Author Archives: Ashley Norwood
With a well constructed yet challenging 2015 fall schedule, and coming off of a winning season, the Ole Miss soccer team looks to validate the program even more this fall. The team should have plenty of experience returning 10 starters from last year’s team. The players are currently undergoing strength and conditioning training and in July will work on skill enhancements...
The Ole Miss women’s volleyball team has a promising season ahead of it this fall. Returning six of the seven starters from last year and adding seven new players, the team has a great mix of experience and youth that should result in another good season for the Rebels. Last year, the team went 22-10 in head coach Steven McRoberts’s first year, which was the best...
Photo by: Zoe Mcdonald Behind the doors of the Main Event kitchen, Dwayne Ingraham finishes up a cucumber, basil and gin sorbet. As the last fragrant bit drizzles into the carton and smells of summertime sweets waft through the air, Ingraham remains focused on the task at hand. “I try and get in here by eight in the morning,” said Ingraham, the executive pastry chef...
Just one month after the death of Freddie Gray occurred, Baltimore had the highest number of killings in a single month since the early 1970s. The explanation that the Baltimore Police Department gives for this landmark statistic is that its officers are afraid to use force due to fear of ridicule or charges being filed against them. Freddie’s death, which sparked highly...
Although campus life may feel peaceful and slow to students enrolled in summer classes, some of those students are completely overwhelmed by the University’s friendly 3,391 acres. These students are between the ages of fifteen and eighteen, and have yet to begin their senior year of high school. They have come from all over the nation to participate in Summer College...
My hope for humanity is often reaffirmed by my generation and our attempt to judge one another based on nobility and decency instead of socially constructed norms. Every now and then one of my peers makes a disheartening remark that reminds me the conversation isn’t over. As I grabbed my iced coffee and copy of the DM Thursday, I was stunned. The opinion column titled...
As the organist played “Pomp and Circumstance,” Jim Hill High School’s class of 2010 marched single-filed onto the Mississippi Coliseum floor. I was so nervous. Sleep deprived, but cautious enough not to stumble in my new 5-inch stilettos. My shoulders were weighed down by colored cords and medallions symbolizing the process and progress of the past four years of...
