Greek students at our university have inherent advantages in our campus elections. As I detailed in a previous article, these advantages include access to funding, access to people with campaign experience and more. Presenting these problems would be useless without exploring ways to create opportunities for non-Greek students to have...
To progressively grow as an economy, a country cannot run without adequate and superior infrastructure. America’s infrastructure though, according to the American Society of Civil Engineers’ 2017 Infrastructure Card, was rated a D+ with various categories ranging from a B score in rail, to a D- in transit. This infrastructure,...
It really is incredible how far women have come in just the last century. Every day, we do things like vote, drive, own property, prepare for a professional career and even go to college, that just a few decades ago would have been impossible. In 1870, when college student Bettie...
Nearly two weeks ago, while precincts across the country were beginning to conclude their election of those who would represent their districts in the coming years, I had the distinct privilege of traveling to Laurel to witness the conclusion of a political campaign that I have proudly been a part...
For the past two and a half years, I’ve been wondering what made America great. What was so great about America and how exactly do we make her great again? Photo courtesy: Wikimedia Commons I grew up in suburban Mississippi with parents who constantly reminded me that I was blessed...
Shawn O’Hara ran in every Hattiesburg election since 1989. He ran for Mississippi's 3rd congressional district religiously, for Governor of Mississippi twice in the 90s and and in 2011 and 2015 and for U.S. Senate in a 2002 challenge to the then U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran in which he received...
On Nov. 1, the Kappa Alpha Theta Grand Council announced that Ole Miss’ Epsilon Zeta chapter of Theta would be closing at the end of the fall semester. The reasons behind this sudden decision were “low membership numbers and discouraging recruitment efforts.” The chapter had experienced more than 17 visits...
“How is the white man going to control the government?” asked James K. Vardaman in 1907. “If it is necessary, every Negro in the state will be lynched; it will be done to maintain white supremacy.” “If he invited me to a public hanging, I'd be on the front...
Millions of Americans turned out in record-breaking numbers to vote in the midterms, as Republicans increased their majority in the Senate and Democrats took a majority in the House. Women broke several barriers, picking up positions in various levels of government, from governorships to Congress. This isn’t entirely surprising; earlier...
How much would you pay for the opportunity of a lifetime? If you’re New York or Virginia, the price for a ticket to the top will start around $4 billion in taxpayer-guaranteed incentives with state tax breaks for Amazon's new North American offices. With the promise of an estimated 50,000...
