World & Nation
University of Mississippi is trying to rethink an image linked with the Confederacy and Dixie intolerance. The effort has sparked a culture war that shows no signs of easing.
May 22, 1997
Twister rakes Hattiesburg, University of Southern Mississippi
Feb. 10, 2013
Thirty years after federal marshals forced Mississippi to open the doors of its best state colleges to black students, the Supreme Court ruled Friday that the state has not done nearly enough to dismantle its formerly segregated system of higher education.
June 27, 1992
Did you know that Southern poultry farmers account for 61% of the nation’s chicken production, that Coca-Cola was concocted by an Atlanta pharmacist 100 years ago mainly as a cure for hangovers and that there are only four rabbis in the whole state of Mississippi?
March 29, 1986
Sports
The University of Southern Mississippi announced that it had accepted the resignation of football Coach Jim Carmody, who led the Golden Eagles to 6-5 records the past two seasons.
Dec. 4, 1987
June 28, 1992
University of Southern Mississippi fullback Eric Sorey of Campbellton, Fla., collapsed with leg cramps in Saturday morning practices and died several hours later at Methodist Hospital.
Aug. 17, 1986
Books
Around the courthouse square that inspired the novels of native son William Faulkner, this university town threw the oddest sort of weekend literary and academic street party.
July 24, 1989
Obituaries
The civil rights activist endured beatings and jail while leading Black voter registration drives in the American South during the 1960s.
July 25, 2021
Southern Methodist University, whose football program was placed on three years’ probation by the NCAA last month, announced it had fired assistant football coach P.J.
Sept. 2, 1985