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re: "Ole Miss" on the way out?
Posted on 8/8/14 at 2:46 pm to pankReb
Posted on 8/8/14 at 2:46 pm to pankReb
I didn't say you were a liberal. I don't know or care what you are. I have my traditions and I want to keep them. And, when someone comes in and wants to take that away, I'm sure as hell going to question it.
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Posted on 8/8/14 at 2:49 pm to Diddles
I never said you called me one. But how many times are issues like this blamed on liberals?
and no one is preventing you from saying ole miss or playing dixie.no one is holding a gun to your head saying that col rebel cant be YOUR mascot.
traditions can come and go. We have traditions now we didn have 20 years ago. In 20 years...we'lllikely have a different tradition
and no one is preventing you from saying ole miss or playing dixie.no one is holding a gun to your head saying that col rebel cant be YOUR mascot.
traditions can come and go. We have traditions now we didn have 20 years ago. In 20 years...we'lllikely have a different tradition
Posted on 8/8/14 at 2:49 pm to ProjectP2294
quote:Be careful! You're standing way too far out on that limb!
I'm going to choose to believe that the nickname for the university refers to the first 4 letters of state (and universities) name.
Posted on 8/8/14 at 2:50 pm to darkhorse
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darkhorse
I see you fighting for history in this thread...
Why don't you show up?
Posted on 8/8/14 at 2:51 pm to DrunkenStuporMan
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Be careful! You're standing way too far out on that limb!
I know.
Posted on 8/8/14 at 2:53 pm to TexasAg13
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The black bear was the straw that broke the camel's back. Over the next 10 years, we will see every bit of "old" Ole Miss go by the wayside to make room for those with feelings.
"I am offended!" ergo you must change everything you do and throw away your history to appease me..
Time to tell all these easily offended sandy vags to go eat dick.
Posted on 8/8/14 at 2:56 pm to Diddles
Here's the formula for how Ole Miss still gets perceived as being racist.
One guy proposes an unprovoked change at Ole Miss.
The majority of our fans over react.
Outside "Southern Heritage" groups storm Oxford.
Mainstream media is there to cover it because it's follows the Ole Miss narrative they want to portray so perfectly that it's almost a cliché.
John from Los Angeles reads the media article and continues to think Ole Miss and the rest of the South is still racist.
If that one guy doesn't make an unpopular unprovoked change initially, then all the events that follow never occur.
Stop fricking shitting where you eat Dan Jones.
Honestly, when I think about it, the only people I ever hear that Ole Miss is racist from is fricking Ole Miss people.
One guy proposes an unprovoked change at Ole Miss.
The majority of our fans over react.
Outside "Southern Heritage" groups storm Oxford.
Mainstream media is there to cover it because it's follows the Ole Miss narrative they want to portray so perfectly that it's almost a cliché.
John from Los Angeles reads the media article and continues to think Ole Miss and the rest of the South is still racist.
If that one guy doesn't make an unpopular unprovoked change initially, then all the events that follow never occur.
Stop fricking shitting where you eat Dan Jones.
Honestly, when I think about it, the only people I ever hear that Ole Miss is racist from is fricking Ole Miss people.
Posted on 8/8/14 at 2:56 pm to Jagd Tiger
We can't change faculty email addresses to accomodate those who use them?
Posted on 8/8/14 at 2:57 pm to GeorgeReymond
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Fun fact, LSU was at one point nicknamed Ole Lou. Thank God our administrators didn't embrace it as Ole Miss has
woah
that'd be awful
Posted on 8/8/14 at 2:59 pm to YouDontKnowBro
Plenty of folks would consider the desecration of Meredeth's statue provocation for change.
Posted on 8/8/14 at 3:00 pm to inelishaitrust
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We can't change faculty email addresses to accomodate those who use them?
That was my suggestion several pages back.
Whether anyone agrees with the potential change or not, I'd bet most of those who are most vocal in this thread have never had to represent (and defend) the university in an academic setting, where many other universities are jockeying for the same, competitive-based resources.
It sucks, but it's reality.
Ideology aside, you have to adapt or be left behind.
Posted on 8/8/14 at 3:04 pm to EKG
Judging by the quality of their arguments, they wouldn't be capable of defending much of anything successfully.
Posted on 8/8/14 at 3:04 pm to PorkSammich
Obsolete! Obsolete!
Posted on 8/8/14 at 3:05 pm to YouDontKnowBro
Or...you know...maybe our fans should stop overreacting.
but that makes pefectly good sense though. People overreact....lets blame someone else
but that makes pefectly good sense though. People overreact....lets blame someone else
Posted on 8/8/14 at 3:06 pm to pankReb
Look my position is simple. The name Ole Miss and Rebels is a tradition that I cannot break away from. Despite the assurances of those in the administration that such changes will not be implemented I have my doubts. Now you have professors telling major news outlets that they are ashamed of the name Ole Miss because they feel that it is racist. This, along with the recent renaming of Confederate Drive. The writing is on the wall and I don't like it. I feel that most of us Ole Miss fans do not want such changes. Yet the administration seemingly could careless. They are radicals because they want to change things under the guise that they speak for some invisible mass of Americans.
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Posted on 8/8/14 at 3:06 pm to YouDontKnowBro
frick an ill formed opinion from someone on L.A.. People from outside the South like to use us as a scapegoat, and MS has been ground zero in the past. Ole Miss is as diverse as any school on the South and actually more diverse than Alabama. (Sorority)
Posted on 8/8/14 at 3:07 pm to Hardy_Har
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frick an ill formed opinion from someone on L.A.. People from outside the South like to use us as a scapegoat, and MS has been ground zero in the past
This.
Posted on 8/8/14 at 3:13 pm to pankReb
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that isn't exactly something I would brag about....
Was I bragging?
It's a fact. No reason to pretend like it isn't and watch these hipster fricks divide our school. quote:
Yes. A foam-headed mascot and Dixie are far more important to a University than being able to obtain a legitimately good education.
I didn't know we couldn't replace Professors? You mean those frickers have teaching there for 150+ years? Jesus...they old AF.
No, it wasn't a troll post. It's just like every other job in America. Why make an exception because the word "racist" comes up when it doesn't really apply?
Here's your job, do it. Don't want to? We'll have someone to replace you next semester. It eliminates the non-sense, while cutting out the professors that are there to only collect pay.
Posted on 8/8/14 at 3:13 pm to Diddles
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Look my position is simple. The name Ole Miss and Rebels is a tradition that I cannot break away from.
k. Thats perfectly fine and no one is saying otherwise.
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Despite the assurances of those in the administration that such changes will not be implemented I have my doubts.
obviously. But those are your doubts...
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The writing is on the wall and I don't like it.
we just added 40+ pieces of Ole Miss signage and named an 85 million dollar complex after Ole Miss over the past two years. Something tells me you're looking at the wrong fricking walls.
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They are radicals
According to you. I consider the annual bitching of a few that "DER TAKIN 'WAY MAH TRADISHUNS" to be pretty radical.
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they speak for some invisible mass of Americans.
Funny that everyone who has an opinion considers themselves to be in the majority. Amazing how that happens.
Posted on 8/8/14 at 3:16 pm to Diddles
Most Ole Miss fans. 95% of them even, would not be OK with the name changing. I'm not, I doubt anyone on this board is.
What we are against is irrational fear-mongering. I don't like it. Groupthink leads to people swinging from trees and warzones on campus. Please research before you react. You hurt your own position when you represent it poorly.
What we are against is irrational fear-mongering. I don't like it. Groupthink leads to people swinging from trees and warzones on campus. Please research before you react. You hurt your own position when you represent it poorly.
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