Mississippi is bleeding out, hemorrhaging educators fed up with unlivable wages as students across the state suffer from underfunded schools and racial bias. For centuries, Mississippi has underfunded public education, and as a result has remained one of the poorest, unhealthiest and economically stagnant states in the country. Mississippi legislators who deprive public schools of […]
Ask any two people on the street what critical race theory means and you’ll likely get a different answer from each. Ask Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves and Republican state senators, however, and you are guaranteed to get an incorrect answer. The Mississippi State Senate recently passed a bill with a 32-2 vote to ban the […]
I know I wasn’t the only student who felt a sharp sense of alarm when I read that a school shooting had taken place at Oxford High School on Nov. 30. Nor was I the only one who felt that fear slightly dissipate once I learned it was Oxford High School in Michigan that was […]
There are three inevitabilities in life: death, taxes and older generations freaking out at the younger ones for technologies and behaviors they don’t understand. TikTok, with its iron grip over the screen time and battery usage of the newborn to 24 age range, has not escaped this generational criticism. The anti-TikTok conversation has recently come […]
The University of Mississippi’s Counseling Department never really gets a day off — working with the university’s population of nearly 25,000 students and faculty members, their services are in near-constant demand. As nearly one-fifth of Americans struggle with a mental health disorder, with numbers on the rise since the onset of the massive societal changes […]
It’s November, which in the southern United States means the pre-Christmas festivities are set to begin any moment: a ticking time bomb of fir trees, red ribbons and giant inflatable Santa Clauses at Home Depot. While the decorations and ornaments are undeniable signs of the passage of time, we can always count on another thing […]
Living in Mississippi, you’d think Joe Biden’s approval ratings could never eclipse 30%. Located in one of the most solidly red states in the country, the University of Mississippi is unsurprisingly one of the most conservative campuses in the country. On campus, you’re much more likely to hear negative opinions about the current president than […]
In the midst of the Black Lives Matter protests of last year, many people unaffiliated with the organization committed acts of arson and destruction of property. In response, conservatives unleashed a campaign of moral superiority and self-aggrandizement, saying that the right would never riot, that rioters are bad people and that Black Lives Matter only […]
Many students return home from college on any given weekend to spend time with their families and relax in a familiar environment. When I visited home two weeks ago, however, my environment was anything but familiar. In fact, I was forced to confront the terrifying reality that one day, likely in my lifetime, I will […]
Ole Miss is struggling to find its identity in the modern world, and enshrining racists should have no place in that process. After it was dragged kicking and screaming into desegregation in the 1960s, the university has endured many controversies and conflicts all stemming from the university’s racist past and the artifacts honoring it, including […]
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