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Sallie Mae, a loan company that is not sponsored by the government, implemented a new policy of charging graduated students a $50 fee for forbearance on their student loans.
The new penalty has sparked an online petition on Change.org, with 114,714 signatures as of Monday afternoon. The petition was created by Stef Gray, a former student from Brooklyn, N.Y. Gray took out private student loans through Sallie Mae and is currently unemployed.

By the late 1990s, the University of Mississippi had already enrolled its first black student, cheered on its first black student-athlete, elected its first black Miss Ole Miss and crowned its first black Miss University. However, at the turn of the millennium the students had yet to be led by a black Associated Student Body president.

Ole Miss head coach Hugh Freeze added a familiar name to his football staff Monday, as former Rebel player and assistant coach Matt Luke returns to Oxford as the offensive line coach. Barney Farrar has also been named Assistant Athletics Director for Community Relations.

“For a coach like Matt Luke to return to Ole Miss – a place where he is so loved and loves so dearly – is a home run for us,” Freeze said. “He is tireless recruiter and is a great representative of our university.”

Well at least this time a scandal involving a politician, a young girl and a Twitter account didn’t involve pictures of someone’s junk. However, when 18-year-old high school senior Emma Sullivan was visiting the Kansas state capital and tweeted her thoughts about Governor Sam Brownback, namely that she thought “he sucked,” the kerfuffle that ensued was unimaginable. 

Veterans Day is a day to remember that everything we hold dear in the United States, we owe to the service of others.

The University of Mississippi took a moment to honor these men and women who sacrificed for us with its annual Veterans Day ceremony in the Paris-Yates Chapel. The event consisted of the University Men’s Glee choir and a guest speaker, Rhea Tannehill Jr.

The Internet was abuzz earlier this week over a photo taken of Lindsay Lohan’s teeth. They were, in a word, disgusting. 

They were not the teeth of a 25-year-old fading Hollywood starlet, but the teeth of a meth-addicted “Deliverance” extra. While the teeth photo seen around the Internet was troubling, what was even more troubling and less-widely publicized was that LiLo had once again been charged with violating her probation and could face up to 18 months in jail this time around. 

Governor Haley Barbour will be speaking at the Overby Center in reflection of his 8 years in office on Wednesday night from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.

After several months of searching, The University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy made its decision on who will take over as Dean with Dr. David Allen.

Allen will replace Barbara G. Wells, who will retire on Dec. 31, as the current dean of the School of Pharmacy. 

Wells said outstanding reputation and expertise will surely be a valuable asset for the School of Pharmacy. 

When most people think of studying abroad, they think of traveling to new and exciting places, experiencing a different culture and taking serious advantage of lower legal drinking ages. For the vast majority of college students who participate in study abroad programs, they accomplish exactly that and get an educational experience out of the process. However, Amanda Knox had quite a different experience.

The butterflies in the stomach, the rush of those adolescent hormones — it’s a hallmark of those tumultuous early teenage years.

For a few of us, that first crush results in bliss; however, for the rest of us, it’s a heartbreaker. For 15-year-old Larry King, it killed him.

The Board of Alderman adopted a proclamation recognizing Rob Treppendahl, Bowman Hitchens and Max Zoghbi for raising over $20,000 for Interfaith Compassion Ministries, in front a full court room.

The three men raised this money by making a sponsored kayaking trip down the Mississippi River, from Lake Itsca, Minn., all the way to the river’s end in New Orleans. They called the initiative “A Wake In the Current.”

Poise, charisma, substance and electability.

These are four essential qualities any successful presidential candidate must have. In the primary for the 2012 Republican nomination of president, only one candidate has these attributes. That candidate is former governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney.