THE Daily MISSISSIPPIAN Friday, November 22, 2019 theDMonline.com Volume 108, No. 39 DANIEL PAYNE
[email protected] Boyce Homophobic slurs yelled at students, racist vandalism across campus, white power symbols displayed in photos and a professor misses telling a student to drop out of school because of a medical condition are some of the 26 incidents of bias that were reported to the university during the 2018-19 school year. The details of the incidents — sent to the Bias Incidents Response JPS Team (BIRT), which receives and responds to reports of bias at the university — were obtained by The Daily Mississippian in a public records request. On average, a report was filed every eight days during KENNETH NIEMEYER the fall and spring semesters.
[email protected] The reports offer a look into the interactions that make some feel unwelcome or unsafe on campus, from swastikas being carved in The Ole Miss Office of bathroom stalls to drinks being thrown at students while homophobic Admissions weighed in on REPORTS OF slurs are shouted at them. Twitter after tweets surfaced In one instance, a fraternity displays a group photo in which showing that Chancellor Glenn 26 Boyce visited several private someone is expressing a white power sign in their right hand. A few days after that report was sent to BIRT, another was sent reporting a schools in the Jackson area, but white power sign being displayed in a class photo. did not visit any of the predom- In another report, a professor tells a student that she should inantly black public schools drop out of classes and come back later in life to finish her there.