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[email protected]. THE Daily MISSISSIPPIAN Monday, November 4, 2019 theDMonline.com Volume 108, No. 30 FOOTBALL Nowhere to go Offense Facing homelessness as an LGBTQ student disappoints (again) NIGEL DENT
[email protected] JOSHUA CLAYTON Regan Willis, 24, graduated as president of the UM Pride
[email protected] Network in 2018 after five years of battling intermittent homelessness. Abandoned by his parents in the summer of The Ole Miss football team 2014 for being transgender and in a relationship, he was left came up short in another to fend for himself, taking a year off to search for a home winnable game as the Rebels fell and a way to pay for school. to then- No. 11 Auburn 20-14 on He survived by staying with friends, but homelessness Saturday. severely impacted his mental health. He couldn’t focus on Once again, it was the school because he was looking for work, food and a place to consistently unproductive live. He graduated with a 2.1 GPA, and he took pride in it. offense that was unable “Most people, you look at me on paper and you think I’m to capitalize on a strong a failure,” Willis said.