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8 unusual facts about University of Mississippi


Accounting Research Bulletins

Accounting Research Bulletins, available full-text at the links below from the University of Mississippi's Digital Collections, were documents issued by the Committee on Accounting Procedure between 1938 and 1959 on various accounting problems.

AICPA Statements of Position

AICPA Statements of Position (SOPs), available full-text at the links below from the University of Mississippi's Library Digital Collections with the permission of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), were issued by the AICPA's Accounting Standards Division from 1974 to 2009.

Chad Mitchell Trio

"Alma Mater" ("We'll miss the classrooms/Where we learned/And effigies we burned") took on segregationist policies at the University of Mississippi, but was only a prelude to the later "Your Friendly, Liberal, Neighborhood Ku-Klux-Klan."

Escambia High School

Several years later, in the fall of 1972, black students rioted at a home football game for their team, whose mascot was a "Rebel," modeled in appearance after the Colonel Reb of the University of Mississippi.

James A. Colescott

Chester L. Quarles, a professor of criminal justice at the University of Mississippi, points that Colescott had considerable experience as a Klan recruiter across several states.

Plantation High School

The original school logo was a graphic of a traditional Southern colonel—the equivalent of Colonel Reb, mascot of the University of Mississippi.

Ray Terrell

Terrell attended the University of Mississippi, where he played as a halfback on its football team.

Vestavia Hills High School

Since the school's beginning in 1971, the school mascot has been the Rebel (a cartoon depiction of a "Southern gentleman" patterned after the University of Mississippi mascot, no longer used by the university).


1963 college football season

In the preseason poll for 1963, the University of Southern California Trojans (USC), who had been the 1962 national champions, were #1 with 484 points, followed by the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) at #2 with 389 points

B. J. Symons

During the season he had a stretch where he threw for 4,036 yards in just 9 games including 586 yards against North Carolina State University, 661 yards against the University of Mississippi, and 505 yards against Texas A&M University.

Center for Intelligence and Security Studies

The University of Mississippi's Center for Intelligence and Security Studies (or CISS), located on the University of Mississippi campus in Oxford, Mississippi, was created in 2008 and is housed in the university's School of Applied Sciences.

Colleton County High School

Norman Hand - former football player for Walterboro High School, University of Mississippi and a professional football player (retired).

Francis Butler Simkins

In addition to the Dunning Prize, Simkins held research fellowships at the Social Science Research Council and the John Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, delivered the Fleming Lectures at LSU and the Centennial Lectures at the University of Mississippi.

Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard

In the same year he became professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in the University of Mississippi, of which institution he was chancellor from 1856 until the outbreak of the Civil War, when, his sympathies being with the North, he resigned and went to Washington.

Gulfside United Methodist Assembly

Constance Baker Motley used Gulfside as her base of operations during the court sessions to integrate the University of Mississippi Law School.

Ira B. Harkey Jr.

Harkey was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing in 1963 for his anti-segregation editorials during the civil rights crisis surrounding the admission of James Meredith, a black man, to the University of Mississippi at Oxford, Mississippi in 1962.

James Dale Todd

Born in Scotts Hill, Tennessee, Todd received a B.S. from Lambuth College in 1965, a Master of Combined Sciences from the University of Mississippi in 1968, and a J.D. from the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law in 1972.

Mississippi University for Women v. Hogan

Hogan could have attended classes and received credit in one of Mississippi's two public, coeducational programs leading to a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, but these were at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg (178 miles from Columbus) and the University of Mississippi in Oxford (114 miles from Columbus).

Stephen Head

Before being selected by the Cleveland Indians with the 62nd overall pick in the 2005 Major League Baseball Draft, Head attended Hillcrest Christian School (Jackson, Mississippi) and the University of Mississippi.

Sulton Rogers

His pieces are the part of permanent collections at the University of Mississippi Museum of Art, the African American Museum, and the University Art Museum.

University of Zululand

The university has extended its existing links with a wide array of tertiary educational institutions in the United States and in Europe by establishing partnerships with the University of Mississippi, Radford University, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University and Chicago State University.

William R. Ferris

With Judy Peiser he co-founded the Center for Southern Folklore in Memphis, Tennessee; he was the founding director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, and is co-editor of The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture.


see also

Accounting Research Bulletins

With the permission of the AICPA, the full text of Accounting Research Bulletins has been posted on the website of the J.D. Williams Library of the University of Mississippi.

Bill Khayat

His uncle Robert Khayat, the Chancellor Emeritus of the University of Mississippi, was a Pro Bowl kicker for the Washington Redskins and the recipient of the NFL’s Alumni Achievement Award and the National Football Foundation Distinguished American Award.

Ross Barnett

On the night before the Ole Miss riot of 1962 protesting Meredith's entry to the university, Barnett gave his famous fifteen-word "I Love Mississippi" speech at the University of Mississippi football game in Jackson.

Thomas Clancy

Thomas K. Clancy, professor of law at the University of Mississippi School of Law

University Grays

The story of the University Grays is memorialized in an opera composed by Dr. Arthur Kreutz who was Professor of Music at the University of Mississippi using text from the book of the same name by Zoe Lund Schiller.