Opinion

Machines are evolving – quickly. Remember the “old days” when you could directly tell a computer what to do, right down to lines of code? Well, that time is over. Humanity is getting one step closer each day to perfecting artificial intelligence. However, this powerful future transition could present a...

Yesterday, as I was sitting in class, the young lady sitting next to me was unable to focus on the lecturer for a solid minute – a mere 60 seconds – at a time. Instead, her attention was absorbed by the steady stream of messages, images, videos and emojis emanating...

Boycotts work. Whether they're abstaining from riding the city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, after a woman refused to give up her seat or declining to buy lettuce and grapes picked by anti-union scabs in California, boycotts raise awareness of an issue and exert economic pressure in order to force changes. From...

Young people have to be responsible for their collective future. Perhaps that’s why we hear so much about climate change, healthcare and countless other issues that will impact our world for years to come. There is one imminent issue that no one seems to be talking about enough, though: the...

Last week, Hurricane Harvey rocked the coast of east Texas, wrecking hundreds of thousands of homes, leaving tens of thousands of people with nowhere to go and taking the lives of at least 66 people. Quickly, social media became inundated with news about the storm, updates from Texans confirming their...

To anyone worried about political correctness taking over college campuses across the country, I have a safe space for you. Sadly, for our university, that space is no other than our beloved Grove during tailgating season. Saturday, what was supposed to be a celebration of college football became an ideal...

Unless you have been living under a rock of non-Confederate statue origin, you have no doubt heard and seen countless opinions on what we should or should not do with the Confederate statues that populate our parks and courthouses in the American South. “Tear it down!” some yell in their...

The one object most of us couldn’t live without is our smartphones. Packed into the size of a deck of cards are a clock, a planner, a cache of social media apps and a veritable personal arcade. Unfortunately, purchasing one of these modern miracles is not cheap, and a wireless...

Dear Chancellor Vitter: The recent events in Charlottesville make even clearer what many of us have known for some time: Confederate monuments are not only an affront to a large proportion of our population, but are also a rallying point for neo-Confederates, neo-Nazis, white nationalists, and the so-called alt-right. These monuments...

Dear Freshman Class, Thank you for being here at Ole Miss. And thank you for your attendance, attentiveness and thoughtful support and response to our keynote speaker at the Fall Convocation meeting last Tuesday at the Pavilion. I wish everyone in our Ole Miss family – all students, all faculty...