Ross Bjork is at it again on Twitter.

[fishwater99]

Trying to defend the name Ole Miss.

[BeardoMSU]

Trying to defend the name Ole Miss.

What do you expect him to do? Really the only other option was to remain silent, at least for his position.

[SDDawg]

Really the only other option was to remain silent, at least for his position.

Sounds perfect.

[ScottH]

There needs to be a Twitter monitor in Oxford.

Beeyork best be mindful or a Twiiter rant may impede his desired exit from Oxford for greener pastures.

[thf24]

What do you expect him to do? Really the only other option was to remain silent, at least for his position.

That would have been the decision a real professional would have made.

[MadDawg]

Trying to defend the name Ole Miss.

Defending the undefensible - it's an ole miss tradition.

[Interpolation_Dawg_EX]

Trying to defend the name Ole Miss.

But yet they will possibly have a Top 10 signing class in football....

[Jack Lambert]

But yet they will possibly have a Top 10 signing class in football....

Pay me enough money I might shave my head and give the NAZI salute at the LSU game. It woudn't be cheap.

[starkvegasdawg]

Pay me enough money I might shave my head and give the NAZI salute at the LSU game. It woudn't be cheap.

You'd have to be wearing a bow tie and pink pants at the time.

http://section217.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/omgrove-12.jpg

[confucius say]

So he does not deny the term "ole miss" was the name given the wife of the slave owner? His stance is bc people are not generally aware of it's meaning, it is ok to keep it? My question is, if people are made aware if it's meaning, would the school then abandon it?

[LC Dawg]

Bjork should just shut up but I hope he doesn't because all he is doing is drawing attention to the issue of the name Ole Miss.
Getting rid of the rebel flag first and then Colonel Reb was smart. These symbols are a lot more polarizing than the name Ole Miss or even Rebels. If there were still 50,000 people waving rebel flags at football games I think Ole Miss would be the laughingstock of college football instead of ranked in the top 25. They will eventually be forced to change Ole Miss and Rebels but it will probably be a few more years.

[fishwater99]

So he does not deny the term "ole miss" was the name given the wife of the slave owner? His stance is bc people are not generally aware of it's meaning, it is ok to keep it? My question is, if people are made aware if it's meaning, would the school then abandon it?

nm

[confucius say]

nm

Well below is a cl article I saw posted
on another site where mississippi says just what I stated above- bc most people do not know what the term "ole miss" really stands for, the school is ok with keeping it, but only to refer to it's sports teams, not the academic side of the school. Da 17? If it's a bad enough term to not use it to represent your academic side, how can you justify using it to represent your athletic side? How does the local media not ask these questions give the current climate?

http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2014/08/01/ole-miss-nickname-lives/13499839/

Eta: any mississippi fan who reads this, please explain to me the justification for keeping the bigoted phrase "ole miss" as the name for your school. I'm genuinely curious how one can want to change the flag, but not get rid of "ole miss."

[Prediction? Pain.]

This is a few years old, but I hadn't seen it till recently.

Perspective of a tenured history professor who has taught at U. Miss. since the 1980s:


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

"I always tell people that I teach at the University of Mississippi. I don't tell people I teach at 'Ole Miss.' I generally don't use the term."

[I seen it dawg]

You'd have to be wearing a bow tie and pink pants at the time.

http://section217.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/omgrove-12.jpg

Just letting you know ladies I have pants full of crabs. See you at the Library.

[MSUDawg99]

Just letting you know ladies I have pants full of crabs. See you at the Library.

And a red Kodak camera to take selfies with you...

[bonesknowstig]

Ole Miss... of course I'm sure you all know the story of Miss Meeks and the year book naming... but the term would seem to come from the term Ol'(d) Missus, which is a term that slaves, and free folk alike, called any Matriarchal figure. It had nothing to do with white, black or indifferent. Westerners continued using the term long after slavery was ended, though we all know indentured servitude and share cropping was actually worse than slavery in most cases. I know C34 will come on here claiming I'm full of it... but look it up... google ol' missus and see what you find. Mainly referenced to Huck Finn, but see for yourself. Don't take my word for it... or someone (or a group of people) who genuinely dislike a school for whatever reason.

[Ralph]

Boiling my eyes. Some things can't be unseen.

[HereComesTheSpiral]

You'd have to be wearing a bow tie and pink pants at the time.

http://section217.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/omgrove-12.jpg

If I wore that I'd kick my own ass

[fishwater99]

Ole Miss... of course I'm sure you all know the story of Miss Meeks and the year book naming... but the term would seem to come from the term Ol'(d) Missus, which is a term that slaves, and free folk alike, called any Matriarchal figure. It had nothing to do with white, black or indifferent. Westerners continued using the term long after slavery was ended, though we all know indentured servitude and share cropping was actually worse than slavery in most cases. I know C34 will come on here claiming I'm full of it... but look it up... google ol' missus and see what you find. Mainly referenced to Huck Finn, but see for yourself. Don't take my word for it... or someone (or a group of people) who genuinely dislike a school for whatever reason.

You Black Bears can keep on saying that, but it's a know fact that Ole Miss refers to the wife of a slave plantation's owner.
And that Rebels refers to the Confederate soldiers.

Stop living in the racist past. The Civil War was been over for 150 years.

It's time to change the name and it's coming, this flag debate will only expedite the change.

[Entodawg]

I really don't think some of their fans know the war is over. Saw this for sale in a store front on the Oxford Square the other day.
https://www.anony.ws/i/2015/06/26/battleatthegrove.jpg

[Coach34]

Ole Miss... of course I'm sure you all know the story of Miss Meeks and the year book naming... but the term would seem to come from the term Ol'(d) Missus, which is a term that slaves, and free folk alike, called any Matriarchal figure. It had nothing to do with white, black or indifferent. Westerners continued using the term long after slavery was ended, though we all know indentured servitude and share cropping was actually worse than slavery in most cases. I know C34 will come on here claiming I'm full of it... but look it up... google ol' missus and see what you find. Mainly referenced to Huck Finn, but see for yourself. Don't take my word for it... or someone (or a group of people) who genuinely dislike a school for whatever reason.


All we did was post what the Ole Missus website used to say about it (until I brought it to light- then they removed it), as well as what one of the school's own Professors states. Those 2 speak for itself

[FlabLoser]

Internet archive of Ole Miss's own explanation of "Ole Miss"

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

"During this time period, the university became known as "Ole Miss," a moniker used by slaves to describe the wife of the plantation owner."

That's a direct quote from www.olemiss.edu on November 2, 2012.

[codeDawg]

Internet archive of Ole Miss's own explanation of "Ole Miss"

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

"During this time period, the university became known as "Ole Miss," a moniker used by slaves to describe the wife of the plantation owner."

That's a direct quote from www.olemiss.edu (http://www.olemiss.edu) on November 2, 2012.

And apparently that content was live since March of 2002, so that was the story UM told for over a decade.