University of Mississippi - Ole Miss Yearbook (Oxford, MS)

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Photos by Allison Hooker and B.J. Mannix. Opening — 11

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- Homecoming The Ole Miss campus was stirring Homecoming Week 1990. It began with activities in the Grove and ended with everyone celebrating the 18th ranked Rebels victory over Arkansas State on Sat- urday. Homecoming is a time of traditon at Ole Miss and one of the traditions is crowning the Queen. Janie Holman. elected Queen in a campus-wide election was crowned at half-time by the president of the Alumni Association. During the week the Student Programming Board sponsored music and tye-dying in the Grove. Another tradition carried on was the float competition. This year students went to extremes to give the campus the most spirited floats ever. Chi Omega sorority won with the theme A New Beat to An Old Song. The annual Home- coming pep rally on the square brought students and faculty together with the people of Oxford to rouse spirits for the game that eventually took us to 6-1 . Despite all the week ' s activities many teachers still gave tests. Truly there is no week quite like Homecoming. It is always the busiest most happening week of the fall semester. Homecoming 1990 was especially special with our strong football team drawing more fans and alums together. Many students and their fami- lies enjoyed the musical production of Peter Pan on Friday night. The day of the game itself had the campus boiling over with people. There was hardly a space in the Grove after 8 a.m. The open houses and bands added to the spirit of the day. Of course the tailgating parties couldn ' t be overlooked. No where else in the nation could have had a bigger or better tailgating celebration than in the Grove on October 20, 1990. People from all over will always come back to Ole Miss to take part in an exclusive tradtion known as Ole Miss Homecoming. by Allison Hooker 10 — Opening

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Legacy While riding around campus with my grandfather who was here in the early 1940 ' s, it is obvious how much he still remembers and cherishs his college days. It wasn ' t too long ago that we were talking and he told me of the pranks they used to play while living in Barr dormorito- ry and then later in George. He spoke of pranks that I can ' t even envision him being a part of because they are so uncharacteristic of the man 1 know now. Why 1 remember this day so vividly is obvious. While he spoke that day I thought of myself ten, twenty, even thirty years from now, coming back to Ole Miss and telling someone with me of the things we used to do In Martln- Stockard. 1 thought of all the times when 1 ride past my old dorm, even now, and wish that 1 could still be a part of that. 1 wish 1 could go back to the first day 1 came to Ole Miss and start things over again, knowing some of the things I know now. I think it is inevitable that as time goes on we will all want back part of what time has stolen from us. College has taught me a lot about myself and a lot about what to expect from people as you begin to associate with a variety of people and mix with other cultures and other ways of life. College has taught me to understand why other people are different and to appreciate the individuality that makes each one of us who we are. It has been in the past four years that I have learned that not everyone wants to take a solid hold of the things offered to them in life. Many people who 1 see now who are apethetic to all that surrounds them, 1 see growing up that way, never taking ad- vantage of the things out there. Just beyond their reach. 1 hadn ' t planned on coming to Ole Miss as a senior at Hattiesburg High school. 1 had reservations about what it would be like. All during my senior year however, my grandfather pushed me to come to Ole Miss. It was his alma mater and he was Colonel Reb here. 1 see now that his wanting me to come to school here had much more to do than with Just my getting an academic education. It had to do with what he had gotten out of Ole Miss and how he knew that it still had many of those same things to offer me. If my decision con- cerning college had been different, not only would I have missed out on all the things that make me who 1 am, 1 would have missed out on that day in the car with my grandfather. A day when 1 saw through someone else ' s eyes the fact that no matter how far away from Ole Miss you go, It never really leaves you. — by August Laurent 12 — Opening Alan Sheffield