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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

128 th YEAR | ISSUE 8

THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1884

Board of Aldermen amend plus one insurance by Lacretia Wimbley News Editor

On Tuesday evening, Starkville’s Board of Aldermen rescinded the plusone insurance plan, approved earlier in September. The plus-one insurance plan,

passed by the Board of Aldermen two weeks ago, created an uproar from various citizens of Starkville. The dilemma faced is whether the board should extend coverage to domestic partners, including same sex partners, a notion the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) recently

praised Starkville for passing. With a vote of 4 to 2 and one abstention, aldermen decided to amend the plusone coverage at Tuesday’s meeting, which will extend coverage to only legally married couples. According to a Starkville Daily News report, Mayor

Parker Wiseman confirmed he will veto the amendment. The report also states Wiseman has 10 days to veto. During Tuesday’s aldermen meeting, while the floor was open for comments, many citizens expressed strong opinions on whether the board should amend the

Starkville to feature SweetGum brewery

by D. J. Wormley Staff Writer

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Ed Dechert | Courtesy Photo

Starkville-based SweetGum brewery, whips up its first batch of craft beer, set to be released later this fall.

ago. The bulk of the work, Dechert said, came from a licensing standpoint. “(It was a) very slow

process of getting everything done,” he said. “We had to get licenses, labels and artwork approved.”

The company sourced its artwork from the art and graphic design department on campus at MSU. BREW, 3

Toyota Motor collaborates with MSU professor for garden park by Katrina Smith Contributing Writer

Toyota Motor Manufacturing will collaborate with Mississippi State University professor Cory Gallo to complete a conceptual design of the Blue Springs Community Park Project. The Blue Springs Community Park Project is on a half-acre of land that was donated to the city, that holds about 200-229 people. The Toyota plant stationed in Blue Springs, Mississippi, does a yearly Friday

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outreach program with its employees, and it chose to give a park to the town. Gallo, known for his past work with the Heritage Museum, drew up the conceptual design this summer for how the park could work, where things would potentially fit and the financial aspect of the project. He also used his expertise to design the entrance sign to the park and some informational kiosks located around the site. The kiosks will feature information about local food and gardening, healthy watersheds, how

to keep the water clean and healthy play activities for children. The park was not only thought of to be a recreational place for neighboring children, but also an educational park funded by a grant from Toyota National. Some of the amenities included are a butterfly garden, a small community garden, six beds for growing a vegetable garden and a small cistern to capture water for watering the garden. There will be an outdoor fire pit and an arbor structure.

hiding things. That’s not right. You have everyone thinking were bad people because you’re not helping us,” Vaughn said. Wiseman said he personally supports the insurance plan’s extensive coverage. “It is our job to make good policy,” Wiseman said.

SA Senate discusses parking options, homecoming elections

by Michael Lamb

Starkville is on its way to having its own brewery. SweetGum Brewing Company, started by Ed Dechert and Cameron Fogle, is a Starkville-based company that will be releasing its first craft beer later this fall. Dechert, an instructor and dean of engineering at Mississippi State University, said he and his business partner, Fogle, began working on SweetGum Brewing Co. two and a half years ago. While Fogle does not have as much brewing experience, Dechert said he has been brewing craft beers for five or six years. Because of the high costs of starting a brewery, the company opted to contract their beer with Lazy Magnolia, Mississippi’s first package brewery located in Kiln, Mississippi. “Raising the capital you would need to actually start a full-scale brewery is pretty serious. We’re talking about near a million dollars. Neither one of us have any kind of rich uncle, so we’re going to have to be raising that kind of money,” Dechert said. SweetGum Brewing Co. started its contract with Lazy Magnolia a year

insurance plan. During the meeting, Alderman Henry Vaughn (Ward 7) and other aldermen questioned if Wiseman and Chief Administrative Officer, Taylor Adams, were hiding information from the board. “You and the mayor are

The Student affairs Senate committees at Mississippi State University held their first meeting of the semester to discuss plans for MSU and improvements each committee will implement for students and the university. Hunt Walne, head of the student life committee, said one of the improvements his committee would like to make is to add more lighted crosswalks around campus. “There is a lighted crosswalk on Engineering Row, and people seem to really like it, so we want to add more lighted crosswalks all across campus and add a crosswalk between fraternity and sorority row,” Walne said. Walne said his committee wants to increase the senate budget so it can improve the college experience for students. “We want to raise the budget for organizations from $100 to $200 and use that to improve the student life experience,” he said. Haley Grantham, vice president of the executive council of the senate, said one event that the senate is having is “Campaign for Change,” where there will be a white board with different topics and students can actually come and write down things they want to change concerning those topics. “There will be a white board on the Drill Field on campus, and the first topic will be ‘What would you

change about parking?’ and students can come and write someGrantham thing that they want to change about parking,” Grantham said. Grantham said there will also be an event called “Town Hall” where a representative from parking services will come, and students can actually ask questions they have about parking on campus. “We never really get to see the things that happen behind the scenes with parking and the logic that goes into it, so there will be a representative from parking services come, and students will actually have an opportunity to ask questions about parking, like about the different parking zones on campus,” Grantham said. Grantham also said the senate wants to make some improvements to homecoming elections. “Everybody really dislikes homecoming elections, so what we’re looking into is forming an ad hoc committee that can look into practices of other schools in the SEC and reach out to them and see how they handle homecoming elections and if their practices work for them,” she said. “We’re also going to reach out to the research and development cabinet to decide if homecoming elections are better the way they are or if it would be better a different way.” DISCUSS, 2

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“This is a great way for a large industry to be a part of the community the plant is actually in the town of Blue Springs that holds 229 people,” Gallo said. Gallo further explained that the impact of something like this is beneficial because the community would have never been able to do this on their own. Saturday, which is a part of the National Lands event, the faculty and the community will come together to paint and do some minor work on the project before Toyota officially finishes it.

Braden Benson | The Reflector

Dean Bourgeois provided students with advice on voicing opinions and being civically engaged in the University Thursday in the Old Main lounge of the Colvard Student Union.

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