re: Petition calling for Dan Jones' resignation

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What is the "historical meaning" of "ole miss" and please don't tell me wikipidea or someone making shite up. It was the nickname for the yearbook back in the day. show me some real historical data showing that it means the plantation owners wife. Nothing more, nothing less. The majority of people starting shite have an agenda outside of OM.

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As an avid collector of Ole Miss memorabilia, I can tell you that I have OM football programs from the first half of the 20th century that mentions the term was derived from the term the slaves used to describe the plantation owner's wife, the "ole missus". This was changed in the 1970's or 1980's to say it was derived from the term that Miss Elma Meek of Oxford suggested to call the yearbook in 1897. There is a LOT of validity to this concerning the yearbook name. If you read old newspapers and publications from the university the name didn't become synonymous with the school until until the early 1910's. If it had more to do with the slave term, it stands to reason the school would have been called "Ole Miss" in the late 1800's which it was NOT.