The Associated Student Body — as an institution — suffers from a souring culture of on-campus engagement. Of course, every aspect of student life has been upset in the past year, but student government was a boring disaster long before the age of facemasks and video calls. An overwhelming majority of students don’t care about […]
Over the course of the pandemic, Mississippi’s response has proven below average at best and abysmal at worst. As of publication, Mississippi is 45th in testing and 35th in vaccinations. Adjusted for population, Mississippi remains 15th in cases and 5th in deaths. On March 2, forty-three Mississippians died of coronavirus. The same day, Gov. Tate […]
The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, which opened in 2017, focuses on the years between 1945 and 1976 “when Mississippi was ground zero for the national Civil Rights Movement”. The museum celebrates the Mississippians who fought to move their state forward and remains unflinching while handling the violence inflicted upon those activists. Artifacts on exhibit include […]
We tend to confuse embarrassment and shame. We might say that embarrassment is a shallower or lighter version of shame, yet we still think of them as two words for the same thing. But if we are to be precise, embarrassment and shame are distinct from one another. Embarrassed is how we feel when we […]
Western philosophy has tied moral decency with intellectual capacity. In short, a person who wants to live the good life probably needs some knowledge of what good is. Unsurprisingly, a person seeking this knowledge might begin at a place promising all sorts of knowledge: the modern university. There are some problems with this approach. The […]
For a brief moment during the first presidential debate, I found myself in the middle of a spat between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. As the two candidates bickered over healthcare, the president told the nation that he is making insulin “so cheap it’s like water.” This was certainly news to me, along with the […]
This election season, much attention has been paid to the presidential race. While the importance of the presidency is hard to overstate, we should not forget the tens of thousands of campaigns being waged at the federal, state and local levels. I imagine that most voters could tell me who is competing for the White […]
Last week, an anonymous group of current and former housing workers published an open letter to the university detailing a series of demands. These demands — hazard pay, personal protective equipment, mandatory free testing, food and housing security in the event of campus closure — are necessary to protect student housing workers during the pandemic. […]
There’s a story that all of us have heard and some of us have told, and it goes like this: The University of Mississippi was once a great school. Its magnolia-shaded campus sheltered one of the few enduring pockets of a genteel and glorious South. But at some point — slowly at first and then […]
The University of Mississippi is in an identity crisis. At times, this crisis seems to have permeated every inch of our space and each one of our people, its instances ranging from the trivial to the profound. Our newest on-field mascot is enjoyed by some and suffered by others. We wonder if our buildings’ racist […]
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