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Ole Miss Athletics Director Pete Boone issued the below message to ticket holders late Sunday night after Saturday's 30-7 loss at Vanderbilt:

Dear (Insert Ticket Holder Name Here),

In the background, the sound of children playing drowns out director Alan Arriveé’s voice. 

“My daughter’s friends are over, and we just got a new puppy,” he said. “I guess now is as good of time as any to talk.”

Arriveé is a straight shooter. His words come out crisp and clear. He speaks with no accent and fills a conversation on film with all the technical jargon that comes with being in the filmmaking industry for years. One gets the feeling that he was worked for those words. 

The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency and FEMA have awarded the University of Mississippi an $84,344 grant to continue researching ways to upgrade the university’s Natural Hazards Mitigation Plan.
In 2006, Ole Miss became the first college in the state to form and have a mitigation plan approved. The Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning now requires each public university to have such a plan in place.

The Pro-Bono Initiative at the University of Mississippi Robert C. Khayat Law Center will provide free tax assistance to low-income residents of Lafayette County this tax season through the Free Assisted Self-Service Tax (FAST) program.

FAST offers services to those who have a household income less than $57,000.

The University of Mississippi has taken another step toward its new green initiative with the installation of 413 solar panels on the roof of the year-old Center for Manufacturing Excellence.
These solar panels can produce approximately 100 kilowatts of power, which has the potential to produce enough energy to return power to the electrical grid that many of the buildings on campus use as a power source.

In the state of Mississippi and across the country, teachers must be certified in a certain specialization called an endorsement.
To have an endorsement, the teacher must have a master’s degree in education, and while getting the master’s degree, the teacher can choose from several different endorsements. The endorsements are ultimately several hours of class that focus on a specific type of disorder and the teacher learns how to identify, teach and treat those with the disorder.

Chancellor Dan Jones formally launched the search for a new Director of Athletics today, announcing the members of the search committee, scheduling the first committee meeting, and setting expectations for the search.

The city of Oxford will see a new and improved farmer’s market in May of next year. Oxford has been deemed a food desert by the USDA, meaning low-income families are cut short of having healthy eating options. But now there’s hope that the newly established access to fresh produce, with the farmer’s market, will benefit those families and the city.  

Christmas lights, red and green ribbon, apple cider, pine needles and laughter filled the rooms of “Lucille’s Place” Tuesday night.
The historic home, along with its two sister homes, Bess and Lilly, were open for touring to raise money for the Leisure Lifestyles of Oxford.
Leisure Lifestyles of Oxford is a non-profit organization geared towards senior citizens in the community. The organization offers free dance classes, art classes and yoga classes, along with many other opportunities for senior citizens.

Though the University of Mississippi football team may have taken a step backward this season, fundraising has continued to push forward.
The Ole Miss athletics program announced a new fundraising campaign called Forward Together this past summer. They plan to raise money to build a new basketball arena and expand and renovate Vaught-Hemingway Stadium.