Hey C34, still have that screen shot of the ole miss website?

[Interpolation_Dawg_EX]

Looks like tRant needs a screenshot of the official olemiss website that explained their view of "ole miss"....http://www.secrant.com/rant/p/53254209/so-ole-miss-is-what-slaves-used-to-be-forced-to-call-the-plantation-mistress/

[Coach34]

Flabby does

[Coach34]

Google also has it on whatever it is where you can find old pages or whatever. It was linked on Tigerdroppings a couple of years ago in a huge thread

[Coach34]

This is what was on olemiss.edu verbatim- found it with a quick google:

http://www.answers.com/Q/Why_is_the_University_of_Mississippi_called_Ole_Mi ss



In the early decades of the twentieth century, a cadre of New South boosters
lobbied for reconciliation with the North in an effort to propel economic
advancement in the still-crippled region. It has been noted that one of the best
creations of the New South was the Old South, a suggestion that reflects those
New South boosters' attempts to mitigate their supplication of the assistance of
the North by hearkening back to a nostalgic, if illusory, "moonlight and magnolia"
time under slavery. During this time period, the university became known as "Ole Miss," a moniker used by slaves to describe the wife of the plantation owner.

[Coach34]

wow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haCHyfCCzR0

[ScoobaDawg]

Here ya go...I keep it saved in my e-mail and have shown it to many people here in Dallas who had no clue.
Especially loved the look of a black professor, who went to school and graduated from there, when i showed that part to him.

https://web.archive.org/web/20121102143105/http://www.olemiss.edu/conf/welcometable/whyOM.html


Why the University of Mississippi?



The state of Mississippi opened its flagship university in 1848. The first
chancellor of the university, F.A.P. Barnard strove to create a one of the most
advanced educational institutions of the time but his efforts were interrupted
by the Civil War. As sectional controversy increased, Mississippi joined the
fray, following South Carolina into secession in 1861. In February, 1861,
Governor John J. Pettus commissioned the University Greys. Almost all of the
university's students enlisted in the new regiment and when only four students
reported to campus in the fall of 1861, the university closed, while most of
its students went off to fight for the cause of the Confederacy. Ultimately,
the University Grays suffered a one hundred percent casualty rate at Gettysburg.

General Robert E. Lee's admonishments after the Civil War to furl the battle
flag seemed to hold sway for a time. The more important business of recovering
from the devastation reeked by the war was tantamount. But tied closely to that
recovery was the treatment of newly-freed slaves. The hopes for equality promised
during Reconstruction were quickly dashed. Mississippi led in the creation of a
Jim Crow state, legislating segregation with its post-Reconstruction
constitution in 1890. All Southern states soon followed its example. It was not
a completely dismal time--in 1882, the university admitted women to the college,
ahead of most flagship universities in the South.

In the early decades of the twentieth century, a cadre of New South boosters
lobbied for reconciliation with the North in an effort to propel economic
advancement in the still-crippled region. It has been noted that one of the best
creations of the New South was the Old South, a suggestion that reflects those
New South boosters' attempts to mitigate their supplication of the assistance of
the North by hearkening back to a nostalgic, if illusory, "moonlight and magnolia"
time under slavery. During this time period, the university became known as
"Ole Miss," a moniker used by slaves to describe the wife of the plantation owner.

In 1948, on the heels of his own presidential initiative on race, President Harry
Truman desegregated the armed forces. In addition, he followed the recommendation
of his civil rights commission and added a civil rights plank to the Democratic
Platform for that year. In response to this addition, the entire delegation from
Mississippi and half of the delegation from Alabama walked out of the Democratic
Convention. They formed a new party, the Dixiecrats, and ran Strom Thurmond from
South Carolina as their presidential candidate. In the wake of this rebellion
against recognition of civil rights as a priority, students at the university
rallied behind their state's politicians, unfurling the Confederate battle flag put
away long before. Thus a new "tradition" began.

And yet, cooler heads seemed to prevail for a time. With the defeat of the
Dixiecrats, Mississippi elected a moderate governor, J.P. Coleman. In 1953, a
survey conducted by the student newspaper found that a majority of students
attending the university would welcome a black student. But after allowing the FBI
to investigate a lynching in the state, Coleman was defeated in the next
gubernatorial election by Ross Barnett. On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court
abolished segregated education and massive resistance to integration began in the
South.

In 1962, after months of negotiation, James Meredith was admitted to the university,
the first black student. Many from outside the state came to campus to repel what
they saw as an attack upon their way of life, calling the occasion the last battle
of the Civil War. They were joined by students and Mississippians as well. The
Kennedy administration called in federal troops to quell the uprising. Caught in
the middle of the Cuban Missile Crisis, President Kennedy was informed that missiles
in Cuba had a range of 4500 miles. He replied, "Can they hit Oxford, Mississippi?"
His retort attests to serious nature of the resistance to integration at the
university. That resistance to Meredith's arrival on campus caused a night of rioting
on September 30, 1962, with two dead and many wounded. Troops remained on campus for
the next year protecting Meredith, who graduated the following May.

In civil rights historiography, the riot at the University stands as a signal event.
The University of Mississippi has changed greatly over the last 35 years. Today
about 12% of the student body is black, but bullet holes still riddle the Lyceum
columns in the Circle and their existence is tangible evidence of the lengths some
have been willing to go to prevent racial justice. James Meredith, in a recent
column in the Daily Mississippian, called "Mississippi" the most powerful word in
the English language. From slavery to Civil War battles, to entrenched segregation
and the violent lynchings of Emmett Till, James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew
Goodman, among many thousands of others, Mississippi holds a prominent place in the
memory of those concerned with human rights.

And yet, throughout its history, the state has witnessed many whites and blacks who
havechallenged white supremacy. Too often, their story remains untold. Mississippi
is the bogeyman of racism for the United States and has become the repository of all
that is impossible to improve. The record of those who have challenged those
stereotypes is clear. The participation in a national conversation committed to
challenging racial oppression by Mississippians attests to the continued desire and
willingness to change. Therefore, there is perhaps no more appropriate place to hold
a discussion on race relations than the flagship university of the state of Mississippi.

[Coach34]

Between the video and the link by Scooba- that should settle it huh?

[PassInterference]

wow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haCHyfCCzR0

Well there you go...there's the answer to the question asked.

Note also that youtube is from 2010 and foretold of dropping "Ole Miss" for "University of Mississippi".

If Ole Miss has any issues with the origin of its name, there's been ample opportunity for them to step forward with an explanation. Instead, we've just got censorship on their own website.

[Coach34]

Bump

[BeardoMSU]

wow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haCHyfCCzR0

Ouch....that'll leave a mark fa sho....
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M3AuzXepgWQ/Tbhx9x30NGI/AAAAAAAAAI4/gksVduJXuxs/s1600/five0-ouch.gif

[BeastMan]

I had never seen that video. Wonder if that OM prof caught any heat?