re: It is apparently illegal for the university to rename Confederate Drive

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Mississippi Code 55-15-81 provides that streets named in honor of military units, organizations or events may not be renamed. This would certainly include a street serving a Confederate cemetery, named in memory of the men interred therein.

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Which military unit, organization or event is the street named for?

The Confederate States of America was a political entity. It had a military, but I'm not sure that counts.