Aidan Poniatowski

Aidan Poniatowski is a sophomore international studies and Arabic major from Oswego, Ill. He serves as the News Editor for The Daily Mississippian and previously served as a Staff Writer for News. When not writing for the DM, Aidan loves watching his Detroit Tigers and going on side quests.

ASB decides to implement ranked-choice voting for internal open-seat senate elections

Associated Student Body senators convened in the auditorium of the Gertrude C. Ford Ole Miss Student Union to pass four pieces of legislation, including a bill which called for the adoption of ranked-choice voting in internal elections, during the final formal ASB Senate meeting of the semester on Tuesday, Dec. 2. Senate Bill 25-01CW, motioned […]

District 2 election commissioner runoff election happening Tuesday

Voters in Lafayette County’s District 2 will choose between candidates Ruth Adams Ball and Lisa Barber to serve as their election commissioner today, Tuesday, Dec. 2. Adams Ball and Barber advanced to the runoff as the top two vote-earners during the special election on Tuesday, Nov. 4. Due to no candidate exceeding 50% of the […]

Joint faculty senate session passes free speech resolution

The University of Mississippi Faculty Senate passed a resolution supporting free speech protections for university workers at its monthly meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 11. Representatives from all eight Mississippi Institutions for Higher Learning schools attended the 6 p.m. meeting at the Robert C. Khayat Law Center. This is the first of what is expected to […]

District 2 to vote for county election commissioner today

On Tuesday, Nov. 4, voters in Lafayette County’s District 2 will cast their ballots for the district’s seat on the county election commission. Three contenders — Ruth Adams Ball, Lisa Barber and Kate Sinervo Wallace — are running for the seat. Polling places will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Tuesday. Absentee […]

JD Vance and Erika Kirk champion civic engagement at Ole Miss Turning Point USA event

More than 9,500 people packed The Sandy and John Black Pavilion on the University of Mississippi campus Wednesday, cheering and chanting as Vice President JD Vance and Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk headlined TPUSA’s “This is the Turning Point Tour.” Both exhorted students and community members to honor America by pursuing Christian civic values. […]

University of Mississippi student Knox Boudreau dead at 19

University of Mississippi student Knox Carter Boudreau was found dead on Friday, Oct. 24 off of Lafayette County Road 303. The  cause of death is unknown, though the Lafayette County Sheriff’s Office ruled out foul play. On Friday morning, the Lafayette County Sheriff’s Office responded to a 911 call reporting an unresponsive male on Thacker […]

Is UM ready for JD Vance and Erika Kirk? Students react to TPUSA event lineup

Vice President of the United States JD Vance and CEO of Turning Point USA (TPUSA) Erika Kirk, widow of organization founder Charlie Kirk, will be the featured speakers during the Wednesday, Oct. 29 stop on the “This is the Turning Point Tour” at the University of Mississippi. The event is scheduled to begin at 5 […]

University of Mississippi professor honored with physics leadership fellowship

Breese Quinn, University of Mississippi professor of physics and astronomy and director of the UM Center for Multimessenger Astrophysics (UMCMA), was announced as a recipient of the APS (American Physical Society) Fellowship on Friday, Oct. 10. APS is a nonprofit scientific society of more than 50,000 physicists, and the fellowship is an award honoring achievements […]

Rooted in love: Riley Dellenger is Miss Ole Miss

Four years ago, if someone told Riley Dellenger, a senior marketing major from Ocean Springs, Miss., that she would be named Miss Ole Miss by the university’s student body, she probably would have laughed. But as results were announced on Tuesday, Sept. 30, on the steps of the Lyceum, that is exactly what happened. “My […]

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