Student Organ of the University of the South
The Purple Podcast is the newest platform by which the Sewanee Purple strives to be the “student organ” of the University of the South. Listen to Episode
By Max SaltmanExecutive Staff The University released a statement on June 23 regarding the arrest of Sewanee alumnus Charles “Chuck” Nabit (C’77) on federal sex-trafficking
By Colton Williams, Max Saltman, Mary Katherine SayeExecutive Staff In a recent email to faculty and staff, Provost Nancy Berner announced that classes for the
Photo courtesy of Dr. Donaldson. Anthony M. Donaldson, Jr, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of History at Sewanee: The University of the South. His work
By Jasmine HuangExecutive Staff While the world continues to purge itself with unanticipated savagery, my days have grown long and idle in quarantine. I’ve fallen
By Mandy Moe Pwint TuStaff Writer The email came out at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, April 14. I was in the middle of my advising
Nathaniel Owens and Lynetta Owens at their home in 1993. By Klarke StricklenStaff Writer The story of Nathaniel Owens—the college’s first African-American graduate—is one of
By Richard Pryor, IIIStaff Writer In his acclaimed book Changes in the Land, William Cronon, an historian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, combines the cultural
Lake Cheston. Photo by Rob Mohr (C’21). By Ash MidyettContributing Writer How stupid were we? Thinking this will never end. Suspended in one moment,Our toes sinking into
Cartoon by Max Saltman (C’21). By Luke GairExecutive Staff I found myself standing before the microwave a few nights back. It purred, barely lighting my