Students being dumbasses and trying to prove their point. Now the chancellor proved his. Students had the warnings. Now suffer the consequences.

FORWARD REBELS!

http://olemisslife.com/content/breaking-chancellor-asks-band-stop-playing-dixie-love

and given the people still chanting a right good kicking. I’m trying to not even think about this because thinking about it resorts in a seething anger so potent that I’m in danger of becoming the Incredible Hulk and wreaking havoc on the town. Seriously, Jones said he would take the song away if they kept doing it. They did and he did. I better not hear a fucking word from any of the TSWRA supporters complaining about the song being taken.

But from this day forward, my donations and my [future unborn] kids will be going to my other alma mater, the University of Alabama. And in the once a year head-to-head…well, you’ll find me at Roll Bama Roll.

*BTW it’s not just FDWL…it’s a whole mess of things including a relative not getting tenure and a dear friend fucked over for a promotion, just for starters.

This was the only way to make improve the school’s image; which I think Dan Jones pulled out of the closet. If the Chancellor hadn’t thrown such a fit and had the issue picked up by the media, I doubt few people would have noticed. It’s been going on since at least 2004 and nothing has been made of it. I never thought much of it, but when someone mentioned that it offended many people I said to myself, “I can see that. I always thought people yelling that sounded like racist idiots.” My point is, this is the beginning of the end of everything tied to the Civil War. My guess is within the next ten years of this politically correct world: the statue in the Circle will come down, the name will be changed, and any remaining symbol of Colonel Reb will be trashed. Will that suck? Yes. But that’s the world we live in. People get offended just for attention. But as long as they don’t take away the Grove or the football team… I’ll manage to get by.

I’m sure they will find a way to F the Grove up too. The administration always messes everything up.

I’m with Queen, today at least. I am so ashamed of the wanna be leadership at the school I can’t even put it into words. Should have followed in my cousins footsteps to Bama…….Univ of Mississippi???

Might as well start the contest for the new name. Rebels won’t stick nor will Ole Miss. Maybe we can take over the fighting okra since DSU changed their mascot.

And the Chancellor really thinks dropping “From Dixie With Love” is really going to stop them from saying TSWRA? They’ll just yell it somewhere else. Really, the Chancellor is acting dumber than than the people expressing themselves and he clearly doesn’t understand children or Southerners.

I liked that song. To you idiot students who couldn’t shut your filthy holes long enough to stop chanting that moronic, race-baiting chant — get fucked, cocksuckers. You’re everything that’s wrong about Ole Miss and that’s ever been wrong about Ole Miss.

Fucking children.

use of reverse psychology. Maybe it’s the students that are smarter than we are and figured out the way to do away with another considered-by-many old south racist thing, the song itself.

Then I came back to reality and realized the students aren’t that smart.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIyUMxoChC0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdSvJUgCxWM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMHyovwX7JM&feature=related

Why, Dan, why?

More often than not the only way I was able to talk myself into staying the entire game was to hear FDWL. The song always boots moral (especially after one of our many signature close, disappointing losses).

Guess I’ll just start ducking out after the second Snead interception now.

play the song they play at the beginning of the basketball games from now on. i dunno the name of it but i’m sure someone does or at least knows what i’m talking about

Regardless of what side of the debate you’re on, the internet is not going to change your opinion. If you yell TSWRA, we’re not going to make you want to yell it less.

Can we just drop the fucking conversation, because it just goes in circles forever?

Other posters on here have been adamant that TSWRA would have just quietly faded away after just a few more games. It was the Chancellor’s telling them they couldn’t say it anymore that caused the lower life forms to rally behind the chant.

Please recognize that almost all of the people who presently attend or who have once attended this school have moved far past the mentality of the people who were students in 1962… even the people who were students in 1962 have moved forward from then. It is fine that you want to make the school a place where everyone feels comfortable. I want the people who attend, and even those who visit, to feel comfortable too. I’m Southern and, dammit, that’s my nature. But realize that no matter how many resolutions you pass and how many symbols and traditions you get rid of, the past will not change. November 1962 will always exist. Period. Continually picking at an old wound will not help it to heal, it will only cause more bleeding. You’re better off with the scar. You have thrown money after money paying consulting groups to investigate if the traditions of the school are harmful to its image. Half a million dollars that could have been spent hiring professors, remodeling those atrocious dorms, or even plowing down parking spots and replacing them with flower beds in an attempt to turn Ole Miss into a “walking campus.” You, Ole Miss, are the doctor shopper of colleges. Maybe ridding yourself of “From Dixie With Love” is the vicodin you need right now, but eventually you’ll need something stronger and soon you’ll be like every other pillhead zombie – stripped of all personality – and you’ll still have the same problem you had in the first place. Remember that half of the people you’re trying to talk to (those pesky students) are still teenagers and teenagers love to roll their eyes, say ‘you can’t tell me what to do’ and then proceed to go right out and do the very thing you told them not to do. Learn when (and how) to act if the situation is dire and when to let people govern themselves. And please, stop punishing the whole for the actions of a very small few."

We Tried.

Seriously…I have people asking me about what’s going on and am seeing “at least we don’t break tradition at Arkansas” posts elsewhere.

Thank Christ we won that game…

I went nomad yesterday. I was mad. Still love Ole Miss (as well as Bama, so deal), still hate Tennessee, Auburn and LSU.

We have a game to win this Saturday. Bygones?

We lost FDWL. It sucks, but it’s done. The song never helped an Ole Miss football team win a game…. ever. Let’s move on. I HATE Tennessee!

I’ve lost track.

TSWRA was not a tradition, and it was stupid. There, I said it. It has nothing to do with freedom of speech (so don’t say so unless you know what you’re talking about). You can still say TSWRA, no one is stopping you. However, that does not mean there are not consequences for your actions. You are perfectly free to walk up to anyone you want to and say whatever you want, but that doesn’t protect you from getting punched in the face.

That being said, the way the Chancellor handled this is embarrassing He turned this into a national issue that portrays us in a negative light. Plus, he is trying to blackmail a bunch of 18 year old, drunk, students. Yeah, great idea. Let me let yall in on a little secret: Dan Jones, M.D-bag., knew some students would continue to chant TSWRA the whole time. He “knew” the outcome, yet still gave us a “choice.” It wasn’t a choice, there was a 0% chance that 100% of the students would stop chanting TSWRA. The choice was made for us. All his actions have done is to portray this university in a negative light to a national audience. Whoever is giving him advice needs to find a new line of work, along with his or her boss.