On Jan. 31, The Daily Mississippian reported that the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation would relocate to Jackson and reconstitute as an independent nonprofit. Announcing the transition, former Gov. Winter praised “the vision (of the University of Mississippi) to establish and incubate the Institute for Racial Reconciliation on its...
It is such a refreshing column that Will Hall wrote in The DM regarding the lack of thought diversity on our college campuses. I’m a graduate of Ole Miss and currently reside in Oxford. The only narrative that our higher learning institutions support, advance and advocate to our young people...
On Feb. 14, the nation was, yet again, witness to another school shooting. Nineteen-year-old Nikolas Cruz walked into the school he had been expelled from, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, and murdered 17 former classmates with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle. As usual, the media used a school shooting to advance...
Political engagement in America is not what it used to be, especially when it comes to local and state governments. In the 2016 general election, only 60.2 percent of eligible voters cast their ballots. If so many voices were unheard in a major national election, think of how many are...
A 17-year-old girl who is looking to make a transition to becoming a boy, was barred, by her parents, from being evaluated by a psychologist that would subsequently have led to receiving hormone therapy. Her parents are Christian and decided that she should go to Christian-based therapy. This is not...
I disagree with the latest opinion piece written by Will Hall attacking academia and will like to add the following rebuttal concerning the goal of a college education. A college education should not be made into political dogma for closed-minded individuals who only want to consume one world view, theirs....
Last Wednesday, DM columnist Will Hall claimed that our university is experiencing an “epidemic of uniform thought” and that our department walls “drip with liberal propaganda” but failed to cite any specific examples of “prejudiced academics.” He wrote that he’s never come across an Ole Miss professor “who falls to...
A statement was released by university faculty members calling on tenured and tenured-track faculty to "use their relative positions of power to actively support their non-tenure-track faculty colleagues" who want full representation in the Faculty Senate. The statement has collected 144 signatures thus far. Fifty-six percent of the signatures are...
During the 2016 NFL preseason, a movement began that has sparked such immense attention that our children might read about it in their American history textbooks. Initially, Colin Kaepernick, former 49ers quarterback, sat on the bench during the national anthem. However, he later changed his form of protesting to kneeling...
The great American philosopher Thomas Sowell once said, "The next time some academics tell you how important 'diversity' is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department." If you were to select your average student and place him or her in any one of the administrative halls here...
