Opinion

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

It’s November, which in the southern United States means the pre-Christmas festivities are set to begin any moment: a ticking time bomb of fir trees, red ribbons and giant inflatable Santa Clauses at Home Depot. While the decorations and ornaments...

On Nov. 2, 2021, members of the University of Mississippi family came together to protest the recent requirement of all UM faculty and staff to be vaccinated against COVID-19.  I took some time to interact with one of the protesters...

Two years ago, I wrote an opinion article in honor of First-Generation College Student Celebration Week. I hoped that my words would provide comfort for other first-gen students navigating the strange and unfamiliar institution a university can be. At the...