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The new year is off to a good start for the University of Mississippi’s J.D. Williams Library.
The estates of a recently deceased couple from Northport, Ala., has provided a $1 million donation to the library, according to a press release.
Ole Miss alumnus Oscar Ainsworth, who received his bachelor’s degree in 1945 and master’s degree in 1946, spent approximately 36 years as a member of the math department faculty at the University of Alabama.

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.”

While trick-or-treaters were getting candy from different houses, some people decided to attend a different type of event in the Grove on Halloween night.

The Residential Housing Association at the University of Mississippi put on the Fall Carnival in the Grove Monday evening to help raise money through the Halloween spirit.  

Students, children and parents showed up to the event where there were games, inflatables and loud dance music.

The Memory Garden Project has been the dream of many people at the University of Mississippi for years, and it has finally become a reality.

The Ole Miss community is close-knit, and when students lose their lives while enrolled, there is a lasting effect. The memory garden will be a place where students, faculty and staff, alumni and anyone from the Oxford community can reflect on lives lost.

Kevsar Ermin first came to Oxford from Eskisehir, Turkey, while her sister was working with the University of Mississippi. The visits she made to the campus helped convince her to come to the university to study.
Ermin first started with the intensive English program before getting her master’s degree in exercise science. Ermin was working on getting her doctorate in nutrition and kinesiology at the time of her death Friday, following an accident with a vehicle while riding her bicycle.

During the past few weeks I’ve become really jaded with politics and society in general.  

With next year comes a presidential election and the mudslinging between candidates has already begun. I don’t know what it is about an election that seems to bring out the heartlessness in people.  

When Dickie Scruggs walked up to assistant athletic director for Ole Miss Sports Productions J. Stern and asked him if he wanted actor Russell Crowe to start the Hotty Toddy chant at the football game, Stern’s response was simple — “Hell yeah.”
“Then he handed me his phone, and I was talking to Russell Crowe,” Stern said.
Stern has been working hard for 14 years to get different celebrities to ask the question all Rebel fans love to hear: “Are you ready?”

The L.O.U. Barksdale Clubhouse of Oxford is currently hosting a silent online auction to raise funds for the Oxford Boys and Girls Club.

No day is typical in the life of University of Mississippi Chancellor Dan Jones.

Not many businesses have survived long enough to celebrate their centennial anniversary. The Daily Mississippian has lasted through 18 presidents and six wars, and is one of the oldest and largest student newspapers in the United States.

Those young journalists have gone on to do great things, with many working for newspapers, magazines and other media around the world.

Donald Trump finally got the roasting he deserved at Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ dinner.

Comedian Seth Meyers said, “Donald Trumps often appears on Fox, which is ironic because a fox often appears on his head!”

The dinner, which was a gathering of big name D.C. reporters, politicians and celebrities, blasted Trump on nearly every aspect of his life, which is well-deserved.