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A fi ght that broke out in the student section of Mis s i s s ipp i State’s Davis Wade stadi-um during the Saturday night football game against the University of South Al-abama ended in fi ve student arrests, Georgia Lindley, MSU police chief said.

She said the fi ght took place in Section R of the sta-dium and began over an indi-vidual throwing drinks down the bleachers.

“It started over people throwing cups and just grew into something much larger,” she said.

In addition to the fi ght in the stands, there were two oth-er fi ghts over the weekend — one in the Junction and one on another part of campus. Across the board, 17 arrests (both students and non-stu-

dents) were made during the weekend, Lindley said.

She said the police depart-ment follows a standard prac-tice at every football game and will continue to follow its pro-cedure. Police offi cers are as-signed to specifi c parts of the stadium and wear green vests so they can be easily spotted if someone needs to report an issue, she said.

Lindley said, in order to prevent incidents like this from happening again, stu-dents should be courteous to the people in the stands and not throw cups. She said stu-dents should avoid becoming involved in an altercation.

She said although the sta-dium has seen fi ghts from time to time, it is normally calm. She also said it can be crowded, and she encourages students not to provide their IDs to others.

“The problem (of crowd-ing) is compounded by stu-dents slipping others their IDs,” she said. “The stadium only holds ‘x’ amount of peo-ple.”

BY JILLIAN FOWLER

Staff Writer

Mississippi State University’s Mitchell Memorial Library is working to maximize students’ social media education and con-venience through specialized workshops and updated technology.

Frances Coleman, dean of libraries, said these modernized resources aim to make the library conducive to academic success and information literacy.

“Our goal is to bring to students as much technology and connected pro-

grams as possible to help them in course-work and learning to evaluate what they read,” she said.

More white boards will be added to study rooms, and tables with outlets on the top will make rooms more lap-top-friendly, Coleman said.

Students and faculty can expect to see a new large television screen in the audito-rium. Several screens will also be added to rooms outside the library’s administration facilities on the third fl oor.

Stephen Cunetto, the library’s adminis-trator of systems, said increase of mobile

applications puts library resources at stu-dents’ fi ngertips.

“You can now search the catalog and have the call number texted to your cell phone, which makes it easier to fi nd a book on the shelves,” he said.

Students can also use library resources without leaving Facebook, Cunetto said.

“Within the past six months, a new app allows the library catalog to be searched within Facebook. If students “like” a book, it will show up on their news feed page,” he said.

Library launches new media workshops for student utility

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BY ANDREW FORTUNE

Contributing Writer

The Marketplace at Perry offers an option for students and faculty who have celiac disease. The Smart Bar, locat-ed to the right of the salad bar, provides limited gluten-free options.

Chef Dana Clemmons said she is concerned many

students and faculty are not aware of the Smart Bar.

The Smart Bar does not only service students with spe-cial dietary needs. Any guest in Perry may visit the Smart Bar and have a specialty dish prepared in front of them. Meals prepared at the Smart Bar offer healthy options to those who wish to maintain a healthy diet.

Megan Grimes, a sopho-more majoring in biomed-ical engineering, was not even aware MSU offered glu-ten-free options.

“I think it is great that State is so concerned about the health of its students,” Grimes said.

Currently, Aramark repre-sentatives tell students with special dietary needs to call

ahead in order to have more substantial meals prepared.

With an increase in student interest in the Smart Bar, the Aramark directors said they will continue to improve the program. If the Smart Bar services a minimum of 50 stu-dents during the current hours of operation, Aramark will open additional dinner hours.

SMART BAR HOURS OF OPERATION

NEW 10:30 a.m. to2:00 p.m.

Marketplace at Perry sets new Smart Bar hours

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Student section fight leads to five arrests

BY ALIE DALEE

Staff Writer

Walking into Stromboli’s, customers might see to the right their own signature penned on the wall, or to the left a record that used to play throughout the living room as a kid. This atmosphere is what owner Tim Turman, said is the aim for Stromboli’s. He said he wants Stromboli’s to feel like a home away from home.

“I’ve always viewed it for students as a home away from home, and for locals, a gathering place,” Turman said.

He said the community supports Strom-boli’s and, over time, he forms relationships with the customers.

“Serving is one of our goals – not only food, but people,” he said.

Stromboli’s originally started as pick-up and delivery only, run by a young couple in college.

After graduation, Turman said the cou-ple put Stromboli’s on the market, where a friend of Turman’s acquired it and sold it to Turman.

Turman, along with his wife Janet, both Mississippi State University graduates,

opened Stromboli’s under their management Nov. 1, 2001.

Turman said he always wanted to be in the restaurant business, and Stromboli’s is a true “mom and pop” establishment, with wife helping run the show and their daughter helping waitress.

In the beginning, Turman kept Strom-boli’s as pick-up and delivery only.

However, in Oct. 2003, he said he saw the public demand for dining in and started col-lecting chairs and tables from around town.

Around the same time, Stromboli’s be-came the sit-in eatery residents enjoy today.

However, Turman added he still does cater-ing around town and for various MSU func-tions.

As business took off, so did the demand for additional seating. Now on a bright au-tumn day, customers can now enjoy the pa-tio seating added in 2004, behind the main restaurant.

While Stromboli’s may be known for the food, the restaurant itself has an ambiance all its own.

The memorabilia hung along the walls can have students and residents alike reminisc-ing on days gone by.

Local restaurant keeps it close to home

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Turman said the wall decorations started with just a few album covers and memorabilia he had from the 1970s.

He said he feels students can relate to that era, bringing back memories from childhood and helps Stromboli’s feel like a home away from home.

Scattered among the wall decorations in every nook and cranny are names sharpied, crayoned and penciled.

Sorority stickers and letters, names of best friends and inside jokes can be found amongst the landscape of the walls.

Turman said the writing started with him setting out crayons, for the chil-dren who came there to eat, to color with.

One thing led to another and as Tur-man puts it, so began “the writings on the walls.”

He said he can look around the restaurant and see different names, different times, former employees and even a few engagements amongst the signatures.

However, the thing that has Strom-boli’s customers coming back again and again is the food.

Turman said Stromboli’s signature dough comes from a family recipe.

But, the crowd-favorite, cookie dough bites, was a joint collaboration between his family and the employees at the time.

He said two or three recipes were tried before finally settling on the cur-rent one.

“If you’re going to be in the restau-rant business, you’ve got to have good food,” he said.

Stromboli’s was awarded “Best Ital-ian” and “Best Pizza” in the August 2012 edition of Mississippi Magazine.

Turman said he feels lucky to run a restaurant that is so loved.

“For a ‘hole in the wall’ in a small town, we’ve been blessed,” he said. “We have a great clientele; that’s an honor within itself.”

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The research guide for mobile re-sources at blogs.library.msstate.edu/web-services/?cat=18 can help library users de-termine which mobile apps are suited for their research and MSU-specific needs, such as apps for transit maps, tours of the library and MSU athletics.

Beth Downey, the instructional ser-vices librarian and assistant professor, said the combination of library services and mobile applications promotes re-search opportunities anytime, anywhere.

The EBSCOhost search engine, re-garded as one of the world’s premium research services, is now available to stu-dents through their phones.

“Students can use the EBSCOhost Mobile app for searching for articles, journals or books on their phones, just as they would on a computer, “ Downey said.

The BookMyne app provides access to library services, such as scanning bar-codes to see if a book is available and social recommendation searches that al-low searching for books and titles friends have read.

“BookMyne allows users to search the

library’s catalogs and access databases from their smartphones or iPods and is downloadable through iTunes,” Downey said.

Cunetto said social media presence will last forever and students should take advantage of the library’s wide range of educational workshops on utilizing and navigating social media.

“One workshop might cover the ba-sics and another will show students how to download content the library has onto a nook. Students can learn how to use the iPad with e-books, download relat-ed services free of charge, and use them effectively in and out of the classroom,” he said.

Upcoming library workshops include “iMovie on the iPad” at 10 a.m. and “Using Alert Services” at 3 p.m. on Sept. 21, and “What’s Hot in Social Media on Campus” at 10 a.m. and “BookMyne” at 3 p.m. on Sept. 27.

Visit library.msstate.edu for a full list of the fall 2012 workshops.

Students can download the apps from the library’s mobile website at library.ms-state.edu/m.

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BADDAWGS

Friday, September 21• 9:26 a.m. A non-resident/visitor reported his bicycle stolen from the rail at Simrall Hall.

Saturday, September 22• 7:45 p.m. A student was arrested at Davis Wade Stadium for fighting in the stadium.• 7:47 p.m. A student was arrested at Davis Wade Stadium for fighting in the stadium.• 7:48 p.m. A student was arrested at Davis Wade Stadium for fighting in the stadium.• 7:51 p.m. A student was arrested at Davis Wade Stadium for fighting in the stadium.• 8:48 p.m. A non-resident/visitor was arrested at Davis Wade Stadium for disorderly conduct, public drunkenness and resisting arrest.• 9:50 p.m. A non-resident/visitor was arrested in the Junction for minor in possession of alcohol.• 10:20 p.m. A student was arrested at South Hall for minor in possession of alcohol.

Sunday, September 23• 1:32 a.m. An officer responded to a fight behind Cresswell Hall.• 1:32 a.m. A non-resident/visitor was arrested outside Cresswell Hall for disorderly conduct.• 6:36 p.m. A student was transported to OCH from Ruby Hall parking lot for medical assistance.

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Tim Turman and his wife have worked hard to make Stromboli’s a Starkville favorite.

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Many restaurants advertise gluten-free options on menus and in advertisements. As a result of the prevalence of wheat-processed food items, gluten can be found in most food products worldwide. Glu-ten is a protein found in prod-ucts that have been processed with wheat.

Many people are born with or have developed a gluten in-tolerance.

Addy Douell, freshman microbiology major, was di-agnosed with celiac disease roughly two years ago.

“I already knew what food tasted like, and it was hard when the doctor came in one day and said I couldn’t have most of what I liked anymore,” she said.

Celiac disease is an autoim-mune and digestive disorder in

which the body cannot tolerate gluten. Individuals with celiac disease must maintain a com-pletely gluten-free diet. Failure to do so can result in dangerous health complications including digestive complications, mal-nutrition, ulcers and anemia.

Those who have celiac dis-ease can live a normal, healthy life as long as they carefully monitor their diets.

Douell said she does find that having celiac can put strains on her relationships in social situations.

“I don’t want people to feel bad about eating in front of me,” she said.

Aramark encourages stu-dents and faculty to visit the Smart Bar in the Perry Cafe-teria during the current hours of operation, 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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Correction: On Friday, Sept. 21, The Reflector misquoted Josh Winter in the article regarding physics of football. Also, Josh Winter’s title is instructor and not professor, as was printed in the article. The Reflector regrets this error.

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Before I start, I would just like to clarify this is not a politi-cal article. This article is not

meant to target or attack a specific political party or one’s ideology. Poverty is a social issue America does not like to address. When the issue does come up, it is often met with hostility, judgmental attitudes, finger-pointing and blaming at those who suffer from it. This wrong on so many levels.

The United States has the high-est child poverty rate in the world. We do not have to go to Africa or other third-world countries to find hungry children or families. There is this myth people who rely on or need public assistance are lazy, un-motivated people, who are probably on drugs and do not want to work.

Contrary to popular belief, the majority of individuals in poverty who receive government assistance are people who really need it and rely on it to survive: single mothers, the sick, the elderly and the disabled.

However, I do acknowledge there are some people, a very small percentage I might add, who take advantage of the system. To those individuals, shame on you. But this statistic is nothing compared to the huge corporations, millionaires and billionaires who receive huge tax cuts at the expense of our generous tax dollars; yet they do not receive

nearly as much scrutiny as pover-ty-stricken individuals.

Poverty affects everyone and can happen to anyone regardless of race, age, class or gender. It could even happen to you. Suppose you grad-uate college and land a great job. A few years later, due to tough eco-nomic times, you get laid off. You barely have enough savings to last you a few months and you know it will take you longer than a few months to find another job that pays you as good or even close to your previous salary at your last job. Meanwhile, the cost of food, gas, utilities and rent continues to rise. What would you do?

Take another scenario: you get into an accident that leaves you permanently disabled and unable to work. Obtaining disability or social security benefits without hiring a lawyer to handle your case is very difficult and could take years to settle. What will you do to get by in the meantime? What would you do if your parents lost their jobs and could no longer help you with in college?

As I said before, poverty can happen to anyone. All I am saying is to think twice about scolding someone who receives aid. The next person in line at the De-partment of Human Services line could be you.

The purpose of adver-tising, whether it be on television, print or on-

line, is to get someone to buy a product or service, or to remem-ber the brand name. Ads may be the bane of some people’s existence, but I’ve never minded them too much. A world entire-ly void of advertising is about as likely as a world w i t h o u t T L C , which is something I learned to accept in my lifetime.

One can usually avoid adver-tising simply by passing over it in magazines or newspapers, or by fast-forwarding or changing the channel on television. On-line advertising has proven to be a bit trickier to deal with. Any-one who has watched a You-Tube video knows this. For a lot of popular videos, ads appear that either force one to watch 20 seconds of a grinning mani-ac wiping something down with Clorox, or, allow one to skip the same Clorox ad after about five to six seconds. Either way, you are going to see something getting smothered with cleaning product.

Commercials on YouTube are

exasperating, but they are not the only ads that populate the Inter-net.

Ever opened a website to read an article only to have a full page advertisement pop up and en-gulf the entire screen? Generally, the only way to get rid of such a monstrosity is to either wait

for the ad to finish or to search for the tiny “ C L O S E AD” but-ton usually hidden on

the top left the screen. Even af-ter shutting down the massive pop-up, the website itself prob-ably has scrolling banners that follow you up or down the page as you read the article, something that can be quite frustrating if one happens to be reading a particu-larly lengthy piece.

Most of the time, one can close these as well, but advertisers are getting craftier with their ad placement. Recently, a website I was on had advertisements that slowly creeped up within the photographs that accompanied the article, and these were adver-tisements that couldn’t be closed.

Once I realized clicking upon the ad covering up half of Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s face

was only going to take me to a web page that offered me a vast amount of information on credit scores, I gave up and closed down the site.

When an advertisement is forcibly hoisted upon me, it has the effect of creating an intense dislike of whatever product is being advertised and actually making me go out of the way not to purchase that product.

Not only that, but when websites allow these obnoxious, screen-eating ads get in the way of their content, it frustrates read-ers and viewers and drives them away.

Being battered over and over again with a mandatory commer-cial for Mentos before one can view a singing cat video usually does not instill any great feeling in the viewer for the product or the site that hosts it.

There is no problem with ad-vertising for a product. There are countless examples of great ads, such as Old Spice and Geico, which rely on humor and wit to get their products and services name recognition. The thing is, when watching television or read-ing a magazine, one can fast-for-ward through commercials or rip out the print ads, but online?

It’s one thing to ignore side ban-ners, but it’s quite another to have

to close countless pop-up or scroll-ing ads or to have to skip through commercial after commercial in order to see a video on You-Tube.

The thing is, for the most part this type of aggressive and grating advertising does little to engender feelings of brand loy-alty in the average viewer.

Most of the time, the only thoughts these ads spark are thoughts of irritability and an-noyance. I understand websites need advertising to pay for host-ing and content, but when a site drops an ad the size of a small tarantula on my screen, I’m not thinking, “Hey! I really DO like Clorox cleaning products!” What’s actually going on in my head is, “GET IT AWAY FROM ME.” I’m fairly certain that’s not the reaction advertisers had in mind.

Last Tuesday, a video of presi-dential candidate Mitt Rom-ney speaking at a private fund-

raiser leaked to the world, ruffling the feathers of many potential voters and causing his campaign team to work extra hard with damage con-trol.

For those of you who did not see it, I would like to share a quote from the fundraiser. This is from an official transcript on nbc.com, and Romney is talking about President Obama.

“Well, there are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the presi-dent no matter what. There are 47 percent who are with him--who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who be-lieve that government has a respon-sibility to care for them, who believe that they’re entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it. It’s an entitlement. And the govern-ment should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what. These are people who pay no income tax. My job is not to worry about those people. I’ll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.”

Before I continue with my opinion in this article, I’d like to ask a favor of you, dear readers. Go ahead and toss the phrases “wealth distribution” and “socialism” out of your mind for a few minutes. Get rid of your pas-

sionate hatred for Obama or your overwhelming disdain for Romney. I’d like to focus on humanity, not politics.

Who exactly is the 47 percent to whom Romney is referring? Accord-ing to the Tax Policy Center, 46.4 percent of Americans did not pay federal income tax in 2011. Howev-er, of the 46.4 per-cent, 28.3 percent paid payroll tax (employment tax), leaving 18.1 per-cent who did not pay income or pay-roll tax. Of the 18.1 percent, 10.3 percent are the elderly in our country, leaving 7.8 percent of Americans who are not elderly and did not pay income or payroll tax.

Although I believe Romney was very irresponsible for throwing around percentages like that to as-sure his audience Obama is going to get half of the vote no matter what, I think the content of his message reflects a deeper issue. I’ve thought about this for several weeks, and I believe this deeper issue is the root of “what’s wrong with the world.”

Humans, by nature, are selfish. If you were to analyze each of the is-sues people believe are responsible for “the mess our country is in” or “why we’re going down”, or any oth-er phrase you catch a glimpse of on Facebook from the semi-profession-

al political analysts who run their mouths in spite of their ignorance, the root of the problem is selfish human nature. The biggest problem with our nation is greed.

Should it not be the government’s job to take care of its citizens? How about the disabled citizens who sim-ply cannot make enough money to

support themselves enough to file income taxes? What about the father of the family of four who lost his job and is doing the best he can? Are these people undeserving of

“entitlements” like food, shelter and health care? I think a lot of people don’t understand there are people in the country who do try and do the best they can do, but still fall short of earning enough money to file income taxes and live comfortably.

The problem is greed, ignorance and/or a combination of both. I wish I had a dollar for every time I’ve heard “these people need to get control of their lives” or “you can’t sit back and let the government take care of you.” I’ve personally witnessed peo-ple make these remarks specifically in response to Romney’s statements and I’m sure most of them see the 47 percent as lazy drug-addicts who live off the government. They are the catalysts who get people really fired up, and before you know it, they’re

talking about guns and freedom and whatnot.

I know most of these arguments are made toward people who truly take advantage of the government. I’m well aware of those who abuse government aid and I think it’s sick-ening, but I also know it’s not 47 per-cent of the country.

I’d like to think if I ever achieve substantial wealth in my life, I won’t have a problem with my tax money going to help others who need food, health care or shelter. The last time I checked, I’m a flesh-and-blood, breathing soul just like the home-less man I see on the I-85 ramp ev-ery time I drive into Atlanta, or the man who sometimes asks for change outside of the CVS here in Starkville. Having money does not make you any more deserving of life than some-one who has none.

If you have money, and you’re “not hurting” in the words of my father, it’s so much easier to hate people who dis-approve of tax breaks for the wealthy or support government financial aid.

Mr. Romney, I disagree with you. If you’re trying to become the president of our country, I think it is your job to worry about its people. It’s your job to care about the fathers, the mothers, the families and the beating hearts who work overtime and live paycheck to paycheck. And you know what? It’s also your job to care about those somewhere in the 7.8 percent

who do live at the government’s ex-pense and do need to take personal responsibility and care for their lives. They’re Americans, too.

Sadly, the realization I’ve come to during my quest of figuring out our nation’s biggest problem is it can’t be fixed.

You can’t tell people not to be greedy and expect them to react. You can’t convince the wealthy to stop being greedy and pay the same percentage of taxes the middle class pays, and you can’t convince those who take advantage of the govern-ment to stop being selfish.

However, I think an effort to try would be the first step in fixing this problem. Romney’s going to have to work extra hard at reaching the peo-ple who make in one year what he makes in one day (he made a little over $20 million last year). Care and try. That’s all I can ask.

Romney’s comments reflect the nation’s deeper issue

It’s 11:52, and your instruc-tor let you out of class late. You arrive at the Union to

be faced with tremendous lines, but Panda Express is calling. You recieve your food at an al-most alarming speed and tum-ble out of line, chopsticks in hand, thinking the worst part is over, only to find every single table is oc-cupied. This is one of the only times I truly feel how much our university has grown.

The first time I walked through the Union and found absolutely zero empty tables, I was surprised; but now, it hap-pens almost daily. Don’t get me wrong, I love that so many peo-ple are coming to Mississippi State University. I just want to be able to get my food and take it somewhere in the immediate vicinity to eat it without using too much brainpower.

The Dawg House seems to be a popular place to go when faced with no place. I’ve used it myself at times, and it was way too much pressure for me. I’m clumsy and it’s only a matter of

time before I spill something on the nice carpet and then the guy who stalks around refilling napkins and making sure we aren’t all slobs hates me forever. Also the Dawg House can get surprisingly loud, though peo-ple in there don’t talk to one another because the TVs in there actually have audio. This

causes a prob-lem for my ADHD when I’m trying to read that arti-cle I fell asleep reading last night before my next class.

Eating out-side is also a popular option, one that I especially like be-cause spilling Chick-Fil-A sauce on the ground is perfectly ac-ceptable.

The problem I have with this set up is no matter how wonderful the weather is in Starkville, there is always a wind. One which invariably blows at the most important part of my homework, making eating my lunch at the same time impossible.

But more than the troubles I have with coordination, I just don’t want to have to leave the

Union if I don’t want to. I like the Union, with its loud chatter and wide range of people, and I enjoy my time spent there. I think there’s a simple solution to this problem.

I’ve noticed the majority of people eating lunch in the Union are alone, but the ma-jority of the tables are made for four or more people. Odds are, if you’re not a freshman and ha-ven’t orchestrated an elaborate meet-up via group.me, you’re eating lunch alone.

Now, I remember my fresh-man days, frantically texting all my friends to find someone to eat lunch with me because I didn’t want to be seen eating alone. Since then, I’ve come to care a lot less, realizing at sup-per my friends will have much more to talk about since they will have done more than sleep and go to a few classes since I last saw them and be infinitely lazier and put off homework until the tiny breaks I have during the day.

I have embraced the solitary eating lifestyle, but the tables at the Union have yet to accom-modate me. I feel bad taking up an entire table for four just for myself, but that won’t keep me from doing it anyway.

And those three imaginary friends I have, which the pow-ers that be probably factored into the Union’s capacity, no longer have a place to sit.

A corollary to this problem of wasteful seating is the situa-tion where I’ve actually scored a seat in the Union and am trying to finish Act V of Hamlet while scarfing down chicken nuggets, when a friend stops by to say hello. For the first few minutes, I’m glad to catch up.

But then, she notices my three extra seats. I see the gears turning in her head. One per-son taking up an entire table is ridiculous, she thinks. So she sits down. And I fail the quiz on Hamlet. And all of this could have been avoided if the Union had smaller tables.

red herrings | Claire Mosley

dark angel | kiMBerly Murriel

Claire Mosley is a sophomore majoring in accounting. She can be contacted at [email protected].

CLAIRE MOSLEY

When an advertisment is forcibly hoisted upon me, it has the effect of creating an intense dislike of whatever product is being advertised.”

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Whitney Knight is a junior majoring in English education. She can be contacted at [email protected].

WHITNEY KNIGHT

having money does not make you any more deserving of life than someone who has none.”

“Mary Chase Breedlove is the opinion editor at The Reflector. She can be contacted at [email protected].

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I open my eyes. My alarm clock display screams 4:32 a.m. as I drag myself out of bed and exit my room to use the bath-room. I look down the hall and see both of my roommates’ doors are open, their rooms dark. They are still up doing schoolwork, although school just started two weeks ago.

They are architecture students.On Aug. 20, as many stu-

dents sat through reiterations of what was printed on the syllabus, Landon Kennedy, junior archi-tecture major, said third-year ar-chitecture students began an in-tense redesign of Mississippi State University’s closed family-hous-ing complex.

“Basically we had to start from scratch at Aiken Village and cre-ate a program, think about not only the architecture, but how it affects the city and the school. We had only two weeks to get ev-erything nailed down, fi nalized, designed,” he said.

The Architecture Design Studio, a six credit-hour course taken each semester of the fi ve years required to receive a Bach-elor’s of Architecture here, takes

place from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Kennedy said the class tends to function differently than normal lecture classes.

“Studio, a lot of times you don’t know what to expect. Sometimes it’s a work day and sometimes it’s strenuous, meeting with pro-fessors, having pin-ups and desk crits,” he said.

These long hours in class and seemingly infi nite hours outside of class completing projects with harsh deadlines seem aligned with the myths surrounding Giles Hall: whispers of the lights always being on and students staying up all night with cots lining the halls.

These myths result from the misunderstanding (and work-loads) associated with the nature of learning in a broad, expansive fi eld such as architecture. Taylor Keefer, senior architecture major, shared reasoning for these intense hours.

“In architecture, there is not a correct answer. You just keep working, thinking and changing things until you arrive at a good project, and this process takes weeks, not hours,” she said.

In between fl ashes of photos of the juniors’ fi ve-day fi eld trip to Chicago, Ill., Jordan Hanson, ju-

nior architecture major, revealed his thoughts on the relationship between professors and what is learned in studio courses.

“The professors have different interpretations; you could be thrown into studios with profes-sors that focus on different areas. It’s about creating the process,” he said

Clusters of drafting desks grouped by year level comprise the studios; third-year space is in The Barn (a converted, ancient, brick cattle barn) where cables dangle from the exposed met-al structure painted in primary colors. David Lewis, junior ar-chitecture major, said the group environment the studios create is important, a community striving toward a common goal.

“The studio environment is fraternal in the sense that we go through something together; we have a shared struggle,” he said.

Kennedy said the communi-ty fostered by the studio allows these students to work through diffi cult problems without easily defi ned solutions.

“You’re never really done in architecture school. There’s not 30 problems, and you’re done. There’s always that issue: you could always continue working

on a project, developing ideas. You get to fi nal reviews and they tell you these are things you could change if you keep working on it, and you’re done with the semes-ter,” he said.

In the time I spent with these architecture students, I noticed a bond between them; jokes shouted across the studio were commonplace, and a relaxed at-mosphere pervaded this place of stressful deadlines. Hanson said they were still on a high from their fi eld trip in Chicago.

“Field trips are like the light at the end of the tunnel. They give you a little bit of hope. Every time you go on one you remember why architecture gets you excit-ed,” Hanson said.

Through the long hours (the lights are indeed often on all night) without sleep (no, there are not cots in Giles) fi lled with Kilimanjaro-sized workloads, these students keep each other focused and sane. Through the ambiguity and intensity, Keefer said the process has taught her an invaluable amount.

“I have learned so much more than I have expected to learn,” she said.

A student cannot ask for much more from college than that.

ARCHI-TORTURE Architecture students craft models, relationships

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Men’s golf team posts impressive showingBY ELLIOTT REES

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The Mississippi State Uni-versity men’s golf team got off to a slow start for the second consecutive tournament but was able to put together two solid fi nal rounds once again to fi nish fourth at the Mason Ru-dolph Championship this past weekend.

A l t h o u g h State has fi n-ished in the top fi ve in each of its fi rst two tour-naments, the Bulldogs have had to battle back due to slow starts.

MSU has averaged an opening day score of 292.5 and has found itself near the bottom of the

standings only to average a score of 280 in the fi nal two rounds to enable the team to fi nish well.

However, head coach Clay Homan said the golf team’s fi rst round jitters are because of several factors.

“Some things we have to do a better job of are getting off to a better start, being more mentally prepared to play the

golf course, not making as many mistakes in that fi rst round and not waiting un-til the second or third round to start making a comeback,” Homan said.

The Bulldogs fi nished the fi rst day with a score of 293

and found themselves in 10th place. However, behind the

second round scores of ju-nior Chad Ra-mey’s 68 and junior Axel Boasson’s 67, State was able to shave a total of 11 strokes off its fi rst day total to post a score of 282 and move up sev-en spots to third place.

State managed to end up with a three-round total of 862 to ultimately fi nish fourth and improve its record to 24-4 for the season.

MSU will be entering its next tournament without three of its players as junior Axel Boasson, freshman Har-aldur Magnus and senior Robi Calvesbert will be traveling to Antalya, Turkey, to participate in the 2012 World Team Am-ateur Championships in Golf.

Boasson and Magnus will be representing Iceland, and

Calvesbert will be a member of the Puerto Rican squad. The absence of these three players will give other members of the team, such as sophomores Ty-ler Smith and Fletcher Johnson and junior Barrett Edens, an opportunity to show their po-tential.

Calvesbert said this will be a good chance for those players to step up.

“The guys are defi nitely ex-cited about getting an oppor-tunity to get on the team,” he said. “For those that did not do too well qualifying for the fi rst unit, it’s going to give them an opportunity to show coach that they are ready to play.”

The Bulldogs will travel to Baton Rouge, La., to play in the David Toms Intercollegiate at the University Club Oct. 6 through 7 for their next tour-nament. It is the third different venue for this tournament in as many years.

BY ANSON KEITH

Contributing Writer

Only four games into con-ference play, untimely injuries are plaguing the Mississippi State soccer team. With LSU and Texas A&M looming in the near future, the girls are desperately striving to recover from their injuries.

The Dogs suffered a 4-2 de-feat Friday against Vanderbilt and a 6-0 loss Sunday versus the No. 23 Tennessee Lady Volunteers.

Junior forward Elisabeth Sullivan scored both goals in Friday’s game, improving her team lead to seven goals. Sul-livan’s fi rst goal came on an impressive breakaway by the Memphis native, weaving in and out of the defense and fi ring the ball past the goalie. With the two goals, she moved to fi fth on the all-time MSU scoring list.

Sullivan said her two goals were a team ef-fort all the way around.

“My team-mates are al-ways there to encourage and help me,” Sul-livan said. “It was defi nitely a group effort.”

Sunday’s game against Ten-nessee was tough for State from the start. The Lady Vols scored less than a minute into the game and held that lead throughout the entire game.

An already s t r u g g l i n g MSU team saw things quickly go from bad to worse with 26:14 left in the fi rst half as senior goalie Skylar Rosson was hit with a red card, forc-ing her out of the game. This forced State to play one player down the rest of the game.

Replacement goalie C.J. Winshape came in and stopped a penalty kick, but coming into an SEC game with an already limited de-fense in front of her was no easy task for the sophomore.

Bulldog senior Lauren Mor-gan played in her fi rst SEC game after recovering from an ankle injury but was still both-ered by the injury in her limit-ed minutes of play. Sophomore

d e f e n d e r S h a n n e n J a i n u d e e n missed the weekend due to a concus-sion. Jainu-deen’s absence played a key role in the s t r u g g l i n g Bulldog de-fense over the weekend.

Senior midfi elder Zehra Syed, who earned her fi rst start of the season Sunday, said even though it is tough coming in and playing in place of players of that magnitude such as Rosson, Jainudeen

and Morgan, the team could all learn from the unfortunate situation.

“We just went a man down early and had to work through that, but it’s also a learning experience to play through adversity like that, and it will teach us to push through,” Syed said.

The Bulldogs tried nu-merous formation shifts and different lineups to get some-thing going offensively, but the defi cit was too much to overcome.

Head coach Neil MacDon-ald said his main goal was for the team to play good defense after Rosson was forced out of the game, but trying to defend the way the defense had been and then moving to an aggres-sive system of play offensively just did not work in MSU’s favor.

“We had to switch the sys-tem, and I thought at times we did a decent job at switch-ing it,” MacDonald said. “But when you’re down a player, it becomes very diffi cult to tran-sition to attack.”

With more time and injured players recovering throughout the week, the Bulldogs can get back to the style of play that earned the team an undefeated record prior to SEC play.

Sullivan said even though this stretch has been and will be tough, everyone has to step up.

“You have to keep your head up and keep going,” Sullivan said. “With adversity like that, everyone on the team must be a leader.”

Injuries hamper Dogs

TEAM RESULTS1. Vanderbilt (-5) 2. Oklahoma (+2) 3. Ole Miss (+6) 4. Mississippi State (+9) 5. Georgia Southern (+12) 66. South Alabama (+13) 7. Georgia State (+19) 8. College of Charleston (+21) 9. Davidson (+29) 10. Middle Tennessee State (+30) 11. East Tennessee State (+31) 12. Virginia (+33) 1313. Rice (+36) 14. Tennessee Tech (+40) 15. Arkansas State (+44)

MSU INDIVIDUAL RESULTST8. Chad Ramey: 74+68+69=212, -2T17. Axel Boasson: 76+67+73=216, +3T23. Robi Calvesbert: 71+74+73=218, +5T23. Joe Sakulpolphaisan: 72+75+71=218, +5T80. Fletcher Johnson: 82+73+85=240, +27

MASON RANDOLPH CLASSIC RESULTS

We just went a man down and had to work through that, but it’s also a learning experience to play through adversity like that.”Zehra Syed,senior midfi elder

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Some things we have to do a better job of are getting off to a better start, being more mentally prepared to play the golf course.”Clay Homan,men’s golf coach

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For the first time since the 1999 season, the Mississippi State football team will leave the month of September with a per-fect 4-0 record.

This feat comes after the Bulldogs defeat-ed the South Alabama Jaguars 30-10, mark-ing MSU’s 14th c o n s e c u t i v e non-conference victory, as well as a current six-game winning streak.

MSU fans will justifiably be happy with the Bulldogs’ early season suc-cess, but there is also cause for concern as the meat of State’s c o n f e r e n c e schedule begins to approach. Al-though State’s defense showed definite im-provement a week after a near debacle at the hands of Troy, State’s offense struggled significantly against South Alabama.

Junior quarterback Tyler Rus-sell completed only 13 of 27 passes for 171 yards. Though he added a touchdown on a short quarterback sneak in the third quarter, a mixture of solid cover-age by South Alabama defenders and untimely miscues led to a less-than-average performance for MSU’s starting quarterback.

Head coach Dan Mullen said Russell did not have a great game.

“To me, Tyler (Russell) was just a little bit off tonight,” Mul-len said. “We put a lot on him. When we’re not throwing the ball well, to come up with a win is still big.”

Although the offense sput-tered at times, MSU’s special teams put together what was arguably its best performance in Dan Mullen’s four-year tenure at State. With 135 yards in kickoff and punt returns, seniors John-than Banks and Chad Bumphis and sophomore Jameon Lewis consistently gave the Dogs great field position.

Mullen, who coaches the spe-cial teams, said he was pleased with his kickers and returners.

“The special teams coach did a good job today,” Mullen joked. “Our kick returns, overall, were pretty solid.”

The Bulldog kicking game performed exceptionally well against the Jaguars. Junior punt-er Baker Swedenberg averaged 47.7 yards on four punts, and freshman kicker Devon Bell nailed three field goals, all of

which were longer than 30 yards. Bell improved to 4-7 on the year, after starting with just one make in his first four attempts.

“He was perfect tonight (Sat-urday) on kicks,” Mullen said. “You can see that his kicks were solid all night long. Hopefully, I imagine, this will give him some confidence moving forward and have him perform how we ex-pect him to perform.”

Bell, who is the first MSU kicker to make multiple field goals of more than 40 yards since Sean Brauchle in 2009, echoed his head coach and said although he got off to a sour start in his collegiate career, Mullen never lost patience or confidence in the young kicker.

“(Mullen’s) told me after ev-ery single kick that he knows I can make them,” Bell said. “He knew that as a true freshman coming in and kicking, that I was going to struggle a little bit, but he is patient with that, and now I’m good.”

Bell also said seeing one of his kicks go through the uprights against Troy a week ago did wonders for his self-confidence and played a critical role in his success against South Alabama.

“Getting that field goal at Troy really got the monkey off my back and gave me some con-

fidence,” Bell said. “Tonight (Saturday), I was a lot more re-laxed and was just ready to go.”

Now ranked No. 19, ac-cording to the latest Associat-ed Press poll, MSU will enjoy a bye week before traveling to

L e x i n g t o n , Ky., to take on the Wildcats.

Mullen said along with overall im-p r o v e m e n t , the plan during the bye week will be to allow starters to regain full health while giving younger players ample opportunities in practice.

“We have a lot of improv-ing we have to do on both sides of the ball, but we’ll get a lot of that fixed during the bye week this week,” Mullen said. “The young guys have to continue to improve and have to con-

tinue to make plays.”

Senior cornerback Johnthan Banks, who Mullen pointed out as a guy who would prob-ably get more rest than others during the bye week, said he looks forward to working hard at practice this week in prepa-ration for a difficult slate of games during the month of October.

“I might not be doing as much as a freshman, but I’m going to come out there and work every day,” Banks said. “I want to be great, and I can’t be great sitting on the sidelines when I can be working.”

Special teams guide MSU to win over South Alabama

The Bulldog offense has scored 144 points through the first four games, its highest point total through the first four games of the season since 1944.

The 53 points allowed by State through the first four games is the lowest total allowed through the first four contests of a MSU season since 1999.

MSU leads the FBS with a plus-13 turnMSU leads the FBS with a plus-13 turnover margin.

Head Coach Dan Mullen improved his record to 24-0 when leading after three quarters, and the Bulldogs won their 28th-straight contest when holding a lead entering the fourth quarter.

Defensive back Johnthan Banks recorded his 15th-career interception. Banks now leads the FBS in interceptions and is one away from tying Walt Harris’ school record. Banks also broke Derek Pegues’ school record of 241interception return record of 241interception return yards set from 2005-08 (274) and currently ranks first among active FBS players in that category.

Quarterback Tyler Russell tied the school record set with 137-straight passing attempts without an interception.

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