Author Archives: Alex Presley
Coming to the South after living in Oregon for a year was the biggest culture shock I have ever experienced – and I lived in Paris for six months. My brother and I were in Oxford for a campus tour before I committed to transferring here from the University of Oregon. Eugene, the location of UO, is exactly the way you’d think any Oregon city to be: a bunch of pot...
Several days ago, a cartoon drawing was published in the Daily Mississippian. The drawing I am referencing had a Mississippi flag and, in the background, hooded, cloaked members with a burning cross. I can only assume they were projected members of the Klu Klux Klan. The words on the drawing stated, referencing to the Mississipi flag, “When you lift this up, you lift...
I am proud of my classmates for standing up against our state, for opposing our governor, and for separating our University from the Confederate battle flag. I have been vocally supportive of their efforts from the beginning. Now that the same coalition is targeting the Confederate statue, I will vocally oppose their efforts until the end. We have achieved two great victories...
Dear Editor, It is not right to judge those who lived in a different era by today’s standards. Our family has ties to Ole Miss that go back to the late 1800s. Several generations of cousins have attended Ole Miss, including twin sisters, all from Mississippi. After the War Between the States, my family was too poor to paint and too proud to whitewash; they spent the...
The Libertarian Party of Mississippi sent out a press release in October calling on the University of Mississippi, City of Oxford and Lafayette County to cease all funding of the Lafayette County Metro Narcotics Unit. The Lafayette County Metro Narcotics Unit has been controversial since numerous articles by Buzzfeed this year highlighted the unit’s usage of confidential...
Our generation does a lot of things poorly. We ignore wrongdoing, feign outrage, are generally passive in many important matters and are not as politically literate as we should be. We don’t vote as often as we should and plenty else. But we also don’t hang out in malls anymore. We, as a generation, have realized that the mall is not a good place. The mall is not a...
