| Wednesday, October 31, 2018 |
| Renovations planned for Mississippi State's Humphrey Coliseum | |
 | Changes are coming to Humphrey Coliseum. Mississippi State announced Tuesday it would be renovating its basketball facility, which was originally constructed in 1975. "After 43 years, it is time for an upgrade," said MSU president Dr. Mark Keenum. "When completed, the new and improved Hump will be one of the most impressive venues in all of college basketball." One of the new amenities will be a premium club level that has its own entrance and lobby that leads into a 6,000 square foot sideline club featuring 580 club seats and 80 loge seats. There will also be the addition of nearly 160 terrace seats along the concourse level but the overall capacity, which is currently 10,500, is not expected to change. "We are excited about the enhancements that will modernize the venue and offer Bulldog fans an unforgettable game day experience," said MSU director of athletics John Cohen. |
| Starkville-MSU Symphony offers connection to music of the past | |
 | There are several reasons why Eric Hill believes the Starkville-MSU Symphony is important to the community, but one of them is its ability to connect people to the past. Hill -- who is the president of the symphony's board -- spoke at Starkville Rotary Club's weekly luncheon on Monday to update them on the symphony. He began his talk with the story of Giuseppe Verdi, a 19th-century composer from the Italian countryside. Verdi grew to be a renowned student of music and a successful composer. He married and had two children, and lost his wife and both children by the age of 26, months before finishing his second opera. The opera was a failure, and Verdi swore off composing until he was convinced to write the score for another opera. Hill said the score propelled him to prominence and was performed a then-unparalleled 57 times across Europe. It's rarely performed in the United States, but about a month ago, the Starkville-MSU Symphony performed it at the Mississippi University for Women to open its 50th season. |
| Mississippi Senate candidates on criminal justice, sentencing reforms | |
 | Where do Mississippi's Senate candidates stand on criminal justice? It's hard to tell by perusing their campaign websites -- none of which dedicate space to issues of criminal justice. But Mississippi currently incarcerates people at a rate higher than the national average -- some 19,000 people are in state custody, and another 30,000 on parole and probation. The state is also home to one federal facility, in Yazoo City, and a privately owned prison in Tutwiler. Mississippi Today asked leading candidates' campaigns for their stances on criminal justice, what they think should be done about the mandatory minimum sentences currently in place in the federal system and whether they're concerned about current prison conditions in Mississippi. Here's what they said. |
| Ray Mabus Endorses David Baria to 'Bring Civility and Honor Back to Politics' | |
| Calling next week's election "one of the most important elections of my life," former Mississippi Gov. Ray Mabus endorsed fellow Democrat David Baria's bid for U.S. Senate. "David will fight every single day for Mississippians," Mabus, who served as governor from 1988 to 1992, said in a press release the Baria campaign released Monday. "He will bring the same tenacity to Washington that he has carried with him here in Jackson when representing his constituents in District 122." Baria, who lives in Bay St. Louis, currently serves as the House Minority Leader in the Mississippi Legislature. "With everything going on, we need someone who will always fight for his constituents and who will bring civility and honor back to politics," said Mabus, who served as U.S. Secretary of the Department of the Navy under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2017. "I could not be more proud of the campaign he has run, and I know he will do incredible things as our senator." |
| Trump surprise rattles GOP in final stretch | |
 | President Trump's plan to end birthright citizenship has tossed a grenade into the final stretch of the midterm elections, roiling centrist Republicans and further endangering a House majority already at risk of slipping away. While Trump's proposal could boost Senate GOP candidates and earned applause from allies such as Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), others worry it could hurt the party's chances in key suburban swing districts -- critical territory to retaining the House. Trump's call to change the Constitution via executive order also struck a discordant note with a GOP conference that filed court briefs in a lawsuit against former President Obama's executive actions on immigration. "Well, you obviously cannot do that. You cannot end birthright citizenship with an executive order," Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) told Lexington, Ky., radio station WVLK. "We didn't like it when Obama tried changing immigration laws via executive action, and obviously as conservatives, we believe in the Constitution." |
| First Up if Democrats Win: Campaign and Ethics Changes, Infrastructure and Drug Prices | |
 | Democrats would use their first month in the House majority to advance sweeping changes to future campaign and ethics laws, requiring the disclosure of shadowy political donors, outlawing the gerrymandering of congressional districts and restoring key enforcement provisions to the Voting Rights Act, top Democratic leaders said on Tuesday. They would then turn to infrastructure investment and the climbing costs of prescription drugs, answering voter demands and challenging President Trump's willingness to work on shared policy priorities with a party he has vilified. The idea, said Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the Democratic leader, is to show voters that Democrats are a governing party, not the leftist mob that Mr. Trump describes -- and to extend an arm of cooperation to the president after an electoral rebuke. |
| UM Hillel reacts to synagogue shooting | |
 | UM senior Katherine Levingston was in shock when she first heard about the shooting at a synagogue in Pittsburgh that left 11 people dead on Oct. 27. "It was just very shocking to see it happen in a temple because it was always something I would hear about growing up, about how it happened in the past, and it was very shocking to hear about it happening now," said Levingston, president of the University of Mississippi Hillel, a group for Jewish students. Levingston expressed her wish that the Jewish community discuss what has happened while it's fresh on their minds, saying she wants to "make sure there's an open dialogue about everything, making sure everyone knows what's going on and why it happened." Next steps for the Jewish community here at the university are still uncertain. A call to awareness seems to be the overarching message of the Jewish community here at Ole Miss. |
| UM's ASB calls for creation of polling place on campus | |
| The Associated Student Body Senate unanimously passed a resolution urging Lafayette County to create a polling place on the university campus for local, state and national elections at its Tuesday night meeting. "We want to get students more civically engaged, especially here in the Lafayette-Oxford community," said Sen. Anna Hall. "The county supervisors are ultimately the ones that have the deciding power about polling places in the county, but this is us saying we endorse them putting one on campus." Hall worked with ASB Sens. Nick Weaver and Will West alongside ASB Director of Voter Registration and Elections Jarrius Adams on this resolution to improve student involvement in elections. "Lafayette County has one of the lowest turnout rates and lowest registration rates in the state, which is crazy because with the university, you would think that students would be engaged, but that's not the case," Sen. Jarvis Benson said. |
| Two arrested, charged with kidnapping Jackson State student | |
| Two men are in custody, charged with kidnapping a Jackson State student Sunday. Jackson state officials say the crime happened on the campus of Jackson State University. According to JSU, a student living in an apartment came to campus to get help from her friends while she was in the middle of a break-up with a live in boyfriend. The female's boyfriend and another man followed her onto campus and forced her into a car, against her will, near the student ID center. Jackson State campus police and Jackson police got involved and took the two men into custody. 22-year-old Christopher Reed of Jackson is charged with kidnapping and Vince Johnson of Terry is charged with kidnapping, aggravated assault, and fraud by mail. |
| Itawamba Community College receives grant to break down barriers to employment | |
| Mississippi is undereducated, underemployed and has tens of thousands of open jobs in need of applicants. With widespread rural poverty, barriers like transportation and cost block large sections of the population from obtaining high school equivalency degrees and workforce certifications. At Itawamba Community College, the Incentives to Success Career Navigation is designed to help students overcome the common barriers to employable skills by providing tuition, fuel cards, supplies and a completion bonus. This week, Families First for Mississippi non-profit helped fund a $746,100 grant over thee years for the program. "There is a middle-skills gap. There are jobs available, but people don't have those middle skills without the training that we're able to offer," ICC career navigator and job coach Josh Gammill said. "That's the whole big idea of this grant, it's getting people connected with those middle-skills that are necessary to go out there and find a career." |
| $3M boost urged for ag work; U. of Arkansas division ends each year needing funds, lawmaker says | |
| State lawmakers on Tuesday recommended giving the University of Arkansas Agriculture Division $3 million more in state funds in each of the next two fiscal years. The Joint Budget Committee and Legislative Council approved a motion by state Rep. De Ann Vaught, R-Horatio, to recommend increasing the division's spending authority and state funding by $3 million in fiscal 2020, starting next July 1, and again in fiscal 2021. In the current fiscal year, 2019, the division is projected to receive $62.8 million in general revenue funding under the state's Revenue Stabilization Act enacted by the Legislature and Gov. Asa Hutchinson during the fiscal session earlier this year. State Rep. Joe Jett, R-Success, asked Mark Cochran, vice president of agriculture for the UA Agriculture Division, to detail the division's budgetary plight. Jett noted that lawmakers have tried to shore up the division with one-time funds over the past several years. |
| Cow-milking champ hails from U. of Florida | |
 | Christopher Decubellis has been milking cows since he was 3 years old. Now 44, he didn't think his decades of experience would land him the title of "milking champion." But it did. Decubellis, associate state program leader with the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences' 4-H program, has won the title of champion milker after competing in the Sunbelt Ag Expo Milking Contest two weeks ago. He said the university held its own competition to determine who to send to compete at the expo, and he was dubbed the best milker. Representing the orange and blue in his Gator T-shirt and baseball cap, Decubellis traveled to Moultrie, Ga., to compete against three other milkers from Georgia, Alabama and Kentucky. Each competitor milked a Holstein cow for one minute, poured the content into a graduated cylinder, then rotated to the next cow. He said each competitor got one minute at a different cow so the results would be fair. |
| Vice chancellor for communications finalists visit U. of Tennessee | |
 | Three candidates for the position of vice chancellor for communications visited the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and held open forums over the last week. The three finalists for the position are Tisha Benton, Tom Hutton and Renea Morris. The vice chancellor for communications "is the chief communications and marketing officer of the University of Tennessee's flagship campus in Knoxville and has responsibility for overall communications," according to the search website. The vice chancellor will also advise the chancellor and other staff about communications and manage the Office of Communications and Marketing at UT Knoxville. Ryan Robinson left the Vice Chancellor for Communications position in May. He was earning approximately $225,000 annually. |
| Texas A&M professor: Doubtful president can change 14th Amendment by executive order | |
 | A Texas A&M University professor and judicial politics and public opinion expert said President Donald Trump's just-announced plan to end birthright citizenship for children born to non-U.S. citizens via executive order would run counter to the text and spirit of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. "The 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to anyone born in the United States regardless of their parents' citizenship," said Joseph Ura, an associate professor and associate head of the Department of Political Science in the Texas A&M College of Liberal Arts. Any statute or executive order at odds with that provision would violate both the original public meaning and plain text of the Constitution," Ura said. Ura posited that the president's statements about birthright citizenship may be an attempt to make immigration a more salient issue in the upcoming midterm elections. |
| Birds in a cage: U. of Missouri has impounded 20 Bird scooters since August | |
 | The University of Missouri has impounded 20 Bird scooters since the company first dropped them off in Columbia, MU spokesman Christian Basi said. When Bird scooters first arrived in August, MU received a few initial complaints about scooters, and university officials decided to begin impounding them, he said. MU has also impounded scooters after finding them blocking curb cuts and ramps and ADA-accessible entrances. Scooters that create safety hazards are also located and removed, Basi said. MU does this with any vehicle, motorized or not, he said. The scooters are kept at an MU storage site, where other impounded vehicles are stored. "We are continuing to make sure that the campus is accessible and safe for everyone who utilizes it," Basi said. In a statement, Bird said it was willing to work with MU. |
| U. of Missouri Hospital completes $16M ER renovations | |
 | More exam rooms and less waiting room space are among the features of University of Missouri Hospital's emergency department following the completion of a renovation project increased working space by nearly 90 percent. MU Health Care officials celebrated the completion of the project Tuesday with a ribbon-cutting and open house. Construction on the $16 million project began June 6, 2017 The expansion was necessary to handle the rapid growth in emergency room visits, said Jonathan Curtright, chief executive officer of MU Health Care. In 2013 the emergency department handled 40,000 patients, which has increased to 50,000 patients in five years. The project increases the number of rooms from 30 to nearly 50. Matt Robinson, medical director of the hospital's Emergency Medicine Department, said doctors, nurses and staff became adept at being flexible during construction. "We had to keep seeing patients," he said. |
| Growing number of public universities have become less affordable | |
 | A growing number of public universities are becoming less affordable and accessible for low-income students and people of color, according to two new reports released today. In its report, New America found that more than half of the 600 public universities it examined expect the neediest first-year students to pay more than $10,000 in annual tuition to attend, which equals more than a third of their families' yearly earnings. About 8 percent of public institutions expect low-income families to pay more than $15,000 a year, according to the report. "The story has gotten worse and worse at publics, and a growing number of them are using the enrollment management techniques used at private universities," said Stephen Burd, a senior policy analyst with New America's education policy program. |
| Campus IT leaders face continued budget challenges | |
| Lean information technology budgets are making it difficult for colleges to hang on to talented employees, the latest Campus Computing Survey reveals. More than two-thirds of IT leaders surveyed this year, from 242 two- and four-year public and private nonprofit colleges and universities across the U.S., reported that their campus IT budgets had still not recovered from the 2008 recession -- when many institutions experienced sweeping cuts. "Annual IT cuts and midyear budget reductions have become all too common for many institutions over the past decade," said Kenneth C. Green, founding director of the Campus Computing Project, which conducts the survey. "These recurring cuts come despite growing demand and expanding need for campus IT resources and services to support instruction and campus operations, and also increased IT security challenges," said Green. The results of the survey will be presented today at the Educause conference in Denver. |
| Ideologically motivated far-right extremists have killed close to 500 people since 1990 | |
| The mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh exemplifies an increasingly deadly form of domestic terrorism committed by far-right extremists: the targeting of institutions and individuals due to their religious affiliation. Unfortunately, it's not new for far-right extremists to vilify non-white, non-Anglo-Saxon and non-Protestant religions. Judaism has endured most of their ideological rage and conspiratorial paranoia. Since 2006, the U.S. Extremist Crime Database has been a reliable source of information on extreme far-right homicides. We and other terrorism researchers have used this database to understand the nature of violent and non-violent extremist crimes in the U.S. |
| Second Senate race looms as a virtual certainty | |
| Syndicated columnist Sid Salter writes: Democrat Tobey Bartee faces Republican U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, former Clinton administration secretary of agriculture and Democratic U.S. Rep. Mike Espy, and Tea Party Republican state Sen. Chris McDaniel in Mississippi's U.S. Senate special election on Nov. 6. On paper, Bartee is an impressive candidate. According to his campaign website biography, Bartee earned a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis and later a master's degree in public policy from Vanderbilt University. He served as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy and held analyst positions in the U.S. State Department and the Department of Homeland Security. But if multiple independent polls are to be trusted, Bartee's campaign isn't getting any traction whatsoever and he's projected to get less than 3 percent of the vote on Nov. 6. And unless Bartee or one of his three competitors gains 50 percent plus one vote, a runoff will follow on Nov. 27 for the top two vote getters. At this juncture, the latest polls suggest that Republican Hyde-Smith is expected to make the runoff. |
SPORTS
| No. 21 Mississippi State trending upward as November arrives | |
 | The combination of coach Joe Moorhead's offensive philosophy and quarterback Nick Fitzgerald's run-first reputation has resulted in a volatile mix through their first eight games together. It's been beautiful at times. At other moments, downright ugly. But the 21st-ranked Bulldogs are trending in the right direction after their 28-13 upset win over Texas A&M on Saturday. Maybe most importantly the passing game -- which has been so spotty this season -- was finally a positive: Fitzgerald completed 14 of 22 passes for 241 yards and two touchdowns. For the first time against a Southeastern Conference opponent, Moorhead saw a good glimpse of what he wants his program to become. |
| How Kylin Hill handled his absence from Mississippi State's football lineup | |
 | Sophomore running back Kylin Hill was justifiably upset that he wasn't healthy enough to give it a go last week against Texas A&M, but that doesn't mean he pouted or whined about the situation. Hill is day-to-day with a lower body injury sustained against LSU two weeks ago. There was optimism he wouldn't miss any time, but when he was evaluated last Thursday the coaches and training staff decided to hold him out of the lineup. "Well, you're coach today," running backs coach Charles Huff joked to Hill hours before kick off. "Alright, do I get a headset?" Hill cracked back. No, Hill didn't get a headset. But he got the chance to encourage his teammates, namely senior running back Aeris Williams, who started a game for the first time all season. Williams started 12 games as a junior. |
| Louisiana Tech faces stiff test at No. 21 Mississippi State | |
| Louisiana Tech may need to double down on its "King of the Road" mentality in StarkVegas. With seven games away from home heading into the 2018 season, the miles stood in the way of the Bulldogs (6-2, 4-1), who clinched bowl eligibility last Friday with a 21-13 win at Florida Atlantic, seeking their team goals and full potential. Seemingly playing its loosest in other teams' stadiums, Tech has grown attached to the road warrior mantra and it'll be battle-tested once again this Saturday night inside another SEC house, matching up with No. 21 Mississippi State (5-3, 2-3) at Davis Wade Stadium. "Having been in that environment will definitely help out players," Louisiana Tech head football coach Skip Holtz told media members at his weekly press conference Tuesday. "Maybe a little bit of a calming note that we can continue to play with the poise and composure, the togetherness and confidence we played with for really the last four weeks, since the fourth quarter of the UAB game. Hopefully that experience will take some of that nervous energy out of some of our players to where we can go play the game." |
| Mississippi State will wear uniform that honors WWII veteran, plane | |
| In each of the last two seasons, the Mississippi State football team has worn an alternate uniform around Veterans' Day weekend, both times black with stars and stripes around the shoulder. This year, MSU will be honoring a specific veteran. G.V. "Sonny" Montgomery -- the MSU alum, World War II veteran, former Congressman and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient -- has a Mississippi Air National Guard C-17 Globemaster III plane named in his honor; on Nov. 17 against Arkansas, MSU will wear uniforms inspired by the plane. The uniforms are the same color as the plane, light onyx, with the same "Spirit of Sonny Montgomery" text on the side of the plane found out the right hip. Each helmet is hand-painted with the Mississippi welcome sign on the side and images of medals Montgomery won on the back. |
| Can Mississippi State keep offensive momentum? | |
| The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal's Logan Lowery writes: Mississippi State's season may not be going as well as I thought it would be at this point but as the calendar turns to November, the Bulldogs still have an opportunity to have a nice year. Originally I believed the Bulldogs would be a 10-2 type of team because of all the talent they had coming back. As it turned out, all the coaching changes, differences in schemes and a starting quarterback returning after nine months on the shelf had a much bigger impact than I anticipated. MSU rolls into the final four regular-season games with a 5-3 overall record and a 2-3 mark within the SEC. One could argue that the Bulldogs could be undefeated right now if they had any resemblance of an offense during their losses to Kentucky, Florida and LSU. State simply couldn't get anything going on that side of the ball in those games and the Gators and Tigers were able to make one touchdown enough to win. |
| Coaches pick Mississippi State to repeat as SEC champions | |
| Coaches in the Southeastern Conference agreed with the media that Mississippi State will repeat as league champion this season. The coaches selected the Bulldogs' senior center Teaira McCowan as the SEC Preseason Player of the Year and also added her to the All-SEC first team along with teammate Anriel Howard. Missouri's Sophie Cunningham and Georgia's Caliya Robinson also received votes to be the Preseason Player of the Year. Ole Miss guard Shandricka Sessom was selected to the All-SEC second team although the Rebels were picked to finish last in the league. |
| Alabama, Clemson, LSU, Notre Dame top first CFP rankings | |
| Alabama, Clemson, LSU and Notre Dame are the top four teams in the first College Football Playoff rankings of the season. After meeting for a day and a half at a hotel outside Dallas, the 13-member CFP selection committee released the first of its five weekly top 25s before the four-team field is set for the College Football Playoff semifinals on Dec. 2. Michigan is fifth, followed by Georgia and Oklahoma, in the rankings announced Tuesday night. The top four teams were no surprise. The same four teams are Nos. 1-4 in the latest Associated Press college football poll, except with Notre Dame third and LSU fourth. Next week's rankings figure to look a lot different. Four games matching top-20 teams will be played Saturday, including Alabama at LSU. |
| Ole Miss football coach Matt Luke discusses NCAA appeal, restrictions | |
| The Ole Miss football program is still awaiting news on its NCAA appeal, keeping Rebels players and fans in limbo about whether the team will be able to gain bowl eligibility for the 2018 season. Ole Miss coach Matt Luke was asked about this in-between state at his press conference on Monday, where he praised his players for the attitude they've taken in the short view. "For us, we've got 24 days left in our season," Luke said. "That's the way that we're preparing. Our motivation is just playing for each other and just building this program. And taking pride in that through all this stuff, we were supposed to be not-very-good last year and we won six games. And the same thing this year, 5-3 after eight games. Just taking pride. We're still here. We're not going anywhere." In addition to its two-year bowl ban for 2017 and 2018, the NCAA restrictions put upon Ole Miss include limits on how many recruits can visit Ole Miss, and when those recruits can visit, as well as a charge of "lack of institutional control." |
| Oxford, Miss., police seek info on Auburn game day assault and attempted kidnapping suspect | |
 | Police in Oxford, Miss., are looking for an assault and attempted kidnapping suspect, who is possibly an Auburn fan. On Saturday, Oct. 20 -- Auburn vs. Ole Miss game day -- at approximately 8 p.m., Oxford police officers responded to a report of an assault on Van Buren Avenue near South 5th Street in Oxford. The victim was able to fight off the attacker and run to a nearby residence to call 911. During the attack, the suspect's hat fell off and was left behind as he fled the scene, Oxford police Capt. Hildon Sessums told the Opelika-Auburn News. Police believe there is a possibility that the suspect is an Auburn fan based on "reasonable deduction," considering the color of the suspect's clothes and the knowledge of the Auburn game hosted in Oxford that day, Sessums said. The hat left behind is a key piece to the case, according to police. |
| U. of Maryland President Steps Down After Damning Football Report | |
 | Wallace D. Loh, president of the University of Maryland at College Park, will step down following an investigation into an embattled football program described as having little oversight, where players were afraid to speak up. He will retire in June 2019. The Washington Post first reported the news. Meanwhile, Damon Evans and DJ Durkin, the athletic director and head football coach, respectively, will keep their jobs. Speculation had been swirling since Friday, when Loh, Evans, and Durkin met with the university system's regents. The day before, regents had been presented with a nearly 200-page investigative report that describes a program with little administrative oversight, in which "problems festered because too many players feared speaking out." It also described inappropriate behavior by Rick Court, the former strength-and-conditioning coach, who at one point threw what the report described as a "trash can full of vomit" at players. |
| After Maryland Player's Death, Coach and Athletic Director Keep Their Jobs | |
| At modern American universities, it is not unusual that the head football coach is the most powerful, and the highest-paid, individual. That has rarely been more clear than it was on Tuesday, when the governing board at the University of Maryland looking into the death of a football player allowed the head coach and athletic director to keep their jobs, while accepting the unexpected retirement of the school's president, Wallace D. Loh. The decision was an attempt to put an end to a controversy that began on May 29 when the player, Jordan McNair, a 19-year-old offensive lineman, suffered heatstroke in a hard-charging practice. He died two weeks later. Mr. McNair's death spurred two investigations, an ESPN report that revealed a "toxic culture" of bullying and humiliating players, and a decision to put the football coach and members of his staff on administrative leave. The announcement that the head football coach, D. J. Durkin, and the athletic director, Damon Evans, would keep their jobs immediately raised the question of whether the university was putting its quest to succeed in big-time football ahead of accountability for its players' well-being. |
| Texas congressional race pits Jerry Jones vs. former NFL player | |
 | Deep in the heart of deep-red Texas, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has spent thousands in support of Congressman Pete Sessions, a Republican who represents his wealthy and exclusive neighborhood north of downtown Dallas. That's his guy. And this is his turf -- the 32nd District of Texas. It's where Jones has a $28 million home and where Tuesday's midterm election has put him on the opposing side of a former NFL player backed by the NFL players union. His name is Colin Allred, former linebacker for the Tennessee Titans. He's the Democratic challenger and is playing for much higher stakes than the last time he faced a Jones-backed team as a player against the Cowboys in 2010. "I think Jerry is somebody who probably looks at Pete Sessions and recognizes some things," Allred told USA TODAY Sports. Allred said he recognizes something else entirely, which is why he's running for Congress. After 15 years under Sessions, this district might be ripe for change, one of many in the nation that could turn Democratic blue on Election Day, possibly altering the balance of power in Congress. |
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