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  • EXCLUSIVEI’m spending $200k to be in a sorority but I don’t care - I’ll make ten times that from it

    09/22/2024 5:56:11 AM PDT · by blueplum · 69 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 22 Sept 2024 | Alice Wright
    Kylan Darnell has already spent close to $100,000 to be in an elite sorority at the University of Alabama... At Darnell's sorority fees alone can cost around $30,000 a year. For those joining the sorority for the first time a lump payment of $4,581 is charged in the fall semester for new member fees, followed by another $4,441 in the Spring semester. On top of that are ‘dues’, fees paid to cover the activities of the sorority. These are around $1,400 every month. For members that choose to live in the sorority’s mansion a fee of $10,422 is charged each...
  • IHL college board to approve relocating Confederate monument from heart of Ole Miss campus

    06/15/2020 6:47:10 PM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 19 replies
    Mississippi Today ^ | 06 15 2020 | Adam Ganucheau
    The board of trustees of the Institutions of Higher Learning, during its Thursday meeting, is expected to consider and approve a plan to relocate the Confederate monument at the University of Mississippi. Several sources close to IHL board members told Mississippi Today on Monday that the 12-member board, amid statewide and national protests about racial inequities in government and Confederate iconography, will vote to approve the university’s plan to move the monument at its Thursday morning board meeting. The meeting will be held virtually, and a meeting agenda will be released on Wednesday. Several representative bodies comprised of University of...
  • Professor calls for harassing Republicans at restaurants, sticking 'fingers in their salads'

    10/17/2018 9:25:00 AM PDT · by jazusamo · 141 replies
    The Washington Times ^ | October 17, 2018 | Jessica Chasmar
    The University of Mississippi has condemned a tweet by a faculty member that called on activists to abandon civility and harass Republican senators in public. “Don’t just interrupt a Senator’s meal, y’all,” James Thomas, an assistant professor of sociology, tweeted from his @Insurgent_Prof account on Oct. 6, the day Justice Brett Kavanaugh was sworn into the Supreme Court. “Put your whole damn fingers in their salads,” he wrote. “Take their apps and distribute them to the other diners. Bring boxes and take their food home with you on the way out. They don’t deserve your civility.”
  • Tom Brokaw to Ole Miss Grads: More Guns Mean More Homegrown Terror

    05/20/2016 8:53:27 AM PDT · by rktman · 69 replies
    breitbart.com ^ | 5/19/2016 | AWR Hawkins
    During a May 14 commencement address to Old Miss graduates, retired news anchor and journalist Tom Brokaw said, “more guns … will mean more homegrown acts of terror.” Tom Brokaw lamented the continuing expansion of gun ownership and the success of gun rights organizations that support that expansion. According to The Commercial Appeal, Brokaw referenced the homicide rate in Democrat-run Memphis, Tennessee, then said: I’m appalled by the determination of organizations and individuals to arm more people without any appreciation of the consequence of evermore lethal weapons in our midst. More guns and more firearm tolerance will mean more homegrown...