I care about Thousand Oaks, California. Nothing will change the love I will indefinitely express towards that community. Nothing. Right now it seems more and more people are suddenly starting to care about my humble hometown, and under normal circumstances I would be flattered. It’s an inclusive, friendly and historically...
The contextualization plaque in front of our school’s Confederate monument is an interesting commentary on university policy. The plaque discusses the history of such monuments erected across the South in the 20th century and even gives a nod to the fact that they were almost always funded by groups pushing...
Freedom of speech is crucial to our society in order to maintain democracy in the United States. But at what point does this freedom to spread one’s beliefs turn into hate speech? Recently, there have been hateful comments and remarks being hurled at students by men who stand in the...
Recent discussion of campus elections has brought attention to one well-known, yet often unspoken issue: Greek organizational advantages in our elections. As a non-Greek student who worked on four campus campaigns across three years, I have seen these advantages firsthand. To develop a more equitable election system, it is important...
Tomorrow, Americans across the country will go to the polls to vote in the 2018 midterm election. With all U.S. House of Representatives seats up for re-election, along with 35 Senate seats, the stakes for both parties are extremely high, as intense campaigning has been in full swing for months...
When I arrived in Oxford in August of 2015, I was a conservative. I was raised in the South by evangelical Republican parents where the candidates’ support for pro-life policies was the litmus test. I remember riding home from elementary and middle school listening to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity...
When I studied abroad in Chile, many of my friends — both Chilean students and exchange students from Europe — were absolutely shocked when I told them how exorbitantly expensive American universities are. Even at Ole Miss, a relatively “affordable” four-year public university, tuition is still incredibly expensive — $8,550...
There are many factors that affect the price of healthcare in the United States. Chiefly among these are insurers, excessive litigation, volatile prices for medical supplies, the uninsured and uncontrolled drug prices. Americans spend about $3.4 trillion per year on healthcare, more than any other nation on Earth. In fact,...
Few people would argue with the beauty of a California sunset. The bright lights of Times Square are tough to compete with. But there is one thing that can top the allure of California or Manhattan: your pocketbook. While many on the left may argue that a certain class of...
The 2018 midterm elections will decide the fate of which party holds a majority in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. Many states that were once solid Republican or Democrat are now a toss-up, meaning every vote will count. If the Republicans want to hold their narrow majority of...
