Phase 3 coming.....

[Beretta.sixpack]

slow day on the beach.....so i decided to get caught up on Facebook, flags, and "ole miss".....

i read somewhere last night a story behind Col Reb, the flag, and "phase 3"......cannot remember where, but some of you have probably read it....

the story was in the 90s, ole miss just got their *** beat by MSU, and the head coach said in the locker room, "we can't recruit against the confederate flag"

so the flag was changed.....no longer a symbol at games

phase 2 was to get rid of Col Reb......

that has changed....


so i get to the end of the article, and it mentions phase 3, which says its coming according to UM " the slow phase out of 'Ole Miss' "

but i read the twitter fight where Bjork said its a nickname and supports it......

what am I missing here?

 

[Optimus Prime 4]

Needs more Jade Helm

 

[ShrubDog]

MS has been declared hostile.

 

[Maroonthirteen]

When will they stop playing Dixie? I know I heard at least the intro during the game. I missed halftime.

An Arkansas school board is leading the way, OLE MISS.

http://5newsonline.com/2015/06/23/s...e-song-rebel-mascot-at-southside-high-school/

 

[aTotal360]

#WAren'tOM ?

 

[esplanade91]

http://youtu.be/nqAvFx3NxUM

 

[Junction John]

Live feed from The Square?

Bring back the FroMullet!

Also, a bonus Turbo sighting. That video has it all.

 

[LandArchDawg]

I thought I read a year ago they were going to start changing faculty email addresses from olemiss.edu to umiss.edu?

 

[BiscuitEater]

I thought I read a year ago they were going to start changing faculty email addresses from olemiss.edu to umiss.edu?

From Inside Higher Ed, Aug 2014 ..

To most University of Mississippi students and alumni, calling the institution “Ole Miss” is just natural. It’s what people say. University email addresses are @olemiss.edu, not @umiss.edu. But not everyone likes the name.


Alums have been fighting movement at every step .. Including to the Supreme Court ..

This is not the first time the university has tried to limit its association with Confederate symbols. In the 1990s, amid concerns that waving the Confederate flag at football games was discouraging black athletes from enrolling, the university adopted new rules designed to bar the flag (although the rules were not explicit about the Confederate flag to avoid violations of the First Amendment). A federal appeals court in 1990 upheld the rules (which barred all large flags or flags on sticks from football games) and the Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal. While the university won the legal ruling, confederate symbols (many times unofficially) continued to be associated with the university.

 

[fishwater99]

http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2014/08/01/ole-miss-nickname-lives/13499839/

It's Coming...
Just don't know when, but they might as well do it now while the iron is hot.

 

[BiscuitEater]

It's Coming...
Just don't know when, but they might as well do it now while the iron is hot.

Dan Jones did this .. University of Mississippi Chancellor Dan Jones' last point in the school's diversity action plan addresses the use of the school's nickname. "Ole Miss," a term beloved by some and questionable to others, will continue to be used in the context of university athletics and school spirit.

Six months later, he got FIRED.

 

[MaroonNation]

The problem is that no self-respecting Ole Miss fan wants to associate with current Mississippi. Their entire claim to fame is the ole South, Dixie, plantations and the such. When you try to speak of Ole Miss currently with their fans they want to tell you about all the out of state students who chose Ole Miss. The literally can't stand their university being The University of the poorest state in the nation. If ole miss gives up their name they will truly be a university without a state

 

[Old Fart Dawg]

The problem is that no self-respecting Ole Miss fan wants to associate with current Mississippi. Their entire claim to fame is the ole South, Dixie, plantations and the such. When you try to speak of Ole Miss currently with their fans they want to tell you about all the out of state students who chose Ole Miss. The literally can't stand their university being The University of the poorest state in the nation. If ole miss gives up their name they will truly be a university without a state

Where's the dadgum "like" button?

 

[Shmuley]

Mississippi certainly boasts a large out of state student population. Bless them for that. Those third tier Dallas kids who couldn't manage their way into tejas or aTm had to land somewhere.

 

[tatedog]

Mississippi certainly boasts a large out of state student population. Bless them for that. Those third tier Dallas kids who couldn't manage their way into tejas or aTm had to land somewhere.

I wonder what percentage of out of state Ole Miss students are under the impression that they are attending a private university. The number is probably small, but not insignificant.