2008 Woodie Awards
After months of deliberation and investigation, USM student Yuri Wainwright has been indicted by a grand jury after being arrested last April for making violent threats on the Web site Myspace.com. Forrest and Perry County District Attorny Jon Mark Weathers was responsible for bringing charges against Wainwright.
Bomb threats made to the university via e-mail last Friday have been determined to be false, according to the University Police Department. Three e-mails were received on the university email system at approximately 3:00 a.m. Friday, an extension of a continuing problem of difficult-to-trace e-mail threats being sent to universities nationwide.
Clifton Nickens found himself with a hostile crowd while speaking to students in Shoemaker Square Thursday afternoon. Nickens, who is originally from Hammond, La., claims God told him to move to Hattiesburg to preach in December 2006. Since then, he and his family have come to USM's campus to preach to the students numerous times and have returned this semester.
On today's six-year anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States, students still remember the moments that froze Americans in fear while uniting them in hope. "I was at high school and didn't find out until my mom text me in class and told me what was happening.
The USM Honors College is hosting an event to bring political leaders to the student body today, with the University Forum holding a panel discussion between the Republican and Democratic chairmen for the state of Mississippi. The panel discussion will begin at 6:30 p.
