Jelani Sims

Recent Stories

• COLUMN: Social media is reshaping social lives

  April 12, 2011

  This past Tuesday, I ate dinner with two friends and watched them duke it out about how one had un-followed ...
• COLUMN: Guns have no place on campus

  March 25, 2011

  Utah’s done it.
• COLUMN: You can be safe, drink responsibility

  March 4, 2011

  Cornell student George Desdunes passed away Feb. 25 after he was found unconscious in the early morning hours at the ...
• COLUMN: Internet provides job opportunities

  January 31, 2011

  It’s a new year, which means that yet another class will be graduating from OU. This also means that another ...
• COLUMN: Military should not ban minorities

  November 20, 2009

  The recent shootings at Fort Hood, Texas, have left many people wary of Muslims and those of Middle Eastern descent ...
• COLUMN: ‘They just don’t make horror movies like they used to’

  November 3, 2009

  October is over, and I will miss the horror movie marathons.
• COLUMN: Concert creates much needed unity

  October 23, 2009

  I hadn’t planned on going to see U2 Sunday. I wasn’t a huge fan, and I figured I could listen ...
• COLUMN: OU museum mishandling intelligent design documentary

  September 23, 2009

  The Discovery Institute will show the movie “Darwin’s Dilemma” at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of ...
• COLUMN: ‘Can someone be religious and still practice religious studies?’

  September 9, 2009

  Along with professional writing, I am a religious studies major. Most people ask me if I’m working toward pastor-hood when ...
• COLUMN: Racism remains a persistent problem

  August 26, 2009

  When my mother saw me for the first time at the end of last semester, she didn’t lecture me about ...