Ole Miss students occupy the Lyceum to demand expulsion of student for Facebook comment

Published 3:37 pm Friday, September 23, 2016

Protest at the Lyceum at the University of Mississippi, in Oxford, Miss. on Friday, September 23, 2016.

University of Mississippi students occupied the Lyceum Friday afternoon in response to a statement released by Chancellor Jeffrey Vitter they felt “failed to explicitly acknowledge and condemn” a racist and threatening Facebook comment written by student Jordan Samson.

Carrying signs, laptops and cell phones to document the sit-in, students filled the first and second floors of the administration building while waiting for a response from Vitter.

Leaders from the campus chapter of the NAACP are moving forward with a series of requests for Vice Chancellor Brandi Hephner LeBanc, according to The Daily Mississippian.