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Ole Miss students scramble for football tickets
Volume 113, No. 5
Homecoming kicks off
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The 12,000 student tickets that the Ole Miss Athletics Ticket Office allotted for the 2024 football season are now sold out, according to Katie Wisdom, assistant athletic director of ticket operations for Ole Miss Athletics. Student tickets cost $200 this year — $150 for the ticket itself plus a $50 donation to the Grove Collective — and were available for purchase during three separate windows. The time periods included a spring window in which 6,000 tickets were available, a summer window in which 3,000 tickets were available and a final August slot in which the final 3,000 tickets were sold. “Upperclassman had the longest window to purchase,” Wisdom said. “Those who waited until
the last minute to buy are the ones we’ve heard from.” Senior dietetics and nutrition major Sarah Dautrich said she had no issues purchasing her student tickets. “I’ve bought season tickets every year,” Dautrich said. “I received an email regarding student season ticket sales last April with several reminders sent following the initial email.” Unlike Dautrich, Zoe Niehaus, a junior dietetics and nutrition major, was unable to secure student tickets this year. “I had to take the (Dental Admission Test) in June, so I was studying 12-15 hours a day. … By the time I finished that and went on to buy my tickets, they paused
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A UM student attempts to stay on the mechanical landshark placed outside of the student union.
Homecoming events were sprinkled throughout this week in anticipation of the football game against Kentucky on Saturday, Sept. 28. A mechanical landshark, bungee jumping and fresh flowers paved the way to the crowning of the king and queen.
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SULLIVAN’S
ASB MEETING
The popular Mississippi marketplace Sullivan’s is on its way to Oxford.
Senators expressed their excitment for the upcoming year and honored Hispanic Heritage month.
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APPLE VS. PUMPKIN
FOOTBALL PREVIEW
Students and baristas debate over which fall flavor reigns supreme.
The Rebels will face off against Kentucky on Saturday, Sept. 28 in their first SEC game.
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The student section during the Georgia Southern game on Sept. 21.
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UM Theatre opens fall season with ‘Everybody’ WILL JONES
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“Is this real or is this a dream?” a character says at the midpoint of Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins’s surrealist play “Everybody.” “This is a theater!” another character responds, eloquently summarizing the play’s unique balance of philosophical inquiries, humorous dialogue and meta theatrics. “Everybody” is certainly unlike any play many have seen — and certainly unlike any play the University of Mississippi Theatre
Department has produced. “Everybody” is a modern adaptation of the 15th-century morality play “Everyman,” one of the oldest productions on record. With a centerpiece monologue concerning social media updates, unsolvable global problems and our constant inundation of information, many audience members — especially college students — will easily relate to the play. “The show has been one of the most fulfilling and challenging productions I have participated in,” senior theater arts major Cooper Thorpe said. “It is strange and ma-
cabre and funny and heartfelt, and I think that’s the only way a play about death can be.” The theme of death, to which Thorpe alludes, is the main thrust of the 90-minute production, which captures multiple characters’ conflicting perspectives as they approach the afterlife. The diverse ensemble is mostly credited as “somebodies” in the cast list; their exact roles remain a mystery, as per the instructions of the creative
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Dani Jackson stars in the Fall 2024 semester play “Everybody.”