Student ballet dancer shifts gears from tutus to textbooks

Published by: The Daily Mississippian
Issue date: November 26, 2007
Section: News
Leaping around in tutus and tiaras, then diving into textbooks and physics seems like an unusual transition. But one student at Ole Miss has taken the challenge.
Christina Bonnington, a 21-year-old electrical engineering major from Houston enrolled as a sophomore at Ole Miss after dancing as a [...]

Isom Center promotes domestic violence awareness for October

Published by: The Daily Mississippian
Issue date: October 10, 2007
Section: News

October is Domestic Violence Month, intended to raise awareness about this major concern, especially for adolescents in the United States, Mary Carruth, the Sara Isom Center director, said.
Four million women in the U.S. experience a serious assault by a partner in a 12-month period, according to [...]

Coast recovery moving slow but steady

Published by: The Daily Mississippian
Issue date: August 29, 2007
Section: News
Two years after Hurricane Katrina, officials on the Gulf Coast say the rebuilding and recovery efforts are slowly proceeding.
Despite volunteer efforts and community morale, rebuilding the Mississippi Gulf Coast is a slow process, said Biloxi Mayor A.J. Holloway.
“It took six to eight months before we could [...]