OUDaily.com | Jelani Sims

COLUMN: Social media is reshaping social lives

April 12, 2011 | 1 comment

This past Tuesday, I ate dinner with two friends and watched them duke it out about how one had un-followed the other on Twitter. READ MORE

COLUMN: Guns have no place on campus

March 25, 2011 | 11 comments

Utah’s done it. READ MORE

COLUMN: You can be safe, drink responsibility

March 4, 2011 | 0 comments

Cornell student George Desdunes passed away Feb. 25 after he was found unconscious in the early morning hours at the campus’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon house. Investigation into his death is still ongoing, but it is rumored that alcohol was involved in the incident. READ MORE

COLUMN: Internet provides job opportunities

January 31, 2011 | 0 comments

It’s a new year, which means that yet another class will be graduating from OU. This also means that another batch of fresh-faced, unemployed college graduates are being released into the workforce to start the desperate search for jobs. READ MORE

COLUMN: Military should not ban minorities

November 20, 2009 | 9 comments

The recent shootings at Fort Hood, Texas, have left many people wary of Muslims and those of Middle Eastern descent and wondering whether they should be allowed to serve in the U.S. armed forces. READ MORE

COLUMN: ‘They just don’t make horror movies like they used to’

November 3, 2009 | 4 comments

October is over, and I will miss the horror movie marathons. READ MORE

COLUMN: Concert creates much needed unity

October 23, 2009 | 0 comments

I hadn’t planned on going to see U2 Sunday. I wasn’t a huge fan, and I figured I could listen to the music, which was bound to be extremely loud, outside the stadium. READ MORE

COLUMN: OU museum mishandling intelligent design documentary

September 23, 2009 | 32 comments

The Discovery Institute will show the movie “Darwin’s Dilemma” at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History. The movie discusses the Cambrian Explosion and the implications and problems it presents to Darwin’s theory. The museum released this statement pertaining to the event: READ MORE

COLUMN: ‘Can someone be religious and still practice religious studies?’

September 9, 2009 | 8 comments

Along with professional writing, I am a religious studies major. Most people ask me if I’m working toward pastor-hood when I share this with them. READ MORE

COLUMN: Racism remains a persistent problem

August 26, 2009 | 0 comments

When my mother saw me for the first time at the end of last semester, she didn’t lecture me about my grades, or how often I called or how well I did my job. Her greatest qualm was with one thing: my hair. READ MORE

COLUMN: Christians’ duty to support new president

November 14, 2008 | 5 comments

The United States now has a new president-elect. So, now what? READ MORE

COLUMN: Can the Bible justify opposition to homosexuality?

November 3, 2008 | 9 comments

Despite confusion as to what the Bible says about homosexuality, it is clearly addressed in the Bible and is indeed a sin, says one of The Daily's columnists. READ MORE

COLUMN: Lil Wayne may have all airspace, but is not greatest rapper alive

October 17, 2008 | 0 comments

There is a problem that needs to be addressed: Hip-hop and R&B radio stations are playing a ridiculous amount of Lil Wayne’s songs. READ MORE

COLUMN: When tolerance isn’t tolerance

October 3, 2008 | 13 comments

There are some contradictions going on within the movement toward tolerance and pluralism. READ MORE

COLUMN: Inspiration comes in the middle of the storm

September 19, 2008 | 0 comments

I do not get homesick — unless a hurricane is barreling through my hometown. READ MORE

COLUMN: Obama's presidential run brings racism to forefront

September 5, 2008 | 0 comments

I never thought I’d be able to compare a presidential candidate to a Chris Rock character. In the 2003 movie “Head of State,” Rock played a man named Mays Gilliam who is elected president. READ MORE

COLUMN: Needed perspective garnered from first summer back home

August 21, 2008 | 0 comments

Let’s take a second to reflect on America’s beginning. People came on boats and settled the land. They signed contracts and laws, which determined how they would live, work and play. They existed happily this way, until the big mother country decided it was time to come and enforce its own rules again. READ MORE

Articles by Jelani Sims