Out comes this article from NBC on their ties to the confederacy, and the resistance in disassociating itself from the past. I didn't realize they only had a 13% African-American undergrad population.
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Out comes this article from NBC on their ties to the confederacy, and the resistance in disassociating itself from the past. I didn't realize they only had a 13% African-American undergrad population.
I balked when it called Ole Miss the state's flagship university but then it notes at the bottom of the article that the author is a graduate of Ole Miss. Go figure.
I disliked a lot about that article.
I think that the university should try to change their image and get rid of some of the symbols from the past that are clearly stemmed from racism. However I really did not like the overall tone of that article.
No shit. Tywin needs to set them straight....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqFk3gvwb20
And an article about MSU that shows how awesome we are: https://apnews.com/1c79b8f4c8974576a3f072b5f204532a
Race baiting huh?
Listen, you are correct in your first assertion. But there are a few minority scholarships that are available for selected majors because their AA population is so little. At least it was that way when i graduated high school. Truth be told...after you've lived 17-18 years of your life in a world dominated by some of the notions present there at OM...what's another 4 years?
?Flagship? is racist. You can google the history of ?flagship? as a term for college education in Mississippi.
In olden days, the state of MS declared the big 3 colleges to ALL be flagships. This term was used to set them apart from the black colleges.
Those times are long gone but not forgotten in Oxford. Why does Ole Miss insist on hanging on to a term which was invented to distinguish them from HSBUs?
I guess....if you want to give your money to support that type of thing more power to you. I chose not to. Not really much of a race baiting thing as it is a right-and-wrong thing.
I was simply referring to the fact that in that article they interviewed students who were offended by the symbols around that campus yet those same students knowingly chose to attend the university. Maybe they didn't take a tour first, or look at the website, or read an article about tsun and it suprised them. I don't know.
2015 African-American % at SEC schools http://www.themaneater.com/stories/p...cial-diversity
Auburn 6.9%
Bama 12%
Ark 5.1%
UF 6.63%
UGA 7.6%
LSU 11.7%
UK 6.6%
Miss 13.4%
Miss St 21%
MO - 7%
USC -10%
UT- 7.3%
Vandy - 8.4%
Not to defend OM - but they are #2 in the SEC behind us....