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To the Editor: 

If the proponents of the Green Fund have their way, tuition costs will increase nearly $400,000 per year (16,000 students X $12 X 2 semesters)… but they promise that the Green Fund will save us money? Something doesn’t smell right here.

The University of Mississippi Athletics Department has been hitting the streets since it unveiled its Forward Together campaign on Aug. 10.

In just under two months, the group has reached a miniature milestone, topping $25 million in donations.

The Forward Together capital campaign is a $150 million fundraising effort to build a new basketball arena and expand the football stadium. 

The construction of the Forward Together project will be completed over a two-phase plan for both venues.  

This weekend the Ole Miss volleyball team continues its season-opening road trip and travels to Louisville for its second tournament of the year, the Crowne Plaza Cardinal Classic. 

The Rebels (0-2) are coming off a tough weekend at the Burnt Orange Classic in Austin, Texas, where they faced three top-notch teams, including the Israeli National team in an exhibition.

I watched “Pocahontas” for the first time in years last weekend while I was home visiting family, and it struck me how early our generation was exposed to ideas of sustainability and caring for the planet.  

Accounting major Jessie Austin is an accomplished person.

The 21-year-old senior is the director of student involvement in the Associated Student Body, a member of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity and president of the Rebels for United Way organization.

He was also recently inducted into the Hall of Fame.

“It’s still kind of surreal, even though it is a couple of days after the fact,” Austin said.

MTV’s “Skins”

We have a dire situation on our hands, America – MTV is importing “Skins.”  

“I always wanted a small place like this. Nothing real big, nothing too complicated, just something where I could make the dishes I really wanted to do,” Laurie Stirratt, owner of Tallulah’s Kitchen, said. 

The University of Mississippi now educates just fewer than 20,000 students. 

In an effort to promote a cleaner and healthier community, Oxford will host the Conference for Sustainable Design the first week of November.

Tomorrow morning, professors Marvin King and Charles Ross will be talking NCAA, money and athletes.

“Professors normally lecture and you take notes,” said Ross, a history professor. “This is an opportunity to take no notes — it will be back and forth between us and the students.”

The job market in Oxford is beginning to jump start, but for many, it is not moving fast enough.

The Oxford School District grew 5 percent this year, and Oxford High School Principal Michael Martin said down the line that will have a big impact on Oxford High.