Editor-in-Chief – Slade Rand Slade Rand is a senior journalism major from New Orleans. He’s worked at The Daily Mississippian since his freshman year and wrote his favorite story in spring 2017 about John ‘Jojo’ Hermann’s return to the Square. Slade enjoys iced coffee, live music and boxer dogs. Managing Editor – Devna Bose Devna […]
The Aug. 23 column by Will Hall titled, “On the mascot issue: Ole Miss jumped the Shark” struck me as worthy of rebuttal. Let me start with a disclaimer: Mascots are not to be taken seriously. They are cartoon characters designed to represent schools and sports teams and are equivalent in importance to state birds. […]
On Jan. 6 of last year, noted political commentator and podcaster Dave Rubin and his friend, economist Eric Weinstein, met in Rubin’s home studio. They discussed many of the then-popular theories about the Trump presidency that had yet to come to fruition. For two hours, they examined the issues in detail for Rubin’s podcast, satisfying […]
Forestry and fiction fans will find common ground at 5 p.m. on Aug. 20 at Off Square Books as award-winning writer James McLaughlin discusses his debut novel. “Bearskin,” an expansion of his novella of the same name, tells the story of protagonist Rice Moore, an Arizonan smuggler-turned-caretaker who discovers the mutilated carcasses of bears at […]
“What’s that?” asked my new friend from West Virginia University, pointing to the Circle from Coulter Hall. Students from other universities had come to Oxford to work on a journalism project, and we were walking to a meeting. I knew what he was talking about: the large white statue that catches the eyes of visitors […]
After dropping its first series of the season at Mississippi State last weekend, Ole Miss baseball will look to bounce back with a matchup against Southern Miss on Tuesday night. Sitting at No. 5 in the nation with a 27-6 overall record and second in the SEC with a 7-5 conference record, the Rebels will […]
As we remember the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., we ought to take a moment to reflect on the countless individuals that made his legacy possible and continue it today. King’s legacy was one that will continue for generations to come, inspiring people from all over the world […]
“Paddle. Camp. Repeat.” These three words are how memoirist Brian Castner described his latest book, “Disappointment River.” Castner will appear on Thacker Mountain Radio at 6 p.m. tonight at Off Square Books to talk about the book, which came out earlier this month. The history and travel memoir, follows Castner’s journey of retracing the exploration […]
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