| Tuesday, October 31, 2017 |
| Mississippi State art alum visits home | |
 | A group of Mississippi State University art students received some lessons on painting "en plein air" from a successful MSU art and architecture alumnus. Matthew Lee, who graduated in 1989 with a degree in architecture returned to campus last week, and gave a workshop on plein air painting at the Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge over the week and a lecture Thursday evening. Painting "en plein air" refers to painting out in the open, rather than working from a studio. Plein air artists also paint exactly as they see the scenery in front of them. W. L. Giles Distinguished Professor of Art Brent Funderburk said it was good for students to be encouraged to paint in the open as the world becomes more visual and digital. "Images are flat and not alive, and firsthand experience of life, visual, living phenomena, whether inside or outside is something that we often don't experience, because we're so connected with our machines," Funderburk said. |
| Mississippi State students recall escaping apartment fire | |
 | Bridgitt Hutchison was awoken to the sound of faint yelling in her Starkville apartment. Still in a daze, she thought her TV was covered in dust. "Then I hear somebody else say fire, then I'm like that wasn't dust that was smoke," said Hutchison. Hutchison and her close friend, Taylor Reeves, who are both seniors at Mississippi State University, were roommates at Avalon Apartments located a few miles from the college's campus. "She flung open my door, and she was like 'Taylor we got to go we got to get out get out,'" said Reeves. Reeves says if it wasn't for Hutchison's quick thinking she doesn't know if she would be alive to tell the story. |
| Speaker Pro Tempore Greg Snowden speaks at Meridian event | |
 | Photo: Speaker Pro Tempore Greg Snowden of the Mississippi House of Representatives was the guest speaker at the East Central Mississippi Human Resource Association's bi-monthly meeting at the Deen Building on MSU-Meridian's Riley Campus in Meridian Thursday. Natasha Randle, associate professor of management at MSU-Meridian, is the president of the association. Pictured with Snowden are MSU-Meridian business students Angela Chaney and Anthony McOlgan, both members of MSU-Meridian's Collegiate DECA. |
| Starkville church could face condemnation for roofing issues | |
 | A Starkville church building located in an area of budding development could be condemned if church members do not repair the roof. City Community Development Director Buddy Sanders told The Dispatch he's attempted to notify Antioch Third Baptist Church, located at the southwest corner of the Spring Street-Gillespie Street intersection, of code violations due to its damaged roof. Ward 4 Alderman Jason Walker, who represents the area where the church is located, said the church's proximity to Russell Street's ongoing development is part of what's spurred concern about its condition. "There's a lot of development happening in that area and it's in the historic Needmore community," Walker said. "It's a face for the community and that neighborhood. In its current condition, it doesn't represent the community the way it should. It could give an impression of Needmore that's not one of what's really there." |
| State education leaders head national groups | |
 | Three Mississippi officials are currently leading or are in line to head national education associations. Second term Gov. Phil Bryant is chairman of the Education Commission of the States. State Superintendent of Education Carey Wright is the president-elect of the Council of Chief State School Officers. Mississippi Board of Education member John Kelly of Gulfport is the chairman-elect of the National Association of State Boards of Education. Wright said it is the "first time ever, Mississippi leaders are heading all three major education organizations." She said the fact Mississippians are heading the groups is a reflection of the innovative approach and the improvements the state is making. |
| Officials detail how $15 million federal grant will aid new charter schools | |
 | Charter school officials accepted a multi-million grant Monday, which means future schools approved in Mississippi will have the opportunity to apply for thousands of dollars to help with start-up costs. Mississippi is one of nine states to receive funds through a federal program called Expanding Opportunities Through Quality Charter Schools Program Grants to State Entities. At a meeting Monday, Authorizer Board executive director Marian Schutte told members how the money will be used. Last month the Authorizer Board announced a 5-year, $15 million grant from The U.S. Department of Education to help get future charter schools off the ground and provide technical assistance to existing ones. Schutte said the first two years of funding are guaranteed, and the additional years are based on performance with the grant. |
| State leaders, industry professionals talk Mississippi film industry | |
 | A local sound stage used to film high profile movies in Canton has closed its doors. This after the state Legislature failed to pass a law to give out of state production companies more tax rebates. No lights, no camera, no action. "I'd be a little embarrassed to say exactly how much money I lost on it," says Rick Moore, President of Mississippi Film Studios. "So I'm not going to say that." "The sound stage was a great investment at the time," says Moore. "There was a lot of support from the government as well as private." But that changed in March when the Senate failed to pass House Bill 711 to extend an existing 25% tax rebate to filmmakers from out of state through 2020. Nina Parikh with the Mississippi Development Authority says MDA is focusing on local people. MDA is also working to make sure Mississippians are hired for film jobs. |
| Second appeal asks high court to block Mississippi LGBT law | |
 | A second appeal has been filed by same-sex marriage supporters who want the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a Mississippi law letting government workers and business people cite religious objections to refuse services to LGBT people. The Monday appeal comes from the Campaign for Southern Equality, 20 days after Mississippi's law took effect. Legal experts say it's the broadest religious-objections law enacted by any state since the nation's high court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide in 2015. Lawyers for two other groups filed an appeal earlier. |
| Former Congressional staffer facing new federal charges | |
 | A now-former Congressional staffer is facing a second round of federal charges. He's already serving a sentence for tax evasion. Lanier Avant served as Congressman Bennie Thompson's chief of staff since 2002. In the midst of more scrutiny, we've learned he's no longer on staff. His now former boss Congressman Bennie Thompson said this in 2016 after his first charges. "In talking to my chief of staff I have confidence," said Thompson in 2016. "At some point, he'll have an opportunity to present his side and I believe when he presents his side he'll be vindicated." Thompson at the time said he'd fire Avant if he was proven guilty of the accusations. Avant did plead guilty to tax evasion and was charged in January of this year but stayed on staff with Thompson as recently as the last two weeks. |
| Rep. Trent Kelly talks about Manafort indictment, tax reform | |
 | U.S. Rep. Trent Kelly said Monday he did not view the indictments of a former Donald Trump campaign chairman and two others as a significant development in the investigation of possible ties between the campaign and the Kremlin. "He does not need to waste a lot of taxpayer dollars to criminally indict people if it doesn't deal with collusion, the Russians or this campaign," said Kelly, referring to special prosecutor Robert Mueller. "He is a special prosecutor for a special event, and right now, what I've seen has nothing to do with the collusion by the president." The Republican representing Mississippi's First Congressional District spoke prior to a speech to the Tupelo Rotary Club about the indictments of former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort, business associate Rick Gates and former campaign adviser George Papadopoulos. |
| Shock & awe? Charges suggest Mueller won't be gentle going forward | |
 | With a double-barreled blast, Special Counsel Robert Mueller revealed Monday that he has won the cooperation of a former foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump's presidential campaign who says he served as a go-between with the Kremlin in the spring of 2016. And Mueller heaped a 31-page indictment on former Trump campaign Chairman Paul Manafort and his partner Rick Gates that contains the weight of conspiracy, money laundering and tax related charges in connection with an alleged scheme to launder millions of dollars through scores of offshore accounts. The charges seem designed to pressure them to cooperate, as well. It was a powerful public salvo after months of silence since Mueller took over the investigation of Russia's election-meddling. Manafort and Gates both pleaded not guilty in federal court Monday. |
| Degrees awarded at Mississippi colleges increases | |
| The graduation rates from Mississippi's eight public universities have been improving in recent years, which was one of the goals of 2010 legislation establishing the Education Achievement Council. The Education Achievement Council, which was established to increase the educational attainment and skill levels of Mississippi's working-age population, released a report card online for the 15 community colleges and eight public universities. The report card contains "information on student enrollment, degrees awarded, college readiness, student progress, research and other university variables. The report cards include university-specific information, along with system-level data. Archived reports from previous years are also available online," according to a news release from the Institutions of Higher Learning. In recent years, the report cards have shown some improvements. Caron Blaton, a spokeswoman for IHL, said, "The schools are meeting the goal of increasing educational attainment." |
| DUIs in Oxford vary during game day weekends | |
 | During those cherished Saturdays in the Grove, the city of Oxford takes in significantly more people than it does on the average non-game weekend. Increased alcohol consumption coupled with the large influx of visitors leaves the Oxford Police Department on its toes, looking for misconduct -- especially drunk driving. Maj. Sheridan Maiden of OPD said the drastic influx of people during game day weekends could lead to an increase in DUI arrests. "(The) population swells, so the chance of occurrence greatly increases," Maiden said. He was hesitant to call it an issue, however. If DUIs are, in fact, more frequent during football weekends, he believes it's mostly due to the increased population. Robert Banks, the DUI training director for OPD, shared a different sentiment. He said widespread alcohol consumption has a role in the slight DUI increase. "The increased alcohol consumption is without a doubt the main reason for the large number of DUI arrests that we normally make on game weekends," Banks said. "However, if it were not so busy with other calls and details, we would likely arrest many more." |
| Patient safety highlighted in latest scorecard, UMMC Grenada gets 'F' | |
 | University of Mississippi Medical Center has again found itself at the bottom of the latest patient safety report card with an F, this time at its Grenada campus. In reviewing the data, local officials said they couldn't discern why the Grenada hospital went from a C to an F in the past six months. "I got their data and frankly, I don't see how they managed to get an F scored off it," said Dr. Michael Henderson, UMMC chief medical officer, who spent most of his career at the Cleveland Clinic Health System, where he helped improve patient safety dramatically before coming to Mississippi in 2015. "The metrics, to me, look virtually the same as the metrics they had in April, so how the scoring came through I honestly don't know." "I would not call Grenada an F hospital. It serves that community well," Henderson said. |
| U. of Alabama freshman dies after weeks in coma | |
 | A University of Alabama freshman who died Saturday had spent weeks hospitalized after a head injury sustained during a soccer game. Allie Brodie, 18, was injured Oct. 7 while playing soccer with friends, according to information posted on a GoFundMe page to raise money for her family. Emergency surgery for the intracranial hemorrhage led to the diagnosis of another condition, brain arteriorvenous malformation, which she was born with, according to the page. "The trauma of being hit by the soccer ball and AVM triggered internal bleeding in her brain stem," the fundraising campaign organizer wrote on the site. She ultimately died from complications from pneumonia. Brodie, from Danville, California, is survived by her mother and sisters, including a twin. |
| 'Never give up. Never quit' is theme of Auburn University's Veterans Gala | |
 | The Auburn Student Veterans Association will host a Veterans Gala on Thursday, Nov. 9, at Auburn Marriott Opelika Hotel and Conference Center at Grand National. This year's special guest and keynote will be Staff Sergeant Travis Mills, US Army (Ret.). SSG Mills was critically injured on his third tour of duty in Afghanistan by an IED while on patrol, losing portions of both legs, and both arms. He is one of only five quadruple amputees from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to survive his injuries. His keynote speech teaches and inspires audiences nationwide to "Never give up. Never quit." no matter the obstacles or circumstances. |
| UGA budget nearly $1.7 billion, and other numbers from university's annual report | |
 | It cost nearly $1.7 billion to run the University of Georgia last year, according to the university's 2017 report to donors. Nearly a third of that came from student tuition and fees; more than $522 million. The state Legislature and Gov. Nathan Deal appropriated about $436 million. The state once paid for more than half the university's annual costs, but legislative cuts beginning in the early 2000s have reduced that fraction to about 26 percent as of last year. To make up the slack, the state Board of Regents has increased tuition and fees, which now account for about 31 percent. UGA also got $15.6 million from the federal government; $319.3 million for sales, services and the like; $191.5 million from housing, dining halls and other auxiliary enterprises; $319.3 million in gifts, grants and research contracts; and $1.6 million from its endowment. According to the annual report, UGA spent the biggest chunk of its money -- $418 million -- on research. |
| Texas A&M faculty praise plan for $100 million President's Excellence Fund | |
 | Texas A&M University faculty members are expressing excitement over the potential of the new $100 million President's Excellence Fund and how it could help support interdisciplinary projects across the campus. The new 10-year fund was announced by President Michael K. Young earlier this week during his State of the University address in the Annenberg Presidential Conference Center. In the announcement, he said the fund will quickly deliver cash award grants to faculty projects beginning in December. Angie Hill Price, speaker of the faculty senate and associate professor of manufacturing and mechanical engineering technology, said she sees the investment as a reassurance of support from the administration for its faculty. The grants are expected to be broken up into large awards of $500,000 to $1 million and smaller awards in the tens of thousands range. |
| Opioids on the Quad | |
 | The opioid epidemic has ravaged communities around the nation -- deaths from overdoses now outnumber deaths from car crashes -- prompting President Trump to establish a federal task force and, on Thursday, to declare a public health emergency. Already on campuses, recovery programs are expanding and multiplying, populated by students who have struggled with dependence on Percocet (oxycodone) and Vicodin (hydrocodone), as well as those who have moved on to fentanyl and heroin, which are far cheaper on the street than prescription pills. Little data exist on the extent of the problem among college students. States have urged colleges to take action. New York and Colorado are earmarking millions of dollars to their public colleges for prevention education and research. Maryland now requires colleges and universities to offer arriving students a drug-prevention class that focuses on the risks of opioid use. |
| In a Volatile Climate on Campus, Professors Teach on Tenterhooks | |
| These are fitful times on college campuses. Tumultuous current events --- the revocation of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, known as DACA; the Charlottesville attacks; the Black Lives Matter protests --- have brought both relevance and volatility to academic debate. Inside classrooms, professors feel newly exposed. They want strategies to manage testy exchanges and challenges they don't see coming. Today's students bring a multiplicity of personal identities to campus -- their sexual orientation, race and ethnicity, religion, political leanings -- and they want to see that reflected in course content. The values in readings, lectures and even conversations are open to questioning. All good -- that's what college is supposed to be about -- except that now the safety screen around the examination of ideas has been pulled away. |
| Newest museums let Mississippi look in the mirror | |
| Longtime Mississippi journalist Charlie Mitchell writes: "There is one Mississippi, but many, many stories. That's not only the theme, but also the challenge for curators who developed displays in the conjoined Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum. The curtain will be pulled back on Saturday, Dec. 9, in downtown Jackson, but don't bother trying to get inside during opening weekend. Six thousand time-specific tickets sold out in hours. Will there be controversy? Yes, the directors, Pamela Junior and Rachel Myers, say there always is. The concept of a civil rights museum has sparked passion for nearly 20 years. The idea was dead on arrival when first put to the Legislature in 2000. Hemming and hawing lasted for another 10 years." |
SPORTS
| Which bowl game will Mississippi State play in? | |
| By becoming bowl-eligible after beating Texas A&M last Saturday night, the Bulldogs put themselves in position for a special ending to a season in which they were predicted to finish 6-6. "There is a whole lot to play for," Mullen said. So we learned Mississippi State (6-2, 3-2 SEC) will play in a bowl for the eighth straight time, but where will that happen? Mississippi State, which hosts UMass (2-6) on Saturday (11 a.m., SEC Network), should finish the regular season at 9-3, according to SB Nation's advanced stats guru Bill Connelly and ESPN's Football Power Index. The Bulldogs play No. 1 Alabama (8-0, 5-0) -- the obvious third loss, of course -- then travel to Arkansas (3-5, 1-4) and then host Ole Miss (3-5, 1-4) on Thanksgiving. With nine wins, Mississippi State will be in line to play its bowl somewhere in Florida -- either in the Citrus Bowl (Orlando), the Outback Bowl (Tampa) or the TaxSlayer Bowl (Jacksonville). This is where things get messy. |
| MSU Notebook: UMass record is misleading | |
| Massachusetts' 2-6 record may be a little misleading. The Minutemen have won their last two contests and their most lopsided loss was just 10 points. Only five points separate UMass and its opponents on the season. "That's not very indicative of their record," said MSU coach Dan Mullen. "Every game basically comes down to the wire." The Minutemen, who travel to take on MSU on Saturday at 11 a.m., nearly pulled off an upset at Tennessee on Sept. 23. The UMass defense notched 12 tackles for loss in that contest but were unable to complete a comeback when quarterback Andrew Ford went down with an injury in the fourth quarter. "They've been down here to play in SEC stadiums before and if their quarterback doesn't get hurt at the end, they had a great opportunity to win the game," Mullen said. |
| Mississippi State's Nick Fitzgerald, Montez Sweat selected for SEC awards | |
| For the second week in a row, a pair of Mississippi State players were recognized by the Southeastern Conference. Quarterback Nick Fitzgerald was named SEC Co-Offensive Player of the Week while Montez Sweat was selected Defensive Lineman of the Week. It was the fourth time Fitzgerald has earned the honor in his career while Sweat has received the recognition in back-to-back weeks. |
| Mississippi State football team breaks back into national polls | |
| The Mississippi State football team broke back into the national rankings Sunday on the strength of its third-straight victory by at least 21 points. MSU is ranked No. 21 in The Associated Press Top 25 and No. 22 in the Amway Coaches Poll after a 35-14 victory against Texas A&M on Saturday at Kyle Field in College Station, Texas. MSU (6-2, 3-2 Southeastern Conference) recorded its largest victory against a top-25 foe on the road since a 33-0 victory against then-No. 12 Vanderbilt on Oct. 17, 1942, in Nashville, Tennessee. In the process, MSU became bowl eligible for a school-record eighth-straight year. MSU joined Notre Dame as the only two teams this season to beat multiple top-25 teams by 21 or more (rankings at time of meeting). MSU will play host to Massachusetts at 11 a.m. Saturday. |
| UMass bounces Appalachian State in double overtime | |
| Kicking woes have been a recurring theme for a UMass team that's struggled to win close games in recent years. In a 30-27 double-overtime victory over Appalachian State on Saturday, it was a pair of field goals that finally gave the Minutemen reason to celebrate at McGuirk Stadium. UMass coach Mark Whipple, whose team was 0-6 before getting back-to-back wins over Georgia Southern and now the Mountaineers, was also relieved. "Just really, really happy for them," he said. "I'm happy for everybody that's involved with the program. We've been close. I thought there was obviously a lot of resiliency. We kept fighting to show everyone in this room that's how it was going to be." |
| Mississippi State looks for big jump in Howland's 3rd season | |
| It's year three for Ben Howland at Mississippi State, which could mean the time is now for the Bulldogs' basketball program. Howland has a reputation for impressive turnarounds of programs at Northern Arizona, Pittsburgh and UCLA. At each of those stops, there were two tough years under Howland before a massive jump in year three. Howland believes he has built a roster at Mississippi State that has a chance for the same kind of success. |
| Mississippi State's Eubanks, Perez, Waldner earn SEC honors | |
| Mallory Eubanks made Mississippi State women's soccer history Sunday by becoming the first Bulldog to be named Southeastern Conference Scholar-Athlete of the Year. The announcement came as part of the unveiling of the annual All-SEC team, which saw a program-record three MSU players earn postseason awards. Eubanks compiled a 3.91 grade-point average as a kinesiology major to earn the award. The Lexington, Kentucky, native also was named second-team All-SEC for the second-straight year. She led after the Bulldogs for the fourth-consecutive year with a career-high six assists. Catalina Perez cemented herself as the SEC's top goalkeeper by being MSU's initial first-team All-SEC First selection. MaKayla Waldner joined Eubanks as a second-team All-SEC selection. The sophomore forward tied for the team lead with eight goals. |
| After faltering against Mississippi State, Aggies looking for better execution on offense | |
| Texas A&M's plan was to punch Mississippi State early, but when it failed the Aggies pretty much became the Bulldogs' punching bag the rest of the way. Mississippi State put a damper A&M's promising season with a smothering 35-14 victory Saturday night. The Bulldogs dominated the first three quarters, holding A&M to six first downs and 116 yards. In final analysis, A&M was never in the game after Mississippi State methodically went 86 yards in 16 plays for a 7-0 lead, taking 8 minutes, 13 seconds. That long drive also allowed the offense to stew over failure to make a play that might not have changed the outcome, but certainly the start. A&M probably will need all three phases to be clicking Saturday and execution to be at a high level against 16th-ranked Auburn, which had a bye last week. Auburn opened as a 10.5-point pick and it has climbed to 15. |
| Vanderbilt women basketball players kneel during national anthem | |
 | About half of the Vanderbilt women's basketball team knelt during the national anthem before their exhibition game against Marian (Ind.) University on Sunday afternoon. Photos of the players kneeling were circulated on social media Sunday, and Vanderbilt athletics department spokesperson Kyle Parkinson confirmed that some players knelt during the anthem. Neither Vanderbilt coach Stephanie White nor players were immediately made available for comment. Not all of the players kneeling could be identified from the available photos. "Vanderbilt values students' freedom of expression and inquiry and promotes civil discourse," a statement released by Vanderbilt on Monday morning said. "As an academic institution, freedom of speech and peaceful protest are foundational to our educational mission with our students." Vanderbilt fans showed some support but mostly criticism of the players kneeling on social media. Some threatened to no longer attend Vanderbilt women's basketball games. |
| Tennessee Vols fans start #EmptyNeyland to boycott Butch Jones | |
 | Disgruntled University of Tennessee fans are taking to Twitter with a new hashtag -- #EmptyNeyland -- calling for the boycott of Saturday's homecoming football game if head coach Butch Jones isn't fired. UT is 3-5 overall and 0-5 in the SEC after Saturday's loss at Kentucky, leaving Jones on one of the hottest seats in the country. Fans on Twitter have not been shy about expressing their desires to see Jones and his staff gone. Following Saturday's 29-26 loss to Kentucky, momentum picked up behind #EmptyNeyland, which is calling on fans to boycott Saturday's homecoming game against Southern Miss if Jones is not fired. "If Butch Jones is the head coach Monday this is what Neyland needs to look like next Saturday night," tweeted one Twitter user, Connor Howard, along with a photo of an empty Neyland Stadium. |
| U. of Alabama football player Deionte Thompson indicted on spring break assault charge | |
| University of Alabama redshirt sophomore Deionte Thompson is one of four young men indicted on felony aggravated assault charges in relation to a spring break brawl on a Texas beach. According to The Beaumont Enterprise newspaper, a grand jury returned indictments against Thompson, 20, and three other men last week. All four of the men were first charged and bonded out of jail in April. The arrests came a month after the March 18 incident on Crystal Beach. Thompson, a backup free safety in his third year on the team, is from Orange, Texas, about 90 miles from the popular spring break destination. A grand jury didn't issue the indictments against the men until last week, the Beaumont newspaper reported. |
| UF interim football coach Randy Shannon making changes | |
 | Randy Shannon is off to a busy start as Florida's interim football coach. He's opening the quarterback competition. He's promoted two coaches. He's changing some things up in practice. He's opened more of practice to the media. On thing he's not doing is looking back on what put him in this position. He's moving forward, and he's bringing the Gators with him. "We have to look forward, we can't look back," Shannon said Monday, the day after UF and Jim McElwain agreed to part ways. "Sometimes when you look back, that tends to bring you down. These guys take that approach. They've done a good job. We'll practice today and then move forward." Just one day into the job, Shannon has already put his stamp on the program. He and the Gators are moving forward, hoping to turn around what has been a disappointing season. It starts with Saturday's game at Missouri. |
| Steve Spurrier sells his Columbia house at a loss | |
 | Steve Spurrier's house in the prestigious Woodcreek Farms subdivision in Northeast Richland has sold. The Head Ball Coach, who quit the University of South Carolina football team mid-season in 2015, let go of the 6,386-square-foot house in The Ridge section of the upscale development for $950,000. Spurrier paid $1.25 million for the property in 2005, the year after he was hired to be USC's coach. The former USC head football coach was asking $1.35 million for the five-bedroom, six-bath home. It was listed in February. "Just happy to sell the house, that's all," Spurrier told The State. "Sometimes you hold those things two or three years and it can be expensive just hanging onto houses. I was just happy to sell it." Spurrier and his wife, Jerri, are building a home in Gainesville, Fla., where the coach is now employed as an "ambassador" for the University of Florida athletics department. |
| NCAA president: Public losing trust in big-time sports | |
 | National Collegiate Athletic Association President Mark Emmert called for major reforms in collegiate athletics Monday, in perhaps his most substantive statements since the news of multiple recent sports scandals, which he said have eroded public trust. Addressing the independent Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, a panel that for nearly 30 years has focused on trying to bring about change in college athletics, Emmert acknowledged the mixed level of trust in the NCAA. He referenced two revelations that have called into question the association's ability to police its member institutions. Former Education Secretary Arne Duncan, now a co-chair of the Knight Commission, told reporters that college sports are at a "crossroads." Also at stake, he said, is the NCAA's "legitimacy, integrity, even [its] relevancy." |
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