Opinion

House Bill 1083 was overwhelmingly passed 80-29 by the Mississippi Legislature last month, which, if signed into law, would allow enhanced concealed carry permit holders to carry their guns on public property. In light of recent school shootings, the Mississippi...

The recent protests, marches and town halls over the mass shooting in Florida have stirred many students emotionally over the past weeks. The country watches as people not even 20 years old weep over their lost friends, publicly processing grief...

Recently, I attended the spring Honors Convocation, which centered around human trafficking advocacy. Honors College artist-in-residence Bruce Levingston moderated discussions with founder of the nonprofit “Freedom for All” Katie Ford and trafficking victim and activist Shandra Woworuntu. One of the...

On Feb. 26, Gov. Phil Bryant posted on his official Facebook page a piece from the Clarion-Ledger. The piece centers around a Southern Poverty Law Center report of active hate groups in the United States that rates Mississippi as having...

On Jan. 31, The Daily Mississippian reported that the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation would relocate to Jackson and reconstitute as an independent nonprofit. Announcing the transition, former Gov. Winter praised “the vision (of the University of Mississippi) to...

It is such a refreshing column that Will Hall wrote in The DM regarding the lack of thought diversity on our college campuses. I’m a graduate of Ole Miss and currently reside in Oxford. The only narrative that our higher...

On Feb. 14, the nation was, yet again, witness to another school shooting. Nineteen-year-old Nikolas Cruz walked into the school he had been expelled from, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, and murdered 17 former classmates with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle....

Political engagement in America is not what it used to be, especially when it comes to local and state governments. In the 2016 general election, only 60.2 percent of eligible voters cast their ballots. If so many voices were unheard...

A 17-year-old girl who is looking to make a transition to becoming a boy, was barred, by her parents, from being evaluated by a psychologist that would subsequently have led to receiving hormone therapy. Her parents are Christian and decided...

I disagree with the latest opinion piece written by Will Hall attacking academia and will like to add the following rebuttal concerning the goal of a college education. A college education should not be made into political dogma for closed-minded...