“We’ve had so many disasters that we’ve started living off of disasters,” Lonnie Falgout said on the porch of his raised home while swatting away the evening gnats. A Cajun from Horneville, La., Falgout served as a city councilman of Bay St. Louis from 2013-2017, representing the sixth ward. He helped to rebuild the town […]
When poring over past volumes of yearbooks at the University of Mississippi, the strong Confederate character and white supremacist worldview that plagued the campus for decades come clearly into view. In the 1937 edition of The Ole Miss yearbook, a member of the Delta Psi fraternity is dressed in Klansmen’s robes, with Delta Psi heralded […]
Editor’s Note: This story is one of a series of stories written by The Daily Mississippian staff in celebration of April Fool’s day. In an unprecedented show of force and coordination, all 16 fraternities in the Interfraternal Council at the University of Mississippi banded together to annex the Grove and form the Democratic Pledges’ Republic […]
“Everybody here is numb. The oppression has been ongoing for 75 years, and everybody is numb to it. Palestinians will be killed for the rest of our lives, and that’s something that people are okay with,” Khalil Abualya, a senior pharmacy major, said. “We’re here to change that today, God willing.” Approximately 50 students of […]
Democratic candidate for governor Brandon Presley campaigned in all of Mississippi’s 82 counties to drum up support for the election against incumbent Gov. Tate Reeves on Nov. 7. “It’s been wonderful going all around and visiting all the different regions of Mississippi — we’re one big family,” Presley said in a phone interview with The […]
Members of the University of Mississippi Hillel, a Jewish campus organization, held candles and offered prayers for Israelis, Palestinians and peace in a vigil held at the Paris-Yates Chapel on Thursday, Oct 12. “We are all mourning right now. We are all in shock that this is going on. We have had anti-Semitic threats around […]
Doomsday predictions of the artificial intelligence apocalypse have circulated in the public discourse for years, but after the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in November 2022, popularity and expectations of AI have reached a fever pitch. The technology creeped closer into the lives of millions, notably when 383 million people opened Snapchat to discover a new […]
Nearly six months have passed since an EF-4 tornado descended on the small town of Rolling Fork, Miss. It ravaged the downtown on the night of March 24 and took the lives of 14 residents. The storm system left 22 Mississippians dead statewide. Mayor Eldridge Walker believes his town will “build back better.” “Rolling Fork, […]
The University of Mississippi has sold almost 3,000 more parking passes than there are spaces available for students to park in. There are 14,960 total parking spaces available for students and faculty, including residential spaces, and 17,701 parking passes sold so far this year. Hal Robinson, assistant director of parking and transportation systems, explained that […]
Campaigning as a Democrat against an incumbent governor in a historically deep-red state is by no means a safe bet, but Democratic candidate for governor Brandon Presley likes his odds. “With your help, we’re going to turn the page on Tate Reeves on Nov. 7,” Presley said. Speaking to a packed auditorium at the The […]
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