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Women’s basketball team exceeds expectations by Taylor Rayburn Staff Writer
With a win over Alabama last night, No. 4 Mississippi State Women’s basketball broke another school record. MSU (20-0, 6-0 SEC) beat Alabama (14-5, 2-4 SEC) 67-54 and now have nine road wins this season, the most in school history. On Monday night, MSU beat Ole Miss (136, 2-4 SEC) for the sixth consecutive time with a 72-63 victory. That victory gave MSU a 19-0 record, which is the best start in school history and also the longest win streak in MSU
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school history. The Bulldogs also experienced their best start in SEC play with a 6-0 record. The win over Alabama gave MSU its fourth 20-win season in a row, with the senior class just three wins away from winning their 100th game. With all the recent success, pressure has piled up on the Bulldogs. Point Dominique Dillingham, a senior from Spring, Texas, credited head coach Vic Schaefer for keeping the team grounded in a presser on Wednesday. “It is not that hard, Coach Schaefer keeps us grounded every day,” Dillingham said. “He reminds us daily that we are not perfect.”
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Palmer Home cares for children around the world by Kristina Norman Staff Writer
Since it was founded, the Palmer Home has never strayed from its original mission according to David Foster, vice president and senior advior for the Palmer Home. He said it has followed the Christian principles mandated in James 1:27 which states, “religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.” According to the Christian Alliance for Orphans, there are approximately 402,378 children in foster care in the United States, of which 101,840 are waiting to be adopted; however, only around half of those children end up being adopted. On average, the age of children waiting to be adopted, is eight years old. Those children spend nearly 22 months in the foster care system. Originally an orphanage, the Palmer Home has transitioned and oriented itself more toward foster care, housing six to eight children living in cottages with a foster mother and father. The original orphanage building, Lindamood, built in 1898, now serves as an administration building for staff. Lynn Atkins, vice president, residential, manages the daily operations for the
Columbus campus interacting with foster parents and troubleshooting issues whenever they may arise. Carol Wright, vice president of business affairs, said the Palmer Home has gone through many changes over the course of her 23 years, though the fundamental principle has remained constant: caring for children. With the Palmer Home’s new program, Whole Child Initiative, the potential to help more children is within reach. The Palmer Home, with its two locations in Hernando and Columbus, serves only 112 children. On the other hand, new and emerging opportunities with technology, such as the internet, have the possibility to reach millions. “The exciting thing about now is to really be able to serve more children,” Wright said. Foster said it is an “exciting time,” referring to the launch of the new program he authored. “We’re getting requests literally from all around the globe for these materials,” Foster said. In the past year, Foster has traveled extensively from Ghana to the Philippines to Helena, Montana, and Washington, D.C. At a recent conference in Accra, Ghana, he was the keynote speaker presenting the Whole Child Initiative with Ghana’s first lady and 16 African countries in attendance. While in
Ghana, he helped launch Ghana Without Orphans an offshoot of World Without Orphans, which seeks adoption and foster care. A month later, he headed to the Philippines,
“The Little Children’s Home” modeled after, but not affiliated with, the Palmer Home and the Whole Child Initiative. As a keynote speaker for the Council on Residential Excellence
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to train orphanage staff for a week. When he came back stateside, he headed to Helena, Montana, with his wife where he led training of the staff for the opening of a new children’s home called
(CORE) in Washington, D.C., he addressed different agencies who have residential programs for children. One of the biggest differences between the United States and other
countries, Foster said, is the concept of foster care. In Africa, the concept of taking a child into your home is still in its infancy. Compounding the problem are the sharp divisions that exist among tribes. Taking in a child from a different tribe, Foster said, is comparable to taking in a child from a different racial group which has now become common in America. In spite of the deep divisions, beliefs and attitudes are slowly beginning to change allowing more children the opportunity to receive a home. As defined by UNICEF and its partners, an orphan refers to a child who is absent one or two parents. For most people who live in industrialized countries this may sound odd, but the AIDS crisis has left millions of children without a parent. Others have parents who currently live with the disease. Worldwide, the Christian Alliance for Orphans estimates there are 150 million orphans. Of those 150 million orphans, 34.5 million have lost a mother, 101 million have lost a father, and 17.6 million have lost both mother and father becoming “double orphans.” No matter where Foster has gone in Africa, whether Ghana, Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, or Uganda, he said the picture is nearly identical. The smell of charcoal fires everywhere, smog fills the air causing people to choke, and poverty exists
on every corner. Children all over Africa sleep on sidewalks and stand in doorways of shops and markets, struggling daily just to survive. Many survive by stealing or selling things while others become trafficked for sex. Foster’s background in ministry led him to his current career. The change occurred gradually, he said. While working as a church minister, he noticed there were members of his congregation who needed help, but which his ministry education and training had not prepared him. As a result, he decided to return to school and get training in psychology at Wheaton College so he could help them. During his early time with Palmer Home, Foster said he was tasked with finding a way to assess children and help them in essential areas of their lives. This idea would become the basis for the Whole Child Initiative. Foster said the initial idea came from the current president and CEO of the Palmer Home, Drake Bassett. The Whole Child Initiative program labels itself as a “comprehensive approach,” and works by examining each child’s individual needs. What it gives those who care for children, is the training and insight needed to address the spiritual, emotional, physical and educational areas of a child’s life. Foster said his task involved writing a curriculum for online and on-site training addressing these needs. PALMER HOME, 2
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BASKETBALL Instead of riding the high of making history, Schaefer was focused on looking ahead and talked at length about what his team needs to do, not what they have done. “We’re a long way from a finished product and even closer to peaking, which I don’t want to peak right now, so there’s plenty to work on and plenty to get better,” Schaefer said. “The other night we didn’t finish the game (against Ole Miss) right, we missed five layups. There were a lot of things the other night that could have been done better. It’s easy to keep them grounded.” MSU is one of two undefeated teams in the country. The other is the No. 1 team in the country, the Connecticut Huskies
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(17-0, 5-0 AAC). UConn is lofty company, a team that has won 90 straight games. While they always had expectations at UConn, this is something different for MSU. After a program best 28 wins and a trip to Sweet Sixteen last season, Schaefer brought expectations back to Humphrey’s coliseum. This is Schaefer’s fifth season at MSU. The year before Schaefer came to MSU, the Bulldogs went 15-16 and 4-12 in conference play. In his first season MSU went 13-17 overall and 5-11 in conference play. But in his second season, things started to change. MSU went 22-14 overall but still 5-11 in conference play. However,
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people were starting to see a glimmer of what could come and now four seasons later those expectation are loud and clear. Coach Schaefer said he was amazed by how the expectations have changed, but he credited his players for creating that change. “That has always been my staff expectations as well,” Schaefer said. “We knew we could do it, and we knew that it could be done because there was a blueprint. Once you get the right kids, those kids come in and they’re all-in, the sky is the limit.” However, the schedule does not stop. MSU will face their biggest competition of the regular season tomorrow against No. 3 South Carolina (161, 6-0 SEC). The game will most likely determine the winner of the SEC. Star guard Victoria Vivians, a junior from Carthage, Mississippi, said road games have prepared them and going into hostile environments does not affect them in SEC play. “We are used to going on the road and having people against us. Going into another environment won’t affect us at all,” Vivians said. “We just have to go out and play our game.”
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So far, Foster has written 26 lessons with nine lessons now available online. What Foster said he found in his 40 years of clinical experience working with children’s homes is that agencies focus only on one or two of those areas not all four. He said each of the four areas impacts the other in some way or another. Poor nutrition (physical) will affect a child’s emotional and educational abilities while abused and neglected children suffer emotionally, physically and spiritually. Foster said he sees the future of the program constantly evolving from the contributions of others as well as the online resources continually expanding on the topics and issues the Whole Child Initiative covers. Although quickly approaching retirement, Foster and his wife, who teaches at the Palmer Home’s school, want to remain active participants with the Palmer Home continuing in some capacity for as long as they can. When the times does arrive for him to retire, Foster knows others will take up the task he started with the Whole Child Initiative, and continue to follow the Palmer Home’s mandate to help children in need.
Friday January 13, 2017 1:00 a.m. A student was arrested in Starkville for driving under the influence of a controlled substance. 12:29 p.m. A student reported his iPad stolen. 11:21 p.m. A non-resident/visitor was issued a Justice Court citation for possession of alcohol on Fraternity Row. Saturday January 14, 2017 1:25 a.m. A student was intoxicated in Cresswell Hall. Subject was reported to OCH for medical assistance. 1:58 a.m. A student was arrested on Sorority Row for driving under the influence. Justice Court citation was issued. 3:23 a.m. A non-resident/visitor was arrested on Fraternity Row for obstructing traffic, driving under the influence, and possession of a fake ID. Justice Court citations were issued. 8:27 p.m. A student was issued a Justice Court citation and Student Referral for possession of a weapon on school property at McKee Hall. 10:23 a.m. A non-resident/visitor was issued a Justice Court citation for minor in possession of alcohol on Bully Blvd. Sunday January 15, 2017 12:43 a.m. A student was arrested on Creelman Street for false information and public intoxication. 1:12 a.m. A non-resident/visitor was arrested on Bully Blvd. for public intoxication. 7:14 p.m. A student was issued a Justice Court citation and Stuednt Referral for possession of marijuana. Tuesday January 17, 2017 12:32 a.m. A student reported she was being followed by two unkown Caucasian males while walking to her dorm. Wednesday January 18, 2017 12:24 a.m. A student was arrested on Blackjack Road in Starkville for felony possession of marijuana. 6:30 p.m. A student was arrested on a warrant in Tennessee for two counts of burglary in Rice Hall.
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Library makes big changes: what students need to know by MSU University Libraries Press Release
Mississippi State University students and faculty will discover changes to Mitchell Memorial Library when they return for the spring semester. As if the addition of a fourth floor was not enough, the library has been busy reorganizing the library collections and expanding services over the holiday break. The library’s focus on students, quality service, providing resources andsupporting teaching and research have not changed, of course, but several departments and collections have moved. Dean of Libraries Frances Coleman said she believes these changes will benefit students in every area of study and will improve the overall library program. Changes include the creation of the new Educational Resources Center, the relocation and renaming of the Instructional Media Center (IMC) to the Digital Media
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Alzheimer’s research deserves more funding been one of the hardest things I have endured. This was the woman who spent hours telling me all about her life as I listened in fascination— and now she cannot even remember those stories. My family is not the only family that has gone through this. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, 15.9 million family and friends provided 18 billion hours of care for those with Alzheimer’s and other dementias last year.
Alzheimer’s is abysmal compared to other major Staff Writer diseases. The National Institutes of Health spends over $6 billion a Around the time I was 12 year on cancer research, years old, my grandmother over $4 billion on heart was put into the hospital disease research and over for various health reasons. $3 billion on HIV/AIDS While she was there, I research. witnessed the doctor askIt only spends $480 ing her basic questions million on Alzheimer’s about the date, the presiresearch. Treatment for dent and her name. this disease that kills 1 in 3 She did not answer them seniors is not funded nearcorrectly. She sat in her bed ly enough as it should be. in frustration as she strugThe government and gled to remember. families across the U.S. It was in that moment I are spendrealized my ing billions wonderful of dollars to grandmother take care of “Treatment for this disease that kills was losing these indiher memory. 1 in 3 seniors is not funded nearly viduals, but She is one the funding of 5.3 million enough as it should be.” to help find people sufa cure —or fering from even avenues some type of prevenof demenThese families spend tion— is not there. tia, according to the While I am grateful that Alzheimer’s Foundation years of their lives loving and caring for their loved my grandmother got to of America. It has been years since ones who more than like- watch me grow up, I hate that time, and my grand- ly cannot even remember what this disease has done to her. This disease made mother’s dementia has their names. Meanwhile, Alzheimer’s her into someone who is progressed rapidly. She can no longer say my name, she is the sixth leading cause of not herself. This disease gets confused and scared death—killing more than changes people into veseasily, and she needs con- prostate cancer and breast sels of who they really are. Those suffering from stant care from her nurs- cancer combined. There is no cure for the Alzheimer’s deserve fundes, caretakers and family disease, no prevention, ing to find ways to prevent members. Watching this disease and no way of slowing it and cure this disease. We progress and take over the down, according to the need to start raising awareness of how prevalent and woman who helped make Alzheimer’s Association. Yet, funding for awful Alzheimer’s truly is. my childhood special has by Natalie Bullock
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State-mandated testing does students more harm than good
Chris Lowe is a sophomore majoring in business information systems. He can be contacted at opinion@reflector. msstate.edu.
Students must take state-mandated student assessments for most major subjects, and it has caused education to become much too regulated. It would be better for this system of testing to be phased out completely. Until recently, the subject area tests were only required to be completed and passed for graduation. However, according to The Clarion Ledger in regards to the policy change, “Starting in the 2016-2017 school year subject-area test scores will account for 25 percent of a student’s fi nal grade in the related course.”
High school students should not have that kind of pressure placed on their shoulders, especially when the tests are completely unnecessary As a recent high school graduate, I can attest to the redundancy of these tests firsthand. Their mandated status forces teachers to abandon their own teaching styles, paces, and choice of content in favor of a static agenda laid out for them by the school board. At my high school, the teachers unfortunate enough to teach a class associated with a state test were graded based on the number of students who passed the test in their subject area, which essentially forced them to teach strictly to the state test. They had to race through the school year’s lesson plan, which did nothing to foster actual learning. It simply reinforced the idea of learning material just long enough and just well enough to pass a test that meant nothing in the long run.
Many high school students who are otherwise excellent pupils and high-achievers in academia have trouble with these tests, and it creates a burden on their chances of success. An article from MS News further reinforces this in describing students who were unable to pass the U.S. History state test: “Several students who failed the test are even scholarship recipients at universities and community colleges with GPAs as strong as 3.8.” In addition, an article from Gulf Livestates regarding the 2015 school year: “Nearly half of Mississippi high school students met or exceeded expectations in English last year, while about 27 percent did so in algebra I…” These numbers are an excellent testimony to how much the tests stand in the way of students. I can understand why the school board feels it necessary to ensure students are well-rounded, but this way is much more of a problem than it is a solution. It needs to change.
Gun control negates Constitutional right to property by Jonathan Bain Staff Writer
Social issues have seemingly dominated the political field for the past few years; one frequently discussed issue is that of the Second Amendment, and the idea of guns more broadly . Being a libertarian, I usually lean left on social issues or choose to take a stance of minding my own business concerning the private affairs of others. On the topic of gun ownership, however, I am as far right as a person can be. Rare as it may be, I will vehemently defend an individual’s right to marry who they please, and then turn around and do the same with someone in the realm of firearm ownership. In my opinion, rights are rights. There are not different types of rights to be applied in different areas of life. They are unilateral and apply equally in all facets of life. Today I want to explore the right to own firearms, and also look at some of the flimsy arguments the Left uses to infringe upon your rights. The Left frequently tries
to argue that the Founders could not have possibly fathomed the advancement that has occurred over the past two centuries in the realm of weaponry when writing the Second Amendment. However, our founding fathers were not stupid men; the advancement of weapons is something that has happened since the dawn of time. I’ll ask you, which is more shocking— the fact that weapons have gotten faster, stronger and can now hold more ammunition; or the fact that at one point in time the only weapons people had were swords and bows, and then one day the first firearm was invented? Another flaw with this argument is that the Left only applies this logic to the Second Amendment. Why is it that they believe the First Amendment applies to modern technology, such as computers, internet, and smartphones, but it does not apply to modern firearms? You cannot pick and choose where moderninity applies and where it does not. Another argument I have encountered more rarely, is that since the Constitution
mentions a well-regulated militia, the Founders did not intend for the common man to own firearms. The Second Amendment was given to the people so that they could defend themselves if the government should become too tyrannical. The people are those who will form the would-be militia. The Founders wanted the
“Owning a firearm falls under the “property” category of natural rights. The Second Amendment exists only to show that our government has not taken that right away. ” people to have an avenue to fight the government. The military is a force controlled by the government. The Founders were radicals who just finished fighting their mother country, so I doubt they intended for their new country to be ran by a government that only allowed the military to own firearms. Thomas Jefferson once said, “The Constitution of most of our states (and of the
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and which guns can be purchased, gun crime would decrease. This simply is not the case. According to the Center for Disease Control, gun ownership rose 56 percent from 1993 to 2003. Consequently, gun-related violence decreased by almost 50 percent. If more guns equate to more gun violence, then how are these numbers correct? The number of people
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who use guns as a method of self-defense heavily outweigh those who use guns with criminal intent. According to research from the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council published by the CDC, there were 500,000 to 3 million defensive gun uses in 2013. In the same year, under 12,000 fi rearm homicides occurred and 414,562 nonfatal illegal gun-uses occurred. Lastly, and this point correlates with the fi rst, areas with higher gun ownership suffer from less mass shootings. According to the University of Chicago’s Bill Landes, between 1977 and 1999 “right-to-carry laws reduced both the frequency and the severity of mass public shootings; and to the extent to which mass shootings still occurred, they took place in those tiny areas in the states where permitted concealed handguns were not allowed.” Gun crime is not necessarily related to the number of guns within a given area.
I believe in a system of natural rights; a set of rights that are in our very nature and inalienable. Among these are the rights to life, liberty and property. It is my estimation that governments do not provide rights, they exist to limit rights and even take them away. Considering that owning a fi rearm would fall under the “property” category of natural rights, the Second Amendment exists only to show that our government has not taken that right away from us; not that they have given us such a right. I know a lot of people personally do not like fi rearms, and disagree with people owning them. However, you can dislike something personally and still support a person’s right to do it politically. We will live in a much better, much more free society if groups of people would stop trying to legislate the limitation of the rights of others, simply because they disagree with how these people are using their rights.
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Bulldogs pick up five-star transfer program,” Schaefer said. “I’m really excited about her joining us at Mississippi State. We recruited her hard out of a very good Conway High School program, and once we heard that she was looking to transfer, we were excited about having the opportunity to possibly have her join us at Mississippi State. She is a young lady who will be very effective in our style
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Quinndary Weatherspoon was named SEC Player of the Week. He is fifth in the SEC with 17.7 ppg and leads MSU in 3-pointers.
Weatherspoon named SEC Player of the Week by Dalton Middleton Sports Editor
QuinndaryWeatherspoon was named the SEC Player of the Week last week for his performances against Arkansas and Texas A&M. This is his first weekly award this season after being named SEC Player of the Week twice last season as a freshman. Weatherspoon leads the Bulldogs in scoring this season with 17.7 points per game, and leads the Bulldogs in 3-pointers made. Against Arkansas, he led the team with 25 points and carried the Bulldogs to a win. In the game against Texas A&M, he scored 13 points, all in the second half to lead his team to a comeback win. The preseason ALL-SEC selection scored 20-plus points in six games this season, and all resulted in a win.
Weatherspoon was pleased with his awards, but knows the mid-season awards do not mean anything in the long run. “I’m more concerned with honors at the end of the year, but I’m grateful to be recognized,” Weatherspoon said. “The best thing is that we are winning. It’s been a complete team effort. Everyone has bought in to what we are doing.” After winning three straight SEC games, the Bulldogs took on Kentucky at home on Tuesday night. Despite trailing from 18 points, the Bulldogs rallied but could not complete the comeback, and lost to the Wildcats 88-81. Weatherspoon, who only scored 2 points in the first half, scored 13 in the second and almost led the
Bulldogs to the comeback. Weatherspoon fouled out late in the game. Head coach Ben Howland said he is pleased with the way Weatherspoon has played this season but knows he needs to progress as the leader on this Bulldog squad. “He is pretty stoic. He is not a huge rah-rah guy,” Howland said. “He leads by example. We want him to become more of a verbal leader. That is really important for him being one of our two captains. He is a guy that everybody on our team respects so much for so many reasons, both as a player and a person.” The Bulldogs are sitting at 12-5 overall and 3-2 in SEC play. They head to Tennessee to take on the Volunteers (9-9, 2-4) tomorrow at 6 p.m.
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