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FRIDAY OCTOBER 26, 2018
134th YEAR ISSUE 15
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1884
Sanderson Center celebrates 20 years SARAH MORGAN JOHNSON STAFF WRITER
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After nearly three years of development, MSU’s Community Garden is open to the public.
MSU opens new Community Garden EMMA DRAY BRASWELL STAFF WRITER
The new Mississippi State University Community Garden, which has been in the making for about three years, opened on Oct. 15. This garden is a way for students, faculty and the Starkville community to get involved in going green, and works to better the community overall. Mayah Emerson, president of the Student Association, described the garden as being there “for the MSU community, as well as the Starkville community.”
The Community Garden is a large project across MSU and Starkville with many people involved. “Partners all across campus have joined together in this project, so from student groups to departments, it’s become one big project for everyone,” Emerson said. This, Emerson explained, is the part SA played in the project. They are one of the partners who have worked to officially get the garden to a running point. MSU President Mark Keenum specifically commended SA’s leadership and contributions to the “wonderful project.”
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Mississippi State University’s Sanderson Center celebrated its 20year anniversary, two weeks ago. Named after its major contributor, 1947 MSU graduate Joe Frank Sanderson, the center has become a vital part of student life over the past two decades. Regina Hyatt, vice president of student affairs, said she has observed the impact of the center on student life. “The Sanderson Center is, has been and continues to be a central component to the student experience at Mississippi State,” Hyatt said. “As we encourage our students to pursue healthy behaviors, the Sanderson Continue is a great place for students to improve their mental, physical and social wellbeing.” Patrik Nordin, the director of University Recreation, has been involved in working for the Sanderson for all but two of its 20 years. He worked his way up from a student fitness instructor, to a fitness graduate assistant, to a staff member, to his current position. He has a unique perspective on how
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MSU’s Sanderson Center observes its 20th anniversary this month. The recreational hub is named after MSU graduate Joe Frank Sanderson.
the center has grown and changed since it opened in 1998. “Since opening 20 years ago, the Sanderson Center has made students more active by providing a wide variety of activities and the space to do them,” Nordin said. “The staff of the facility have always tried to offer something for everyone, whether it’s battleship or ballroom dancing. Rooms and spaces
in the Sanderson Center have been reinvented– sometimes multiple times– to keep up with fitness trends and enrollment growth. It has also allowed new sport clubs and student organizations to form and thrive by providing space for practices and meetings.” Donald Moore, a graduate student studying food science, nutrition, and health promotion, echoed Nordin’s sentiments.
“I feel that the Sanderson is important because it offers students and patrons a place to escape everyday stress,” Moore said. “It is a welcoming environment that makes everyone feel at home, and it offers something for everyone.” Instead of attributing the center’s most valuable asset to its impact on student health, Nordin said it is the employees making the impact. SANDERSON, 2
Sinkhole emerges in Dogwood parking lot Research studies communication with board game HUNTER CLOUD SPORTS EDITOR
A sinkhole appeared in the parking lot of Dogwood Residence Hall at Mississippi State University after water flowed underneath the asphalt. Fred Mock, associate director for Maintenance and Facilities at MSU, said a water drainage line broke, which caused the ground to sink. “Originally, we thought there was a break in the line. So they ran a TV camera from a manhole to all the way up here. Somewhere in there, the line is broken,” Mock said while pointing at
the end of the water spout where the water pipe began. The water drainage from the roof goes down into the ground in a line, and then runs into a water drainage pipe, which is now broken. The cause of the break is still unknown. As a result, Mock said the water followed the line down to the parking lot. “So, it has just started following the outside of the pipe all the way down,” Mock said. “For whatever reason, that (the area where the parking lot started to sink) was the best place for it to start to sink down.” Currently, the drainage pipe is out of the ground and on the surface, going
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into a water grate so it will not leak any more. However, Mock said they will still have to fix the water line underneath the ground, including digging up the edge of the entrance to Dogwood and the area where the water grate is. In regard to the sinkhole causing a threat to cars in the parking lot, Mock said it did not pose a threat because Maintenance and Facilities corrected the problem temporarily. He also said they found out about the sinkhole thanks to a student. “When we had all of that rain, one of the students in the building said, ‘I think it is getting worse,’ and it was,” Mock said. “As soon as we
came out here after that rain, we blocked the spaces off.” Colton Watson, a sophomore chemistry major from Brookhaven, lives in Dogwood and said he was never concerned about the sinkhole. “It does not concern me terribly,” Watson said. “I would be totally surprised if a sinkhole happened where it swallowed up vehicles and people. If another one happens, I think it will just be a four-foot drop.” MSU Chief Communications Officer Sid Salter said the university is aware of the situation and is working to fix it as quickly as possible. SINKHOLE, 2
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A sinkhole (left), covered four park spaces in the Dogwood parking lot. MSU Maintenance and Facilities has temporarily solved the problem (right), but an underground water line still needs fixing.
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FORECAST: Rain chances linger Friday morning, but the afternoon will be cloudy and mostly rain-free. It will be dry on game day, making for a partly sunny day with temperatures in the mid 60s, but there will be chillier temperatures by kickoff, so bring extra layers. We’ll end the weekend with warmer weather and sunnier skies on Sunday with a high of 74.
Jessica Moore, Campus Connect Meteorologist
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help the community work together. There were two groups in the study: a yellow group, which was the experiment group, and the blue group, which was the control group. Both groups’ participants were MSU students. To win the game, a group has to complete the objective of building five structures and completing two temporary objectives. Each round, the temporary objectives change. One person cannot win the game on their own; it is won as a group. The game has four sections to build certain structures. The sections were economic stability, sustainability, culture and diversity, and quality of life. One could have a positive or negative rating of points depending on the structures built. These structures could be restaurants, a community college, an art gallery, a strip club, bars, a farmers’ market or many other options. Each structure had a specific type of function. There are generic, tourism, commercial, beautification and entertainment structures. RESEARCH, 2
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The Mississippi State University Civic Life Laboratory conducted a research project to find ways to improve how communities talk to each other. To conduct the study, participants played a board game called Rebuilding Main Street. Associate Professor of Communication Melanie Loehwing, along with former communication department chair Skye Cooley and several others, started the game-making process with the help of some employees at Down To Game. Loehwing studies and researches rhetorical democracy. “I am interested in how people use communication in order to participate, create and maintain democracy,” Loehwing said. The purpose of this board game experiment was to produce different civil conversations. It looks at why everyone is in agreement or how they talk through their differences. The game’s goal is to use democratic deliberation to
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