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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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gysylpb
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November 12, 2009
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
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November 11, 2009
Gamezone, "alot" is two words.
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ultracreep
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November 11, 2009
Gamezone, you've got it just right.
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midtownwrecker
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November 11, 2009
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
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November 11, 2009
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
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November 10, 2009
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
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November 10, 2009
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
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November 10, 2009
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
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November 10, 2009
i thought we were based on democracy, not dictatorship. why can't the students decide?
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rowdyrebel
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November 10, 2009
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BFD
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November 10, 2009
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
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November 10, 2009
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
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November 10, 2009
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
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November 10, 2009
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
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November 10, 2009
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
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November 10, 2009
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
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November 10, 2009
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
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November 10, 2009
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
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November 10, 2009
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
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November 10, 2009
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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