Faculty and graduate students of the University of Mississippi English Department urge Chancellor Jeffrey Vitter to immediately move the statue of the Confederate soldier in the Lyceum Circle to the Confederate cemetery on campus.

In a letter to Vitter published in The Oxford Eagle, the group states,  “… the statue of the Confederate soldier in the Lyceum Circle very clearly warns African Americans to stay off campus and continues to alienate many members of the UM community.”

The letter goes on to say, “Campus and statewide groups are likely to begin calling for the statues to be removed. If you allow this to become a drawn-out, public debate, UM may very well find itself in a similar situation to that of Charlottesville and UVA.”

Full text of the letter can be seen on this link: The Oxford Eagle

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Faculty, students call for moving Confederate statue on Ole Miss campus

by Mississippi Today, Mississippi Today
August 31, 2017

<h1>Faculty, students call for moving Confederate statue on Ole Miss campus</h1> <p class="byline">by Mississippi Today, Mississippi Today <br />August 31, 2017</p> <p>Faculty and graduate students of the University of Mississippi English Department urge Chancellor Jeffrey Vitter to immediately move the statue of the Confederate soldier in the Lyceum Circle to the Confederate cemetery on campus.</p> <p>In a letter to Vitter published in The Oxford Eagle, the group states, &nbsp;“… the statue of the Confederate soldier in the Lyceum Circle very clearly warns African Americans to stay off campus and continues to alienate many members of the UM community.”</p> <p>The letter goes on to say, “Campus and statewide groups are likely to begin calling for the statues to be removed. If you allow this to become a drawn-out, public debate, UM may very well find itself in a similar situation to that of Charlottesville and UVA.”</p> <p>Full text of the letter can be seen on this link:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.oxfordeagle.com/2017/08/31/members-of-the-english-department-call-for-action/">The Oxford Eagle</a></p> <p>This <a target="_blank" href="https://mississippitoday.org/2017/08/31/faculty-students-call-for-moving-confederate-statue-on-ole-miss-campus/">article</a> first appeared on <a target="_blank" href="https://mississippitoday.org">Mississippi Today</a> and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.<img src="https://i0.wp.com/mississippitoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/MT_square-thumb.jpg?fit=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1" style="width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;"><img id="republication-tracker-tool-source" src="https://mississippitoday.org/?republication-pixel=true&post=90187" style="width:1px;height:1px;"></p> Copy to Clipboard

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