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Ole Miss bans its own fight song! Students banned from singing"the South will rise again"

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10/23/2009 2:07 PM
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THIS IS NOT OK!!!!

JACKSON, Miss. -- The University of Mississippi has shortened one of its fight songs to discourage football fans from chanting "the South will rise again" during part of the tune, which critics say is an offensive reminder of the region's intolerant past.

However, some fans have continued to recite the chant at the end of the song, "From Dixie With Love," despite the change made last week at the chancellor's request. The Ole Miss band performs the medley before and after games.

Earlier this month, the Ole Miss student government passed a resolution suggesting the chant be replaced by the phrase, "To hell with LSU."

Dan Jones, who became Ole Miss chancellor in July, said he asked the school's band director, David Wilson, to modify the song to support the efforts of the Associated Student Body. He said he has received complaints from alumni that the slogan is offensive.

"The fact is, the phrase 'The South Will Rise Again' is not part of our tradition or spirit, and it is inconsistent with the university's values and what Ole Miss stands for -- a great public university with a focus on the future," Jones said in a phone interview Thursday from the campus in Oxford.

The modified version of the song ends abruptly before the chanting phase starts. It was first played Saturday at Ole Miss's homecoming game against the University of Alabama at Birmingham, but that didn't stop some fans from chanting.

Brian Ferguson, 26, head of the Colonel Reb Foundation, said he views the university actions as an attempt to silence students.

"I think it's a big to-do about nothing. There were very few people other than the students who knew to say it," said Ferguson, whose organization works to preserve traditions at Ole Miss. But Ferguson agreed that the chant really isn't a tradition.

"If the students get fired up and upset enough about it, they're going to continue to say it. Our biggest fear is that that's going to lead them to eliminate 'From Dixie With Love,' altogether."

The song blends the Confederate Army's fight song, "Dixie," with the Union Army's "Battle Hymn of the Republic," according to Peter K. Frost, a visiting professor of history and international studies at Ole Miss.

The school has worked to erase its image as a bastion of the Old South, which was solidified in 1962 when James Meredith's admission as the first black student led to a bloody standoff.

The university six years ago decided not to have an on-field mascot during sporting events, getting rid of the long-standing Colonel Rebel, a white-haired old man who carries a cane and resembles a plantation owner. At the time, school officials had said they needed a more athletic-looking mascot. The teams are still called the Rebels.

Sophomore Cortez Moss, director of communications for the ASB, said the organization is trying to explain to students why the phrase is offensive.

"You take back on that slave mentality," said Moss, who is black. "I know the South won't rise again and the South can't rise again."

Former Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale, who donated $100 million to the university in 2000, said the chant should be abandoned.

"I hope it will pass on quietly and the students will refrain from the chant, but I found out a long time ago it's hard to tell students what to say and what not to say," Barksdale said Thursday.

Roun McNeill, a former ASB president who is now in law school at Ole Miss, said his own decision to refrain from the chant was easily made.

"I said the chant one day and there was a black family sitting in front of me and they turned around and gave me this look like I hurt them," McNeill said

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Anonymous Coward
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10/23/2009 2:09 PM

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"2,000 Maniacs"!

I_LUCIFERI
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10/23/2009 2:12 PM

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And again, they pull the race card. I think they are trying to divert everyone's attention from the REAL SOUTH...and that's Antarctica. I are saved! Your resistance are few tile!

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10/23/2009 2:15 PM

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10/23/2009 2:16 PM

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Dats raciss! Mmmm! Mmmm! Mmmm!

ZTE
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10/23/2009 2:17 PM

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In Alabama a few years back, we had the phrase, "Heart of Dixie" on the back of our license plates for many, many years. One person found that offensive, and it was taken off all the plates. Now we have some crap like "Stars fell on Alabama" or something like that. Of course now, I'd be in favor of putting "The South will rise again" on the back of our plates.

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10/23/2009 2:22 PM

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everyone thats got a problem with the song-just pack your shit and get the fuck out of our country. we don't want you or need you and you make us sick. this shit has got to stop. we are being looted and pillaged by our govt and the banks and this is what people care about. who gives a fuck even if it has racial conotations-make of it what you will (and keep it to your fucking self). pretty soon the word south will be banned as well.

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10/23/2009 2:23 PM

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OBAMA - THE FASTEST FAILED PRESIDENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY

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10/23/2009 8:53 PM

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