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Heaton: 10 Essential Tips for Moving to the South

Embrace Southern hospitality with these essential tips on traditions, food, and customs to help you settle into your new home.

Hotty Toddy News Services - February 19, 2025

Shelle Cleland Photographs a Snow Day in Oxford

The snow from last Friday has largely melted by now, but happy memories of the Mississippian impromptu holiday remain, especially with striking pictures. Shelle...

Brad Paisley Was “Crushin’ It” Last Night at The Pavilion at Ole Miss

Country music singer, Brad Paisley brought his Country Nation College Tour presented by Zaxby's to the Pavilion at Ole Miss on Sunday, January 24. Paisley...

Oxford Stories: College Young Life Continues to Grow After Three Years at UM

The University of Mississippi has been home to College Young Life for a little over three years now. With an ever growing population of...

Vassallo: Johnny Neumann – Soaring to Even Greater Heights

Johnny Neumann recently accomplished what few athletes ever attempt. He returned to college to complete his degree at age 62 and graduated at age...

TJ Ray – Lafayette County Wildlife Snow Shots 2016

In late-November, HottyToddy.com (me) perused the Farmer’s Almanac website to see and report on what kind of wicked winter Lafayette County might be in...

UM students will benefit from Scholarships, Mentoring, Leadership Training

Impressed by the Ole Miss Women’s Council’s (OMWC) mission to help students develop the life skills they need to be leaders, a Mississippi-based private...

DeMiller Estate Fully Funds Accountancy Scholarship Endowment

Decades ago, the late Edward A. DeMiller Jr. hired a young CPA who gives the elder accountant credit for his long-standing career. “I have now...

Attendance Tracking Gets Upgrades, Changes this Semester

The University of Mississippi continues to improve its policies and procedures for instructors to verify classroom attendance in an effort to make sure students who...

Former CBS News Correspondent Teaching UM Winter Intersession Course

With more than 6,000 stories to his credit, award-winning former “CBS Evening News” correspondent Randall Pinkston has covered everything from the White House to...

Campus NAACP Chapter Wins 2016 Chairman’s Award

Joining a luminous cadre of past recipients, the University of Mississippi chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has been awarded the...