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Mississippi State University Athletic Director, Scott Stricklin, celebrates with the football team and congratulates Dan Mullen after a win.
Scott Stricklin makes his presence felt at State BY KRISTEN SPINK Sports Editor
As Mississippi State’s athletic programs continue to rise to the top of the SEC, Bulldog athletic director Scott Stricklin continues to work behind the scenes making the magic possible. Like a magician, Stricklin is everywhere. Fans, coaches and players spot Stricklin at almost every game or match held on campus, supporting his staff and the student-athletes through both the ups and downs. Stricklin said while he loves going to games, he often becomes like a fan and second-guesses the program while watching games. For example, if he sees a missed hit-and-run at a baseball game, he wonders
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if the coaching staff had enough training equipment to teach the skill properly. “I think everybody gets into this business for the games. The games are fun, but if you’re competitive, there’s a lot of anxiety during games, especially when you’re in an administrative roll,” Stricklin said. “Once the game starts, there’s nothing you can do to affect the outcome, but you feel like you ought to.” Preseason All-American shortstop Adam Frazier said Stricklin stays active and makes his face shown rather than hiding behind the busyness of the sports realm. “I don’t know if he’s missed a game, which is pretty neat for an athletic director. I know at some other schools, their guy doesn’t really ever come around, but he (Stricklin) is always out there supporting,” Frazier said. “He’s a
real nice guy. He’s there for anybody who ever needs anything, so it’s nice to know that.” Stricklin said he makes a point to stop by practices daily to be visible to the teams and student-athletes rather than being caught behind his desk all day. But any good magician must have a wand. For Stricklin, social media has catapulted him to become one of the most active ADs in the conference. Although his age also makes him one of the youngest in the SEC, his youthfulness has benefited his social media use. Stricklin has the second most Twitter followers — over 21,000 — of SEC ADs (behind Arkansas’ Jeff Long) and holds the top spot with over 2,000 Instragram followers. In addition to this, Stricklin hosts his own monthly radio show called “Hail State with Scott Stricklin.” SEE STRICKLIN, 9
Breaking ground: walking track construction begins BY JAMES TOBERMANN Staff Writer
BY ANNA WOLFE Staff Writer
Author and English professor at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, will visit Mississippi State University on Wednesday for the Humanities’ Distinguished Lecture Series. Students can attend Nancy Henry’s presentation, “Women and the Victorian Culture of Investment,” in McCool Hall’s Rogers Auditorium at 4 p.m. Henry is the author of “George Eliot and the British Empire,” “Victorian Investments: New Perspectives on Finance and Culture” and “The Life of George Eliot.” Her work focuses on Victorian literature and culture, 19th-century finance, imperialism and colonialism. According to a news release, Henry will discuss women’s use of investments to find independence. Henry said in a news release the importance of looking at investments of women in the past, as it directly relates to modern women in the 21st-century global society. “So women have been investing for a long time, and yet even today women are not as knowledgeable about managing their money as men,” she said. Students will participate in a discussion of the relevance of 19th-century finance. “By studying the past, we can see that the subject of women’s financial independence has an interesting history, and that the history continues today,” Henry said.
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Mississippi State University announced “Physics for Future Presidents” by Richard A. Muller as the fifth book in the Maroon Edition program on April 8. Muller is a physics professor at University of California, Berkeley as well as a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Scientist. In 1982, Muller was presented with a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, an honor known as the “genius grant.” “Physics for Future Presidents” covers a range of topics that future presidents of the United States will face, as well as other future leaders. Muller’s book addresses the science behind topic areas including, energy, specifically oil, coal and solar power; nuclear weapons, nuclear plants, space exploration, particularly exploration, spy satellites and GPS systems and global warming. Linda Morse, professor of educational psychology, said Muller’s book is based on course material from his course for non-science majors and covers a variety of subjects throughout its 384 pages. “The book came out of lectures he did for his students at Berkley and so you could read one chapter, you could read many chapters. I hope you will read all of them,” she said. “They are very interesting discussions of the physics involved in particular situations.” A committee of faculty, the Maroon Edition Committee, selects the Maroon Edition book after reading each potential option to make a choice to benefit MSU students. Morse said this year’s book was chosen because of the leadership roles she thinks MSU students will pursue after leaving the university. She said as future leaders and informed citizens students can read “Physics for Future Presidents” in preparation for dealing with and understanding problems facing our country and the world. “This particular book, while it says ‘Physics for Future Presidents,’ is really about issues in the world today that an informed citizen should know,” she said. “And of course, our students are the leaders of tomorrow, so we felt like it was something a little bit different.” Morse also said although details still need to be worked out, Muller has agreed to visit campus in the fall in coordination with the selection of his book for the Maroon Edition program. All incoming freshmen who attend orientation in the summer will receive a copy of “Physics for Future Presidents,” and the book will also be available for purchase at the Barnes & Noble at Mississippi State bookstore.
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Soon students will have the option to exercise outdoors on a track around Chadwick Lake.
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Construction on the new walking and running track to be built around Chadwick Lake will begin soon and is projected to be open to the Mississippi State University community in September. Joyce Yates, director of Health Education and Wellness at MSU, said a groundbreaking ceremony took place Tuesday and the Department of Health Education and Wellness is eager for construction to begin. “Now it’s time to break ground, and it’s a great thing for MSU,” she said. Yates said the MSU on the Move grant awarded to the Department of Health Education and Wellness by the Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi Foundation, is funding the track. Yates said the Department of Health Education and Wellness has allocated all of the grant funds to promote fitness and overall health on MSU’s campus. “All initiatives support increased exercise and better nutrition habits for all MSU community — faculty, staff and students,” she said. “We hope MSU on the Move has been branded across campus so that people know it stands for health and wellness.” In an email interview, Dan Whatley, construction administrator for MSU, said he expects construction to begin in approximately two weeks. Whatley said Weathers Construction, Inc., from Columbus, Miss., will provide the construction services and the department of Facilities Management will supervise the project. Whatley said the expected duration of the project is about five months. “The contract calls for a 150-calendar-day duration, so we expect completion by the late part of September,” he said.
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