Timeline

  • Aug. 2018

  • Reported Aug. 7, 2018

    A swastika is carved into one of the bathroom stalls on the eighth floor of Stockard Hall. A staff member reported the incident.

  • Reported Aug. 19, 2018

    “Biased graffiti” is found in one of the rooms in Stewart Hall.

  • Reported Aug. 25, 2018

    An incident is reported in a fraternity house.

  • Reported Aug. 26, 2018

    A racial slur is written in a sentence in Hefley Hall.

  • Sept. 2018

  • Reported Sept. 5, 2018

    On the third floor of Stewart Hall, demeaning political messages are written on whiteboards outside of dorm rooms, both for and against Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

  • Reported Sept. 7, 2018

    A banner with a rap album theme is hung outside of a fraternity house.

  • Reported on Sept. 10, 2018

    A student reports experiencing multiple incidents in the first weeks of the semester. The student reports being profiled by residence life front desk staff and UPD after being pulled over for not using their headlights. The vehicle was searched by the K-9 unit and several backup officers came to the scene.

  • Reported Sept. 11, 2018

    A fraternity displays a group photo in which a student is expressing a white power sign in his right hand.

  • Reported Sept. 15, 2018

    A man shouts homophobic slurs at a group of students, then throws his drink and cup at them.

  • Reported Sept. 17, 2018

    A student holds up a white power sign during a class photo.

  • Reported Sept. 18, 2018

    A “guess pass violation” occurs at Hefley Hall.

  • Reported Sept. 20, 2018

    LGBTQ posters are removed at the Tupelo Campus.

  • Reported Sept. 30, 2018

    A student puts a homophobic slur in a GroupMe for a residency hall.

  • Oct. 2018

  • Reported Oct. 1, 2018

    Anti-LGBTQ report made for Stewart Hall.

  • Reported Oct. 3, 2018

    A couple is recorded on video “in an intimate act” in a sorority house.

  • Reported Oct. 7, 2018

    A racial slur is found on a door deck in Residence Hall 3.

  • Reported Oct. 8, 2018

    Someone in Crosby Hall makes a sexist, body-shaming comment to another person.

  • Reported Oct. 13, 2018

    The letters T and Q on an LGBTQ history month bulletin board are removed, ripped to shreds and left on the floor on the eighth floor in Stockard Hall.

  • Jan. 2019

  • Reported Jan. 15, 2019

    A racist comment is made in an Ole Miss 2023 social media group.

  • Reported Jan. 23, 2019

    A student working at the front desk in Deaton Hall asks a resident if he is alright because he is walking up and down the stairs. The student working the front desk has a homophobic slur directed at him/her and does not feel safe at work for the rest of the night.

  • Feb. 2019

  • Reported Feb. 4, 2019

    A professor tells a student in Guyton Hall that he/she should drop out and come back later in life to finish the degree because of the student’s health problems.

  • Reported Feb. 20, 2019

    Signs from a student organization denouncing white supremacy and promoting equality are torn and ripped on the second floor of Lamar Hall.

  • March 2019

  • Reported March 7, 2019

    A photo of three students posing with guns in front of a bullet-riddled Emmett Till memorial is posted to Instagram. This photo went on to be widely publicized when it surfaced, months after being reported to the university.

  • April 2019

  • Reported April 17, 2019

    A student in Residence Hall 3 were screamed at multiple times, though no specific bias was detailed in the document.

26 – The public records request documents only contained information on 25 of the 26 reports. Many details from the reports were redacted or not included, some to protect students that reported or were affected by bias. Fraternity and sorority names were not included, though they have been included in public records requests from the university in recent years. Rod Guajardo, a university spokesperson, said that the university provided the information that federal privacy laws allow it to share.

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