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<div>How is the name, "Ole Miss," classified by the university? Is it an official alternate name that can be used interchangeably with "University of Mississippi" even in professional settings (i.e. documents, letterheads)? Or is it something akin to the official nickname?</div>
but I have received official letters with both names but I have only ever seen the UofM on official documents. From what I can tell it seems that the administration is pushing the use of "OLE MISS" more and more. Will it become an official alternate name? I don't know.
For all research/academic purposes, we're The University of Mississippi. For all athletics/nickname purposes, we're Ole Miss. <div>
</div><div>eta - I think you'll see "Ole Miss" on official mail to alumni. And our website is olemiss.edu, so there's that. As far as my use, if someone asks me where I did undergrad, I say "Ole Miss," if I'm asked to write where I went to undergrad on documentation, I write The University of Mississippi.</div><div>
</div><div>Doesn't Sewanee/The University of the South have a similar thing going on?</div>
</div><div>eta - I think you'll see "Ole Miss" on official mail to alumni. And our website is olemiss.edu, so there's that. As far as my use, if someone asks me where I did undergrad, I say "Ole Miss," if I'm asked to write where I went to undergrad on documentation, I write The University of Mississippi.</div><div>
</div><div>Doesn't Sewanee/The University of the South have a similar thing going on?</div>
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Very logical answer, I would have answered similarly. So why would the university be promoting the use of "Ole Miss" on your resume? Seems retarded to me.
(don't read this as if I'm trying to make a jab)<div>
</div><div>I figured the term "Ole Miss," if anything, would be used less and less, a la Colonel Reb. Not that it would/should ever be removed, but given its own racial undertones (albeit much more subtle than the mascot and not necessarily negative), it seemed logical that the university would distance itself from the name, especially seeing how much time/effort/money was put into getting rid of the mascot.</div><div>
</div><div>P.S. how many times did you have to read that last sentence to make sense of it?.... I working on my problem with run-on sentences.</div>
</div><div>I figured the term "Ole Miss," if anything, would be used less and less, a la Colonel Reb. Not that it would/should ever be removed, but given its own racial undertones (albeit much more subtle than the mascot and not necessarily negative), it seemed logical that the university would distance itself from the name, especially seeing how much time/effort/money was put into getting rid of the mascot.</div><div>
</div><div>P.S. how many times did you have to read that last sentence to make sense of it?.... I working on my problem with run-on sentences.</div>
As to your post. I know that the last couple of years the athletic department has been trying to ensure the commentators call us Ole Miss instead of Mississippi which had been a problem. I am seeing less and less of the UM stuff and more Ole Miss in merchandising. The university has even registered the script logo Ole Miss. </p>
Most of the rest of the country really doesn't think about the name itself. They just know Ole Miss is one of the Mississippi schools, and some people are into sports enough to know it's where Eli or Patrick Willis or That Dude From The Blind Side went. <div>
</div><div>Your sentence would be easier to read without the parentheses. </div>
</div><div>Your sentence would be easier to read without the parentheses. </div>
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I find it amusing that they consider themselves "The Harvard of the South", and yet they find it appropriate to put "Ole Miss" on a resume...
most people assume "Miss" is simply a shortened reference to "Mississippi", which is actually what I assumed until I was informed otherwise. No one even really cares unless they are just trying to start ****. Hell, I can't even remember what prompted the ousting of Colonel Reb, was there some kind of public outcry that I'm totally forgetting there? Don't answer that question, **** will probably get out of hand and I hate seeing that ghey side of State fans.<div>
</div><div>As for my parenthesis... Yeah, they blow... I've tried to break up my run-ons with commas, but then I have too many commas, so I try to remedy that with parenthesis and rabbit-trails.... The end result is an "mind-bottling" cluster17 .</div>
</div><div>As for my parenthesis... Yeah, they blow... I've tried to break up my run-ons with commas, but then I have too many commas, so I try to remedy that with parenthesis and rabbit-trails.... The end result is an "mind-bottling" cluster17 .</div>
we want to press forward <font class="PostDisplay">on a term used by slaves for the wife of a plantation owner</font>....yes that make perfect sense
<div>For "Ole Miss", it's not entirely clear whether it was meant to reference "Ole Mississippi" or "Ole Miss'us" and sources are conflicting on this point. At any rate, the reference is pretty clearly to the state name in modern parlance.</div><div>
</div>I was on campus when Colonel Reb was dismissed from service, and there wasn't really a big outcry to get rid of him, at least that I saw. It was the admin trying to get ahead of the 8 ball, in a manner of speaking; Khayat precipitated the issue thinking it would be better to deal with it now than have it be a bigger issue down the road. I think he was trying to minimize impact by doing it while Ole Miss was having some football success. I'm still not sure he made the right decision from that standpoint.When they said they were thinking about/about to ditch Colonel Reb the NAACP showed up one day in support, but it wasn't very many people if I recall correctly and many of them weren't students or alumni. If anything it brought the trolls out of the woodwork in support of the Confederate flag/Colonel Reb/Whatever many of whom, again, weren't even students or alums... but many of whom unfortunately were. <div>
</div><div>I thought it was silly to get rid of Colonel Reb at the time, especially when the alternatives they proposed were so laughable. I like the bear ok, but I think it would have been better to stick with no mascot at all permanently, or at least for another decade or so. There are several schools without mascots, like Michigan, and I don't think having a guy in a suit walk the sideline has been worth dredging it all up again. It was all handled incredibly poorly, in my opinion. Getting rid of Colonel Reb was bound to stir the pot, and then just as that's starting to settle they stir the pot again with the new mascot situation. </div><div>
</div><div>A lot of younger alums, like myself, are just not married to the mascot issue, and I doubt it has impacted fundraising noticeably. </div>
</div>I was on campus when Colonel Reb was dismissed from service, and there wasn't really a big outcry to get rid of him, at least that I saw. It was the admin trying to get ahead of the 8 ball, in a manner of speaking; Khayat precipitated the issue thinking it would be better to deal with it now than have it be a bigger issue down the road. I think he was trying to minimize impact by doing it while Ole Miss was having some football success. I'm still not sure he made the right decision from that standpoint.When they said they were thinking about/about to ditch Colonel Reb the NAACP showed up one day in support, but it wasn't very many people if I recall correctly and many of them weren't students or alumni. If anything it brought the trolls out of the woodwork in support of the Confederate flag/Colonel Reb/Whatever many of whom, again, weren't even students or alums... but many of whom unfortunately were. <div>
</div><div>I thought it was silly to get rid of Colonel Reb at the time, especially when the alternatives they proposed were so laughable. I like the bear ok, but I think it would have been better to stick with no mascot at all permanently, or at least for another decade or so. There are several schools without mascots, like Michigan, and I don't think having a guy in a suit walk the sideline has been worth dredging it all up again. It was all handled incredibly poorly, in my opinion. Getting rid of Colonel Reb was bound to stir the pot, and then just as that's starting to settle they stir the pot again with the new mascot situation. </div><div>
</div><div>A lot of younger alums, like myself, are just not married to the mascot issue, and I doubt it has impacted fundraising noticeably. </div>
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