F. Scott Fitzgerald believed a good way to test one’s mind is to hold two opposite ideas before the other and try to continue functioning as normal. My mind, hopefully in a […]
Some Pointers for a New Semester/by Kyle Hamrick
Though I hate to see it in print, perhaps the most needed winter break in college history is long gone. Replacing it is a new semester much like its predecessor. The only […]
Editorial: Looking Back, Looking Ahead/by Kyle Hamrick

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 […]
Editorial: “Every Day is Election Day”/by Kyle Hamrick

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 […]
Editorial: America is on the Brink of the Rubicon/by Kyle Hamrick

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 […]
Editorial: One History, Under Trump/by Kyle Hamrick

“Tell all the Truth but tell it slant, Success in Circuit lies.” This line by Emily Dickinson seems particularly fitting in light of President Trump’s forthcoming executive order: an initiative for “patriotic […]
A Flag for the Future/by Kyle Hamrick

By: Kyle Hamrick The first petition I ever signed was to remove the Confederate emblem from the Mississippi state flag. A friend posted a link on Facebook, and I ascribed my virtual […]
On Wearing Masks/by Kyle Hamrick, Editor in Chief

COVID-19 has made a permanent mark on us. We will forever remember the last six months for the changes wrought on our lives. Nevertheless, the pandemic is not over; there is still […]
To The Editor/by Dr. Reid Vance

To the Editor: My first letter to an editor of a newspaper was sent in the late 1980s, to the Jackson Daily News, on a topic I now can’t remember. In the […]
Confederate Heritage Month is Not What Mississippi Needs / By: Kyle Hamrick, Editor in Chief

As if the coronavirus was not bad enough, here comes the Confederacy from beyond the grave. Two days after Mississippi went under a shelter-at-home order to combat the spread of COVID-19, Governor […]