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CEREMONY PRESENTATION OF DEGREES AND AWARDS The Pavilion Saturday, May 1, 2021 7 p.m. Musical Prelude STATEMENT OF WELCOME Debora Wenger, Interim Dean AWARDING OF DEGREES Debora Wenger, Interim Dean Charles Mitchell, Associate Professor Scott Fiene, Assistant Dean
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Exceptional People, Extraordinary Times
In a year like no other, ALL OF you — the students, the staff and the faculty in the School of Journalism and New Media — came together as a community. Despite all the disruptive change in your lives, you kept moving, kept working, kept the mission in mind — to arrive at this day, having achieved this goal, with the ability to say that you are now wiser, stronger and more resilient than you ever thought you could be. In this year we have witnessed courage, commitment and caring from so many of you. Your dedication and self-sacrifice are what allow me to focus today on feeling a deep sense of gratitude. I’m grateful that we are all here -- grateful for the gift of education and for the friends and family that continue to stand by us throughout life’s challenges.
Dr. Debora Wenger
Interim Dean of the School of Journalism and New Media
I hope you will join me in that spirit of thankfulness, and that you share my conviction that you, graduates, are ready to do great things, that your struggles of the past have helped you develop the strength you need for a tomorrow.
Master of Arts: Journalism May 2021
Allen Gaither Brewer Lucy Elisabeth Burnam
Tucker Yates Robbins Abby Ray Vance
Master of Science: Integrated Marketing Communications December 2020
Bryan Zachary Gregory
May 2021
Shelby Jane Toole Addison Claire Carter Tatum Bradley Dye Meaghan Margaret Flores Emma Caroline Gaddy Hunter Walton Grissom
Amber Hill Amanda Jones Emily Mahar Erin Delane Norris Connor Holeman Phillips Kinsey Elaine Quinton Jason R Smith, Jr. Samantha Ann Stearns Ian J. Story Meredith Evans Warren
August 2021
Lanie Abigail Baravik Anna Elizabeth Blalock Mary Catherine Chapman Rodrigo Guajardo Addison Nicole Hazlewood Claude Webster Lewis Amelia Grace Ramsey Olivia M Robinette Abby Ready Rushing Cole Reid Russell Sophie McNeil Wolf
Bachelor of Arts: Journalism December 2020
Kylee Noelle Dedmon* Morgan Kayla Green Annabelle Grace Knef Robert Eric Lee Miranda Addenbrook Myford Austin Ellis Parker*** Karly Rose Trimble*
May 2021
Lauren Nicole Abel 4 | 2021 Graduates
Danielle Ensley Angelo** Gracyn Lee Ashmore Brian Devin Barisa Anna Caroline Barker Zachary David Blaine Anne Florence Brown* Justin Butts William Mitchell Carpenter Kaylee Layne Crafton** Griffin Shanahan Demarrais Margaret LaVergn Dent*
Nigel Davion Dent*** Erin Hayes Donaldson Rebecca Merrill Donaldson Dayna Lauren Drake*** Abbey Grace Edmonson*** Susanna Margaret Foster* Artez Gibson Matthew Brennan Hendley*** Hadley Elizabeth Hitson** Julia Ruth James*** Sarah Nevin Jones
*Cum Laude | **Magna Cum Laude | *** Summa Cum Laude
Tyrani Deasti Key** Margaret Claire Lewis Amirah Ajai Lockhart Haley Elizabeth Malatek* Desmone Malik Mathews Chloe Anne Mayenknecht Shelby Price Maynor* Sarah Margaret McCall Marissa Katherine McCardell Kenneth Scott Niemeyer Eliza Kathleen Noe*
Morgan Olivia O’neal* Madison Tayler Palmer Jared Redding* McKenzie Taylor Richmond*** William Michael Schuerman** Mason Thomas Scioneaux*** Annie Grace Sharp
AUGUST 2021
Logan Alton Day Ann Marie Edlin Jennifer Froning Preston Boyd Ewing Janae Lashaun Hudson Cameron McCreight Tyler Elizabeth McDowell Chauncey Deshawn Taylor Meredyth Hall Von Seelen
Madisyn Marie-Sophia Bornfleth William Scott Corley*
Bachelor of Science: Integrated Marketing Communications December 2020
Lane Lisbeth Abercrombie* Logan McKenzie Alpe** Austin Robert Artcher Lucas James Bledsoe Caroline Victoria Boals Anna Grace Bolen** Tatum Ja’na Boyette Delaney Shea Brennan James Wade Brill Colin Louis Carpenter Elgin Elizabeth Cato Jacob Andrew Christensen Connor Michael Clancy Robert Davis Howell Conolly Brady Ashton Craig* Adam Lee Dean* Bess Brinkley Deshields Jordan Thomas Doerr Charles Ray Doty Abigail Gene Galyean Barrett Loren Guttell* Ryan Edward Hassiepen Kassidy Heberer Maggie Grace Houin Alixandria Suzette Johnson Jaquann Kendrick King Mason Macrae Knight Kyle Burke Krampf Kinsey Lauderdale Molly Christine Martin Julie Ann Mask Shannon McElvain Kamryn Paige Norman Kelly Elizabeth Powers Shanleigh Renee Roberts Mekial Anjanay Simmons Anna Grace Slocum Rachael Nicole Smith Ellise Stehr Richard Boyd Swift *Cum Laude | **Magna Cum Laude | *** Summa Cum Laude
Haleigh Nicole Tieken Andrew Nicholas Tognolini Garrett Michael Tolbert** Emma Lorelle Vujnovich Destiny Walsh Morgan Germaine Monea Williams Hunter McKall Wilson
May 2021
Campbell Owen Achord* Michael Scott Adkins Kathryn Magee Albritton** Claire Hollins Arnold* Rebecca Brooke Atkinson Kailee Brianne Ayers*** Jackson Alexander Baraff Nettie Taylor Barbour** Leah Anne Barrett* Ruth Parker Bauknight Micah James Beatty Hope Elizabeth Berry Alexandra Victoria Biddie** Katherine Miles Blackmon** Sarah Camille Blankenship*** Lauren McKinley Booth Anna Michele Borgen*** Alexa Marie Bortles* Eden Elizabeth Bowen** Avery Fowler Bowman** Samantha Rae Bramlett Anna Kathleen Bresette*** Sara Caroline Bridgers Addison Hope Bridges** Kyle Christopher Brown* Tyrone Spencer Brown Yasmine Nicole Brown Lily Ann Bruce* Ann Clardy Byrd Mia Grace Callicutt Tristen Winchell Campbell
Emma Marie-Louise Carney Alyson Anne Carpenter Shelby Owen Carrico Samuel Morgan Carter Stephen O’neil Carter Kendall Glenda Causey* Margaret Collins Chandler* Jessica Haley Clark Tori Anne Cobb* Reese Lira Colaluca Joshua Cole Annabel Catherine Coleman** Clare Lee Combs Whitney Dawn Converse* Sofia Cooper** Courtney Danielle Coton Cayman Rebecca Cottrell* Hailey Elizabeth Courtney* Elexis Grace Craft Bethell Edrington Culpepper Margaret Bruce Culver* Sophia Rose Cuozzo C. Muireall Elizabeth Currie Gianna Virginia Dameo Taylor Elizabeth Dancer* Avery Elizabeth Davis* Treviso Michael Davis*** Abigail Jean Dawson* Daniel Patrick Deluna Emily Sharon Dewitt Jennah Kaice Dillon* Robert Victor Ditullio Dylan Lewis Dixon Alissa Mary Frances Dizeo Anna Katherine Doiron* Megan Michelle Dominiec Jake Evan Downs Madison Annabeth Dyer Douglas Bradford Dyke Andrew David Stone Dyson Averi Jane Eisen 2021 Graduates | 5
Bachelor of Science: Integrated Marketing Communications Jimmy Mann Evans* John Charles Evans* Hannah Marie Fees Hayden James Finlay Olivia Grace Fox* Austin Lane Freeland Elizabeth Mathilde Gagnet** Hazel Garay Mary Isabella Garofalo Emily Kristine Garverick Ashley Jae Gattis Grace Kathryn Gebhart* Julia Marie Gigliotti Katherine Elizabeth Giovani Liza Anne Goodson Charlie Googe Thomas Mackenzie Gordon Alexandra Nicole Graver Emma Ione Green Isabella Grisham Samantha Guerrero* Randle Daye Haggerty Hannah Claire Hamric* Kayli Hankins Asia Carlyn-Marie Harden*** Chelsea Grace Harris Cortlynn Alexandria Harris Lauren Hart Emma Christian Hawkins Lucille K. Cornielle Heaton Clare Elizabeth Heller*** Theodore Helmhout John Alexander Henderson Avary Catherine Hewlett*** Caroline Parker Hicks Charlotte Josephine Hill Morgan Ashley Hobbs John Coleman Hobson Victoria Michelle Hodges Brooke Michelle Holley Macy Lynn Holliday* Carly Noelle Horton Georgia Huddleston Savannah Hulme* Jenna Ann Hunt Samantha Jo Irish Ireland Marie Irving Leah Rachel Jackson Ashtyn Alivia Jenkins Sarah Katherine Jent Sarah Bradshaw Johnson* Miracle Jones 6 | 2021 Graduates
Kellie Louise Kampen** Sarah Elise Kane Jackson Anthony Keappler Glenn Augusta Kelaher* Kora Eilise Kelly Brandon Patrick Kenney Natalie Elizabeth Knox* Anna Lauren Kornegay** Karl Joseph Herman Krynen Caroline Suzanne Langcuster Susanna Charlotte Lavers** Kyle Olivia Laws Emily Leclair** Elizabeth Carroll Legard* Luke Barrett Little Jackson Carey Lockard William Gregg Londrey* Rachel Elizabeth Long Alexis Lunsford* Leah Malone Macfarland Miller John Mackay Toni Bokneberg Madsen Ryleigh Alexa Malloy Alden Channing Maloney Alexis Taylor Malouf* Richard Haughton Mann* Virginia Clare Mansoor*** Megan Catherine Manuel James Edward Marshall Madisyn Olivia Martin* Richard Louis Martin Gabrielle Elizabeth Martinez* Katherine Grace Matkins* Lydia Ashlee Mayer** Taylor Simone McBeath Olivia Cannon McClanahan Kylee Rose McCoy Lauren Rebecca McDaniel Jocelyn McGaughy Ella Jane McIlvain** Kinley Louise McKay Emily Mae McMurtrey Addison Elizabeth McNamara Adelaide Ligon Medford Isabelle Christina Meffe Sophie Beryl Miller Isabelle Wynne Monnin Macy Rae Moore Madeline Irene Moore Tavia Moore** Carly Kathryn Morgan* Bailey Lamar Muselwhite
Olivia Jade Nash Payton Tyler Neal* Hannah Grace Newbold* Austin Scott Newcomb** Hailey Lockett Newell Karen Thi Nguyen* Rebecca Estes Nosef Ashton Caroline Nowicki Alexandra Joann Ownby Joshua Ward Padgett Seth Tyler Page Cole James Parker Grace Catherine Parry* Julia Teresa Peoples*** Rylie Lynn Petrangeli Megan Claire Pipech Carolyn Ann Plotkin Jared Caleb Poland Joslyn Nicole Polete* Allison Kay Pruitt* Natalie Irene Pruitt*** Dakin Taylor Reed* Bradford Turner Rejebian Margaret Elizabeth Rice Amy Elizabeth Roberts Whitney Marie Robertson** Paul Robinson* Hannah Catherine Rom*** Miles Roy Steven Isai Ruedas Cameron Nicole Sadler*** Helen Avery Sadler** Tim Sandkaulen Margaret Richardson Savoie Elyse Maya Schneider** Haley Schneider* Allison Marie Schultz* Cole Grayson Schurb Olivia Ramos Schwab*** Josie Claire Seals* Seth Michael Seelye Emily Anne Sewell Ashley Katherine Shadoan Greta Gallo Shields** Meredith Leigh Sills*** Baljot Singh Robert Cade Slaughter** Andrea Nicole Smith Lydia Sade Smith Lydia Smith Taylor Breeanne Smith** Haley Anderson Smyth *Cum Laude | **Magna Cum Laude | *** Summa Cum Laude
Bachelor of Science: Integrated Marketing Communications Arden Spearman Rebecca Michelle St Martin** Paige Nicole Stafne Megan Stamos Skyler Kay Stams Caroline Grace Stanton Emma Catherine Stephens Brianna Alexa Stiebling Joseph Daniel Stiles Skylar Mackenzie Stovall* Olivia Alyse Strickland*** Grace Ellie Sudderth Mallory Ann Swanson Walter Perkinson Swift Jaznia Janae Tate Alexis Winette Taylor Mary Margaret Taylor Colleen Grace Terry Grayson Joel Thomas** Katlyn Marie Tidwell Cameron Jackson Trice* Maggie Troxell Brandy Bich Thuy Truong Kendall Nicole Twiddy* Kennedy Alexis Upton Brady Geoffrey Vick Olivia Claire Wagner Brittney Nicole Walden* Fredice Marish Walker Anna Catherine Ward* Lauren Elizabeth Watkins Avery Elizabeth Watson Nicholas Ryan Weaver*** Emma Grace Webb Jaid Claire Webb Avery Ann White** Mackenzie Analise White Tyler White*** Sierra Braune Whitten John Wilbanks* Margaret Williamson Lauren Elizabeth Wilson*** Mary Ross Wilson Clare Rose Wojciechowski*** Ansley Adonis Wood*** Lakeisha Annette Woodard Ariel Ayanna Wooten
*Cum Laude | **Magna Cum Laude | *** Summa Cum Laude
Jason James York Daphne Shae Young Madisyn Zambory** Courtney Anne Zeidner James Randolph Zook
August 2021
Susannah Searcy Abernathy Ann Katherine Adams Michelle Ann Alford Michael Stuart Baldecchi Katherine Claire Barnes* Calli Kay Barr Grace Talley Bass Summer Kaohinani Batoon Drake Anderson Beck Sydney Ballard Beckham Toni Anne Bounds Abigail Elise Bowen Madison Paige Brandon* Adam Christopher Brown Alayna Lajeanne Cagle Avery Scout Colomes Samantha Rose Cordesman Charles Ellis Counce Ainsleigh Jordan Cunningham John William Cunningham Alexandra Elizabeth Davis Ava Elizabeth Dodson Sebastian Herrera Dominguez Kiefer Michael Donlon Lauren Elise Drummond Miles Freeman Dunbar Kristopher Dallen Dunn David Andrew Edwards Lauren Annette Edwards Hayden Collins Embry* Elizabeth Chappell Emmons Jonathan Michael Essex Gregory Faul* Vedra Abrianna Finch Jessica Marie Flannigan Kaitlyn Leann Garner* Gabrielle Rae Gosch Lon’tayshia Tra’miya Griffin Garrett Gross Asia Bryann Guest
Christian Alexandra Guillory Mitchell Wyatt Hart Griffin William Hyde Alison Marie Irelan Tyliaiah Sade’ Johnson Eumetria Areya Jones* Anna Marie Margaret Jordanou Tyler Patrick Kelso Finn Benjamin Kempkes Sydney Frances King Thomas Giles Lamar Sedrick Rashad Lee Alexandra Lenchinsky Anne Lauren Livingston Skylar Marie Marra Ryan Jonathan Marshall Malik Jattir McIntyre Leigh Anne McKamey Victoria Claire Menhal William Michael Norvet Halle Christian Novarese Dania Nunez Hailey Marie Persijn Madison Caroline Rankins Abigail Grace Reames* Chloe Elizabeth Rives Joseph Dalton Robison Jeffrey Ivan Rodriguez-Cano* Paige Rosinski Caroline Allison Russell Joshua Thomas Seastone Samuel Judson Simons Lada Stauter Cameron Deion Stubbs Logan Surber Savannah Hays Swalley Mallory Ann Swanson Maximilian John Sweeney Hayley Brooke Thames Anne Kathryn Trevino Ali Mae Walsh Alexis Jae Watt Jared Lee Weems Anna Margaret Williams Ida Scott Williams
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Faculty & Staff Support Faculty
Professors
Joseph B. Atkins Dr. Graham Bodie Dr. Nancy McKenzie Dupont Dr. Samir Husni, Hederman Lecturer Dr. Will Norton, Jr. Dr. Debora Rae Wenger, Samuel Talbert Lecturer Dr. Kathleen Woodruff Wickham
Associate Professors Dr. Mark K. Dolan Scott Fiene Vanessa Gregory Cynthia Joyce Dr. Robert Magee
Assistant Professors Dr. Zenebe Beyene Dr. Jason Cain Michael Fagans
Charles D. Mitchell, J.D. Darren Sanefski Alysia Steele Dr. Kristen A. Swain Curtis Wilkie Dr. Iveta Imre Patricia Thompson Dr. Chip Wade
Instructional Associate Professor R.J. Morgan
Instructional Assistant Professors John A. Baker Emily Bowen-Moore Brad Conaway Debbie Woodrick Hall Evangeline Ivy
Administration
Patricia Overstreet-Miller Chris Sparks Bobby D. Steele, Jr. Mike Tonos
Dr. Debora Rae Wenger, Interim Dean and Professor Patricia Thompson, Assistant Dean for Student Media Jennifer Simmons, Assistant Dean for Student Services Scott Fiene, Assistant Dean for Curriculum and Assessment Marquita Smith, Assistant Dean for Graduate Programs Shannon L. Dixon, Operations Supervisor Catherine Robinson, Accountant Paula Hurdle, Academic Counselor Rivers Myres, Academic Counselor Mykki Newton, Videographer Sarah Griffith, Operations Manager Jack Lawton, Network Manager Hannah Vines, Graphic Designer I University of Mississippi: Dr. Glenn Boyce, Chancellor Dr. Noel Wilkin, Provost
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Ingrid Valbuena Alcina Ann Becker Paris Buchanan Thomas Burchfield Morgan Burger Mark Burson William Dabney William Day Allison Estes Roy Frostenson April Grayson Stefanie Goodwiller Claire Hick Amy Ingram Dennis Irwin Timothy Ivy Lynette Johnson Ellen Kellum Joshua McCoy Ellen Meacham Steven Miller Ricky Mize Kate Newman Charles Overby Scott Pederson Jeff Roberson LaReeca Rucker Sarah Sapp Kevin Seddon Jared Senseman Joseph Sherman Jennifer Sigler Christina Steube Robin Street John Terenzio Nathan Towery Don Vaughan Dr. Summer Hill-Vinson Peyton Warrington Rachel West Leslie Westbrook
ST U D E N T AWA R D S Dean’s Awards IMC
Anna Borgen Ty Brown Annabel Coleman Margaret (Maggie) Culver Treviso (Trevor) Davis Jimmy Evans
Eumetria Jones Virginia Monsoor Tavia Moore Natalie Pruitt McKenzie Richmond Robert (Cade) Slaughter
Journalism
Grad Excellence in IMC Online
Grad Excellence in Journalism
Brian Barisa Artez Gibson Hadley Hitson
Lambda Sigma Matthew Hendley
Excellence Awards Excellence in IMC Julia Peoples Nicholas Weaver
Excellence in Journalism Eliza Noe Kaylee Crafton
Rodrigo Guajardo
Lucy Burnam
Grad Excellence in IMC Residential Samantha Stearns
Taylor Medal Asia Harden Nigel Dent Julia Peoples
Who’s Who Kathryn Albritton Gracyn Ashmore Avery Bowman Addison Bridges Kaylee Crafton Abbey Edmondson Chelsea Harris Asia Harden
Jackson Sepko Olivia Schwab
Tyler White Mason Scioneaux
Meagan Harkins Hadley Hitson Savannah Hulme Anna Lauren Kornegay Susanna Lavers Amirah Lockhart Rachel Long Tavia Moore
Austin Newcomb Eliza Noe Margaret Rice Mckenzie Richmond Paul Robinson Olivia Schwab Mason Scioneaux Robert (Cade) Slaughter
Lauren Kate Drewry Sage McNamara Madeline Quon
Sarah Tonos Ansley Wood Hayden Wiggs
Hall of Fame Asian Harden Cade Slaughter
Kappa Tau Alpha Danielle Angelo Kaylee Crafton Danya Drake
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Our
History
The University of Mississippi Department of Journalism began in 1947 when Charles Gerald Forbes was hired. He was a member of the history faculty at Oklahoma State University who had an extensive newspaper background. He initiated the Mississippi Scholastic Press Association (MSPA), an organization to advise and provide support to high school publications, and the Press Institute, an annual seminar designed to foster the sharing of print media knowledge between college and high school students. By September 1948, the department hired Samuel Talbert, an advertising professor. Also during this time, the school’s newspaper, The Mississippian (founded in 1911) became a recognized professional training ground for future journalists. Talbert later served as the department’s chair until 1972. The Mississippian became daily in 1961, and its name was changed to The Daily Mississippian in 1968. Ronald T. Farrar became chair in 1973, and two years later the department earned its first ACEJ accreditation. Dr. Will Norton, Jr., became interim chair in 1977 and chair in 1979. One milestone of the Norton years was the addition of the Radio-Television degree program in 1979-1980. In 1982, the program began a student-run cable newscast, NewsWatch 12, under the direction of Fulbright scholar Dr. Jim Pratt. In 1984, the Meredith Corporation provided funding to establish a model service journalism (magazine) program and Dr. Samir Husni was hired. Norton left the department in 1990, and Husni served as interim chairman until Dr. Don Sneed was hired in 1991 to head the department. With Sneed’s departure, Husni once again became acting chair (1994-1996) and chair (1996-1997). Husni expanded faculty diversity by adding a second African-American woman to the tenure-track faculty. He also helped hire the first and second holders of the Kelly Gene Cook Chair in Journalism, Sid Salter and John Johnson, two distinguished state journalists. Dr. Stuart Bullion joined the faculty in 1997. Bullion’s tenure as chair was marked by curriculum revision, the department’s first major fund-raising effort in several years and a significant increase in enrollment. Initial plans for renovation and expansion of Farley Hall were developed under Bullion’s tenure after receipt of a $5 million gift from The Freedom Forum. The donation, when coupled with matching funds from the state, were used to renovate Farley Hall, the longtime home of the Journalism Department, and to create the Overby Center for the Study of Southern Journalism and Politics. Bullion died in 2004, and Husni became interim chair. He was appointed chair in 2005 and served until 2009. Steps were taken to coordinate department goals and activities with the independent Student Media Center, situated across campus in Bishop Hall and to re-vitalize contacts with newspaper editors throughout the state of Mississippi. A job placement/internship coordinator was hired. Husni also was instrumental in hiring former Boston Globe reporter Curtis Wilkie to fill the Cook Chair vacancy resulting from the 2002 death of John Johnson.
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Will Norton, Jr. was selected as dean in 2009 after a nationwide search, and he guided the new school through upgrading and updating its curriculum to include a wide range of multiple-platform course offerings and development of a B.S. degree in Integrated Marketing Communications. The school has continued its accredited status. Enrollment has grown from 550 to 1,550 since 2009.
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During this same period of change Husni created the Magazine Innovation Center, an independent research/ program unit. The center is designed to generate focused innovation in magazines and other print media. Journalism also moved from its home in the College of Liberal Arts to independent status; 2011 marked the first year the School awarded its own degree, the Bachelor of Arts in Journalism (BAJ). In 2020, a new undergraduate Journalism curriculum was introduced – which, along with eight specializations now available in both the undergraduate IMC and Journalism programs – prepares the school’s graduates for dynamic careers in marketing and media. Graduate enrollment has doubled, which includes a partnership with employees of Ethiopian Airlines. Dr. Deb Wenger was named Interim Dean.
ACADEMIC HERALDRY A time-honored tradition of great dignity, the wearing of academic apparel is a survival of the ecclesiastical garb of the late Middle Ages, in turn a survival of still earlier civilian fashions. The academic gown, necessary for a scholar’s warmth, and the hood to protect his tonsured head were apparently first regularly adopted in the 13th century at the University of Cambridge (1294). The University of Oxford was soon to follow. The custom was transplanted to this country in colonial times by Kings College in New York, now Columbia University. In 1895, American universities and colleges standardized their academic styles and developed the intercollegiate code of academic custom. In general, the style follows the Cambridge tradition. The characteristic elements of academic regalia are three: gown, hood and cap. THE GOWN is usually serge or worsted for bachelors, the same or silk for masters, and silk for doctors. The doctors’ dress gowns of the chief British universities are scarlet. Bachelors’ gowns have pointed sleeves; masters’ have long, closed sleeves, lunate at the bottom, with slits at the elbow from which the arms protrude; the doctors’ have wide, round, open sleeves. Doctors’ gowns are faced with panels of velvet down the front and three bars of velvet across each sleeve. THE HOOD, worn around the neck to hang down the back, is the principal emblem of the nature and source of the degree held. It is edged with velvet of the colors of the degree, while its lining of silk bears the colors of the institution that granted the degree. Bachelors’ hoods are 3 feet long, masters’ 3 1/2, and doctors’ hoods have only wide panels at the sides. Hoods may be worn only after the degree has been granted. THE CAP, the square mortarboard in American universities but a round, soft, flat velvet hat in British, Canadian and some European universities, bears a tassel that may be black for all ranks and degrees or may be of gold thread for doctors and the color of the degree for bachelors and masters. The doctors’ caps only may be of velvet. The degree colors are appropriate to the category of the degree rather than to the scholar’s major subject. For example, the appropriate color for degrees in arts and letters (B.A., M.A., B.Lit.) is white; in commerce, sapphire; in dentistry, lilac; in education, light blue; in engineering, orange; in the fine arts, brown; in humanities, crimson; in law, purple; in library science, lemon; in medicine, green; in music, pink; in pharmacy, olive; in philosophy (Ph.D.), dark blue; in physical education, sage; in science, golden yellow; in theology, scarlet. These colors are used for the edgings of all hoods and may be used for the velvet facing and sleeve bars of doctors’ gowns and tassels on bachelors’ and masters’ caps. The institutional colors, with which hoods are lined, indicate the university or college that granted the degree. Among the hoods worn by UM faculty members are those for Academy of Art University, black and red; Arkansas, red and white; Auburn, orange with two navy chevrons; Boston, scarlet with white chevron; Cambridge (England), scarlet; Chicago, maroon; Columbia, light blue with white chevron; Duke, royal blue with white chevron; Emory, navy blue with gold chevron; Harvard, crimson; Illinois, navy blue with two orange chevrons; Indiana, crimson with white chevrons; Iowa, old gold; Johns Hopkins, black with gold chevron; Kansas, navy blue with cardinal chevron; Kentucky, azure blue with white chevron; Louisiana State, purple with old gold, parti-per-chevron; Michigan, maize with azure blue chevron; Mississippi State, maroon chevron on white; Missouri, old gold with two black chevrons; New York, violet; North Carolina, light blue with two white chevrons; Northwestern, purple with gold chevrons; Ohio State, scarlet with silver gray chevron; Oxford (England), light blue edged with white fur; Pennsylvania State, navy blue and white; Princeton, orange with black chevron; Purdue, black with two gold chevrons; Rice, silver above blue; Rochester, dandelion yellow; Rutgers, scarlet; Stanford, cardinal; Tennessee, white with orange chevrons; Texas, white above orange, partiper-chevron; Vanderbilt, black and gold; Virginia, navy blue with orange chevron; Wisconsin, bright red; Yale, royal Yale blue. The colors of The University of Mississippi are a blue chevron on a field of red. They were introduced by Professor Alexander Lee Bondurant in 1893. In addition to traditional gowns, many graduates are displaying HONORS CORDS signifying their individual accomplishments. A white cord reflects membership in the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College. A gold cord indicates induction into Kappa Tau Alpha Journalism Honor Society. A blue cord is worn by student leaders for the S. Gale Denley Student Media Center. Red and white braided cords are for academic honors: One cord for cum laude graduates; two cords for magna cum laude graduates; and three cords for summa cum laude graduates.
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Alma Mater Way down south in Mississippi, There’s a spot that ever calls Where among the hills enfolded. Stand Old Alma Mater’s Halls. Where the trees lift high their branches, To the whisp’ring southern breeze. There Ole Miss is calling, calling, To our hearts fond memories. With united hearts we praise thee, All our loyalty is thine, And we hail thee, Alma Mater, may thy light forever shine; May it brighter grow and brighter, And with deep affection true, Our thoughts shall ever cluster ‘round thee, Dear Old Red and Blue. May thy fame throughout the nation, Through thy sons and daughters grow, May thy name forever waken, In our hearts a tender glow, May thy counsel and thy spirit, Ever keep us one in this, That our own shall be thine honor, Now and ever dear Ole Miss. Words by Mrs. A. W. Kahle Music by W. F. Kahle
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