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The recently released biopic about the life of Queen’s frontman Freddie Mercury is now the highest grossing musical biopic in history. See what student musicians and professors think about Queen’s legacy and the film.
Freshman running back Isaiah Woullard might just be thrust into a starting role on the road against Vanderbilt this weekend, depending on Scottie Phillips’ availability after an injury this past Saturday.
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Forum highlights Mississippi’s opioid crisis Overby panel to discuss runoff SLADE RAND
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munity,’” Stand Up, Mississippi outreach coordinator Angela Mallette said. “It’s a personal conviction for all of us.” Opioid addiction has been declared a national crisis as many people across the nation are abusing the drug. Opioids are broken down into three classes which are prescription
One week ahead of the debate between former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Mike Espy (D) and U.S. Sen. Cindy HydeSmith (R), Ole Miss students will have the chance to hear from four seasoned analysts of Mississippi politics at the Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics. Overby Center Fellow Curtis Wilkie and Overby Center Chairman Charles Overby will host campaign consultant Austin Barbour and former state House Representative Brandon Jones in a discussion of the historic runoff between Espy and Hyde-Smith at 5:30 p.m. this afternoon at the Overby Center Auditorium. “The end of the midterm elections signals the beginning of the presidential race,” Overby said in a press release. “We will talk about the
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Angela Mallette, the outreach coordinator for Stand Up, Mississippi, speaks on the nature of addiction during a forum on the opioid epidemic on Tuesday night.
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Mississippi organizations concerned with the state’s ongoing struggle with opioid abuse came together on campus Tuesday night to highlight the importance of students’ involvement in combating the crisis.
The Mississippi Board of Pharmacy partnered with The Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics, the Jackson division of the FBI, the Department of Mental Health and Stand Up, Mississippi to host an opioid forum on campus, where representatives discussed methods to curb rates of opioid abuse. Sid Seal, compliance agent for the Mississippi Board of
Pharmacy, said the town hall meeting was the 33rd forum that has been conducted since the organizations’ partnership began. Started around a year and a half ago, this is the fifth forum to happen on a Mississippi college campus. “The leaders of all these different agencies got together, and we said ‘We have to take this message out the to com-
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The Election Reform Task force will host its second forum tonight in Lamar Hall 131 to discuss potential changes to campus elections. The task force, led by former ASB Attorney General Katherine Sistrunk and ASB Co-Director of Inclusion and Cross-Cultural Engagement Leah Davis, hosted their first forum in October. In a written statement to The Daily Mississippian,
Davis and Sistrunk said at the last forum they realized that many students were “excited and ready to make campus elections more fair and equitable.” “With this next forum, we hope to see more engaged and interested students bringing forth additional ideas for election reform,” Davis and Sistrunk said. “We expect increased attendance at this next forum as many students have expressed interest in attending.” The forums come after The Daily Mississippian reported that candidates running for
personality elections and ASB elections are not required to disclose who donates to their campaign and that most candidates being backed by their Greek organizations. In August, Sistrunk resigned as ASB Attorney General because she realized that Greek-affiliated candidates had an advantage over those who were not members of a Greek organization, and she realized she benefited from that system. “This decision was made on
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Leah Davis and Katherine Sistrunk, co-directors of the Associated Student Body Election Reform Task Force, moderate the first meeting of a newly-created task force to reform the way student elections are conducted on campus last month.