Former Ole Miss student gets six months for hanging noose around James Meredith statue
September 18, 2015adminNewsComments Off on Former Ole Miss student gets six months for hanging noose around James Meredith statue
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — A former University of Mississippi student who admitted helping place a noose on a statue of a civil rights activist is going to prison.
WTVA-TV reports a federal judge Thursday in Oxford sentenced Graeme Phillip Harris to six months in prison beginning Jan. 4, and 12 months’ supervised release. Harris’ lawyer argued he didn’t deserve jail time.
Harris pleaded guilty in June to a misdemeanor charge of using a threat of force to intimidate African-American students and employees. Prosecutors say he and two other former students placed a noose on the statue of James Meredith, a black man who integrated Ole Miss amid rioting in 1962.
A second man, Austin Reed Edenfield, had been scheduled to plead guilty Wednesday. That hearing was postponed. The third former student has not been charged.
October 21, 2015adminEducationComments Off on Ole Miss chancellor candidate Jeffrey Vitter points to planning as strength
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — Jeffrey Vitter, named as trustees’ top pick to become the next chancellor of the University of Mississippi, says the problem solving of computer science informs his approach as a college administrator. […]
December 30, 2014adminSportsComments Off on Peach Bowl: Ole Miss CB Senquez Golson knows ‘we are going to have to cover longer’
ATLANTA (AP) — Quarterback Trevone Boykin says TCU has big plans to make a national title run next season. The first step: The No. 6 Horned Frogs (11-1) must beat No. 9 Mississippi (9-3) in […]
June 10, 2014adminSportsComments Off on Ole Miss headed to College World Series after 10-4 victory over Louisiana-Lafayette
LAFAYETTE, Louisiana (AP) — Mississippi’s long wait is over. Pinch-hitter Holt Perdzock’s double in the ninth inning sparked a four-run rally and the Rebels ended a 42-year College World Series drought by punching their ticket […]