UPDATE: Ole Miss song banned
by Patsy Brumfield/NEMS Daily Journal
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OXFORD – Continued chants "The South Shall Rise Again" today cost Ole Miss fans a favorite game tune, "From Dixie With Love."

Chancellor Dan Jones banned the playing of the pep song medley because fans refused to stop the chant.

Campus sources said Jones sent a letter announcing his decision, threatened for more than a week, to the Daily Mississippian, the independent, student-led campus newspaper.

The song is a blend of "Dixie," "All My Trials" and the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" written by an assistant band director in the mid-1970s apparently as a way to get away from just "Dixie," which had become offensive to many peoploe in the post Civil Rights era.

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comments (25)
« gysylpb wrote on Thursday, Nov 12 at 06:00 PM »
Mr. Jones, I would like very much for you to understand what your new position here really is. Your are the new supreme commander at the University of Mississippi but ……”WE ARE OLE MISS”…. New employees come and go but we never go away....
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« notgamezone wrote on Wednesday, Nov 11 at 02:52 PM »
Gamezone, "alot" is two words.
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« ultracreep wrote on Wednesday, Nov 11 at 06:20 AM »
Gamezone, you've got it just right.
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« midtownwrecker wrote on Wednesday, Nov 11 at 04:56 AM »
IS IT EVER GOING TO STOP? THIS IS STILL THE

SOUTH. YOU CANNOT CHANGE THAT. I THINK THAT

WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH TAKEN FROM US. WHEN DID

WE LOSE ALL OUR RIGHTS? WHAT EVER HAPPENED

TO FREEDOM OF SPEECH? WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO

A FREE COUNTRY OUR MEN FOUGHT AND DIED FOR?

I THINK WE HAVE AN IDIOT AT OLE MISS FOR

CHANCELLOR. MAYBE HE NEEDS TO BE BANNED!

YOU CAN TAKE ANYTHING YOU WANT BUT YOU STILL

CANNOT TAKE THE SOUTH OUT OF US.

REBEL AND PROUD OF IT!!!!
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« RunningReb2 wrote on Wednesday, Nov 11 at 12:52 AM »
These guys are in College rasing hell on a Saturday afternoon.. . they could care less about "From Dixie with Love" all the want is a small flag pole to stir their drink and a football team to "Win" games. And F.Y.I.; the colors of Red & Blue were chosen for Mississippi's School colors, to mimic the Red of Yale and the Blue of Harvard.. . not the confederate battle flag! Just take it on back to Moo U.(Feed, Seed, and Fertilizer)
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« rita_j wrote on Tuesday, Nov 10 at 09:28 PM »
Well - I'm black and an Auburn fan so I really don't care. But - is it really that serious to make fans stop going? Sure, he shouldn't have banned the song or told students what they can or cannot say; but, students are creative and I'm sure someone will come up with a new one.
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« bwj1 wrote on Tuesday, Nov 10 at 08:56 PM »
I hope for many empty seats Saturday (mine will be)as Tennessee comes in for the slaughter. The Ole Miss I grew up with is DEAD! Tough for me to accept, but I must. Stupidity is bad. Stupidity coupled with Stubborness is a leadership nightmare. I think the toilet just flushed.
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« sandlot1959 wrote on Tuesday, Nov 10 at 08:29 PM »
does anybody really believe that the south intends to rise again and fight a war to enslave other human beings? Evidently the chancellor thinks it may be a threat...sheesh...
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« rowdyrebel wrote on Tuesday, Nov 10 at 08:00 PM »
i thought we were based on democracy, not dictatorship. why can't the students decide?
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« rowdyrebel wrote on Tuesday, Nov 10 at 07:56 PM »
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« BFD wrote on Tuesday, Nov 10 at 07:53 PM »
i'm not a fan of ole miss, but i just became a fan of anyone who chants the phrase after every song played, every first down, hell after every comercial break. politicians and people who play politics are dog spit to me. the fans who want the chant are in the majority and should chant until they turn blue in the face. show this chancellor that he can't silence a proud people in order to butt lick PC zealots.
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« sandlot1959 wrote on Tuesday, Nov 10 at 07:48 PM »
How about this for a new name... University of Mississippi Southern Jihad...maybe have a mascot that looks like bin laden wearing overalls...
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« MSUandWavefan wrote on Tuesday, Nov 10 at 06:20 PM »
I'm a State fan and honestly, and think this is ridiculous. I agree that Ole Miss fans should start chanting this after the National Anthem to see what happens.

Next up, no more Ole Miss, it will strictly be Mississippi, no more "Rebels", no more red and blue (based off Confederate flag)......seriously....this is all stupid on the Chancelor's part.
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« crazyhorse1968 wrote on Tuesday, Nov 10 at 06:20 PM »
this is absolutely ridiculous. The school changes the song to be politically correct and not offend and the minority wants more. this is a case of the minority trying to control the majority. As a student planning to go to Ole Miss, this makes me reconsider that decision.
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« Fireman17 wrote on Tuesday, Nov 10 at 06:13 PM »
This is totally sucks they are making Ole Miss look like a freaking high school team!!! Ole Miss will start losing fans left and right now fight song is something that has been with the school for years!!! They may can take the song away but they can't bring take the south out of Ole Miss they can try but they will never happen!!!
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« Fireman17 wrote on Tuesday, Nov 10 at 06:11 PM »
This totally sucks they are making Ole Miss look like a freaking high school team!!! Ole Miss will start losing fans left and right now fight song is something that has been with the school for years!!! They may can take the song away but they can't bring take the south out of Ole Miss they can try but they will never happen!!!
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« sandlot1959 wrote on Tuesday, Nov 10 at 05:23 PM »
I thought I was gonna have to stuff a kid at a game a while back cuz he kept "barely" missing my wife's head on his cowbell downswing...My wife's head is already about the size of a pinhead so she can't afford to lose any...NO NO I'm NOT saying my wife's a PINHEAD....
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« anonymous wrote on Tuesday, Nov 10 at 04:59 PM »
Who cares? The rednecks will continue with their little chant, they will add it to another one of their pathetic tunes. Cowbells will be around forever.. Any of you rebs know how the cowbell was adopted?
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« sandlot1959 wrote on Tuesday, Nov 10 at 04:32 PM »
now scar didnt you say you wanted to sit down on Sundays with a beer and watch the football game? LOL
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« derikr wrote on Tuesday, Nov 10 at 04:17 PM »
Every time OleMiss gets a new chancellor, he takes something away. First, colonel reb came off the helmets, then no more "Dixie", next the confederate flags disappeared, then they tried to get rid of our mascot all together, and now this. I don't now which will be next either "Ole Miss" or Hotty Toddy.

I got a chant for you, "Go TO HELL Dan Jones!"
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