re: Ole Miss's "party decks" are a bit different than advertised

They have no idea who is running the school anymore. You have two separate factions in Oxford. The university who is leaderless and the athletics department who is run by the Forward Rebels boosters. They know the university is leaderless so they try to push them around too. The top dogs in FR are the people who have built all the condos and hotels in Oxford and who are now scared shitless that they are about to lose huge amounts of money.