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After a grueling four-game stretch in three days, the No. 5 Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball team stayed perfect on the season to improve its overall record to 9-0. This marks the best start since 2006 when the Dogs won their fi rst 18 games.

Throughout the weekend, the Bull-dogs continued their great pitching com-bined with clutch offense, which is the recipe State has used all season.

Sophomore Will Cox got the start in the fi nal game versus Samford Sunday and did not disappoint. Cox tied his ca-reer high with seven innings pitched and gave up only two hits. Cox also retired 17 batters in a row at one point in the game.

The right-handed pitcher said he is proud of his off-season transformation and how it has helped his game.

“I think it’s just maturity,” Cox said. “This summer really helped me out and just growing into my body more. Losing weight helped a lot. I think I am more athletic.”

LHP Ross Mitchell also had an im-pressive outing in the fi rst game of the double-header Saturday in an 8-2 victo-ry over Samford. He captured his second victory on the year in his six innings of relief work, improving to 2-0 on the year.

Mitchell, who announced he was the “upside-down man” and the limbo pole during the rain delayed game with Pur-due Friday night, said he tried to go out-

side on the hitters and then come inside late to force ground balls.

“I just relied on my defense and they came through like they have all year for everybody,” Mitchell said. “We just got to keep that up, and we will keep winning ball games.”

MSU had extra motivation this weekend playing a Samford team who knocked State out of the Tallahassee Regional last season. Mitchell said the Samford lineup was differ-ent from last year when it was primarily a fl y-ball lineup.

“We came out today just wanting to put it on them because they really disappointed us last year when we threw our best against them and they still beat us,” Mitchell said. “We really wanted to attack them early, and we were able to do that.”

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Mississippi State Uni-versity offi cials say the bat situation in Hathorn Hall is improving; however, bat sightings have recently been reported in some aca-demic buildings.

Sid Salter, director of University Relations, said there have been no new re-ports of bat-related prob-lems in Hathorn Hall.

Salter said 15 of the 233 Hathorn Hall residents asked to be relocated, but no new relocation requests have been fi led since the bat problem was fi rst brought to attention.

“MSU Housing and MSU Campus Operations moved as quickly as possi-ble in responding to those initial concerns,” he said in an email. “The situa-tion in Hathorn Hall has improved signifi cantly ... We continue to monitor the buildings where bats have been sighted.”

Salter said there have been sporadic reports of bats in McComas Hall and McCain Hall.

On Monday, MSU closed McCain Hall at 5 p.m. due to bats fl ying in the building at night, he said.

“There are no night classes scheduled to meet in (McCain Hall), but there were some student meetings scheduled,” Salt-er said. “They are attempt-ing to fi nd other campus space to host those meet-ings.”

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The Transfer Student Associa-tion Cabinet within the Student Association will host a transfer student involvement fair today at 5 p.m. in the Foster Ballroom of the Colvard Student Union.

Taylor King, co-director of Transfer Student Affairs, said representatives from nearly 30 organizations across campus will be available at the fair to answer questions and increase interest of involvement. King also said some organizations will take applications to accept new members.

“We have about 30 organi-zations signed up right now. We have alumni delegates, who are actually taking applications right now and orientation lead-ers,” King said. “(There will be) other organizations like Fashion Board, Show Choir and Blitz! Show Choir – leadership posi-tions to fun little clubs, to places to live, things to eat — all that kind of stuff is going to be in there.”

She also said MSU Dining Services and local apartment complex booths will be set up to help students transition and offer a better student experience on and off campus.

Transfer Student Association holds involvement fair

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A program titled “What to do When Sh*t Happens” aims to make students more aware of their rights and options available to them in re-gard to alcohol.

The event is being organized through the Montgomery Leadership Program by junior political science major Lauren Kellerhouse and senior fi nance major Lenora Christopher. It will be held in McCool Hall’s Taylor Auditorium Wednesday.

Kellerhouse said the goal of the program is to better inform students

of the options they have in problem-atic situations that may arise when alcohol is involved.

“It came from personal experience where, at many points in the semes-ter, we realized that it would be ben-efi cial to know what our legal options are,” Kellerhouse said. “There’s no easy way to know because no one tells you what your options are. We just wanted to be informed, and we want to try to inform as many other people as we can.”

Three guests are scheduled to speak at the program: attorney David Mays, assistant dean of students Tabor Mul-len and Sergeant Shane Kelly from

the Starkville Police Department.Kellerhouse and Christopher said

Mullen will speak to students about what has to be done to follow up on incidents with the dean of students and addressing what effect incidents might have on a student’s education.

David Mays will talk to students to let them know the consequences of their actions.

“My main point,” Mays said, “is to inform students of the law and the repercussions of their actions and to hopefully allow them to make in-formed decisions.”

Mays will address a range of issues, including basic misdemeanors, road-

blocks, Minors in Possession, Fake IDs, unreasonable search and seizure and more.

“It’s my job to defend people and to inform people on the front side,” Mays said, “because a lot of the time I don’t think students really realize the type of fi re they can be playing with.”

He also said part of the purpose of the talk is to help students decide what they might do in cases where they are charged with a crime.

Kellerhouse and Christian recount-ed that, in their personal experiences, they have known sober students who have been designated drivers for oth-ers and still gotten in trouble.

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Saturday, February 23• 12:09 a.m. A student witnessed a truck hitting several vehicles in the parking lot in front of Griffis Hall and left the scene.• 4:43 a.m. A student was arrested on University Drive for public drunkenness.• 4:53 p.m. A non-resident/visitor was transported to OCH from Dudy Noble Field for medical assistance.• 7:16 p.m. A student was arrested on Stone Boulevard for speeding and a suspended driver’s license.• 9:08 p.m. A student reported he was hit by a vehicle that left the scene in the Rice Hall parking lot. The subject reported no injuries.

Citations:• 7 citations were issued for speeding.• 2 citations were issued for driving the wrong way on a one-way street.• 1 citation was issued for disregard of a traffic device.

They said they hope to help prevent more such instances and to equip whatever students they can with knowledge that can help in later situations.

They emphasized that the purpose of the event was not to get stu-dents off the hook once they are in trouble.

“This isn’t about getting students out of trouble,” Kellerhouse said. “It’s about how to act once you’re in a situation to help minimize the consequences. College students often find themselves in these situ-

ations and no one tells you how to respond once you get in these situations.”

Christopher said the knowledge they plan to present at the pro-gram is good for anyone, not just students who are over the age of 21.

The program is sponsored by the Montgomery Leadership Pro-gram.

Free gifts will be provided by Night & Day Vending, makers of the IntoxBox, and Bulldog Cab Company.

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Mississippi State athlet-ic director Scott Stricklin is among MSU leaders who will speak at the event, and King said Stricklin will highlight his experiences with getting involved.

“He was a student here as well,” King said. “He just kind of put his foot in the door, met some people, shook some hands and got involved. Because he put himself out there, that’s how he got where he is today.”

She also said SA Presi-dent-elect Michael Hogan will speak to students about SA changes, and residence hall director Jake Hartfield will discuss his transfer expe-rience and how it impacted his involvement at MSU.

King said tonight’s event will not only be limited to MSU, but students across the state have been invited to at-tend.

“We also invited transfer students from all across the

state. Anyone who wants to come to Mississippi State next year who is in a commu-nity college, we have invited them,” she said. “Just because it’s nearing the end of the se-mester and about to start a new year soon, we thought ‘why don’t they go ahead and get their foot in the door and see what’s out there be-fore they get to Mississippi State?’”

Over 150 transfer students attended TSA’s welcome

meeting last month, and King said the large crowd allowed the committee to expand its activities and will host more events in the near future.

“We got awesome feedback from transfer students,” King said. “It was awesome to be able to put that on and see in the faces the changes that we’re already making just from this first thing, and to know that with the first 150, how much is it going to grow in the next few years?”

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Correction: In Friday’s edition of The Reflector, the modern day slavery article stated the Jenny and Tyler concert will be held on March 4 when it should have read the concert will be held March 2 in McCool Hall Taylor Auditorium. The Reflector regrets this error.

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You may be familiar with the massive nature of much of scientific re-

search. One of the first things

brought to mind when talking about physics is the continu-ing race to build the biggest accelerators, with the largest yet, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland even now undergoing another up-grade.

In fact, particle physics is not the only realm where scientists are rushing to build the biggest devices.

Over in astronomy, different countries are competing with each other to see who can build the largest ground-based tele-scope. Currently, according to eso.org, the European South-ern Observatory is planning to have built the next record breaking telescope by 2020, the aptly named European Ex-tremely Large Telescope in the Chilean Andes.

In my opinion, our percep-tion of much of modern sci-ence is as a person who has a jar of nitroglycerin and wants to open it but hasn’t found a big enough hammer yet.

Realistically, one could use a different and far less dramatic technique to open the jar, like trying to screw the top off or pry it open gently with a screw-driver or lever.

For physics, the jar of ni-troglycerin is the fundamental forces and subatomic structure, and the oversized hammers are high energy particle accelera-tors.

Sure, you can understand a wide array of phenomena, but even the best high energy parti-cle accelerators struggle to gath-er enough precise data.

Many researchers, therefore, opt for the approach of gently screwing or prying open the top of the jar, which is manifested in modern precision and medi-um energy particle physics.

Many scientists do research in the fields of precision and medium energy particle phys-ics.

To be a physicist does not require blowing things up with the largest accelerator you can find, to which many researchers will attest.

Dipangkar Dutta, associate professor of medium and high energy nuclear physics at Mis-sissippi State University said in an email interview that preci-sion experiments are comple-mentary to high energy mea-surements when it comes to understanding modern physics.

“While LHC and other large colliders work at the ‘en-ergy frontier’, we do our exper-iments at the ‘intensity fron-tier,’” she said.

At the LHC they explore the highest energies achieved in man-made machines to pro-duce new particles that have never been seen before. While, we measure parameters of the same (well-tested theory) us-ing processes that are described very well … but with higher and higher precision to look for smaller and smaller deviations which could also arise due to new forces.”

The screwdriver or lever that Dutta uses is the high intensity, medium energy beam at Jef-ferson Lab in Newport News Virginia.

The benefits of using lower energy beams is the higher in-tensity. “We rely on machines which push the limits of intensity. Here larger intensity implies larger number of in-teractions and hence better chances of ob-serving rare events,” Dutta said. Although the two regimes of science vary in many ways, they are both important.

“Ultimately they are com-plementary since a discovery at one frontier must be confirmed at the other,” Dutta said.

In astronomy, too, as I men-tioned before, there is a great amount of momentum for building the largest instru-ments possible.

Modern telescopes like the projected ELT are finally ap-proaching the same scale as the structures which gave birth to astronomy such as the Great Pyramids at Giza and ancient observatories like Stonehenge and Machu Picchu.

The ELT is projected to be 39.3 meters in diameter, nearly four times wider and 16 times the light collecting power of the current largest telescope, the Great Canaries Telescope.

The dome and building holding it are so large that they are almost the same size as the third largest of the Great Pyra-mids of Giza.

Just like in particle physics though, bigger is not always better for astronomy. Modern telescopes are limited in re-solving power which is directly proportional to the diameter of the circular mirror and deter-mines the minimum distance

at which two objects are distin-guishable from each other.

One technique that many astronomers use to overcome this limit is a technique called interferometry. Interferometry uses the concept of interference between light that is in phase, from the exact same source, to connect numbers of small-er telescope together as if they were a large telescope that had

the effec-tive diam-eter of the d i s t ance be tween t h e m , just with less light collecting a b i l i t y .

This larger diameter allows the group of telescopes to resolve objects that are smaller and to make phenomenally better res-olution judgments.

Many other kinds of astron-omy require neither power nor high resolution, but rather reli-able calibration and stability.

Such are the techniques that require counting the number or wavelength of photons from a star.

Angelle Tanner, assistant pro-fessor of astronomy at MSU, has just returned from a two-week trip to Chile where she and two students operated a 36-inch diameter telescope that has been around for decades.

When asked “why this par-ticular telescope” she respond-ed, “Dependability; it hasn’t changed; it is well calibrated and stable. Also, if you want to look at stars that are nearby and bright the larger telescopes will laugh at your proposal. All of the stars you can see with your eyes at night are too bright for even small telescopes to look at.”

Although high energy and big budget science is awe-in-spiring and usually ends up paying for itself, remember the value of precision, quality and dependability when it comes to obtaining a full understanding of how the universe works.

The Obama administra-tion is more than keen to pass the immigration

reform sooner than later which will create a long pathway to United States citizenship for the 11 million undocument-ed illegal immigrants into the United States.

The million-dollar ques-tion in this divisive decision in American politics is wheth-er the immigration reform is good or bad for the people of America, for the economy and more interestingly for the working class. The U.S. Bu-reau of Labor Statistics reports an unemployment rate drifting around 7.8 percent as of De-cember 2012. With this factu-al data at hand, one should be skeptical of adding more peo-ple into the workforce; what will be the end-result?

James Suroweicki, staff writer at the New Yorker said in an article on Feb. 22, that barring few men who are with-out high-school education this immigration reform will be a genuine boom to the U.S economy.

America’s dream of continu-ing the world dominance will require high-skilled profes-sionals from the branches of science, math, engineering and technology to stay back and

be worthy contributors to the economy.

In the presidential election month last year, former gover-nor of Mississippi Haley Bar-bour said, “We are in a global battle for capital and labor, and we need to have what is good economic policy for America on immigration because we do need labor.

We need to have an immi-gration policy that is good eco-nomic policy, and then — and then the politics will take care of itself.”

The stereotypically opinion-ated believe Republicans are against a good immigration policy; but with supportive views seen across party lines there lies a different story.

Turning down the extreme rhetoric minimally, Sen. John McCain and Sen. Marco Ru-bio came out in open support for the reform, shattering the claim that the GOP has used immigration as demagoguery among minorities.

The caps on green card holders and the methodology to acquire one is also grieving, which the lawmakers will have to shed light upon. Engineers from countries like China, South Korea and India who are great in numbers have got-ten their degrees from the U.S.

but are queued up for years to-gether to even have a chance at acquiring a green card.

The blue print of President Obama’s immigration reform on the official website of the White House suggests anyone who obtains a master’s degree from an American university in science, math or engineer-ing will automatically be eligi-ble to receive a green card. This is an efficient and easier way to boost the number of skillful workers in the U.S. economy straight out of college.

The key obstacle, though, which the Obama administra-tion will face is the rancor and debate in Congress on reform. Few congressmen will be vary-ing about alienating their vot-ers who believe comprehensive immigration reforms amounts to amnesty.

Political pundits and ana-lysts will also have a watch on who receives the most political mileage out of this decision. It will be a rather tedious task for the Republicans to be in the driver’s seat.

If the immigration reform does go through to become a law, President Obama will be portrayed as the captain of the ship; if it fails, then the blame will result in anti-incumbency in Congress.

These are tough but inter-esting times in the politically fractured city of Washington, D.C. If things go as planned according to President Obama, the immigration reform will be a reality by the end of this year.

Republicans face a tough challenge of decision-making in the days ahead. They will be on the constant look-outs for opportunities that will give them an advantage to take back the house and also win the presidency.

In November last year, Pres-ident Obama secured around 70 percent of the Latino vote, the growing number of immi-grants who play a role in shap-ing American politics cannot be overlooked or denied.

The Huffington Post in an article on Feb. 22 reported the possibility of 40 million Latino voters by the end of 2030 and more if this reform is a reality.

The numbers above will force both the parties to take a decision on the issue. It cannot in these changing demograph-ics ignore immigration reform or shy away from it.

An effective strategy to turn the cards around will be the top priority of the Republican legislators. How they do it and when they do it is something we will have to wait to see.

CONTRIbuTINg wRITER | pRaNaav jadhav

whO spEaks FOR EaRTh? | CaMERON CLaRkE

You can look around any classroom on this campus and immediately make

assumptions about the people in it by their looks alone. One row of students could contain a variety of people.

There’s the group of five girls dressed in T-shirts, leggings and baseball caps every day. Behind them is the guy who never washes his hair.

Two rows up are the kids with sarcastic and satirical graphic T-shirts, who are diagonal to the group of five who dress pro-fessionally every day. Are these stereotypes? Maybe, but more importantly, these are first im-pressions.

I do not wish to come across as vain or even bitter; however, the impressions you make in a college classroom (even by the way you dress for class) are im-pressions that could affect you for the rest of your life.

Let’s be blunt. Looks can take you a long way in life. They can be the deciding factor in wheth-er or not you are offered the job you want to have. I typically try to stay away from clichés, but you do have to dress for the job you want.

Granted, a business or pre-law major should not necessari-ly wear a suit to every class every day, but gym shorts and an old T-shirt are less than desirable at-tire for such a setting.

As students, some days we just don’t feel like putting any effort into how we look. I get that. We all get that. There have been plenty of mornings I have pressed snooze on my alarm un-til I absolutely had to get out of bed, found a pair of shorts or yoga pants and a T-shirt that will get me through my four classes and pulled my hair into a ponytail.

However, laziness should be

no excuse for poor appearance. Honestly, how you appear to a professor during class can make or break you.

Sure, how well you perform in that class is what ultimately matters, but if a professor sees you putting effort into your schoolwork and your appear-ance, this effort can only add to his or her likelihood to write a recommendation for you.

The more I consider what I want to do with my life after I graduate, the more I realize how easy it is to wake up 30 minutes earlier and put myself together. Ladies, it takes maybe 10 extra minutes to fix your hair and put on makeup.

Guys, it literally takes two minutes to change from those gym shorts or sweatpants and T-shirt into jeans and a collared shirt. Do yourself and your fu-ture a favor and make an effort to look good for class.

CONTRIbuTINg wRITER | CLaIRE wILsON

Cameron Clarke is a sophomore majoring in physics. He can be contacted at [email protected].

CAMERON CLARKE

LETTER TO ThE EdITOR | pEyTON LIpsCOMb

Editor’s note: This is a re-sponse to “Black women poor-ly presented in media,” which was published in The Reflector on Feb. 21.

I am a regular reader of The Reflector and find many of the articles to be well writ-

ten or on point. However, I had concerns

over the article “Black women poorly presented in media” that I could not let go un-addressed.

There is not an equal repre-sentation of Af-rican-American women in the media, but many of the arguments made to support this statement were inaccurate.

The article said, “...in main-stream media, the lead character on popular TV shows is almost always white” and if they are on the show it is as a minor side character.

This statement is not true. Kerry Washington stars in the new ABC drama “Scandal” and Jada Pinkett Smith stars in the medical drama “Haw-throne.”

For children, there is Chi-na Anne McClain on “A.N.T. Farm” and Zendaya Coleman on “Shake It Up” that air on Disney Channel. We could even go back into the past and look at shows such as “Sister, Sister” and “That’s So Raven” or even “The Cosby Show” which still re-run on occasion.

It would also be in poor form for me not to mention one of my favorite TV person-alities, Wendy Williams, who hosts her own talk show.

As for the comment about “Walking Dead,” in no way do I mean this to be rude, but do you watch the show?

Sure many of the male Afri-can Americans have passed on,

but so have people of other races. Everyone is subject to becom-ing a walker, no mat-ter what background they come from.

My biggest problem with the comment made is Michonne, a central character (and fan favorite) portrayed by Danai Gurira, is completely disregarded.

A strange person to ignore considering she wields a samurai sword, which makes her hard to miss. I

understand the comment was geared toward scary movies (or that is how I interpreted it), but if you think about it every-one dies in scary movies, just like “The Walking Dead.”

In fact, “I Still Know What You Did Last Summer” actu-ally has Brandy as one of the only three survivors.

Speaking of films, what about the actresses like Halle Berry, Keke Palmer, Gabrielle Union or Zoe Saldana?

Even on a smaller scale, I recently watched a movie star-ring Toni Braxton on Lifetime. In magazines, I can understand what you mean about not as

many African-American wom-en on the covers of magazines like Vanity and Cosmopolitan, but flip open the magazine (I did before writing this) and you will find plenty Afri-can-American models posing through out them.

Or we could look at mod-els in television and see Tyra Banks from “America’s Next Top Model” and Naomi Campbell as judges for model-ing competitions.

The argument is also weak-ened by the fact music, an im-portant form of media, was not addressed.

We could look at strong, successful women, such as Be-yonce or Ashanti who empow-er women and extend into all facets of media beyond music.

Beyonce acted in movies such as “Austin Powers Gold-member,” “Obsessed,” “Pink Panther” and “Dream Girls.” Ashanti starred in two of my favorite movies, “John Tucker Must Die” and “Coach Car-ter.”

The intention was not to be negative, but the article was negative when the topic is pre-sented from a glass-half-empty viewpoint.

The argument should have been “Black women making leaps in media, but still a long way to go.”

From there some of these women could have been men-tioned, but also stated while their achievements great, the numbers don’t compare.

Failing to recognize the Af-rican-American women cur-rently in the media does those women a great injustice.

Technology of grandest scale often smallBlack women well-portrayed in media

we could look at strong, successful women, such as beyonce or ashanti who empower women and extend into all facests of media beyond music.”

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Remember the value of precision, quality and dependability when it comes to obtaining a full understanding of how the universe works.”

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There seems to be a trend in Hollywood lately, and it’s not something new so

much as something very familiar. Try to think back to the last mov-ie you saw that was a genuinely novel story — nothing based on a historical event, not a new twist on a classic piece of literature but a movie that actually had an orig-inal story.If you had trouble coming up

with one, it isn’t necessarily your fault. Hollywood has a sequel addiction — an irrational fear of new ideas. Out of the top-10 grossing fi lms of 2012, only two were original screenplays: “Brave” and “Ted.”

Out of the other eight, three were prequels or sequels and fi ve were adaptations of previ-ous works. One could argue that production companies are simply making what the people want. After all, “The Avengers” smashed box offi ce records in its opening weekend. If consumers don’t seem to mind the lack of original ideas, why bother?To get to the bottom of this I

compared some box offi ce stats from BoxOffi ceMojo.com for 2012, 2002, 1992 and 1982. The data seems to confi rm my fears that original movies are going the way of the buffalo. The leader of the pack was 1982 with six origi-

nal movies. By 1992, the number had dropped to four. In 2002, the only original movies were “My Big Fat Greek Wedding,” “Signs” and “Ice Age.” The worst of the lot was 2012 with a measly count of only two original movies.The numbers don’t lie. Original

ideas are taking the backseat in the movie industry. What’s equal-ly interesting is how well these original fi lms did as the years progressed. Out of the four years, 1982 was the only year that had an original movie as its highest grossing fi lm (“E.T.”). After that, no original fi lm made the top fi ve. The worst year for these fi lms out of the four was 2012, where the

highest an original fi lm achieved was the number eight spot.One might assume Hollywood

makes so many sequels and adap-tations because these fi lms make more money. The truth is, it’s ac-tually the opposite. Ticket prices in 1982 were a little over a dollar cheaper than the average ticket today. The fi lm industry was rak-ing a lot of money, and this was refl ected in the price of the tick-ets.As a general business principle,

a company is more likely to take risks in the presence of a strong market, and a fi lm with an origi-nal story is a big risk. Sequels and adaptations, on the other hand,

are fairly safe bets. When the movie industry hits a slump, like

it has in the past decade, studios are far less likely to gamble their capitol on something that doesn’t have a predecessor that can pre-dict its success.There is still hope for original

fi lms though. 2012 showed a 6.1 percent increase in ticket sales from the previous year. This increase in box offi ce turnout coupled with a steadily recover-ing United States economy may make for an economic environ-ment that encourages Holly-wood to gamble on more orig-inal ideas. If not, you may have to settle for “Generic Superhero Movie 4” or “Bestselling Teen

Book: The Movie.”

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The time has come for students living in on-campus residence halls to decide where they will live for the upcoming 2013-2014 school year, a choice which is sometimes diffi cult and confusing to make.

Ann Bailey, director of Housing and Residence Life, said students who are confl icted about whether to leave the residence halls or not should be aware it’s not unusual for students to live on-campus after freshman year.

“It is very common, especially if they are in a living-learning commu-nity. I lived in many types of residence halls throughout my undergraduate, masters and doctoral degrees,” Bailey said.

Since Bailey lived on campus while she worked toward her degrees, she said she admits to being slightly biased toward the residence halls.

“They met my needs and provided a level of convenience that was im-portant to me. Take advantage of the opportunity to live on campus during your college years and delay the multi-ple bill scene,” Bailey said.

Some advice Bailey offered to stu-dents is to sit down and weigh the pros and cons of living on and off campus.

“Look at cost, especially hidden costs that may not be readily appar-ent. Students have their entire lives to pay bills and keep up an apartment or house. At the end of the day, it de-pends on the individual, what their needs are and what they can afford,” Bailey said.

Some students, such as sophomore computer engineering major Jhona Gipson, have made the choice to make the big move off campus and into an apartment.

Gipson said she lived in Herbert Hall last year as a freshman and chose to live in the residence halls a second year as a sophomore and currently lives in Cresswell Hall.

“I wanted to move off campus after freshman year, but I just didn’t think I was quite ready to be out on my own. I wanted to be babied a little more, so I decided to go back to the dorms,” Gipson said.

Getting an apartment is something for which Gipson said she feels she is completely ready and mature enough.

“Now I’m feeling ready to be on my own. I’m ready to have my own space, my own bathroom and just be off-campus,” Gipson said.

While she is ready to move off cam-pus, Gipson said she understands it is not for everyone and there should not be any rush to leave the residence halls.

“It just depends on the type of per-son. If you’re not ready to move off campus and you know it’s not for you, don’t do it. There’s no rush. The apart-ments will always be there. I had to stay on campus a second year, and it wasn’t a big deal,” Gipson said.

Jordan Moore, freshman undeclared major, said his experience living in South Hall has motivated him to live in the residence hall again for his soph-omore year.

“I really like living in the dorms. You make more friends, and it’s more convenient to live on campus than off campus because you don’t have to drive every day, and the dorm park-ing is better than commuter parking,” Moore said.

Though Moore said he is person-ally adamant about living on campus again, he encourages students to look into whatever suits them best.

“I think you should do what works best for you. If you don’t like the rules of the dorms, then go get an apart-ment. But if you like the convenience and the people you live with, get a dorm,” Moore said.

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During a demonstration for Robert Long’s ceramics class, Misssissippi artist William “Bill” Dunlap sculpts writer Gore Vidal’s face.

Hollywood’s growing neophilia: movie adaptions and sequels trend increases, original stories decreaseCULTURED DE-BATES | CALEB BATES

Caleb Bates is a junior majoring in English and communication. He can be contacted at [email protected].

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Mississippi State University’s fi rst artist-in-residence William “Bill” Dunlap is here to raise more questions than answers. He is by no means the mild-mannered art-ist type with a paint-smeared smock and a brush hanging from a shirt pocket. One minute (maybe less) in Dun-lap’s exhibit at the Cullis Wade Depot Gallery, “Look At It — Think About It” clears up any preconceptions in the way a tornado clears a fi eld: with Dunlap, confi dent presuppositions do not stand a chance.

Dunlap has extensive artist-in-residency experience and said he will be “test driving” the position here at MSU. Lori Neuenfeldt, programs coordinator for the Visual Arts Center Gallery and outreach programs, said the program is something of a laboratory in its trial run.

“Because we are doing this for the fi rst time, you could say the MSU artist-in-residence is a scientist open to ex-perimentation — someone who is creative and thinks outside the box to fi nd ways to collaborate with students, faculty, staff and the Starkville community,” she said.

Neuenfeldt said Lydia Thompson, head of the De-partment of Art, noticed the impact Dunlap had on stu-dents during a visit to MSU last year and tossed his name into the pot as a possibility.

“I think the enthusiasm of our students and that of Dunlap fed off each other,” Neuenfeldt said. “Lydia no-ticed this and thought it was a perfect match.”

Thompson said the often informal, intimate way stu-dents interact with an artist-in-residence and observe his or her work is an invaluable element of artist-in-residen-cy programs.

“He’s going to be in the studio where students can ask questions and observe his work process. That’s what’s really important. They (artists-in-residency) are actually making their work in the classroom where students can ask questions,” she said.

Dunlap’s residency allows students unfettered ex-posure to an artist of professional caliber, and Thomp-son said Dunlap also sets a precedent for what can be achieved with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Mississip-pi, the exact degree students are pursing.

“Bill Dunlap is a good role model in terms of demon-strating what you can actually do with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, and because he is from the state of Mississippi, he demonstrates the excellence the state offers,” she said.

Dunlap said one of his primary goals is to impart to students the idea of “a life in the arts” outside of paint-splattered college classrooms.

“It’s one thing to get the degree, to make good grades and do well in critiques, but I tell students that after that last critique, nobody gives a damn whether you make another painting, write another poem or make anoth-er photo,” he said. “You’ve got to make an audience for what you do. It’s not enough to make the work. You have to make the audience.”

Dunlap received a Bachelor of Science from Mississip-pi College and a Master of Fine Arts from the University

of Mississippi. Although he is a proponent of the uni-versity system, he said he fi nds the importance of rules learned is the freedom to shatter them.

“To my mind, the only reason to learn the rules is to break them,” he said.

Dunlap conforms to no standards and seemingly nev-er has. He said he’s the same kid he once was growing up in Webster County, Miss.

“I’m still that nine-year-old kid with a pocketful of arrowheads, marbles, Minnie balls, rabbits feet and an ever-present pocketknife,” he said.

His reputation as an exhilarating rush-of-a-person be-gan as far back as his time at Mississippi College in the ‘60s. In an on-campus painting demonstration last week with friend and well-known Mississippi watercolorist Wyatt Waters, both Mississippi College alumni, Dun-lap reminisced on his exciting (and telling) relationship with the Baptist Student Union there.

“The BSU had a prayer list, and I managed to work my way to the top of it, but that was only be-cause Barry Hannah graduated the year before I did,” he said with a laugh.

Dunlap has work exhibited in mu-seums across the country, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, yet his dialogue and work remains peppered with Mississippi. In discussing “Red Gin and Walker Hound,” a painting of expansive fi elds populated by a proud bird dog, stoic red barn and white clapboard house, Dunlap said Mississippi, as both subject and in-fl uence, is inseparable from his work.

“I call what I do hypothetical realism. I couldn’t take you that place, but if you drove from here to Greenville on (Miss. Hwy) 82 and you hit the Delta, you’d see some of this,” he said.

The exhibit is a whirlwind. There are rural landscapes, stacks of New York Times from the War on Terror, Rem-brandt sporting a do-rag, even a decaying hawk’s foot. Nothing in Dunlap’s exhibit exists alone, and he said these compositions are deliberately experimental.

“I want them to have layers. I just put something next to something else and see what happens,” he said.

Dunlap said he gathers objects, often without know-ing what will come of them, for instance, a shell-turned-helmet.

“I picked up this horseshoe crab shell in Martha’s Vineyard. I didn’t know what I was going to do with it,” he said. “I turned it into a fascist helmet, and it worked.”

Dunlap said he juxtaposes both fashioned and real objects in close proximity. Whether contrastingly or harmoniously, or somewhere in between, jars of locusts and bullet-holed deer skins interweave with paintings and drawings. A knife even stabs canvas in “Bad Dog,” a piece Dunlap said resulted due to one stubborn canine.

“This is a piece of self-criticism. That canvas didn’t be-have, and I was painting this dog that insisted on being a cheetah, so in frustration, I took a tube of yellow paint and painted ‘bad dog,’” he said.

“Bad Dog” consists of an unfi nished landscape of cracking paint depicting a red-roofed house, shed and three dogs; one of which, the aforementioned unlucky pup, is a lumpy fi gure covered with a vibrant yellow X and scribbled letters deeming him “Bad Dog.” Anoth-er wooden-framed painting of two seemingly violent

dogs joins one end of the landscape, a knife stabs a white canvas attached in one corner and Dunlap’s old mailbox resting atop a rugged barn timber rests underneath.

“Bad Dog” is no exception: “Look At It — Think About It” is fi lled with un-expected fusions on every wall.

“He’ll Set Your Fields on Fire” is an amalgamation of snakeskin, wood, a human-like skull and a taxidermic bull squirrel whispering into an old micro-phone, perched above an unfi nished “Get right with God” sign. All this riffs on and exists underneath what Dunlap said is a painting inspired by the burn-ing fi elds of an old Christian tune.

“This is about an old Gospel song: ‘If from sin you don’t retire, He will set your fi elds on fi re,’” he said. He in-

dicated the bull squirrel and the sign: “This is one of those preachers on the radio,” he said. “I like the sign unfi nished — it’s like some guy was working on it and God struck him with lightning. A lot of these things are unfi nished.”

Dunlap said his work is intentionally stimulating, but he does not credit his tale of the paintings and construc-tions as inherently correct, singular meanings.

“That’s all I’m trying to do is literally be provocative. I don’t have one story. I can tell you my story, but if some-one else’s story is different, I am very democratic about this,” he said. “I don’t insist that people see it one way or the other.”

Dunlap’s works and talks draw more tensions than res-olutions. His provocations not only suggest, but require many questions; nothing is sacred. What it truly means to engage art, to be an artist, a Mississippian, a teacher, a student of the arts — Dunlap At calls these things into question through his juxtapositions, his talks and con-versations. Dunlap wants (and causes) reconsideration of many things, and his work furnishes one overarching result: “Look It — Think About It” leaves its title as the single concrete answer Dunlap has brought with him.

That’s all I’m trying to do is literally be provocative. I don’t have one story. I can tell you my story, but if someone else’s story is different, I am very democratic about this. I don’t insist that people see it one way or the other. ”- William Dunlap

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Dogs seek to spoil Cats’ tournament hopesBY FORREST BUCK

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On Wednesday the Missis-sippi State men’s basketball team will travel to Lexington, Ky., to battle John Calipari’s Wildcat team.

Coach Cal and the Wild-cats have experienced a disap-pointing season thus far, com-ing into the season ranked in the top fi ve but now fi nding themselves unranked and in danger of missing the NCAA tournament. According to ESPN’s bracketology — where analysts project the 64 teams that would make the tournament if it started that day — the Wildcats would not be in the Big Dance at this point of the season.

On top of that, the Cats lost their big man and top-fi ve projected overall NBA draft pick Nerlens Noel for the season to a torn ACL.

With just four games left in the regular season, Ken-

tucky will now be playing with a sense of desperation and urgency unlike most of the season. And with State shorthanded, the Dogs could very well fi nd themselves chasing the Cats around Rupp Arena.

The Bulldogs are coming off their second worst loss of the season and back-to-back 40-point blowout losses at home.

On Saturday the Bull-dogs hosted Vanderbilt after playing a tough, competitive game against Alabama, where it seemed like the Dogs were getting back on track. State’s energy did not carry over to Saturday’s game, howev-er, as MSU was beaten handed-ly 72-31.

Head coach Rick Ray said he thought the team would come out and play well after its perfor-mance against Alabama.

“I felt like we played good in all aspects of the game except turnovers against Al-abama,” Ray said. “So to

come out here and play like that against Vanderbilt is dis-appointing.”

Junior Jalen Steele said it feels like when the team takes one step forward, it takes two steps back.

“It’s like we’ll play good one game, and then the next game we’ll fall all the way off,” Steele said. “I guess we go into the games thinking it’s going to be easy and don’t play as hard, and teams end up lighting us up.”

Saturday was the second home game in a row where MSU never led in the game. The Dogs were out-re-

bounded by an overwhelming margin of 51-17. Even more surprising was the 20-3 dis-parity on the offensive glass.

Fatigue due to the lack of depth and heavy minutes

played by so many young players is clearly playing a role, but when a team gets out-rebounded like that, lack of effort plays a role, as well.

The Bulldogs offensive

woes continued as they shot an abysmal 17.5 per-cent from the fi eld on 7-40 shooting. They only hit two three-point attempts out of 19 tries.

Freshman Gavin Ware said something has to change.

“They just out-hustled and out-played us. We weren’t very competitive,” Ware said. “We gotta fi nd some way that we can start producing on the defensive and offensive end.”

The Bulldogs have now lost 12 straight games for the fi rst time since 1955, and their 31 point out-put in Saturday’s game was the few-est of the season. State will be major underdogs against Kentucky and must quickly put this loss behind them if the Dogs are to go into Rupp and at least be competitive.

MSU also has to start hit-ting perimeter jump shots. Ray said he believes teams have fi gured out the blue-print to beating the Dogs.

“Teams are packing it in around Gavin and tak-ing away driving lanes for (Craig) Sword and (Trivante) Bloodman, forcing us to shoot jump shots, and we’re just not making them,” Ray said.

In addition, Ray an-nounced sophomore Roquez Johnson’s suspension will carry into Wednesday’s game, leaving the Dogs with

eight available players.Even without Noel, the

Wildcats have a big sev-en-footer in the middle in Willie Cauley-Stein, who is averaging two blocks per game. His inside presence will allow Coach Cal to use the same strategy Vanderbilt and Missouri used and make the Bulldogs shoot perimeter shots.

At the end of the day, if Kentucky loses to a seven-win Bulldog team with six active scholarship players, the Cats can kiss the NCAA tourna-

ment goodbye, forcing an up-hill battle for MSU Wednes-day night.

Ray said he has not neces-sarily told his team to win to gain momentum, but just to win no matter what the case and continue to get better.

“You’re always trying to give your guys a way to beat the other team regardless of what the situation is,” Ray said. “I think it’s fair to say no one else in the country has been through what we’ve been through this season, both on and off the court.”

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Craig Sword and the rest of the Dogs will take on Coach Cal’s Kentucky Wildcats at Rupp Arena Wednesday night.

I guess we go into games thinking it’s going to be easy and don’t play as hard, and teams end up lighting us up.”Jalen Steele,junior guard

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One of the oldest sports of the modern Olympics takes place at Mississippi State University.

The fencing club sport at MSU, more commonly known as Dueling Dawgs, began several years ago and focuses on teach-ing students the technique and skill of an ancient activity.

Fencing evolved from early European dueling among no-bles. Over the years, it has be-come a sport of strength, agility, balance and honor. Around 600 years ago, Italian dancers tried to imitate the movements of fenc-ing, eventually creating a sport we now know as ballet.

Jennifer Lee, senior graphic design major and club captain of the Dueling Dawgs, said fencing refl ects the procedure of dueling.

“Before you begin your bout, you salute your opponent. It’s a sign of respect and honor. We stretch the fi rst 15 minutes of practice — it’s very physical. Af-ter that, we will do footwork and follow that up with drills and go over new techniques. After that, we do free fencing. We pick a weapon, and as long as they have experience with that weapon, you challenge them,” she said.

Jared Keeley, assistant profes-sor in the psychology depart-ment, also serves as the facul-ty adviser to the club. He is a certifi ed fencing coach, has been fencing for 19 years and com-peted competi-tively in national tournaments.

“Fencing is ac-tually three sepa-rate sports, each with its own history and rules,” Keeley said in an email inter-view.

“The fi rst is called foil. It is based upon traditional Europe-an dueling among nobles. It is a light, fl exible blade that was small enough to go through the holes in someone’s armor. The only valid target area is the torso.

Points (or touches) are only scored with the point, and there

are rules about who gets the point based upon ‘right of way’ which refers to who initiated the attack.

The second weapon is called épée. It is a larger, thicker blade that is also only scored with the point. However, too many no-bles were dying, so they switched to ‘fi rst blood’ being the indica-tor of who won the duel. Épée

is a fi rst blood weapon, in that you can hit any-where on the body and there are no rules about who has priority to hit like in foil.

The third sport, saber, is based upon the cavalry weapon. Here, you can score with either the point or a slashing motion with the blade. Like foil, there is right of way. The target area is from the waist up (including arms and head) because you wanted to be polite and not hit the horse,” he said.

Lee said the club likes to begin teaching new fencers foil fi rst.

“We typically start everyone

out on foil so they can get the basics down,” she said. “We like foil because there are certain rules of the foil, and if you learn to fence it fi rst, you’ll catch on to the others quickly.”

Keeley said fencing is mental-ly and physically challenging.

“The cardio workout is vastly underestimated by people who have not fenced before. We’ve had cross-country runners wind-ed after just 10 minutes. Plus, the sport is intellectually engag-ing at the same time. We call it ‘physical chess’ because you are trying to out-strategize your op-ponent,” he said.

Aside from getting exercise, Keeley said fencing is a fantastic way to have some fun.

“Where else do you get to poke people with swords and have them come back for more?” Keeley said.

Lee also said fencing is a great outlet for students.

“I enjoy it for its stress relief.

We tell newcomers to not be afraid to get hit or hit someone with your blade. You’re wearing protective gear, so you won’t get hurt,” she said.

She also said the club is look-ing toward attending compe-titions in the near future. The Dueling Dawgs keep their door open during practices in the Sanderson Center.

“You don’t have to have expe-rience to join. We welcome ev-eryone. We want to offer a new experience to people, some en-richment, something new,” Lee said.

Lee also said students do not have to provide their own equip-ment. After the fi rst three practic-es, new members pay dues of $10 per semester to cover the costs of equipment and weapons.

Dueling Dawgs practices on Mondays and Wednesdays from 5 to 7 p.m. in Studio B and on Fridays from 5 to 7 p.m. in Stu-dio A.

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WEEKEND WINS | Zach White (above) and the No. 11 men’s tennis team defeated Samford 7-0 Saturday and came from behind to beat No. 47 Middle Tennessee State University 4-3 Sunday. Freshman and No. 19 in the nation Romain Bogaerts clinched Sunday’s match for the Dogs with a 7-5, 6-1 singles match win. MSU travels to Auburn and Alabama to start SEC play this weekend.

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Saturday night, closer Jonathan Holder moved into the top 10 in career saves for MSU, posting his third save of the season and his 12th of his career. Only a sophomore, Holder has struck out 12 of the 20 bat-ters he has faced this season.

At the plate, MSU has struggled early in the season with stringing hits together and pushing across runs. This was not a problem for the Bulldogs this weekend as they averaged 6.5 runs per game during the four-game stretch.

MSU came back from trailing 5-2 against Purdue Saturday night and scored seven runs in the game. Center fielder C.T. Brad-ford, who also saw time on the mound in the game and struck out both batters he faced, said he was glad the Bulldogs were able to be in a situation like this and re-spond.

“There will be plenty of times the rest of the sea-son that we are going to be down,” Bradford said. “It’s just a matter of how we handle that.”

Head coach John Co-hen said this weekend was a huge learning experience for the Bulldogs. They faced situations they had yet to see in this young sea-son.

Cohen said he liked what he saw and thinks this week-end will serve as a teaching tool for later in the season.

“I think what we learned was who can come off the bench and help us and who can come into the game sit-uationally on the mound,” Cohen said. “I think we have learned pinch-running and pinch-hitting duties and late inning defensive replacements. We had an idea about that, but until kids actually go out and do it, it’s difficult.”

The No. 5 Bulldogs re-turn to action today at

4 p.m. when MSU faces the Rhode Island Rams at Dudy Noble Field.

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SPORTSCollege Hoops:

Msu at KentuCKy

Wednesday, 7 p.M. seC netWorK

stat of the day: through the first two weeks of baseball, the sec west is 46-7 and the sec east is 24-24.

Katy Hoover, senior, soccerBiggest Fear: SpidersFavorite Book: The Hunger Games seriesFavorite T.V. Show: “Castle”Major: Chemical EngineeringFavorite Restaurant: P.F. Changs

Matthew Wells, sophomore, footballBiggest Fear: HeightsFavorite Candy Bar: Reese’sFavorite Movie: “Mr. and Mrs. Smith”Favorite Artist: Chris BrownFavorite Pre-Game Meal: Lasagna

Dillon Day, sophomore, footballFavorite Artist and Band: Trey Songz and the Devil Wears PradaDream Job: Play in the NFLFavorite T.V. Show: “American Dad”Major: KinesiologyFavorite Food: Seafood

Daryl Norris, junior, baseballFavorite Restaurant: Firehouse SubsFavorite Candy Bar: TwixFavorite T.V. Show: “Workaholics”Dream Job: Ski/Snowboard instructorFavorite Artist: Eric Church

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Adam Frazier and the rest of the MSU defense have been solid all season and have a fielding percentage of .983.

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