Seven years after the sidelining of Colonel Reb, the goateed planter who conjured images of the Old South, ... Bear replaces Colonel Reb as Ole Miss mascot. By Phil Gast, CNN.

On Sunday, the New York Times reported on the "Colonel Reb" mascot controversy at the University of Mississippi, a.k.a. "Ole Miss.". Colonel Reb — a caricature of a white antebellum Southern ...

"The Ole Miss administration wants to change their current failed mascot to one that got even LESS support in their sham 2010 mascot ... After dropping official use of Colonel Reb in 2003, ...

University of Mississippi mascot Colonel Reb roamed the stands at last year's Egg Bowl against Mississippi State. The mascot was based on white plantation owners. JACKSON, Miss. - Colonel Reb ...

JACKSON, Miss. -- University of Mississippi students voted Tuesday for the school to pursue a new mascot to replace Colonel Reb, the goateed Southern gent banished from the sidelines nearly seven ...

Not all of the students, however, feel that Colonel Reb needed banished, and therefore don’t feel the need to find a replacement. “My mascot is Colonel Reb,” barefoot student Corey Clark, sipping on a ...

OXFORD, Miss. -- University of Mississippi students will vote this month on creating a new school mascot. Colonel Reb, the university's longtime Southern gentleman character, was retired in 2003 ...

JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) - Students at the University of Mississippi vote Tuesday on whether to replace their American football team mascot Colonel Reb -- a caricature of a white plantation owner ...

Not exactly, but if the Colonel Reb Political Action Committee has its way, Colonel Reb may be on the 2012 presidential election ballot. The PAC announced in a press release Tuesday that ...

Colonel Reb shall not rise again. That much is certain. The University of Mississippi dumped the mascot – a caricature of a white plantation owner – in a 2003 effort to distance the school ...

JACKSON, Miss. -- Students at the University of Mississippi are getting ready to vote on replacing a mascot the school dumped 7 years ago in an effort to distance itself from old South stereotypes.