Today isn’t a national holiday, but it should be. Today is Opening Day for the 2019 Major League Baseball season. Although the season technically kicked off last week in Japan with a two-game series between the Seattle Mariners and Oakland Athletics that saw Japanese native and baseball legend Ichiro Suzuki emotionally announce his retirement, today […]
The Ole Miss men’s rugby club hosted its annual alumni game this past Saturday, celebrating 45 years of Ole Miss Rugby Club. The annual event welcomed past members of the team for a weekend in Oxford, culminating in a game against the current players that the alumni won 45-28. “This weekend, every year really teaches […]
Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant is no stranger to waging warfare on women’s rights. Just last year, he signed the Gestational Age Act, one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country, into law. After much controversy and judicial intervention, a permanent block was imposed, effectively nullifying the act. However, on March 21, barely a […]
Accusations of sexual abuse have rocked the Catholic church since 2002. In August 2018, the scandal intensified following an investigation in Pennsylvania that found more than 300 priests accused of child sexual abuse — leaving at least 1,000 survivors. This report led to further investigations in Illinois, West Virginia, Texas and Mississippi. On March 19, […]
A seminal voice in the continually developing world of LGBTQ+ literature, novelist and essayist Edmund White read from his memoir, “The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading,” on Wednesday afternoon at the Overby Center. White also fielded questions from his husband and fellow author, Michael Carroll, as well as a number of questions from the […]
Annie Duke, winner of the 2004 World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions, will speak at 4 p.m. Thursday at the Overby Center. As part of the 2019 Oxford Conference of the Book, Duke will discuss her new book “Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts.” Her book, published […]
This Sunday, special counsel Robert Mueller submitted a highly anticipated report detailing his 22-month-long investigation into Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. The investigation explored allegations that the campaign conspired with the Russian government to influence the 2016 presidential election and attempted to obstruct a related federal investigation. After subpoenaing over 2,800 individuals, conducting nearly 500 search […]
Including writers from Oxford and as far away as California, the annual Oxford Conference for the Book will convene from today until Friday at several Oxford and Ole Miss locations. The conference will feature talks and readings about topics, in the words of its director, Jimmy Thomas, “from cognitive psychology to a history of the […]
State legislators who authored the bill that dictates how military monuments can be relocated have different opinions about who has the final authority to actually relocate the Confederate monument that stands in the center of the Ole Miss campus. The bill, which was signed into law by former Gov. Haley Barbour in 2004, states, “The […]
The Ole Miss softball team split its weekend series against South Carolina, as the third game on Monday was canceled due to rain. In Saturday’s game, the Rebels struggled to get the offense going, recording just 3 hits the entire game. Senior Brittany Finney allowed just 2 runs on 3 hits in 6.0 innings of […]
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