Nov. 15) at the University of Mississippi.


Department Of Music Presents Third Annual Ole Miss Holiday Dinner And Concert, Dec. 2-4, Joe Thompson Nov 2004

Department Of Music Presents Third Annual Ole Miss Holiday Dinner And Concert, Dec. 2-4, Joe Thompson

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - The University of Mississippi Department of Music presents its third annual Ole Miss Holiday Dinner and Concert Dec. 2-4 in the Paul B. Johnson Commons Ballroom.


With High-Tech Maps, Um Delivers New Lessons To State's High School Science Classrooms, Angela Moore Nov 2004

With High-Tech Maps, Um Delivers New Lessons To State's High School Science Classrooms, Angela Moore

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. -- Long a staple of Mississippi classrooms, the state map recently got a high-tech facelift from researchers at the University of Mississippi.


Truman Foundation's Executive Secretary, Past Scholars To Gather At Um For National Award, Jennifer Southall Nov 2004

Truman Foundation's Executive Secretary, Past Scholars To Gather At Um For National Award, Jennifer Southall

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. -- Louis H. Blair, executive secretary of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation, visits Oxford Nov. 19 to present the foundation's 2004 Honor Institution Award to the University of Mississippi.


Um Community Members Launch 'Adopt-A-Basket' For Statewide Service Day, Jennifer Southall Nov 2004

Um Community Members Launch 'Adopt-A-Basket' For Statewide Service Day, Jennifer Southall

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - University of Mississippi students, staff, faculty and administrators are providing Thanksgiving dinners for needy families in and around Oxford through a project called "Adopt-A-Basket."


Ole Miss Outdoors Sponsors Ski Trip To British Columbia, Jennifer Russell Nov 2004

Ole Miss Outdoors Sponsors Ski Trip To British Columbia, Jennifer Russell

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. -- Ole Miss Outdoors is sponsoring a ski trip to the British Columbia coast mountains of Whistler and Blackcomb Dec. 12-18.


Pharmaceutical Scientist Helps Abc News Unravel Truth Behind Sexual Myths, Mitchell Diggs Nov 2004

Pharmaceutical Scientist Helps Abc News Unravel Truth Behind Sexual Myths, Mitchell Diggs

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. -- For help with a report on the truth behind popular beliefs about sex and sexuality, producers of the long-running ABC News series "20/20" turned to a University of Mississippi pharmaceutical scientist.


Southern Leaders, Former Lamar Society Membersgather At Um To Consider The South's Future, Jennifer Southall Nov 2004

Southern Leaders, Former Lamar Society Membersgather At Um To Consider The South's Future, Jennifer Southall

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. -- Leaders from academia, government, media, nonprofit organizations and business gather at the University of Mississippi Nov. 18-20 to address the many public policy issues facing the South.