Donors Have Given Nearly $100K To Ole Miss ‘Monkey Noises’ Student – On One Condition Last week, two women were caught on a Ring camera making monkey noises outside an apartment shared by three black Ole Miss students. One apologized – and is no longer a student. The other one has not apologized, and instead has a GiveSendGo page about to bust through $100,000 – which its organizer says he’ll pull the moment she says sorry.”Stand with Lauren,” launched Tuesday by Tom Hennessey for Lauren Mayfield, who has been identified online and in news reports as the second woman in the clip, stood at $98,709 Friday morning. It started with a $20,000 goal and sat at about $19,300 on Wednesday. The goal has since been bumped to $50,000, then $100,000, and donors are now about $1,300 short.”She did nothing wrong. She did not assault anyone. She did not break any law. She made noises in a public walkway,” the page reads, calling the backlash a “campus bureaucracy and online mob treating a juvenile stunt as a hate crime because the residents were black.” It says the money will “cover lost income or opportunities, and anything else required so she does not have to fold.”The page is just as clear that this is about more than Mayfield: “Donate so the next girl (or guy) who gets the same treatment has a reason not to issue the scripted statement.” And there’s a catch: “I reserve the right to cancel this fundraiser if Lauren disavows our support and bends the knee.”Mayfield hasn’t said anything publicly, including whether she wants the money. The university hasn’t named any of the students, saying conduct records and any discipline are protected by federal privacy law.The 13-second clip, timestamped 8:37 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 6, was posted to TikTok by Ole Miss student Jakiyra Metcalf with the caption “What do we have to say about this??” Three white women walk past her door; two of them turn to the camera and make monkey noises, one beating her chest, while the third keeps walking. Metcalf later said the women…​Read More