Ole Miss and the rest of the Mississippi schools could make a powerful statement by preemptively following the NCAA's new ruling on states with discriminatory laws.
Earlier this year, the North Carolina and Mississippi state legislatures passed differing, yet spiritually kindred legalish social measures geared toward freeing the bigoted consciences of those who would openly discriminate against members of the LGBTQ community in their states. The bills are and were wholly unnecessary at best, discriminatory on their face, and dangerous at worst.
In response to, and repudiation of, these legally dubious items of democratic process, the NCAA's Board of Governors last week announced that states would need "to demonstrate how they will provide an environment that is safe, healthy, and free of discrimination, plus safeguards the dignity of everyone involved in the event.