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New IHL policy could modify search process College
launches
media relations, said sion that former MSU
Board considers banning serving the board approved Interim President
EDGE
the first reading of the Vance Watson had an
interims from future searches policy change during inside track for the
its regular November top MSU job when
initiative
meeting and approved the Board of Trustees
to have the second named him interim
BY CARL SMITH her university’s presidential search. reading in January. president.
Lucas Watson
News Editor Under the new policy, interim presi- The IHL introduced IHL Interim
dents could be considered for future the proposed policy change on the Commissioner Aubrey Lucas said the
Program focuses
executive positions that become avail- heels of completing presidential search- policy change will increase the size of
The Mississippi Institutions of
able after their temporary term leading es for Mississippi State University and future pools of presidential applicants.
Higher Learning Board of Trustees is
on eco-awareness
the university. Also, interims can be Mississippi Valley State University. “There is a feeling that if an incum-
preparing to review a policy change
considered for other executive jobs at Throughout the search, many mem- bent acting president gets in the search,
and education
in January that could prevent a future
different universities in the state. bers of various MSU constituency there are candidates who won’t apply
interim university president from being
Annie Mitchell, IHL director of groups said the IHL created the allu-
considered a candidate during his or POLICY, 3
SEE
BY KYLE WRATHER
Entertainment Editor
This semester the Mississippi State
SA passes BRINGING HOME THE BACON College of Arts and Sciences launched
a new initiative, EDGE, which will
promote environ-
Aramark mental friendliness
and other educational
themes.
evaluation
EDGE is an acro-
nym for enquiry
— which promotes
resolution
research — diversity, Myers
green for environ-
mental friendliness and ethics.
Dean of the college Gary Myers
said the initiative unifies the College
Motion targets of Arts and Sciences, which is the
largest at the university, through com-
meal plans, Flex mon goals.
dollar system “The EDGE initiative is basically a
way of unifying the college and pre-
senting the students with larger con-
cepts to think about as they’re getting
BY COLIN CATCHINGS their [degrees],” Myers said. “We’ve
Staff Writer got 14 departments, five centers and
institutes and over 4,000 students.
In the final meeting of the Student It’s very diverse; you go from physics
Association Senate Tuesday, the Senate on one hand to philosophy on the
passed two bills and nine resolutions, other.”
including a resolution to advocate re- EDGE, 3
SEE
evaluating the current system for meal
plans and Flex dollars.
Off-campus SA Sen. Samuel
Omoyege presented Resolution 75,
Middleton
the resolution to re-evaluate the meal
system.
SA Vice President Braxton Stowe
receives
said Resolution 75 was the most
important proposal
passed during the ses-
humanity
sion.
“Basically, President
Coombs went to the
award
[Faculty Senate] meet-
ing and they were
talking about this sit- Stowe
uation,” he said. “We
felt that we [the SA Senate] need
AAS director
to make sure that students have the
statement on this issue, so we decided
awarded ’09
to draft a resolution up quick and get
this in the agenda.”
teacher accolade
He said Resolution 75 will question
whether Aramark is efficient in giving
high quality food service and is worth
students’ investments. BY PATRICK YOUNG
“Is it worth the students’ money to Staff Writer
go into the cafeteria and pay $8 for all
you can eat when the service is bad, Stephen Middleton, director of the
the food is bad?” Stowe said. “We African-American studies program,
need to make sure that if they’re going received the 2009 Humanities Teacher
to take our money we need to make Award Wednesday
sure we’re spending it right.” at the Mitchell
Senior biological sciences major Memorial Library.
Clint Nanney said the SA seems to be The Mississippi
doing a good job, and Resolution 75 Humanities Council
is a good idea. and the College of
“Some of the food seems to be high Arts and Sciences
priced,” he said. “I think they could sponsored the award. Middleton
definitely look into that and lower Middleton said he
some of the prices.” was shocked by the honor.
A copy of the resolution will be “I found out about three weeks ago,
sent to the Faculty Senate, Colvard and I was stunned, speechless even,”
Student Union director Eddie Keith, Middleton said. “This has only been
dining services director Jason Nall my second year here at the university,
and Aramark. so I was surprised.”
In other business, off-campus Sen. Middleton was nominated for the
Justin Ammon presented Bill 36. The award by the deans of the College of
bill will allow student organizations Arts and Sciences.
to use funds allocated by the SA for David Breaux, associate dean of the
WHITNEY SISCO | THE REFLECTOR
any purpose as long as the purpose college, said Middleton’s nomination
HOG SLAUGHTER | MSU defensive backs Marcus Washington (left) and Charles Mitchell gang-tackle
does not conflict with the mission of was an easy choice.
Mississippi State University. “It was a no-brainer to nominate
Arkansas quarterback Nathan Dick during State’s 31-28 victory. For the full game coverage, see Page 10.
SENATE, 2 MIDDLETON, 2
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