Mental health must be respected in the classroom

In light of COVID-19, professors have been forced to become lenient with student absences when it comes to quarantining. However, when it comes to mental health-related absences, the university has no official policy. UM must require professors to work with students suffering from mental health issues the same way professors have worked with students suffering […]

America must celebrate its Indigenous people, not their oppressor

Columbus Day has been celebrated as a national holiday since 1971, said to celebrate Christopher Columbus’s arrival and “founding” of the New World, but many claim this holiday overlooks the long history of Indigenous people on the continent. Just last week, however, on Oct. 8, President Joe Biden became the first president to commemorate Indigenous […]

Convicted citizens deserve to vote

On Sept. 22 of this year, the 5th circuit of the Federal Court of Appeals heard arguments regarding Mississippi’s felony voting ban. Mississippi’s current law states that “you permanently lose the right to vote if you are convicted of one of 23 barred crimes,” with only the governor or the state congress being able to […]

Column Response: History isn’t being rewritten, it’s just finally being revealed

On Sept. 10, The Daily Mississippian published an opinion column titled, “Rewriting our past only endangers our future.” This piece argued against teaching subjects like Critical Race Theory and in favor of teaching history in a way that reinforces America’s “sacrifice, humility, [and] integrity.”  This argument makes no sense. It is not that new history […]

Climate change is here, and we need to fight it

“That’s a problem for future generations.” I have heard this line from many of my peers every time climate change is brought up. Claims that the “sea level will rise 1-8 feet by 2100,” or the Arctic is “likely to become ice-free,”  which are likely not going to be a reality during the majority — […]

Opinion: COVID protocols are worth the inconvenience

Over the summer, Ole Miss students received two very different emails addressing what COVID protocols for the upcoming Fall semester will look like. On June 24, the Interim Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs sent an email to students detailing the University’s Fall 2021 COVID-19 protocols. Under these protocols, vaccinated students didn’t have to wear masks, […]

Opinion: Where the pandemic leaves the current freshman class

When the university announced back in February that fall 2021 classes will return to a pre-pandemic structure, the Oxford community let out a collective sigh. It seemed as though things would be back to normal next semester, and the struggles current UM students were facing would be erased. For the current freshman class, though, returning […]