Hal Fox, Author at The Daily Mississippian

Mississippi education needs a complete overhaul

Mississippi is bleeding out, hemorrhaging educators fed up with unlivable wages as students across the state suffer from underfunded schools and racial bias. For centuries, Mississippi has underfunded public education, and as

February 17, 2022

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American conservatism has shifted from personal liberty to government overreach

Ask any two people on the street what critical race theory means and you’ll likely get a different answer from each. Ask Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves and Republican state senators, however, and

February 3, 2022

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America must stop preparing for school shootings and start preventing them

I know I wasn’t the only student who felt a sharp sense of alarm when I read that a school shooting had taken place at Oxford High School on Nov. 30. Nor

January 19, 2022

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Online charisma fuels the fire of extremism

There are three inevitabilities in life: death, taxes and older generations freaking out at the younger ones for technologies and behaviors they don’t understand. TikTok, with its iron grip over the screen

December 1, 2021

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Americans need accessible mental health resources now

The University of Mississippi’s Counseling Department never really gets a day off — working with the university’s population of nearly 25,000 students and faculty members, their services are in near-constant demand. As

November 29, 2021

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The deception of the War on Christmas

It’s November, which in the southern United States means the pre-Christmas festivities are set to begin any moment: a ticking time bomb of fir trees, red ribbons and giant inflatable Santa Clauses

November 11, 2021

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Nothing will change under Biden’s leadership

Living in Mississippi, you’d think Joe Biden’s approval ratings could never eclipse 30%. Located in one of the most solidly red states in the country, the University of Mississippi is unsurprisingly one

October 25, 2021

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As more go “unheard,” more will riot

In the midst of the Black Lives Matter protests of last year, many people unaffiliated with the organization committed acts of arson and destruction of property. In response, conservatives unleashed a campaign

October 19, 2021

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Climate change has already been at my doorstep, whose will it be next?

Many students return home from college on any given weekend to spend time with their families and relax in a familiar environment. When I visited home two weeks ago, however, my environment

October 12, 2021

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Trent Lott’s troubled past has no place at UM

Ole Miss is struggling to find its identity in the modern world, and enshrining racists should have no place in that process. After it was dragged kicking and screaming into desegregation in

September 27, 2021

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