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Staff editorial: We will not be represented by these prejudiced few

On Tuesday evening the Ole Miss theater department held a production of “The Laramie Project,” a play about Matthew Shephard, an openly gay male, who was murdered in Laramie County, Wyo. But unlike its previous performances, this one was troubling as university students heckled and disrupted the event,...

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Helmets do not provide immunity

I was in the crowd the night some of the freshman football players heckled Garrison Gibbons, among other cast members. The moment Gibbons opened his mouth,...

Letter to the editor

Dear University of Mississippi Administration, Athletics Department, Students, Faculty, and Staff, Tuesday night, October 1, 2013 a deplorable act of hate...

Will you be electric sheep?

How pleased was I when I logged into Facebook and looked on my timeline and learned that there was an incident of homophobia and general insensitivity...

Weeds

The grass is always greener on the other side. When you compare lawns, it often seems that your yard does not match up with the weed-free, vibrant landscape ...

Nuclear dribble

The First Amendment sometimes disappoints Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant. The Commercial Appeal reported Bryant saying that “I am disappointed in the...

House Republicans break bad

Over the weekend, Congress put on a show for the American people—one that displayed the very worst characteristics of our elected representatives. Political discussions turned into screaming matches, filled with personal attacks and factual errors. What caused the chaos? The arguments stemmed from the inability of Congress to pass a continuing resolution to fund the...

The elephant in the room

Eighteen percent of the American economy has been rewritten into a snarling train wreck tens of thousands of pages long, and crammed down the throats of...

Become a catalyst for diversity and equality

The face of America is changing. When Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue and discovered the New World, he could have never imagined what it would...

Voter ID just makes sense

After the recent Supreme Court decision striking down the formula in the Voting Rights Act, numerous states that had been under preclearance announced...

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