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From the Office of the Chancellor:

Dear Ole Miss Family,

John has an unfortunate story. He and his wife want to start a family, so they began searching for a house. The house they end up buying has a few problems, but it is a good starter house. The roof leaks, the cabinets need to be replaced and the foundation has some problems.

After buying the house, like any responsible couple, they shopped for home insurance. They were told that the foundation will need to be repaired within the next year, so no insurance plan would cover the home’s foundation at a price John could afford.

Lately, some of the Republican candidates have managed to talk themselves into a hole concerning welfare and those living in poverty. Newt Gingrich, probably the most offensive on the subject, accused all poor people of not having the habit of “showing up on Monday,” implying that those living below the poverty line simply do not work as a result of laziness. He said, “Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works.” 

Faced with the current economy upon graduation, many college students are making the decision to continue their education.

The University of Mississippi has seen graduate student enrollment across all programs increase approximately 20 percent since 2000, according to Mary Harrington, director of institutional research and assessment.

Hospitality management senior Kate MacNeil was among the students who made that decision.

The University of Mississippi Medical Center has been approved to receive a $112 million bond, which was recently granted by the state college board to go largely go toward construction projects.

This bond is the largest amount of money UMMC has ever received, and it will be used to reimburse the medical center for $34 million in debt from previous projects, as well as pay for 61 other projects.

James Keeton, UMMC’s vice chancellor for health affairs, said the money will act as a bridge to fund projects past, current and future. 

Phil Bryant is the last thing Mississippi needs in an ever-evolving world.

Gov. Bryant has worked from within the government of Mississippi for more than two decades. Bryant is a man fully entrenched in the dredge that is modern government. He has little perspective on what life is like for everyday people, and his early planned policies already show his lack of perspective. 

The city of Oxford will see a new and improved farmer’s market in May of next year. Oxford has been deemed a food desert by the USDA, meaning low-income families are cut short of having healthy eating options. But now there’s hope that the newly established access to fresh produce, with the farmer’s market, will benefit those families and the city.  

To the Editor: 

In response to the Nov. 11 column regarding parking at the Law School; I feel your frustration.  

Students pull long nights studying for tests, finishing projects and completing homework, but for some students, coffee and energy drinks aren’t enough to stay up and stay focused.
More and more college students are turning to ADHD medication to solve this problem.
Conner Hicks, a freshman undecided major, is prescribed to take ADHD medication by his doctor.
“I use it as prescribed every day, but I tend to use it sometimes just to keep myself awake to get my school work done,” he said.

Oxford residents will soon have access to a state-of-the-art hospital. The North Mississippi installation of Baptist Memorial Hospital continues to finalize plans to build a new hospital within city limits. The site selection process is nearing its end as the number of potential sites is narrowed down.

We have all heard the line time and time again, “You can be whatever you want to be.” 

While that is great to tell an 8-year-old, that saying does not apply as people approach adulthood. By adulthood, I mean the age of majority, which is 18. 

Unfortunately, the definition of adulthood has changed over the years, and in some instances it means around the age of 25.