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On Tuesday, Mississippians will vote to elect either Lt. Gov Tate Reeves or Attorney General Jim Hood as the state’s next governor. This campaign season has seen many attacks from both campaigns, as Reeves has attempted to paint Hood as...

Christopher Preble agrees with both Democrats and Republicans. He believes Donald Trump, as a  candidate, made strong points about America’s inconclusive, open-ended wars but thinks that President Trump’s policy proposals after he was elected president have been inadequate. Preble is...

Dr. Feranmi Okanlami was the captain of the track team at Stanford University. An athlete and a scholar, Okanlami received a medical degree from the University of Michigan and went on to do his orthopedic surgery residency at Yale University....

When entrepreneur and Oxford legend Ron “Ronzo” Shapiro passed away in August, local community members immediately began making plans to honor his legacy. This Friday, the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council will host a second celebration of Ronzo’s life at the Powerhouse....

Chancellor Glenn Boyce made one of his first public appearances last night at The Longest Table, an event intended to create a space for conversation among the many different voices on campus. Boyce gave opening remarks at the event but...

On Sunday afternoon, 90 white balloons were released into the sky as part of the Out of the Darkness Walk for suicide prevention. The balloons held messages written to loved ones who died by suicide.  The walk benefits the American...

Correction: An earlier version of this article should have reported that William Faulkner won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949. He was not eligible for the prize in 1958, when Boris Pasternak won, and the two were not competing....

There’s a myriad events happening this week at Ole Miss, and we don’t want you to miss out on any of them.   Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors: Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors — a Memphis and East Nashville-based band —...

Donald Trump Jr. spoke at the Good Ole Boys and Gals Barbecue on Thursday where he supported the first family at the campaign event for Tate Reeves and other candidates in the area. Reeves, the Republican gubernatorial candidate, continued his...

The UM Graduate Student Council voted no-confidence in the Institutions of Higher Learning Board of Trustees and the appointment of Glenn Boyce as the university’s chancellor on Tuesday night.  The council named the newly appointed chancellor in the statement, voting...