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SA Recap: MSU ‘Candy Man’ looks back on Senate opposes his place in game day culture plus/minus grading system HAYDEN SMITH

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This week, the Mississippi State University Student Association Senate met to discuss three pieces of legislation, including the proposed plus/ minus grading system, an appropriations act and a resolution thanking participants of this year’s Bulldog Bash.

First, the Senate passed Act 4, an appropriations act, which allocated funds to several groups on campus. Notably, the largest appropriations went to Lab Rats for marketing items, Cru for various operational affairs and Young Life for Young Life Donuts and Coffee during finals week.

Secondly, the Senate discussed Resolution 4, which shows student opposition for the plus/ minus grading system proposed by the Faculty Senate. A recent SA poll on myState showed 93 percent of the 7,651 students polled disapproved the system.

Senator Joy Cariño, the author of the resolution, urged other senators to speak with Faculty Senate members to continue expressing the

student body’s disapproval of the proposition. Senator Drew Baker clarified the general language of the bill to ensure future proposals of the plus/minus system are still opposed by this resolution.

The Senate justified its opposition and that of the student body by using research published in the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education and the College Student Journal, which shows students feel the plus/minus system is more detrimental than helpful. They state many students find the whole letter scale as a better system. Additionally, this research found that overall cumulative mean GPA was not impacted by the plus/ minus grading.

Finally, the Senate passed Resolution 5, which expresses student gratitude toward all the performers, vendors, sponsors, volunteers and the City of Starkville for making Bulldog Bash 2018 possible.

Following the adjournment of the business meeting, the senators who had yet to be sworn in were done so

by SA President Mayah Emerson.

Ron Caulfield, also known by Mississippi State University fans as the “Candy Man,” has passed out candy at MSU athletic events for 19 years. Now 65, the Candy Man is considering retirement.

With his 20th year coming up, Caulfield said he has pondered retiring his role as Candy Man. However, when he does decide to hang up the candy, he wants to do it in his own way: with a scavenger hunt. Caulfield’s original candy bag ripped, so he had to get a new one. Instead of throwing the old bag away, Caulfield has hidden the bag on MSU’s campus in hopes of passing the legacy of Candy Man to the next generation of fans.

Before the role is passed on, it is worth getting to know the original Candy Man. Caulfield is a life-long MSU fan who grew up in Jackson. He now lives in Starkville with his sister and brother-in-law in a house with a maroon roof and a huge bulldog sign on the side of the house.

Caulfield graduated from MSU in 1975 and worked for the Mississippi Highway Patrol as a civilian, but is now retired.

He began passing out candy in 1999 at an MSU baseball game. Some friends brought bags of candy to the game and encouraged Caulfield to pass them out, however, he said he was apprehensive about it at first.

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Ron Caulfield gives fans a variety of different candy to choose from at an MSU football game. He has given out candy for 19 years.

“They were like, ‘You need to just pass this out at the baseball game,’” Caulfield said. “I was like, ‘That sounds kind of dumb. I don’t think I really want to.’ Then I thought, ‘Well, they made the effort, they brought it,’ so I went up to the stands and during the game, I started passing it out a little bit.”

Caulfield described himself as a shy person when he was in college, one who would have never passed out those bags of candy. However, he kept bringing candy to baseball games after that first game, and decided he needed to expand his giving to other sports.

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Clinic works to prevent spread of flu on campus

Getting to know Ron Caulfield: • He is a Jackson native, but lives in Starkville.

• He graduated from MSU in 1975.

• He started his hobby of passing out candy in 1999 at an MSU baseball game.

• He is a passionate fan of MSU Athletics.

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The Student Health Center will host flu vaccine clinics on Oct. 23 and 30 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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The John C. Longest Student Health Center is offering vaccinations to help prevent students and faculty from getting the flu.

University Health Services Executive Director Dr. Cliff Story advises everyone to get the flu shot because of serious complications the illness can cause.

“The flu is a pretty contagious virus, and once it starts making its way into the community, it can spread really rapidly,” Story said. “It is still a cause of death nationwide and worldwide. Most people don’t die from it and don’t get terribly sick, but definitely people can die from the flu.”

While October is not a prime time for the prevalence of influenza, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends people receive the vaccine by the end of October.

Registered Nurse Nancy Ball said the vaccination needs time to build immunity.

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The Speech and Debate Club will host the third-annual State Debates in Mississippi State University’s Lee Hall later this month. The event is a debate between the following campus organizations: College Republicans, College Democrats and the Young Americans for Liberty. It will start at 6 p.m. Oct. 30

in Lee Hall’s Bettersworth Auditorium.

The topics will focus around hot button issues this midterm election cycle, such as foreign trade policy. Starkville Mayor Lynn Spruill will be a guest speaker at the event.

State Debates originated as a 2016 presidential election issue debate between the same clubs, but it has now taken on a life of its own as a standalone event to help raise political awareness on campus.

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The State Debates To know before you go:

• Who: College Republicans, College Democrats and the Young Americans for Liberty • What: A special debate between the three clubs •

When: Oct. 30 at 6 p.m.

• Where: Bettersworth Auditorium in Lee Hall

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“It takes the flu shot about two weeks to build up the immunity, so (students and faculty) need to go ahead and get it,” Ball said. “It lasts about six months, so it should cover them through the end of March.”

These vaccination clinics are held every Tuesday throughout October from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the health center’s conference room on the third floor. Only patients who have health insurance may get their flu vaccinations at the scheduled clinics.

For patients without health insurance, there will be a separate clinic on Oct. 22 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Mitchell Memorial Library. There is a vaccination fee of $25, which can be paid with either by check or cash.

According to Ball, there were 185 vaccinations completed at the first vaccination clinic this month, and the numbers thus far have been similar.

Due to the close

proximity of students and faculty members on campus, Story said he believes students should get the shot to avoid the strenuous consequences from being ill.

“Just being sick for two or three days, I would think for most students would be sort of problematic to miss two or three days of school around test time,” Story said. “Often, it may hit around finals or midterms. Making up that work or getting critical studying done might be more difficult when having the flu.”

Along with missing classes, Story said he believes others should be considerate and get this vaccine to help those who have a suppressed immune system.

For senior electrical engineering major Logan Daniel, avoiding the flu is crucial, so he gets the influenza vaccination yearly.

“I have cystic fibrosis, which is a lung genetic disorder,” Daniel said. “I

already have a weakened immune system, so any help I can get that may help prevent something like the flu is good for me.”

Along with getting the flu shot, people can take extra precautions to help avoid being infected by this influenza.

Ball said students and faculty need to ensure they are coughing and sneezing into their arms instead of their hands, not drinking after someone else and washing their hands frequently.

risk of becoming ill with the flu; however, the flu shot should be administered to help students and faculty avoid missing class and getting others sick.

There are two clinics left at the student health center for patients with insurance, on Oct. 23 and Oct. 30.

OCH Regional Medical Center will also provide free flu vaccinations Oct. 20 from 8 to 10 a.m. in the OCH Community Room.

They will provide up to 50 shots.

“Often, it (flu) may hit around f inals or midterms. Making up that work or getting critical studying done might be more diff icult when having the flu.”

- Dr. Cliff Story, University Health Services executive director According to Story, taking basic hygienic measures will help lower the

OCH Infection Control Manager and Registered Nurse Savannah Brown said

in a press release getting the flu vaccine is important because it can prevent major health issues.

“Now is the time to act on prevention,” said Brown. “An estimated 80,000 Americans died of flu and its complications last winter, and that’s an alarming number of deaths.

We urge those who are hesitant to get the flu shot to remember it’s not only about protecting themselves but also about preventing the more vulnerable, such as the very young and elderly patients, from contracting the flu.”

Brown said although the flu shot will not cause the flu, some people do experience soreness or redness at the injection site, may have a slight fever or minor muscle aches. A severe egg allergy can be a contraindication for the vaccine, so those with egg allergies should speak to their physicians prior to coming for vaccination.

An egg-free version of the vaccine is available for those 18 years and older, and OCH will have some

DEBATES Josh McCoy, president of the Speech and Debate Club, spoke about the club’s role in the debate.

“We don’t want either of the political parties on campus, like College Dems, College Republicans or the Young Americans for Liberty to be the ones that host the debate because it seems like it brings partiality to it,” McCoy said. “Speech and Debate—it’s half of our name... Basically, we host it. We provide the moderators. We provide any assistance that is needed to facilitate it, and we also come up with the

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questions about what is going to be talked about.”

The topics and questions are conceived by Speech and Debate through discussion within the club. This year, the three main sources of questions are private versus public education policy, foreign trade policy and ideas from the audience. Speech and Debate will field questions from the audience by allowing attendees to submit ideas in the foyer of Bettersworth Auditorium prior to audience members going to their seats. The moderators will then sift

through and refine these ideas into concise questions.

Speech and Debate wants to focus these questions on problems Mississippi is facing.

Additionally, the moderators will preface each new topic with a succinct summary of recent events or background needed to better understand the questions.

“I saw a need on campus for students to be informed, because a lot of people had just turned it (politics) off, at that point. They didn’t want to hear anymore about it.”

- Julia Rachel Kuehnle, State Debates event director and creator

Julia Rachel Kuehnle is the event director of the debate and also its creator.

Kuehnle saw a need for political education and involvement on campus during 2016’s presidential election, so she decided to help create the State Debates.

“I saw a need on campus for students to be informed, because a lot of people had just turned it off, at that point,” Kuehnle said. “They didn’t want to hear anymore about it. (They thought,) ‘I don’t want to vote for either, so I’m just not going to vote.’ I didn’t want them

CANDY MAN “Over the years, it started out with the baseball, then it progressed to football, and then I realized the lady sports are just as important,” Caulfield said. “They’re athletes, too, and they need the support, and so now I try to (go to) every event.”

What once started out as a simple gesture has now brought new people into Caulfield’s life whom he would never have met if had he not passed out candy.

“It’s given me not just contacts, but friendships,” Caulfield said. “Friendships

to think like that. I wanted them to see that, yes, this is the face of the candidate and what they are saying, but there’s a lot more to the party, as a whole.”

Kuehnle emphasized that State Debates is an educational venture, focusing on informing the public of the values and ideas underpinning the political parties in American.

This year, Kuehnle said she is personally excited to see more controversial topics being discussed, which she hopes will lead to an overall livelier debate.

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that I would’ve never had.

And I may not know your name because there’s so many people, but I will know your face.”

The friendships are important to Caulfield, but the people’s stories are what he enjoys most.

“The one thing that I’ve found in talking to everybody whether you’re a football player, a little kid growing up or a senior citizen, everybody has a story,” said Caulfield.

After 19 years of passing out candy, Caulfield said he now meets college students he gave candy to

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as children.

“What’s ironic now is I’ll be at a sporting event and somebody will walk up and they’ll be like a freshman and they go, ‘I remember when I was six years old and you gave me a piece of gum.’ And I’m like, ‘Oh God, I am old,’” Caulfield said.

Many people see Caulfield at games, but most only know him as the Candy Man. His sister, Becky Gallman, said there is way more to him than just his spreading of sweets.

“I don’t know what I’d do if I didn’t have him,” Gallman said. “He’s just a good guy, and I’m not just saying that. There’s not one soul that would tell you any different. And I’d pretty much bet my life on that.”

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available for people who require them. People with a history of Guillain-Barre syndrome should not receive the vaccine, Brown said.

“It is important to note that a person can still obtain a different strain of the flu than what the vaccine contains,” Brown said. “The vaccine mainly protects against the most common strains predicted for the year, but even if the shot does not specifically prevent the strain of the flu we see this year, it can still provide some protection and decrease symptoms and severity of any flu contracted.”

At the OCH clinic, vaccines will be administered on a first-come, first-served basis. There will be a small supply of high-dose vaccines for the public as well. The high-dose vaccine is recommended for those 65 years of age and older.

For more information about this clinic, call the OCH Infection Control Department at 662-6152820.

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does not stop at MSU’s athletics. Caulfield said he has been asked at church if he had his candy bag with him, and Gallman said it can be even more outlandish.

“I am not joking,” Gallman said. “We could go sign a book at a funeral home and somebody would ask, ‘Is the candy bag in your vehicle?’”

with him, and said she has never been ashamed of her brother’s antics in the stands, but she did have a colorful way of describing him.

“He’s out of control,” Gallman said, laughing.

“Hopping around, screaming and hollering to the point of ridiculousness.

I mean really, calm it down a notch, Ronnie. You’re not in college anymore.”

“My main thing is get out and have fun and enjoy yourself. Make friends. Life is too short to worry about big things.”

- Ron Caulf ield, the MSU Candy Man Known as an exuberant fan, Caulfield leads chants at basketball and baseball games while stomping on bleachers.

His sister attends games

Caulfield knows his style of fandom is not for everyone, but said that is okay with him. He said he thinks it helps other people get out of their comfort

zones.

“People realize that you can act a fool and people want to holler at games and get involved, but they don’t want to be the first one because they wonder what people are going to think,” Caulfield said. “So, it’s contagious.”

For the next Candy Man, Caulfield had one suggestion.

“My main thing is get out and have fun and enjoy yourself,” Caulfield said.

“Make friends. Life is too short to worry about big things.”

Caulfield said he has thought about setting up a scholarship fund for the next Candy Man to help out with the costs of candy.

He said he does not know when his retirement will happen, and he plans to at least make it to 20 years.

When he retires, Caulfield said he hopes the Candy Man role will not retire with him, but just have a new face.

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BAD DAWGS Saturday, Oct. 6, 2018 Non-resident/visitor arrested in the junction for simple assault on police officer twice, possession of beer in a dry county, false information, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.

Non-resident/visitor arrested in the junction for public drunkenness and receiving stolen property.

Student reported being filmed without her permission by an unknown male in Davis Wade Stadium.

Monday, Oct. 8, 2018 Student reported losing his wallet on Oct. 5, at an unknown location on campus.

Student reported book bag stolen from vehicle on Oct. 5 while parked in B12 parking lot.

Employee reported a laptop missing from McCain Hall.

Student reported his bicycle stolen while parked between Colvard Student Union and Subway.

Student reported a shoplifter at Barnes and Noble.

Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2018 Student reported cell phone stolen and being assaulted by a student in Allen Hall.

Employee reported missing equipment from Davis Wade Stadium.

Employee reported S.M.A.R.T. bus she was driving was damaged by campus landscape mowing in L12 parking lot.

Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018 Student arrested at residence off campus on warrant for petit larceny and simple assault.

Farmhouse employee reported a disturbance with a parking service attendant in the Farmhouse parking lot, which happened a week and a half prior to the report.

Officer responded to Colvard Student Union for bicycles chained to handicap ramp. Officer took possession of one bicycle.

Friday, Oct. 12, 2018 Employee reported signs stolen off the sign in front of Zeta Tau Alpha Sorority House.

Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018 Resident of city/county arrested on Barr Avenue for disregard of traffic device, expired tag and first DUI. Justice Court citations issued.

Non-resident/visitor arrested on Blackjack Road for careless driving and expired tag. Justice Court citations issued.

Non-resident/visitor was issued an arrest citation on Blackjack Road for possession of marijuana.

Sunday, Oct. 14, 2018 Non-resident/visitor arrest near the Wise Center for speeding 50/30 and first DUI. Justice Court citations issued.

Resident of city/visitor arrested on Poorhouse Road for speeding 69/45, possession of paraphernalia, and possession of controlled of controlled substance. Justice Court citations issued.

Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018 Student, reported her bicycle from bike rack at the Colvard Student Union, last seen the week of Oct. 1st.

Employee reported missing inventory during an audit at the athletic department.

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Notable Traffic Citations: Fifteen MSU citations issued for speeding, the most notable of which was 51/20 on College View Street.

Justice Court citation issued for speeding 48/30 on Hardy Road.

MSU citation issued for disregard of traffic device on Magruder Street.

Justice Court citation issued for speeding 48/30 on Hardy Road.

Justice Court citation issued for an expired tag on Stone Boulevard.

Justice Court citation issued for no insurance on Hardy Road.

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ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY... ... On Oct. 19, 1982, the automaker John Z. DeLorean was arrested and charged with conspiracy to obtain and distribute 55 pounds of cocaine.

In August of 1984, he was acquitted of the charges, but his legal woes were only beginning. He soon went on trial for fraud, and over the next two decades, he was forced to pay millions of dollars to creditors and lawyers.

DeLorean grew up in Detroit and began to work for Chrysler while he was in college. His career was promising, and he worked his way up the corporate ladder at General Motors. There, he was credited with designing the GTO and the Firebird, and he became a vice president in 1972. He left the company a year later to pursue his own interests.

In 1978, he started the DeLorean Motor Company in Northern Ireland. His car model, the DMC-12, played as Marty McFly’s time machine in “Back to the Future.”

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WWE wrestles with greed by choosing to hold shows in Saudi Arabia year, the new Saudi Arabian crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, as part of his Vision 2030 campaign to “modernize” his country, paid WWE somewhere between $40 and 50 million to showcase an event dubbed “The Greatest Royal Rumble” in April.

Serving as both entertainment for the Saudi elite and as a vehicle for the country’s propaganda to reach Westerners, the event was horribly out of place and felt 100 percent contrived while it was happening.

Ian Williams for Vice Sports outlines just how gross the situation was. “Michael Cole (WWE’s lead color commentator) bleated on endlessly about the jewel of the Middle East and how wonderful bin Salman was.

Vision 2030 was mentioned by name, and its buzzwords were so present and cloying that it felt as obvious as when the announcers plug KFC or Starburst between matches,” Williams explained.

Female wrestlers were not allowed on the show, yet WWE shamelessly showed videos promoting the so-

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Occasionally, I feel the need to bring up wrestling.

Usually it is to push for respect, but this time, WWE is doing something very ethically questionable, and not enough people know about it.

Earlier this year, the wrestling giant discovered it could make a multitude of money from hosting special shows in countries they do not often visit, with Saudi Arabia and Australia being the first two in a probable long line.

Obviously, being associated with the former is a bit of a red flag, but WWE is blatantly selling out with its Saudi Arabian relationship.

Let me explain.

At the beginning of the

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called progressiveness of the new Saudi regime finally allowing women to drive.

The resident Syrian wrestler for WWE, Sami Zayn, was also nowhere to be seen to the surprise of absolutely no one. Of course, neither the women nor Zayn received a share of the massive payday the event earned.

I watched the event live, and seeing a U.S.-based company practically trip over itself to take a big payday from individuals violating human rights was more than a little unsettling.

WWE is already set to

host another event, Crown Jewel, in the country next month.

Even while the Saudi Arabian government is being all but confirmed to having a journalist killed, WWE is simply keeping quiet, monitoring the situation and waiting for everything to blow over so they can fly on over and make another $45 million.

Other companies like JPMorgan, CNN and Ford are pulling out of conferences in Saudi Arabia in wake of the murdered journalist and disassociating themselves with the country. U.S. senators are

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advising WWE to change their relationship with Saudi Arabia too, but there is no backing down as of yet. For the cherry on top, even the wrestlers want nothing to do with the situation.

Bryan Alvarez, one of the primary reporters in the wrestling world, stated on his Wrestling Observer Live podcast, “The majority of the talent doesn’t want to go to Saudi Arabia, but the office wants to go to Saudi Arabia and they have shareholders that they want to please with all of these big money deals that they’re getting.”

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3. Who was the captain of the Mayflower when it took the Pilgrims

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Addiction to technology is plaguing society BRANDON GRISHAM

Social justice is not as ‘just’ as it appears MICHAEL BOURGEOIS

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Do you use multiple tabs on your computer or phone?

How often do you cycle through your music, skipping rapidly to find the one song which fits the moment?

I am guessing you frequently check your phone like a spare appendage, growing irritable whenever the charge runs low.

While many feel they can handle their decimated attention spans, some are beginning to notice a disturbing pattern. There is a major drop in the length of everyone’s focus, especially now that technology is involved in every facet of our lives.

Anyone can claim they can quit mindlessly surfing whenever they want. Some noticed stopping is not particularly easy, so they decided to foster a community to help others curb their addiction.

Nik Kochath of No Surf argues mindlessly browsing the internet leads to a loss in dopamine production. The claim alleges by being overstimulated with online media, our brains cannot provide adequate happiness levels from digital material. Fleeting moments of joy warp into long sessions of endless scrolling, all in the pursuit of something better, which is rarely found.

Naturally, one community does not speak for the entirety of the human population, let alone the global internet.

Advancements in technology like wireless-interlinking (Wi-Fi), video sharing with

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YouTube and Twitch, or even search engines like DuckDuckGo and Google foster endless communication around the globe.

Our lives would be far less interesting without the internet, but our attention spans might be paying a hefty price.

Have you been able to get through a novel recently without growing tired by the length? Can you maintain eye contact with another person for more than a few short moments? How about those pestering messages following videos which beg for your subscription and feedback?

There is certainly less attention to go around, but the lack of interest is not the culprit.

Countless studies have been conducted to test this theory, including one published last year in the Asian Journal of Psychiatry.

According to BMC Public Health, internet addiction was tested in over 550 young Vietnamese men and women. Over 20 percent were classified to be addicts.

This is one out of five, going past a hundred individuals in

the tested group. Evenly split between men and women, their age group was between 15 to 25.

Participants with internet addiction were more likely to have problems with selfcare, difficulty in performing their daily routines and they tended to suffer from anxiety and depression. The impact toward older and younger generations is still to be determined, but their reliance is practically assured by the bulk of humanity.

Everyone is entitled to use the internet as often as they desire. How often they find themselves looking around is the real question.

Procrastination is far easier with the endless distractions of their online feed.

With countless options like message boards, streaming services and blog posts all clamoring for your attention, the impact has slowly eroded fixation ability, chiseled away like a slab of marble, leaving behind a pile of dull rock and random debris. Rebuilding your mind to avoid distraction is possible, but it will take far longer to return to “normal” once the damage is done.

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Social justice, a term often employed, but rarely defined by politicians in Washington, has become pervasive in modern culture, especially in the era or President Donald Trump.

So, what does it actually mean? According to the Center of Economic and Social Justice, social justice is understood to be, “The virtue which guides us in creating those organized human interactions we call institutions.”

Taking this term as ambiguous at best, and detrimental to human society at worst, social justice is inherently evil and contrary to everything it claims to represent.

In the most convoluted phrasing possible, social justice, in a nutshell, could be boiled down to giving each member of the community equal access to participate in the economic, political and social domains of American society. This sounds inherently good at its core. A more involved populace is welcomed, but social justice is guilty of an equivocation fallacy in its primary principles which cannot be ignored.

Equality and justice are not interchangeable terms, and to treat them as if they are is an injustice in and of itself. Champions of social justice claim their work is creating a world of higher moral standing by working toward good things defined by the movement.

According to Social Justice Solutions, these good things are defined as “equal distribution of resources” and “removing inequality.”

These good things outlined

by Social Justice Solutions sound eerily familiar to the economic principles of socialism, so why not title it as such? The answer is obvious. Wearing the mask of social justice allows politicians to take the moral high ground over citizens, and to force their wildly unpopular agendas.

According to a 2016 Gallup poll, only 35 percent of Americans support the U.S. becoming a socialistplanned economy, but the numbers skyrocket if the term social justice is invoked.

Social justice is a political club wielded to label one side as inherently moral, and the other inherently immoral.

Of course, to ensure these good things are done, a great arbiter of what is right and wrong must be appointed.

Defenders of social justice give this responsibility to the state, terrifyingly increasing the authority of government not only as the prime political entity, but also the head moral institution as well.

The state redistributing money from your pockets into the pockets of someone else would be considered compassionate, and you wishing to keep the money for you and your family would be greedy.

Does the willful taking of something to benefit another without their consent, and in order to prompt economic equality sound like justice?

When people steal, they

are thrown in jail. One would consider this to be justice, but if the state steals from its citizens, it is somehow a good thing.

Social justice is a disingenuous phrase. It was coined by some politicians with the intention of confusing the American people into thinking they are somehow paragons of morality, while slandering those they disagree with as anti-justice.

It is despicable how politicians believe simply using the phrase ‘social justice’ gives them a free pass to avoid explaining how their policy is good for the nation.

In all political reality, it is a brilliant strategy.

When bankrupt of marketable ideas, one can appeal to the hearts of its citizens, and it works with devastating effectiveness.

It is imperative to call out this intellectual laziness, and politicians must be forced to prove a policy is moral rather than simply saying it is on their word alone. The power of moral superiority has always rested in the hands of the American people.

The implication is the vast majority of Americans are good people who want to do the best they can with what they have. Handing this power of moral authority to the government, where they have proven time and time again to be unworthy is an insult to the character of the American citizen.

So, with this, beware of what is done in the name of social justice, and judge for yourself how just it actually is.

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The saddest part of this is how transparent WWE is being with their greed. It shows the world they are willing to shill for any type of cause for a price; and as a fan of wrestling, I am honestly ashamed to be associated at all with it.

Working in the country at all raises some issues, but outright supporting their backward policies is only perpetuating their continuation.

It is their right to work with whomever or whatever they like, but Americans should be putting pressure on WWE to back out of this. I am not naïve enough to expect corporations to be ethical in any situation which does not make sense financially, but this is especially egregious.

If they will not do anything, based on their conscious alone, Americans should be aware so we can impact them where it matters: their pockets.

No American individual or company should push the garbage coming out of bin Salman’s regime, and we should make this known in no uncertain terms.

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MSU students aim to end human trafficking BRANDON GRISHAM

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Participants are expected to arrive in black attire, brandishing Members of the signs, bandannas and Mississippi State University other materials supporting and Starkville community trafficked victims. will march around the Claire Hilton, director Drill Field to voice their of MSU’s Walk for concerns for human Freedom and a member trafficking victims this of Saving Silhouettes, said Saturday. This march is a she chose to participate in part of A21’s annual Walk order to tackle this rarelyfor Freedom, an event discussed issue. seeking to raise awareness “This allows our local of human trafficking taking community to be a part place all over the world. of a global movement for A21, Abolishing justice,” Hilton said. “By Injustice in the 21st century, promoting education about was founded in 2008 by the issue, we can empower Australian activist Christine every-day people to make Caine. Since its foundation, a difference toward human the organization has trafficking.” provided care and services The walk will start with to human trafficking opening remarks from victims, and operates at a event organizers before global level with 14 offices supporters will begin the in 12 countries. approximately one mileThis is the second time long walk in a silent, A21’s Walk for Freedom single-file line around the has taken place at MSU, Drill Field. Occurring at and is sponsored by the same time as similar MSU’s Saving Silhouettes, walks in 400 other cities an organization which and over 50 countries, this opposes human trafficking event makes a powerful among other human rights and united message against violations. The walk will human trafficking. begin at 10 a.m. in front At the walk’s conclusion, of the Dave C. Swalm Paula Broome, chief of WWW.REFLECTOR-ONLINE.COM School of Engineering the Bureau of Victim CONTRIBUTING WRITER

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Assistance and Human Trafficking Coordinator in the Office of the Mississippi Attorney General, will discuss the brutal reality of human trafficking and how participants can continue to show their support.

Anyone can register

for this free event, but fundraising is a major goal.

All donations go toward A21’s efforts to prosecute traffickers, provide support to rescued victims and raise awareness toward modernday slavery.

Stephanie Durr,

president of Saving Silhouettes and senior political science major, said she is dedicated to supporting and promoting the fight against human trafficking.

“This is an incredible opportunity for MSU

students and the Starkville community to make an impact that goes far beyond our town,” Durr said. “By participating, anyone can raise their voice for the victims that can’t do so themselves.”

Landon Casey, senior computer engineering major, said he is disgusted by the ongoing crisis of human trafficking.

“Human trafficking is one of the vilest and despicable things that exists in our world today,” Casey said. “While our country remains divided about many issues, it’s inspiring to see others gather to support the victims of this horrible crime.”

Hilton, senior communication major, said she wants people to participate in this walk so the world will know that society will not stand for this form of injustice, and will fight to make a difference.

“If we just keep gathering together, human trafficking can be abolished,” Hilton said.

“We make a much greater impact together than if we stand alone.”

24th Annual Diabetes Walk raises awareness TALLY DUKE STAFF WRITER

The 24th Annual Diabetes Walk, hosted by the Diabetes Foundation of Mississippi, will be at the Columbus Riverwalk this Saturday. This event welcomes Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes patients along with supportive family, friends and members of the community.

Registration begins at 1 p.m., with the walk beginning at 2 p.m. The family fun run is a mile long, with the option of a 5k walk/run. There is a suggested donation of $2025 per person attending the event. Following the event, there will be a free picnic lunch provided for all participants. Awards for best t-shirts worn will also be given out to family and corporate teams.

Julia Concolino, a Mississippi State University student and fitness assistant at the Sanderson Center, said she is a strong believer in health and wellness, and will attend the walk with her friend with diabetes to support the diabetic community in Mississippi.

“I am excited to hear about an event not only promoting healthy lifestyle and exercise, but also an event that spreads awareness on diabetes and diabetes care,” Concolino said.

The Diabetes Foundation exists to help educate, inform and promote healthy diabetic lifestyles. The Diabetes Walk is an event promoting their mission, and helps communities across Mississippi learn about diabetes care and management.

Irena McClain, the associate director of the Diabetes Foundation of Mississippi, said the foundation runs strictly off of donations, and this event is a main fundraising contributor for Mississippi.

“All the money we raise stays in Mississippi, and goes anywhere from an elderly woman needing insulin, to diabetes education in school, to even scholarships for the diabetes camp,” McClain said.

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across the state, providing them with DVDs teaching faculty on diabetes management, meters for the school nurse offices, snacks to help low blood sugar and much more. The foundation also provides training for those with relatives who are living with diabetes.

“Education is key and vital for the wellness of the diabetes patients,” said McClain. “If the child with diabetes sees that there are other people like them, and they are not the only one they are more likely to take care of their health, which is what we are trying to promote.”

The Diabetes Walk is also a main fund raiser for Camp Kandu, a kids’ camp promoting diabetes education and a normal camp experience for children with diabetes.

“While the campers enjoy typical camp activities, the parents are in extensive educational classes learning how to manage their child’s diabetes,” McClain said.

Claire Mcnatt, an MSU junior, was diagnosed with Type 1 Juvenile Diabetes her freshman year of high school, and said she is glad organizations and events like this exist.

“I used a meter one day just to see what my blood sugar would be and it was dangerously high, so I told my parents and they called my local physician, and I did not go to the ER because I live in a small town,” Mcnatt said. “The next day, I was officially diagnosed and my life has been a whirlwind ever since.”

Mcnatt, who has been on multiple insulin pumps and shots due to the busy lifestyle of college, said she is learning how to properly take care of her body.

“When college gets busy, sometimes diabetes gets put on the back burner, which is not healthy, so I am thankful for the diabetes management and educational services to help me manage my health,” Mcnatt said.

Carley Bowers, a junior political science major from Collierville, Tennessee, is involved all over the Mississippi State University campus, growing her love for this state and her school.

Bowers is MSU’s current Student Association Secretary and a Presidential Scholar. She said she decided to attend MSU her senior year of high school before she even knew she was being considered for the Presidential Scholarship.

Until her first visit to campus, she was set on going to the University of Memphis, where most of her close family and friends had attended. However, one trip to MSU was all it took for Bowers to change her mind.

“As soon as I stepped on campus, I wanted to go here,” Bowers said.

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During her freshman year, Bowers tried to get involved, but was not very successful. Toward the end of the year, she applied for a Student Association cabinet position and subsequently fell in love with SA. This was the beginning of her extraordinary involvement at MSU. Bowers is now a member of the Shakouls Honors College, serving as the Finance Chair on the Honors Council, a member of Delta Delta Delta Sorority, serving as the Academic Chair, and a participant in the Montgomery Leadership Program. This year, she also served on the New Maroon Camp Programming Staff and said it was one of her most fun experiences thus far.

As a New Maroon Camp staff member, Bowers watched a diverse group of 1,054 incoming

students begin to fall in love with MSU. She enjoyed the unique opportunity to personally welcome these students to the school she calls home.

Despite her many campus activities, Bowers said she holds SA close to her heart and said encouragement from mentors and friends convinced her to run for SA Secretary.

The campaign was a very humbling process for Bowers. When asking people for help, Bowers was amazed by the willingness of her classmates and friends, and found her true motivation for success.

“We put on these programs for large numbers of people, but you do this for one person,” Bowers said. “If one person has a positive experience, feels loved, feels the love of Mississippi State, then we’re doing our jobs.

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Offense, Moorhead ready to go into LSU’s Valley of Death

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There is a certain lore hanging over night games at Death Valley in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. When No. 22 Mississippi State University travels there for their game against No. 9 Louisiana State University, they will search for their 21st win at LSU, and their 36th all time win against the Tigers.

Head coach Joe Moorhead said he is looking forward to his first trip to Death Valley.

“I’m excited that they have the line markers marked off every five yards, I think that’s pretty cool and you don’t see that very often,” Moorhead said.

“They have a tiger down there. That’s pretty neat. To me, more than anything, the great thing about college football is the passion of the fan base, particularly in this conference.”

Nick Fitzgerald, senior quarterback from Richmond Hills, Georgia, is one of the players who has experienced Death Valley’s unique environment, and he said it is hard to prepare his teammates for it.

“It is really hard to explain,” Fitzgerald said.

“We have been going into practice having the speakers as loud as they can go. I look at them all the time and say, ‘This still is not as loud as it is going to be.’ It is definitely hard to fathom if you have not been around it.”

The fan base is one that is often times noted as crazy, wild and really passionate for the purple and gold of LSU. Moorhead said it is one thing he is really excited to experience.

“I hear they are as good as any and they get fired up,” Moorhead said. “They

get after you and they are into the game, and they are going to make a challenging atmosphere. So, I think that is what I’m most excited for.”

Offensive coordinator Luke Getsy used speakers to

“They have a tiger down there. That’s

pretty neat. To me, more than anything, the

great thing about college football is the passion of the fan base particularly in this conference.”

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simulate the 90,000 purpleand-gold clad, crazy tiger fans. He said he feels the players have handled this challenge well.

“You put speakers all around us,” Getsy said. “You cannot hear each other talk, so that was a good experience added today. I think the guys really handled it well. That is what it is, teams have to deal with it when they come to our place.”

Although a hostile environment may seem daunting, Getsy expects a phenomenal environment to play in, as well as the offensive players to be ready to play in an environment like LSU. “We expect an outstanding environment,” Getsy said. “We are going to be prepared for it. You create as much chaos as you can during the week so you can simulate it. It will not be the same, but you simulate it as closely as you can.”

In the game against Kentucky, crowd noise played a part in offensive penalties and miscommunication, so Fitzgerald said they are just mentally preparing for the challenge of the inability to communicate at field level.

“It is always a concern when you cannot hear a guy a foot away from you,” Fitzgerald said. “But, we got a plan and we are going to execute it, and we will be fine. It is one of the greatest atmospheres in college football.”

Aside from handling the crowd noise, the offensive line will be challenged to control the line of scrimmage. The line of scrimmage battle is something Moorhead said is most impressive to him about SEC football.

“Everything has impressed me. It has kind of been as advertised,” Moorhead said. “Two things you are probably sick of hearing me say, ‘It’s a line of scrimmage football league and margin of error is slim.”

Offensive lineman Deion Calhoun, a senior from Pleasant Grove, Alabama, agreed with Moorhead, and said MSU will need to be physical and run the ball well to have offensive success in Saturday’s game.

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“Just be physical,” Calhoun said. “The game is going to be won in the trenches again. This is very much a line of scrimmage league. The game is going to be won at the line of scrimmage. We just want to keep pounding the rock.”

Fitzgerald had four touchdowns in the 37-7 win over LSU last season.

Fitzgerald said there are many ways the Bulldogs can attack the Tigers, as MSU has running backs Kylin Hill

and Aeris Williams to run the ball, and many wide receivers to target in the pass game.

LSU will have to stop both MSU’s pass game and run game to succeed on defense.

“It is a multi-headed offense,” Fitzgerald said. “If they want to shut down one part of it, the other parts are going to show up and beat you there. It is not really shutting down part of it, it is shutting down the whole thing.”

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SEC football is won and lost in the trenches, or in other words, the line of scrimmage.

Bob Shoop, defensive coordinator for Mississippi State University (4-2, 1-2 SEC), said Louisiana State University (6-1, 2-1 SEC) will be a challenge in the trenches.

“They are physical, it is a very physical LSU team,” Shoop said. “It is going to be a great challenge up front.

Their quarterback is more than just a game manager, he is a good passer and makes plays with his feet.”

LSU’s physicality showed in the game against the University of Georgia, where they controlled the line of scrimmage, as well as the game, beating UGA 36-16. Shoop said the Tigers were determined to win.

“They played to win, they certainly played to win (against UGA), they were coming off of a loss to Florida,” Shoop said. “They were back at home against the number two team in the country, and they played like you would expect an Ed Orgeron and a Dave Aranda type team to play.

They played exceptionally well, and they certainly are not going to lack confidence going into Saturday night.”

LSU’s run game is strong, and a big part of this is from their offensive line. Gerri Green, a senior defensive lineman from Greenville, said stopping the run will require MSU to win the line of scrimmage.

“It is big, they have a big physical offensive line,” Green said. “They are very athletic for such big linemen.

They can move, and block guys, so they are going to do a good job for their running backs. If we can stop that,

just try to compete with those guys the best we can.”

Shoop gave credit to Joe Burrow, LSU’s quarterback, for his hard work and ability to play well in games.

Burrow threw for 200 yards

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playing in the SEC. Stadium to stadium, the fans, the crowds,

it is always going to be an electric atmosphere.

Just to be a part of that is

a big thing.”

-Gerri Green, senior defensive lineman

and rushed for 66 yards and two touchdowns in the Tigers’ win over UGA. “He (Burrow) understands the game. From what I have read about him, he is my kind of guy,” Shoop said. “He is a guy that studies the game hard, he understands what it is all about. He is very efficient in the red zone, he does not turn the ball over, and he makes good decisions.”

Burrow has proven he can make big plays, as he had two big runs in games

against Florida and Georgia.

Green said his dual threat abilities will pose a challenge in Saturday’s game.

“He showed he can make the big plays down the field with his arm,” Green said. “He also showed he is mobile, and he can make plays with his feet, too, so we have to account for that and respect it.”

Any defensive lineman will tell explain that putting pressure and hits on the quarterback are the best ways to neutralize a threat in the pocket. Green said it will be their goal to make sure that Burrow feels the pressure in the pocket.

“It is just any quarterback, the more you can get to them and get around them, they feel it,” Green said. “That is always a goal in any game we go into, to put pressure on the quarterback, and help us throughout the game.”

As far as playing on the road without the support of a home crowd, Green said the team’s goal is to take the crowd out of the game.

“When the offense can make big plays you can kind of feel it in the stadium,” Green said. “You just want to take the fans out of it.

The challenge we see is to try and take their fans out of it, but it is going to be loud, and a nice environment to play in.”

The game for MSU will be a night matchup at Death Valley, as LSU looks to defend their home turf.

Kickoff is set for 6 p.m., and ESPN will broadcast the game. “(It is exciting) anytime you go on the road,” Green said. “That is the fun thing about playing in the SEC. Stadium to stadium, the fans, the crowds, it is always going to be an electric atmosphere. Just to be a part of that is a big thing.”

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