My experiences with Confederate imagery are few and impersonal. The most meaningful thoughts I can contribute to this conversation come not from one or two anecdotes, but from a life as a perpetual fence-sitter on all things contentious. Whether you want to call it empathy or an inexplicable spite of any...
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A fire broke out near a home Friday afternoon in Lafayette County at the intersection of Old Taylor Road and County Road 323. Officials are unsure how the blaze began, but were able to localize the start of the fire to the woods very close to the home. According to Raleigh Sprouse, training officer for the Lafayette County fire station, it was the fourth fire put out in...
The Associated Student Body will vote on a resolution tonight requesting the University cease flying the Mississippi state flag on campus. Voting will occur internally within the legislative branch, meaning student senators will vote on the resolution, ASB Attorney General Loden Walker said. The resolution was proposed by ASB senator and president of UM College...
The coming days and weeks will no doubt be busy, as the University of Mississippi’s Associated Student Body will be discussing and voting on whether to remove the state flag from campus due to its inclusion of Confederate symbols. In a recent letter to the editor, an alumnus of the University urged the ASB to “do the right thing” by keeping the flag and thus...
