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SA makes executive transition BY JOHN GALATAS
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Student Association President Michael Hogan was sworn into office last Wednesday night, along with the other members of the executive council. Hogan said the transition has been smooth and he is excited to officially begin his responsibilities as the SA president. “Wednesday night of last week my exec and I were choosing cabinet while Shelby Balius was cleaning out this office, and so right when we were done picking cabinet, she had my name plate in the door and had it cleaned out so it felt like a cool start,” Hogan said. “(The transition has) been an opportunity to sit back and be able to talk and be able to have these conversations and do the personal things the SA president should be able to do. I didn’t think I was going to since it’s such a heavy work load, but now being SA president KAITLIN MULLINS | THE REFLECTOR it’s that heavy work load along with a Above and below: Ramps and doors that open with buttons contribute to handicap accessibility across campus. little extra time to put in these extra things.” Although Hogan has not been in office long, he said he is already seeing his platform come together. “It’s been a cool thing to be able to begin those things. I spent a long time talking about those things so it’s a very cool thing to start watching those things form,” he said. “It’s a cool thing, but it’s also sometimes a bit, not disheartening, but a little bit of a struggle to be on the other side of things and really see how things work, and see how these big ideas become smaller and smaller with each administrator you go to. And that’s reality and that’s fine, but most of my ideas that are subtle you have stuBY KYLIE DENNIS and easily executed, I’m excited about, dents with learnStaff Writer but the bigger ones, I’m excited about ing disabilities working towards but anxious to see the As Mississippi State University’s like dyslexia or a ending to see the end result.” One of those struggling issues was campus continues to make major reading disability. Hogan’s idea to wave out-of-state tui- structural advancements in order We have students tion for summer sessions. At the mo- to meet the demands of the twen- with ADHD and ment, 11 percent of students taking ty-first century, renovations must ADD.” White said summer classes are out-of-state and still be made to improve basic travpay full tuition. Hogan said he dis- el routes, building accessibility and MSU’s past acMSU has been “through the roof cussed the proposition with multiple social experiences for the universi- complishments and continued efforts have helped positive with just a few obstacles.” administrators and received feedback ty’s disabled students. “We have the best Student SupMicah White, assistant director make the university widely recogon the financial possibility of the connized in the fi eld of handicap acport Service staff in the country,” of Student Support Services, said cept and is hopeful about the direction Everett said. “The way we do MSU strives to accommodate vary- cessibility. of his platform. “If you talk to schools around things here academically, we mesh “There are the big ideas and they ing types and degrees of disability Mississippi or in the South, they things well with vocational rehafor nearly 600 of its students. are working with me to get the details “The main goal is to level the say Mississippi State is one of the bilitation. It’s just wonderful.” worked out, and that is much appreHowever, White also said while ciated,” he said. “As a whole, a lot of playing field for students with more accessible and accommodatmy things are going to be easily ac- disabilities. Disabilities are differ- ing campuses around. We’ve been MSU is undoubtedly “a very accessible campus,” total handicap complished, hopefully quickly accom- ent. You have the disabilities you doing it for a long time,” he said. Houston Everett, junior comaccessibility continues to be an uncan see like someone in a wheel plished, but some of the bigger ones are going to be yearlong projects I’m chair,” he said. “Someone may be munication major with cerebral reached and perhaps unreachable blind and have a cane, but then palsy and exotropia said his time at goal. looking forward to.” SEE ACCESS, 2
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South Hall will be publicly dedicated at a ceremony in honor of 1962 Mississippi State University aerospace engineering graduate Niles Moseley and his wife, Mary Lyn Moseley, of Los Altos, Calif. The residence hall’s official name will be Mary Lyn Moseley and Niles R. Moseley Residence Hall. The dedication will take place Thursday at 2 p.m outside of the residence hall formerly known as South Hall at 55 Magruder St. The dedication will feature speakers including MSU President Mark Keenum; Bill Kibler, vice president of student affairs; John P. Rush, vice president for development and alumni and Michael Hogan, Student Association president. Rev. Chip Stevens of Starkville’s First Baptist Church will give the invocation. The Moseleys have made contributions to MSU for a number of years, including projects such as the renovation of McCain Hall and Moseley Plaza, an area of green space featuring a fountain between Simrall Electrical Engineering Building and the John C. Stennis Institute of Government. The couple also donated $3.15 million toward the establishment of the Mary Lyn and Dr. Niles R. Moseley Promise Support Fund, which supports scholarships and counseling services of the MSU Promise Program. Sid Salter, director of University Relations, said the Moseleys are invested in the MSU Promise Program, which was created to assist freshmen and community college transfer students who come to MSU from low-income families and enroll. “That’s something that the Moseleys have a very keen interest in, providing opportunities for first-time college students who are the first in their families to attend and those from low-income backgrounds to help give them a solid start,” he said. Salter said even though Niles Moseley is an MSU graduate, he has not returned to MSU’s campus since he graduated. “There’s a tremendous amount of change here on campus and growth that he’s never seen, and I think he’s excited about seeing the campus all these many years later,” he said. Niles Moseley, a Mississippi native, was a member of Kappa Alpha Order during his time at MSU and he went on to earn a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Rice University and a doctorate degree from Stanford University, also in electrical engineering. Although retired now, Niles Moseley worked as a broker with Moseley Investments and Real Estate. Mary Lyn Moseley was educated as a nurse and currently works as a flight attendant for United Airlines on select international flights.
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Entrepreneurship week seeks to promote innovation BY HILLARY LAPLATNEY Staff Writer
Mississippi State University’s entrepreneurship club hosts Entrepreneurship and Innovation Week, a five-day event featuring competitions in which over $50,000 in prize money will be given away. Entrepreneurship and Innovation Week, nicknamed eWeek by those in charge, started Monday and will last until Friday. EWeek kicked off with the grand
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opening of the Entrepreneurship Center’s new laboratory in McCool Hall known as the Co-Lab. The Co-Lab is opening for members who will be able to come in and brainstorm ideas for future businesses. Parker Stewart, president of the entrepreneurship club, said the CoLab is “truly the embodiment of entrepreneurship culture.” “We’ve proven that you can have an idea, and as long as you’re willing to work for your dream, it will
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be made true,” Stewart said. “We’ve come a long way with making the Co-Lab. We’ve hit a lot of bumps, and we’ve changed a bunch of stuff. It’s been a whole process, logistics-wise, to get this thing together in six months. We’re pretty excited.” A total of six competitions will take place from Tuesday until Friday. The vent on Tuesday, a competition in which competitors will pitch their business ideas, will take
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place at 2 p.m. in 100 Simrall Hall. The winner of this competition will receive $5,000 in prize money. Other competitions include an elevator pitch competition, which will involve competitors giving a 90-second pitch to promote an idea, and an app competition in which competitors will present their ideas for new smartphone apps. Stewart said he is excited for the impact these competitions could have on business students. “We hope that eWeek will help
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raise awareness of all the resources that are available to students to start their own business,” Stewart said. “That’s what we hope to accomplish. These competitions are designed to help students start companies and show that there are people out there who want to help.” Stewart said he has a passion for helping and that he hopes he will have the opportunity to lead students with ideas in the right direction. SEE ENTREPRENEURSHIP, 2
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ACCESS “There are buildings on campus that need some help,” he said. “All accommodations are not going to be perfect, but they will be reasonable. In a perfect world, things would be perfect, but it’s not perfect. It’s not perfect for people without disabilities.” Zach Woolley, senior political science and philosophy double major and president of United Students, shared his experiences with accessibility at MSU as a student with cerebral palsy and issues with visual perception. “It’s been a mostly positive experience, but some buildings, like Carpenter, Carpenter is hellacious,” he said. “Mississippi State is doing a good job, but like anything it can always be improved. A 95 is not a 100.” Everett said his basic commute to some areas on campus is often made difficult or even impossible by the lack of curb cuts on university sidewalks. “There’s a couple of instances on campus where there needs to be curb cuts. There should be curb cuts at every crosswalk so I can get across the street. That’s a huge issue,” he said. “If you’re going from the coliseum to the baseball stadium, you get to the end of the sidewalk, and there’s a crosswalk but no incline. I haven’t been to that site in about two years because I’ve had to figure out other ways around it, but there are situations all around campus like that.” Woolley said his personal requests to Student Support Services include a movement to have some curbs at MSU painted blue, a prospect that would aid students who experience difficulty with visual perception. “They didn’t (comply), but I understand,” Woolley said, “There’s no animosity for that. It’s a big request and expense, but when we’re spending millions of dollars renovating a stadium… But I understand. Sports is where the money is.”
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continued from 1 Woolley also said Davis Wade Stadium, sue feedback regarding the campus. Everett said greater representation for a symbol for school spirit and student camaraderie, requires handicap-conscious disabled students is also necessary to rerenovations in order to better accommo- inforce MSU’s progress in handicap accessibility. date MSU’s disabled students. “We need someone, a public figure at “There’s not really a place for us in the student section. So we’re pushed Mississippi State like the Student Assoup against the wall, and students crowd ciation president, to raise awareness for around us which is not necessarily good students with disabilities,” he said. “We thing because they’re standing and, of have to go day by day, and if we see course, we’re sitting. So we can’t see,” something, we have to address it.” Likewise, Woolley said he said. “I’d really like to There are some United Students and see that fixed. I’m an avid sports fan. I love footbuildings on campus MSU’s joint mission to create a more handicap ball.” that need some help. accessible campus will be Everett said Humphrey Coliseum also requires All accommodations invaluable in the coming years because it ensures serious renovation in the are not going to be the inclusion, acceptance way of handicap accessiperfect, but they will and positive experience of bility, citing the exclusion of disabled students from be reasonable. In a students with disabilities. “It’s in the name — the student section. perfect world, things united. If the campus is “I want to sit where would be perfect. It’s not accessible, students the students sit. I want to be in the game. When not perfect for people with disabilities are ostracized,” he said. Marshall Henderson goes without disabilities.” Everett said his exthree for 16, I want to periences at MSU have know I was a part of makMichael White, helped define his characing that happen,” he said. Assistant Director ter, and with the aid of Woolley cited severof Student Support MSU’s Student Support al problematic areas on Services and organizacampus including but Services tions like United Stunot limited to excessively steep inclines in Davis Wade Stadium, dents, he said he is confident MSU will narrow doorways and limited first floor continue to make progress in the way of access in McComas, inconvenient place- handicap accessibility. ment of push pads for automatic doors “My whole purpose is making sure in the Colvard Student Union, close Mississippi State is a better place for stuproximity of stairs and ramps in Hand dents with disabilities in the future,” he Laboratory and various architectural is- said.“I think we can really be the cutting edge university that I want us to be, and sues in Cobb and Carpenter. Everett also said he hoped MSU would I’m not ashamed to say that. We can adapt more handicap-accessible class- have the number one baseball team in rooms, housing plans — including at the country and the number one campus least two rooms for both male and female in the country, everything,” he said. “We students with disabilities per new dorm can strive to be the best in every aspect. — and a computer-mediated system in I think you can come to MSU and be which students may file complaints or is- whatever you want.”
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Wednesday, March 27 • 6:32 a.m. A resident of the city/county was arrested on Hardy Road for speeding and a suspended driver’s license. • 7:56 a.m. A student was arrested at Critz Hall for minor in possession of alcohol. • 10:02 a.m. A student was arrested for possession of marijuana and cyber stalking. • 11:25 a.m. A student was arrested at Critz Hall on a warrant for possession of a weapon on campus. • 8:01 p.m. A student reported his vehicle was hit sometime during February or March.
Thursday March 28 • 12:26 a.m. A student was arrested on University Drive for driving under the influence and improper equipment. • 12:41 a.m. A student was arrested on Highway 182 for driving under the influence. • 12:51 a.m. A student was arrested on Highway 182 for no inspection sticker. • 11:47 p.m. A student was arrested on Spring Street for no insurance.
Friday, March 29 • 12:18 a.m. A student was arrested on Rockhill Road for careless driving and driving under the influence. • 12:24 a.m. A student was issued a Justice Court citation and student referral for minor in possession of alcohol in Ruby Hall. • 5:53 p.m. A student reported receiving a suspicious phone call at the Butler Guest House.
Saturday, March 30 • 2:15 a.m. A student was arrested for disturbing the peace.
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• 10 citations were issued for speeding. ENTREPRENEURSHIP continued from 1 • 1 citation was issued for driving the wrong way on a one-way street. “As long as (the person is) passionate and erything, but I know people who are.” they work hard, I’ll do everything I can to David Hennigan, vice president of the • 1 citation was issued for obstructing traffic. make sure that they get the things they need entrepreneurship club, said he looks forto start up,” Stewart said. “I’ve seen plans ward to seeing eWeek come back and conrange from those who thought of an idea tinue growing in years to come. last week to those who have it all thought “EWeek is not something that is restrictout, have customers and are just looking ed to people who have everything thought for some help growing the business. I like out and everything all together,” Hennigan to tell people that I’m not an expert at ev- said. “No vision is too big or too small.”
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WHO SPEAKS FOR EARTH? | CAMERON CLARKE
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The state: marriage’s unwanted bedfellow
Reserving judgment is a matter of infinite hope.
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ay marriage and the Consequently, no religion legalization same can craft laws that are based sex unions has been upon its tenants to the exclua pressing issue across the sion of outside influence. United States as well as the Everyone should be alrest of the world. lowed free choice regarding Whichever is right, I do religion and related matters, not wish to discuss the le- and even though many regalization of gay marriage ligions hold the institution or keeping marriage a union of marriage to be special or only between a man and a sacred, no single religion is woman, but rather the un- allowed to have preference derlying notion that mar- over the others outside of esriage is controlled solely by tablishing tradition. the government. Forcing your morality on In essence my question is other people is not useful, as this: why must we ask the it rarely works and often acts government to be married? to distance people from each In ancient Rome, religion other since morality is often and culture were the driving personal and difficult to deforces behind marriage. cide in the public space. According to roman-colThe 10th Amendment osseum.info, marriages were states all rights not enumernot government issued: ated in the constitution are “Marriage was held by the peoestablished by ple. This means Forcing your consent and the right to marmorality on other riage, which is (dis-)continued by dissent; not elsewhere people is not for the dissent mentioned, is a useful, as it rarely right exclusiveof either party, works and often ly held by the when formally expressed, acts to distance people, not the could dissolve federal governpeople from each ment. the relation.” Thus, even Any act by other.” with its govCongress, the ernment regulating marriage president or the Supreme to limit it based on class and Court to make a decision reage, marriage was still a mat- garding marriage rights could ter mostly of free choice. thereby be expressly violating Marriages were overseen the 10th Amendment. by priests and witnessed by Historically, attempts to peers and friends, with mini- do away with common law mal regulation by the govern- marriages and enforce govment. ernment marriage licenses in The first amendment to the U.S. were often less than the U.S. Constitution com- noble. mands Congress make no Marriage licenses were law that infringes upon citi- originally intended partially zen’s right to free exercise of to prevent interracial marreligion. riages according to marriage.
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laws.com, “Marriage license laws were originally aimed at preventing non whites from entering in marriage and being granted the rights and responsibilities generally conferred upon marriage. Later, interracial couples were forbidden from obtaining a marriage license.” Sadly, the Bill of Rights was originally put in place to protect our civil rights, and here they have been violated, in express conflict with the law of the land. Unsurprisingly, the U.S. is not the only nation facing issues with government marriage rights. According to cbsnews.com Russia acts strongly to suppress its gay rights movement. Russia recently enacted a bill to make protests and homosexual propaganda illegal. CBS reports, “The bill is part of an effort to promote traditional Russian values as opposed to Western liberalism, which the Kremlin and (the Eastern Orthodox Church) see as corrupting Russian youth and by extension contributing to a wave of protest against President Vladimir Putin’s rule.” Russians are starting to lose their freedom to voice their opinions. The Russian people have the opinion of the majority forced upon them often at the cost of their civil rights, and the gay rights movement there is only one of many minority groups being repressed within the country. Returning to the issue of state-sanctioned marriage, I understand there are reasons to put legal restrictions on
F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Great Gatsby” CAMERON CLARKE Cameron Clarke is a sophomore majoring in physics. He can be contacted at opinion@reflector.msstate.edu. marriage to prevent abuse, making allowances for these kinds of conditions wholly justifies government control of marriage licenses. Although government regulation is useful to prevent people from taking advantage of each other in underage marriages, unwilling polygamy and other potentially criminal abuses, licensing and permitting marriages should not be under the power of the government alone. Ideally, if you do or do not want to be in a marriage, your actions are to be between you and your spouse and anyone else you ask to be involved. To end I would like to examine the issue at hand. Some people want to redefine and enjoy the benefits of binding, legal marriage, and other people want to match it to fit their moral convictions. This issue could fade to nothing if both sides take note of our freedom regarding personal moral choices if we all reexamine the assumption of government control that is over issues traditionally considered religious and cultural and is not founded in the Constitution.
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Paul Prudhomme and Mark Slawson create T-shirts for Wild Life Prints.
Although Starkville is a small town, more than a handful of Mississippi State University students produce innovative, hand-crafted, artwork and they know how to support each other. Wild Life Prints, created in 2012 by sophomore art majors Paul Prudhomme and Mark Slawson, is firmly rooted in this category: Wild Life Prints produces hand-printed T-shirts bearing hand-drawn designs that Prudhomme said come straight from the pages of their sketchpads. “We use (Adobe) Photoshop and Illustrator, but we really don’t alter our designs much from their original state in our sketchbooks,” he said. The images that Slawson and Prudhomme ink onto T-shirts are unsurprisingly related to the outdoors; totem poles, slingshots, arrowheads and trees are just a few of the emblems they emblazon upon cool gray, blue and green shirts. The whimsical style of the drawings, as well as their ties to an almost scout-like wilderness, form what Slawson said is the intended message: regaining a sense of youth and adventure. “We’ve tried to create a feel of childhood nostalgia and trying not to lose that sense of being carefree,” he said. David Lewis, junior architecture major and proud Wild Life Prints T-shirt owner, said he enjoys his shirt bearing a tree line and the mantra “Explore more” for its restraint and clarity of intent. “I like the simplicity of it, and I prefer the iconic qualities of the work; it’s one short little statement. It’s one thing,” he said. The simplicity of Wild Life’s themes (“Just being outside,” as Slawson said) informs the transparency of both the meaning behind their designs and the business title itself. For instance, Prudhomme said the name Wild Life Prints stems directly from how well it represents their outdoorsy intentions. “I wish we had a cool story to tell about how we came up with the name but we don’t,” he said. “We just like it a lot, and it gets across what we’re trying to say pretty well.” Prudhomme and Slawson’s involvement in screen printing, Prudhomme said, came when his older brother developed an interest in the process over a summer break. Prudhomme said
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he and Slawson learned to screen print through multiple avenues, from professors to the Internet and trial and error. “My brother played a big part in teaching us. We also learned a lot through trial and error and YouTube videos,” he said. “Also, Jude Landry, who teaches screen printing, gave us a much appreciated crash course at the beginning of fall semester this year.” Slawson said the process of creating a finished Wild Life Prints product involves quite a few steps from sketchbook to final printed T-shirt. “There are a lot of steps to the process, but we basically just scan in the image, print it on a transparency and basically put the image in a tanning bed and burn it to a screen,” he said. “This creates a stencil that you can push in through onto the shirts.” Originally intending to print on paper alone, Prudhomme said he and Slawson began printing T-shirts and it just stuck. At a recent art show in a house on Greensboro Street, Wild Life Prints teamed up with other MSU students to display and sell their work. Senior art major Mollie Simpkins, senior art major Anna Ballard, senior geology major Mary Boyett and sophomore art major Charis Boyett, along with Wild Life Prints, displayed their work on the walls, tables and wooden-slatted porch of the house. Slawson said the experience was one of the best he has had since he began living in Starkville. “We got to hang out with friends and print shirts on their front porch, which was really cool,” he said. Prudhomme said he and Slawson are thankful for the support of MSU as the student base in Starkville has become the wind in the sails of Wild Life Prints. “We appreciate everyone’s support and encouragement,” he said. Lewis, an attendee of the Greensboro Street art show, said the event was an example of the relentless support MSU students provide for the arts. “I would say in Starkville, especially among students, everybody’s pretty supportive of each other in the arts department,” he said. “A lot of people came. It’s kind of a supportive community, that’s how they work really well.” More information about Wild Life Prints can be found at wlprints.com.
Award-winning faculty read fiction, poetry Tuesday BY DANIEL HART Staff Writer
From the crunch of typewriter keys to the clattering of a computer keyboard, the creative writing program at Mississippi State University has had students typing away for four decades. A celebration of 40 years of creative writing at MSU will take place Tuesday, April 2
in Harrison Auditorium of Giles Hall at 7:30 p.m. with readings and discussions from four faculty members, poets and fiction writers: assistant professors of English and co-directors of creative writing Michael Kardos and Catherine Pierce, assistant professor of English Becky Hagenston and professor of English Richard Lyons. Kardos said the faculty members will read from their most current work as well as projects under construction. “The four members of the creative writing faculty will each be reading briefly from their recent work and discussing their work in progress,” he said. “At the end of the reading, there will be a brief Q&A, followed by a book signing.” Kardos said the readings, discussion and book signing not only celebrate the history of the creative writing program but also commemorate two influential former faculty members.
“The event is being held to celebrate 40 years of creative writing at MSU, and also to honor two former faculty members: Price Caldwell, who founded the creative writing program, and Gary Myers, creative writing faculty member from 1989 until his retirement last year,” he said. Each writer’s work has been lauded, picking up numerous awards and shining reviews. According to promotion for Tuesday’s reading, Sherman Alexie said of Catherine Pierce’s 2012 poetry collection “The Girls of Peculiar,” “Read these poems and you will remember how to burn.” Antonya Nelson described Becky Hagenston’s 2010 short story collection “Strange Weather” as “Curious, clever, quick, hilarious and heartbreaking.” David Wojahn claimed Richard Lyons’s 2006 collection of poems “Fleur Carnivore” to be “like the solos of the jazz greats…Lyons’s poems are exploratory, nervy, emotionally rich.” Author Tom Franklin said of Michael Kardos’ first novel, 2012’s “The Three-Day Affair,” “Read a page or two and then put it down. It can’t be done.”
As professors busy with both teaching and writing, Pierce said the communal nature of the reading will provide an opportunity for the faculty members to catch up on each others’ most current work. “The four members of the creative writing faculty have given readings individually, usually when a new book comes out, but we’ve never all read together,” she said. “I’m looking forward to getting a sneak peek into what everyone else is working on.” Kardos said MSU’s creative writing program produces many students who go on to publish fiction and poetry, but the value of the program lies in the fact that all its graduates learn skills beneficial regardless of their eventual career path. “Some of our students, particularly your graduate students, go on to publish their own poetry and fiction,” he said. “But all of our students gain experience in the art of literary creation — that is, learning to express their creative ideas and close observations, and these are skills that benefit students no matter what they end up doing after graduation.”
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Cornerbacks step up, add coach during spring practice BY ALDEN THORNHILL Staff Writer
The departure of Johnthan Banks, Darius Slay and Corey Broomfield among others has left the Mississippi State
Bulldogs’ secondary thin, but one addition has already made a huge difference for the Dogs. After the Bulldogs’ first week of spring practice in full pads, new defensive backs
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Jay Hughes and the rest of the Bulldog secondary have benefited from their new coach and former NFL player Deshea Townsend.
coach and two-time Super Bowl champion Deshea Townsend said it is apparent the MSU defensive backs are looking to improve on last year’s results. Players throughout the MSU secondary are already noticing the changes with Townsend at the helm. Junior Jamerson Love said learning from a coach who played in the NFL creates an advantage most teams do not have. “He (Townsend) is a great guy. He played 12 years in the league. That’s an advantage to us; he can teach us some of his knowledge,” Love said. “We just got to take in what he’s giving us and just go with it.” Townsend has only had a short time to be with his new group of backs but has already seen the talented group he has inherited. He said the backs have their great work ethic and attitude thanks to former Bulldogs Banks and Slay, both of whom are prospects in the 2013 NFL Draft. “One thing I found out early on is that we have speed. Speed makes a lot of coaches better. They’re all good kids. They don’t mind working; they want to compete,” Townsend said. “It’s
my thing to mold them into the player they want to be.” The practices have also been more physical with Coach Geoff Collins and Townsend now leading the defense. Junior defensive back Dee Arrington said this was apparent at the Bulldogs’ practices last week, with the intensity levels rising for the defensive backs in practice. “We’ve picked it up a lot on the intensity level. We’ve been flying around,” Arrington said. “It’s been good. You just got to play up to your level and the coaches’ level.” Townsend said newcomer Justin Cox has also been shining during spring practice for the Dogs and possesses great talent. “A kid who is 6’1 who can run a 4.3 (in the 40-meter dash) — it’s hard to find those,” Townsend said. “He’s the type of kid the more reps he gets, the better he will be. We’re going to keep working him and teaching him to be a corner in the SEC.” Cox adds to a secondary that returns key players such as Matthew Wells, Jay Hughes and Nickoe Whitley. MSU resumes spring practice on Tuesday.
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4x400-meter relay team of Brandon McBride (above), Tavaris Tate, Daundre Barnaby and Randy Patterson won the event Saturday at the Texas Relays, posting a time of 3:05.35. Marcus Jackson finished second in the high jump, while Nathan Arnett placed ninth in the 110-meter dash. The men’s and women’s track teams will now prepare for the Alabama Invite in Tuscaloosa April 6.
Softball hosts Jackson State after walk-off win over Auburn BY FORREST BUCK Staff Writer
The Mississippi State softball team picked up its second SEC win in walk-off fashion Saturday against Auburn to give the Dogs momentum heading into Tuesday night’s game against the Jackson State Tigers. The Tigers are coming off a 2-1 series victory against Alabama A&M over the weekend and are 19-21 overall on the season. This mid-week game will be key for the Bulldogs as they have struggled so far in SEC play and need to win all the non-conference games they can. MSU still has a solid overall record at 21-12 and will look to improve upon that record Tuesday night here in Starkville at 6 p.m. The Bulldogs avoided a series sweep with the walk-off win Saturday. State dropped the series, losing both games of the double-header on Friday, though. The team bounced back strong with one of its more resilient efforts of the season, battling back from a 1-3 deficit to score three runs in the final inning. The game concluded with a walk-off hit by sophomore Briana Bell. After the game, Bell said the team never gave up hope. “One of our mottos is late innings are our innings,” Bell said. “During the last
our pitchers had been doing on the year with a 1.57 ERA. such a great job of keeping Despite the Tigers scoring us in the game,” Lenah- three runs, she only allowed an said. “I just put a good one earned and gave up just swing on a good pitch, and four hits and struck out it went over nine batters. the fence.” Her timely During the last at bat, pitching all Lenahan I was just trying to now has eight throughout home runs on the evening stay calm and take the season, allowed the the same mindset I just one shy of Bulldogs to the team lead use with every other hang around held by Logan all game and at bat.” Foulks. Bell eventually Briana Bell, has crushed six strike at the homers on the end to win. sophomore year. Owen said Lenahan does lead the she fully trusted her teamteam with 31 RBIs, howev- mates and the defense beer. hind her, even when there Perhaps lost in all of were errors committed. the excitement was Alison “It’s softball — things Owen, who pitched another happen. We’re not going to stellar game to move to 11-5 be perfect, but it’s the way
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Briana Bell came up with the walk-off hit to defeat Auburn. at bat, I was just trying to stay calm and take the same mindset I use with every other at bat.” Bell’s hit brought in the winning run, but the biggest play of the game might have been junior catcher Sam Lenahan’s two-run homer to right field that tied the
game at three in the seventh inning. Julia Echols singled two at bats before to get on base and set up the game-tying hit. Lenahan said she was just looking for a good pitch, and she got one. “I just wanted to get some runs up on the board because
we responded after that that really matters,” Owen said. “It doesn’t affect me if a mistake is made because I know they’ll make that play the next time. I trust them 100 percent.” Head coach Vann Stuedeman said she was pleased with the fan support for the game. “Our fans were incredible today. They were cheering, and the place was packed, and that really helps.” Stuedeman said. “It was really, really fun to hear the crowd erupt like that when we hit that home run and then the walk-off.” After hosting JSU Tuesday, the Dogs will play UAB in Ridgeland, Miss., Wednesday before taking on Florida on the road this weekend.
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Q&A with Athletic Director Scott Stricklin BY KRISTEN SPINK Sports Editor
Scott Stricklin is the athletic director at Mississippi State. Stricklin earned his bachelor’s degree from MSU after working in media relations with the baseball team his final three years at State. Stricklin worked in the athletic department at Auburn, Tulane, Baylor and Kentucky before returning to Starkville to work as senior associate athletic director under former Athletic Director Greg Byrne. Stricklin took over the MSU athletic director position in May 2010 and has over 21K followers on Twitter and over 2,300 followers on Instagram (@STRICKLINMSU). Stricklin and his wife Anne have two daughters, Abby and Sophie. Q: What do you enjoy doing away from your job with your family? A: I have two daughters, so doing something with them, whether it’s going to a movie or hanging around the house watching TV together, or we have a fire pit in the backyard. Sometimes we’ll sit around the fire pit and roast hot dogs and marshmallows and hang out as a family. I also like to read. I can relax pretty good when I have my down time. I don’t have any trouble unplugging and just chilling for a little bit.
Q: What are your personal goals as Mississippi State athletic director? A: I don’t know that I really have personal goals. I think successful leaders put others first and are servant-leaders. Servant leadership is something I think that is a real simple concept but is really hard to do. I’m not perfect with it by any means. I want our teams, coaches student-athletes and our staff to be successful, and I want our fans and alumni to feel really good about what happens on our campus through athletics, and I want to make Dr. Keenum proud. Those are my personal goals. Q: Why do you make it a priority to interact with the MSU fans? A: I think that’s an important part of the job, for better or for worse. The AD in the SEC is a pseudo-high profile position, almost like a pseudo-celebrity. It’s not the person; it’s the position, so it’s important that the people who love the university feel like that person is accessible. Sometimes people want to tell you an opinion, and it’s important to listen to those thoughts and ideas. Sometimes they just want to know that you care as much as they do. But I just think it’s important that they feel like whether it’s me or coaches or whoever, that we’re not closed off that we’re out among them and that they can get to us. Sometimes people have really nice things to say; sometimes they don’t like the way things are going, and that’s OK. At the end of the day, I like people who are passionate about Mississippi State. We may not agree, but if they’re passionate about Mississippi State, I’ll listen to them and hear them out. I think being out there and engaging people allows those conversations and communication to take place a lot easier
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Q: Was the idea of retweeting Maroon Friday pictures your idea, and how are you so active on social media? A: I can’t remember how the “tweet-me-yourpicture-of-Maroon-Friday” happened. I think it was like most good things — it just kind of happened naturally. I think once we started doing it, we realized it would encourage more people to do it. The more you send those out, the more people see it and think it’s neat, especially when people are doing it from exotic locations like the Taj Mahal or Eiffel Tower... Social media is such a powerful tool to communicate and connect. That’s what social media does. It connects people in such a powerful way that you didn’t have that 10 years ago, or 20 years ago and it breaks down a lot of walls... You feel like you’ve got this connection that wouldn’t have existed otherwise. Q: What do you look for when you recruit coaches? A: I’ve always said there are four things I look for: I want people who have a great work ethic, people who are competitive — winning needs to be important to them — people who are intelligent and then people who know how to lead... You can’t read a book on John Wooden and be a good coach because it’s not as simple as taking what he did at UCLA 40 years ago and plugging it into what you’re coaching in this day and age. You’ve got to be smart to take what you’ve learned and then adapt it to the particular strengths and challenges of where you are and then adapt as you go along. To me that is one of the most undervalued pieces of successful coaches is they are smart... I think we’ve got a lot of smart coaches at Mississippi State, and I think that’s one of the things that has me excited going forward is they’re figuring things out and how we can compete and win championships in this league, and it’s going to be fun to be a part of that journey with them.
Q: When recruiting coaches, what aspects of MSU do you sell them on? A: If they’ve done their homework, it helps because we’ve got so much to sell. Being in the SEC is a huge piece of it, but I always tell coaches Mississippi State is a place of opportunity, and it’s a place you’re going to come and you’re going to have the opportunity to compete against the very best and to win in the best league in the country but to be a part of a wonderful community and a wonderful state and a growing campus with a great leader like Dr. Keenum and a student body and alumni base that want you to be successful, and they’re going to support whatever you want them to do... I think one of the things that attracts people to Mississippi State is everyone here is accepted for who they are. It doesn’t matter what job your dad has. It doesn’t matter what kind of car you drive or where you came from. If you’re on this campus and you’re involved and engaged, people are going to respect and honor and love you. I think our student-athletes and our teams reflect that... I think what we represent as a university really ties into building winning programs. Q: What is the best kept secret of an athletic director? A: You can go in a team’s locker room after any game you want. There’s nothing like being around a winning locker room. The football team after every win sings the fight song in the locker room — I love that. During that song, I always think, “This is a pretty neat thing to be in here and sing this song with these guys to sing ‘Hail Dear Ole State’ with a bunch of kids who just got out there and had success after working their tails off.” That’s something I wish every fan could get in the locker room after the game and sing the fight song with the team.