University of Mississippi students voted Tuesday for the school to pursue a new mascot to replace Colonel Reb, the goateed Southern gent banished from the sidelines nearly seven years ago as the ...

It’s been seven years since Ole Miss phased out Colonel Reb, the mascot some viewed as racially divisive and the school would like to put out of people’s consciousness. Now the student body would like ...

On Sunday, the New York Times reported on the "Colonel Reb" mascot controversy at the University of Mississippi, a.k.a. "Ole Miss." Colonel Reb — a caricature of a white antebellum Southern plantation ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — An effort to enshrine an Old South university mascot into the Mississippi Constitution is a lost cause — at least for now. Arthur Randallson of Southaven directs the Colonel Reb ...

JACKSON, Mississippi -- An effort to enshrine an Old South university mascot into the Mississippi Constitution is a lost cause -- at least for now. Arthur Randallson of Southaven directs the Colonel ...

TUPELO - Members of the Colonel Reb Foundation were in Tupelo on Thursday afternoon as part of a campaign to persuade the University of Mississippi to return to its former mascot. With the ...

OXFORD, Miss. — The new mascot of the University of Mississippi Rebels will be a black bear, officially replacing the goateed Southern gentleman “Colonel Reb” who was banished from the sidelines ...

Despite the dogged efforts of their most devoted disciples, the scourges of Colonel Reb, "Dixie," the Stars-n-Bars and other vestiges of Ole Miss' longstanding Confederate fetish are dead and buried.

An effort to enshrine an Old South university mascot into the Mississippi Constitution is a lost cause -- at least for now.Arthur Randallson directs the Colonel Reb Political Action Committee, a group ...