Sitting in my living room, I felt frozen in time and defeated by shock. Aretha Franklin’s death sent a wave of grief across the world that is still felt today, with farewell and funeral plans continuing this week. Greater Grace Temple in Detroit will host a home going for Franklin on Friday featuring addresses from […]
As most Ole Miss students do, I adore the quaint, little Southern town of Oxford, Mississippi. Unfortunately, I’m stuck in a one-sided relationship, as Oxford does not love me back. This unrequited love truly hurts, and I believe most Oxonians feel the same sting. You see, every other SEC college town has something that Oxford […]
It’s been two years since Ariana Grande last graced us with an album, leaving listeners wanting more after 2016’s “Dangerous Woman.” She certainly does not disappoint with “Sweetener,” a healthy mix of soulful, sexy and smitten songs. It seemed as if nobody could escape the album’s first single, high-tempo bop “No Tears Left to Cry.” […]
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 […]
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