Aldermen critique curbside recycling proposal

HARRISON EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Starkville’s Board of Aldermen criticized a curbside recycling proposal for its incomplete budgeting statistics at last Tuesday’s meeting.

Ward 5 Alderman Hamp Beatty and Mississippi State University’s Students for a Sustainable Campus members pushed the curbside recycling narrative in Starkville.

In a November board meeting, the SSC team spoke to the aldermen about the club’s interest in helping Starkville reestablish curbside recycling. Alderman Beatty noted his support for the movement and said he would further discuss it at a future meeting.

During the board’s Jan. 17 meeting, five SSC members returned to the citizens' podium with research data about recycling for the board to consider.

Emma Van Epps, SSC’s president, said the students surveyed around 300 Starkville residents. Of those polled, 92.6% stated they “are willing to pay $6 a month to reinstate curbside recycling services, and 86% were also willing to pay an additional fee for buying their own bin,” Van Epps said. acres of community farmland helped provide stability for families of the Mississippi Delta.

In an interview with The Reflector, Van Epps explained SSC’s reason for spearheading the idea.

Flakes will speak on her mother’s legacy at 2 p.m. in the John Grisham Room.

In Flakes’ discussion on her mother’s success and hardships, she said she hoped to transport listeners to a keystone moment in African American history — a time that Flakes believed was significant to revisit today.

“If you go back in time and reference what she was doing in the early '60s, then just know that this is the same thing that's happening now. We're going through a lot now, so this is the time that we are coming to work together and get our lives right and try to step back into what Mamma Fannie was doing back then,” Flakes said.

“Because if we don’t, then we're going to lose a lot.”

Sean Starwars exhibit will display colorful prints, woodcuts

EDITOR

On Jan. 26, Mississippi State University’s Visual Arts Center Gallery will display the works of Mississippi printmaker Sean Starwars in the "Star Wars: American Dream / Mississippi Nightmare" exhibit.

Native to Laurel, Mississippi, Starwars’ work presents vibrant colors and humorous profiles of Stormtroopers, Mississippi artists, mythical creatures and more.

The exhibition’s opening reception will be hosted from 5 to 6 p.m.

Along with the exhibit, Starwars will give an “Artist Talk” on Jan. 26 at 1 p.m. in room 209 of Briscoe Hall. Additionally, the artist will lead a printing workshop from 2 to 4:30 p.m. in room 204 of Briscoe Hall.

Starwars has spent lots of time hosting exhibitions at universities, workshops and art lectures.

“I just had a blast with the students in Birmingham these last couple of days. When you're actually showing the work, that's always good, too, and when you're talking about the work, that's always good, too,” Starwars said. “My favorite thing to do is to get to work with students and just get them as excited about printmaking as I am.”