The Purple and White conducted an online survey as part of our February 2021 Ice Storm Coverage, open to the entire Millsaps community, including students, faculty, administration, and staff. Click here to read the data results from our survey. Logistics: 41 total responses, 33 include experience descriptions. Results range from February 27th, 2021, to March…
Category: Ice Storm Coverage
Survey Results: Data
The Purple and White conducted an online survey as part of our February 2021 Ice Storm Coverage, open to the entire Millsaps community, including students, faculty, administration, and staff. Click here to read the experience-based results from our survey. Survey was released February 27th by P&W members through social media, clubs, and email. Continued into mid-March. Forty total student…
Off-Campus Students: “It was pretty stressful, but we got through it.”
James is a senior double majoring in Communications and Political Science. He lives in McKinney, Texas, and has been taking online classes from home since the start of the pandemic in 2020. Of the southern states, Texas has made headlines due to the dire situation that many Texans found themselves in during the freezing weather and…
Winter Storm From An Outsider’s Perspective
This is my interview with freshman Marshea Crisler. She lives off campus in the South Jackson area. SL: How were you impacted by the ice storm? MC: As a local, the biggest impact by the ice storm was the loss of water and lack of clean water. Me and my family had gone days without clean water for…
Braving the Freeze: A Perspective on Winter Weather in Mississippi
In Mississippi, it’s rare to get any more than two or three snow days in a year — for most of the winter, it’s just freezing rain. So when the winter freeze came to town in late February, the city and much of Mississippi were caught off guard. With the COVID-19 pandemic continuing into 2021, this…
Discontentment Rising on Campus: Student-Led Town Hall, Thursday, March 4th
On Thursday, March 4th, the Student Body Association held a faculty-free town hall to address concerns regarding the recent winter storm. While morale has been steadily declining, the recent ice storm seems to be the last straw for students. Questions surrounding communication and transparency early-on became the most frequent, but most of all, students want to know why. “Why…