Opinion: The Case Against ASB
The Associated Student Body — as an institution — suffers from a souring culture of on-campus engagement. Of course, every aspect of student life has been upset in the past year, but
Opinion: Masks off means freedom to make dangerous decisions
Over the course of the pandemic, Mississippi’s response has proven below average at best and abysmal at worst. As of publication, Mississippi is 45th in testing and 35th in vaccinations. Adjusted for
Opinion: MDAH protects history from politics. Senate Bill 2727 will change that.
The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, which opened in 2017, focuses on the years between 1945 and 1976 “when Mississippi was ground zero for the national Civil Rights Movement”. The museum celebrates the
Opinion: The university needs to find its sense of shame
We tend to confuse embarrassment and shame. We might say that embarrassment is a shallower or lighter version of shame, yet we still think of them as two words for the same
Opinion: The most important subject taught at UM is its history
Western philosophy has tied moral decency with intellectual capacity. In short, a person who wants to live the good life probably needs some knowledge of what good is. Unsurprisingly, a person seeking
Opinion: Insulin is far from “cheap like water”
For a brief moment during the first presidential debate, I found myself in the middle of a spat between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. As the two candidates bickered over healthcare, the
Opinion: Down-ballot voting should be high priority
This election season, much attention has been paid to the presidential race. While the importance of the presidency is hard to overstate, we should not forget the tens of thousands of campaigns
Opinion: Change at UM should not come at the costs of students’ lives
Last week, an anonymous group of current and former housing workers published an open letter to the university detailing a series of demands. These demands — hazard pay, personal protective equipment, mandatory
Opinion: How Ole Miss Athletics help push out Confederate traditions
There’s a story that all of us have heard and some of us have told, and it goes like this: The University of Mississippi was once a great school. Its magnolia-shaded campus
Opinion: What should go in the statue’s place?
The University of Mississippi is in an identity crisis. At times, this crisis seems to have permeated every inch of our space and each one of our people, its instances ranging from