The Daily Mississippian

Photo: Thomas Graning/The Daily Mississippian Football players at Oxford High School will participate in the biggest game of their lives Saturday. What they have done for one family off the field is perhaps the most special part of their undefeated season. The Oxford High School football team is playing Saturday for the first state championship in school history. The Chargers (14-0) face Picayune...

A week has gone by, and Ole Miss fans have turned their attention away from last week’s Egg Bowl loss and turned it toward the postseason. The Rebels’ bowl game destination is still up in the air, but three bowl games remain as likely options. The Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl and the AutoZone Liberty Bowl are the obvious options, but the Gator Bowl is still in play, according to...

Junior economics major Ali Barnett, left, and senior accounting major Ashley McLeod study in the Mezzanine above the third floor of theJ.D. Williams Library Wednesday. Photo: Austin McAfee, The Daily Mississippian For the freshmen, it’s your first dip into the chaos that is college finals. For the upperclassmen it’s the time of year where you find yourself frantically trying to study and wrap...

In January, I begin my final year of college. With graduation around the corner, I have begun looking at graduate schools and job prospects. One of the most disheartening things I expect to encounter in my employment search is the gender wage gap. Fifty years after President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act, women are still paid only 77 cents for every dollar men make. This inequity deepens for women...