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Group
plans
Mill
project
BY LAWRENCE SIMMONS
Staff Writer
The landscape of Mississippi State
University and the city of Starkville
could potentially
change with the devel-
opment of the Cotton
Mill Marketplace.
Mark Nicholas of
Nicholas Properties
LLC said the Cotton
Mill Marketplace will
be a true mixed-use McGrevey
facility.
“It will encompass 35 acres that will
have student housing, restaurants, fine
dining and great retail specialty shops,
along with national retail shops,” he
said.
The total project cost is at $200 mil-
lion and the marketplace is projected
to be ready by the fall of 2010.
“We will start on this development
by November or December of this
year,” he said. “Currently, it’s a little
under one million square feet of devel-
opment.
Vice president for finance and
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The crowd gathers on University Drive during last year’s Bulldog bash. More than 30,000 attendees are expected for this year’s festival.
Sponsors prepare for Bash founds
scholar
program
BY PATRICK YOUNG | Staff Writer
T
he ninth annual Bulldog Bash will kick off
Guest speakers
Mississippi State University’s first SEC football
weekend tonight in the Cotton District. What
from around the
is being hailed as the largest free outdoor concert
nation to attend
in the state kicks off at 5 p.m. with fan fare festivities and con-
tinues throughout the night, concluding with a performance
BY PATRICK YOUNG
by headliner Gavin DeGraw at 10:30 p.m. The event is pre-
Staff Writer
sented by the MSU Student Association and MSU Alumni
The African-American studies pro-
Association. gram at Mississippi State University
SA President Braxton Coombs said he expects this year’s has established a new
scholar-in-residence
concert to have its biggest turn out to date, thanks in part to a program. The pro-
heavy advertising campaign. gram allows for pro-
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fessionals from all over
the country to speak
and work alongside
students and faculty Middleton
Physicians scholarships target students
on campus for a one-
week period.
The scholar-in-residence program
is an enhancement to the curricu-
lum, which already allows students
the MRPSP, said the newly trained said. “If a student actively participates to graduate with a minor in African-
Program offers 15 $30,000 awards doctors will be able to practice almost in the program, does reasonably well American studies.
anywhere in Mississippi. on the MCAT and has good grades, African-American studies director
to practice in small Miss. towns “We only require that the town has then they’ll be afforded direct entry Stephen Middleton said this new pro-
20,000 or fewer citizens,” she said. into medical school.” gram will bring well-known profes-
“Currently there are only 22 cities in Mary Reese, director of undergradu- sionals to discuss their careers and
Mississippi bigger than 20,000, so vir- ate advising for the department of bio- past achievements.
BY COLIN CATCHINGS The scholarship program is targeted tually they can go anywhere.” logical sciences, said the program will “The scholar-in-residence program
Staff Writer toward sophomores and juniors from She said the program will offer train- have a large impact on the students. is set up to bring faculty and profes-
towns of less than 20,000 residents. ing for the Medical College Admission “This is a great opportunity to have sionals who are prominent in their
After finishing their medical training,
The Mississippi Rural Physicians Test to the 15 undergraduate students their education funded,” she said. fields to MSU where they can share
the scholars are required to immedi-
Scholarship Program is offering 15 selected. “[They] will also achieve to the best their experience,” Middleton said.
ately start practicing medicine in small
$30,000 per year scholarships to the “We’ll also offer MCAT prep during of their abilities with the tutoring “We expect our scholars to enrich our
towns in Mississippi.
University of Mississippi Medical the junior year, which Kaplan charges
Janie Guice, executive director of
Center for 15 students each year. $1,800 for their online version,” Guice PHYSICIANS, 4 SCHOLAR, 3
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