{"id":41774,"date":"2017-09-20T10:48:26","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T16:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=41774"},"modified":"2017-09-20T11:17:09","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T17:17:09","slug":"ole-miss-student-body-will-vote-on-new-mascot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/ole-miss-student-body-will-vote-on-new-mascot\/","title":{"rendered":"Ole Miss Student Body Will Vote on New Mascot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Ole Miss students<\/strong> will have the chance to contribute to potential history in the making On Tuesday, September 26, 2017. <strong>The Associated Student Body<\/strong> (ASB) has proposed a vote to change the <strong>University of Mississippi&#8217;s<\/strong> mascot from the Black Bear to the <strong>Landshark<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">ASB&#8217;s president <strong>Dion Kevin III<\/strong> released a statement on Monday for the proposition of making Ole Miss the Landshark&#8217;s new home. Facing racial scrutiny, the long-time &#8220;Colonel Reb&#8221; mascot disappeared from the Ole Miss fields in 2003. Seven years later, &#8220;Rebel Black Bear&#8221; became the new face of the university. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">In 2008, Ole Miss defensive linebacker and Army veteran <strong>Tony Fein<\/strong> led a defensive charge against the Florida Gators&#8217; offense. Upon rising, Fein held his hand to his helmet, thus creating the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.olemisssports.com\/trads\/landshark.html\">Landshark Tradition<\/a>.&#8221; Following his untimely death in 2009 after an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/news\/story?id=4689798\">accidental drug overdose<\/a>, the students inhabiting Ole Miss carried their fins high on their head for years to come.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Students will be able to vote for the Landshark on the Personality Elections ballot next Tuesday through their myOleMiss accounts.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14544 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ole Miss students will have the chance to contribute to potential history in the making On Tuesday, September<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":261,"featured_media":41800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10978,701,10977,2316,4916,642,7067,4,10979,10976],"class_list":["post-41774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ole-miss","tag-asb","tag-black-bear","tag-dion-kevin-iii","tag-florida-gators","tag-landshark","tag-ms","tag-ole-miss","tag-oxford","tag-student-body","tag-tony-fein"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/2017-09-19-masccot-vote.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/261"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}