A lot can happen in three and a half years. But even after spending all that time eating, sleeping and breathing AP Style, you might still find yourself checking the stylebook to figure out whether “a half†or “½â€Â ...
Attendees sipped tea, dipped nachos and a table of international studies majors shared their support for Oprah Winfrey as a hypothetical 2020 presidential candidate — all before the Student Government Association (SGA) introduced Tennessee Congressman Steve Cohen to the crowd Monday ...
Say it ain’t so. Friday, I faced the music and said goodbye to my favorite record store. Spin Street doesn’t close until January, but something about the place being packed with deal-seekers already takes away from the leisurely shopping experience ...
On Nov. 8, 2016 various election polls were indicating that former secretary of state Hillary Clinton had a narrow but sustained lead over then-Republican-nominee Donald Trump for the 2016 presidential bid. Leading up to the election, publications all the way from The New Yorker to The Daily Helmsman ...
As a campus community we’ve seen a lot in the past three weeks. I think we can all agree on that.  Earlier in the semester I saw my managing editor walk into my office, sit down and, speaking very slowly, explain to me what he had heard from a young woman he had just ...
Believe me, the last thing I wanted to see last night was the word “raped” typed up on the front page of The Daily Helmsman. It’s an ugly word, and it represents an awful, inhumane act that no one likes to talk about. But here we are, talking. I recently participated in a classroom panel ...
Trevor Noah, a comedian raised in South Africa whose “Daily Show†gig finds him mostly in New York City, took the stage of the Orpheum Theatre Friday night and asked a room full of Memphians one question: “Does everybody here work at FedEx?†In ...
The First Amendment was at the forefront of a discussion led by M. David Rudd, president of the University of Memphis, Monday in the Administration Building. This meeting was held in preparation for upcoming campus events. With controversial political analyst Dinesh D’Souza scheduled to speak ...
Listen, as a fellow Southerner, I’m worried about you. You with the confederate flag, waving in support of the various confederate statues across the country. Many of these statues were erected long after the end of the Civil War, and honestly, it’s ...
