Oxford, Mississippi. A charming Square and rich history. Grand antebellum homes and university accolades. Smart. Wealthy. Alluring. These are some of the factors by which our “lovely” city is defined. However, there is far more to our city than many realize. Oxford is a city laden with poverty. Over 35%...
Elisha Krauss, a right-wing journalist and contributor to the Daily Wire, will speak on campus on Wednesday in an event sponsored by the Ole Miss chapter of the conservative student organization Young Americans for Freedom. After Overby Center administrators cancelled the event at that venue, students and national conservative organizations...
As Republicans and Democrats continue to isolate and national divisions deepen, next year’s presidential candidates increasingly neglect America’s ideological center. They opt to galvanize their polarized bases. When President Trump visited Tupelo earlier this month, he did exactly that. Though both parties are searching for intensity, Trump already has it....
The true hollowness of gratitude Americans have toward veterans is perhaps never more apparent than it is on Veterans Day. While America glorifies the idea of military service with parades, fireworks and flyovers, it glosses over the ongoing plights faced by the twenty-million veterans in this country. What was once...
Today is National First-Generation College Celebration Day. Dear first-generation college student, As a high schooler, I wanted nothing more than a way out of my hometown. For hours upon hours, I would sit at the kitchen table crafting scholarship essays, crunching the numbers and stumbling through FAFSA. Despite being at...
Jim Hood, the former Democratic candidate for governor and self-described moderate, was nothing more than a local Bernie Sanders, according to Governor-elect Tate Reeves. In a recent campaign video, Reeves gives credit to Sanders for acknowledging tax increases and demands the same from Hood. The caption, “Bernie Sanders or Jim...
“I guess OM will be in line for the next Sodom and Gomorrah, don’t want to be anywhere near that.” “This is (expletive), when does it stop?” “Now we will know where the (expletive) hang out..” These are some of the comments from concerned Facebook users regarding the new LGBTQ...
College is a time to seek meaning and boost one’s resume, and some students see short-term volunteer mission trips as an opportunity to find both. Most of the 1.6 million volunteer tourists going abroad every year are people between the ages of 20-25, not older experts who have master’s degrees...
On Halloween, The Daily Mississippian published a column written by Lauren Moses titled “Cultural appropriation is a joke.” Here’s my response. To blatantly take only desired aspects of another culture for a costume and use it to parade around bars and house parties for hours is a flagrant disregard for...
Recently, a student self-reported a social media post in which they were wearing blackface. In response, the Office of Diversity and Community Engagement sent all students an email to instruct us to dress in culturally appropriate garb this Halloween season. Overlooking the non-descript email and seemingly improbable events surrounding this...
