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E-Center brings resources to entrepreneurs by Brad Robertson Managing Editor
Mississippi State University received an upgrade on Tuesday when the Entrepreneurship Center officially opened in McCool Hall. The center aims to help students pursuing ambitions related to starting their own business or building an idea into a business. Director of the E-Center, Eric Hill, said the center is meant to be a launchingoff point on campus for entrepreneurs. “The center, the new Center for Entrepreneurial Outreach, which is affectionately [abbreviated] C.E.O. is trying to be a home base for that, a central point on campus for any major to find a team or connect on a project,” Hill said. “Those are the three things we do, connect, learn and develop.” To help with the first of these tenants connecting, Jeffery Rupp, the outreach director, reaches out to businesses and communities around the state in order to provide services to them that can only be provided by the resources of the university. Three words appear on MSU’s seal: learning, service and research. Rupp said that he caters specifically to the service aspect of the seal by taking teams of about 30 MBA students and having them help people around the state with various aspects of running a business. He recalled
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The dedication and ribbon-cutting ceremony recognizing the opening of the new Center for Entrepreneurship and Outreach in the College of Business located in McCool Hall on Tuesday, April 19.
one story of helping a man whose town was wiped away by a tornado. The man was passionate about building tables, crafting them like art, but not about business. Rupp and his team of MBA students helped the man get a marketing plan up and going to sell his tables. “He has re-opened in Aberdeen,” Rupp said, eyeing his hand-crafted desk, “and he has a bunch of employees. He took
this table up to the Tupelo furniture market, and now he has people outside of the state interested in his work. He said he wouldn’t be in business today had we not helped him.” Rupp said the E-Center and money given to the entrepreneurship program at MSU will help him start to reach some bigger goals. “One thing we did get was a 100,000 dollar grant from the Appalachian Regional
Commission, A.R.C.,” Rupp said. “It was for technology. It’s not economical for me to drive around the state to find entrepreneurs and try to mentor that, from a time standpoint and a money standpoint. My next step is to try and step up a virtual entrepreneur mentoring network with the technology (in the E-Center).” Having a virtual network, Rupp said, would
allow him to reach out to people around the state without having to leave Starkville, or rather without him having to leave the technology in the E-Center. Rupp said he has one even loftier goal of working with the College of Architecture to gut and renovate a building in the Delta to encourage urban renewal. He admitted such a project would require everyone to be completely
“plugged in” and to take weekly trips to keep the hypothetical project up to par. Learning is the second of the center’s tenets. Hill said he feels that the location and look of the center is the first step in drawing people in. “It’s on the campus tour map now,” Hill said. “The idea was to make it feel as much like Silicon Valley in Mississippi as possible.” E-CENTER, 2
MSU Car of the Future revealed by Savannah Taggart Staff Writer
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The Studentʼs for a Sustainable Campus (SSC) are set to debut four bicycle repair stations around campus during this yearʼs Earth Day celebration. According to Mississippi State Universityʼs website, these stations are located at Fresh Food Company, Colvard Student Union, the Sanderson and the Hunter Henry Center. Abbey Wallace, junior landscape architecture major, created the project alongside Preston Sorrell, Michael Keating and Amer Mahadin with support from MSUʼs Green Fund. Wallace said the university reached out to the SSC after the Green Fund had reached $5,000 to see how they felt the money should be spent. She said her team proposed bike repair stations in response to the campusʼ master plan to becoming a pedestrian and biking campus. “We have a high number of students who cycle on our campus everyday,” Wallace said, “and we felt the need to give back to their sustainable efforts as well as provide a convenient repair station that might encourage others to begin biking.” Kaitlin OʼDougherty
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Researchers from Mississippi State University’s Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems (CAVS) showcased their “car of the future” at the Society of Automotive Engineers World Congress last week in Detroit, Michigan. This two-day event is held to bring together the newest, most cuttingedge technology in the automotive industry today, and MSU’s lighter, greener hybrid vehicle, which can travel over 100 miles on a single gallon of gas, lives up to that standard. Matthew Doude, business development officer and research assistant at CAVS, said the reaction to the ‘car of the future’ was phenomenal. “Everyone was, I think, universally impressed with what Mississippi State did,” Doude said. “We were defi nitely one of the stars of the show, and we were there beside Ford and Toyota, but I think we had as much, if not more,
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Center for Advanced Vehicular Sytemsʼ ʻcar of the futureʼ showcased in Detroit, Michigan, at the Society of Automotive Engineers World Congress.
traffic than anyone there.” Michelle Price, an engineering student who worked on the project, said that she is grateful to contribute to this project that is helping put MSU on the map in terms of research capabilities in the automotive engineering world. “We had many comments at the show in Detroit about not knowing Mississippi was capable of what we accomplished,” Price said. “This project along with our Ecocar team has defi nitely gained us some recognition and will continue to do so, especially in the hybrid technology realm.” The car was engineered
and designed by a team of MSU faculty, students and alumni working to lead the way in energy independence. It features control algorithms, which recognize driving patterns and can predict future ones, a custom cast magnesium sub-frame, which reduces the car’s weight by more than 40 percent, rear wheel torque vectoring, which is computer operated, creating significant performance advantages to the car’s traction, and a lightweight battery pack, which incorporates improved cell cooling through the use of proprietary cooling technologies. CAR, 2
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E-CENTER The center, according to Hill, seeks to bring in as many young students from every major as it can. Hill said the curve of people visiting the center and utilizing the program is eschewed toward seniors, and that is something he wants to see change. “What we’re trying to do is push that curve further to the left, so that we’re serving more incoming freshmen,” Hill said. Hill added that he wants to keep pushing the curve to the left, so they are serving more and more freshmen, as well as reaching some high-schoolers interested in entrepreneurship. As far as developing entrepreneurs goes, Nate Baker, junior economics major, a program associate for the E-Center and president of the Entrepreneurship Network, said he feels the new resources will go a long way to helping young entrepreneurs. “So we just had the grand opening last Tuesday,” Baker said, “but we’ve been in this space for at least two or three months now. It’s been fantastic. We have all this work space for various start-ups, various hardware
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and software that they might need, just a bunch of resources in addition to what we already had.” Baker said that currently about half of the people who use the center are business majors while the other half are engineering majors. He added that one of his goals for the center is to bring in less business orientated majors. “A very successful startup of ours, which won entrepreneurship week last year, was a partnership between an engineering student, who interned for Tesla over the summer, and an art student,” Baker said. “They created a really cool business. You see a lot of that cross-pollination when different people from different perspectives, they have certain talents that they’ve developed more, and you can see something really unique take off.” Hill, speaking just before a four-hour conference call, said the center is available to anyone to use, and he hopes they utilize the resources at hand. “The program is to help students, faculty, staff start or grow a business,” Hill said. “So we literally see anything from fresh ideas that came off a napkin to when they came in, they sold 5,000 products and they need to figure out how to get to ten. That’s our primary mission.” The Entrepreneurship Center can be found on the first floor of McCool Hall. For more information, go to ecenter.msstate.edu or follow them on social media @MSStateECenter.
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Doude also said many after he presented his idea comments were made to the team over a year about the car’s paint job at ago. the show, which was done “He likes to tell the story by Clinton Body Shop in about when he was young, Clinton, Mississippi, when and his dad described a their owner, John Mosley, vehicle that is a lot like the took a personal interest modern hybrid vehicles in the project. The shop today,” Doude said. “So worked around the clock I think he has always to make sure the car was wanted to fulfi ll his dad’s ready on time for the vision of this particular show, kind of paint ing hybr id the car car.” “ There’s a real need for in just Joseph automotive engineers, one week Gaddis, t h e y research and people want to hire e v e n engineer created at CAVS, Mississippi State graduates.” a special said his c o l o r favorite just for part of the car. working -Matthew Doude, Business “They on the Development Off icer cooked ‘car of the up a future’ custom was when Kandy maroon color he began working on for the car, a color that the project in January of they had never done 2015 as an undergraduate before,” Doude said. student, his superiors “This particular method trusted his abilities and involves multiple layers gave him and his peers of different colors, as freedom to design, well as several coats of fabricate and implement show-quality clearcoat. their own designs for the With the Kandy maroon car. contrasted against the ice “Being able to say that white pearl racing stripes, some of my designs could it really represents Bulldog potentially change what colors well.” people think we can The project was funded do at this university is by notable alumnus and very rewarding,” Gaddis the namesake of MSU’s said. engineering college, James Doude said that after Worth “Jim” Bagley. seeing how much attention Doude said Bagley had a the students that worked much bigger impact on the on the project and attended project than just providing the show in Detroit got the needed funds, and that from headhunters and the whole project was recruiters, he and his team based on Bagley’s vision, are looking to increase
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the amount of educational opportunities available for new students while creating more projects for the center. “There’s a real need for automotive engineers, and people want to hire Mississippi State graduates,” Doude said. “I think the reason they do is because of projects like this, that give students hands-on, real-world experience of working on cars.” Price is a prime example of how creating more projects like this will benefit engineering students for years to come.
“This project has allowed me to become familiar with what it means to be an automotive engineer,” Price said. “In the past few months, I’ve been able to add more designs and software into my portfolio, and since I ultimately want to become a design engineer, I feel like this project has given me a good taste of what that involves, and so far I’ve really enjoyed it.” To learn more about the ‘car of the future’ project and the Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems, visit their website at cavs.msstate.edu.
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Easily-offended culture leads to societal ignorance intellectually-inept people began forming groups, and these groups popped up all across the land, like pimples on the pubescent face of America. I would end this lovely tale with some guy in chainmail saving a princess, but that is irrelevant, and the femi-nazis reading would beat me with their antimisogynistic justice-sticks. See how I purposely included a lame joke that could offend people with no sense of humor? How edgy is that? Anyway, let us now get down to the serious issue: our easily and overly offended culture. According to Dictionary.com, the definition for the verb “offend” is as follows: “to irritate, annoy, or anger; cause resentful displeasure in.” With that definition in mind, know that there is a stark difference between someone genuinely attempting to offend you and someone merely stating beliefs that are different than your own. With 7.125 billion people on our little blue planet, there is a fair statistical chance that you will encounter a number
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Warning: If you are offended by opinions or ideas written by someone who may hold a different perspective from you on topics of social controversy, throw this page of the paper into the nearest trash bin and sprint to the closest possible safe space. If you neglect to heed this warning, I am not responsible for the emotional and psychological trauma caused by this article. Still here? Cool. Once upon a time, there was magical land called the United States of America. The people who lived in this magical land had a very special magical power called freedom of speech. Everyone had this magical power, but some citizens in this land of sunshine and rainbows made better use of their freedom than others. In fact, some citizens tried using their magical powers without training—they even neglected to use their brains, which were the true sources of their abilities. Eventually, these entitled,
of people during your lifetime who will say or do things that can be legitimately categorized as purposefully offensive. A few cases of legitimate, definitional offense include cases in which someone calls a group of Black Lives Matter protestors a word that rhymes with diggers, calls members of the LGBT community a word that rhymes with bags or discriminates against peaceful Muslims because of terrorism committed by Islamic-extremists. These instances are certainly offensive, disrespectful and lack any notion of sensibility and should thusly be dealt with. However, they should not be avoided in offense-free places like “Safe Spaces,” which The Safe Space Network defines as “anywhere anyone can relax and be able to fully express themselves, without fear of being made to feel uncomfortable, unwelcome, or unsafe on account of biological sex, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, cultural background, religious
affiliation, age, or physical or mental ability.” While I agree that offensive remarks should be dealt with, they should be dealt with in a direct way that does not involve hiding in a room with Play-Dough and coloring books. For those of you who claim to be “offended” by what are merely someone else’s thoughts or opinions, know that you are the reason I drink. For something to be truly offensive, it must be intentionally hurtful and directed at another person. Our generation is the first in human history to socially establish the idea that differences of opinion are offensive simply because they challenge our own subjectivity. Allow me to provide an example of a non-offensive event that was deemed offensive, just because it created anxiety among people who think they live in utopia where there ideas never have to be challenged. According to Breitbart. com, “… a student group at Brown University called the Sexual Assault Task Force
discovered that a debate was to be held on campus where one participant, a libertarian, would slam the term ‘rape culture,’ … a ‘safe space’ was then created for students upset by the debate; the space included cookies, bubbles, Play-doh, calming music, pillows, blankets and a video of puppies.” The libertarian student was not arguing in favor of rape, which would be truly offensive. Instead, the libertarian student was merely arguing against the existence of “rape culture,” by claiming that society is not actually permissive of rape. However, this alone was enough to prompt the establishment of a room free from any sort of serious and intellectual discussion on the matter, just because some students deemed such rhetoric as offensive. Everett Piper, president of Wesleyan University, recently handled another such trivial matter with what I consider beautiful grace. After a student complained that they had been victimized by an on-campus preacher
sermonizing about the topic of love, Piper told his students simply to “grow up.” Piper also said, “The creation of a safe space so that a countering idea cannot enter your world—that is not education. That is nothing but ideological fascism.” This is a statement with which I entirely agree. If you ever find yourself feeling offended in the future—due to your oversensitivity to new ideas rather than actual discriminatory hate-speech— sit on an ice pack and get over yourself. Labeling ideas or opinions that are different from your own as offensive is like calling Casey Anthony a good baby sitter— it’s wrong.
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Bully’s Autism Spectrum Dash to take place this Saturday by Emily Wright Staff Writer
The Boston Marathon may be a little far-fetched for the average person, but Bully’s Autism Spectrum Dash located right here in Starkville can easily be completed while contributing to the autism clinic on Mississippi State University’s campus. In honor of Autism Awareness month, on Saturday, April 23, the second annual Bully’s Autism Spectrum Dash will take place at the Barry F. Box Building. Registration is from 7:30-8:30 a.m., and the 5K runners will take off at 9 a.m. The fun run participants will begin at 10 a.m. According to Autism Speaks, an advocacy group, autism spectrum disorder is “characterized, in varying degrees, by difficulties in social interaction, verbal and nonverbal communication and repetitive behaviors.” In addition to the fun run taking place on campus, there are also many other events taking place citywide. After Mayor Parker Wiseman declared it Autism Awareness month in Starkville, the community began to raise awareness as well. MSU began its Autism Speaks Light It Up Blue campaign by shining a blue light on the top of the Colvard Student Union, and blue stickers can be spotted throughout the city. As of 2014, MSU’s psychological services became actively involved with providing service to not only individuals with autism, but also individuals with genetic disorders such as albrights, marfans, down syndrome, CHARGE, developmental delays, learning disorders, and more. However, they only provide these services until the individual emerges into adulthood. “We have individuals from all over the state, some from several hours away, as well as individuals from out of state who travel to us for services,” Dr. Daniel Gadke, assistant professor for School Psychology and clinic director said. Although the
clinic has a grant from the Mississippi Council for Developmental Disabilities to help counterbalance the fees families with disabled children are required to pay the clinic for their services, the clinic has no direct funding. The clinic provides ser-
Psychology Program whose mission is “to provide high quality services to the community, train future professionals and engage in research to enhance the field and improve the quality of life for individuals with disabilities,” Gadke said.
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“The fun run serves as an opportunity to spread awareness regarding autism and related disabilities, let individuals know about the services we have available and raise money to make sure we can keep the clinic open,” Gadke said.
Bully’s Autism Spectrum Dash Saturday, April 32 at Barry F. Box Building. Registration from 7:30-8:30 AM, Lactretia Wimbley| Courtesy Photograph
5K runners will take off at 9 AM. $25 to run the 5K and $15 to run the Fun Run.
vices on a sliding scale to fit to each family’s needs. Therefore, Bully’s Autism Spectrum Fun Run serves as a source of funding that the clinic is not receiving from any other primary outside sources. The Autism and Developmental Clinic is an extension of the School
He elaborated on their services by stating the clinic provides anything from comprehensive psychological and academic intervention assessments, to individual services that target building skill that are necessary for everyday life and managing disruptive behavior.
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Registrations fees are $25 to run the 5K and $15 to run the fun run. The route will start and end at the Barry F. Box building. All proceeds will go directly to the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Clinic.
Team MOSAS demonstrates how to operate their security features for motorcycles.
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A group of Engineering students from Mississippi State University’s Senior Design I class showcased their design project in Simrall Hall Thursday evening. This group, called Team MOSAS (Motorcycle Signals and Security), demonstrated their security feature for motorcycles, which enables users to start their bike within range specified in technical constraints. The group’s design
also utilizes solar power to charge the helmet and contains a jacket (and helmet) that hosts stop brake lights and left/right turn signals.
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Bulldogs shut out in-state foe Golden Eagles by William Hall Contributing Writer
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Junior catcher Katie Anne Bailey rounds the bases after her solo home run against Southern Miss. Mississippi State defeated USM 4-0.
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After a slow start, Mississippi State (24-20) was able to complete the shutout of Southern Miss (23-24) with a final score of 4-0. The pitching of Alexis Silkwood led the way for the Bulldogs. She finished with seven innings of work with no walks and six strikeouts. With key double plays having a role in the win, she commended the play of the defense. “It’s amazing,” Silkwood said. “I know whenever the ball leaves my hand the defense has it. They’ve been solid all year; it’s a part of our game that’s just phenomenal.” The first few innings were a slight struggle for the Bulldogs offense. Kayla Winkfield provided the first hit for MSU in the third. Scoring began in the fourth inning when catcher Katie Anne Bailey sent a home run over the left field wall. Following the home
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run, she knew that was the spark Mississippi State needed as they built on their lead and never looked back. “That was a fun way to get us going,” Bailey said. “What home run doesn’t put a team into high spirits, just ready to crush some more?” MSU really broke open the game in the sixth inning. After the lead-off hitter was walked, MSU went on to finish the inning with four hits and three runs. Caroline Seitz had a stolen base in the inning, and the combined hitting of Mackenzie Tolar and Calyn Adams led the offensive surge. Samantha Robles was the starting pitcher for the Golden Eagles. In her five innings on the mound, she gave up the four runs to MSU on six hits. In the sixth inning, she was relieved by Jillian Johnson, who gave up an additional two hits to fi nish out the game. This was the second meeting of the season between these two teams. In February, they faced off
in Mobile, Alabama at the Mardi Gras Invitational. The Bulldogs won that meeting as well with a 6-0 score. The Bulldogs next challenge will be a return to SEC play in Gainesville. They travel for a weekend series against the No. 1 Florida Gators beginning this Friday at 5 p.m. Head Coach Vann Stuedeman is looking forward to the challenge the Gators will bring. She wants her team to focus on what they bring to the table and not about who their opponent is. “I expect us to fi ght really hard, play good softball and do what we do,” Stuedemann said. “We focus on what we do and not what they do. You play against the game and not the opponent.” Currently Mississippi State sits in 12th place with a 3-12 record in the SEC. The Bulldogs will return home to Nusz Park on April 26 for a game against South Alabama.
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Imagine a world where food is not a privilege, but a right. A world where there is room at the table for everyone. Where food technologies are developed, perfected and shared to feed a growing population that will reach 9.5 billion by 2050. Imagine a world where the spark of an idea grows into a solution that molds the future. We are, at Mississippi State University, where we ring true.
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