"Goddamn, this is literally like being in the Congo jungle," a prominent Ole Miss donor said while photographing Black college students who were socializing after the Rebels suffered a devastating loss.
Now's a good time to read the #UMEmails: mississippifreepress.org/4876/the-fabri…
Now's a good time to read the #UMEmails: mississippifreepress.org/4876/the-fabri…
The #UMemails show that officials struggling to strike a balance between empathizing with aggrieved wealthy white donors who cling to the Ole Miss of yore & responding to a UM faculty & a student body that feels UM is not moving fast enough into the future.mississippifreepress.org/4950/the-ole-m…
“There is a sickness that permeates Ole Miss and it is enabled by a culture of secrecy. ... We all know about the hidden institutional racism at Ole Miss.” #UMEmails mississippifreepress.org/5004/ums-cultu…
"Recent efforts to silence faculty through an oppressive media relations policy are but a symptom of this disease brought upon Ole Miss by the neo-Confederates & racists who pull the strings in Mississippi...& do not want a campus for ALL Mississippians." mississippifreepress.org/5004/ums-cultu…
After those stories published, UM launched investigations into the anonymous whistleblowers who sounded the alarm about the secret emails that showed how school officials privately coddled racist and sexist sentiments to woo wealthy donors. mississippifreepress.org/7134/um-probes…
The investigation included a criminal probe by campus police into the #UMemails whistleblowers (who obtained the emails legally through a public records request) in an effort to unmask their identities based on vague allegations of "harassment." mississippifreepress.org/9134/um-pursui…
During the investigation, UM placed its ombudsman on administrative leave after he sued to stop the university from compelling him to share confidential information that risked exposing faculty who privately confided to his office about issues on campus. mississippifreepress.org/7531/like-he-w…
Journalism school faculty raised suspicions that the ombudsman may have been connected to the #UMEmails whistleblowers, but a four-month-long investigation involving at least 30 witness interviews turned up no evidence to corroborate those claims. mississippifreepress.org/10017/ombuds-e…
Last month, Will Norton, the ex-UM journalism school dean whose emails with a wealthy donor who referred to Black women students as "African hookers" were central to the #UMEmails revelations, quietly departed the university. mississippifreepress.org/12534/will-nor…
*"hookers," not "boomers"
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