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Can art really pay the bills?
PHOTO BY: ERIN AUSTEN ABBOTT / PHOTO COURTESY: JONATHAN KENT ADAMS
Volume 112, No. 21
Trump versus Biden: the sequel “ I don’t think the American public has confidence in either of our two candidates and how mentally capable they are to handle the position. ” - Adam Soltani Junior biochemistry and Arabic major
Jonathan Kent Adams adjusts art on his gallery wall.
JANE DUNN
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“Every time I tell someone I’m working towards an art degree, it’s always the same thing: ‘So what are you really going to do with that?’” Breanna Nolan, a University of Mississippi senior art major from Brandon, Miss., said. For anyone pursuing an art degree, this interaction is quite common. Careers within the arts have always come with a stigma that can weaken creators’ confidence and drive them to pursue profit over passion.
The stereotype of the “starving artist” insinuates that a successful career in the field is neither sustainable nor attainable. But is this true? Is art a far-fetched idea for the naive? Breanna Bercegeay, a sculptor and instructor pursuing a Master of Fine Arts at UM, shed light on this topic through her own experiences. “I started out as an education major, because I was specifically told that you cannot make money as an
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IVF legislation: Where does Mississippi stand?
CAMERON LARKIN
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On Wednesday, Feb. 28, Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith blocked a bill proposed by Illinois Sen. Tammy Duckworth that would guarantee access to in vitro fertilization, commonly referred to as IVF. The bill also would have protected doctors who administer IVF from prosecution. This act came just a few days after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that embryos created through IVF are children, opening the door for potential criminal liability in the state, which caused many clinics to pause any and all IVF treatment. However, the
SPRING BREAK With spring break coming up, students shared what destinations are on their agenda. SEE PAGE 4
Alabama state legislature quickly passed SB159 that protects clinicians from any civil or criminal liability. Oxford has two women’s clinics that assist families with IVF — Oxford Clinic for Women and Oxford Obstetrics and Gynecology Associates. IVF is a fertility treatment that gives couples who struggle with fertility, or who are simply infertile, a chance to have children through normal pregnancy and childbirth, according to the University of Mississippi Medical Center. “Fertilized eggs that reach the embryo stage are
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IVF OPINION “The American legal system is not the Christian church, and it is high time that people respected the difference,” argues opinion columnist Liv Briley. SEE PAGE 11
NOAH WALTERS
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Students and staff at the University of Mississippi are gearing up to vote in the 2024 presidential primary elections. The Democratic and Republican primaries will be held in Mississippi on Tuesday, March 12. Both primaries will award 40 delegates to the winning candidate in their respective contests, a stepping stone on the path to accruing enough delegates to secure their party’s nomination. Primary elections will also be held in Washington, Georgia and Hawaii on the same day. After Super Tuesday’s primary elections, incumbent Joe Biden has accumulated 1,497 of the 1,968 required delegates for the Democratic nomination. With the exception of American Samoa, Biden has won every Democratic primary contest so far, eclipsing challengers like Marianne Williamson and Dean Phillips, the latter of whom ended his campaign on Wednesday, March 6. While voters in other states may have had the choice of other Democratic candidates, requirements specific to the Mississippi Democratic primary have rendered Biden the only qualifying candidate and thus the presumptive winner. To sophomore public policy leadership major and Louisiana native Wes Templet, Biden’s
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WBB TOURNAMENT PREVIEW The Ole Miss Women’s Basketball team ended the regular season on a six-game SEC win streak, leading them to clench a top-three seeded team.
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