| Tuesday, December 5, 2017 |
| IHL commissioner talks innovations to help jump-start state | |
 | Mississippi's commissioner of higher education said the state is lagging the rest of the nation in terms of college graduates not because Mississippians are not going to college, but because they are not obtaining their degrees. "We are the greatest access institutions -- some of the best in the country," said Glenn Boyce during a luncheon Monday. "That is not the issue. The issue is they don't finish. "And that is an enormous issue because they accumulate huge amounts of debt along the way and they can't pay that debt back because they don't have the credential to get the job they need." Boyce, who spoke at the Mississippi State University Stennis Institute of Government/capitol press corps luncheon, said about 30 percent of Mississippians have some type of degree, compared to about 37 percent regionally and almost 40 percent nationally. |
| Ed official: Mississippi colleges return state's investment threefold | |
 | Mississippi's Higher Education Commissioner Glenn Boyce says access to public universities in the nation's poorest state is "fantastic," but it's getting students to complete their degrees and to remain in the state after graduation that's the challenge. Boyce's remarks on Monday came ahead of the 2018 legislative session where state lawmakers will consider a recommendation from legislative leaders to cut funding for the state's universities by 4 percent for the 2019 fiscal year. While Boyce didn't speak to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee's proposal directly, he noted that funds to the state college system should be viewed as investments. "For every dollar invested, we grow the economy by $3.21," he said. Speaking at a luncheon sponsored by the Stennis Institute of Government and the Capitol press corps, Boyce referenced a report commissioned by the state College Board that found 40 percent of graduates from the state's public universities had left Mississippi five years after graduation. Reversing that trend, Boyce said, is critical to the state's economic vitality. |
| MSU-Meridian selects LSU director to head physician assistant program | |
 | The new Master of Physician Assistant Studies degree program of Mississippi State University-Meridian has taken another step forward, with the selection of a person university officials term a "veteran administrator and clinician with more than three decades of experience." Debra S. Munsell, who led the launch of the LSU Health Sciences Center-New Orleans' Physician Assistant program and now serves as director, will lead the implementation of MSU-Meridian's program, according to a news release from MSU-Meridian. Her appointment is pending formal approval by the Board of Trustees, State Institutions of Higher Learning. "What interested me most is that Mississippi is a rural state," Munsell said in a telephone interview. "I grew up in a rural part of Texas, and I am passionate about access to health care, especially in rural communities." Munsell will serve as director of the Master of Physician Assistant Studies degree program and will also be an associate professor at the university, MSU-Meridian Administrative Director and Head of Campus Terry Dale Cruse said. |
| Mississippi State Police Department Deploys Medication Drop Box | |
 | Opioids are a nationwide problem and now the Mississippi State University Police Department has a new tool to help combat the opioid crisis. Thanks to a grant, the campus police department has a Medication Drop Box safe. The purpose: to dispose of unused or expired prescription painkillers and other medicines. The department of mental health teamed up with the MBN to bring the med-return box to campus. Campus Police Chief Vance Rice says this is the first drug drop off box in the county and that it's a start at keeping pills out of the wrong hands. |
| FAA Finds Drone Strikes More Dangerous To Airliners Than Birds | |
 | Thinking of giving -- or getting -- a drone for Christmas? Be careful when operating it. In a new study conducted for the FAA, researchers found that drone collisions with aircraft will cause more impact damage than a strike by a bird of equivalent size and speed. That may seem hard to believe to anyone who's seen Sully, the story of the amazing water landing of US Air Flight 1549 after both engines were knocked out by 'ingesting' geese. But in both computer simulations and physical tests, the FAA researchers found that drone collisions inflicted more structural damage to an aircraft than bird strikes. The researchers, led by experts at Mississippi State University, simulated the damage to business and commercial jets struck by small unmanned aircraft systems, aka drones. The final report, dubbed the "sUAS Air-to-Air Collision Severity Evaluation", reported that the stiffness of a mechanical drone compared to a bird, combined with its velocity and projectile mass, could create significant impact damage to the simulated aircraft. |
| Christmas tree shortages reported in Mississippi | |
 | Christmas tree shortages have been reported in Mississippi. Mike Marolt, owner of Pine Mountain Tree Farm in Walnut, tells the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal that inclement weather has contributed to the shortage. Mississippi State University Extension Service forestry specialist Stephen Dicke says Mississippi growers will likely sell more than 30,000 trees, an increase from last year, but producers are unlikely to meet demands as most suppliers sell out by the second week of December. Dicke also says fall wildfires destroyed many Fir trees in Oregon, a state that's probably the country's biggest live Christmas tree producer. |
| Business acumen essential for farm success | |
 | The most important tool a farmer can use as he prepares for the 2018 planting season could be a computer loaded with Excel spreadsheet software. "It's business 101," says Dr. Bryon Parman, assistant professor, Mississippi State University, department of agricultural economics. He adds that farmers are good at farming, raising crops, but not as accomplished with the business end of farming, which, he believes, is at least as important as the agronomic aspects. It's especially important, he says, with tight margins. He points to several positive factors for Mississippi farmers. Land values have not decreased, as has been the case in other parts of the country. "Mississippi land values are flat," he says, "a few ups and downs, but that's just noise. We haven't seen a downward trend yet." |
| Deer-vehicle collisions high in Mississippi | |
| The potential of striking a deer while driving on Mississippi roads remains a higher danger than in most states, but has declined in recent years. Mississippi ranked sixth nationally in deer-vehicle collisions in 2014, but fell out of the top 10 in 2017, according to data from State Farm Insurance. There are about 3,000 such wrecks each year in Mississippi. The odds of hitting a deer with a vehicle double during the months of October through December when deer are actively on the move and mating. The deer population in Mississippi has exploded over the last decade with the Mississippi State University Extension Service estimating there are approximately 1.75 million whitetail deer in the Magnolia State, the highest population density in the nation. |
| Joe Max Higgins provides industrial park 'playbook' to supervisors | |
 | The Oktibbeha County Board of Supervisors received a thorough report from Golden Triangle Development LINK CEO Joe Max Higgins to provide an update on the industrial park during their meeting on Monday. Higgins distributed to the board a "playbook," which provides a timeline of when and what is happening with the development. These documents provide the board with information on everything in regards to sewers, roadways, water, budgets and contracts. "Our plan is to come back to y'all every quarter and if there are any changes that need to be amended to this, we will do it at that time," Higgins said. Higgins said the documents provide a "checks and balance" where it shows when funds come from the city and when the funds will come from the county. He said both city and county administration will have live updates of what funds are due and when. |
| Antioch, Second Baptist fixing code issues | |
 | A pair of churches that faced pressure from the city last month due to code violations have started work to rectify their issues. At Antioch Third Baptist Church, work has started to repair the building's aging roof, which the city's planning department found to be in violation of city code. In early November, aldermen voted to give the church 60 days -- until Jan. 7 -- to fix the roof, which suffered from extensive, visible deterioration. Aldermen gave Second Baptist Church, on Yeates Street, the same amount of time to clean a construction site that's languished since work stopped on a planned new sanctuary. Antioch, which is located at the intersection of Gillespie and Spring streets, is more than 100 years old. The church drew particular attention, and citizen complaints, because it's near the Russell Street corridor, which the city has poured millions of dollars into for renovations to turn into a primary thoroughfare to Mississippi State University from downtown. |
| Hard history: Mississippi museums explore slavery, Klan era | |
| In the 1950s and '60s, segregationist whites waved Confederate flags and slapped defiant bumper stickers on cars declaring Mississippi "the most lied about state in the Union." Those were ways of making a dig against African-Americans who dared challenge racial oppression, and journalists covering the civil rights movement. Decades later, as Mississippi marks its bicentennial, the state is getting an unflinching look at its own complex and often brutal past in two history museums, complete with displays of slave chains, Ku Klux Klan robes and graphic photos of lynchings and firebombings. The Museum of Mississippi History takes a 15,000-year view, from the Stone Age through modern times. The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum concentrates on a far shorter, but intense span, from 1945 to 1976. |
| President Trump heading to Mississippi for civil rights museum opening | |
| President Donald Trump will be traveling to Mississippi on Saturday to attend the opening of a new civil rights museum. That's according to a White House official. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the trip before it is formally announced. The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum and adjacent Museum of Mississippi History are scheduled to open at 11 a.m. Saturday. |
| Ocean Springs lawmaker has a plan to keep the Mississippi Legislature on track | |
 | An Ocean Springs lawmaker wants the Legislature to consider general bills every other year rather than at every annual legislative session. While some good comes of the thousands of general bills filed each year, lawmakers have to wade through some doozies to unearth them. Rep. Hank Zuber, R-Ocean Springs, said a law limiting general bills to every other session should lead to more thoughtful legislation and fewer problems with bills that become law. "Every bill that is passed has unintended consequences," Zuber said. Last year, Zuber proposed a constitutional amendment to limit sessions to every other year. The bill he plans to introduce this year won't be nearly that sweeping, he said. |
| Gov. Phil Bryant names judge for new court on Mississippi coast | |
| Gov. Phil Bryant is naming a county court judge on the Mississippi coast. S. Trent Favre will take the bench on Jan. 1, the day Hancock County Court will first become active. Favre is city attorney in Bay St. Louis and has been an assistant prosecutor in Bay St. Louis Municipal Court and Hancock County Justice Court. A graduate of Millsaps College and the University of Mississippi School of Law, Favre has worked in commercial litigation for two law firms. |
| Biloxi could hire Sen. Thad Cochran's former chief-of-staff as lobbyist | |
| Lobbyists are doing a brisk business in South Mississippi, with hundreds of millions in oil spill damages being divided up, and Biloxi Mayor Andrew "FoFo" Gilich wants the city to be prepared. Gilich will ask the Biloxi Council on Tuesday to hire Keith Heard, former chief of staff for U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran and president of Key Impact Strategies, to represent the city and go after federal and state funds for economic development. Heard would be paid $10,000 a month plus some expenses for during the four-month contract, with renewal options for an additional four months. Gilich has his eye on securing a bigger share of more than $600 million in BP Economic Damages Settlement money, and hundreds of millions in Restore Act, Tidelands and Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act (GOMESA) grants over the next couple decades. Getting Heard to represent Biloxi can reap "huge dividends," Gilich said. Biloxi isn't the only city on the Coast looking for leverage. |
| With shutdown looming, conservative Republicans try pushing back the next spending deadline | |
 | Attempts to avert a government shutdown hit a snag late Monday as a bloc of conservative lawmakers pressured top GOP leaders to set a new spending deadline for just after Christmas -- instead of just before -- in a bid to maintain the party's leverage in talks with Democrats over spending levels and other year-end concerns. Government funding is set to expire Friday, giving Republicans who control Congress just a few days to shore up support. President Trump and top congressional leaders agreed to meet Thursday afternoon to discuss details of a new year-end spending agreement -- just hours before spending runs out. |
| President Trump's lawyer sparks intense debate on obstruction of justice | |
 | President Trump's personal lawyer kicked off a fiery debate on Monday with one controversial statement: The president cannot be guilty of obstruction of justice. The assertion comes in the wake of a presidential tweet, which legal analysts dubbed anywhere from "cataclysmic" to "a non-story," that raised questions about whether Trump has put himself in legal peril in the federal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. There is little question that a sitting president can face political consequences for such a crime: Obstruction was the basis for the impeachment articles against both Presidents Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton. But it remains a hotly debated question whether a sitting president can commit the crime of obstruction of justice as a legal matter -- or whether he is effectively immune to that charge. |
| Roy Moore Gets Trump Endorsement and R.N.C. Funding for Senate Race | |
 | President Trump on Monday strongly endorsed Roy S. Moore, the Republican nominee for a United States Senate seat, prompting the Republican National Committee to restore its support for a candidate accused of sexual misconduct against teenage girls. Mr. Trump's endorsement strengthened what had been his subdued, if symbolically significant, embrace of Mr. Moore's campaign. At Mr. Trump's direct urging, and to the surprise of some Republican Party officials, the national committee, which severed ties to Mr. Moore weeks ago, opened a financial spigot that could help Mr. Moore with voter turnout in the contest's closing days. Two factors appear to have moved Mr. Trump. He likes to associate with winners, and Mr. Moore has apparently stabilized in the polls. Further, no other women have come forward recently to level additional accusations against Mr. Moore. |
| NASA seeks partner to develop business park at Stennis | |
 | A new 1,100-acre technology corridor could soon be coming to Stennis Space Center, but first NASA has to find the right partner to make it happen. Enterprise Park would allow for private companies and other organizations to set up shop at Stennis and work in support of the space center's current mission. NASA just posted an official Notice of Availability at FedBizOpps.gov (reference NOA # 80SSC018L0004). The goal is to find a private or public entity to enter into a structured partnership with NASA to lead in the multiphased development and long-term operation of the park. Official responses to the Notice of Availability are due on Jan. 12, 2018. Stennis has scheduled an Industry Day on Feb. 7, 2018, where interested parties can learn more about the Enterprise Park opportunity. |
| New grant program could increase Gulf aquaculture | |
| A new method is being tried to increase seafood production through the use of aquaculture. The Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission is awarding grants totaling $450,000 for new and unique aquaculture projects in the Gulf of Mexico. The projects will range in size from $50,000 to $100,000 and will be given out starting in April to qualified projects. Most of us here in South Mississippi love our seafood, but there's a growing problem. There's not enough of it. That's the word from the USM Director of Aquaculture, Dr. Kelly Lucas. "Worldwide, the wild caught fisheries is stagnant, and we've know that for some time. And so, the only way to increase the amount of seafood we produce is aquaculture," Lucas explained. |
| Federal judge says Jackson State must pay $382,000 judgment | |
| A federal judge ordered Jackson State University to pay the $382,000 judgment originally awarded to the school's former women's basketball coach in 2014. "Jackson State University doesn't offer anything new to change the original opinion," U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate said in a bench opinion. The former coach, Denise Taylor Travis, wiped away tears on Monday after Wingate upheld the original award. She said it has been a six-year ordeal for her. "He vindicated me. It's like you have been accused of killing someone and DNA comes back and clears you after serving six years in prison," Travis said. "To have closure is very gratifying to me and my family." The six-year legal battle has had many twists and turns, Wingate said. And JSU has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees fighting the case. |
| Aiming to expand Auburn's research partnerships, president launches $5M initiative | |
 | Auburn University President Steven Leath is taking a page from his Iowa State playbook. Leath has launched a research initiative at Auburn, similar to one he implemented while president at Iowa State in 2013. The Presidential Awards for Interdisciplinary Research, funded through Leath's office, will provide $5 million over the next three years to Auburn research teams that "address some of the greatest challenges facing our world," according to Leath. "The ISU initiative successfully attracted additional external funding for research, largely in health sciences and food security," said Leath, who stepped into Auburn's top office this summer. "Auburn also has a lot of health sciences expertise, as well as expertise in cybersecurity, autonomous vehicle research, the performing arts and humanities, and other key areas. I'm confident we'll see a number of teams coming forward, ready to connect with industry and government partners that can benefit from Auburn expertise." |
| Outreach fuels growing demand for mental health services on U. of Tennessee campus | |
 | Mary Ciochetty stood in the middle of John C. Hodges Library at the University of Tennessee last week and wrote a note, "You are loved!!!" She posted it on a billboard filled with other words of encouragement. You can do it. Only one more week. You're amazing. The exercise in leaving notes for other students to take was part of an outreach effort by the UT Student Government Association and the Ambassadors for Mental Health Awareness and Suicide Prevention. End-of-the-semester exams, which start next week, are one of the most stressful times on campus for students who are already under pressure in academics and extracurriculars. Over the last five years, use of counseling centers on college campuses has grown 30 percent on average while average enrollment has grown by just five percent, according to the Center for Collegiate Mental Health, a research network based at Penn State University. |
| Two deans chosen as finalists for U. of Kentucky provost | |
 | University of Kentucky President Eli Capilouto has selected two deans as finalists for the soon-to-be-vacant provost's position. Donna Arnett, dean of the College of Public Health, and David Blackwell, dean of the Gatton College of Business and Economics, will participate in public forums later this week with the campus community. Current Provost Tim Tracy will leave at the end of the month to become CEO of a Cincinnati pharmaceutical company. "I remain convinced an internal search is the right approach," Capilouto said in a campus-wide email that went out Monday afternoon. "And I assure you this has been a thorough and thoughtful process, even as we must move quickly to fill the role of provost by the end of the calendar year." |
| UGA, U.S. Army Cyber Command look to partner | |
 | The University of Georgia and the U.S. Army's Cybersecurity Command could soon be exchanging students and workers, according to a civilian Army official. Ronald Pontius, deputy to the commanding general of the U.S. Army Cyber Command, said the command would take up University of Georgia Vice President for Research David Lee's offer during a UGA conference on informatics, or big data. "I say to all prospective partners, UGA is open for business," Lee told a crowd of about 100 academics, private industry representatives and students in last week's "Advancing Informatics in Government and Industry" at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education. "We're open for business and looking to build a partnership with the University of Georgia," said Pontius, suggesting internships, research projects and young Cyber Command workers studying at UGA, among other possible collaborations. |
| Book dissects research fraud from an organizational level | |
 | When a researcher is busted for fraud, the exposure often trickles out from source to source. Whether it's exposed by an institution, professional association, journal or the media, word gets out. Depending on how big a deal a case is, it might make international headlines. Other times, the fraud is dealt with quietly. But why does it occur, and why does it keep occurring? From an environmental and organizational level, what can be done to combat research fraud? Is there something to be learned by examining fraud at a level beyond just the case-by-case stories, sometimes packaged in shock journalism with explosive headlines? Those are the types of questions that caught the attention of Nachman Ben-Yehuda and Amalya Oliver-Lumerman, professors in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem -- inspiring them to write their own catalog of the history and ramifications of research fraud in Fraud and Misconduct in Research: Detection, Investigation and Organizational Response (University of Michigan Press). |
| How Can Colleges Head Off Homegrown Extremism? | |
 | Higher education is not immune to episodes of extremist-fueled violence. Such attacks have taken place at campuses like Ohio State University, Umpqua Community College, and elsewhere. And sometimes, the radicalized person who carried out the act was affiliated with a college, and was perhaps a student, like the Boston-Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. What can colleges do to recognize the warning signs that might lead to an act of extremist violence, and how should they intervene? A new paper, published in the journal Violence and Gender, was written for campus threat-assessment and behavioral-intervention teams, and points out the risk factors that can drive someone to commit acts of radicalized violence. These factors include marginalization and disenfranchisement, social disengagement, and affiliation seeking. To counter the risk factors, the study suggests fostering social connections and nonviolent discourse. |
| White supremacists pose at Southern Methodist's campus | |
| While it's unsurprising now when racist, homophobic or anti-Semitic posters crop up on college campuses, a rarer event is the white nationalist culprits sticking around to pose for photos. But such is the case at Southern Methodist University, where police are currently investigating banners and posters espousing white supremacy that were hung over the weekend. Experts say white supremacists intentionally mean to rattle college campuses by being photographed with their handiwork. Members of Texas Vanguard, an offshoot of Vanguard America, the white nationalist group that has grown in prominence since the presidential election, on Twitter claimed credit for the signs at Southern Methodist, which read, "Reclaim America. No more tolerance, no more diversity" and "White men! Save your people! Reject the opioid beast!" Such tactics -- white nationalists proving they visited campus -- can be used to scare minority students, said Carla Hill, an investigative researcher with the Anti-Defamation League's Center on Extremism. |
| MAGIC not helping state's vehicle inventory | |
| Longtime Mississippi journalist Charlie Mitchell writes: "Well, they tried. Credit the Legislature with attempting, by golly, to devise a system to track state vehicles. ...The state needs vehicles, lots of them. The Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol, the Mississippi Department of Transportation and a bevy of other agencies must have cars and trucks -- lots of cars and trucks -- to do their work. So the thinking was, 'Why not optimize?' To that end, in 2014 software was purchased and customized into the Mississippi Accountability System for Government Information and Collaboration. If you missed it, the acronym is MAGIC. The database was to receive regular inputs of information regarding every vehicle so that a clean system of buying, using, servicing and retiring rolling stock would come into existence. That hasn't happened. Why?" |
SPORTS
| Greg Knox excited about head coaching opportunity | |
| Greg Knox is only guaranteed one more game with Mississippi State and is glad he gets to do it as the Bulldogs' interim head coach. Knox has been at MSU for the past nine seasons as running backs coach and added the special teams coordinator title to his duties for the last four years. The TaxSlayer Bowl will be Knox's first head coaching opportunity in a career that began in 1988. "I'm very excited for the fact coach (John) Cohen and Mississippi State University has put their confidence in me that I can lead this program and have given me this opportunity to coach in the bowl game," Knox said. "I'm very excited about that and very excited about our players and the opportunity they have in front of them." FootballScoop.com reported that Knox will join Dan Mullen's staff at Florida following the bowl game. Knox refuted that report on Sunday. |
| Tyson Carter claims SEC Player of the Week | |
| Erupting for 55 points in two games was enough for Tyson Carter of Mississippi State to be named SEC Player of the Week. The sophomore guard scored a career-high 35 points in a win over North Dakota State on Thursday and followed it up with 20 points in Sunday's victory against Dayton. Carter was 19 of 29 from the field and 12 of 20 from 3-point range in those outings. The Starkville native currently leads the Bulldogs averaging 15.7 points. Carter is the first Bulldog to claim SEC Player of the Week since Quinndary Weatherspoon in January. |
| Cheyenne Trussell leaving Hattiesburg to become Starkville athletic director | |
 | Cheyenne Trussell anticipated spending no more than two years as Hattiesburg High's athletic director. More than 15 years later, the 56-year-old is moving on. Trussell was named Starkville School District athletic director Monday. "It's definitely bittersweet," he told the Hattiesburg American. "But Hattiesburg (High) is in a very nice space and that's part of what made this decision a little easier." Under Trussell's leadership, Hattiesburg High has added seven new sports and maintained a level of excellence he is proud of. Perhaps the biggest feather in his cap, though, is the stability on the coaching side of things the school has enjoyed recently. "That's probably the greatest thing -- we don't have that coaching carousel we once had," he said. |
| Texas A&M regents say coach Jimbo Fisher worth big-money contract | |
 | The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents publicly spoke Jimbo Fisher's name for the first time Monday morning, just before authorizing Texas A&M University President Michael K. Young to execute a contract to make him one of the highest-paid college football coaches in the country. Following a meeting that lasted less than 30 minutes, Charles Schwartz, chairman of the Board of Regents, said the guaranteed 10-year, $75 million contract signaled what he expects will be a "momentous step for our university." "The fact is, it's a lot of money," Schwartz said in an interview after the meeting. "We have planned to be a champion in all of our athletic events, and this is a step that we think will bring national prominence to our football program and will bring credit to our university as well." Both Young and Schwartz emphasized that the money for Fisher's contract would not come from tuition or state funds, but rather be financed entirely by the university's athletic department. |
| UT Vols: Phillip Fulmer spreads unity message after replacing John Currie at AD | |
| Phillip Fulmer posted a two-word tweet on Sunday -- or rather, a hashtag of two words smushed together. "#ComeTogether," Fulmer's tweet said. The tweet was accompanied by a video montage of Vols highlights set to Aerosmith covering the Beatles' song "Come Together." Fulmer's tweet was widely circulated. It had nearly 10,000 retweets and more than 15,000 likes 24 hours after it posted. Fulmer was appointed Tennessee's athletic director on Friday. He replaced John Currie, who was suspended with pay as the university tries to fire him for cause. Currie's tenure met its end amid a chaotic football coaching search after Currie fired Butch Jones on Nov. 12. The coaching search has been a source of division and frustration throughout the Vols' fan base. |
| Virginia native to lead U. of Arkansas athletics | |
| University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Chancellor Joe Steinmetz named Hunter Yurachek as vice chancellor and director of athletics Monday. Yurachek, 49, had served as vice president of athletics at the University of Houston. He will be introduced later in the week, UA said in a news release. The appointment came 19 days after Steinmetz fired Jeff Long near the completion of his 10th season as Arkansas' athletic director. Yurachek will be only the third athletic director at Arkansas since 1973. Yurachek, a native of Richmond, Va., earned a bachelor's degree in business management from Guilford (N.C.) College in 1990 and a master's in sports administration at the University of Richmond in 1994. Yurachek enters the Arkansas athletic department at a time when the university is in the middle of the expansion of the Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium, a $160 million venture that will add about 4,200 premium seats. His arrival also comes at a time of upheaval within the football program. |
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