Ole Miss preps for global attention
All eyes will be on the University of Mississippi next week when the school hosts the first presidential debate of the 2008 campaign between Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain. The school itself is planning a week of activities leading up to the event, which, it is hoped by many, will foster positive discussions about progress in the state since the turbulent period of the 50s and 60s.
It is attention the university welcomes.
The symbolism of America’s first black party nominee for President taking part in his first general election debate in Mississippi on the campus of a school that notoriously sought to block African American enrollment in the 1960s is not lost on the national media.
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