Nearly two weeks after basketball players at the University of Mississippi knelt during the national anthem in protest of a pro-Confederate rally that ended on campus, the student government voted unanimously to move a prominent statue of a Confederate soldier.

The resolution passed, 47-0, to thunderous applause in the Associated Student Body senate on Tuesday night. The faculty senate unanimously passed a similar measure on Thursday evening.

The student resolution “allows us to remember history, and remember the role the university played during the Civil War, without giving the statue the same power,” said John Chappell, the president of the university’s College Democrats.

Mr. Chappell was one of six students who spent months researching legal opinions involving the movement of Confederate monuments and consulting with legal and academic experts to write the resolution, which received bipartisan support.