It’s frightening, yet incredibly amazing how uncomfortable a new environment can make someone. We become so used to our surroundings: the people we know, the places where we spend time, the weather, etc. Going to college is one such situation. For most of us, we go from being solely dependent on our parents and never having to worry about much of anything, to having...
Dear Editor: A couple of weeks ago, I was walking past the Capitol in Washington, DC on my way to watch an Ole Miss football game with other DC alumni. In a park off to the side, about a dozen or so white men and women were waving the Confederate battle flag. They were some yards away from me, and separated from a seething multitude of black men and women by steel fences...
Dear UM, I am sickened by the news that the University has decided not to fly the state flag. It is bad enough about all of the other political correctness Ole Miss has kowtowed to over the past 20 years with the banning of the Rebel flag, no Dixie, no Colonel Reb and now this. This is almost as bad as ISIS blowing up ancient sites in Syria! What are you going...
The past two weeks at the University of Mississippi have been filled with the kind of dynamic discourse that should be expected at any institution of higher learning in America. We as a student body successfully offered widely differing opinions on one of the most controversial topics in current political discourse and emerged having mostly treated one another with the...
You know, it really grinds my gears that there is no true form of acceptance at this University or any part of the world. That is, if you’re also a part of the LGBTQ community. Well, of course, we are accepted within our own community, but in the layers that surround us, we still aren’t as accepted as I think we should be. People around the world are exclusively and...
I think we can all agree Adam Lambert should have won American Idol the year he competed. It was a year of astounding performances. Why does Adam Lambert not have a career equal to or surpassing some of today’s top artists? Mr. Lambert has a pedigree that rivals any pop star’s when it comes to music credentials. He has worked with hit-makers that have made superstars...
The Daily Mississippian asked students outside the Circle and the Union on Monday to express their reactions to the removal of the state flag on the University of Mississippi campus. Michael Holman Michael Holman English major Junior “I think it’s a good representation of our desire to see the dignity of each person on campus respected and to make this place as inclusive...
I didn’t realize I was bisexual until ninth grade. I’d made the discovery while staring a little too longingly at a friend in my honors history class. I had an overwhelming desire to touch her. Not even sexually, just to feel close to her, to women. When I think of myself as a person, a few things immediately come to mind: woman, writer, lover, queer. Most of these...
