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135th YEAR ISSUE 14
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1884
A German teaching French in Mississippi: the life and legacy of Monika Dunlap
HANNAH BLANKENSHIP
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Mississippi State University’s Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures is holding a celebration of life service at 5:30 p.m. Monday in the Chapel of Memories for beloved Professor Emeritus of Foreign Languages, Monika Dunlap. Dunlap was born in Germany and came to the United States as a young adult. She graduated from MSU with a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts then pursued further post-graduate work at the University of Maryland. She returned afterwards to teach at MSU, which, according to her obituary, was a job Dunlap treasured. A German who taught French in the United States, Dunlap is remembered by her colleagues and students as a remarkable woman. Rosa Vozzo, an MSU Spanish instructor, was a graduate student with Dunlap at MSU before they both became instructors in the department of CMLL.
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She said she has been close friends with Dunlap ever since. “Monika was a different kind of person,” Vozzo said. “I don’t think there is another one like Monika. Monika was not only physically beautifulthat’s the first thing I think a lot of people notice about her, how beautiful, striking she was- but also Monika got along with everybody. I don’t know anybody that she could not find a way to connect to and get along.” Warm, supportive and caring, Dunlap embodied the characteristics of a mother, and some students even saw her as one. DUNLAP, 2
Student anti-trafficking organization walks for freedom PAYTON BROWN STAFF WRITER
Mississippi State University’s No Longer Bound, a campus group dedicated to fighting human trafficking, hosted their annual Walk for Freedom event on Saturday. Walk for Freedom is an event founded by A21, an international organization that fights slavery in its various forms around the world. Their Walk for Freedom event gives smaller organizations the ability to host their own event in order to spread awareness of human trafficking. The walk occurs on the same day in 450 other locations throughout the world and was recently adopted by MSU’s No Longer Bound. Tara Hambrick, a junior chemistry major and No Longer Bound’s vice president, said participants are asked to wear all black as they participate in the walk around campus. “People from all different cities will have a speaker and then they’ll walk single file wearing all black and holding up signs just to try and get people to recognize that this is still a problem which we need to do something about,” Hambrick said. WALK, 2
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MSUʼs No Longer Bound, a campus group dedicated to fighting human trafficking, hosted A21ʼs annual Walk for Freedom on Saturday morning.
‘Conditionally Accepted’ talk explores Mississippi Christians’ beliefs on gay rights EMMA KING
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“The Voice of the Bulldogs” Neil Price and WMSV Manager Anthony Craven are co-hosts of a newly-created weekly MSU sports talk show.
ʻMaroon and White Tonightʼ feeds fansʼ hunger for MSU sports talk DREW GARDNER STAFF WRITER
Mississippi State University is collaborating with the Television Center and WMSV for “Maroon and White Tonight,” a brand-new weekly show catering to fans of MSU Athletics. The show features two co-hosts, the “Voice of the Bulldogs” and MSU sports announcer, Neil Price, and WMSV Manager
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Anthony Craven. Price has been MSU’s “Voice of the Bulldogs” since 2017, when he relocated to Starkville from his 12-year broadcasting position with the University of Kentucky. Price serves as a play-by-play announcer for football and men’s basketball at MSU. Craven is an MSU alumnus and has worked as a general manager for WMSV since 2015, and he serves as a public-address announcer
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for football games. Price and Craven both have extensive backgrounds in radio and sports. “Maroon and White Tonight” revolves around the dynamic between these two co-hosts and their love of all things in the world of Bulldog sports. The program is filmed each week in the newly redesigned MSU Television Center, located inside the Wise Center offcampus. SPORTS, 2
Mississippi State University’s Gender Studies program hosted a book lecture by Baker Rogers, Georgia Southern assistant professor of Sociology, Thursday in the Griffis Hall forum room. Rogers is the author of “Conditionally Accepted: Christians’ Perspectives on Sexuality and Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights,” which is set to be published in December of this year by Rutgers University Press. The book analyzes the beliefs Christians in Mississippi have about homosexuality and gay and lesbian rights, as well as the influence a gay or lesbian loved one has on these beliefs. The talk, entitled “Conditionally Accepted: The Influence of Coming Out to Mississippi Christians on Lesbians and Gay Equality,” explored the numerous effects religion can have on beliefs regarding gay rights. The talk opened with a welcome from the Director of Gender Studies at MSU, Kimberly Kelly. The “Conditionally Accepted” lecture was scheduled in celebration of
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Baker Rogers, a 2015 MSU PhD graduate and assistant profressor at Georgia Southern, presented Thursday on her research on coming out in Mississippi.
National Coming Out Day, Kelly said, which took place during Fall Break on Oct. 11. This year marks the 31st anniversary of National Coming Out Day. In the days leading up to the lecture, those involved in the Gender Studies program were eager to have Rogers, an MSU alumna, back to Starkville. “The Gender Studies Program is very pleased to host Dr. Rogers for our annual National Coming Out Day event, not only because of her important work on the connections between religion and LGBTQ+ equality, but also because she is an MSU
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alum,” Kelly said. “We are delighted to welcome her back to campus.” Rogers graduated from MSU in 2015 with a PhD in Sociology and worked as the Gender Studies Program Assistant from 2013-2015. Rogers opened the talk with a simple question: What is coming out? Her response was that coming out is a career and lifelong process. “I came out for the first time in 2003, and I’m coming out again tonight to those of you who haven’t met me,” Rogers said. “You come out every time you meet a new person or go to a new place.
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“I think the students saw her as a good teacher but also as a mother figure. She was very nurturing, loves to hug, loves to tell you how good you look that day, that type of person,” Vozzo said. Amie Russell, undergraduate coordinator of the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures who worked with Dunlap for over 10 years, said she once overheard a student call Dunlap her “campus mom.” “Her classroom was kind of like family. They were just really close. Especially her upper level classes because those classes tend to get smaller. She often called her
students her kids,” Russell said. Riley Vergara-Cruz, a senior majoring in marketing and French, had Dunlap for several classes, including her very first college class ever, French II at 8 a.m. on Mondays. She said Dunlap was one of those teachers that inspired students to actually learn, not just get the assignment finished. “In the classroom setting, she was very, very supportive,” Vergara-Cruz said. “She always pushed us to do our very best. If she knew that we did our homework halfway through the night just to get it done—she could tell and she would call us out on it just to make us do better and then she would work with us in
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the classroom.” According to her colleagues, Dunlap brought a special, personal touch to the department. She was extremely hospitable and would do things like bring fresh flowers from home to put in the office. She loved to cook and paint, and had her paintings hanging in her office. She would make German Chocolate Cake, madeleines and bring them to class for her students. Russell said the department will not be the same without Dunlap’s warmth and color. “It’s going to be little things like that, that are everywhere. That’s what’s going to be hard to replace right now in our French section just because she was such a big personality,”
Russell said. Lydia King, a French instructor who started working at MSU two years ago, said Dunlap welcomed her into the department with open arms. “We were great friends. She was really a mentor to me when I started working here,” King said. “Monika just kind of showed me the ropes. She was a very warm and loving person, so intelligent, a really educated woman and everyone loved her. She was kind of like our mom here. She kind of embraced us all and kept us on our toes.” King said Dunlap loved her job so much that she did not want to retire. “She loved teaching here. This was her passion; she
didn’t want to retire. She wanted to keep teaching forever,” King said. Vergara-Cruz said Dunlap was beloved by students not only for her warmth and kindness, but also for her sassy sense of humor. “She would joke with us as if she was a 22-year-old college student too, which is why I think everyone loved her so much,” Vergara-Cruz said. Even though she was German, Vergara-Cruz said Dunlap inspired a love for learning and a love for the French language and culture that is of invaluable worth to the university and the department. “She had a way of showing students how
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Breana Pigott, a junior biomedical engineering major and Walk for Freedom director, said the walk, which was over a mile, began at the YMCA building and continued around the Junction until it circled back to the YMCA building. “We actually had a pretty good turnout, and it was in front of the YMCA building,” Pigott said. “It was nice because we not only reached the people that were signed up to register for the walk, but also passers-by that would just hear us speak while they were walking by to go to the tailgate.” MSU’s Walk for Freedom speaker was Lindsey Simmons from Mississippians Against Human Trafficking, who spoke to the crowd about another facet of human trafficking besides the sex industry—labor trafficking.
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“(Simmons) spoke to us about labor trafficking because sex trafficking is well-known. Most trafficking is based on sex trafficking and a lot of people don’t know that the clothes we wear are from different countries and they may have been made by child workers,” Pigott said. Throughout the week, No Longer Bound was able to spread awareness through their fundraising efforts which included No Longer Bound and Walk for Freedom-inspired t-shirts. Mary Margaret Mitchell, a sophomore industrial engineering major and No Longer Bound’s treasurer, said the event was focused more on boosting awareness rather than fundraising efforts. “We are doing mainly awareness. There is a funrun aspect to it, and we have been working on fundraising this week, so that all of
those proceeds can go directly to A21 which goes to help with victims that are rescued, so that they can get back to life,” Mitchell said. Mitchell further explained the importance behind joining efforts to support any oncampus human-trafficking organizations. “Right now, slavery is at an all-time high, and most people don’t realize that because it includes both sex trafficking and labor trafficking,” Mitchell said. “The biggest reason I decided to be a part of this was the fact that I didn’t know it was a problem until recently. Everyone says slavery has ended and it really hasn’t and it’s so upsetting to think about the fact that people out there are still not free. Only 1% of people are rescued, so this is such a large-scale problem with not enough attention.”
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Students gather in front of the YMCA building in the center of MSU’s campus for A21’s annual Walk for Freedom protesting human trafficking.
SPORTS The first episode of “Maroon and White Tonight” aired in August, and the idea for a weekly sports program came up over the summer, courtesy of Price. Price’s vision of a half-hour MSU sports show stemmed from his hiring at the TV Center earlier this year. While working full-time for the Television Center, he was tasked with creating some original programming specifically for MSTV and pitched an idea for a weekly sports show with Craven as his co-host. “We want to share our university stories with people who are passionate about Mississippi State Athletics, and we want to have fun doing it,” Price said in a press
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release. The show is currently on its eighth episode, with plans to have one episode per week all the way until baseball season ends next June. “Maroon and White Tonight” will run as a 10-month program with breaks in July and most of August. As the show progresses, viewers will be able to see Price and Craven’s takes on football, men and women’s basketball and baseball throughout the academic calendar. “Maroon and White Tonight” is still a new program, but ideas are already in motion to develop it even more. David Garraway, executive producer of the show, hopes to include ways for students to become more
involved and help with the show in the future. The crew currently working on
needs for that week’s show. “We plan to incorporate student-produced feature
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the program is a relatively small, but experienced, group of five to eight people, depending on availability and
segments into ‘Maroon and White Tonight,’ with a goal of providing practical career experience for
communication department upperclassmen,” Garraway said. The show begins with a news segment covering the previous week in sports and what is coming the following week, then a breakdown of last week’s game and how it will impact the season. From there, Price and Craven spend their remaining time interviewing athletes or coaches that are relevant to that week’s game. The show always begins with around a 10-minute recap consisting of the most recent game with soundbites, commentary and breakdown of plays which then segues into big, current events in the SEC. After the recap, Price and Craven devote the
TALK You’re straight until proven otherwise.” Rogers identifies as a genderqueer lesbian. Despite its normalization over recent years, Rogers believes coming out still serves as a function of oppression. Those who enjoy positions of privilege
amazing French culture and the French language can be and she influenced a lot of students to choose to be French majors or even minors, and she’s not even French. She was German, but she lives in Mississippi and she still found the beauty in what she was teaching, and I think that was very influential for the department because it got students to actually want to learn French and not just get a degree,” Vergara-Cruz said. Dunlap’s celebration of life service will be held from 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Oct. 28 in the Chapel of Memories and will feature students and colleagues sharing memories of Dunlap as well as music, refreshments and flowers.
rest of the show’s runtime to interviews with MSU student athletes, coaches or athletes affiliated with the opposing team. “It’s Neil and I at the anchor desk and Neil and I interviewing MSU people, and also people from the opposing team. That’s been our formula during the fall semester,” Craven said. “Maroon and White Tonight” is available to watch via livestream at www.mstv. msstate.edu and on their official Vimeo channel, MWTonight. Cable viewers can also view the show on MSTV and WCBI on Saturdays at 10:30 a.m. Aside from those options, the show is also available to download as a podcast on iTunes. CONTINUED FROM 1
in society, such as straight or white people, are not asked to come out, Rogers said. With every new set of students she teaches, Rogers questions coming out, especially as a professor in a southern state. Following this
discussion, Rogers leapt into explaining her research. The interviewees included 28 women and 12 men, four of whom were black and 36 of whom were white. This group was further split into 10 Evangelical Protestants, 19 Mainline Protestants and 11 Catholics. The interviews were conducted face-to-face and over the phone. Rogers offered a number of stories about her time spent interviewing Mississippi Christians. One such story took place over a phone interview, when an interviewee prefaced even a simple greeting with a question: “Are you gay?” When Rogers responded yes, the woman replied, “Well, I guess I can talk to you, as long as you can be objective.” Out of the interview pool, 18 people said they had a gay family member, 31 had a gay or lesbian friend and six had no gay or lesbian friends or family members. This was an interesting statement in itself, Rogers explained, because the sole
reason she had contacted the selected group was because of their affirmative response in a preliminary survey. From the group of interviewees, only six people responded positively to their gay friends and family members, the smallest group represented in Rogers’ study. Rogers’ results divided participants into four categories: A Case for Coming Out, Allies and Friends, Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin and Homosexuality is an Abomination. The ranking is from most supportive of gay friends and family to completely against them. A majority of interviewees fell into the Allies and Friends segment, but these people stated that having a gay friend or family member had no effect on their beliefs. Out of the three religious groups interviewed, Rogers found Mainline Protestants had the highest response rate to supporting a homosexual friend upon coming
out, while Evangelical Protestants had no record of this response. Another of Rogers’ stories featured a woman who said she had continued with her religion in spite of her gay son. When Rogers asked if this had affected their relationship, the mother responded that it had not. Encouraged, Rogers then asked if she and her son were still close. To this, the woman answered, “No, not anymore.” Despite 31 years of National Coming Out Day, coming out has not been the end-all, fix-all of homophobia, Rogers said. “All the students in the room are going to write the book on what we need to end homophobia because I definitely don’t know what it is,” Rogers said. The event was followed by a question-and-answer panel. During this time, Rogers admitted she never actually came out to her parents, and instead continued to bring home partners until they got the message.
Nathan Yos, a junior Biological Sciences major, attended the talk because Rogers’ research reminded him of the environment in which he grew up, and he wanted to see if her research aligned with his personal experiences. “I thought the book talk was intriguing as it gave personal accounts of what some Christians believe about their LGBT friends/family and helps explore why they believe the certain things they do,” Yos said. “Even with a clear lack of a sizable sample size to draw any sort of conclusion, it points out how much this area needs to be explored in order to foster understanding and tolerance between people of the Christian and LGBT communities.” Rogers plans to publish another book with the information she received from follow-up interviews featuring the people she originally interviewed six years ago. She currently has another book, “Becoming Me(n): Trans Men in the South,” in the works.
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The medians on MS-12 are a nuisance
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“You can’t lose confidence in yourself, or you’ve lost already. When you get knocked down, you’ve got to keep getting back up.”
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How many times have you stared longingly at Sonic, Zaxby’s or Cook Out from the other side of the street and been unable to access your desired destination because of the medians along Highway 12? In other towns, and previously in this one, one can simply pull into the middle lane and turn into the establishment they are trying to reach. However, here in Starkville, we are blocked, literally, from satisfying our consumer desires by a wall of concrete. To access businesses on the other side of the street, we must continue driving down the road and find a place to execute a usually very questionably-safe, for other cars on the road as well as those inside the car, U-turn, all thanks to the medians installed a few years ago on Starkville’s Highway 12. Additionally, not all of us are experts at whipping into a U-turn, resulting in an embarrassing 20-point turn in the middle of the road, usually in front of oncoming traffic. Not all of us are capable of taking matters into our own hands by foregoing all law and order and popping over the median in one of the massive “yee-yee” trucks, by which Starkville is heavily populated. According to the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), medians serve one or more of three main purposes, and may or may not be the best choice for
improving traffic flow. First, they manage traffic and “provide comfortable left-hand turning pockets with fewer or narrower lanes.” Secondly, they provide a safe space for pedestrians crossing the street, and thirdly, they provide a space for additional landscaping and beautification. I, for one, have never looked at the medians on Highway 12 and thought to myself, “Wow, those medians sure are a sight for sore eyes. This really improves the aesthetic of our town.” I also cannot remember ever having seen any pedestrians chilling on the median, taking a break from strolling across the “commercial lifeblood of Starkville,” as Highway 12 was called by Northern District Transportation Commissioner Mike Tagert regarding its medians, as reported by Carl Smith of the Columbus Dispatch. Additionally, the FHWA qualifies the first statement about left-hand turning pockets: “Desired turning movements need to be carefully provided so that motorists are not forced to travel on inappropriate routes such as residential streets or an unsafe U-turn condition is not created.” I have definitely executed my fair share of interesting turning techniques, including multi-point turns on residential streets, pulling into and backing out of unknown driveways on residential streets and, of course, plenty of U-turning. Thus, Starkville’s medians do not fulfill the three-fold purpose of medians as outlined by the FHWA. As reported by Brad Robertson with Starkville Daily News , the City of Starkville Board of Aldermen approved a project for sidewalks to be added along Highway 12 to improve safety.
Starkville is on thin ice until it gets its own rink
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As the cold winds start to blow down from Canada, pushing winter’s frigid hands over the South, the vacancy of an ice rink in Starkville becomes increasingly noticeable. For many, October is the middle of football season, the beginning of fall and Spooktober, but it is also the start of hockey season. A place to skate, shoot the puck and cool off in the summer would be a perfect addition to Mississippi’s college town, setting Mississippi State University and Starkville apart from other schools in the state. According to the International Ice Hockey Federation, ice rinks can be multipurpose. Not only can the rink be used for public skating and hockey, but it can also be used to put on figure skating shows for the community’s entertainment. Sports are an important part of the economy in Starkville,
and the economic impact of hosting hockey tournaments and providing an activity for visiting families like to skate would be huge. If you want a unique date idea, or if Greek life wanted to throw a fundraising event, an ice rink would be a great option. In Starkville, there is not much to do besides eat, shop and drink. There is not even a miniature golf course, which we also desperately need. The biggest challenge to bringing an ice rink to Starkville is always going to be about cost. A small town called Leavenworth in Washington did a study on the feasibility of an ice rink in the city in which they found the construction requires tremendous community support to build a rink and keep it open, as every rink in their study operated at a loss. However, the impact it could have on Starkville in tax revenue and on the quality of life would outweigh the cons. Funding for an ice rink could come from the federal level, former distinguished alumni or even the Nashville Predators or the St. Louis Blues, who are the closest NHL teams to Starkville. Fundraising is
certainly another way to get the money needed. There is also an issue of location, and construction would be a majority of the cost, but what if we repurposed an old building that used to be an arena into an ice rink? McCarthy Gym is the former home of MSU basketball before they moved to Humphrey Coliseum in 1975. The gym already has 3,000 seats and the surface needed for an ice rink, so the foundation is already laid. All that is missing is just the ice rink itself. With an old building on campus just lying around, why not reuse it in a new way? Tennis no longer needs the gym with their new indoor tennis facility, so why not provide something that would make MSU unique in the SEC? Currently the MSU club hockey team has to travel to Tupelo to play its games at the BancorpSouth Arena and practice in Pelham and Olive Branch. Oftentimes for practice, the team has to travel to Alabama, which lowers the amount of students who can join the club and who can be exposed to the game. However, an ice rink in Starkville would benefit the players on the Ice Dawgs, and it would give the students of MSU and those
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Similarly, the addition of the medians several years ago was also passed with the purpose of safety in mind. According to the same Columbus Dispatch article, the goal of adding medians was to reduce traffic accidents resultant from dangerous leftturn decisions. While I am confident Starkville has their citizens’ best interests in mind, I contest that, in America, we should have the freedom to make our own decisions, and this includes poor left-turning decisions. As with the proposed soda ban in New York City which would have prevented citizens from buying extra-large soft drinks in an effort to curb obesity, but was ultimately rejected by the highest court in the state, just because something might be good for a person does not mean it should become rule of law. Of course, rule of law becomes necessary when these personal freedoms infringe on another’s personal safety—namely, turning left into oncoming traffic and causing a potentially lifethreatening wreck.
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However, as the FHWA pointed out, the addition of medians can very easily cause further dangers for motorists such as “unsafe U-turn conditions” and, based on my personal experience of being stuck with my car horizontally across two lanes of Highway 12 in the midst of a U-turn with a semi-truck barreling towards me, medians ultimately push Starkville drivers to make unsafe and risky driving decisions that can also result in life-threatening car accidents. Yes, the medians probably prevent some auto accidents, but at what cost? Medians cause daily, never-ending frustration and annoyance while putting my life and others’ in danger by forcing me to utilize my less-thanimpressive U-turn skills. I have the perfect solution to this median mess. Simply rip them out and plop the concrete on the other side of the road, creating the newly approved sidewalks from concrete we have already paid for, thus saving thousands of taxpayer dollars and creating a free and happy Starkville for all on the road.
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in the community another sport to watch. Another positive impact that an ice rink could bring to Starkville is the academic research opportunities it would offer. According to an article published by the Institute of Physics, the research of Brigham Young University and Ithaca College lead to the creation of a new skate blade, research that can only be facilitated by the presence of an ice rink. In hockey, the biggest player safety issue is concussions. MSU could change that by taking their anti-concussion helmet research and applying it to a hockey helmet, or MSU could find more sustainable ways to run an ice rink and help communities across the nation cut down on operating costs. How cool would it be if engineering students created a new and better zamboni that was the pride and joy of MSU? When I was a freshman, Mark Keenum spoke at orientation and challenged each student to work hard, and to create a better future for our community and world. With an ice rink, MSU could do that, providing a much needed service to the community in both recreation and research.
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Rock Eupora is the Nashville-based indie rock project of Eupora, Mississippi native Clayton Waller. The band plays a mix of indie pop and rock, and they recently released a new extended play called “Twirlin” last month. The band’s website describes their music as “gritty rock and shimmery pop.” Waller gave some insights into what went into the making of the EP and his upcoming show at NineTwentynine Coffee Bar this Thursday. According to Waller, “Twirlin’” was inspired by his brief venture into licensing his unique brand of music for use in television and movies. The deal did not work out after there was too much interference from the executives within his licensing deal, but Waller was left with something entirely new during the process. All of the EP’s songs are short in comparison to the rest of Rock Eupora’s discography—each song lasts around two minutes for a total of about 10 minutes of music on the EP. “The songs started snowballing into some kind of Rock Eupora alternative universe, and I was left with some really short and vibey songs that I thought were really cool,” Waller said. With the EP’s outlandish nature and brisk runtime of just 10 minutes, Waller hopes it will add something fresh to the live shows as well. Along with
to describe this tour is fun. I think ‘Twirlin’ will make more sense after seeing it live,” Clayton Waller Lead singer of Rock Eupora
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Rock Eupora’s lead singer Clayton Waller poses for the band’s new EP “Twirlin,”which released Sept. 6. The band will play in Starkville this Thursday.
the licensing deal, the EP was guided by the energy of recent Rock Eupora live shows where Waller and the band move at a breakneck pace and zip through their set. “The one word I’d use to describe this tour is fun. I think ‘Twirlin’ will make more sense after seeing it live,” Waller said.
Rock Eupora are currently on tour, and the band has an upcoming show in Starkville at NineTwentynine Coffee Bar. Waller and the band are planning to play the new EP in the basement of the coffee shop with the local Starkville band, Undergrad and the Conditions, performing an opening set.
“After putting out three full length albums, ‘Twirlin’ sorta feels like a welcome bit of comedic relief or perhaps a recess period in the normally scheduled programming of the Rock-E universe,” Waller said. Rock Eupora’s discography consists of three studio longer length
vinyls: “Blanks” from 2014, “Soon the Sun Will Come” from 2016 and their self-titled release, “Rock Eupora” from last year. Their style has evolved over the years, but Waller is still completely independent and selfreleases his records. Aside from the tour, Rock Eupora is all Waller’s project where he writes, performs and produces his music all by himself. Rock Eupora has gained a cult following over the years with a devoted fanbase and a number of articles written about the band in the magazines Nashville Sceneand NATIVE Magazine, with their single “Love Won’t Last Forever” from “Soon the Sun Will Come” achieving 170,000 streams on Spotify recently. “Nashville Scene” describes Rock Eupora’s sound. “Bright and infectious, ‘Soon the Sun Will Come’ is so easy on the ears that it takes a while to notice the depth of Waller’s craftsmanship. His songs are redolent of an optimism that slips over the personal challenges he sings about like a comfortable glove.”
At their show this coming Thursday, opening for Rock Eupora is Undergrad and the Conditions, a new, rock band based out of Starkville. Undergrad and the Conditions released their first project, a three-song EP titled “An Extended Play” earlier this year. All three of these songs have over 1,000 plays on Spotify, and the band has been getting more buzz since their January debut. N i n e - Tw e n t y n i n e Coffee Bar is located in downtown Starkville, next to Restaurant Tyler and the Starkville Community Theater. The show will take place in the basement of the coffee bar. Collins Davis is a barista at NineTwentynine Coffee Bar. “We’re going to be doing a $5 presale, the show starts at 6:30, and we’re super excited to have Rock Eupora back in Starkville,” Davis said. The Rock Eupora and Undergrad and the Conditions concert will be on Oct. 24 at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are available currently at the counter of the business for $5, but on the day of the show they will be increased to $10.
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Moorhead, Bulldogs respond to their LSU defeat GARRETT SMITH STAFF WRITER
Intensity and passion described the response from Mississippi State University’s head coach Joe Moorhead, as he pounded the table following a 3613 loss to Louisiana State University. “We were gonna freaking fight,” Moorhead said. “No matter what the circumstance was, we were gonna continue to punch and continue to scratch and continue to claw and get up off the mat.” That is exactly what the Bulldogs did on Saturday against the No. 2 ranked LSU Tigers. With a newly minted starting quarterback and a reinvigorated red zone defense, MSU was able to keep the score close for much of the difficult matchup against the undefeated powerhouse from Louisiana, just one week after an embarrassing loss to the now 2-5 University of Tennessee Volunteers. Fans noticed the difference in passion between the two games, and Moorhead was quick to point out the change in Saturday’s post-game press conference. “That was a different football team than I saw on the field against Tennessee, and that was stressed,” Moorhead said. Unfortunately for the Bulldogs, it was also a very different football team they were facing. LSU, led by head Coach Ed Orgeron and Heisman contending quarterback Joe Burrow, have been unstoppable in 2019, quickly earning their status as one of the hottest teams in college football.
The Bulldogs were able to keep the phenom quarterback contained for over a quarter and a half, forcing LSU to settle for three field goals as they were unable to convert in the red zone. The 9-0 deficit certainly felt manageable for the Bulldogs, especially when Garrett Shrader, the freshman from Charlotte, North Carolina, was able to scramble for a 12 yard touchdown. Down by two against No. 2, Bulldog fans had Davis Wade stadium rocking. However, the momentum was suddenly erased when Burrow found Racey McRath for LSU’s first touchdown of the day on their first play of the following drive, a 60 yard strike made possible by a busted coverage on the part of the Bulldog secondary. LSU was able to get another touchdown just before halftime, making the score 22-7 at the break. In the second half, the Tigers would remind the crowd Daniel Dye | The Reflector why they are ranked No. 2, with two quick touchdowns Joe Moorhead holds a pen and call sheet during the LSU Game. Moorhead has been adamant in press conferences prior to and after games about sticking with the process in building a program. on drives where they averaged more than 10 have questioned how much the course of the season the coaching staff brought also backed up his head yards per play. Up 36-7, longer Moorhead’s tenure so far. He acknowledged into the week leading up to coach, saying the program that fans want wins now, the LSU game, specifically is indeed heading in the the Tigers coasted through as head coach should last. Moorhead seemed but returned focus to the how Moorhead has carried right direction. He also said the remainder of the game. MSU would get on the aware of the criticism promise that the Bulldogs himself in leading the team. the team is sticking together “He really cares about us because they need just three board once more late in the following the LSU game, are on the right track. “I know sometimes and the program,” Shrader more wins to become bowl fourth quarter, with a 24 stressing the importance yard touchdown pass from of the process his staff is people don’t wanna hear said. “He takes great pride eligible with five games left. “We believe in each Shrader to senior receiver undertaking in building up it. They want the answer in his offense and the game now,” Moorhead said. “We plan and the time they put other. Like coach said, this Stephen Guidry, from New the program. “It’s gonna come are building something in to make sure that we can program is headed in the Roads, Louisiana. The 36-13 loss leaves down to how well we special here. You know be successful on the field right direction,” Williams MSU with a measly three prepared during the week,” who believes it? The kids in on Saturdays. He was fired said. “I promise you guys up … we were all fired up, that. I’m just looking wins as compared to four Moorhead said. “And our the locker room.” As for his comments and he did a great job of forward to seeing our losses on the year, the first belief and our commitment time the Bulldogs have to the culture and doing the about the kids in the locker getting us ready. There was outcome … That locker room, it seems Moorhead no doubt in our minds that room is still tight. We’re still been sitting below .500 little things.” He went on to say he was telling the truth. After we could go out and play a unit. We still believe in since 2016. With teams like each other. We’re just trying Tennessee and Kansas State understands the anger of his SEC start, Shrader with a team like this.” Senior Darryl Williams, to get some more wins to University contributing to the fans, even claiming that emphasized the level of the loss column, many fans he is “twice as mad” about preparation and passion from Bessemer, Alabama, get bowl eligible.”
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Makayla Waldner dribbles past a Georgia defender. MSU would suffer a 1-0 defeat in overtime. The next game will be against LSU on Oct. 24.
Soccer Dawgs fall in Overtime to UGA LYDIA PALMER STAFF WRITER
On Sunday night, a Bulldog versus Bulldog matchup took place as the Mississippi State University soccer team faced the University of Georgia at home. Last year, MSU beat UGA 3-0. This year, there was only one score for the entire game. Georgia scored the lone goal during the last two minutes of the first overtime, ending the match 1-0. The singular goal scored in the game was by Georgia’s Abby Boyan with an assist from Keely Cartrett. MSU’s goalkeeper, Gabby English, stepped out of the box in an attempt to stop a shot by Cartrett. Boyan beat her there, scoring the winning goal in the first overtime. James Armstrong, the team’s head coach, said the play showed how much of an unforgiving league the SEC can be. “We didn’t take care of the moments that we had to win the game,” Armstrong said. “They made one extra play that we didn’t. That’s the difference between winning and losing today.” Georgia had an edge in generating shots on goal, but MSU was able to control 52% of the possession. Armstrong said despite the loss, it was some of the best matches he had seen from his
team all season. “I’m proud of the girls’ efforts,” Armstrong said. “I actually thought it was our best performance of the season in a number of ways.” Miranda Carrasco, a sophomore defender from Cypress, Texas, said there was some success to take away from the defeat. “What matters is that we got better, and we worked together,” Carrasco said. For the entire regular play time of the game, there were many moments when State got close to scoring as they created 10 shots, four of which were on goal, but could not quite find the back of the net. Armstrong said the team lacked quality in front of goal. “We were creating chances—that’s the positive part,” Armstrong said. “It’s just that in that moment we’ve got to be a little more composed and trust ourselves in front of the goal.” The struggle to finish goal scoring opportunities is one that Carrasco said has been a constant throughout the season. “We had many opportunities to finish, but we couldn’t,” Carrasco said. “That’s kind of been our constant struggle throughout this whole entire season.” During his talk to the team at halftime, Armstrong said he mainly focused on improving offensive communication
since there were so many close scoring chances in the first half. “It was, ‘Hey, we’re going to get opportunities to get through on goal. We’ve just got to have the person on the ball and the person making the runs communicating a little better,’” Armstrong said. “That was the main thing at halftime.” It was a tight matchup, as shown by the lack of scoring by both Bulldogs. Both teams were very strong defensively. Not only were there few opportunities to get past the defense to the goal, but even at the goal both teams had strong goalkeepers. Georgia had a total of 17 shots, eight of which were on the goal. Gabby English, a graduate transfer goalkeeper from Winter Park, Florida, was strong in goal making seven saves. The team’s next matchup is at Louisiana State University on Thursday, where the team hopes to work more offensively as they have built up a strong defensive team. Carrasco said they will most likely be working offensively during practice leading up to the LSU game and the end of the season. “Now that we focused on the defending side of the game this past week, I think we are going to focus on the attacking side this next week coming up and just getting better at it,” Carrasco said.
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