“Life with Lenora” is a weekly series capturing the experiences and occasional musings of our opinion editor. This week, I survived ice armageddon. That isn’t an exaggeration. As Oxford, Miss., braved historic winter conditions, rendering its roads impassable and its power grid unreliable, I was holed up in a dear friend’s apartment stocked with perishable […]
“Life with Lenora” is a weekly series capturing the experiences and occasional musings of our opinion editor. At first glance, the last extracurricular activity you’d guess was in my pre-college repertoire was achieving the Eagle Scout rank. I endlessly watch makeup tutorials, am oriented toward feminine fashion and love to dance (casually, that is). While […]
On Jan. 2, the Emmy-award winning reality television show “RuPaul’s Drag” Race premiered its 18th season. The tagline of the season — “in shady times, let there be light” — feels less like branding and more like reassurance as 14 dazzling new queens are introduced amid an increasingly hostile political climate. Since 2009, drag legend […]
As temperatures plummet precipitously in our cozy, snow globe college town, holly jolly times are back in session and finals season is at its precipice, there is a silent yet debilitating phenomenon threatening holiday magic: the winter blues. Days become shorter, light becomes scarcer and energy seems to deplete during the most merry time of […]
The Freshman 15 is an all-too-familiar pattern for many students. It is a warning issued to precocious pre-college tourers, a testament to the dramatic expansion of food options the average first-year faces and, for many, an inevitable reality that they will gain a considerable amount of weight during their first year of college. As a […]
There is perhaps nothing that has shaped the beginning of the University of Mississippi’s academic season more than the Mississippi Legislature’s recently conjured offensive of chaos against students across the state. On April 17, Gov. Tate Reeves signed into law House Bill 1193, known colloquially as the Requiring Efficiency For Our Colleges and Universities System […]
As classes end for the semester, the squirrel population regains rodent control of the Grove. Those unlucky enough to fail organic chemistry march closer to the purgatory of summer intersession. “What to do” seeps into the minds of those navigating newfound free time. For the more opportune of us that call the University of Mississippi […]
Fire, brimstone and tortured souls are a few of the cattle calls employed by movements at extreme odds: Tree-hugging climate advocates and overzealous evangelicals. Concerning the global climate crisis, Earth-lovers point to the rapidly increasing frequency of wildfires traceable to droughts and declining ecological diversity, while hardcore evangelicals allude to Dante’s Inferno-style visions of soul-scorching […]
The animated movies that occupied us in our childhoods — from Pixar’s “Monsters, Inc.” and Universal’s “Coraline” to Hayao Miyazaki’s “Spirited Away” — were not only mesmerizing because of their fantastical plots or memorable characters but because the detail with which they portrayed the fictional worlds that enveloped our imaginations was the culmination of […]
Mississippi state Sen. Bradford Blackmon, a Democrat representing the 21st District, had big plans after taking office this year. However, his constituents and the people of Mississippi could not have imagined his grandiose, showman tactics: authoring a bill whose contents diametrically opposed every fiber of his political values just to prove a point. The Contraception […]
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