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Letter to the editor: Tom Baker

Here’s to you, Brandon Niemeyer Brandon Niemeyer’s staff photo from when he served on The Daily Mississippian editorial board. Brandon Niemeyer matriculated at his beloved Ole Miss in the fall of 2000. He wrote for The DM from September 2000 until June 2005, starting as a columnist and ending on the...

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Opinion: Cinco de Mayo should be respectfully celebrated

With or without a wall, there is a Mexican import that is here to stay: the holiday of Cinco de Mayo. Although south of the border this day is mostly celebrated...

Letter to the editor: Michael Holman

I was saddened and embarrassed to see our ASB Senate pass a resolution to suspend the Chancellor’s context committee. This poorly reasoned proposal is both ill advised and logically infantile for countless reasons. The stated problem with the committee, lack of student representation, is an absurd objection. The committee is staffed with scholars, experts in fields of...

Opinion: Why collegiate athletes deserve payment

Every year except this one, I have watched the NFL draft – a time when prospective professional football players are put to the test in a grueling combine...

Letter to the editor: J. W. Lewis

I just read your article about basketball entering a new era. I’d like to toss in a few notes from an Ole Miss sports board. Ole Miss’ last outright...

Farewell column: Lifestyles editor Zoe McDonald

Former lifestyles editors Zoe McDonald and McKenna Wierman are pictured just after sending off their 20-page Back-to-School edition in fall 2016. I still...

Opinion: Why we should change how we think about soda

Soda is an often habit-forming product that does not receive as much criticism as it deserves. Hundreds of gallons of soda, as well as coffee, alcoholic...

Farewell Column: Editor-in-chief Clara Turnage

Farewell column season is my least favorite time of the year. For the past three years, goodbye columns have marked the time when I have to deal with my...

Opinion: Why we should kill the death penalty

Two men were executed Monday night in Arkansas in the nation’s first double execution since 2000. Oklahoma and Louisiana, on the other hand, have...

Letter to the editor: John Hornor

To proponents of Net Neutrality, I pose the following question: should the data packets sent and received by a remote surgical suite get equal treatment...

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