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Opinion: Education isn’t the only thing that’s broken. Housing is, too.

While freshman year on campus is likely to be one of the most chaotic times many of us will ever experience, other students experience this time as their initial taste of true stability. For students who experienced homelessness throughout their primary school years, freshman dormitories are the first spaces they can really call their own.  […]

“Intruder in the Dust,” celebrates its 70th Anniversary at Chancellor’s House

Oxford residents and Faulkner fans gathered in the ballroom of the Chancellor’s House on Sunday night to celebrate a cornerstone of local history.  At the near end of A Literary Bit of Faulkner, the Oxford Film Festival and the Chancellor’s House hosted a screening of “Intruder in the Dust” to celebrate the film’s 70th anniversary. […]

Column: My experience with Destination Unknown

I was cold and nervous when I walked up to the Union-Hefley bus stop at 4 a.m. on Saturday. A Cline Tours bus was parked, idling, with the bus driver sitting calmly in its warmth. I was excited, nervous and tired as I climbed the steps into the bus. I had been chosen to be […]

Ole Miss Engineers Without Borders build wells in Ecuador

The Ole Miss Engineers Without Borders are investing in a new project that’s saving lives: bringing clean water and accessible wells to a village in Ecuador. The village, Veinticinco de Diciembre, sits between 12,000 and 15,000 feet above sea level, and is cold, arid and remote. Not to mention the area is volcanic, and when […]

Rebel Rewards fails to reward students

Students have had issues receiving their points for attending sporting events via Rebel Rewards, causing them to miss out on the program’s prize opportunities. Rebel Rewards is an app administered by the Ole Miss Athletics Department that allows students and fans to accumulate points for attending university sporting events, which unlock different tiers that correspond […]

Opinion: An unprecedented homecoming

On Sept. 17 around 10:30 p.m., my life changed. Not just my life, but also the lives of others: those who surrounded me at the Lyceum and those who carried me off the steps as I hysterically cried my eyes out knowing that God and my grandmother had sent something special down from the sky. […]

Ole Miss soccer falls to Georgia in Athens

The Ole Miss soccer team traveled to Athens this Sunday after their thrilling victory over Florida only to fall 2-1 against the Bulldogs. In their last matchup of the 2017 season, the Bulldogs left Oxford with a 4-1 loss to the Rebels, but the Rebels have not won in Athens since 2013 and this year […]

You’ve heard their music. Here’s how they produce it.

Andrew Newman and Bedon Lancaster are fixtures in the Oxford music scene. Both are seniors,  play live music in and around Oxford and release music on Spotify, where they both have over 20,000 monthly listeners. They both play indie rock, but their recording processes vary greatly.  When recording music, Newman, who performs under the name […]

Opinion: Why is blackface still so common?

Last week, honors college students received an email that an Ole Miss student who was wearing blackface in a social media post turned himself into the Bias Incident Report Team, which is working with the individual on a Restorative Justice Plan to amend his actions. It is uplifting that the student turned himself in and […]

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