Opinion

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 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...

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”...

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...

Every so often in class, I’ll notice a fellow student tilt their head down, pull their shirt collar above their nose, pause for a few seconds and then regain their posture. The first few times I saw this happen in...

Today marks the 18th anniversary of the horrific terrorist attacks that took place on September 11, 2001. Many of us were too young to comprehend the horror and tragedy of that day, but we can’t forget the sacrifices that followed....

What does a typical night out look like for you? For many, the vision of a night out on the Square — a necessary and crucial part of the overall college experience here at the University of Mississippi — comes...

The culture of “social activism” seen around Oxford is manufactured rot, a silencing of reason, run by a minority of radicals that fearmonger the majority into pretending to agree. I have no doubt that simply speaking out against these progressive...

On the day of the gubernatorial primary elections, conservative group Mississippi Strong released an attack ad against Jim Hood. It worked to portray the attorney general as a Washington elite, “standing with the radical liberal resistance.” The ad ends with...

Our school’s brand has not been tarnished by racism, because racism has always been our school brand. Imagine if the institution that once lost all but four of its students, who were fighting for the University Greys in the Civil...