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January 20, 2000
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$100 million donation by Barksdales will help Mississippi kids learn to readChris Thompson University officials confirmed Wednesday what most people on campus already knew: alumni James and Sally Barksdale are giving $100 million to establish an education institute at Ole Miss. The donation could be the largest donation ever given to a Mississippi university. |
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Barksdale Donation
The donation of $100 million to Ole Miss by James Barksdale will take place at 10 a.m. today in Jackson.
The conference will be broadcast live on the Ole Miss Web page at:
Literacy in Mississippi needs help
Brian Rosenkrans
DM Senior Staff writer
Did you know that Mississippi has the highest rate of illiteracy in the nation?
That Mississippi has the highest rate of poverty and the lowest expenditure of state funds on literacy of any state?
Parking, fall break part of ASB Cabinet
Riley McDermid
DM MAnaging editor
The Associated Student Body Cabinet touched yesterday afternoon on several ongoing projects, including a proposal from a University Relations delegate, parking diagrams from the engineering department and the elated passing of a long-standing Joseph administration proposal for fall break Tuesday evening in the ASB Senate.
Education faculty expect big returns
Pamela Hamilton
Staff writer
School of education faculty expect the $100 million donation from Jim and Sally Barksdale to establish the Barksdale Reading Institute to have a dramatic impact on state literacy rates.
First lunar eclipse of century tonight
Telescopes will be set up for students
Julie Finley
Dm Senior Staff writer
North America will have a clear view tonight of the millennium's first total lunar eclipse.
Don Summers, associate professor of physics and astronomy at Ole Miss, explains a lunar eclipse as when the moon moves into Earth's shadow.
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