Opinion

The new half of the Student Union opened recently. Red brick facade, white accents, shimmering floor-to-ceiling windows and glimmering floors. The space sure looks nice and new but is one of the most frustrating things about this campus. Over the...

They prepare our food in the Union, serve us our coffee in the library, clean our classrooms and bathrooms and do many other indispensable jobs for our university. Yet the low-wage workers who make this campus function every day get...

While I am on board for getting rid of the bear, this shark thing isn't a good idea. Around the country, people are laughing hysterically at us (see: our football program), so let's not add fuel to the already out...

University: it’s a place to explore ideas. Old, new, good, bad, theoretical and realistic ideas – they fill books, conversations, art and PowerPoint slides all over campus. Ideas help us grow as people, being perhaps the most valuable part of...

War never changes. The damage of war on the psychological endurance of soldiers has plagued the globe for centuries without any form of resolution. From the beginning of WWI and onward, visible psychological stress was displayed after the unstable introduction of conventional...

I was taken aback by the column in Wednesday’s paper that purported to offer “A Christian Response to Protests.” It struck an oddly familiar tone that white Christians, particularly in the South, have relied on to counter movements attempting to...

In the midst of what have undoubtedly been a very dramatic few months, one major piece of news never quite broke out as it should have. California is winning the moral scavenger hunt. In the highest reaches of Californian state...

This letter is in response to Kyle Brassell’s letter in the Sept. 1 issue of The Daily Mississippian. In case readers have forgotten the contents of that letter, Mr. Brassell first expressed disappointment in black students’ reactions to the racially charged...

Introductory language courses should have two main purposes: teaching the basics and developing the student’s interest in the language so he or she has an incentive to continue studying it. Since these goals seem like such common sense, I am...

There have been many protests in the news lately, and before this academic year is over, I fear there may be one here at the University of Mississippi. These protests usually end with increased hatred, inflamed tempers, violence and in...