With the Rebels losing talented players in Laquon Tradwell, Jaylen Walton and Cody Core, Ole Miss will look to a new core of skilled players to contribute consistently. The Rebels return redshirt junior running back Jordan Wilkins in the backfield. Wilkins has played routinely over the previous two seasons. The Cordova, Tennessee, native rushed for 379 yards and four touchdowns...
Author Archives: Collin Brister
As soon as Clayton Waller graduated college and released his first album, he went to summer camp. He had just released “Blanks” under his music moniker, Rock Eupora; for the next three months, Waller worked as a head counselor at Alpine Camp for Boys. With no technology and an allotted amount of free time every day, he began work on his second album. “I thought I...
The University Student Dietetics Association is hosting the first annual Roberta J. Ivy Kidney Walk on Saturday, March 5 to honor its namesake, who died as a result of kidney disease. The walk will begin at 9 a.m. at Oxford Middle School on Bramlett Boulevard and continue onto North Lamar before eventually leading back to the school. All of the proceeds from the walk will...
Hundreds of years of history are stored in the walls of Oxford’s oldest buildings; the local Historic Properties Commission is tasked with protecting all of it. Oxford’s Historic Properties Commission was formed in October 2013 with the goal of repairing, marketing and monitoring Oxford’s historic properties. For the last year, the commission has overseen the Lamar...
Creationism belongs in a classroom the same way discussions of unicorns do: it’s sort of a cool idea, if it’s true I hope magic was involved, but, ultimately, it has no merit for study in a valid scientific way. In a personal worldview, creationism and evolution can coexist peacefully. While the idea of creationism is little more than a fairytale to me, someone’s...
Science and religion have been at odds since before science was formally science. Since the 1920s, fundamentalist Christians have brought lawsuits against promoting the idea of evolution. Today, evolution is taught across the country, but there are still vestiges of creationism taught in the South. There are even Christian scientists that use the scientific method to defend...
