Students at Ole Miss unanimously vote to remove Confederate statue from campus

Members of the University of Mississippi student government unanimously voted to have a Confederate statue located in the center of campus removed.

The 47-0 vote Tuesday was met with raucous applause in the room, according to NBC News.

{mosads}The resolution that is now signed by student body president Elam Miller is not binding, but the student government is working with university leaders to figure out what to do next.

“We’re setting up meetings right now with university leaders to understand the next steps from here,” Miller said. “The way it’s outlined is sort of gray.”

The resolution calls for the statue of a Confederate solider to be moved from the center of campus to a cemetery on school grounds.

The resolution, which was crafted for months, also had the support of the Ole Miss College Republicans, who said they saw the issue as a moral one and not a political one.

“It was a multicultural, bipartisan resolution that I think really supersedes all political issues,” Dalton Hull, chairman of the group, told NBC News. “To me, this is not a political issue: This is about what’s morally right and wrong.”

Ole Miss is currently searching for its next chancellor after Jeffrey Vitter stepped down late last year.

The news outlet reported that students saw the void in leadership as an opportunity to pass the resolution and get the statue relocated.

University spokesman Rod Guajardo told NBC News that the resolution is currently being reviewed by school administrators.