Wednesday, May 2, 2018   
 
Students' bus tracking wins first Innovation Challenge
When four Armstrong Middle School students entered a contest in March that challenged them to develop an idea for a business, they immediately looked for a way to improve a problem in their own lives. It didn't take them long to nail that down. "We've all four been at the bus stop for a long time waiting on our bus to get there," said eighth grader Ian Zhang. "Sometimes, our bus doesn't come at all." Zhang, along with fellow eighth graders Lyem Ningthou and Andrew Yu, and seventh grader Vivek Nagarajan, came up with Go Bus -- an idea for a GPS tracking system for school buses that students and parents could access through a mobile app. On Saturday, the Go Bus team became $500 closer to making its idea a reality, as grand prize winners of the first Oktibbeha County Innovation Challenge. "We were particularly impressed with Go Bus because of the ability to move it forward immediately," said Eric Hill, the entrepreneurship director at Mississippi State University's E-Center and one of Saturday's judges.
 
Partnership hosts Farm to Fork Fiesta
The Greater Starkville Development Partnership hosted its third annual Farm to Forks Fiesta Tuesday night as a fundraiser for the Starkville Community Market. The event featured a Mexican-inspired meal from chefs David Crews of Delta Supper Club; John Currence of City Grocery Group and Big Bad Breakfast in Oxford; Derek Emerson of Walker's Drive In, Local 463 CAET and Parlor Market in Jackson; Ty Thames of Eat Local Starkville Group; and Cuylor Reeves and Dillon Han of City Bagel and Italian Bistro, a part of Eat Local Starkville. Partnership Director of Tourism Jennifer Prather said since the Partnership took over the Community Market five years ago, she has wanted to create a fundraiser to host the event, which led to her and Thames beginning Farm to Fork.
 
Peco Foods bringing 300 jobs to West Point next year
A $40 million investment is bringing 300 jobs to West Point for a new Peco Foods chicken processing facility. The company, Golden Triangle Development LINK and Gov. Phil Bryant's office announced the new project with an on-site event on Monday. The new Peco location, which will have workers preparing and freezing chicken products, will be located at the former Americold freezer facility on West Church Hill Road -- a 185,000 square-foot facility on 37 acres. The project has received $3 million in state funding to help with roof repairs and worker training. Golden Triangle LINK CEO Joe Max Higgins said Peco also received 10-year exemptions from city and Clay County ad valorem taxes, as well as a reduction in water rates from the city utilities company.
 
Natchez Trace Parkway economic impact totals $154M
Visitors along the Natchez Trace Parkway made an overall economic impact of $154 million last year, according to the National Park Service. Last year, some 6.3 million park visitors spent $154 million in restaurants, hotels, retail stores and in other ways in local "gateway" regions along the 444-mile route that covers portions of Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee. The Magnolia State has eight NPS sites: Brices Cross Roads, Gulf Islands National Seashore, Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area, Mississippi Gulf National Heritage Area, Mississippi Hills National Heritage Area, Natchez, The Natchez Trace Parkway, the Natchez Trace Scenic Trail, Shiloh National Military Park, Tupelo National Battlefield and Vicksburg National Military Park.
 
Prosecutors: Mississippi Man Stole More Than $100M in Scheme
Prosecutors say a Mississippi man raked in "well in excess" of $100 million from more than 250 investors in at least 14 states in a Ponzi scheme that promised quick profits on non-existent trees. Arthur Lamar Adams of Jackson waived indictment Tuesday after a criminal charge was filed. He is cooperating with prosecutors and is likely to plead guilty at a later date, his lawyer, John Collette, said Tuesday. U.S. Magistrate Judge Linda Anderson released Adams on $25,000 bail and ordered him confined at home pending further hearings. The 58-year-old businessman could face up to 70 years in prison and up to $1.5 million in fines if convicted of federal wire and bank fraud counts. The scheme centered on a common investment for wealthy southerners --- timber.
 
Frustration, fears accelerate with no solution in sight for bridge crisis
Mack Gower stood at his front door and pointed toward his wife's office building, which is approximately two miles across some soybean and cotton fields. Her daily commute used to take no more than five minutes. But now that three county-owned bridges are closed near their home, she must drive through the fields along the dirt turnrows -- risking expensive car damage and ruining the farmer's crop -- or take the only paved county road with an open bridge, a route that is approximately 25 miles, or 40 minutes, one way. Thousands of Mississippians are affected by the closure of 500 locally owned and maintained bridges. Some, like Gower and his neighbors, have begrudgingly minimized the inconveniences, but for everyone the frustration and anxiety are mounting.
 
Rep. Mark Baker announces run for attorney general in 2019
Longtime Republican state Rep. Mark Baker announced he is running for attorney general next year, a post for which Baker has considered running for years. "It was just a matter of realizing that what I think needs to be changed in the attorney general's office can't be done from the outside-in," the Brandon lawmaker said Tuesday. "It's got to be done from the inside out. There are a lot of great lawyers and staff working in that department, but the energies and priorities and focus needs to be readjusted." As chairman of the House Judiciary A Committee, Baker has for years criticized Democratic Attorney General Jim Hood's prolific litigation against corporations and large fees paid to outside law firms Hood hires for the lawsuits. He has also criticized Hood's reluctance to file or join litigation at the behest of the governor or lawmakers on issues such as trying to overturn the federal Affordable Care Act.
 
GOP's Mark Baker running for attorney general; Dem Jim Hood undecided
Republican state Rep. Mark Baker of Brandon announced Tuesday that he is running for Mississippi attorney general next year, saying he believes the office "needs to be reformed from the inside out." Baker is the first candidate in what could be an open race for attorney general. Democratic incumbent Jim Hood is considering running for governor in 2019, though Hood said Tuesday that he has not decided whether he will do that or seek a fifth term as attorney general. Hood is the only Democrat in statewide office, and Republicans have long expressed interest in taking over the attorney general's office. In an interview Tuesday with The Associated Press, Baker criticized Hood for not joining other states years ago in suing to block the federal health overhaul that then-President Barack Obama signed into law in 2010.
 
Sen. Hyde-Smith: Trump meeting went well; dodges endorsement talk
Interim Republican U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith on Tuesday said a recent meeting with President Trump went well, but provided no details and dodged questions on whether he might endorse her for election and on a New York Times account of the meeting. "It was a very good meeting, a very positive meeting," Hyde-Smith said Tuesday. "I don't think it could have gone any better, and we are looking for good things to come." On whether Trump might endorse her before the Nov. 6 special election to permanently fill the seat, Hyde-Smith said: "I'm running in Mississippi. I want the endorsement of the people of Mississippi. It would be nice from the president, but I had a very good meeting with him."
 
South Dakota GOP senator stumps for 2 Mississippi senators
Three Republican U.S. senators said Tuesday that keeping their party in the majority in Congress will protect tax cuts and ensure a conservative judiciary. Senate Republican Conference Chairman John Thune of South Dakota was in Mississippi raising money for Republicans ahead of midterm elections. He also attended a business conference with Mississippi's two GOP senators, Roger Wicker and Cindy Hyde-Smith. The three spoke to reporters before the private meeting. Hyde-Smith said Tuesday that she is campaigning while learning to do her new job. She praised a tax cut package that Republicans pushed into law before she went to Washington.
 
Sen. John Thune talks transportation, taxes, tariffs in fundraising visit to Mississippi
U.S. Senate Commerce and Transportation Chairman John Thune speaking in Ridgeland indicated Congress isn't ready to tackle President Donald Trump's entire infrastructure proposal, but "there are some pieces we can pull together." "We'll see I think some Rural Development infrastructure funding," Thune, R-South Dakota, said Tuesday in a press conference at C Spire corporate headquarters as part of an appearance with fellow Sens. Roger Wicker and Cindy Hyde-Smith. "We'll see an FAA bill, a broadband deployment bill and some other things to use as a platform to get several things done with infrastructure ... One thing that needs to be done in addition to just resourcing this stuff is taking down the regulatory barriers and obstacles to get things permitted and constructed."
 
Mueller raised possibility of presidential subpoena in meeting with Trump's legal team
In a tense meeting in early March with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, President Trump's lawyers insisted he had no obligation to talk with federal investigators probing Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential campaign. But Mueller responded that he had another option if Trump declined: He could issue a subpoena for the president to appear before a grand jury, according to four people familiar with the encounter. Mueller's warning -- the first time he is known to have mentioned a possible subpoena to Trump's legal team -- spurred a sharp retort from John Dowd, then the president's lead lawyer. "This isn't some game," Dowd said, according to two people with knowledge of his comments. "You are screwing with the work of the president of the United States." The flare-up set in motion weeks of turmoil among Trump's attorneys.
 
Why will 500 graduating Southern Miss students be wearing blue-green cords?
More than 500 University of Southern Mississippi students will be wearing special blue-green cords when the university holds its spring commencement May 11. The Pathway cords symbolize completion of a pathway experience, such as an internship or fieldwork, as well as the reflection and evaluation of that experience. The Pathway Cord Program is administered by the Center for Pathway Experiences as part of the University Quality Enhancement Plan. "We are excited to know that so many of our students are participating in pathway experiences outside of the classroom," said Lisa Stevens, director of the Center for Pathway Experiences.
 
Jackson State student releases debut single while majoring in meteorology, managing disease
Jackson State University student Keon Gibson pays tribute to mothers in his debut single, "Dear Momma Tender Love." Although the 22-year-old meteorology major released the song in March, it is just in time for Mother's Day, a JSU news release said. The song is about the impact of mothers on the lives of their children. "That type of love can never be compared to anything else," Gibson said. "In this day with a lot of trap music being so negative, I want to present a deeper subject that everyone can relate to. Most artists nowadays won't talk about personal feelings or love for their mothers," Gibson said, "I made this my debut single because everyone has a mother and can relate. Unfortunately, no one from my generation is rapping about mothers." While studying meteorology and making music, Gibson faces an ongoing battle with ulcerative colitis, a chronic inflammatory disease of the large intestine. He has experienced a dramatic weight loss as a result, but manages the illness with medication.
 
Three alumni giving keynotes at Auburn spring commencement ceremonies
Auburn University will confer 4,032 degrees on its new graduates during the institution's spring commencement ceremonies. Five main ceremonies will be held May 5-7 in Auburn Arena in addition to separate ceremonies May 8 for its two professional schools. Susan Story, a 1981 graduate and president and CEO of American Water Works, will speak at both Saturday ceremonies. Randall Ennis, a 1983 graduate and CEO of World Poultry Foundation, will give remarks at the Sunday ceremonies. Melanie Barstad, a 1975 graduate and former president of women's health for Johnson & Johnson, will speak at a 10 a.m. ceremony Monday for the College of Liberal Arts. Auburn will award 89 doctoral degrees, 695 master's degrees, four education specialist degrees, 141 pharmacy degrees, 120 veterinary medicine degrees and 2,983 bachelor's degrees.
 
Lawmakers end free tuition program for 1,100 U. of Kentucky employees.
More than 1,000 employees at the University of Kentucky will be able to continue working on degrees they've begun at other universities under a new program announced Tuesday. Those employees had been part of a statewide tuition waiver program that allowed them to take classes toward degrees at other public colleges and universities for free. Lawmakers, though, ended that program last month as a money-saving measure for public institutions that are cash-strapped after a decade of state budget cuts. Because the program's end would leave numerous employees stranded in the middle of earning their degrees, UK will pay their tuition for the next three years. "We are responding to the continuing educational needs of our employees," President Eli Capilouto told the UK Board of Trustees Tuesday. "That's what compassionate, thoughtful institutions do -- funding a program that is important to a number of people on campus, who are seeking professional and educational development opportunities." Read more here: http://www.kentucky.com/news/local/education/article210203804.html#storylink=cpy
 
Human waste contaminating UGA streams, students find
Two steams that flow through the University of Georgia campus register high levels of E. coli bacteria, an indication of animal waste. Now a team of student environmental detectives has gotten closer to finding out where the waste originated. Their research has ruled out dog and deer feces as the source. It's human waste, they determined. The student investigators in professor Anna Karls' "Water Quality and Human Health" freshman course took a series of water samples at three on-campus sites to find that out. The course is a service-learning course for the "Biomedical Research and Global Health Learning Community," a group of first-year students who live near each other in Creswell Hall, one of UGA's three high-rise Baxter Street residence halls.
 
U. of Missouri argues it can regulate guns on campus
A law that bars prosecutors from filing criminal charges against someone storing a concealable gun in their car while on University of Missouri property doesn't prevent the university from writing a rule against it, new court filings assert in battle over gun rights that began in 2015. University attorney Logan Rutherford filed the documents in two cases being considered together -- a lawsuit initiated by law professor Royce Barondes and one filed by then-Attorney General Chris Koster. A response from Barondes and Attorney General Josh Hawley is due May 30 and Circuit Judge Jeff Harris will hold a hearing in July or August before ruling. Barondes and Hawley are misreading the law, Rutherford wrote. Instead of treating it as an exemption to criminal prosecution, he wrote, they are treating it as a blanket restriction on the university's ability to regulate activity on its property, he wrote.
 
U. of Missouri provost candidate talks diversity, legislative ties
Last week, a long-time coworker told David Brennen the things he had put into place at the University of Kentucky would survive him. "That was the best compliment he could have given to me because I don't want anything I do to be about me," Brennen said. "I want it to be about the institution." Brennen was the second of five finalists on MU's campus for the provost and executive vice chancellor position. It has been held by Jim Spain since Garnett Stokes left in February to become the president of the University of New Mexico. Brennen is dean of the University of Kentucky's College of Law and a professor there. Brennen spoke to his extensive history with higher education and took questions from the 40 or so students, staff and faculty who attended. He spoke at length about plans to address challenges facing MU such as a lack of state funding and diversity.
 
White House reportedly weighs restrictions on Chinese citizens doing sensitive research at U.S. universities
The Trump administration is considering restrictions that would bar Chinese citizens from engaging in sensitive research at American universities and research institutions because of concerns about them sharing technology or trade secrets with China, The New York Times reported Tuesday. Among the possibilities under consideration, according to the Times, are restricting which types of visas Chinese nationals are eligible for and expanding existing regulations that already apply to Chinese nationals who conduct research with military or intelligence value at American universities. The Times reported that the exact scope of the possible restrictions is not clear, but that they could affect collaborative research in technologies that relate to China's "Made in 2025" plan to achieve domination in fields like advanced microchips, artificial intelligence and electric cars.
 
Is College President 'the Toughest Job in the Nation'?
At a meeting of the University of Texas system's board on Tuesday, the departing chancellor, William H. McRaven, made a striking comment about his latest gig. "The toughest job in the nation is the one of an academic- or health-institution president," he said. McRaven, a former military commander who planned the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, announced in December that he would leave the chancellorship after only three years. He cited health issues in the decision, but he had previously signaled that he might stay longer if the system's governing board wanted him to. Coming from McRaven, an outsider to the academy, the stark assessment of his soon-to-be-former job has a ring of authenticity. It'd be hard to verify the claim, but we do know a few things about what makes the job so difficult. Here are three bits of context.
 
University student sues neo-Nazi website founder over racist 'troll storm'
A student at American University in Washington, D.C. has filed a federal lawsuit against the founder of a neo-Nazi website, alleging that he organized a racist online campaign against her. Taylor Dumpson, the first black woman to become president of the American University student government, filed the suit Monday against Andrew Anglin, the founder of The Daily Stormer, according to The Associated Press. Last May, the same day that Dumpson was elected student government president, someone hung bananas on nooses on American University's campus, sparking national headlines. The Daily Stormer posted about the incident and included links to Dumpson's personal social media pages. Dumpson claims in the lawsuit that she has feared for her safety since then and accuses Anglin of organizing his readers to conduct "troll storm," or harass her online with racist messages.
 
The Key to Our Economy
State Economist Darrin Webb writes in the Delta Business Journal: "Economics has been called the dismal science and I suppose we economists often live up to the title. For the past few years I have routinely been the bearer of bad news as I have spoken of Mississippi's struggling economy. To be sure we have seen growth -- 2017 was the third consecutive year of expansion -- a post-recession first. But our growth has been remarkably slower than the rest of the country. Many seek a quick solution, something we can do that will catapult us off of the bottom once and for all. In my view, there are no quick fixes. If we are to change the trajectory of the state, we have to look beyond the next year or election cycle. Instead, we need to think about the 125 children born each day in Mississippi during the next few decades who will make up the workforce as we approach the half-century mark. What can we do now that will change their outcomes and encourage a brighter future for Mississippi?"
 
Hyde-Smith's stumble on Trump's backing points up McDaniel's political Gordian Knot
Syndicated columnist Sid Salter writes: "U.S Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, after an unusually smooth transition from her former post as the state's elected Republican commissioner of agriculture and commerce to her new post as the first woman in history to represent Mississippi in the U.S. Senate, stumbled last week. In a fundraising letter, Hyde-Smith told state voters: 'I'm facing a crowded campaign with both Democrats and Republicans. But, unlike my opponents, I don't have the backing of deep-pocketed special interest groups like most candidates running for Senate ... I have the support of President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence, but the support I need most is YOURS.' Trouble is, neither Trump nor Pence have formally endorsed Hyde-Smith's candidacy. Tea Party favorite and GOP state Sen. Chris McDaniel quickly jumped on the gaffe as evidence that the Republican 'establishment' was attempting to dupe state voters."


SPORTS
 
Home sweet home: Bulldogs learn they will host NCAA tennis regional
There has been no place like home for the Mississippi State men's tennis team all season. It's a big part of the reason why the Bulldogs learned Tuesday that they'll get to keep playing in their own backyard as they begin their run in the NCAA Championship. MSU (20-2) has earned the No. 6 national seed in this year's tournament and will host the first and second rounds of the event at the A.J. Pitts Tennis Centre. Junior Trevor Foshey says there isn't anywhere else the Bulldogs would rather be. "We didn't lose at home this year and we're not looking to start that in the next couple of weeks," Foshey said. "It's just huge. You're comfortable playing on these courts because it's where you practice day in and day out, then you also have the fan support. Courts play different when you go to different places, but we know this court so well that it gives us a really big advantage."
 
Mississippi State, Ole Miss tennis teams reach NCAAs
Some of the nation's top tennis teams will converge in the Magnolia State next week as the Mississippi State men's program and the Ole Miss women's team will host the opening two rounds of the NCAA Tournament. Coming off an SEC Tournament Championship, the Bulldogs are the No. 6 national seed and are set to welcome Memphis, South Alabama and Tennessee Tech to the A.J. Pitts Tennis Centre in Starkville on May 11-12. Mississippi State is making its eighth straight appearance in the NCAA Tournament and for the 27th time in program history. The Bulldogs went a perfect 10-0 on their home court this year and will battle Tennessee Tech in the opening round on May 11 at approximately 1 p.m. Although not hosting, the MSU women and Ole Miss men are also both in NCAA fields. Mississippi State's women (15-10) are the second seed in the Chapel Hill Regional hosted by North Carolina, the No. 2 national seed.
 
State women won't be intimidated to play at No. 2 North Carolina in tennis
There won't be an intimidation factor present when the Mississippi State women's tennis team travels to No. 2 seed North Carolina for an NCAA regional. After knocking off No. 2 ranked Vanderbilt and other opponents in the polls throughout the course of the season, the Bulldogs believe they are battle-tested for what's to come. Anastasia Rentouli of MSU said the seeding or ranking for an opponent doesn't matter. "We know we can beat a No. 2 team," Rentouli said. "I think we are approaching the tournament with confidence and go get it. For many years, we have tried to make the Sweet 16, but we have never done it. I feel like this is the year. It's the confidence in ourselves and our teammates. We are more selfless as a team than we have been in past years. We really trust each other no matter the opponent, records or rankings." The other two teams in the Chapel Hill, North Carolina, field are William & Mary and Morgan State.
 
#MoorCowbell Road Dawgs Tour 2018 Rolls May 10, 14-17
New Mississippi State head football coach Joe Moorhead will headline the 2018 Road Dawgs Tour as it makes stops throughout the state and region beginning Thursday, May 10 and continuing May 14-17. The annual fan-friendly event and celebration of MSU Athletics is a collaboration by the MSU Bulldog Club, MSU Alumni Association and local alumni chapters. It will feature 10 stops, including six stops in Mississippi -- Vicksburg, Cleveland, Starkville, Tupelo, Meridian and Biloxi -- and four other stops in the region – Memphis, Tenn.; Huntsville, Ala.; Houston, Texas and Atlanta, Ga. Women's basketball's Vic Schaefer, the 2017-18 National Coach of the Year, as well as Director of Athletics John Cohen will make various appearances on the 2018 Road Dawgs Tour.
 
Road Dawgs Tour returning to Tupelo
Mississippi State's Road Dawgs Tour is returning to Tupelo. Athletics director John Cohen and first-year head football coach Joe Moorhead will appear in Wesley Hall of the First Methodist Church on May 14. Food will be served at 11:30 a.m. and the program begins at noon with a cost of $15 per person. It will be one of three stops Cohen and Moorhead make that day as the begin Monday morning with a 7:30 breakfast and 8:00 program at the Seal Football Complex on campus at $15 per person. After leaving Tupelo, the duo will make their way to Memphis later that evening for the final stop of the day.
 
Mississippi State, BYU to meet in late December
Fresh off its 25-win season that concluded with an NIT semifinal appearance in New York's famed Madison Square Garden, Mississippi State announced on Tuesday a one-game deal with BYU. The game is set for Dec. 29 at Humphrey Coliseum. Tip time and TV will be announced at a later date. The two teams have met just twice -- 1995 and 1996. BYU finished the 2018 campaign with a 24-11 ledger and an 11-7 mark in the West Coast Conference. MSU will also play host to Cincinnati on Dec. 15 and travel to Dayton on Nov. 30. The remaining non-conference schedule will be announced later this summer. The Bulldogs posted a 25-11 record under third-year coach Ben Howland, who will see his top six scorers return in Quinndary Weatherspoon, Aric Holman, Nick Weatherspoon, Lamar Peters, Tyson Carter and Abdul Ado.
 
Shea Patterson talks Ole Miss, Michigan in Paris
Shea Patterson wants a shot a national championship. It's really that simple. That is, he says, the only reason why he left Ole Miss and enrolled at Michigan to play for the Wolverines. "I would have stayed at Ole Miss if it weren't for the situation we were in," Patterson told MLive recently. "I can live with throwing an interception in the national championship game. Or to get there, in the playoff. It might be hard to live with that -- but I don't know if I could have lived with not being able to get the chance to compete for one." The NCAA hit Ole Miss with sanctions committed under then-head coach Hugh Freeze. The Rebels went 6-6 in 2017, when they were also banned from postseason play. "I think watching Michigan all last year, and with the guys we got coming back on defense, I feel like we've got a real good shot at doing that," Patterson said.
 
Cost of recruiting athletes has doubled at top Texas colleges
Private jets, chartered cars, visits to fancy restaurants. College coaches in Texas and across the country are fanning out, like they do every spring, to high school football stadiums and basketball courts to recruit the most promising players to their teams. But over the past decade, the cost of doing that has mounted. At eight public schools in Texas that participate in the highest level of college sports, recruiting costs have increased 131 percent on average since the 2007-2008 academic year, according to financial reports filed with the NCAA. Last year, those schools funneled a combined $9.8 million into recruiting the best high school players to their teams. The stakes are high.
 
Sports officials, economists debate payments for college athletes' name, image and likeness
A National Collegiate Athletic Association special commission on reforming college basketball recently ducked the issue of athletes being paid for their name, image or likeness -- currently banned under the association's rules. But Condoleezza Rice, the former U.S. secretary of state and Stanford University provost, and the panel's chairwoman, last week underscored the confusion some athletics experts felt when a University of Notre Dame women's basketball player who is still eligible to compete at the college level was allowed to go on Dancing With the Stars, a deal that required the NCAA to make an exception. "For the life of me, I don't understand the difference between Olympic payments and participation in Dancing with the Stars, which are allowed, and what can't be allowed," Rice said during a press briefing, urging the NCAA to act once lawsuits around the issue had been decided.
 
Eastern Michigan still plans to cut sports despite growing outrage
Despite mounting pressure from the sports community and its supporters, Eastern Michigan remains steadfast in its decision to eliminate four sports in order to save $2.4 million and combat the university's steep budget shortfalls. Support to save softball, men's swimming and diving, women's tennis and wrestling has steadily grown since EMU announced March 20 that it would cut the sports. Organizers held two protests on the Ypsilanti campus last month that drew hundreds of supporters. Athletic director Scott Wetherbee told the Free Press that he saw almost no way of saving the four sports and that the plan for cutting them would move forward. "As far as being saved," Wetherbee said, "I think the board and (president James Smith) have said, 'Look, these are the cuts that need to be made to rightsize the athletics budget and to rightsize the university's budget.' And we're going to move forward in a positive direction and not have that opportunity for them to be saved."



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