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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

February 13, 2020

Opinion

Opinion: We must organize for future generations

They came, they saw and, like it or not, they conquered. Last week, Oxford was brought to its knees by demonstrations that invoke the question that every single Ole Miss student is

February 28, 2019

Opinion

‘Why should we have to be silent?’ Counterprotesters battle hate, rain on Saturday

As neo-Confederate activists arrived on campus, counterprotesters with signs began chanting, “Black presence, black power,” “We will not be quiet” and “Your heritage is hate.” Despite the possibility of severe weather, approximately

February 23, 2019

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Opinion: Take down the plaque, take down the statue

The contextualization plaque in front of our school’s Confederate monument is an interesting commentary on university policy. The plaque discusses the history of such monuments erected across the South in the 20th

November 8, 2018

Opinion

Documentary highlights both sides of state flag argument

On Wednesday, Oct. 25, the Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics featured the premiere and discussion of a new documentary film titled “Flag Flap Over Mississippi.” This film is an independent venture by

October 27, 2017

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Opinion: The University Greys: students, soldiers, sons of slaveholders

As secession fever swept the Slave South, young white men joined state militias en masse. By May 1861, only four months after Mississippi leaders declared secession, almost every student enrolled at the

October 20, 2017

Opinion

Opinion: What to do with the statue? Just ask Germany

As I was traveling through Germany waiting for my study abroad program to start, I couldn’t help but notice all the monuments, memorials and museums dedicated to the victims of the Nazi

September 25, 2017

Opinion

Opinion: Ole Miss, don’t let tailgating become your next Confederate monument

To anyone worried about political correctness taking over college campuses across the country, I have a safe space for you. Sadly, for our university, that space is no other than our beloved

September 4, 2017

Opinion

Opinion: What’s the difference between a Confederate grave and a monument?

Unless you have been living under a rock of non-Confederate statue origin, you have no doubt heard and seen countless opinions on what we should or should not do with the Confederate

September 1, 2017

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