Try searching Mississippi on Netflix. What are your results? “The Blind Side?” “The Help?” What else? Documentaries. Piles of them. Stacks. Towers. A hot trend in the world of the pop documentary is the tale of Mississippi Poverty. I type that with double capitalization because it refers not to Mississippi poverty, which surrounds us, saddens us and moves us to...
Author Archives: Cecilia Criddle
“So, what are you?” This is always one of the first questions asked when a member of the opposite sex decides to engage in conversation with me. There are so many answers, but I know only 11 of them will satisfy their query. Basically, what letters do you flaunt? Greek life is only approximately 38 percent of this school, yet somehow it always seems to be in the...
Each fall semester brings new blood and excitement, but throughout campus you can hear whispers. A freshman trash-talking “the uniform,” a grad school student rolling their eyes and denigrating leggings. I was one of them, too, three years ago. I was a too-cool, alternative, anti-mainstream wannabe who thought dyeing the ends of my hair made me punk rock (spoilers,...
His name is Derek McOmber, originally from Port Orchard, Washington, but around campus he is better-known as “The Singing Guy.” Aside from being the man around campus known for serenades, McOmber is a 30-year-old senior management information systems major who also holds a bachelor’s degree in digital entertainment and game design from ITT Technical Institute. McOmber...
