Opinion
Critical race theory’s threat to Mississippi children
On Nov. 15, Gov. Tate Reeves submitted his 2023 fiscal budget to the state legislature, outlining his priorities for the year and recommending how he would like to see tax revenues allocated. One of Reeves’s proposals is to spend $3 million to “eliminate critical race theory” by promoting a more...
Jackson doesn’t care about Mississippians’ health
It is common knowledge that Mississippi is one of the sickest states in the nation. Along with SEC football, comfort food and our unpleasant past, Mississippi’s poor health outcomes must be one of the most widely held conceptions about the state. The pandemic has only highlighted the disparities in access...
The death penalty is antiquated, barbaric and needs to go
On Nov. 17, Mississippi executed its first prisoner since 2012. One of around 150 inmates to “volunteer” for execution since the United States resumed the death penalty in the 1970s, David Neal Cox waived his rights to appeals and counsel. Despite his history of mental health issues, this forfeiture of...
Online charisma fuels the fire of extremism
There are three inevitabilities in life: death, taxes and older generations freaking out at the younger ones for technologies and behaviors they don’t understand. TikTok, with its iron grip over the screen time and battery usage of the newborn to 24 age range, has not escaped this generational criticism. The...
Mental health must be made a priority on UM’s campus
Mental health has been a long-overlooked topic in American society, and the stigma surrounding mental health issues and their treatment options is still present. With college students being some of the most affected by depression and anxiety, it is especially important to have resources on campus to aid in destigmatizing...
Americans need accessible mental health resources now
The University of Mississippi’s Counseling Department never really gets a day off — working with the university’s population of nearly 25,000 students and faculty members, their services are in near-constant demand. As nearly one-fifth of Americans struggle with a mental health disorder, with numbers on the rise since the onset...
Leave Brandon out of this
You hear it everywhere: at Ole Miss football games, at anti-vaccine mandate campaigns, on the news, on Twitter or anywhere else you go. “Let’s go, Brandon!” Some of you may be wondering who Brandon is and why so many people are cheering for him across the country, but even those...
Barstool’s misogyny has no place at Ole Miss
A scroll through the Instagram account @olemisschicks provides more or less exactly what you would expect from an account of that name: recycled memes and Tiktoks about football or finals week. Their Instagram bio states that they are a direct affiliate of Barstool Sports but not affiliated with the University...
Horn Lake’s discrimination is a disgrace to the state of Mississippi
As a child growing up in the United States, the Constitution is one of the first things I learned about the U.S. government. During that lesson, I was taught that it is the government’s responsibility to protect Americans’ freedom of religion, even if it differs from the majority. However, this...
Mental health must be respected in the classroom
In light of COVID-19, professors have been forced to become lenient with student absences when it comes to quarantining. However, when it comes to mental health-related absences, the university has no official policy. UM must require professors to work with students suffering from mental health issues the same way professors...
