Mississippi’s year was as unpredictable as its weather. A lot has happened this year, and I mean… A LOT both on and off the campus. Starting with on-campus, The University of Mississippi’s total enrollment is up 5.1% or 1,111 students from 2021. Additionally, the retention rate of first-year students hit...
Mississippi’s year was as unpredictable as its weather. A lot has happened this year, and I mean… A LOT both on and off the campus. Starting with on-campus, The University of Mississippi’s total enrollment is up 5.1% or 1,111 students from 2021. Additionally, the retention rate of first-year students hit an...
It’s that time of the year again. The temperature and leaves are falling in unison. The semester has slowed to a stressful grind. Our long-awaited Thanksgiving break is finally at the doorstep. A needed week of rest to regenerate students in preparation for the struggle that is finals week. Thanksgiving...
On June 24 of this year, the Supreme Court voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, dismantling federal legal protection for women seeking abortions. It was a Friday, and I was working at a summer camp without access to my phone or the news. As campers were leaving on Saturday morning,...
The voting season has generally been lax here in Mississippi, which isn’t a good thing. Even with seemingly less at stake, midterms matter. That should go without saying, right? Not so much. It’s a well-known fact that midterm voting turnout has always been lower than general elections, which includes presidential...
It is easier to attack a person's character when you have no idea who they truly are. Whether it’s because of race, political party affiliation or a preferred football team, we quickly categorize people based on the most minor, irrelevant details about them. But the truth is that we see...
Graphic by Sedley Normand. A common entertainment trope of a distraught lover entrapped by a manipulative, abusive partner. Characters become imprisoned in relationships, whether it be in pursuit of an image or status. In these films, plays or shows, it’s easy to label that behavior, for example, Ike in “What’s...
Not to go all Carrie Bradshaw on you, but I have some thoughts about sex. More specifically, the double standard when it comes to the sexual narrative. I can’t count how many times I have heard a woman justify her sexual decisions, among both strangers and close friends. And in...
Graphic by Sedley Norman. Margaret Hurley grew up in Elkhart, Ind., surrounded by 10 brothers and sisters. After graduating high school, she married Ron Hurley and moved across the country as her husband finished a deployment in the Air Force. Two sons and a daughter later, Margaret and her husband...
Graphic by Sedley Normand. Living in Mississippi as an African American can leave you experiencing negative assumptions, different connotations, changing views and many perspectives. Even so, you always come back to one trait: your race. Your Blackness in life is inescapable but in predominantly white spaces, it can leave you...
