University of Mississippi
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{{Infobox_University
|image_name = OleMissCrest.gif
|caption = University of Mississippi logo
|name = University of Mississippi<br>(Ole Miss)
|established =[[1848]]
|motto =''Pro scientia et sapientia''
|mottoeng =On behalf of knowledge and wisdom
|type =[[Public university|Public]], [[Co-ed]]
|chancellor =[[Robert Khayat]]
|city =[[University, Mississippi|Oxford]]
|state =[[Mississippi]]<br>
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|campus =[[Rural]] 1,000+ acres
|students =17,323 <ref>[http://www.olemiss.edu/info/stats_facts.html ''Official website'']</ref>
|endowment =$495,000,000 as of 06-30-2007<ref>[http://www.umf.olemiss.edu/home/statistics.php University of Mississippi Foundation Statistics]</ref>
|free_label= Sports teams
|free= [[Ole Miss Rebels|Rebels]]
|mascot =[[Colonel Reb]]
|colors =[[Crimson|Harvard Crimson]] and [[Yale Blue]] {{color box|#DC143C}}{{color box|#0F4D92}}<br>(adopted in 1893)<ref>[http://www.olemisssports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=87067&SPID=737&DB_OEM_ID=2600&KEY=&ATCLID=541582 Ole Miss Traditions]</ref>
|website =[http://www.olemiss.edu/ www.olemiss.edu]
|logo =[[Image:UMRebels logo (script).png|150px]]
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The '''University of Mississippi''', also known as '''Ole Miss''', is a [[state university (U.S.)|public]], [[co-education|coeducational]] [[research]] [[university]] located in [[Oxford, Mississippi|Oxford]], [[Mississippi]]. Founded in [[1848]], the school is composed of the main campus in Oxford and three branch campuses located in [[Booneville, Mississippi|Booneville]], [[Tupelo, Mississippi|Tupelo]], and [[Southaven, Mississippi|Southaven]]. UM maintains a field station in [[Bay Springs]] as well as the '''University of Mississippi Medical Center''' in [[Jackson, Mississippi|Jackson]]. Additionally, it is both a [[sea-grant]] and [[Space grant colleges|space-grant]] institute.
Sixty-nine percent of undergraduates are from Mississippi, and nineteen percent of all students are minorities. International students come from sixty-six nations.
==History==
[[Image:Olemisslyceum.jpg|thumb|left|275px|The Lyceum]]
[[Image:James Meredith OleMiss.jpg|thumb|left|200px|James Meredith walking to class at the University of Mississippi, accompanied by [[United States Marshals Service|U.S. Marshals]].]]
[[Image:Jamesmeredithstatue.jpg|thumb|left|100px|Civil Rights Monument (statue of James Meredith) on the Ole Miss campus.]]
The University got its nickname '''Ole Miss''' via a contest in 1897. That same year, the student year book was being published for the first time. As a way to find a name for the book, a contest was held to solicit suggestions from the student body. Elma Meek, a student at the time, submitted the winning entry of ''Ole Miss''. Interestingly, '''Ole Miss''' is not derived from '''Mississippi''' but is actually a takeoff from the title often given to the mistress of a plantation. <ref>Chodas, Nadine. The Band Played Dixie: Race and Liberal Conscience at Ole Miss.</ref> This sobriquet was chosen not only for the yearbook, but also became the name by which the University is now affectionately known.<ref>[http://www.thedmonline.com/theolemiss/ ''The Ole Miss'' Student Yearbook]</ref>
The Lyceum, built in 1848, is the oldest building on campus. In its first year, it housed all of the classrooms and faculty offices of the university. The Lyceum is now the home of the university's administration offices. The columned facade of the Lyceum is represented on the official crest of the university, along with the date of establishment.
The School of Medicine, which was originally located at the eastern gate of the campus, was used as a hospital during the [[American Civil War|Civil War]] for both [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] and [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] soldiers, especially those who were wounded at the [[battle of Shiloh]]. The School of Medicine is now located in Jackson, Mississippi and the original building, which served as a dormitory for male students in its last years before being condemned in the early 1970s, was replaced by a new Chemistry building in the mid 1970s. Soldiers who died in the campus hospital were buried in a mass grave located at the northeast corner of the Coliseum which was built nearly 100 years later as a venue for concerts and basketball games.
With the outbreak of the Civil War, classes were interrupted when the entire student body and many faculty from Ole Miss enlisted in the Confederate army. Their company, Company A, 11th Mississippi Infantry, was nicknamed the ''[[University Grays]]'', and suffered a high casualty rate during The Civil War. A great number of those casualties occurred during [[Pickett's Charge]] at the [[Battle of Gettysburg]] on [[July 3]], [[1863]], when the University Grays made the deepest encroachment into Union territory. Some of the soldiers actually crossed the Union defensive fortification wall, only to be killed, wounded or captured. On the very next day, [[July 4]], Confederate forces [[Battle of Vicksburg|surrendered]] at [[Vicksburg, Mississippi]]; the two battles together are commonly viewed as the turning point in the war. When Ole Miss re-opened, only one member of the University Greys was able to visit the university to address the student body. The university was led, during the post-war period, by former Confederate [[general]] [[A.P. Stewart]], a [[Rogersville, Tennessee]] native, who was [[President]] from [[1874]]-[[1886]].
The University of Mississippi was also the site of rioting during [[desegregation]], when [[James Meredith]] of [[Kosciusko, Mississippi]], attempted to enroll in the school to become the university's first black student. Thousands of students and citizens from the surrounding area, a number of whom were armed, swarmed the campus on [[September 30]], [[1962]] in a riotous effort to prevent Meredith's enrollment. Meredith, thanks to the protection afforded by federal marshals, was able to enroll and attend his first class on [[October 2]]. Two people died during the race riots on campus. Following the [[riot]], elements of an [[Army National Guard]] division were stationed in Oxford to preserve the peace. While most Ole Miss students did not riot prior to his official enrollment in the university, many harassed Meredith during his first two semesters on campus. Though the majority of students accepted Meredith's presence, according to first person accounts chronicled in Nadine Cohodas's book ''The Band Played Dixie'', students living in Meredith's dorm bounced basketballs on the floor just above his room through all hours of the night. When Meredith walked into the cafeteria for meals, the students eating would all turn their backs. If Meredith sat at a table with other students, all of whom were white, the students would immediately get up and go to another table.
Because of this incident, the university itself is mentioned in [[Billy Joel]]'s history themed song "[[We Didn't Start the Fire]]" ("Ole Miss").
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==Academics==
===Divisions of the University===
[[Image:Ventresshall.jpg|thumb|right|275px|Ventress Hall]]
The degree-granting divisions located at the Main Campus:
* '''School of Accountancy'''
* '''School of Applied Sciences'''
* '''[[University of Mississippi School of Business Administration| School of Business Administration]]'''
* '''School of Education'''
* '''[[University of Mississippi School of Engineering|School of Engineering]]'''
* '''College of Liberal Arts'''
* '''School of Nursing''' (added 2006)
* '''Graduate School'''
* '''School of Law'''
* '''School of Pharmacy''' - created in 1908. The School of Pharmacy is a program that allows students to receive a Pharm. D., which is license to practice pharmacy.
The colleges in the [[University of Mississippi Medical Center]] in Jackson:
* '''School of Dentistry'''
* '''School of Health Related Professions'''
* '''School of Nursing'''
* '''School of Medicine'''
===Statistics===
* The University of Mississippi is among the top 30 public institutions with the largest endowments per student.
* The University of Mississippi has produced 24 [[Rhodes Scholarship|Rhodes Scholars]] and has also produced one Fulbright, one [[Marshall Scholarship|Marshall]], five [[Truman Scholarship|Truman]], and seven [[Goldwater Scholarship|Goldwater Scholars]] since [[1998]].
* The University of Mississippi is ranked by [[The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching]] as one of the top 100 Research Extensive institutions in the nation.
* The School of Pharmacy ranks 20th in the nation among schools of pharmacy for funding from the prestigious National Institutes of Health and 2nd among pharmacy schools for total federal funding.
* The University of Mississippi's School of Accountancy is ranked 22nd in the nation.
* The University of Mississippi's Sally McDonnell-Barksdale Honors College (founded and supported by [[Jim Barksdale]] in honor of his late wife) was ranked one of the top 3 honors colleges in the nation by Reader's Digest.<ref>http://www.rd.com/best-of-america-sally-mcdonnell-barksdale-/article36185.html</ref>
* The University of Mississippi Medical Center was recently granted a secondary nursing program, which is a program for first semester nursing students who already have a degree. It is the only school in Mississippi with this type of grant.
* In 2006, the average ACT score of entering freshmen at the University of Mississippi (excluding the UM Medical Center) was 23.0.<ref>http://www.ihl.state.ms.us/research/fast_facts_0607.pdf</ref>
==Student Media==
*'''''[[The Daily Mississippian]]''''' is the student-published newspaper of The University, established in [[1937]]. Although The Daily Mississippian (DM) is located on the Ole Miss campus, it is operated largely as an independent newspaper run by students. The DM is the only college newpaper in [[Mississippi]] that is published five times a week. The editorial staff consists of approximately 15 students, along with a staff of 15-20 writers and 5 photographers, though these numbers vary from year to year and semester to semester. There is also an entire department devoted entirely to advertising sales and production. With a circulation of 15,000, it is one of the largest college newspapers in the country. The paper also runs '''The DM Online''', one of the few online college newspapers that is independent of the print edition. With an independent staff and editor in chief, The DM Online is dedicated to strengthening the publications of Ole Miss through multimedia interaction.<ref>[http://www.thedmonline.com/about/ ''The DM'']</ref>
*'''''The Ole Miss''''' student yearbook is a 415-page color book produced by students with faculty advice. It has won various awards including the Gold Crown.<ref>[http://www.thedmonline.com/theolemiss/ ''The Ole Miss'']</ref>
*'''[[WUMS-FM]] 92.1 Rebel Radio''', operated by students, is a 3,000-watt FCC-commercially licensed radio station.
*'''''NewsWatch''''' is the only student-produced, live newscast in the state of Mississippi. Broadcast through the Metrocast cable company, it is live at 5:30 Monday-Friday.<ref>[http://www.thedmonline.com/nwtv/ ''NewsWatch'']</ref>
These five publications are a part of the S. Gale Denley Student Media Center at Ole Miss.
==Facts==
[[Image:Olemissspeedlimit.jpg|thumb|right|100px|[[Archie Manning]]'s uniform number as the official speed limit on campus.]]
*The university graduated the first ever space lawyer. Michael Dodge of [[Long Beach, Mississippi]] graduated from the [[National Center for Remote Sensing, Air, and Space Law]] at the University of Mississippi School of Law in 2008.<ref>[http://www.space.com/news/080508-first-space-lawyer.html Space.com: First Space Lawyer Graduates - Posted May 8, 2008; Accessed May 13, 2008]</ref>
* The university houses the largest [[blues music]] archive in the United States. Some of the contributions to the collection were donated by [[BB King]]. The Mamie and Ellis Nassour Arts & Entertainment Collection, highlighted by a wealth of theater and film scripts, photographs and memorabilia, was dedicated in September, 2005.
* [[Archie Manning]]'s uniform number, 18, has become the official speed limit of the Oxford campus.
* The school grows U.S. government cannabis. The [[National Institute on Drug Abuse]] [http://www.nida.nih.gov/] (NIDA) contracts to the university the production of [[cannabis]] for the use in the few approved research studies on the plant as well as for distribution to the seven surviving medical cannabis patients grandfathered into the [[Compassionate Investigational New Drug program]] (established in 1978 and canceled in 1991).
* University of Mississippi Medical Center surgeons performed the world's first lung transplant in man and transplanted the heart of a chimpanzee - man's closest genetic relation - into the chest of a dying man.
* [[William Faulkner]]'s [[estate (house)|estate]], [[Rowan Oak]], is owned by the university. His Nobel Prize for Literature is held in Archives and Special Collections at J. D. Williams Library on the Ole Miss campus. The town of Oxford surrounds the campus which is located in Lafayette County and inspired Faulkner and his imaginary town of Jefferson, the county seat of [[Yoknapatawpha County]]''
* In ''[[Star Trek]]'', the character [[Leonard McCoy|Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy]] attended the university.
* In ''[[Designing Women]]'', the character [[Suzanne Sugarbaker]] attended the university, where the character was a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority.
* In the 1996 movie ''[[A Time to Kill]]'', based on the novel by [[John Grisham]], [[Sandra Bullock]] plays a stellar law student from Ole Miss named Ellen Roark.
* Charlie's Angel [[Kate Jackson]] and long-time "[[As the World Turns]]" star [[Anthony Herrera]] attended the university.
* The University has produced three [[Miss America]]s: [[Susan Akin]] (1986 and a member of [[Pi Beta Phi]]), [[Mary Ann Mobley]] and [[Lynda Lee Mead]] (1959 and 1960 and both members of [[Chi Omega]]).
* The [[Mississippi Teacher Corps]] is based at the university.
*The University was chosen to host the [[United States presidential election debates, 2008|first presidential debate of 2008]], to be held September 26, 2008. This is also the first ever presidential debate to be held in Mississippi.<ref>[http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071120/SPECIAL02/711200379 The Clarion-Ledger: University lands first of 3 debates; Accessed November 20, 2007]</ref><ref>[http://debate.olemiss.edu/ 2008 Presidential Debate | The University of Mississippi - Official Home Page]</ref>
==Athletics==
{{main|Ole Miss Rebels}}
==Greek Life==
Despite the relatively small number of Greek-letter organizations on campus, many students participate in Greek life at Ole Miss. The tradition of Greek life on the Oxford campus is a deep-seated one. In fact, the first fraternity founded in the South was the W.W.W. (or Rainbow Society), founded at Ole Miss in 1848, which went on to charter other chapters across the South. The fraternity merged with [[Delta Tau Delta]] in 1886.<ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9F0DE5DA1030E433A2575BC2A9659C94649FD7CF&oref=slogin The New York Times: Two secret societies united, Delta Tau Delta and the Rainbow Society join hands; Published March 28, [[1885]]; Accessed December 08, 2007]</ref> Delta Gamma national sorority was founded in 1872 at the Lewis School for Girls in nearby Oxford. Today, sorority chapters are very large, with many boasting of around 250 active members. Recruitment is fiercely competitive and potential sorority members are encouraged to secure personal recommendations from Ole Miss sorority alumna in order to increase the chances of receiving an invitation to join one of the 9 NPC sororities on campus.
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NPC Sororities
* [[Alpha Delta Pi]] 1961, inactive since 1995
* [[Alpha Omicron Pi]] 1958
* [[Alpha Xi Delta]] 1971, inactive since 1976
* [[Chi Omega]] 1899
* [[Delta Delta Delta]] 1904
* [[Delta Gamma]] 1873
* [[Delta Zeta]] 1928, inactive since 1953
* [[Kappa Alpha Theta]] 1979
* [[Kappa Delta]] 1927
* [[Kappa Kappa Gamma]] 1947
* [[Phi Mu]] 1926
* [[Pi Beta Phi]] 1962
* [[Zeta Tau Alpha]] 1939, inactive since 1999
NPHC Organizations
* [[Alpha Kappa Alpha]] 1974
* [[Alpha Phi Alpha]] 1978
* [[Delta Sigma Theta]] 1974
* [[Kappa Alpha Psi]] 1983
* [[Omega Psi Phi]] 1973
* [[Phi Beta Sigma]] 1975
* [[Sigma Gamma Rho]] 1994
* [[Zeta Phi Beta]] 1976
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Fraternities
* [[Alpha Tau Omega]] 1927
* [[Beta Theta Pi]] 1879 (on probation from October 2007 until December 2008 for alcohol-related violations)<ref name="ClarionLeder">
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* [[Chi Psi]] 1858, currently inactive
* [[Delta Psi]] 1855
* [[Delta Kappa Epsilon]] 1850
* [[Delta Tau Delta]] 1886-1912, 1926-1942, currently inactive
* [[Kappa Alpha Order]] 1900
* [[Kappa Sigma]] 1926
* [[Phi Delta Theta]] 1877
* [[Phi Gamma Delta]] 1855, 1868-1879, 1994-2000, currently inactive
* [[Phi Kappa Psi]] 1857
* [[Phi Kappa Tau]] 1969
* [[Phi Kappa Theta]] 1971-1988, currently inactive
* [[Alpha Sigma Phi|Phi Pi Phi]] 1927, merged with Alpha Sigma Phi in 1938, currently inactive
* [[Pi Kappa Alpha]] 1927
* [[Sigma Alpha Epsilon]] 1866
* [[Sigma Chi]] 1857
* [[Sigma Nu]] 1927
* [[Sigma Phi Epsilon]] 1927
* [[Sigma Pi]] 1957-1971, 1974-1991, currently inactive
* [[Tau Kappa Epsilon]] Colonized in 1984, currently inactive
* [[Zeta Beta Tau]] Colonized in the 1980s, currently inactive
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==Noteworthy alumni==
{{main|List of University of Mississippi notable alumni}}
==See also==
*[[List of University of Mississippi notable alumni]]
*[[Ole Miss Rebels]]
*[[Ole Miss Rebels football]]
*[[Ole Miss Rebels baseball]]
*[[Old Gym]]
*[[Vaught-Hemingway Stadium]]
*[[Swayze Field]]
*[[Tad Smith Coliseum]]
*[[The Daily Mississippian]]
*[[Pete Boone]]
*[[Robert Khayat]]
*[[University of Mississippi Museum]]
*[[University, Mississippi]]
*[[WUMS-FM]]
==External links==
*[http://www.olemiss.edu Ole Miss website]
*[http://www.olemisssports.com Official University of Mississippi athletics site]
*[http://www.umc.edu University of Mississippi Medical Center & School]
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