Chanting, cheering, clapping and showing hostility toward rivals. If someone had thrown a football into the crowd at the State of the Union address on Tuesday night, I would have sworn that I was watching the Super Bowl. This American...
Whenever I told people that I was going to live and study in South Africa for this semester, I was met with an array of reactions that represent the ever-changing, consistently well-meaning cast of characters in my life. I received...
On Jan. 28, The Daily Mississippian published an opinion column titled “Not the time, not the place to protest,” which criticized an Abolish IHL protest at Tuesday night’s Open Doors event. The column’s author, Lauren Moses, swung by to ask...
In the past two weeks, I have finished a semester’s worth of homework for my American history class. I did not do it because I’m a huge history buff or a straight-up overachiever, but I did it because I couldn’t...
Once, while in college, I was at a track meet watching a race with a teammate and good friend of mine. In the race, one athlete’s heel was clipped by another’s, and the athlete went tumbling down. “Man,” my friend...
Governor Tate Reeves’s office claims a dedication to being “For All Mississippi,” but Reeves’s Mississippi apparently does not include gender studies majors. The resentment toward universities and colleges is not exactly a recent phenomenon, but on Monday, this hostility was...
Last night, the Lyceum hosted an event called Open Doors for all students so that we could introduce ourselves and get to know senior administrators. I was excited to attend because I finally felt that the administration wanted to be...
Recently, I came home to find an unexpected late fee from my utility company. I was shocked because I had set up auto-pay, and I had enough money in my bank account to pay the bill. The company must have...
Mike Bloomberg, billionaire businessman and former mayor of New York City, has refused financial support for his 2020 bid for the Democratic nomination, leaving him without donors and without clear support from voters. Senator Bernie Sanders, another Democratic presidential candidate,...
As college students in the U.S. anticipated their returns to their respective campuses, 3,000 troops prepared for their deployment to the Middle East following increased threats of retaliatory action by Iran. The Trump Administration followed its pattern of unexpected, and...