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Since the dawn of mankind, the word “family” has carried with it a generally agreed-upon meaning. All families begin with the union of two persons, male and female, to create new lives. As time has gone by, families have traditionally consisted of two parents: a mother and a father, as well as perhaps 2-4 children. Families have not changed much, but something else...
I live with a mental illness. I have severe OCD, and very bad anxiety. I am a theatre major. These are facts. These are things I deal with every day. I’m a 24-year-old senior, and reaching a level of mental chillness, not mental illness, has been an extremely long and arduous journey. I took a two year break between my junior and senior years, finally returning...
Dear editor, I was told there will be an ASB vote soon to remove the Mississippi flag from the campus of Ole Miss! This is absolutely wrong and should not be allowed to happen! The current UM ASB needs to do the right thing. Ole Miss represents Mississippi as its flagship institution of higher learning in the state; thus, it should fly the current state flag, not...
We don’t deserve Raven-Symoné. Raven-Symoné is a bottomless vessel of knowledge and truth, and we are blessed to have her with us on this green earth. Today’s truth from #BlackTwitter’s favorite cousin is that your name having a whiff of “negrosity” in it justifies your not being afforded an employment opportunity. That’s just the way it is. “I’m not...
One in five Americans (including cancer patients) cannot afford to fill the prescriptions doctors write for them. Why is it that Americans pay high prices for prescription drugs? While there are many factors as to why healthcare is expensive, you should be aware that a company buying “underpriced” generic drugs and then astronomically raising them is a somewhat...
I turned 13 in 2007, and I had lots of plans for how I wanted my life to turn out. I wanted to be a novelist and a doctor, and I wanted to marry a good man. I mostly just wanted to grow up. I’m not one of those people who spend their days wistfully wishing they were children again. Things are better now than they were before. 13-year-old me at least got that right. 13-year-old...
During the Cold War, U.S. foreign intervention was often explained by invoking the “domino theory” in an effort to clarify the containment doctrine. The underlying fear was that if one regional pivot or “domino” were to fall under the spell of a leftist regime or even direct Soviet control, then other countries in that area would fall even quicker than the first...
For those who aren’t familiar with “Let’s Play”s, they’re videos on YouTube where grown people sit and record themselves playing video games. And in some cases, they get paid for it. While I understand why some people would be salty at Let’s Players because of this, I’ve also seen some needless insults thrown at viewers such as myself. “Why are you sitting...
Jack Abramoff, a former top lobbyist in the early 2000s who was found guilty in a corruption investigation for multiple charges, once ironically said “If you make the choice to serve the public… serve the public, not yourself.” No matter what disagreeable laws are enacted in these United States that you may feel strongly against, an impressive feat that our country...
