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Letter to the Editor: Young people should value human lives over their own social lives

Dear Editor, In the opinion piece published last Thursday, Sept. 17, with the title “Social isolation because of COVID-19 is hurting young people,” the author seemingly fails to realize that wearing masks

September 25, 2020

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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

September 24, 2020

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Opinion: Education has always been political. Let James Thomas keep his tenure.

Last Monday, Sept. 14, Mississippi state auditor Shad White recommended the firing of tenured UM sociology professor James Thomas, citing a law banning strikes. Thomas had participated in #ScholarStrike, a nationwide call

September 20, 2020

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Opinion: Mississippi, we must demand a social safety net

It has been six months since Gov. Tate Reeves declared a state of emergency in response to the coronavirus on March 14 – and there is no end in sight. When I

September 16, 2020

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Opinion: Social isolation because of COVID-19 is hurting young people

The coronavirus has largely uprooted everyone’s lives — from the elderly all the way to young children. But perhaps the most socially affected have been school-aged children and young adults. Schools across

September 14, 2020

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Letter to the Editor: UM asymptomatic testing is free, but there is a cost if we don’t participate.

Dear Editor, I would like to add to the article in last Thursday’s DM about mass testing for COVID on campus. The university calls mass testing “sentinel testing” or “surveillance testing.” We

September 13, 2020

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Opinion: The pandemic is an opportunity to reimagine access to education

It is no secret that American education is fundamentally flawed and unequal – beginning with K-12 school funding derived from property taxes and ending with disproportionate educational attainment along racial and economic

September 9, 2020

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Opinion: The USPS is essential. We recognized that too late.

The United States Postal Service is careening through an engineered crisis, hurtling towards failure. A 2006 law requiring that the Postal Service prepay retiree health benefits 75 years in advance — a

September 8, 2020

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Guest Column: A perspective on George Floyd from a former Minneapolis resident

I had an odd experience that happened recently during the Black Lives Matter protests this summer. I purchased something in Oxford, and while the payment was processing, the Black woman behind the

September 1, 2020

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Opinion: Government intervention has gone too far during the pandemic

Since mid-March, government response to the coronavirus has been wide and sweeping. States like California, New York and New Jersey are still enforcing strict stay-at-home orders while others such as Florida, Texas

August 31, 2020

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