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UM Chancellor Responds to Lack of Vote by IHL on Monument Relocation
The University of Mississippi Chancellor Glenn Boyce released a statement Thursday afternoon in regard to the Institutions of Higher Learning pulling the university’s proposal to relocate the Confederate monument to the cemetery from its regular meeting agenda earlier in the day.
During the morning meeting, IHL Trustee Thomas Duff said he would like a full report from
IHL Trustee Thomas Duff
the University of Mississippi on the progress made in implementing all of the recommendations included in the contextualization report, including the university’s plans to replace markers in the cemetery and pulled the item from the agenda.
Dr. Glenn Boyce.
As part of this procedural action, the IHL board did not vote on the proposal and asked the university to provide a full report on progress made toward implementing the recommendations of the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on History and Contextualization, which included recommendations involving the cemetery. We will provide this report to the board members and work with them to address any concerns that they have.
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Loretta
January 17, 2020 at 9:13 am
Mississippians love to complain about bureaucrats yet we have them in place everywhere here to make sure nothing ever changes.
Holice G
January 21, 2020 at 3:40 pm
There are many alumni, students, and patrons of the University that do not want the memorial to fallen soldiers removed from its present location. The press and University administration only represents a very small radical group. The Ole Miss administration underestimates the strong pro-monument sentiment of alumni and students. The Confederate Monument on campus represents 432 men from Lafayette County who died in the War Between the States. This is 25% of the men from Lafayette County who served in the Confederate Army. The 40 UDC ladies who got the monument placed in its present location included: 7 UM Professors wives, 3 UM Trustees wives (William Faulkner’s grandmother, her husband was a trustee), Mrs. J.E. Neilson of the clothing store, 2 UM alumni wives whose husbands were named to the list of the outstanding alumni of UM from 1848 to 1934, and two local pastors wives. The memorial is part of Lyceum-Circle Historic District, protected by the National Historic Preservation Act, which is legislation that preserves historical and archaeological sites in the USA. It would be a terrible mistake if a few radicals, supported by the liberal press destroyed one of the Universities most treasured landmark. The IHL is correct this needs to be studied, before any harsh action is taken. A few radical students (from out of state) and radical professors should not decide University policies, most are out of step with the majority of Mississippians.