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racial progress panel wraps up integration events A panel of four Ole Miss community members led a discussion at the Overby Center regarding the racial development the university has made since its integration in 1862, concluding the events surrounding the 50 years of integration celebration. BY JEREMY K. COLEMAN jkcolem1@go.olemiss.edu
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Donald Cole, assistant provost and assistant to the chancellor concerning minority affairs, spoke at the Overby Center event, Ole Miss: After the Crisis.
have a unique experience with The University of Mississippi,” Sansing said. “One was here during the Meredith crisis, one came here because James Meredith broke the color bar-
rier and the other acclimates students to university life.” Charles Overby, for whom the Overby Center is named, said it was an amazing opportunity for the university to hold
such an event. “We’ve been privileged to be able to host a number of programs in connection with the 50th anniversary of James Meredith entering Ole Miss
Man arrested and charged with Lexington Pointe bomb threat Oxford resident Collin Jones has been charged with making a bomb threat concerning vehicles at Lexington Pointe on Sept. 18. BY JENNIFER NASSAR thedmnews@gmail.com
Oxford Assistant Police Chief Joey East confirmed that 35-year-old Collin Jones of Oxford has been arrested and charged with making a false bomb threat. On the morning of Sept. 18, Oxford police responded to a call about a bomb threat at Lexington Pointe involving the vehicle of an Ole Miss football player. A suspect was arrested within a few hours of the threat but not charged. Two individuals were arrested during the course of the investigation, according to East.
“The first arrest was a suspect of interest, and he was arrested on a different charge,” East said. “Then Mr. Jones came into the picture during the investigation.” East said that over the course of the investigation, Oxford police discovered that Jones worked at the bomb threat location. “Anyone that’s around is a possible suspect,” he said. It took Oxford police several days of interviewing people and going through phone records. “We were able to narrow it down, and Mr. Jones was arrested for it,” East said. The first individual was ar-
rested for auto burglaries and other things not related to the bomb threat incident, according to East. Jones was taken to the Lafayette County Jail and bond was set at $10,000. “I’m assuming he may have made bond by now,” East said. With recent bomb threats at universities across the nation, East has urged students, faculty and citizens to take proper precautions. “Everybody ought to take any threat (seriously) and should try to cooperate with law enforcement whether it’s the university or OPD,” he said.
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A bike ride on Sunday, Oct. 7 will take place in honor of Kevser Ermin, a doctoral student of exercise science who died on Oct. 7, 2011, after she was hit by a car while riding her bike on Highway 314. The bike ride will start at the Lyceum at 2:17 p.m. and go to the accident location where the ghost bike, a memorial for bicyclists hit or killed on the street, is located. The time is specifically 2:17 p.m. for Ermin’s birthday on Feb. 17.
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Professor and historian David Sansing hosted a discussion at the Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics Thursday morning to assess the progress made at The University of Mississippi since the enrollment of James Meredith. The panel was composed of Sansing; Donald Cole, assistant provost and assistant to the chancellor concerning minority affairs; Valeria Ross, assistant dean of students for multicultural affairs and volunteer services; and former provost Gerald Walton. Nearly 120 students, faculty, administrators and other community members were in attendance. Sansing prefaced the event by providing his perspective on the importance of the panel discussion. “The three people who are going to speak this morning
and the opening up of the previously closed Mississippi society,” Overby said. Chancellor Dan Jones appreciated the panel’s discussion. “We’ve had a compressed opportunity about the difficulties of our past and to think about the past and future,” Jones said. Walton compared his memories of 1962 to what is happening now. “While we still have a long way to go, I think we have made some magnificent strides,” he said. Cole then delivered an address about the experience he had when he enrolled in the university in 1968. “It’s the university of the 2000s that is one that I can be so proud of,” he said. Ross discussed the trials she feels black students have faced in the past, along with the success the students have gained.