From 3rd Down H Back who is currently on assignment to Southwest Asia:
It is so pathetic it is funny. This kind of reminds me of the way the Shia took out all their pent up aggression on the Sunnis after Saddam was no mas.
Colonel Reb Foundation Press Release
For Immediate Release
Colonel Reb Barred From Football Stadium
Student in Mascot Uniform Denied Entry
Oxford, MS – Ever since the University of Mississippi Athletic Department chose to become the only SEC school without a mascot in 2002, the Colonel Reb Foundation has picked up the void and escorted a Colonel Reb look-alike into the football, basketball, baseball, and other athletic venues at Ole Miss. But that all changed this past Saturday with a student wearing the mascot uniform being banned from entering an athletic facility for the first time in 7 years.
Working with students, alumni, and Ole Miss supporters, the Colonel Reb Foundation purchased an exact duplicate from the original manufacturer of the Colonel Reb mascot uniform to allow student members to be “the Colonel” at athletic events. The CRF mascot, officially called “Colonel Too”, enters the games with a student escort with tickets paid for by CRF. But this past Saturday, November 7, 2009 at the Ole Miss-Northern Arizona football game a student wearing the mascot costume and his escort were banned from entering Vaught-Hemmingway Stadium for the first time since 2003. They were told by armed police and security that the ban on entry was dictated by Public Relations at the University of Mississippi’s Athletic Department.
In 2003 the Associated Student Body voted to keep Colonel Reb as the official mascot of Ole Miss, and a subsequent campus-wide vote showed that 94% of students at Ole Miss wanted to keep Colonel Reb as the mascot of Ole Miss.
Colonel Reb Foundation Chairman Brian Ferguson said “Chancellor Jones recently stated ‘Some may fear this is the first step toward changing other traditions. It is not.’ I ask him to back these words up with action and let the Colonel back in the stadium with the students and fans of Ole Miss where he belongs.”
A recent article in the campus newspaper The Daily Mississippian highlighted the fact that the university still reaps large financial rewards from the Colonel Reb logo in its stores on campus, and had a huge increase in sales after the University rescinded an earlier ban on the sale of items with Colonel Reb.
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The Colonel Reb Foundation is a non-profit organization formed by students at Ole Miss in 2002 dedicated to preserving the 70 year tradition of having Colonel Reb as the mascot and logo of the University of Mississippi.
Colonel Reb Foundation•PO Box 2561•University, MS http://www.facebook.com/l/6387e;38677•www.saveolemiss.com
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KKK rally before Ole Miss game? Kiffin set that shit up as payback for last Saturday. Look for similar rallies on Saturdays next year in Gunsville and T-town to fuck with recruiting efforts. Vols, Bitch.
Jesse Palmer on ABC this afternoon: “Look for this to create a klan and mouse game in the recruitment strategies of deep south coaches.”
My wife and I went to the Grove before the Ole Miss vs LSU game. There were no Confederate Battle Flags, no Col. Reb, no singing of Dixie. We did not understand why Ole Miss was so changed. We went home and removed the grant to Ole Miss from our wills. We did wonder how much longer we could refer to the University of Mississippi as Ole Miss.