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

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I THE RECAP WE LAUGHED. (A LOT) TRAPPED in controversy and often unflattering national attention, the spring sennester ushered in a brand-new era of laughing our way through the year. Of course, it always helps when fornner Saturday Night Live cast mennbers show up too. IMPROV NIGHT ( kimedian Tim Meadows, best known for his roles on Saturday Night Live (right) performs to a packed audience at the Ford Onter viith Second ( it) ' performers Brad Morris (left) and Joe Can ale. photo NICKTOCE WE BECAME THE STORY. . ' 5 T III ' 1) I I MISSISSIPPIAN H What happens next? -WHV TUtCEV MAITa n« tE EMERGENCE or r«stoacM owa- 2,510 856 2 ' ' crjr FEB. 23, 2010: What Happens Next? The ASB misconstrued what the (mascot) ballot said and they misinformed the students. Hannah Loy, May 2010 graduate MARCH 24, 2010: New York My guy stepped up and I just made a play. Murphy Holloway, on his game-winning shot which landed the team a spot in the NIT semifinals in New York. APRIL 9. 2010: The Docioi o in For Dan Jones, he comes into the chancellorship at a time when tough decisions are having to be made. The good news is we know he ' s up to it. Haley Barbour, Governor of Mississippi Sh

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SPRING 2010 TRANSITION was the resounding theme of 2010 ' s spring semester; events surrounding the inauguration of Chancellor Dan Jones and the decision to develop a new mascot kept the campus buzzing with excitement and controversy. FEBRUARY 23, 2010 WE SAID GOODBYE TO COLONEL REB (AGAIN). NEARLY 2,500 VOTES became the nails hammered into the colonel ' s coffin in February 2010, almost seven years after administrators removed him from the sidelines. After months of heated and public debate concerning the choice to develop a new mascot, the student government put it to a vote, which resulted in a landslide decision to find new representation for the university. FEBRUARY MAY WE MET FAMOUS PEOPLE. IT ' S NO SECRET Oxford is a solid draw for well-known politicians, journalists, actors and authors, but nothing compares to the Spring 2010 guest speaker lineup. Former CBS news anchor Dan Rather returned to Oxford 48 years after covering James Meredith ' s historic enrollment to discuss what it was like as a journalist on the frontlines of the infamous 1962 integration riots on campus. photo AUSTIN MCAFEE photo ELIZABETH RAINEY ONE NIGHT WITH A SURVIVOR Author and Holocaust survivor Elie Weisel challenged students to stand up in the face of adversit) ' during his Spring ' isit to campus. photo ADDISON DENT NBC correspondent Tom Brokaw spent two weeks teaching Prof. Curtis Wilkie ' s honors journalism class as a Barksdale Fellow. WUkie, a former reporter for the Boston Cilobe, met the former Nightly News anchor in 1976 when Brokaw was working for the Today Show. photo NICK TOCE •What happens in one connmunity happens to all communities. This means evil cannot prevail. And evil can only prevail when people around it are indifferent to it. The opposite of love is not hatred. IT ' S INDIFFERENCE. -Elie Weisel -20-

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