ELLISVILLE Learning about civil rights is much easier than living it, Jones College President Jesse Smith told students Monday during a Charles Pickering Honors Institute panel discussion in the Fine Arts auditorium.
The discussion focused on racial discrimination in education in the early 1960s in Mississippi and how it impacts students today. Those were some of the most horrific times, Smith said. None of you as students will ever know what that was like.
He challenged students to put themselves in the shoes of others and try to see the world through their eyes and appreciate what their predecessors accomplished.
Delta State University is promoting its OKRA summer day camps for youth and loads of athletic camps.
Thousands of Mississippi kids are eager to pack up and have fun at summer camps marking their return in 2021. After the COVID-19 pandemic shut down activities for young people at colleges from south of Memphis to the Gulf Coast, camps are bouncing back.
University officials, parents and grandparents are delighted. College leaders are ecstatic to once again attract young people to sports, music, cheerleader, ecology and robotics camps to showcase their institutions.
Camps also deliver a nice financial boost to schools during the slower summer months. Families are investing in summer camp options for kids who were often cooped up at home with their games, smart phones and computers since the health emergency began in March 2020. With three million COVID vaccines getting in the arms of Americans daily, people hope the pandemic gets in rearview mirrors in a few months.
USM Holds Women of Excellence Awards Ceremony
Mon, 04/12/2021 - 09:10am | By: David Tisdale
In one of the concluding events of Women’s History Month at The University of Southern Mississippi (USM), the Office of Inclusion and Multicultural Engagement, Dean of Students Office and Men of Excellence sponsored the annual Women of Excellence awards event March 31 on the Hattiesburg campus.
Inez Doe, founder of Ufancii, served as keynote speaker for the event.
In honor of Women’s History Month, the Men of Excellence annually organizes the Women of Excellence event to show their appreciation of the many contributions women make in being change agents within the Hattiesburg and USM communities. The ceremony highlights
USM takes 1st game of DH Saturday, tops UAB, 4-1 Southern Miss tops UAB 4-1 Saturday in 1st game of a Conference USA doubleheader Saturday at Pete Taylor Park. (Source: Josh Auzenne/WAFB-TV) By Tim Doherty | April 10, 2021 at 5:42 PM CDT - Updated April 10 at 5:42 PM
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) Senior right-hander Walker Powell picked up his 25th career victory for the University of Southern Mississippi, tossing a complete-game, three-hitter Saturday to help the Golden Eagles top the University of Alabama-Birmingham, 4-1, at Pete Taylor Park.
USM (19-9, 6-3 C-USA) won its fifth consecutive game by taking the first of Saturday’s two, seven-inning games of a Conference USA doubleheader.
USM sweeps C-USA doubleheader from UAB
Golden Eagles extend winning streak to six games behind arms of Powell, Ethridge UAB bats muffled as Blazers manage just eight hits in two losses Saturday at Southern Miss. (Source: Josh Auzenne/WAFB-TV) By Tim Doherty | April 10, 2021 at 10:31 PM CDT - Updated April 11 at 12:04 AM
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) Two more stellar starting pitching performances Saturday propelled the University of Southern Mississippi to a Conference USA baseball doubleheader sweep of the University of Alabama-Birmingham at Pete Taylor Park.
In the opener, senior Walker Powell picked up his 25th career victory, tossing a complete-game, three-hitter as the Golden Eagles topped UAB 4-1.