Josh Baker asks an important question: “Who does removing the statue even help?” On Oct. 1, 2013, audience members jeered, mocked, and shouted homophobic slurs at actors during a campus performance of “The Laramie Project” — a play about the murder of a young gay student named Matthew Shepard at...
“Between two parties, we must choose the lesser evil” isn’t a promising start to a piece condemning divisive action. My issue with the article lies neither with the writer’s condemnation of the Smollett assault nor with her condemnation of racism exhibited by prominent politicians. It is with the conclusion that...
On the modern left, identity politics has proven to be nothing more than finding the most oppressed group possible and then encouraging virtue signaling from guilt-ridden privileged groups. Protests, usually against right-leaning speakers, have engulfed college campuses and been plastered on the news. These events seem to happen daily, and...
Black History Month 2019 is proving to be quite interesting. February has been filled with racially charged controversies. Vintage symbols of racism like blackface and lynchings — matters we assumed were long-buried — are now revisiting us in the 21st century, from both sides of the political aisle. First, there was...
Re: “Hands off Venezuela” (Jan. 31) Earlier this year, I was sitting next to a Venezuelan man on a flight. We struck up a conversation about the turmoil going on in his country. The situation he described was dire — inflation had risen so high that his family was unable...
The Fyre Festival will probably be recorded as the greatest party to be planned. The promise of supermodels, concerts and exclusive access duped thousands of millennials, leaving them stranded and starving in the Bahamas. “Fyre Festival: The Greatest Party that Never Happened,” premiered on Netflix in January, three days after...
April 5, 2016 may seem like an uneventful day to most, but this day signified a substantial change in the Mississippi political landscape. On that day, Gov. Phil Bryant signed HB 1523 into law. This legislation protects individuals and businesses with at least one of three “sincerely held religious beliefs...
In every major city in this country, electric scooters are an important asset to increased mobility, increased economic growth and more equity in our society. Today, congestion, pollution and lack of access plague Oxford and the University community. Electric scooters could be a step in the right direction for a...
As many already know — be it from first or second hand experience — there’s a flu outbreak at Ole Miss. This isn’t especially surprising: influenza activity in the United States peaks in January, and the density of a university makes for a viral hotbed. And, because flu shots do...
Dec. 22 marked the start of the longest government shutdown in American history. It ended on Jan. 25 with the still-looming threat of another within 21 days of the government reopening. The one threat that is meant to help the country is the one that might hinder this country if...
