Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to permanently extend the individual tax cuts of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, sending the bill to the Senate for further consideration. The 2017 bill, which was the largest reform to the federal tax code in over 30 years,...
The United States Senate, as the “higher chamber” in the United States Congress, has the daunting responsibility to “advise and consent” on the appointment of Supreme Court justices. By definition, senators also have a responsibility to the American people. This responsibility obliges the Senate to do due diligence in a...
Stress and anxiety disorders are slowly plaguing thousands of college campuses all over the country. According to a 2017 report by the American Psychological Association, 61 percent of college students were seeking counseling because of anxiety, and 45 percent went because of stress. This study indicates that many students experience...
Bias is often the assumption made when a controversial story or an uncomfortable study that points to a supposedly clear narrative emerges. Occasionally, it is what it appears to be: prejudice disguised as objectivity. Take the 1896 Supreme Court ruling in Plessy vs. Ferguson, which affirmed public segregation in the...
The University of Mississippi is at a crossroads. With Ed Meek's name coming down from the journalism school, it would be easy to proclaim that racism has been vanquished and inclusion upheld. But while such closure is convenient, it ignores the fact that Ed Meek's despicable racism is only a...
To the Editors, I’m impressed by the courage of the DM staff, the journalism faculty, and I am even more awed at the bravery of senior Mahoghany Jordan in calling out Dr. Meek for targeting her and her friend and fellow student in a racist social media post. Though I...
I shouldn’t have to write this but, nevertheless, here I am stating this so-called controversial topic that black people aren’t ruining Oxford or Ole Miss. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, black people accounted for 37.8 percent of the state population — the largest percentage among all 50 states. With...
To the Editor, Standing alone, the Confederate monument situated prominently at the entrance to the Ole Miss campus could reasonably be taken as the glorification of those who fought to preserve slavery. Similarly, a law school named, until recently, for L.Q.C. Lamar and a dormitory named for James K. Vardaman...
On Sunday another wrench was thrown into Circuit Judge Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court hearing. New allegations of sexual misconduct by the nominee have surfaced. In a story published by The New Yorker, Deborah Ramirez, a fellow Yale classmate of Kavanaugh, accuses Kavanaugh of indecently exposing himself to her at a party....
As educators who study race, gender and women’s history and as citizens of the city of Oxford, we were outraged to learn of Ed Meek’s Facebook post. In it, he targeted two black female students by making their images representative of what he sees as a larger problem in the...
