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C. M. "Tad" Smith Coliseum is an 8,867-seat multi-purpose arena on the campus of the University of Mississippi. Through the first part of the 2015–16 basketball season, it was home to the University of Mississippi Rebels men's and women's basketball teams, but was replaced by a new arena, The Sandy and John Black Pavilion, in January 2016.
It is named in honor of Tom Swayze, a former Ole Miss baseball player and coach. The $3.75 million stadium opened on February 19, 1989, with a double header sweep of Cumberland University. The actual stadium sits on city property off-campus and was built by the City of Oxford, using a 2% Local Tourism Tax on prepared food and alcohol to pay for it.
The Sandy and John Black Pavilion at Ole Miss, also known as the SJB Pavilion, is a multi-purpose arena on the campus of the University of Mississippi in University, Mississippi. The $96.5 million multipurpose arena [4] is home to the University of Mississippi Rebels men's and women's basketball teams, with seating for up to 9,500 people. It is ...
Ole Miss football is in the New Year's Six bowl games.. The Rebels will face Penn State in the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl on Dec. 30 inside Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta.. Ole Miss (10-2) is in a ...
Ole Miss also owns University-Oxford Airport, which is located north of the main campus. [79] North Mississippi Japanese Supplementary School, a Japanese weekend school, is operated in conjunction with Ole Miss, with classes held on campus. [94] [95] It opened in 2008 and was jointly established by several Japanese companies and the university.
Ole Miss was integrated by the enrollment of James H. Meredith, an African-American military veteran, on October 1, 1962. In Mississippi in the fall of 1962, there was violent resistance to court-ordered desegregation of the university. The violence required intervention by the Federal government to protect the safety of citizens.
A University of Mississippi police lieutenant gestures for Jackie Stewart-Kuhn to move off the quad in front of the J.D. Williams Library on the University of Mississippi campus in Oxford on Thursday.
On Thursday, dozens students were evacuated off of the University of Mississippi campus after a pro-Palestine demonstration escalated to a shouting match between the protesters and counter-protestors.