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The Humane Society lo-cated on 510 Industrial Park Road is having an open house on Saturday, Nov. 10 from 10 a.m. 2 p.m. to promote pet ownership and awareness.

Ardra Morgan, administra-tive assistant at the Mississip-pi State University founda-tion and the mentor for the Day One Program, will be setting up in front of Piggly Wiggly on Nov. 9 to hand out fl yers promoting the open house.

The members of Day One will be addressing what to ex-pect at the open house, spe-cifi cally pet ownership.

“There are other things in-volved with ownership other than getting a cute puppy or kitten,” Morgan said.

The Day One program be-gan in the fall of 2007 and is for the fall semester of in-coming freshman. Stephen Williams, program manag-er at the Offi ce of Student Leadership and Community

Engagement, said the offi ce accepts up to 300 students.

“The focus is leadership, education and the impor-tance of community service,” Williams said.

The program has 47 ac-tion teams, and each student is supposed to gain 20 hours of community service each semester.

While the program sup-ports other community proj-ects such as Vickers Personal Care Nursing Home and Habitat for Humanity, they also have been working with the Humane Society for four years.

Morgan, who has been a member of Day One for four years and a member of the Humane Society for eight, said while the main objective of the open house is being a responsible pet owner, it also will involve the community.

“It will talk about how to get involved with the com-munity, pet ownership and the needs of the shelter,” Morgan said.

BY MARY CHASE BREEDLOVE

Opinion Editor

The College Board has postponed the discus-sion of a building fee for full-time students of Mississippi State University as well as the Uni-versity of Mississippi.

According to the Associated Press, Ole Miss said it would use the money from the building fee to pay for the renovation and expansion of

its student union. MSU said it would use the money to pay for a new building with 90,000 square feet of classrooms and a 60,000 square-foot parking garage.

Bill Kibler, vice president for Student Affairs at MSU, said in an email the fee will generate a source of revenue MSU can use for construc-tion projects that are not able to be supported by state bond funding.

“Examples might be our planned new class-

room building as well as possible future projects on student facilities such as the Sanderson Cen-ter and the Colvard Student Union,” he said.

The building fee would cost full-time stu-dents $50 and would generate an estimated $1.83 million annually for Ole Miss and $1.7 million for MSU.

According to Associated Press, it is likely the proposal will return as early as this month.

Kibler said the Institutions of Higher Learn-

ing staff postponed the bill for fi nancial analysis.“It is my understanding that the IHL staff

wanted to conduct some additional fi nancial analysis of the two proposals from MSU and UM in order to be able to reconcile any differ-ences and assure that the fees are structured the same,” he said.

Kibler also said the fee is not proposed as a time-limited fee and is proposed to add to stu-dent tuition in the 2013-2014 academic year.

BY ZACK ORSBORN

Life Editor

In the middle of a social media revolution, emerging social networks can often times lose signifi cance in the cloud of Twitter birds and Facebook thumbs. Darrius Taylor, se-nior business information systems major, bravely started a brand new social network geared toward Mississippi State University’s students called collegeShift.

Releasing the beta version, which accu-mulated over 400 members in September 2011, Taylor has programmed and coded every aspect of the website’s alpha version released two weeks ago with now over 200 members.

When asking himself what defi ned MSU, Taylor said he realized the students were the most important part of the university. Soon, his concept began to grow as he noticed there was not a place for students to connect dynamically and fi nd out about events, par-ties, clubs or organizations.

“I wanted collegeShift to be a community where everyone could come only at Missis-sippi State and get to know each other to build a foundation,” Taylor said.

After surveying 540 students about the appearance and user interface from the beta version, Taylor spent an entire summer teaching himself how to code and program as well as researching what students and or-ganizations around campus wanted. Because starting a website is not cheap, Taylor said he could not have started the project without the funding he has received for the website.

“C-Spire gave $2,000 to the project, and I got around $500 from the competition I was in. My marketing team talked to 32 businesses, and 24 of them said they were interested. Eight of them said they would immediately start paying $25 to $50 dollars a month as a subscription fee,” he said. “Our overall goal is to create a network that we can sell to colleges at $1 per student.”

He said he has developed new features specifi c to collegeShift.

“It’s only for your respective college, so you can only get in if you have an msstate.edu account,” Taylor said. “And there’s a ranking system. On Facebook, there’s a like system and once you like some-thing, it’ll move down, and you never see it again. But with collegeShift, once you rank somebody, you get points that ranks you on a leaderboard that shows you who is the most popular.”

Along with the leaderboard and ranking system, Taylor said he wanted to create newer features other static websites do not possess.

“We are in the process of adding a fea-tured called The Shift. I feel like the di-rection that websites are going are made up of subtle actions. Websites are static, unlike video games,” he said. “If you are on Facebook and not touching the page, it’s not giving you anything. With The Shift, if you don’t touch the computer for fi ve minutes, it will cycle through posts on your screen.”

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BY JAMES TOBERMANN

Staff Writer

At the end of polling on Tuesday, incumbent President Barack Obama was declared the winner of the election with 303 electoral votes to Gov. Romney’s 206. Obama also won 50 per-cent of the popular vote, while Romney captured 48 percent.

Rob Mellen, assistant pro-fessor of political science, said these results closely match the predictions made by political science professors across the country.

“Most everything went exact-ly as political science professors expected,” he said.

Mellen said the race was ex-pected to be close, and those forecasting the results knew the race would hinge upon certain key states.

“We knew the popular vote would be within one to two points, and we predicted that Obama would win 300 to 330 electoral votes,” he said.

Mellen also said the outcome of the election represents a tri-umph in the use of mathemat-ical modeling based on known

factors such as the state of the economy, unemployment rate, weighted averages from polls and changes in Gross Domestic Product.

“What happened yesterday was a victory for political sci-ence and forecasting models,” he said. “The models were pretty stable all year leading up to the election.”

Nate Silver, noted statisti-cian and poll analyst for The New York Times, used data analysis to model the project-ed outcome of the election on his blog, FiveThirtyEight.

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Silver predicted 50 of 50 states correctly and predicted close to the actual percentag-es in each state, and two university-affiliated statisticians achieved extremely similar results, according to Bloomberg Businessweek.

Mellen said Obama’s strategy to motivate and mobilize eligible voters, was critical in his path to victory.

“The Democrats out-or-ganized the Republicans,” he said. “Obama had a strong grassroots move-ment in 2008. Here, he was able to rely on the same people again.”

After the election, USA Today quoted Obama ad-viser David Plouffe as say-ing the Obama campaign’s organization was even bet-ter than it was during the 2008 election.

“We had a good orga-nization in ‘08,” he said. “This organization is light-years ahead of that.”

Mellen said another key facet of the election was Obama’s ability to define Gov. Romney before Gov. Romney could define himself.

“The Obama campaign spent a large chunk of money on the swing states early on,” he said. “The strategy was a gamble, and it worked.”

Mellen said the Obama campaign ran a plethora of advertisements which cast dark shadows over Romney’s roles as CEO of Bain

Capital and President of the Organizing Com-mittee of the 2002 Olympic Games, as well as conflicting statements Romney made during the 2008 presidential campaign.

Shaleasha Cunningham, senior communica-tion major, said she was relieved to see Obama win on Tuesday.

“I’m happy that he won. I was worried, but I’m glad about the result,” she said.

Willie Copeland, junior kine-siology major, said he was unaf-fected by the presidential race.

“I don’t care either way,” he said.

Andrew Prather, junior biolog-ical engineering major, said he was somewhat surprised by the gap in electoral votes between Obama and Romney.

“It wasn’t as close as I thought it was going to be,” he said.

Mellen said although Missis-sippi is considered a solid red

state, Obama fared better in Mississippi in 2012 than in 2008.

“Interestingly, more counties moved toward Obama this time,” he said.

The voting spread in Mississippi was only 11.7 percentage points in favor of the Repub-lican ticket this year, as opposed to 13.2 points in 2008 and 19.7 points in 2004, according to poll averages from data aggregator RealClear-Politics.

The Oktibbeha County Hu-mane Society is a non-profit organization that promotes an-imal welfare and takes in over 1,700 animals each year.

It also provides services to the community through low cost spay and neuter programs, hu-mane education and advocating for animal rights’ protection.

Michelle Anderson, board

president of OCHS, said the organization relies heavily on grants and donations from the community.

“We are always in need of volunteers to help our staff wash dishes, fold towels and blankets, walk dogs and social-ize with the cats. We also ap-preciate monetary donations and donations of supplies,”

Anderson said in an email. All the dogs and cats are vac-

cinated and spayed or neutered prior to their adoption, and adoption fees may vary.

The Humane Society also has a foster program for pets for short-term placements.

If anyone is interested in fos-tering a pet or adopting, call Anita Howard at 338-9093.

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ReflectorThe RED HERRINGS | CLAIRE MOSLEY

Celebrities are better than you. This issue has come to my attention

recently due to Justin Timber-lake’s and Jessica Biel’s ridicu-lous wedding coverage that has plastered magazine covers and made headlines on the Internet for about a week straight, and do you know what’s been cov-ered?

Nothing spectacular, unless you think a wedding, complete with a People Magazine cov-er, a video of homeless people sending the couple their regrets for being unable to attend the wedding and multiple stops at Frankfurt, to Naples and then from there to Puglia, where the actual beach wedding took place, is spectacular.

Not only was no one told where they were going, but the guests had to abide by two rules in order to come, namely, that no kids were allowed and that they had to be able to stay a full week or not come at all. Yes! This sounds exactly like my cousin’s wedding, minus the plane fl ights, Europe and mil-lions of dollars!

This just continues to fur-ther the illusion that celebrities are regular folks, like you and me. Magazines devote entire sections to pictures of famous

stars and starlets doing all sorts of ordinary activities, such as Ben Affl eck walking his dog, or Jennifer Aniston purchasing mangoes.

This causes some people to believe the line between real people and famous people is perhaps not so distinct after all. “Look, Daniel Craig is drinking coffee from Starbucks! I guess he’s not so different from the rest of us af-ter all!” This is preposterous. The man plays James Bond, for Pete’s sake. He and his $20 million estimated net worth are not even in the same ball park as the rest of us bargain-store-clad average Joe’s.

The man probably sprinkles gold fl akes on his imported Belgian waffl es in the morning, and I guarantee he does not want to hit up a fast food place with you later.

We are a culture obsessed with celebrities, actors, actress-es, singers—we love fame. It’s the bread and butter of our culture and, even with count-less magazines (Star, People, Us, Entertainment Weekly, etc.), a television channel (E!) and other outlets (gossip sites, celebrity books, etc.) we can’t

get enough. People feel a press-ing need — not a want, a need — to have their 15 minutes of fame, too.

Some become so desperate they will do anything for it, leading to a deluge of reality TV shows and magazine coverage.

Those who are sane enough to want to avoid appearing on a

trashy reality TV show (*cough* “Toddlers and Tiaras” *cough*) but still desire to at least have

something in common with their glamorous idols instead focus on how the famous are not so different than you or me. Sure, they make loads of money, are stalked by paparazzi and are literally in the spotlight all of the time, but there really aren’t that many differences. Right?

Wrong.No matter how down-to-

earth someone appears on “The Late Show with Dave Letter-man” or “Conan,” all one has to do is actually listen to what they are saying to realize there is a gap between real people and famous people that is almost impossible to be bridged.

Need an example? Gwyneth Paltrow, an actress, owns a com-pany called Goop which sells a

plain white shirt, similar to one that can be found at any rea-sonably-priced store, for $90. I can think of no other explana-tion for this pricing other than it must be made with some incredibly rare material, such as phoenix feathers or dragon tears. Celebrities are not real people, and it’s unrealistic for both sides to try to pretend they’re something they’re not.

Paltrow puts it best herself, with this gem of a quote from Elle UK in 2009: “I am who I am. I can’t pretend to be some-body who makes $25,000 a year.” Granted, that was some-thing most of us gathered after seeing the $90 shirt being sold on your website.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have some bargain store shop-ping to get done.

We are a culture obsessed with celebrities.”“

Another chapter in American history began Tues-day night with the re-election of President Barack Obama. We hope each of you exercised your privi-lege to vote, not only for the president, but also for your respective state leaders and issues.

Since our country was founded, the United States has been gifted with rights and privileges unlike any other country.

The role of social media in the lives of Americans, specifi cal-ly college-age voters, has transformed the way we exercise our First Amendment rights. We live in a country that gives us the freedom to share our opinions, thoughts and words; we should never take that for granted. We have the ability to speak freely, but it should be done with responsibility and care. Freedom comes with responsibility.

However, on election night people whom we, the staff of The Refl ector, have looked up to at some point in our lives displayed an array of disappointing comments on social media and abused their free speech rights. We saw hard-fought free speech rights being soiled by words of hatred and blind igno-rance. Former teachers, authority fi gures and even church fi g-ures in our lives expressed over-dramatic, malicious expressions about our commander in chief in their online presence through Facebook and Twitter. Some of these comments were not only highly offensive, but also racist and completely false. To those people, we say with all sincerity, shame on you.

Neither Mitt Romney nor Barack Obama are perfect men. They are fl awed, fl esh-and-blood humans just like the rest of us. For some reason, people are under the impression one man will single-handedly solve all the problems of our nation. We put ludicrous pressure on the president, and when we don’t see immediate change, it’s the president’s fault. We neglect to hold Congress and the Supreme Court accountable. We also neglect to hold ourselves accountable.

Perhaps a part of human nature is to want someone to blame. Who wants to admit the problems in our nation are the result of the wastefulness and selfi shness of Americans when we can blame the person in charge of our country?

To those who fi nd themselves guilty of offensive, false and fl amboyant statements, we have a challenge for you.

Channel the passion behind your outbursts. Channel your passion into action. If you are truly unhappy with the new-ly-elected government, do something about it rather than an-noy and offend others with a blindingly ignorant opinion. Be as informed as you possibly can, and study all sides of any situ-ation. Write to your congressmen. Take as much care and inter-est in local and state governments as you did with the presiden-tial election. Becoming the most informed, educated version of yourself you can be will eliminate the chance of you ruining your credibility while expressing your opinion.

The president is not responsible for your personal success. Yes, the state of the economy plays a huge role in life after col-lege, but your hard work is going to matter. Attending college or graduate school is never going to be a waste of your time. In life, you will have to wait. You will have to work very hard for what you want. You cannot expect success to be handed to you because you are happy with the current president, and you cannot assume the reason you have trouble fi nding a job is solely the responsibility of the president. Waiting and working hard are parts of life, and part of growing up is understanding how to roll with the punches instead of blaming others for un-solvable problems.

Now the election is over, spend the next four years learning as much about your president and local government as possible, and respect them as your leaders. Above all, learn as much as you can about as much as you can, and think before you speak.

EDITORIAL

The election of 2012 has come and gone, and the American people have

given President Obama another four years in the White House. What did we as Americans truly vote for last Tuesday night?

When I woke up this morn-ing it seemed as if nothing had really changed at all, and, in fact, it has not.

We still have a divided Con-gress and the same man in the White House; are we in for an-other four years of dysfunction-al government?

It is my hope Congress can act like adults and play nice in order to get something accom-plished, though I think this would be a feat of epic propor-tions considering how divided Congress really is.

The calls for working togeth-er and cooperation have already started from both sides of the aisle, but you can consider me the biggest skeptic of every of-fi cial who has said something like that.

If Congress wants to take steps in a positive direction, I think it needs to start by look-ing at the past two years and the inability to pass any meaningful legislation and fi gure out how it can work to change this.

Congress can look to Re-publican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and his work with President Obama on how to work together, right after Hurricane Sandy struck New Jersey.

Christie said it best when asked about the election and politics, in an article from the New York Times.

“I’ve got a job to do here in New Jersey that’s much big-ger than presiden-tial poli-tics, and I could care less about any of that stuff. I have a job to do. I’ve got 2.4 million people out of power. I’ve got devastation

on the Shore. I’ve got fl oods in the northern part of my state. If you think right now I give a damn about presidential poli-tics, then you don’t know me.”

I think the governor’s attitude toward his work for his state is the same needed for Congress towards our country.

Over and over again, Con-gress has deadlocked and stalled because of political sparring, and I think now is its time to get back to work for the people.

The congressional deadlock needs to end very soon, before-the-end-of-the-year kind of soon.

The so-called “fi scal-cliff” is quickly approaching and

a certain n u m b e r of issues need to be resolved if we do not want the

country to slip back into an economic recession.

The main forces that would

drive the country back into re-cession are a rise in taxes with the end of President Bush’s tax cuts and a massive cut in gov-ernment spending.

It is a very scary economic and political situation we are moving into for the next month and a half.

In the words of the Speak-er of the House John Boeher, “We’re ready to lead, not as democrats or republicans, but as Americans.” And I can only hope he sincerely means that for the good of our country.

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James Arena is a senior majoring in political science. He can be contacted at [email protected].

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It is my hope Congress can act like adults and play nice in order to get something accomplished.”

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Congress must work together, move forward

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

CLAIRE MOSLEY

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THE JEW POINT | JOEY FROST

The President of the Unit-ed States of America is undoubtedly the most

iconic title in the world. You would be far reached to fi nd someone on this planet who does not recognize the presi-dent, or at least something asso-ciated with the offi ce.

Whether you voted for Gov-ernor Romney or President Obama, Barack Obama is now the next president of the U.S. Even if you hate this fact with every fi ber of your be-ing and somehow believe Obama will plunge our society into a so-cialistic state of hell on earth, he is our president for four more years. Despite what you all may think, our country is not going to implode. I promise you.

What does this mean to you as an American citizen? It means he will represent you through thick and thin. He will hear your voice as an American. He will do his best to take this country to a better place than what it has been. Just like any president would do. Honestly, it means not much will change for you.

I can promise you Obama’s goal is not to run America into the ground. If Romney had been elected, he would try to

make this country better, too. What I think most people

should understand is the con-cept of respect. Obama is the president of our country. He deserves respect, whether you agree with his policies or not. The military is a perfect example of this. Whether it agrees with the current president or not, it swore to serve this country and obey its commander in chief. In

much the same way, you as citi-zens should give your respect to the president.

For the most part, the rest of the world looks to our country as a model of democracy and liberty. There is good reason for

this. We have arguably the best system of political transition in the world. Ever since the begin-ning of our nation, we have had only peaceful transitions.

You must realize how lucky we are to have this. In many countries around the world, it takes a revolution or civil upris-ing to simply change the head of government. We, thankfully, do not have that problem here in the U.S.

Now I want to ask you a question that is simple, yet the answer profoundly affects our country. Did you vote? I sincerely hope you did. If you

could not set aside a small por-tion of your day to do your duty as an American, you have no right to complain about the result of this election.

In my opinion, if you did not vote, that is the greatest dishonor you could have done to our great nation. According to militaryfactory.com, roughly 1.31 million Americans have lost their lives defending the freedoms we enjoy today.

Even if you feel like your vote would not count because you vote democratic in a red state (or vice versa), it is still impera-tive you make your voice heard. Exercising your voice to the government that represents you is a fundamental principal this democracy is based upon. To sit back and take that freedom for granted is a terrible thing.

Throughout this election season in general, but specifi cal-ly last night, I have seen many people’s true colors come to light. I can honestly say I am ashamed to know some people I do.

I saw statuses and tweets ranging from simple ignorance to pure racism. I know people who dislike Obama solely for the fact he is black (although some have used the derogatory slur to describe him). As John F. Kennedy said, “The ignorance of one voter in a democracy im-pairs the security of all.”

If you were a Romney sup-porter and managed to conduct

yourself with civility, I applaud you. For all those who resort-ed to demeaning posts, I ask you, what was accomplished by them? If you stayed up late enough to watch Romney’s concession speech I feel many of you would have been im-pressed.

It was as if the Romney who gave that speech was a differ-ent man than the one who campaigned over these many months.

Romney was humble and gracious in his concession speech. His words were elegant and his message was striking, and was one we can all learn from. He urged the president to work with all Americans, not just to play party politics. In defeat we saw a Romney from whom many of his supporters can learn.

Oh, and I swear, even with Obama receiving four more years in the White House, America will survive.

The world will not end with Obama’s re-election

Joey Frost is a junior majoring in political science. He can be contacted at [email protected].

JOEY FROST

The Reflector editorial board is made up of opinion editor Mary Chase Breedlove, news editor Emma Crawford, campus news editor John Galatas, sports editor Kristen Sprink, entertainment editor Zack Orsborn, photo editor Jay Johnson, copy editors Rachel Burke and Candace Barnette, managing editor Kaitlyn Byrne and

editor in chief Hannah Rogers.Multimedia editor Eric Evans did not participate in this

editorial.

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WESLEY FOUNDATION

Insight Bible study and worship on Tuesdays at 8 p.m. at the Wesley Foundation Worship Center on East Lee. Boulevard next to Campus Book Mart.

MSU CATHOLIC STUDENT ASSOCIATION

The MSU Catholic Student Association invites you to join us for Sunday mass at 5:30 p.m. at St. Joseph Catholic Church, 607 University Dr. All are welcome to $2 Tuesday night dinner at 6 p.m. in the Parish Hall. Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/msstatecsa

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SOCIOLOGICAL STUDENT ASSOCIATION

The Sociological Student Association is based in the Department of Sociology. Undergraduates of all ages are welcome. Meetings are held the last Thursday of every month in Bowen Hall room 250 at 5 p.m.

STUDENTS FOR A SUSTAINABLE CAMPUS

SSC meets every Thursday at 6 p.m. in McCool room 212. Come and meet really cool people who all share interests in saving the environment. Don’t forget to opt-in for the Green Fund.

MSU PRE-VETERINARY CLUB

Cow Patty Bingo: The MSU Pre-Veterinary Club will host its annual fundraising event at the Oktibbeha County Co-Op on Nov. 9 at 4:30 p.m. and Nov. 10 from 10 - 11 a.m.

Tickets are $5 and winners will receive cash prizes. For more information, contact us at [email protected].

MSU FRENCH CLUB

International Film Festival: 11-12, Japanese, Tokyo Godfather, McCool 124; 11-13, German, The Miracle of Bern, McCool 124; 11-14, Spanish, House of My Father, Allen 13; 11-15, French, Blame It on Fidel, McCool 124; 11-16, Russian, Brother, McCool 124. All times are 6-9 p.m.

MSU STUDENT DIETETIC ASSOCIATION

SDA meeting on Nov. 13 at 6 p.m. in Moore Hall with a light supper at 5:45. Guest is an internship panel, which will be answering questions via Skype.

MSU CRICKET CLUB

MSUCC will be hosting the MSU Challenger Series 2012 at the intramural fi elds on Nov. 10-11. Cricket enthusiasts can take this opportunity to witness the game and enjoy the sport.

BURLAEP

Free concert. Jenny and Tyler. Nov. 14 at 8 p.m. at the Wesley Foundation.

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Celebrate Sigma’s 90th birthday on Nov. 12 with free cake. The ladies will give away cake on the Drill Field from 12-1 p.m.

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BY DANIEL HARTStaff Writer

Assistant professor of art Jude Landry does not teach notorious subjects like calculus, physics or chemistry. Although he said he excelled at them in school, classes such as screen printing, where students learn to design and print post-ers, are his specialty. Just one among the graphic design courses he teach-es, Landry’s screen printing class was brought to Mississippi State University with his return to the South. Continu-ing what he said has become a primary course in his repertoire, Landry con-structed the class from scratch.

“I had taught a screen printing course in Illinois as a special topics graphic de-sign class, and they wanted me to con-tinue that here, so we set up a screen printing facility in Briscoe Hall. I’ve been teaching the class ever since,” he said.

In a time of commonplace digital technology, Landry said screen printing is his chosen method of producing work due to its inherent tactile qualities and broad range of possibilities.

“Screen printing is a valu-able process today because it has a thicker layer of ink. You can print with metallic inks and colored papers these (dig-ital) printers can’t use; it gives them a different quality you can’t reproduce,” he said.

The subject of the class is a natural extension of his incli-nations, as Landry said poster design is his preferred format of work.

“I fell in love with posters in school. The possibilities are so wide. Throughout the past century, a lot of graphic design that was at the fore-front of being innovative and creative was poster design,” he said. “Some of

my design heroes are poster artists; it’s a simple format, a blank sheet of paper like a canvas for an artist.”

Landry said an infatuation with post-ers was a catalyst behind his decision to

pursue graph-ic design, rather than architecture, at Louisiana Tech Univer-sity.

“I had drawn some stuff in Mi-crosoft Paint in high school, and I fell in love with posters

and logos. I don’t think in high school I knew what graphic design was,” he said. “When I visited LA Tech and saw the work their students were producing, I

thought, ‘This is pretty cool stuff, and I want to check it out,’ so I switched my major,” he said.

Landry said another graphic design element of particular interest to him is the creation of typography.

“Typography is what makes graphic design very unique; if you’re not using typography, you’re probably an illustra-tor or artist,” he said.

Though he has no formal education in lettering, Landry said he is self-taught and creates his own type projects to hone his skills.

“I’ve drawn entire alphabets, but nev-er made them into a working font. To make a font you have to design upper-case, lowercase, numbers and punctua-tion. One day I’ll be able to knock out a whole font and feel good about it, like it’s competent,” he said.

“Not like Comic Sans or something,” he added with a laugh.

As both educator and artist, Landry

said the personal work he does outside the required 18 hours of class contact time a week is either paid freelance work or personally-driven projects.

“A lot of the freelance work I do is custom illustration type design and logo making. Time not spent on paid free-lance work is spent creating my own art prints and selling them online and at art and craft festivals,” he said.

Landry said he has spent time build-ing his portfolio since he began selling at festivals and focuses on local opportuni-ties to display his work.

“There are lots close by. I do the Cot-ton District Arts Festival, the Prairie Arts Festival in West Point, one in Jackson; I’ve started doing some in Nashville,” he said.

Aside from these unique opportuni-ties to view and purchase Landry’s work, his posters, prints and T-shirts can be viewed and bought through his website, judelandry.com.

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SHIFT continued from 1While Facebook is about the friends students already have, and

Twitter is a news content source, Taylor said collegeShift is intended to actually meet people with the same interests on campus.

“You can develop relationships and networks because everybody is aspiring to be something. Anything that is out in the world is de-veloped here in college so if you are an engineer, and you don’t have

artistic skills, but you can create amazing software that isn’t visually appealing, you can fi nd a graphic designer on campus,” he said.

While collegeShift is currently only for MSU students, Taylor said he hopes to expand the concept to other colleges.

“Our business model is set up so that by next year, we will be in fi ve colleges. We already have a lot of students from Ole Miss and Jackson

State asking when it is going to make it to their college,” he said.

In a year, Taylor said he would like to see collegeShift used by seven colleges with hopes that three of those col-leges will actually purchase the website as a software package.

Pete Smith, associate pro-fessor of communication, saw some similarities between col-legeShift and Facebook, but

because of the changes in social media, he said websites could build off each other.

“The next (social network) offers something that the previous one doesn’t allow,” he said.

Smith said he hopes collegeShift will allow students to connect and have conversation as well allowing escapism.

“There’s a reason it’s called social media. Being social is an import-ant part of being human,” he said. “Humans by nature are social crea-tures, and I think an important part of being a happy college student is to have a social life and so hopefully (collegeShift) will add to that.”

According to Smith, fi nding a niche is the most important part of any start up business, whether it be a social media business or brick-and-mortar.

PR practitioners help companies publicize their niche so being a successful part of this electronic world, or this global village, is fi nding a place to fi t in,” he said. “If (Taylor) feels like he has created a space between what Facebook offers and what Twitter offers, then he will probably be successful.”

Alumnae Jeane Carroll said collegeShift would benefi t MSU stu-dents by having information about events.

“It’d be a good way to see what was going on. Since I graduated, I’d like it to keep in touch with everyone,” she said.

Taylor’s team is currently in the process of developing an iPhone app due in late November and an Android app due at the beginning of next semester. Visit collegeshift.com for more information.

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Campus News Editor

Team White swept the Maroon squad in the 2012 Mississippi State Fall World Series by scores of 6-2, 8-3 and 2-1 last weekend.

Returning pitchers Kendall Graveman, Evan Mitchell and Luis Pollorena picked up wins on the mound for the White, and sophomore closer Jonathan Hold-er preserved two of the wins in fl awless outings.

Graveman, who served as cap-tain for the White team, said he was pleased with the way both teams performed over the week-end.

“We drafted early this week and got together as a team,” Graveman said. “We pitched well. I think that was a good thing. Both sides hit well and both sides pitched well, but we ended up winning all three games so that was good for the White team.”

Graveman also complimented the performance of some of the younger players over the weekend and said many of the experienced players are starting to fi nd their role.

“We got some guys that were big for us, especially on the mound, that aren’t here anymore and some guys that have really stepped up and hit the ball and played their position,” he said. “As far as the older guys leading for the younger guys, it’s been im-portant from the beginning from the fall until now in the World Series. It’s a little more comforting when you have somebody that is an older guy there assuring you

that it’s going to be good, especial-ly when things get kind of tough.”

For the White team, returners Adam Frazier, Hunter Renfroe, Daryl Norris and Tyler Fullerton all had a solid weekend while vet-erans C.T. Bradford, Demarcus Henderson and Mitch Slauter led the Maroon team offensively.

Head coach John Cohen praised some of the experienced players and said he is pleased with the progression of his team throughout the fall.

“Frazier had a fractured fi nger, so he had to play fi rst base, but he had a great offensive week-end. I think that C.T. Bradford is a returner who had a great weekend and a great fall overall,” Cohen said. “I think we had sev-eral guys play well. I think both of our catchers (Mitch) Slauter and

(Nick) Ammerati caught very, very well.”

Cohen also said pitching matchups were key in the week-end and depth on the mound will play an important role in the spring when going against a vari-ety of offenses.

“Even when we divided up teams, I thought they were great matchup situations by our bull-pen,” he said. “I think that’s a strength of our club — all of those little parts that are coming out of the bullpen that allow us to match up against hitters. I think we really match up well against a lot of dif-ferent offenses the way we pitch.”

Bradford said the experience on the team will be its strength.

“We had a lot of experience my freshman year, and that was obviously a really good year for us

when we went to Super Region-als,” he said. “I feel like this is the next year where we actually have a lot of older guys to lead and guys to push the younger guys. We have a lot of guys to fi ll in a lot of roles so we’ll be good.”

Newcomers Jacob Robson, Zack Randolph and Cody Brown also had a good offensive week-end, which Bradford said compli-ments the Dogs’ top-30 recruiting class.

“They’ve brought in an awe-some class. I can go through a whole list; they’ve all been really good for us this fall,” Bradford said.

The Bulldogs will now resume small group and individual work-outs in preparation for the 2013 season opener against Portland Feb. 15.

Baseball finishes fall ball strong SPINK ON SPORTS | KRISTEN SPINK

Fans must step up as basketball beginsThe Mississippi State bas-

ketball season offi cially begins tonight.

Some of you just felt an adrenaline rush shoot through your body. Others of you just started laughing.

No matter which end of the spectrum you fall on, the time has come and there’s no avoid-ing it.

Although both the men’s and women’s basketball teams are in a transitioning stage, there’s no hiding for us as Bulldog fans. We can’t hibernate and awak-en when baseball starts in the spring. We can’t push basketball to the side and say, “Well, by the time football is over, baseball will be less than two months away, so we can just focus on that.”

As tempting as that may sound, this is the time for Bull-dog fans to kick it into gear and bring their A game.

Looking ahead, the football team can anxiously await games with Arkansas and Ole Miss. Looking ahead, the MSU fan base can anxiously await the arrival of baseball, softball and tennis in the spring.

But Bulldog fans cannot look ahead just yet. The focus must be on what is happening now at MSU.

With Rick Stansbury gone, Rick Ray is ready to take con-trol of the men’s basketball team. Ray already displayed his intentions for the team when he dismissed Kristers Zeidaks and Shaun Smith earlier this se-mester for repeated violations of team rules.

State fans were tired of the poor behavior from basketball players, and, occasionally, their lack of effort on the court.

Ray made it clear early on he would not tolerate such atti-tudes or actions.

On the court, I don’t have to tell you the dilemma Ray fi nds himself in, and the most recent

devastation of Andre Apple-white’s torn ACL and meniscus sidelining him for the season doesn’t help matters.

But Ray is here for a reason. He knows what he’s doing, and as a fan base, we have to trust his decision making. It will only make the situation more diffi cult if we don’t show up and pack the Hump every game.

On the women’s side, new head coach Vic Schaefer is the real deal. The intensity has risen from years past, and although the team lost six seniors and the bulk of its scoring, I am excited to see the fresh faces perform.

Sharp Shooter Jessy Ward and 6’1” Sherise Williams join a Bull-dog team led by three-point-spe-cialist Kendra Grant.

Women’s basketball hasn’t seen much support in the past, and that falls on us as a fan base. How can we expect a team to work hard day in and day out to please a fan base that doesn’t even show up to support it?

This year, the basketball teams need the MSU fans more than ever.

It’s a lot easier to perform your best with the encouragement and cheers from a supportive fan base. And who knows, we just may be pleasantly surprised at the results from the Hump at the start of a new era.

Will we step up to the chal-lenge and support the Bulldogs not only in the best times, but in the more diffi cult times, as well?

Kristen Spink is the sports editor of The Reflector. She can be contacted at [email protected]

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FOOTBALL FRENZY | AUSTIN CHANCE

Mullen, Bulldogs in state of uncertaintyHere are a couple of

things I learned from last week’s game against

Texas A&M: Dan Mullen is not what he has been expected to be since coming to Mississip-pi State, and State’s schedule is weak, which is the reason MSU has a 7-2 record this season.

To start off, with last week-end’s loss against Texas A&M, the Bulldogs found themselves at 7 2 (3 2) and tied for fourth place in the SEC West. That rank seems to be familiar for Mullen, as the Bulldogs have not been better than tied for fourth place since Mullen has been here.

Mullen has yet to beat an SEC West opponent in his time at State other than Ole Miss and Auburn. His fi rst win against Auburn came this season, and the Tigers are at a pace to lose ev-ery SEC game on their schedule this year. Ole Miss has not had a winning record in any season where State has won the Egg Bowl.

Here are the facts: Mullen has never fi nished better than four 4 in the SEC since he has been at MSU. When playing ranked teams back-to-back, he has never won either game as head coach at MSU, losing by an average of 16.7 points per game.

Even though he has been ranked in the top-25 in con-secutive seasons, Mullen has a 1 14 record against opponents who have ended their season in the top-25. Mullen has a 12 17 (.414) record in the SEC, rank-ing last in the SEC West among active coaches.

Mullen has, however, been

more consistent with the pro-gram than past coaches. In addi-tion, he has won the past three Egg Bowls, which, as far as some students are concerned, is the only thing that matters.

I understand this is Mullen’s fi rst job as a head coach, but in the same regard, he has coached on Urban Meyer’s staff as the quarterback coach at Bowling Green, Utah and Florida. At Utah, he developed quarterback Alex Smith into the No. 1 over-all draft pick in the 2005 NFL Draft. He also tutored Tim Te-bow while at Florida, when Te-bow won the Heisman and a Na-tional Championship in 2005.

Mullen has all of the experi-ence as an assistant coach that he has needed to prepare himself for this position. He has recruit-ed very well in the quarterback position since being head coach at State, so it leads me to await when the development of these quarterbacks will shine through.

My point is this: consistency is fi ne, but if this team wants to be considered as a great team, it’s time to start winning big games.

Mullen called the game

against Texas A&M “the most important game on the sched-ule,” but the Dogs seemed apa-thetic during parts of the game.

Even though the Bulldogs cur-rently hold the best record since Mullen has been the head coach, scheduling has a large part to play in the process. State has yet to beat an SEC opponent that had previously beaten a confer-ence opponent.

Auburn, Kentucky and Ten-nessee were all winless in the SEC when they played State, and all three are still winless against SEC opponents.

On the non-conference side of the schedule, State’s opponents have a combined record of 18-18, with the best record being a 6-3 record for Middle Tennessee State.

This year’s season is far from over, with three games remaining on the schedule, followed by a bowl game. Students still believe in this team, regardless of these past two weeks. I believe that a big win this weekend can push the team miles forward, as well as put MSU back on the map in

the SEC and the top-25. This weekend’s game against

LSU has the potential to be the biggest win in Mullen’s tenor at State. All that is left is the result. Kickoff is scheduled for 6:00 p.m. in “Death Valley” for LSU’s homecoming. I, as a student, would like nothing more than to rain on LSU’s parade.Austin Chance is a sophomore

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Without question, the past two weeks for the Mississippi State Bulldogs and their fans have been rough.

Halfway through the season, the Bulldogs found themselves 7-0 with prospects of a BCS bowl berth budding amongst those in-side and outside MSU’s football program.

Two weeks later, though, State is reeling from consecutive losses in which the Dogs have been out-scored 76-20. While the Bulldogs are bowl eligible, the possibility of the 2012 season being the best in MSU’s history is beginning to dwindle.

As the last quarter of State’s regular season schedule ap-proaches, the task ahead of MSU (7-2, 3-2) becomes no easier. The Bulldogs will begin that set of games with a trip to Baton Rouge to face the LSU Tigers, a team that is ranked inside the top-10 in all polls and is fresh off a devastating home loss to No. 1 Alabama a week ago.

With the state of Louisiana be-ing a key pipeline state for MSU

in recruiting, Saturday’s game against the Tigers will be a home-coming for several of State’s key players, including sophomore center Dillon Day, freshman run-ning backs Josh Robinson and Derrick Milton and freshman quarterback Dak Prescott. For Prescott, a native of Haughton, La., returning to a hostile envi-ronment such as Tiger Stadium is something he has been anticipat-ing since coming to MSU.

“Being from Louisiana, going

back to Death Valley is some-thing I’ve dreamed about since I signed with Mississippi State,” Prescott said. “It will be a lifetime experience to, for the first time, go back and play against the Ti-gers.”

This week, along with the emotions of returning to his home state to play LSU, Prescott remembers his college recruit-ment, one that consisted largely of MSU and LSU vying for the signal caller’s services.

“There was definitely some pressure from LSU fans,” Prescott said. “It was kind of hard to turn them down, but I had to go with my heart. I felt like Mississippi State was my home, and I still feel that way to this day.”

With both State and LSU looking to regain momentum as the season hits its final stretch, MSU head coach Dan Mullen said Saturday’s game in Baton Rouge is crucial to both MSU and this season’s SEC West race.

“This week will be a big chal-lenge going to play a night game down at LSU,” Mullen said. “This is even more so important here in Southeastern Conference play and out here in the West. You have to bring your A game every single week.”

To get back on track, the Bull-dogs must tidy up on several fac-ets of their game plan, including executing better in the red zone on offense and tackling better on defense.

Against Alabama, MSU failed to score on two of its three red-zone opportunities. On State’s first offensive possession of the game, the Tide blocked a short MSU field goal. Early in the third quarter, on a 16-play drive that took the Bulldogs from the shadow of their own end zone to the Alabama goal line, junior quarterback Tyler Russell was flushed from the pocket and was intercepted in the end zone by the Tide’s Robert Lester.

Russell, who now has 16 touchdowns to go along with only three interceptions, said MSU must take advantage of op-portunities against the upcoming opponents, including LSU.

“(LSU) has a really good de-fense,” Russell said. “They don’t make a lot of mistakes, but when they do mistakes, we have to be

able to take advantage of it.”Against Texas A&M a week lat-

er, missed tackles plagued State’s defense, and the Aggies gained a large portion of their 693 total yards after contact. Chris Wilson, MSU’s co-defensive coordinator and defensive line coach, said the Bulldogs missed approximately 30 tackles in Saturday’s game. Cameron Lawrence, a senior line-backer who has tallied 72 tackles through nine games this season, said the MSU defense prefers

tough, physical offenses such as LSU’s rather than spread offenses like Texas A&M’s.

“(LSU) is really different than Texas A&M,” Lawrence said. “Texas A&M is more about tem-po, spreading you out and throw-ing it all over the place. LSU is going to put a lot of guys in the box.”

Saturday’s game in Death Val-ley is scheduled to kick off at 6 p.m. and will be televised nation-ally by ESPN.

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SPORTS Stat of the day: 35: the number of conSecutive gameS midSeaSon

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MSU, LSU to face off after both drop tough games over weekend

Tyler Russell: 156-263 for 1,954 yards and 16 TDs LaDarius Perkins: 153 rushes for 804 yards and 88 TDs Chad Bumphis: 34 receptions for 536 yards and 7 TDs

Benardrick McKinney: 73 tackles, 3.5 for loss

Zach Mettenberger: 136-233 for 1,717 yards and 8 TDs

Jeremy Hill: 77 rushes for 429 yards and 6 TDs

Odell BeckhamOdell Beckham, Jr.: 30 receptions for 493 yardsand 2 TDs

Kevin Minter: 82 tackles, 9.5 for loss

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ian preSter | the reflector

Junior linebacker Deontae Skinner is fourth on the team with 47 tackles this year, 2.5 of which have been for loss.

zack orSborn | the reflector

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