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Ed Meek: I Ask UM to Remove my Name from the School of Journalism and New Media
UM Donor Ed Meek has issued an official apology and makes one request to the School of Journalism and New Media: Take my name off the building.
Dean of the School of Journalism & New Media, Will Norton, confirmed with hottytoddy.com he did receive the apology via email today.
“Today I have asked the University of Mississippi to remove my name from the School of Journalism and New Media,” Meek wrote in the email. “My desire then and now is for the School of Journalism to be a global leader in Journalism education. I recognize that the attachment of my name to the School of Journalism is no longer in the best interest of that vision.
In the message of the Facebook post in question, Meek linked a “3 percent decline in enrollment…and real estate values will plummet as will tax revenue,” to two photos of black women on the Square. This association drew criticism from hundreds of commenters throughout the post’s short lifetime. However, the post was later deleted.
Screenshot from Ed Meek’s personal Facebook page.
Meek’s email comes in response to the School of Journalism and New Media faculty’s statement asking Meek within three days to request his name be removed from the building.
Photo from the Meek School of Journalism and New Media’s Facebook page.
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Bettye Galloway
September 23, 2018 at 8:51 am
Ed, I am so sorry that you decided to take your name off the Journalism building. As you have been a dedicated supporter of the future of Oxford, Ole Miss, and the school of journalism itself for what you have done for them, I personally think it should remain. Meek is an honorable name and one that is deserved to be on the building for future students and citizens to remind them of how much you loved and supported them through the years. Although I am sad that you made this decision, I can understand the hurt this misunderstanding has caused you. Nothing is fair in this world, but I wish you the best in your future endeavors.
Matt
September 23, 2018 at 10:21 am
vitter is an embarrassment…of course there is a lot of that going around on that campus
we have decided to stop our donations
I hope mr meek gets his money back
W. Wallace Wagoner
September 23, 2018 at 9:22 pm
Are we being shown all of the pictures that were posted on face book? I find it difficult to understand how a life long journalist would only take and post two pictures. Were there photos of no one else? Really, two pictures
Cindy Karer Barrow
September 24, 2018 at 6:20 pm
Ed, since we were all in the School of Journalism in the 60’s – in the funky little building on the edge of the Grove – we all knew that Budgie(?) Meek was going to make a splash! You have dedicated your life to Ole Miss in so many ways and you deserve all the kudos that have come your way. One mistake , which you have graciously offered an apology for, cannot begin to eradicate a lifetime of dedication and good works you have accomplished for Ole Miss. You have earned that “Meek School of Journaism” sign and it should not be discarded because of one error in judgment! Aren’t we all guilty of that?
David Vitter
September 24, 2018 at 11:03 pm
I am thinking an apology tour like Trent did, with a public blow job on BET might work.
But, then it didn’t, did it? He just left the studio wiping his chin.
Keep on Budgie, your chin wiping is only starting.
Fins up!
Jimmy Paterrakis
September 24, 2018 at 11:15 pm
Poor Bettye, Poor, poor Bettye. She suffers so, watching you spin, Budgie, in your own noose. Chairman Mao’s Great Leap Forward requires it. Budgie loved and supported change to an extent. The Revolution is still going forward. You, Comrade Bettye, thought that you and Comrade Budgie would make it to the grave unscathed and that the long dead racists ahead of you, and already in the grave would suffice. Confessing their sins, instead of your own, would work. But, you are wrong. You will not make it to the grave without your own trip to the public relations guillotine, in a rickety cart. No one can save you now. The ones that might have will not. The rapacious mob will eat you first. You so deserve it. Fins up!
Loretta
September 25, 2018 at 9:31 am
Mr. Meek had a different view of cheesecake photos many years ago when they involved white girls. His past photos include rear ends and cleavage of lots and lots of white coeds and he proudly boasts how much he loves taking such photos.
Mr. Meek’s stench pervades this very publication. An article in Hotty Toddy just last year celebrated Mr. Meek’s lurid photographic past.
Richard Burns
September 25, 2018 at 11:55 am
Thank God Dr. Meek didn’t leave a banana peeling hanging on a tree in front of the Meek School! Remember that from about 18 months ago? Outcry over that, at an Ole Miss sanctioned retreat, made Ole Miss the laughing stock of the entire U.S.A. Same mentality involved here as in all those haters from 18 months ago….