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Reveille pre-orders begin in February BY LAUREN CLARK Staff Writer
Students at Mississippi State University will be able to order a new copy of the Reveille this spring for the first time in three years. MSU Student Association President Rhett Hobart said the new Reveille will be available this summer, but pre-orders will begin in February. “Because of the time restraints we are under to get the yearbook completed for this year, the 201112 edition will be mailed over the summer to each student who orders one,” Hobart said. Laura Touchstone, co-director of history and tra-
ditions, said several changes are being made to the Reveille to make it appealing to current students, including a move to high-quality printing and allcolor pages. “We are taking out the class photo section, this being the yearbook trend across a lot of colleges and universities,” she said. “We are hoping that by taking out this section, more organizations and clubs will want to have a page and put in their own photos of representation appealing to more students.” Clark Cutrer, co-director of history and traditions, said the summer release of the new edition also allows the Reveille staff to include events that
occur late in the semester, including baseball and graduation, which are not usually part of the Reveille. The new edition of the Reveille will also include a section that will highlight the events at MSU since the last issue three years ago, Touchstone said. “We feel that every year is important in MSU history, and the Reveille is the way to preserve that and without it being around for those three years those important happenings in our history as a University will be forgotten, otherwise,” she said. Jen Nguyen, Reveille co-editor, said she feels it is important to have a yearbook this year so all MSU students will have a yearbook to document their time on campus.
“By releasing an issue this year, there will be no graduating class at MSU that will go without a yearbook,” she said. “I wouldn’t want any graduating class to go without a yearbook because they are so important nowadays. Not only do they hold memories for us, but they are also a history reference.” Nguyen said she thinks tradition is also an important reason for the Reveille to return. “It is one of those traditions that I really love about State. There is so much tradition that lies in the Reveille, and letting it die would be a part of MSU that is missing,” she said.
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The Five22 introduces whatshappen.in Website offshoot strives to bring the 411 to Starkville, beyond BY MICAH GREEN News Editor
As I walk up to meet Miles Byrd in the Union on Wednesday, he is standing next to a table with a handful of fliers talking to Grant Beatty, front man of local band The Jar Heads, and discussing the possibility of booking the band for some upcoming dates. Of course he is. As the founder and CEO of The Five22, a self-proclaimed networking consulting, booking and promoting conglomerate here in Starkville, pretty much every person he meets is either a potential client or a potential partner. The man never leaves the house without his A-game. Since May 22 (or April 19, no one is sure which) of last year, networking, for Byrd, has become a lifestyle. It was on one of those days Byrd and some friends finally decided they were going to put
into action the plans he had been mulling over for months. “We had all these grand ideas and they were all back-end things,” Byrd said. “We were all, ‘Let’s create an app,’ ‘Let’s create a website,’ and when we launched it we wanted it to be as good as Facebook and blow everybody’s mind.” Byrd’s enthusiasm propelled him through long nights of spitball sessions, looking for something to stick, and there were definitely some breakthroughs. But production on both the app and the website began to slow and the innocent excitement followed. “That’s when I decided that I would just put up the website myself,” he said. One sleepless night and a Blogger account later, thefive22.com was live. “It at least gave me something to show the people who were helping me out, you know, that what they were working on was real.” SEE FIVE22, 7
SA SENATE BRIEF BY WILL HAGER Staff Writer
On Tuesday, the Mississippi State University Student Association Senate met. Here are some highlights from the meeting.
SA Budget Rhett Hobart, SA president, released the figures from the 20112012 SA budget. SA has been budgeted $125, 510. Of that number, $116,104.41 has been realized in total. This includes the $20,000 planned for the Old Main Music Festival.
Tobacco Cessation Task Force Joyce Yates and David McMillen of the tobacco cessation task force gave a presentation proposing strategies for implementing a new anti-tobacco policy across campus. Halston Hales, vice president of SA, said a new policy is coming along and should be enforced next fall. “They’re handling it themselves, but they want student input, and so they wanted to hear from the senate,” Hales said.
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Miles Byrd, CEO and founder of The Five22, does some work at his office in the basement of an old photography studio on University Drive. Byrd, Keatzi Gunmoney, Blair Edwards and James Kastrantas run the entire company here.
Senate Redistricting The senate examined Bill 7, which proposed parameters for the redistribution of SA Senate seats for the 2012-2013 school year. Bill 7 asserts that students will be represented by their colleges and schools, rather than by residence halls. Each college or school’s number of seats will be determined by its amount of students. There will be a senator for every 650 students. Using statistics from the 2010-2011 school year, under the proposed plan, there would be 36 senators. Halston Hales, SA vice president, said he believes redistricting senate seats to the specific colleges and schools would add prestige to the senate. “It implicitly adds age to the senate to where you have upperclassmen that are in those positions, which leaves you with a more knowledgeable, more understanding set of representation who can actually pass things in your favor,” Hales said. Freshmen would still have access to senate seats, but the exact number is undetermined, he said. If passed in the senate, the constitutional referendum would be presented before the student body during the general election.
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Faculty Senate discusses budget cuts, tuition increases Keenum addresses $500 million funding shortfall BY LACI KYLES Staff Writer
The Robert Holland Faculty Senate of Mississippi State University discussed potential budget cuts and tuition increases as well as future campus construction projects during their meeting on Friday, Jan. 13. President Mark Keenum said he spoke with new leaders in Jackson and the state budget is at the top of the agenda. Currently, the state is experiencing a $500 million shortfall from funds not available this session that were available last session, and there is less money received from the state today per student than 10 years ago. “We’re doing a whole lot more with a whole lot less,” Keenum said. “It’s quite evident.” For fiscal year 2013, a 3.4 percent cut was proposed for the Mississippi Institution of Higher Learning (IHL), and a 2.6 percent cut was submitted by Gov. Haley Barbour, even though IHL has taken budget cuts for the past three years in a row, Keenum said. MSU’s total appropriations are one-third higher than what the university actually received during a shortfall over a five-year period, and enrollment experienced a 46 percent increase over that time period. SEE SENATE, 3
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