I love walking through campus at night. The globe lamps are perfectly mysterious and the looming academic buildings cast eerie shadows. Although, I sometimes catch myself looking back, especially after hearing suspicious sounds. Scattered around campus are tall poles with blue lights. This blue light system is under the name...
After mass shootings, we often hear pro-gun politicians coming forward with prayers and vague assertions that improvements to mental health — without any adjustments to gun laws — will prevent a “next time.” However, an outright failure to even provide adequate mental healthcare in Mississippi shows that these promises are...
The roar of excitement as you approach Business Row in September elicits an almost visceral reaction for many upperclassmen. We dodge stickers like Keanu Reeves and suddenly have to make important phone calls. These are survival methods that have become muscle memory to many of us. While many facets of...
Last year, the Election Reform Task Force was created by Leah Davis (class of 2020) and Katherine Sistrunk (class of 2019) with the goal of finding ways to make the elections more equitable for all students. A component of this initiative was to create a Homecoming King position. With 1,300...
Are you worried about student loan debt? You can vote on it. Do you think 4/20 should be a national holiday? You can vote on it. Are you just sick and tired of long U.S. presidential election cycles and want them to end sooner? You can even vote on that!...
A dilapidated stair case in Hume Hall. The university has spent nearly $100 million on the projects unveiled this year. Photo by Dylan Smith. When you think about Ole Miss, you think about the Lyceum or Ventress Hall which have been staples of this University for over a century. Your...
Dear Editor, Although my position within the Associated Student Body by no means requires me to explain the logic of the decisions made by my council, there has clearly been a misunderstanding as to why a candidate was disqualified in the Fall 2019 Personality Elections. So, to clarify our decision:...
The University of Mississippi is in an identity crisis. At times, this crisis seems to have permeated every inch of our space and each one of our people, its instances ranging from the trivial to the profound. Our newest on-field mascot is enjoyed by some and suffered by others. We...
Second gameday weekend summary: Rebels ran. Players performed. Fans cheered. Grovers groved. As University Police Department officers backed away and music played in the distance, hundreds of freshmen bolted from a tunnel into Vaught-Hemingway Stadium. In navy blue “Rebel Run” T-shirts, they covered the field and then climbed their way...
It was the first day of the semester, and The Daily Mississippian’s headline simply read: 173 Days. That same day, a cardboard sign appeared at the base of the Confederate statue: 172 Days. It was a moment of surprising coincidence yet unexplained dissonance, like two grandfather clocks programmed to chime...
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