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Continue reading →: Eating Disorders are the Rise on College Campuses: How a UM Student Fought Back
By: Ella Jane Simmons Photo Illustration by Ella Jane Simmons Erika Price was a UM college student from Maryland when she developed a severe eating disorder. “I didn’t starve myself, I threw up,” Price said. “I initially started forcing myself to throw up because I have a really really sensitive…
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Continue reading →: UM Student Starts Female Only Running Club in Response to Safety Concerns
92% of women say they feel concerned for their safety when they go for a run. This number is why sophomore, Ellie Smith started an all-female-run club in Oxford. “Laken Riley, Eliza Fletcher, and Molly Tibbetts are just three female runners I can list sitting here who have been killed…
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Continue reading →: Board Of Alderman Meeting Discusses Potential Developments in Oxford with Input from Town Locals
Image curtesy of The Oxford Eagle Monday, April 8, in a dimly lit courtroom with grey carpet and wooden pews, Oxford planning commissioners met to discuss and vote on plans for potential expansion plans in Lafayette County. The five commissioners sat front and center with the Mississippi state flag to…
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Continue reading →: How Lyceum Locker is Working to End School Supply Poverty
The Lyceum locker is an on-campus resource that supplies school supplies for UM students in need. The “locker” is located in Johnson Commons East, and has dozens of school products for easy access at the student’s discretion. The locker originally opened in the Fall of 2021 and was done to…
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Continue reading →: Oxford Mississippi Film Festival Set To Screen Documentary Shorts from Professional Filmmakers and UM Students.
The twenty-first annual Oxford Film Festival is set for Thursday, March 21st to Sunday, March 24th, and will screen dozens of films in the categories; documentary features documentary shorts, LGBTQ, narrative features, and narrative shorts. The festival has a wide variety of filmmakers in its documentary short section and has…
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Continue reading →: Protected: Why Have 21st Birthdays Become so Luxurious in Oxford?
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Continue reading →: University of Mississippi Museum Adds New Immersive Exhibition
Magic Lanterns, the art of light, has made its way onto the Ole Miss campus. The University Museum has produced an immersive Magic Lanterns exhibit that showcases luminous prints of astronomical and astrological images produced from the 1860’s Magic Lantern slides from the Millington-Barnard Collection of Scientific Instruments. Magic lanterns…
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Continue reading →: The 25th Anniversary of The Theater Oxford’s Ten Minute Play Festival
Oxford Mississippi is gearing up for the 25th anniversary of the Theater Oxford’s 10 Minute Play Festival. The festival will take place February 16 through the 17th and will showcase works of playwrights, late-night readings of Jim McCauley’s work, workshops, and raffle drawings. This year’s festival will look slightly more…
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Continue reading →: CHECK BACK IN WITH PERIOD UM
By: Ella Jane Simmons Period UM, the University of Mississippi chapter for the PERIOD The Menstrual Movement organization addresses the seemingly uncomfortable topic of periods through advocacy, donations, and education. Through the organization’s advocacy, the university has installed menstrual product dispensers in 25 of the heaviest-trafficked buildings across campus. Eron…