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Opera Theatre Showcases Drama, Humor In Americans' Works Nov. 30 & Dec. 2, Deidra Jackson Nov 2001

Opera Theatre Showcases Drama, Humor In Americans' Works Nov. 30 & Dec. 2, Deidra Jackson

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Were Cinderella's ugly stepsisters merely misunderstood?


Mississippi: The Dance Company Brings Back 'Mixed Nuts!' Dec. 6-9, Deidra Jackson Nov 2001

Mississippi: The Dance Company Brings Back 'Mixed Nuts!' Dec. 6-9, Deidra Jackson

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Mississippi: The Dance Company returns to a University of Mississippi stage Dec. 6-9 to perform "Mixed Nuts!," an audience favorite that features a memorable -- and unmistakably wacky -- modern twist on Tchaikovsky's ballet classic "Nutcracker Suite."


Journalists World Wide Face Myriad Challenges, Professor Finds, Patsy R. Brumfield Nov 2001

Journalists World Wide Face Myriad Challenges, Professor Finds, Patsy R. Brumfield

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Good journalists feel compelled to uncover the truth and report it, whether they live in Japan, Slovenia or South Africa.


Fraternity Suspended After Offensive Photo, Staff Report Nov 2001

Fraternity Suspended After Offensive Photo, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- A campus fraternity at the University of Mississippi has been shut down for one year after a racially offensive photograph taken at a Halloween party appeared on the Internet.


Geological Engineering Students Sweep National Research Poster Competition, Mitchell Diggs Nov 2001

Geological Engineering Students Sweep National Research Poster Competition, Mitchell Diggs

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- University of Mississippi students have swept top awards at a national competition sponsored by the American Institute of Professional Geologists (AIPG).


Journalism Conference Teaches Strategies For Covering Charities, Patsy R. Brumfield Nov 2001

Journalism Conference Teaches Strategies For Covering Charities, Patsy R. Brumfield

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Billions of dollars pour into disaster relief every year. Charities ask for help fighting diseases. But how does the public know which groups are doing what they claim?


New Home For 'New' Family And Consumer Sciences Department Underway, Elaine Pugh Nov 2001

New Home For 'New' Family And Consumer Sciences Department Underway, Elaine Pugh

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Hammer-wielding students and alumni smashed an old sorority house wall at The University of Mississippi (UM) to signify that the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS) is on the move.


Students Remember Classmate With Ceremony, Favorite Author, Deborah Purnell Nov 2001

Students Remember Classmate With Ceremony, Favorite Author, Deborah Purnell

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss.-- Oxford native Tommy Tosh made plans to give copies of his favorite book to some 80 University of Mississippi students who were pledging to his fraternity, Sigma Nu.


Sorority Celebrates 25 Years At Um, Deborah Purnell Nov 2001

Sorority Celebrates 25 Years At Um, Deborah Purnell

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Mentors, tutors and leaders - members of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority celebrate 25 years' service to the Oxford and University of Mississippi community, beginning Friday (Nov. 9) with a 5 p.m. open house on campus.


Um Runs ‘Jail’ To Help United Way, Staff Report Nov 2001

Um Runs ‘Jail’ To Help United Way, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- University of Mississippi students, faculty and staff "jailed" friends in front of the Student Union on Wednesday (Nov. 7) to raise money for the local United Way. To be detained, someone had to pay $10 to the organizers, then the arrested person could pay $5 to get out of jail. "Deputy" Chad McCracken, a campus programming graduate assistant, tells "inmate" Robert Carver, an experimental psychology grad student, the terms of his release.


Eu Ambassador Discusses Post-Sept. 11 Transatlantic Challenges Nov. 15, Staff Report Nov 2001

Eu Ambassador Discusses Post-Sept. 11 Transatlantic Challenges Nov. 15, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Transatlantic cooperation and global peace face new challenges since Sept. 11, and a top European leader talks about those challenges Nov. 15 on The University of Mississippi (UM)-Oxford campus.


Space Law Center Director Receives International Award, Elaine Pugh Nov 2001

Space Law Center Director Receives International Award, Elaine Pugh

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Professor Joanne Gabrynowicz (right), director of the National Remote Sensing and Space Law Center at The University of Mississippi, receives the Women in Aerospace's Outstanding International Award from U.S. Rep. Roger Wicker of Tupelo (R-MS) in a Washington, D.C., ceremony.


Um Alum To Head American Cancer Society, Staff Report Nov 2001

Um Alum To Head American Cancer Society, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

JACKSON, Miss. -- Dr. Ralph B. Vance, an oncologist at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMC), will lead the American Cancer Society as president in 2004.


Veterans Day Program Nov. 11 Features World War Ii Vehicles, Aircraft, Elaine Pugh Nov 2001

Veterans Day Program Nov. 11 Features World War Ii Vehicles, Aircraft, Elaine Pugh

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. — World War II aircraft fly over Oxford between 1:30 and 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 11, opening a Veterans’ Day commemoration at The University of Mississippi (UM).


Oxford Campus Hosts ‘Military Academy Day’, Staff Report Nov 2001

Oxford Campus Hosts ‘Military Academy Day’, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- High school and junior high student are invited to learn more about U.S. military academies and ROTC programs at a Nov. 10 forum on The University of Mississippi's Oxford campus.


Winter Baseball Camps Help Youths Improve Their Game, Lori Topp Nov 2001

Winter Baseball Camps Help Youths Improve Their Game, Lori Topp

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- The University of Mississippi's 2001 Winter Baseball camps will provide boys in grades 1-12 an opportunity to improve their game.


Wonders Of Nature Revealed At Field Station’S Science Day Nov. 10, Mitchell Diggs Nov 2001

Wonders Of Nature Revealed At Field Station’S Science Day Nov. 10, Mitchell Diggs

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- What really is inside owl pellets? Learn about that and more at Science Day Nov. 10 at The University of Mississippi's Field Station -- a unique natural research laboratory.


Education Alumni Gather, Celebrate Nov. 3, Deidra Jackson Nov 2001

Education Alumni Gather, Celebrate Nov. 3, Deidra Jackson

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Class reunions, departmental tours, an annual alumni meeting and barbecue picnic will round out Education Day, Nov. 3 at The University of Mississippi (UM).


Scientist Outlines Water Conservation Strategy For Region, Mitchell Diggs Nov 2001

Scientist Outlines Water Conservation Strategy For Region, Mitchell Diggs

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- The southeastern United States boasts some of the world's most biologically diverse freshwater systems, and researchers working to protect and manage that biodiversity must take both regional and global approaches.


Football Fans Invited To View Flora & Fauna, Mitchell Diggs Oct 2001

Football Fans Invited To View Flora & Fauna, Mitchell Diggs

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- This weekend's activities at The University of Mississippi (UM) revolve around food and football, but for fans who want to pack a little more into their Saturday, the Department of Biology offers creepy critters and a gardener's delight.


Arts Alliance Honors Southern Culture Center's Director, Deidra Jackson Oct 2001

Arts Alliance Honors Southern Culture Center's Director, Deidra Jackson

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Dr. Charles Reagan Wilson, director of The University of Mississippi’s Center for the Study of Southern Culture, has been honored by the Tennessee-based Germantown Arts Alliance for significant contributions to the arts.


Couple Repays Community's Generosity With Deferred Gift To Pharmacy Program, Mitchell Diggs Oct 2001

Couple Repays Community's Generosity With Deferred Gift To Pharmacy Program, Mitchell Diggs

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Over the past 35 years, Mickey and Mary Smith have made it their mission to befriend as many University of Mississippi (UM) pharmacy students as they can.


Remote-Sensing Presentation Rescheduled Due To Satellite Launch Failure, Elaine Pugh Oct 2001

Remote-Sensing Presentation Rescheduled Due To Satellite Launch Failure, Elaine Pugh

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- An unsuccessful attempt to launch an earth-orbiting commercial satellite by Orbital Imaging Corp. has delayed its CEO's appearance for The University of Mississippi series of remote sensing forums.


Um Stages Orson Welles' Unusual, Gripping 'Moby Dick Rehearsed' Nov. 1-2,4, Deidra Jackson Oct 2001

Um Stages Orson Welles' Unusual, Gripping 'Moby Dick Rehearsed' Nov. 1-2,4, Deidra Jackson

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss.— With imaginative choreography, poetic dialogue and heart-stopping anticipation, Orson Welles' "Moby Dick Rehearsed" plays Nov. 1-2 and 4 at The University of Mississippi's intimate Bryant Hall studio theater on the Oxford campus.


Flu Vaccines Aplenty; Prices Higher, Mitchell Diggs Oct 2001

Flu Vaccines Aplenty; Prices Higher, Mitchell Diggs

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Plenty of flu vaccines are expected to be available this year, but at higher prices. And amid increasing worries about anthrax, it's especially recommended that people get flu shots this fall, says a University of Mississippi (UM) expert in pharmaceutical marketing and distribution.


Music Student Hears, Heeds Call To Form Oxford Youth Choir, Deidra Jackson Oct 2001

Music Student Hears, Heeds Call To Form Oxford Youth Choir, Deidra Jackson

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Calvin Ellis, a senior vocal music education major on The University of Mississippi's Oxford campus, listened to the Lafayette County college town and heard the need for a youth singing ensemble.


Former Nato Commander Discusses 'New Kind Of War' Nov. 2, Deborah Purnell Oct 2001

Former Nato Commander Discusses 'New Kind Of War' Nov. 2, Deborah Purnell

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Retired Army Gen. Wesley K. Clark, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander, speaks Nov. 2 in The University of Mississippi's Fulton Chapel on the Oxford campus.


Academic Diversity Is Focus Of New Administrative Post, Mitchell Diggs Oct 2001

Academic Diversity Is Focus Of New Administrative Post, Mitchell Diggs

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Thirty-one years ago, Donald Cole spoke up for equal rights at The University of Mississippi (UM). Today, he is at the forefront of minority opportunities on the UM campus.


Excited About The Rebs!, Staff Report Oct 2001

Excited About The Rebs!, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

Ole Miss students lined up before dawn Wednesday to purchase tickets for the 2001-02 Rebel basketball season. Some 1,100 student tickets sold out in short order, especially among students like these -- members of Rod's Squad, the student spirit group named for Rebel Head Coach Rod Barnes


Oxford-Ole Miss Community Joins To Help Stop Violence Against Women, Elaine Pugh Oct 2001

Oxford-Ole Miss Community Joins To Help Stop Violence Against Women, Elaine Pugh

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- A T-shirt workshop and display, speakers and a candlelight vigil highlight Stop Violence Against Women Week, Oct. 29 through Nov. 1, at The University of Mississippi (UM).