In the midst of observing the 50th anniversary of the university's integration, the University of Mississippi School of Law has been selected to host a summer program for minorities and disadvantaged students who want a legal education.

The Council on Legal Education Opportunity Summer Institute is set for June 3-July 13. CLEO is a project of the American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education, and this is the 45th consecutive year for the program.

The School of Law hosted the institute five times from 1977 to 1993, and was chosen by CLEO to host this year along with William Mitchell College of Law.

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Jay-Z's foundation offers help to select young people who want to improve their education and make their own contributions to the community.

With cameras in hand, 22 Mississippi high school students and eight teachers are discovering that art exists everywhere, even in the smallest communities.

The Wide Angle Learning project, which allows high school students to plan and create original art projects, is in its second year. The project is coordinated through the Mississippi Teacher Corps, or MTC, at the University of Mississippi and sponsored by the Southern Education Foundation.

Eight student groups from six schools took on this year's challenge of creating photo books that examine some aspect of their communities and the people within them.

"The program lets students use many skill sets," said Ben Guest, MTC program manager. "Photography is an art form. The layout is a design skill. How you edit and arrange the photos is a technical skill and interviewing people is a multifaceted skill. Bringing these skills into one long-term project is what education should really be."