In Popular Culture
In the first episode of the television series The Dukes of Hazzard, General Lee jumped 81 feet in front of Seney Hall, with this scene remaining in the opening credits for the rest of the series. This stunt was recreated by MTV for its series Your Movie Show in July 2005 on the release of The Dukes of Hazzard movie. The show In the Heat of the Night also filmed some scenes on campus and in the town of Oxford. Scenes from the television show The Vampire Diaries were shot in the school's library, quad, and theatre in 2009, 2010, and 2012, and the school also serves as the on-location college set for the fictional Whitmore College.
Oxford College hosted the southern premiere of "8", a verbatim theatre re-enactment by Dustin Lance Black, on March 1–3, 2012. The play chronicles the district court proceedings of Perry v. Schwarzenegger.
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