University of Mississippi students voted Tuesday for the school to pursue a new mascot to replace Colonel Reb, the goateed Southern gent banished from the sidelines nearly seven years ago as the ...

Colonel Reb shall not rise again. That much is certain. The University of Mississippi dumped the mascot – a caricature of a white plantation owner – in a 2003 effort to distance the school from Old ...

JACKSON, Miss. -- An effort to enshrine an Old South university mascot into the Mississippi Constitution is a lost cause -- at least for now. Arthur Randallson of Southaven directs the Colonel Reb ...

On Sunday, the New York Times reported on the "Colonel Reb" mascot controversy at the University of Mississippi, a.k.a. "Ole Miss." Colonel Reb — a caricature of a white antebellum Southern plantation ...

View full sizeJD Crowe 10-14-10 I don't often draw cartoons for Saturday, so consider this tribute to the new Ole Miss mascot a Saturday Special. Lagniappe. Just for fun. Grin and bear it.The Rebel ...

It’s been seven years since Ole Miss phased out Colonel Reb, the mascot some viewed as racially divisive and the school would like to put out of people’s consciousness. Now the student body would like ...

JACKSON, Miss. -- Students at the University of Mississippi are getting ready to vote on replacing a mascot the school dumped 7 years ago in an effort to distance itself from old South stereotypes.

An effort to enshrine an Old South university mascot into the Mississippi Constitution is a lost cause -- at least for now.Arthur Randallson directs the Colonel Reb Political Action Committee, a group ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — An effort to enshrine an Old South university mascot into the Mississippi Constitution is a lost cause — at least for now. Arthur Randallson of Southaven directs the Colonel Reb ...