Finals week is approaching, and many students are wondering what exams will look like this semester. “Final exams are likely to be somewhat similar, but also different,” said Debbie Norris, Associate Provost and Graduate Dean at MC. “Many faculty are creating new ways of teaching that are enhancing the learning outcomes. One example is flipping... Continue Reading →
What a semester it has been here at Mississippi College! From the time we started classes on Aug. 17, we have been working nonstop. The papers, projects, presentations, tests, and quizzes have taken a big toll on us. We are still working with few hours of sleep, trying to get this work done. We’re constantly... Continue Reading →
In the last few years, true crime has taken the United States by storm. With the growth of podcasts and streaming services, true crime is more accessible and readily available than ever before. Netflix, as one of the most popular streaming services, has put out a number of captivating documentaries based on real tragedies that... Continue Reading →
As the semester draws to a close, the MC public safety office is hard at work making sure we can finish safely. From Oct. 3, 2020, to Oct. 31, 2020, the campus safety officers made a total of 36 dispatches. Many of this past month’s calls were service-oriented, to offer assistance or information. Five walkthroughs,... Continue Reading →
Merry Thanksgiving! My present this year is a very expensive piece of paper put in a very expensive frame. What will I be doing with my present? Good question. Besides looking at jobs on Indeed.com and profusely emailing Taylor Ormon in Career Services, I will hang it on a wall somewhere in my room at... Continue Reading →
The MC cross country teams competed at the GSC championship meet on Saturday, Oct. 31. The women’s team picked up the program's highest GSC finish with a second place finish. The men’s team finished fourth. Both teams set an individual school record; Jazmin Hernandez set the school mark in the women’s 5K with a time... Continue Reading →
With only a couple of weeks to go in the semester, students can look forward to the remaining holidays 2020 has left to offer. Thanksgiving is on the horizon, and a long-awaited Christmas lays just beyond it. While Thanksgiving often gets overshadowed by Christmas, the latter’s atmosphere is an undeniably vibrant time, filled with the... Continue Reading →
On November 2, MC announced commencement for May, August, and December 2020 graduates will be honored with a virtual ceremony on December 12. “We do hope that graduates will feel a sense of pride, accomplishment, and closure as we recognize their success at MC,” said Commencement Committee Chair Dr. Kyle Brantley. Senior accounting major Jared... Continue Reading →
For a considerable amount of time, there have been rumors swirling around as to whether or not Disney will develop a sequel to “Hocus Pocus,” a Halloween film that has become beloved among audiences in recent years. Those rumors were eventually confirmed to be true, and now, more details have been released on the planned... Continue Reading →
Competing in three tournaments throughout the month of October, the Choctaws went up against competition from other GSC schools as well as local junior colleges and other division 2 schools. At the Derrall Foreman Intercollegiate, the Choctaws finished third with a strong showing from senior Force Choi who finished tied for fifth. The next week,... Continue Reading →
Will Fisher-” Every year my family has ugly Christmas sweater cookie competition. I’m a 4x champion.” Ben Stanzell- “Making Mommy’s cookies!” Ishmon Foster:” Me and my mom sit on the couch and read the Christmas story!” Grace Jennings- “I go over to my grandmommy’s house and make deviled eggs.”
The newest club on campus, the Sexual Assault Prevention Ambassadors (SAPA), hopes to raise awareness for sexual assault on Mississippi College’s campus, educating Choctaws on how to remain safe. Passed through SGA two weeks ago, Nathalie Rowell founded and leads the ambassadors as president, giving them information to spread across campus. “As a survivor of... Continue Reading →
A new era of MC Athletics began with an inaugural tournament for MC’s new women’s golf program on Oct. 26-27, 2020. Freshman Sarah Hodson competed at the Carey Collegiate Classic hosted by William Carey and tied for 11th place in the two-round tournament. Hodson fired a 78 (six over par) in round one on the... Continue Reading →
“It’s time for Spider-Man 3. Let’s go!” exclaimed Tom Holland on a recent Instagram story, elation in his voice after having just landed in Atlanta to begin the project. The news is official confirmation that Marvel has started production on the highly-anticipated sequel to 2019’s “Spider-Man: Far From Home.” The ending of that film showed... Continue Reading →
As I realized last week that the term papers I usually submit in the middle of December are now due in the middle of November, I opened my calendar to scrawl out a plan for the semester’s premature end. Once I finished charting my course, the result resembling more of a conspiracy theorist’s chalkboard than... Continue Reading →
As the fall semester draws to a close, President Blake Thompson provides insight into the coming weeks and the upcoming spring semester. A chief concern for many students over the next few weeks is how final exams are going to work. Simply, finals will continue as normal. Professors oversee how they administer finals, Thompson said. ... Continue Reading →
On July 12, 2011, Donald Ray Pollock published a novel by the name of “The Devil All the Time.” This novel was well-received critically and commercially for its Southern Gothic setting, complex characters, and deep themes. Many compared it to William Faulkner’s stories about Southern honor and familial strife over the generations. The author has... Continue Reading →
Ethan Sakon: “Vote Pro-Life First.” Kyle So: “Whether or not the candidate will carry out their plans for this country.” Alana Magliolo “COVID-19.” Gracie Paulson: “Education.” Noah Watson: “Historical accuracy.” Katie Watkins: “Freedom of religion.”
The City of Clinton is located in Mississippi’s Second Congressional District, and its representative is up for reelection this year. Born in Bolton in 1948, Bennie Gordon Thompson began his activism through the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee while at Tougaloo College, organizing voter registration drives for Blacks throughout the Mississippi Delta before becoming a schoolteacher.... Continue Reading →
On Tuesday, October 20, we put four polls on our Instagram story. We asked MC students and Collegian readers to cast their votes for president, Mississippi state senator, the proposed Mississippi state flag, and the legalization of medical marijuana in Mississippi. When asked to vote for either President Donald Trump or Vice President Joe Biden... Continue Reading →
Social media’s influence on this year’s election seems to be greater than ever before. The pandemic left millions of Americans stuck in their homes with time to become more active on social media. Candidates aren't door knocking or going out nearly as much. Social media platforms give politicians the ability to connect with voters where... Continue Reading →
“We learn from history that we do not learn from history.” This quote from Friedrich Hegel found at the beginning of Alt-Right: Age of Rage, sums up the 2018 documentary well. Focused on the return of political violence, this one hour and 45 minute work follows two leaders. The first, Daryle Lamont Jenkins, is an... Continue Reading →
Saturday, Oct. 17 marked the first and only home cross country meet of the season at the Watson Invitational for the MC men’s and women’s cross country teams. The Lady Choctaws won their second straight event while the men’s team finished second. Individually on the women’s side, redshirt sophomore Jazmin Hernandez claimed her second straight... Continue Reading →
One might say it’s all been building up to this. This is the last editorial you will read from me before the Election of 2020. I make no pretense toward profundity; I want only to give my perspective. I am no oracle, but I believe the sun will rise and the world will continue to... Continue Reading →
On Oct. 26, MC’s Worship Collective released their newest album to streaming platforms. It is their fourth album overall as well as their first Christmas album. Fittingly titled “Joyful and Triumphant,” the album comes with a story of perseverance as it was being worked on while COVID-19 overtook normal life. “When COVID hit, we had... Continue Reading →
Tensions are rising as the presidential election is drawing closer. Most national elections are not global events, but the U.S. presidential election is an exception. The U.S. has an impact on the world in a way other countries don't. This country is the largest economy in the world with the largest stock exchange. Nine out... Continue Reading →
History professor and Reconstruction-era enthusiast Melissa “Missy” Jones was interviewed by both Mississippi Public Broadcasting (MPB) and MSNBC within the span of a week. Jones shared her knowledge on women’s suffrage and African American Mississippi ancestry. MPB reached out to the Mississippi Humanities Council asking for an expert in the history field on women’s suffrage.... Continue Reading →
A gigantic roller coaster of emotion and scariness all wrapped in one. That’s how the new show “The Haunting of Bly Manor” on Netflix can be described. It is the trending follow-up series to “The Haunting of Hill House,” another hit on Netflix. It opens with an older woman known as “The Storyteller” sitting on... Continue Reading →
The MC football team has returned to the practice field for a “fall practice” slate. They are then scheduled to culminate their offseason practice with a White vs Gold fall game on Saturday, Nov. 7 at noon. Normally, a football team will have a spring practice slate in the spring, and then play their season... Continue Reading →
The presidential and vice presidential debates took place beginning on Sept. 30, 2020, with President Donald Trump and Vice President Joe Biden demonstrating their policy views and campaign goals. Their vice presidents debated, too, with Vice President Mike Pence and Senator Kamala Harris sounding off their views as well. I was really excited for the... Continue Reading →
Question: “Would you rather go to a haunted house or pumpkin patch?” Will McCarty “A haunted house because pumpkin patches are boring. Haunted houses are entertainment.” Mary Evelyn McPherson “A pumpkin patch because they are family-oriented and the purpose is to make you happy, not scared.” Mary Katherine Martin “Haunted house because pumpkin patches remind... Continue Reading →
Homecoming is a longtime fall tradition for schools across the country, serving as a chance for the MC family to connect with their past generations and celebrate new students year after year. This year, MC will be hosting a Fall Fever Week for its students rather than a traditional homecoming. This will include different events... Continue Reading →
I love the original Mulan. It was and still is why I love movies. The magic, the power, the fun. What’s not to like? Well, the Mouse House has recently released a live-action version with an all-Asian cast that focuses on realism separate from songs and supernatural elements, presenting it as a female-led war film.... Continue Reading →
Mississippi College is a great university that offers some very unique classes for students to take over the course of four years. However, it’s important that students really take classes that will shape their future and give them the knowledge they will need when they graduate. In the course catalog at MC, it was previously... Continue Reading →
We’ve made it to the point of the semester where people are frantically studying and scurrying to class. There’s no time for socialization. The commons are packed with people bent over books or at least trying to while their friends distract them. That’s right--it’s midterms. This can be a stressful time for all students, and... Continue Reading →
Volleyball is one of the many sports at MC that cannot compete this semester at the hands of COVID-19. The team had high expectations going into the season, and although they will not be playing this semester, the team has still been hard at work in practice. Their normal fall season has been postponed, and... Continue Reading →
“My name is Enola, which backwards spells alone. To be a Holmes, you must find your own path. My brothers have. My mother has. And I must too.” “Enola Holmes,” starring Millie Bobby Brown, recently dropped on Netflix, and it is already on the streaming site’s Top Ten in the U.S. chart. Many of us... Continue Reading →
From Sept. 4, 2020, to Oct. 2, 2020, the campus safety officers made a total of 35 dispatches. Officers dispatched to five miscellaneous alarm calls, three walkthroughs, and two dispatches of returned property across campus. Many calls were for information, assistance, or patrolling of the campus. However, some were more serious cases. There were five... Continue Reading →
In The Collegian’s last issue, an article detailed the dangers associated with the New Women’s East and West showers. The article called attention to a lack of ventilation in the small bathrooms, and urged for solutions to prevent dorm residents from fainting. Since then, MC’s Physical Plant has responded to the issue. “If you have... Continue Reading →
Winning the GSC title and 15 straight games, in addition to being nationally ranked in the top five are all achievements that very few teams can say they have done in a season. Last year, however, the Lady Choctaws soccer team did just that. But it is a new year, and with it comes the... Continue Reading →
Autumn is officially in full swing, and the promise of this season means returning to a cooler atmosphere of holidays and old favorites. Everyone seems to have a tradition they associate with fall, right down to the films they watch. To celebrate the occasion, some of The Collegian’s own have offered their personal picks for... Continue Reading →
When I sat down in March and made my schedule for the fall semester, it did not occur to me that I would study the history of Ancient Rome during an election year. I blame it on the lockdown that I did not notice the gears of our republic groaning to life for another season... Continue Reading →
The Mississippi College Writing Center has reopened for in-person tutoring sessions this semester, taking a number of precautions to ensure a safe environment for both tutors and writers amid COVID-19 concerns. After operating fully online for the second half of the spring semester and the summer, the Writing Center’s physical location reopened on Aug. 27,... Continue Reading →
The introduction of 2016’s “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” marked a new era for Harry Potter fans. While this film returned audiences to a wizarding world different from the one The Boy Who Lived grew up in, characterized by an American setting and a new main character, it was largely a success. It... Continue Reading →
As many athletes wait anxiously for their turn to compete, the men’s golf team is no exception. Fifth-year graduate senior Force Choi has been preparing to begin the fall season as the spring season earlier this year was cancelled due to COVID-19. Choi was granted that fifthseason of eligibility due to those cancellations. Five years... Continue Reading →
It all happened very fast, but that’s how everything in life happens. I’m talking about this fall weather that just suddenly crept up on us in Clinton, Miss. I think that the fall weather is great in terms of getting to wear warm sweaters and getting to finally have hot chocolate. Who can complain? But... Continue Reading →
Move over School of Science and Mathematics, there’s a new top school on campus. With over 27% of MC’s entire student body enrolled, the School of Education is producing the future teachers and leaders of tomorrow. But don’t feel too bad, School of Science and Mathematics; you still take silver with 20% of MC’s population. ... Continue Reading →
The MC cross country program had a monumental day at the UAH Charger Invitational on Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020. The women’s team finished second as they posted a school record team average time of 18:26. The men’s team finished third and posted their best team average time since 2018. Freshman Kathy Hammond led the way... Continue Reading →
Brian Rivers “Lasagna.” Peyton Depriest “What the heck is pumpkin spice?” Diana Peter “Cheeeeeesecake.” Jason Newbaker “My little baby cousin Bartholomew.”
The age-old discussion surrounding class attendance is one that likely will never die. As a senior, each year I find myself more and more annoyed with mandatory class attendance. Let me start by saying that I am not a school person. I do not have an innate love for learning, nor do I enjoy doing... Continue Reading →
