So, I’ve been really surprised to have people in both my D.C. housing and job search tell me Ole Miss is a good school. Are you confusing us with our football ranking, perhaps? One guy even thought we were larger than Chapel Hill, N.C. We did make No. 1 party school, according to The Princeton Review’s super scientific college comparison survey. Sure, we got the first presidential debate. I’ve seen some important people speak like E.O. Wilson, the king of Jordan and Colin Powell, but we paid them.
Our former (outlawed) mascot, Colonel Rebel.
Essentially, being a good school is due, in part, to having your name out there. Ours is! I just saw us in a preview for The Blind Side. Clearly, our former chancellor Robert Khayat knew that non-racism-related attention of any sort would bolster our image. I had my doubts as to whether hosting a presidential debate could really change our reputation for being a conservative hotbed of good ol’ boy politics, where the “last battle of the Civil War” engulfed our campus in 1962, and the confederate flag has only been off our field since the late ’90s. But it’s true. People know us, and for once it’s for mostly positive reasons. Someday, I pray, we’ll be known for our academics and journalism school. Read the rest of this entry »
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