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Many of us come to college wrapped in our safe little bubbles, unaware of the stupidity that most of our peers display on a day-to-day basis. Our parents...

There is a story in the news that has become my guilty pleasure. It has had more crazy revelations and antics than a trashy reality TV show. But since...

We are approaching that wonderful/dreadful time of the semester once again: teacher evaluation submissions are open. You have until midnight on Dec. 8...

Dear Editor,   The Daily Mississippian columnist Whitney Greer’s column on Guantanamo unfortunately substitutes a good deal of bombast (“reign...

Malcolm Gladwell. J. Cole. Michael Jordan. One is a New York Times bestselling author with works such as “The Outliers,” “David and Goliath” and...

A refrain often intoned by the Democratic Party and used in the last Presidential campaign is the perceived need to close the Guantanamo Bay detention...

I got quite an interesting start writing for The Daily Mississippian. Instead of applying for a position or intending to land a weekly column, I submitted...

In September of this year, the U.S. war in Afghanistan passed the 12-year mark. Let us put this fact into perspective. For the majority of those of us...

To be honest, at first, I didn’t want to see “12 Years a Slave.” “It would just be too tough to watch,” I told myself. I finally saw it. Was...