The University of Southern Mississippi ( USM ), known informally as Southern Miss , is a public research university located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. It lies 70 miles (110 km) north of Gulfport, Mississippi and 105 miles (169 km) northeast of New Orleans, Louisiana. USM is accredited by the College Commission of the South High School and School Association (SACS) to provide baccalaureate, master, specialist, and doctoral degrees. Universities are classified by the Carnegie Foundation as "Research Universities" with "High Research Activities" (designation of "RU/H").
Founded on March 30, 1910, the university is a double campus institution, with a major campus located in Hattiesburg. The other major campus, Gulf Park, is located in Long Beach, with five additional teaching and research locations, including John C. Stennis Space Center and Gulf Coast Research Laboratory (GCRL).
The university has a vast overseas study program through the International Education Center, and is consistently ranked as one of the top universities in the country for the number of students studying abroad each year. This is especially noted for the English Studies program, which regularly sends over 200 students each summer to live and study in London. The university also has a major polymer science research center, and one of the strongest art programs in the southeastern United States, including music, art, dance, and theater.
Originally called South Mississippi, Miss South's athletic team became the Golden Eagles in 1972. The color of the school, black and gold, was chosen by a student vote as soon as the school was established. While mascots, names, customs, and colleges have changed, black and gold remain constant.
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The university's primary mission is "to foster intellectual development and creativity through generation, dissemination, application, and knowledge preservation." Southern Miss is accredited by the South High School and School Association, and its program is fully accredited by 30 countries and national bodies.
Southern Miss offers around 189 courses leading to baccalaureate, master, specialist, and doctoral degrees. Southern Miss has traditionally attracted many students from Mississippi schools and community colleges, from every region of Mississippi, although today most students come from public schools throughout the southern United States and around the world. The University of Southern Mississippi Symphony Orchestra has over 90 members (including undergraduate and graduate students) from the United States and 14 other countries.
The University of Southern Mississippi offers over 250 clubs and organizations, as well as intramural athletics and special events. Student organizations in Southern Miss include the Student Government Association, The Legacy, The Student Printz (newspaper produced by biweekly students), The South (yearbook), Southern Style ( university student orientation teams), national fraternities and associations, honorary societies, and various religious organizations. In addition, schools participated in the NCAA Division I-A, and the USA Conference featured athletics throughout the year in 16 sports. Southern Miss also hosts, participates in, and promotes over 300 cultural events each year. Regular events include the Jazz and Blues Festival held at the Long Beach campus, performances by theater, dance and music department, and exhibitions presented by the art department. The university's Dale Center for War and Community Studies hosts several lectures and programs throughout the year. Some guest lecturers including General David Petraeus (2017), Dr. Robert M. Gates (2014), and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright (2010) visited Hattiesburg as part of the central Dale Distinguished series at the center. 2018 marks the 13th Annual Lecture Series of Richard McCarthy, where students and society in general can participate in events and programs from panel discussions to round tables focusing on war and its impact on surrounding communities.
The agency's strength includes its large research contributions, its emphasis on accreditation at department and college level, well-respected music and art programs, and athletic prowess. Some university degree programs are among the best among them. The New York Times Book Review reviewed the university Writers Center as one of the Top 10 in the country, and the Polymer Science and Engineering Department is consistently included in the top 10 countries by the US News & World Report. US News & amp; World Report also includes universities in the list for "Most Popular Universities". The Faculty of Communication is ranked among the top ten programs in the country, according to the Association of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, and Southern Miss is one of only one percent of business schools in the country accredited in business and accounting by the AACSB International Association for Management Education.
Dr. Rodney D. Bennett became the tenth university president in April 2013.
Organization
The University of Southern Mississippi is governed by the University President along with the Supervisory Board of the Mississippi State Higher Education Institution. The President of the University of Southern Mississippi is the administrator of the Southern Miss and is appointed by and responsible to the State College of Higher Education.
The university is organized into six colleges, offering academic courses at:
- College of Arts and Literature
- College of Business
- Academy of Education and Psychology
- High School Health
- College of Nursing
- College of Science and Technology
In addition to his six academic colleges, The University of Southern Mississippi also offers the following programs:
- George R. Olliphant Honors College
- Postgraduate Study
- International Study Program
- Fully Online Courses: Master of Science in Sport Management and Master of Science in Sport Training Education
- DuBard School for Language Disorders
- Frances A. Karnes Center for Gifted Studies
The University of Southern Mississippi plans an academic reorganization to change the academic structure at the University and the role of the administrator. This plan will reduce the number of colleges from six to four:
- Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Business and Economic Development Academy
- Academy of Education and Science
- Nursing Academy and Health Profession
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History
The University of Southern Mississippi was founded on March 30, 1910, as Mississippi Normal College , teacher training school. Normal College was created to standardize the upcoming teacher training process. Prior to the existence of special teaching colleges, instructors were required to travel throughout Mississippi to prepare their students for teaching. The first president of the university, Joseph Anderson Cook, chaired the opening session of instruction on September 18, 1912, and oversaw the construction of the College Hall (academic building); Forrest County Hall (male and married boys' dormitories); Hattiesburg Hall (female dormitory); Pondok Industri (training laboratory for home management); and the president's house (now Ogletree Alumni House). In its first session, Mississippi Normal College had a total of 876 enrollment students, and stood for "clean, pure, and efficient living."
As the school developed its curriculum and department, its name changed to reflect its development: in 1924, to Mississippi State Teachers College, and in 1940, to Mississippi Southern College.
President of the five colleges, State Archives William David McCain, installed in 1955 and worked to expand Mississippi Southern College. He oversaw the construction of 17 new structures on campus and convinced Governor Ross Barnett to raise the status of the school into a university in recognition of his graduate program. On February 27, 1962, Barnett signed the bill into law that officially changed the name of his school as the University of Southern Mississippi.
Desegregation and civil rights
In 1954, the United States Supreme Court ruled at Brown v. Board of Education that segregation of public schools is unconstitutional. But when Clyde Kennard, a black Korean War veteran, attempted to enroll in Mississippi Southern College in the late 1950s, McCain made a great effort with the formation of state politics and local black leaders to prevent it. Kennard was rejected three times. After he wrote letters on integration of education to local newspapers, he was twice arrested on false criminal charges; he was eventually convicted and sentenced to seven years in state prison.
Dr. McCain's direct involvement in abuse of the judicial system is unclear. He may be aware that the charges against Kennard are fraudulent, but neither he nor any other public official object.
At the time McCain worked to keep Clyde Kennard out of Mississippi Southern College, McCain went to Chicago on a trip sponsored by the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission. He spoke to the business community to try to attract investment to his country. To ease concerns about integration news, he told businessmen that blacks who seek to degrade southern schools are "imported" from the North. But Kennard is a native of Hattiesburg and a resident of Eatonville.
McCain said: "We insist that education and social, we maintain a separate society.... To be honest, I admit that we do not encourage Negro voting," he said. "The Negroes prefer government control to remain in the hands of white people."
Kennard was finally released in 1963, when he suffered from cancer. He died six months later.
In the early 1960s, increasing national pressure to integrate Mississippi higher education institutions. McCain is well known for his strong opposition to having black students in Mississippi Southern. In 1962 James Meredith attempted to enroll at the University of Mississippi, the principal institution of the state. His registration was completed after white unrest and the use of National Guard troops to end the violence.
In the fall of 1965, both Ole Miss and Mississippi State University have been integrated - formerly hard, the last in peace. McCain, USM, and state leaders acknowledge that states need to integrate to attract businesses from outside the country. They made an extensive secret plan for their first black student admissions. A faculty lecturer and teacher is secretly appointed to each to assist the transition. The campus police department was instructed to prevent or stop the incident quickly against two black students. Athletic students, fraternities, and political leaders were recruited to keep calm and protect the university from the kind of negative publicity that Ole Miss suffered during the unrest on Meredith's registration.
As a result, black students Gwendolyn Elaine Armstrong and Raylawni Branch were registered without incident in September 1965. In 2018, USM launched the Freedom Trail Marker in honor of Clyde Kennard, in front of Kennard Washington Hall, named after his name and the first African-American Doctoral student to graduate from USM, Walter Washington. Shortly thereafter, at the ceremony of the spring commencement in May 2018, Clyde Kennard was posthumously awarded the Doctor of Humane Letters honoris causa from USM. A student in Kennard Sunday School class at Mary Magdalene Baptist Church in Eatonville, Mississippi, receives honor on her behalf.
Between 1955 and 1965, USM along with his President, William D. McCain, violated the civil rights of Gay and Lesbian students. Gay and Lesbian students, with an emphasis on homosexual men, were targeted and expelled. McCain's intention was to clean up the campus from all sexual impurities.
In 1969, the Afro-American Cultural Society (AACS) was founded. Alvin Williams, an early member of the organization and professor emeritus of the media at the university, described AACS as "an instrumental part of student life for black students" who attended the university in the late 1960s. The organization was later renamed the African American Student Organization (AASO) in the 1990s.
The transition of the 1960s to the 1970s gave way to a surge of social activism and major changes in the university. In response to growing concerns of black students, the university exerted his efforts to employ black faculties. In 1972, "General Nat" (Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest) was cast for the Golden Eagles. In 1974, prominent footballer Fred Cook was named first black MrMM. The first black Greek organization was shown in 1975. By the time McCain retired in 1975, enrollment had risen to 11,000 students.
In the years after the McCain campus transformation, The University of Southern Mississippi continued to grow dramatically. Important changes include: quarter system replacement with semester system, creation of Polymer Science Institute, reorganization of 10 university schools into six colleges, affiliation with USA Conference, establishment of School of Nursing as a college; implementation of online classes; and the expansion of the Gulf Coast campus.
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Recent developments
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, Miss South developed under Dr. Shelby Thames. His tenure was marked by a significant increase in the quantity of research conducted at the university. USM is classified as a "Doctor/Research Area" university by the Carnegie Foundation during the Thames era, the category that includes the country's largest and most important research university, numbering around 150. Recent figures show that annual research funding goes into the university exceeding $ 100 million per year.
Dr Thames' works to respond to the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina bringing praise from the public. In October 2005, the Senate Faculty of the Gulf Park campus issued an official award resolution. The Hattiesburg American reported that the postal address-Katrina Thames to the faculty in Hattiesburg was well received. The Thames avoided firing University employees after the storm, though the Taman Bay campus alone suffered damage of over $ 100 million. (In contrast, Tulane University in New Orleans released about 25% of staff.This dropped significant athletic and academic programs, including majoring in Computer Science and most engineering programs, in post-closure and campus degradation.)
The Thames Administration gets financed and oversees the implementation of several construction projects on campus, often in partnership with private sector entities. Additional to Barnes & amp; second largest; Noble shops in the southern US, open to the community. Barnes & amp; Noble pays an annual rent of $ 1.5 million for this facility. Thames also negotiated a financially lucrative food service agreement with Aramark (which will donate $ 9 million for a university construction project). Other upgrades include upscale Power House restaurants (in former campus power stations adapted for this use); village village for $ 15 million; additions to soccer, basketball and baseball facilities; and urban design elements to make campuses more open, "green," and pedestrian-friendly.
Universities are experiencing an unexpected and massive decline from "Level 3" to "Level 4" in US. News & amp; World Report the college rankings that began in the 2004 edition. This roughly coincided with the height of the Shelby Thames controversy, when he fired the tenured professors for "controversy". Some organizations examine the legality of their actions, because the tenure is designed to protect academic freedom. In 2004, the USM Faculty Senate expressed their complaint to the Thames after the allegations were heard. The Faculty Senate then published a Thames Administration review that described the controversy. After the Thames withdrew, in 2009, US. News & amp; World Report re-ranked university as at the top of "Tier 3.". In 2011 AS. News & amp; World Report University rating, USM is on "Level 2". By 2016, USM is ranked by the U.S. News & amp; World Report 125th at national public university and 220 in national university.
USM is also ranked highly by the Washington Monthly, who has criticized the ratings by the US. News & amp; World Report and develop its own system. These ratings seek to make a more holistic assessment of institutional values; USM ranked 98th out of 245 doctoral institutions. This is the highest ranking of any school in Mississippi. In 2016, the Washington Monthly ranked USM 165 in special research and the 192 at the national university as a whole.
On February 10, 2013, an EF4 wedge tornado ripped through the Miss South campus, causing tens of millions of dollars in damage. Tornadoes form in western Hattiesburg and continue into Southwest Alabama. Tornado destroyed two buildings and destroyed six other buildings. Because most of the students went to Mardi Gras break and there was a follow-up warning from the tornado, no casualties and some injuries on campus.
In June 2015 Southern Miss released a statement about the removal of the Mississippi state flag from all USM campuses. Later that year on October 25, 2015, university president Rodney D. Bennett released another statement, announcing that the university would just raise the flag so that he felt united all the students. Since the lifting of the state flag, protests to return the flag have been a common event on the Hattiesburg campus.
Golden Eagle logo dispute
In 2003, Miss South replaced their attack eagle logo from the 1990s with the head logo of an eagle. Two years later, when Miss South tried a brand new logo trademark, University of Iowa filed an objection, because they believed it looked too similar to their Hawkeyes logo. The new logo is very popular, and placed in sports venues, commercials, and all merchandise. In August 2011, the US Patent and Trademark Office rejected the trademark. In 2014, Southern Miss revealed a new logo that was a redesigned version of the logo of 2003. This new logo is copyrighted and has largely replaced the 2003 logo.
Closure of ROTC Army
In early October 2013, the US Army announced that, due to financial constraints and low production levels of assigned officers, 13 ROTC programs at various universities would be closed, including the Southern Miss Gold Eagle Battalion. The programs must be terminated. at the end of the spring semester 2014-2015, but the university seeks to appeal the decision. On October 12, a press conference was held at USM to protest the closure; speakers including Governor Phil Bryant and Major General Augustus Collins. In early November, the Army said it had changed its plan to end the program at a particular institution, placing them on a two-year probation, with reevaluation. USM has been withdrawn from the trial period and the ROTC program continues.
Campus and student life
The university semester runs from August to December and January through May, with a 10-week summer session. There are two accelerated summer terms of four weeks.
In Autumn 2006, the University of Southern Mississippi dedicates the addition of 4 floors, millions of dollars to its R.C. Cook Union University. The Thad Cochran Center now has 2 levels of Barnes & amp; Noble Bookstore, three ballrooms, stadium-style theater, student organization offices, and Southern Miss's Dining and Fresh Food Company. Some meeting rooms are inside the union complex. The Union and Program Teams organize over a thousand events each year.
At nearly 300, Southern Miss's student organizations attract vast interests: Business, Education and Psychology, Arts, Games and Athletics, Graduate Studies, Greek Life, Health and Human Sciences, Union, Liberal Arts, Military, Religious Life, Community Services, and Science and Technology. The largest organizations based on student membership include: the Student Government Association, the African-American Student Organization, the Southern Miss Activities Council, the Legacy Student Alumni Association, and the Baptist Student Association.
The university has 26 Greek organizations on campus, including 14 fraternities and 12 student associations. There are 19 fraternity houses and dormitories.
Gulf Park Campus
University operations on the Mississippi Gulf Coast began in 1947 when Mississippi Southern College first held classes at Van Hook Hall, at Grounds Methodist Camp in Biloxi. In 1958, the surgery was transferred to Mary L. Michael Junior High School in Biloxi. To meet the educational needs of various fields of work, the university moved in 1964 to Keesler Air Force Base. In addition, he obtained a classroom facility for the evening classes of Jefferson Davis campus from Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior College. This is called this complex USM Harrison County Resident Center. One of the famous buildings on campus is Oak Friendship. This large oak tree in the courtyard of Hardy Hall and Administration Building, dates from about 1487. The earliest available reference for the Friendship Oak moniker was found in an article written by Bob Davis, correspondent for New York Sun. He describes the tree in his book People, People, Everywhere (1936).
In September 1966, Miss South extended its offerings by adding the Jackson County Resident Center, located on the Jackson County MGCCC campus in Gautier. Jackson County Center was built for the university by the Jackson County Watchdog Board. This effort is encouraged by Dr. Shelby Thames when he became executive vice president of USM. The center was built with the aim of enabling students in Jackson County to complete a four-year degree in several fields through a joint program at MGCCC and USM. In 2009, however, the university decided to close Jackson County Center and consolidate course offerings at other teaching sites on the Gulf Coast.
The Gulf Park College for Women in Gulfport, Mississippi, opened in 1921. The last start was held in 1971 and the University of Southern Mississippi acquired the campus in 1972. In March 1972, USM moved the Harrison County Resident Center program from Jefferson Davis to the MGCCC campus to this recently acquired campus, located on Highway 90 in Long Beach.
In July 1972, the Supervisory Board of the State Higher Education Institution established the USM Gulf Park and Keesler Air Force Center as a university-level university at the top level. It offers courses leading to degrees at the baccalaureate and graduate levels. The university development continued and on August 19, 2002, Southern Miss recognized the first class of freshmen at the Gulf Park Campus. USM is the only comprehensive university in the state with double campus status.
In the early 21st century, the Gulf Park campus serves as the central campus for several distance teaching centers, including:
- The Stennis Space Research and Research Site is located in Hancock County on the Mississippi-Louisiana border; it is NASA's biggest rocket test facility. Stennis is also home to the University's Department of Marine Sciences.
- Teaching Site The Gulf Coast Student Service Center: located in Gulfport, is a temporary spot on Park Bay campus after Hurricane Katrina, from 2005 to 2012. The Bay County Research Laboratory Research and Research Laboratory (GCRL), located in Ocean Springs, is home to the Department of Coastal Sciences, the Center for Fisheries and Research and Development, the Marine Education Center, and the Tham Cochran Marine Aquaculture Center.
- Point Cadet Teaching Site, located in Biloxi. The R/V Tommy Munro, a 97-foot research vessel, is a GCRL unit and a dock at Point Cadet.
- The Keesler Center, located at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, provides courses for military personnel and civil society.
Other USM units in the Gulf Coast region are elements of the College of Marine Sciences; Gulf Beach Research Laboratory in Ocean Springs; J. L Scott Marine Education and Aquarium Center at Point Cadet in Biloxi; Research Center for Hydrographic Science; and the Marine Science Center at John C. Stennis Space Center in Hancock County.
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina caused about $ 115 million of damage in the Park. Class moved to Healthmark Center in Gulfport. In 2012, the Gulfport campus is closed and all facilities are moved back to the renovated Long Beach campus. Oak Friendship survived this storm as it survived the Hurricane Camille and countless storms that have hit the area.
Residential housing
The University of Southern Mississippi has 13 halls of residence, and approximately 5,000 students live on campus throughout the school year.
Living room:
- Wilber Hall - male and female houses on separate floors
- Hattiesburg Hall - women's home
- Mississippi Hall - man's house
- Hillcrest Hall - female houses, as well as Real Food houses in Campus canteen
- Scholarship Hall - women's house
- McCarty Hall
- McCarty Hall North - shading women
- McCarty Hall South - male houses
- Century Park North
- Building 1 - woman's house
- Building 2 - woman's house
- Building 3 - man's house
- Building 4 - man's house
- Century Park South
- Hall of Lucky Citizenship - the houses of the Luckyday Citizenship Scholarship
- Vann Hall - male and female houses on separate floors
- Scott Hall - men's and women's houses on separate floors, as well as the homes of Moffitt Health Center
Closed lounge:
- Pulley Hall
- Roberts Hall
- Pine Haven Apartments
Special housing:
- Village, a community-style living room that houses the majority of the Panhellenic Conference National and Pan-Hellenic Council national councils, as well as Upperclass Scholarships, Nursing, and Athletics women.
Repurposed Residence Halls:
- Bond Hall - the venue of Police University and Student Counseling Services
- Hickman Hall - home to the Department of Housing and Residence Life
- Jones Hall - the home of the future for Communications University, USM Foundation, and Call Center
- Bolton Hall - the home of the future for the ROTC Air Force, the ROTC Army, and the Mathematics Department
Publications and media
- Southern Miss Now is the official news source from the University Communications Office.
- The Student Printz is a university-run newspaper, published twice a week during fall and spring semester.
- South is a yearly book of colorful yearbooks. The South Souther was discontinued in 2015.
- WUSM FM 88.5 is a Southern Miss 3000 watt public FM radio station, located on the first floor of Southern Hall.
- Mississippi Review is a journal published every three months featuring fiction, poetry and essays.
- The Drawl is a publication that highlights the traditions and history of the Southern Miss. The coming Golden Eagles are given a copy of the Draw in the first week of their school.
- Talon is a quarterly magazine for alumni and friends from the university.
Library
- The Cook Library , located on the Hattiesburg campus, contains a major collection of books, magazines, microforms, government documents, and other materials that directly support The University of Southern Mississippi's learning program in all level.
- The Library and the Archives of McCain houses the Library Special Collection and University Archives on the Hattiesburg campus. Collections include the Children's Literature Collection de Grummond as well as the oral history, manuscripts, and material of the Mississippi civil war.
- The Gulf Coast Library , located on the Long Beach campus, is part of the University Library that serves Gulf Coast (Gulf Park, Keesler and Jackson County) campuses. This state-of-the-art library is the only comprehensive university library on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
- The Gunter Library is located at the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory (GCRL), Ocean Springs, MS campus. The library provides technical information for research staff, faculty and students, and visitors. These include abstract and reprint files, books and journals, expedition reports, dissertations, and reference works. Special book collections support the Laboratory academic program.
Mardi Gras Vacation
The University of Southern Mississippi is one of several universities that allows a two-day vacation every year for Mardi Gras. The university does not hold classes on Mondays and Tuesdays before Ash Wednesday.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, many USM students expressed a desire for a holiday. The university is near New Orleans and has links with Biloxi and Mobile, where Mardi Gras is also celebrated. In 1981, Ken Stribling, chairman of the USM student body, organized student encouragement to hold an annual vacation at Fat Tuesday (Mardi Gras). The University Calendar Committee rejected the request, but Stribling appealed to USM President Aubrey Lucas. At the annual Christmas celebration at USM in December 1981, Lucas announced that USM would try a holiday on Fat Tuesday in 1982 to see how it works. Stribling appealed again in 1982, and Lucas allowed a holiday for Fat Tuesday in 1983. The following year, a holiday for Fat Tuesday was made permanent part of the university calendar.
The government of university students in 2003 gained additional from Monday before Ash Wednesday as part of Mardi Gras Holiday, creating a two-day vacation for four-day weekend events and for students. While many USM students attend the Mardi Gras celebration, the majority of students use a four-day weekend to prepare for midterms or visit family and friends. The novelty of Mardi Gras Holiday has become a recruiting tool.
Athletics
The Golden Eagles have excelled in all areas of athletics. Southern Miss has won the national title twice in football and three times on track and field. In 2011, the Golden Eagle soccer team ended up as team # 19 in the Associated Press Poll (AP). The Golden Eagle soccer team has also competed in twenty-four bowl games throughout the course history course. It is important to note that twelve of these bowl games have resulted in victory for the Golden Eagles. On November 13, 1982 the Golden Eagle soccer team upset Alabama Crimson Tide at Bear Bryant's last home game coach in Tuscaloosa. M.M. Roberts Stadium is home to the Golden Eagle football team and can accommodate up to 36,000 fans. The Golden Eagle baseball team is a two-time Conference of USA champion and has been invited to twelve regional NCAA tournaments and also a trip to the College World Series. The Golden Eagle baseball team has the # 3 recruiting class in the country by Baseball America. South Miss basketball team is the one-time champion of the NIT tournament.
Art
The University of Southern Mississippi is the only institution within the state, and one of a dozen American universities, accredited in all four areas of art emphasis: art, dance, theater and music. It operates the Southern Miss Wind Ensemble and USM Symphony Orchestra, which has enjoyed soloists such as singer Renee Fleming and Ray Charles, cello Yo-Yo Ma, violinist Itzhak Perlman, violinist Joshua Bell, flick James Galway, clarinet player Anthony McGill , trumpeter Doc Severinsen, and tenor PlÃÆ'¡cido Domingo. The Southern Chorale has been recognized nationally and internationally. They recently performed at Carnegie Hall in New York City and performed at concerts in Norway and Sweden. The Mississippi Southern Mississippi Marching Band has performed at shows such as the inauguration of President Jimmy Carter and Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York in November 2010. The Department of Theater and Dance has been active at the Kennedy Center/American College Theater The festival in recent times puts first in various areas of national competition. Several productions from USM have been selected for performances at Region IV (Southeast) festivals; two production ( Catfish Moon & The Rimers of Eldritch ) have been invited to the national KC/ACTF festival at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C..
Famous campus headquarters
- District is located near the intersection of US Highway 49 and Hardy Street. The historic district of the campus is anchored by five original campus buildings: Ogletree Alumni House, The Honor House, College Hall, Forrest Hall, and Hattiesburg Hall. It is also a traditional tailgating site for students during the football season. It is home to Byron Lake, which has served as a focal point for many university activities and several weddings.
- The Century Gate is a brick and stone wall at the front of the university, between East and West Memorial Drive. Built to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the university in 1910. It featured the university seal, as well as the words "UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI."
- The All-American Rose Garden is one of two All-American Parks in this state. The gardens in Southern Miss were developed by Hattiesburg Area Rose Society in 1972 through the leadership of the late William Wicht, a resident of Hattiesburg who served as the first president of HARS. A warning to Wicht's efforts to make the park a reality lies next to the park. Since its official dedication in 1974, Southern Miss's rose garden has received numerous awards for maintenance and exhibitions. Many students try to impress her lover by picking roses, which if caught, carry a fine of up to 500 dollars.
The All-American Rose Garden is a rose garden found near Hardy Street on the campus of the University of Southern Mississippi. The park has a semikirular shape and contains various types of hybrid roses in 32 roses beds. It's been in existence since 1973 and has been accredited 'Public Rose Garden' status by All-American Rose Selection Inc. in 1975. Many biologists and botanists came from all over the world to study the roses found in rose gardens. Due to the abundance of rare roses found in rose gardens, picking roses is against the college policy, and being caught is currently producing a $ 500 fine. [4]
- The Eagle Walk is found below the upper deck of M.M. Roberts Stadium. Two hours before the day of the football game, the cannon was fired, which started the procession. ROTC, Mississippi Pride Marching Band, University officials, and football players march through this path to the cheers of thousands of fans. Every autumn, new students enter the walls and "new paint" paths as they have done for half a century.
- The Dome is the nickname for the Lucas Administration building found at the entrance of Hardy Street to the campus. Named so because of the huge dome on the roof top. Originally, it was a copper orange color. It fades into a dull green for years. In 2001, a restoration project was done that painted the dome back to its original copper color. Currently, the houses of the president's office, vice president and other support staff.
- Shoemaker Square is a stretch of land formed near The Hub and Walker Science Building Quad. The brick fountain is the focal point of "Friday Night At the Fountain", a student demonstration led before Saturday's soccer match. The fountain has been spotted with soap foam by people who grumble on many occasions.
- The Little Rock can be found in the historic district of the campus. It is traditionally painted weekly and is used to promote a variety of athletics, academic and campus art events. Sometimes, it can be found to be painted with the logo of a secret society that is on campus.
- The Eagle Statue , officially named "Lofty Return", is a huge statue of three tonnes of Golden eagles, measuring 22 feet and 20 feet wide, and resting on eight feet high. Standing behind the Southern Hall, facing Hardy Street. A slightly smaller replica of it was also set up on the Gulf Park campus as a symbol that binds two campuses together.
Famous alumni and faculty
- Famous people
See also
References
External links
- Official website
- The Student Printz
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