The Night Ole Miss Walked Off the Floor Rather Than Play Basketball against a Team with a Black Player

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Author(s):  
Elizabeth Spencer

In this chapter, the author reflects on William Faulkner's influence on her and on other Southern writers. The author says it would be impossible to think of Oxford, Mississippi without thinking of Faulkner, its most famous citizen. She recalls growing up in Carrollton, but admits that it took her many long years in associating Oxford and the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) with Faulkner. It wasn't until she was in her early twenties and in graduate school at Vanderbilt that the author realized she must find out more about Faulkner. She began reading some of Faulkner's novels, including The Hamlet, Go Down, Moses and The Collected Stories. Critics inevitably compared her to Faulkner because of resemblances between their works. The author also reflects on three unanswered questions about Faulkner's work: his nihilism, his treatment of women characters, and the fictional Snopes family in his novels.


2020 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Justin Stocks-Smith

The 2018-2019 NCAA men’s basketball tournament featured 32 automatic qualifiers and 36 at-large selections. A new metric, College Basketball Rating (CBR), agrees with 30 of the 36 at-large selections but disagrees with the other six teams. CBR finds St. John’s, Temple, Seton Hall, Ole Miss, Baylor, and Minnesota unworthy of an at-large selection and instead prefers Clemson, Texas, Lipscomb, Nebraska, NC State, and TCU. In the most extreme case, CBR identifies 45 non-tournament teams more deserving of an at-large selection than St. John’s. This paper highlights the numerous benefits of CBR and presents strong evidence in favor of its use in determining future NCAA tournament at-large selections.


Transition ◽  
1963 ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Marianne Welter
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AAUP Bulletin ◽  
1965 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 323
Author(s):  
Robert Bierstedt ◽  
Russell H. Barrett
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Author(s):  
Stephen M. Utych

Abstract Dehumanizing language, or language used to describe human beings as non-human entities, is increasingly prevalent in political life. This dehumanization also occurs frequently in the world of sports. Sports and politics intersected notably in 2016, when Colin Kaepernick of the NFL’s San Francisco 49ers started protesting the national anthem to raise awareness about police violence against African-Americans. Kaepernick’s protests generated considerable vitriol towards him and other protesters, some of which was dehumanizing. In this study, I examine how dehumanizing language used against anthem protesters of different races influences political attitudes. Using experimental data, I find that, when a Black player protesting the national anthem is dehumanized, White citizens are considerably less supportive of the anthem protests and protesters. This effect does not persist when the dehumanized player is White.


ASHA Leader ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 13 (15) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Carolyn Wiles Higdon
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Ole Miss ◽  

John Maxey, a white lawyer, grew up in North Mississippi. He’d been educated in white segregated schools, attended a white church, and was a member of a prominent all-white social fraternity. In 1968, having recently graduated from Ole Miss Law School, he agreed to represent black parents suing to desegregate the public schools in Holly Springs. John was stunned when a revered former law professor and county judge angrily confronted him and declared, “You represent the greatest threat to Holly Springs since Ulysses S. Grant.”...


1965 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 658
Author(s):  
Dewey W. Grantham ◽  
Russell H. Barret
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