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Opinion: The Privilege to Employment Pipeline

As graduating seniors start the job hunt and many students look for summer internships, barriers to access to opportunities are becoming more and more apparent. Being connected to important players in your

April 20, 2021

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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

April 19, 2021

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Opinion: A farewell from a cynical editor

When DM editors leave, they usually write around 700 words about how much they love the University of Mississippi and how thankful they are for the Student Media Center. While I absolutely

April 15, 2021

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Opinion: MLB is wrong to move the All-Star game out of Atlanta

“Democrats praise our national pastime while Republicans decry corporate power” sounds like a satirical headline from The Onion circa 2011. However, as we have come to expect, 2021 has already proven itself

April 12, 2021

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Opinion: Where the pandemic leaves the current freshman class

When the university announced back in February that fall 2021 classes will return to a pre-pandemic structure, the Oxford community let out a collective sigh. It seemed as though things would be

April 6, 2021

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Opinion: What UM should learn from Lil Nas X

If Lil Nas X was so eager to go to hell, maybe it’s time we ask why. On March 25, the rapper took the internet by storm with the release of a

April 5, 2021

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Opinion: The secret to a happy student body is the Grove

In a semester filled with Zoom classes and social distancing at home, students are spending more time indoors than in a normal semester. While drowning in homework or rushing from an in-person

March 30, 2021

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Opinion: Mass shootings highlight mass violence against women

It’s happening again. As America slowly begins to reopen and restart, our oldest pandemic has re-emerged. Mass shootings and gun violence are happening once again. Eight are dead in Atlanta, Georgia. Ten

March 29, 2021

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Opinion: Comfort is not sustainable in an extended crisis

As we lurch further into 2021, many of us — if not all of us — are finding it hard to move forward. While the prospects of a next-to-normal summer seem encouraging,

March 24, 2021

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Opinion: Anti-Asian American hate isn’t new. I know.

The 150% rise in hate crimes toward Asian Americans in 2020 ⁠— combined with hundreds of years of American anti-Asian sentiment, imperialism and bigoted presidents ⁠—came to a climax last week in

March 22, 2021

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