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Local artists create progressive art installation by Sarah Dutton Photography Editor
A progressive art installation was presented to the public through a traditional setting in Columbus on March 31. Despite the rain, there were over 200 people who attended. The restoration process of the actual exhibition began a few months prior to the reception. There were numerous volunteers who helped bring the project and its message to life. According to some of the artists, like Alea Landry, the collaborative effort made something much bigger than each of them individually. “Everyone pitched in time and effort for a cause that is worth more than monetary or social fame, and I believe somewhere in that world is where the heart of an artist lies,” Landry said. Local artists including the creator of the project, Dustin Vance, come from different backgrounds. Landry is from Long Beach on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Another artist, Blake Summers, currently resides in Oxford but is originally from California. The diverse backgrounds of these artists were able to bring a new meaning to their work both individually and collectively. “The installation by Blake Summers was very
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Ruthe Guerryʼs personal piece of work within the entire Splinter installation reflects her overall message of body image and the Looking Glass Theory during the reception that was held on March 31.
interesting because it included a person as part of the installation,” said Lesia Rambus, a Mississippi University for Women’s fine art major. “The way the artist designed the installation to consume the entire space was impressive.”
Dustin said prior to the reception date that he hoped his project would start a conversation and allow others to learn more about what is truly going on and happening to the people around them. He wanted to emphasize not necessarily on minorities
MSU Video Game Club hosting gaming week
by Emmalyne Kwasny News Editor
The Mississippi State Video Game Club is hosting the first ‘Week of Gaming’ April 18 to 23. The club is organizing multiple events for all students. The club’s events during this week are open to any students desiring to join. Today, the club is hosting Gaming Dojo from 6-8 p.m. in Butler Hall 100. This is a tutoring session on gaming for anyone who wants to join. On Wednesday, in Butler Hall 100 from 8-9 p.m., the club is gathering to test out a new video called Tuebor. The game is designed by Strength in Numbers Game Studios. Anyone who goes to test the new game will
receive free downloadable content if they decide to buy the game after playing. On Thursday from 7 to 10 p.m. in Butler Hall 100, VGC will have their weekly meeting. On Friday in the Union from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., the club will play Duck Hunt. The week will end with the 24-hour lockin hosted in Butler Hall from 9 p.m. Friday–9 p.m. Saturday. At the lock-in hosted in 2015, Joseph Brummett, the president of the MSU Video Game Club and junior majoring in English, said there were about 100 people who attended. This year, the VGC is hoping for 200. The lock-in is sponsored by Red Bull, Sweet Peppers, Domino’s Pizza and others providing free food for everyone attending.
outside of myself,” said Guyton. “It makes me want to put things into action for myself. It’s like tipping the first domino or watching a firework ceremony. Where do I go from here? What mindset am I in now? I just want to create and grow.” The installation is running
through the end of April. Anyone is welcome to tour the installation at any time throughout April, purchase the work or learn more about the project by getting in contact with Dustin Vance either at dvance@pnca.edu or at the website for the project at splintercollective.squarespace.com.
On April 18, students at Mississippi State University met in McCool 116 at 5 p.m. for Forum on Minority Demands. This meeting was held to educate fellow students, allow them to ask questions and discuss the demands that African American students on campus request of the university when addressing their oppression. They said they were not excluding other minorities, but emphasized the safety they seek in regards to their own coalition of black students and others within their community.
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but marginalized people in general in hopes of inspiring others to start their own projects. Desarea Guyton is a contributing artist and a MSU student majoring in Graphic Design. “The gallery inspired me to want to do something
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Art display honoring students by Reed Gaddis Staff Writer
Mississippi State will host Epitome, an art display, starting Thursday, April 21 honoring 11 bachelor of fi ne arts degree students. A reception will be held prior to the display from 5 to 6 p.m. on Thursday in the art gallery in McComas Hall and will continue in the Visual Arts Center from 6 to 7 p.m. at 808 University Drive. From 12 to 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday, the McComas display will be open to the public, as well as from 12:30 to 5 p.m. on Monday through Thursday in the CAAD Visual Arts Center
Gallery. The display will continue until April 28. Katye Drew, senior bachelor of fi ne arts with an emphasis in portrait painting, described Epitome as a project that “brings a lot of diversity to the table” with many artists such as mixed media artists, painters, ceramicists, sculpture artists and also a printmaker for the fi rst time. Drew said artwork can be from portraits, selfportraits fi gural, still life, ceramic vessels and installation ceramic pieces. The group has invented new ways to make art which is where the name Epitome originated. Drew shared her path to becoming a fi ne arts major
and how fulfi lling it has been. She said she started out as a biology pre-med major and switched majors at the end of her freshman year, transferring to art. “I’ve been so happy ever since Alex Bostic became my mentor,” Drew said. “I’ve apprenticed under him, and he got me to start painting after school in addition to 15 hours of studio classes. So I painted portraits in addition to that, and every semester I’ve entered in the competitions.” She said this breakthrough taught Drew that portraiture is the route she desired to take. Later she chose to focus her thesis on females in male dominated careers. Drew, who will be
graduating in May, shared her takeaways as a fi ne arts major and how it has affected her. “I think one of the strongest things I’ve learned as an art major is to not let views of the society sort of influence you and tell you not to follow your dreams,” Drew said. Drew said that people belittle art majors and say they are going to be “starving artists.” “We are lively,” Drew said. “We will prevail, and that is one of the strongest things I think that younger students in elementary school, middle school and high school need to know that there are jobs in the fi ne arts and careers. We are not a dying breed. We are still alive.” ART, 2
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Brummett encourages students to join to increase the diversity of the club. “We’re working on encouraging more than our average stereotypical gamer to come by and we’ve been succeeding in that so far,” Brummett said. “If you like playing video games, casually or competitively, join us.” MSU Video Game Club was started in 2010. The club has about 300 members overall, with 60 people attending their weekly meetings. It requires no membership dues for individuals to participate in their events and weekly meetings. Members of the club are not required to attend every weekly meeting. Austin Braswell, the vice president of VGC and freshman majoring in information systems, said video games are a lot more fun when playing with others. “My favorite thing about the club is the open atmosphere and that everyone in the club would be just as happy playing with someone new as they would be playing with their best friend,” Braswell said. Justin Samuels, the advisor of the club, said
he has enjoyed watching students participate in the club. His duty as advisor is to ensure that the club is operating at maxium operational efficiency at all times, while adhering to the University’s Student Organizational procedures, Samuels said. “The club is a gathering space and outlet for individuals with likeminded ideals and hobbies, and I really enjoy how I am able to mentor members and my officers and watch them grow to become better leaders, students and citizens while at MSU,” Samuels said. The MSU Video Game Club offers tournaments on a bi-weekly basis, on either Saturday or Sundays, with newly released games, such as NBA 2k, Super Street Fighter 5, Call of Duty and others. Individuals can come and compete for bragging rights and cash or gift-card prize. For more information concerning the MSU Video Game Club you can contact them at vgcmsu@ gmail.com, follow them on Snapchat, Instagram and Twitter at @MsuGames, or their Facebook group page: MSU Games.
ART Drew said in order to be an art major you have to be very strong because there are a lot of people trying to “squash” you but if you persevere you can go through anything. “I think it’s been a really good past four years,” Drew said. “It has been a breeze. I have really enjoyed it, and I figured out that this is where my heart was. My heart was in it the whole time, and it’s a great community, everyone here, once they decide they want to be art majors. It’s not an easy choice to make, and we really bond through the classes. It’s a very oneon-one environment. You get to know your teachers, you get to know everyone in your classroom and
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you get feedback on every piece that you make.” Drew shared the significance of having to complete a senior project and how it will be influential to her future. “It’s very important because it gives us a taste of what a real life exhibition would be like,” Drew said. “We go through all of the stages of deciding what body of work we want to do, completing that body of work with a committee, getting information back from them. They’re almost our clients, basically, except we get to decide the subject matter and the medium.” All facets are completed in preparation for the exhibition, which according to Drew, is important because of the experience it provides. “We really don’t get the one-on-one of being in galleries and putting on the show,” Drew said in describing all of the efforts as the “grunt” work. “We do everything through the PR and down to ordering the food. We do every bit of it. We hang the pieces, we put the nails
in the walls, we move the lights.” Eric Jackson, student
project showcases an accumulation of the students’ work over the
decided on an emphasis in sculpture because of past experience.
“I think it’s been a really good past four years. It has been a breeze. I have really enjoyed it, and I figured out this is where my heart was. My heart was in it the whole time, and it’s a great community, everyone here, once they decide they want to be art majors.” -Katye Drew, MSU student
of fine art with an emphasis in sculpture, who previously obtained a bachelor of science degree in education in 1971 from Mississippi State, said the capstone
past four years. 68-year-old Jackson has a had a long-time passion for art but spent many years in counseling and education. Through the years Jackson sought opportunities to satisfy his aspiration for art through drawing, painting, being involved with PTA fundraisers and creating paper mache sculptures for kids’ birthday parties but he chose other means to support his family. “After I retired, I decided that maybe I should go back in and actually become an artist,” Jackson said. “So I came back to Mississippi State and then studied art and will graduate this time.” Jackson, who returned to MSU in the fall of 2010, described why he
“I chose the Sculpture because so much of my background in industrial education is related to shop equipment,” Jackson said. Jackson was familiar with tools and processes, which is what led him toward Sculpture as opposed to other areas such as painting, drawing or ceramics. Brent Funderburk and William L. Giles Distinguished professors in the Department of Art, teaches the senior thesis class. “This class is a business class,” Funderburk said. “It’s a class that deals with planning, running a schedule, professional behavior. It deals with graduate schools. It deals with how to write a resume or CV. The business of budget planning for artists and designers.” Funderburk said that it is a two part thing, one part being a business class, which is like an entrepreneurial company where the students all have various tasks and offices.
They both learn and teach each other in the group serving each other. The other class is the studio class, which is held with a faculty member. This class is made up of two semesters and gives them a studio space, which is rare to undergraduate programs. Funderburk said they have a faculty chair and a committee of three faculty members that is set up much like an MFA or PhD model. “A: that’s the best model and B: to be treated professionally because this is their fi rst professional show,” Funderburk said. “There’s that two-fold way that they are taught, to be a good business person and to be a good creative person.” Funderburk described the work that the students are doing tells a story about their lives. Epitome is an expression of the full body of work the students have created in three months, which Drew said is a dramatic and intense labor of creating art. Drew said in preparation for the display the students are all on strict time schedules. “We are journaling the whole time, sketching, putting our heart and souls into this. Spending ‘all-nighters’ in our studio,” Drew said and expressed gratitude for the studio providing space for students to work. Drew said community was established, working alongside and encouraging fellow artists. She said they inspire each other to finish things and get the works framed and ready to hang and show. “It’s gonna be a wonderful event, and I think it’s really gonna be a nice way to show off exactly what we’ve been up to,” Drew said. “Not a lot of people have gotten to see us because we’ve been so busy this semester so it will be a nice time to shine.”
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Smoking ban protects rights, health and reputation
Editorial: Peaceful protests promote change on MSU campus
by Holly Travis Contributing Writer
Mississippi State University recently took action to eliminate smoking on campus by issuing a campus wide smoking ban effective August 1. For the past two years, members of the Student Association, Faculty Senate and Staff Council have been working to see this policy implemented. Now that it is approved by the executive council, not all students are as accepting of the new restrictions. Although many argue that the ban places an unwanted burden on students and faculty who smoke, I believe that the benefits of a campuswide smoking ban greatly outweigh the costs. According to the Journal of American College Health, cigarette smoking remains a concern among college students. Although smoking has declined in the overall population, smoking remains prevalent among college students.
Last week was a particularly political one on the MSU campus. On Tuesday there was a Drill Field protest against House Bill 1523, and on Wednesday there was a sit-in at Lee Hall to call for the removal of the state flag on campus. The Reflector staff would like to commend the students involved in each of these protests for their commitment to peaceful demonstration. We feel this reflects positively on MSU students’ commitment to affecting change on campus, and encourage others wishing to take a stand to follow in the steps of these groups’ civilized activism. We believe that it is of the utmost importance to maintain peace and tact when tackling prominent issues and are grateful to our fellow students for protesting in a way that shows they truly value our campus community.
The Center for Disease at MSU follows the lead over the government Control and Prevention of many other major regulation of unhealthy states that the life expectancy universities. According food and drinks. Some of a smoker is at least 10 to the Americans for argue that the government is years shorter than that of Nonsmokers’ Rights, MSU’s justified to act based on the nonsmokers. More than campus is joining over 1,483 fact that obesity is a public 480,000 people die each colleges and universities health issue, while others year due to cigarette-related across the country who have say unhealthy food-intake is health issues and 7,333 of implemented 100 percent fully a personal issue. those deaths are due to tobacco-free policies. In this situation, I agree secondhand smoke. There is no question that with the latter argument. This makes sense If individuals if you keep in mind choose not to that much of the “The smoking ban is not just in the eat healthily tobacco industry’s best interests of student health and that is their advertising is focused prerogative— on reaching young personal freedom—it is also in the they should be adults. Based on this free to make skewed advertising, best interest of our university as a decisions that it should come as no only affect surprise to see that whole.” themselves. individuals between However, the ages of 18 and 25 are most smoking bans on college smoking presents a different likely to smoke cigarettes. campuses are the new norm, challenge. The effects of In response to alarming but many individuals still cigarette smoke are not studies about the dangers question whether smoking limited only to those who do of smoking, the American bans infringe on individual the smoking. The decision College Health Association rights. of one individual to smoke formulated a strong stance The ultimate question that inevitably means that those against tobacco use at must be answered is whether around them are forced to universities. They advocate a public university has the inhale smoke as well. I firmly for smoke-free campuses as right, or even responsibility, believe this is wrong, and a way to prevent health risks to regulate students’ personal that one’s right to freedom among college students as health choices. only extends as far as another they age. Similar to debate around person’s starts. Smoking The smoking restriction the smoking ban is discussion impedes the rights of other
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Minority opinions matter most in discussion of minority issues who has a lot of majority privilege in many respects, my personal opinion is not as important regarding minority issues I am not part of. Hopefully you would not raise up the opinion of an abled person over someone who actually has a disability when the topic of equal access and appropriate accommodations gets broached. Unfortunately, that happens far too often. We have cisgender men legislating the goings on of uteri, often without the considerations of people who actually have or want to have uteri. We have rich people
I am not saying to people with straight privilege, white privilege or any privilege, really, that your general opinions do not matter. However, I am saying that your opinions on minority communities you are not a part of do not matter, or at least do not matter as much as Bek Yake the opinions of people with is the Graphics Editor at the Reflector. actual real-life experiences He can be contacted at opinion@ dealing with whatever reflector.msstate.edu. prejudice is being discussed. Many of the articles I write That is not to say that as are very personal. I tend to someone of a majority you only want to write about should abuse your privilege issues which conceptually to ignore issues minorities affect me. Be that a scathing face because they do not review of an anti-trans or affect you. You should of broader anti-LGBT bill, course stand for equality. as I am personally People of a majority transgender; a “Your privilege should be a tool supporting causes discussion on for equal rights and Planned Parenthood to raise others up to have the treatment are often controversies and necessary for equal “female” health same voice as you. ” rights to actually be because as much put in place. as I wish I was not, I was who criticize the movements Actor Emma Watson born with a uterus, and to increase minimum wage, recognized this and helped those controversies affects when this movement exists found a male feminist me; or a mild rant on right- so the average person can movement called “He for handed people inexplicably survive and not die on their She” which encourages men taking all the left-handed feet working four jobs just in to use their societal privilege desks so lefties like me are order to pay for housing, food to stand up for the rights of inconvenienced for no good and health insurance. women. reason. We have people who have Privilege is not a bad thing I do not feel comfortable no accurate clue what a trans in the right hands. More often loudly and in print voicing my person even is, saying they than not, it is something you opinion on subjects which I are deviants and legislating cannot control. However, cannot even delude myself against them. Talking heads your privilege should be into believing I personally on the news, who are often a tool to raise others up to understand. I would be fine white, criticize movements have the same voice as you. writing an unbiased news promoting racial equality Support important minority piece on any controversial without ever having fair causes but remember not to subject featuring quotes from discussion with people let your voice drown out the those directly involved in the actually affected by racial voices of those whom the issue. However, as someone injustices. movement is actually about.
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non-smoking individuals. The MSU smoking ban should be thought of as a protection for the nonsmoking majority’s right to breathe clean air, rather than a restriction on smokers’ freedom. The smoking ban is not just in the best interests of student health and personal freedom—it is also in the best interest of our university as a whole. The allowance of tobacco on campus negatively affects opinions of prospective students and faculty. I have given multiple tours to prospective students visiting MSU who questioned the allowance of smoking. On several of these occasions, parents followed up with reminders that at other universities smoking was no longer an issue. Thus, Mississippi State has a vested interest in restricting smoke on the campus if it is to remain competitive with peer institutions that enforce smoking bans. The ban is necessary to ensure all students the right to breathe air free of smoke.
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business owners. California recently increased their minimum wage because of astronomical living prices in their densely-populated state. According to The Huffi ngton Post, this wage increase hurt many small business. Higher prices must Sarah Brister be integrated in order for employee wages to is a junior majoring in public increase. This can lead relations. She can be contacted at to less consumption of opinion@reflector.msstate.edu. products, which, in worstNearly six years into case scenarios, can lead to recovery from the Great businesses closing their Recession, the American doors. economy remains When businesses close, fundamentally broken. In they can no longer employ fact, inequality is getting anyone. This could lead to a worse: since 2009, 95 spike in the unemployment percent of gain in income rate and an excess of has gone to the people relying top one percent on government of earners. Private “I think the real problem is that support to meagerly employers have provide for their created more than a majority of those working families. 8 million jobs, While I can see minimum wage jobs do so both sides of the but nearly two thirds are low wage-increase because they could not afford debate, I do not wage positions. However, even as think wages should college educations.” most Americans be raised. Instead, struggle to tread I think the real fi nancial water, problem is that a corporate profits majority of those have soared to record highs. but it doesn’t always make working minimum wage The unfortunate news getting by much easier. My jobs do so because they is that the bottom rung of own bills, groceries, car could not afford college the American economy repairs, oil changes, gas, educations. is growing crowded. clothes and other expenses I think the cost of Approximately 3.8 million eventually add up and higher education is far Americans now attempt to become overwhelming. I too high, and it is the lack live at or below minimum cannot imagine providing of college education that wage. The stereotypical for a family on top of often makes fi nding a job image of a minimum wage all these things with my that offers decent pay next worker was once a teenager current budget. to impossible for people. fl ipping burgers. However, It makes sense that many I don’t believe those with things are much different in people want the minimum families to support should reality. More than half of all wage increased. It is often have to work minimum minimum wage earners are proposed that the minimum wage jobs, which, in an 25 or older, which means wage go from $7.25 to ideal world, would still many are struggling to $15 an hour. However, we be occupied mostly by provide for entire families must also consider how teenagers and those only on extremely low incomes. this increase would affect supporting themselves.
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I have worked lowincome jobs for nearly 5 years to support my college education, and I can see both sides of the debate concerning raising the minimum wage. Let’s be clear: supporting just myself on a minimum wage budget is extremely difficult. It has to be especially difficult for someone like me, a waitress, to support an entire family. The minimum pay for waitresses in Mississippi is $2.13 an hour, because tips supposedly make up the amount minimum wage would cover. Some minimum wage earners may receive fi nancial help from grants, their families or the GI Bill,
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Cotton District Art Festival continues its annual success by Sarah Dutton Photography Editor
Saturday, the Cotton District was bustling with food, music, a plethora of art and 30 years worth of tradition. The Starkville Area Arts Council hosted the Cotton District’s Art Festival this past Saturday in a unique, central location. Stretched along University Drive in Starkville’s Cotton District were 120 Artisan vendors, 19 bands and 40,000 people who were able to experience the inspiring event the organizers, such as Laurie Burton, aimed to provide. “We’re about the arts and promoting originality and creativity,” Burton, the CDAF’s Artisan’s Village chairman, said. “That’s what we try to do. We try to bring a great balance between art, music and food, so it’s all really creative and inspiring.” The family oriented festival hit the ground running around 8 a.m. with a 5k. There were multiple mediums of art to view and participate in, including entertainment provided by local musicians, a poetry competition and awards presented through the Juried Arts Exhibition and Competition. The family-oriented and culturally-diverse festival had numerous
opportunities to get involved. Children’s Village was a location that allowed children to be hands on with art and enjoy the event just as much as the adults. There was an International Village and separate locations that emphasized the diversity within art, such as the Celtic Village. SAAC had been putting together the festival since November but have been meeting every two weeks since January. According to Burton, the entire event is volunteer based, and there would not be a festival without the tremendous support and willing effort of approximately 220 volunteers. “There is no such thing as a small part because every part helps,” Laurie Burton said. Although Burton emphasized the necessity and appreciation of volunteers, she was not the only one. The head chairmen of the event, John Turner, noticed the passion from each person who volunteers in CDAF is what truly impacts him. “It’s just really neat to be involved with a bunch of people who are passionate about something and pull together in the end because they want and choose to, not because they have to,” Turner said as she sips her free beer that each volunteer was allowed under the VIP area in the middle of CADF. “They work their tails off,
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As the Cotton District Arts Festival comes to a close, a vendor momentarily plays with a customerʼs child before packing up and heading home after the long day.
and they do something really cool. It’s fun to be part of a team that is selfless, giving and community oriented.” Both Burton and Turner said they hope their family -oriented team provides such a smooth running experience that people look forward to coming back the next year. “I hope that when they leave that they have a great feeling about Starkville, have a positive experience and that it’s something that they look forward to in the back of their minds,” Turner
Theatre MSU:
to finish the year with their performance of ‘Oklahoma!’
think I would like in the beginning, but I have grown to love it,” Bentley Staff Writer said. “Some of the songs can really make you sing along.” Jimmy Rustenhaven, sophomore music educaTo close their successtion major, will play the ful 52nd season, Theatre lead, Curly, in the show. MSU will be performing “I’m extremely excitthe musical, “Oklahoma!,” ed, and I’m ready to show in the McComas Hall everyone Mainstage what we have Theatre been work“I’m extremely excited, and I’m ready starting on ing so hard Thursday on these past to show everyone what we have been night and few months,” continuworking so hard on these past few Rustenhaven ing through said. Sunday months.” Performance afternoon. nights will be Theatre April 2123 at MSU focused 7:30 p.m. and more on pre- - Jimmy Rustenhaven, to play lead April 25th at 2 senting a p.m. role, Curly, in Theatre MSU’s prodiverse and If you are balanced duction of “Oklahoma!” interested in season of coming to see shows than the last show ever before, of the Theatre which is why MSU season, this season tickets are $10 has featured everything shows the differences in and can be purchased from the classic children’s these relationships and online, prior to the show, story, “Pinocchio,” the follows some romance or at the door on a first more historical, “Trojan between the two rival come/first serve basis. Women,” the comedic groups. For more information on “Complete Works of James Yates, senior upcoming Theatre MSU William Shakespeare” and now ending with the musi- animal and dairy science shows, or the upcoming major, will play the char- seasons, visit www.comm. cal “Oklahoma!.” “Oklahoma!,” which acter of Jud Fry in the pro- msstate.edu/theatre. com. was the first collabora- duction. He said this show tion between partners definitely covers the whole Richard Rodgers and spectrum of emotions. “There is a lot of emoOscar Hammerstein II, tion in this show,” Yates is a musical set in the said. “It has its light-heartWestern-Indian territory ed moments, and it has its just after the turn of the darker moments, too.” 20th century. Mitchell Bentley, junior Tim Matheny, MSU finance major, has been professor and director of highly involved with “Oklahoma!,” said this Theatre MSU this season. show is all about how rela“This show has a realtionships are formed on ly good story that I didn’t multiple levels. by Devin Edgar
“I’m a strong believer in that theatre should say something, and this is a strong show centered around maintaining and building relationships on all levels,” Matheny said. During the time period in which “Oklahoma!” is set, there was a strong rivalry between cowboys and farmers. “Oklahoma!”
said. “I hope they think they can’t wait to come back next year.” Roughly 40,000 people attended and participated throughout the event. At the end of the day, the team’s goals were met as some attendees said they already planned on attending the following year. Mississippi State University criminology major Jamie Edwards said, “My favorite part is the atmosphere. I’m not usually one for big crowds, but being there, seeing all the
handmade art and eating good food with a bunch of nice people everywhere makes it really enjoyable. I think the festival is another reason to love Starkville, and I’m already looking forward to it for next year.” This event may be over, but SAAC hosts events year round for the community to partake in, including Art in the Park this summer, which Burton is currently working towards, and Carol McReynolds-Davis Exhibition from April 18 through May 2. To get
involved with SAAC, go to the Greater Development or visit their website at starkvillarts.net.
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THE REFLECTOR TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 2016
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Young players impress in annual spring game by Taylor Rayburn Staff Writer
Mississippi State played their annual Maroon-White spring football game on Saturday and showcased the 2016 version of MSU football. The Maroon team topped the White team, outscoring them 34-21. Going into the game, many were hoping to get a clearer picture of the quarterback battle between Nick Fitzgerald, Elijah Staley, Damien Williams and Nick Tiano. However, no QB stood out, and the picture is still unclear. Williams and Fitzgerald led the White team. Williams led all QBs, going 14 for 20 passing and threw 165 passing yards with two touchdowns and no interceptions. Fitzgerald, who many considered the favorite for the starting job, had less success. He completed 10 of 20 passes and had 127 yards with one touchdown but also threw two interceptions. Tiano and Staley were the quarterbacks for the Maroon team. Tiano had a break-out game and surprised many with his play. He went 8 of 13 passing for 99 yards and one touchdown while throwing one interception. He also ran the ball 10 times for 76 yards. Staley had the worst day of the four quarterbacks, going 5 for 11 passing for 48 yards. He threw no touchdowns and no interceptions.
Head Coach Dan Mullen, who coached quarterbacks Tim Tebow, Alex Smith and Dak Prescott, gave his opinon on the quarterback battle after the game. “To me it’s about consistency of play,” said Mullen. “Some would do great on one day and be kind of average on the next day, and someone else will stand out the next day. They were all pretty even coming out of spring.” However, like many spring games, a few younger players stepped up and made their names known. On offense it was running back Nick Gibson, who had 14 rushes for 79 yards and one touchdown for the Maroon squad. Matching Gibson was running back Alec Murphy who led the White squad with eight rushes for 45 yards. On defense, the standouts were freshman linebacker Leo Lewis and sophomore safety Mark McLaurin. Leo Lewis flew all over the field racking up seven tackles and a lone interception. McLaurin broke up multiple passes and caught two interceptions. One of the interceptions came on a trick play that saw former QB Dak Prescott step on the field and throw a pass to former running back Anthony Dixon. McLaurin showed off his speed and chased the ball down for an interception. McLaurin gave his breakdown of the play after the game.
“My teammates had given me the heads up about it and I knew it was coming, so when I saw him I just had to run up and grab it,” said McLaurin. “It wasn’t a normal formation, so when I saw Dak on the sidelines, I had to go get it.” Not to be left out, a couple of seniors also had strong showings. Johnathan Calvin had four sacks on the day and eight total tackles to lead the Maroon team. DeAndre Ward led the White defense with nine tackles. Senior and former All-SEC player A.J. Jefferson was disruptive at the line of scrimmage and caught a rare defensive lineman interception. Defensive Coordinator Peter Sirmon talked about Calvin’s day and spring season after the game. “John did some really good things,” said Sirmon. “He had some nice flashes today rushing the quarterback. He has done that throughout the spring, and I’m really excited about him rushing the quarterback right now.” The MSU football team has now completed their spring practices and will move on to summer workouts before camps in the fall. With no clear winner in the QB battle, many will look for someone to separate themselves from the others before the season’s start. The Bulldogs will open up the 2016 football season against South Alabama at home in Davis Wade Stadium on September 3.
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Redshirt freshman quarterback Nick Tiano runs for a first down during the annual spring game. The white team won the game 34-21.
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