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Voices from the
Committee
amends
CLOTHESLINE
game day
policies
Pets banned
from Junction
starting Oct. 11
BY AUBRA WHITTEN
Staff Writer
MSU officials announced changes
last week to game day rules, prohibit-
ing all pets on campus
and closing all picnic
and tailgating activi-
ties at midnight.
The changes
become effective
during the next
home game against
Vanderbilt University Jones
on Oct. 11.
Chairman of the game day com-
mittee Jim Jones said on campus
game day activities and attendance
have increased this year, causing
crowding and expansion to many
areas of campus.
“After discussions and review, we
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construct ADAM KAZERY | THE REFLECTOR
The Clothesline Project allows victims and survivors of sexual assault to express their emotions by hanging T-shirts with written messages.
The project will be displayed through Thursday on the Drill Field. As of last year, 269 shirts are in the Sexual Assault Services collection.
residence Sexual assault victims, survivors represented by T-shirts
hall BY SARAH DALE SIMPKINS | Assistant News Editor
Officials say the
T
oday through Thursday The Clothesline Project, a program that gives a voice to victims of sexual violence, will display T-shirts made by
new building could abuse victims. The program seeks to heighten awareness of sexual assault, which according to the U.S. Department of Justice, happens every
open fall 2010 two minutes in the U.S.
“It is held to bear witness to women and men who have experienced a variety of sexual violence and injustice,” said Beatrice Tatem, Sexual
BY CARL SMITH Assault Response Team coordinator. “It is a way to empower men and women and break the silence.”
News Editor
The project gives victims of abuse a chance to tell their stories on T-shirts and then hang it on a clothesline for others to read and pay tribute too.
Mississippi State University is cur- Randi Kellebrew, a data management assistant at MSU, said the Clothesline Project is close to her heart because at one time she was in a sexually and
rently drafting plans to build a new
emotionally abusive marriage.
residential hall between Rice and CLOTHESLINE, A2
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McComas Halls.
Construction on the
estimated $25 million
PETA seeks to refile MSU lawsuit
project could begin
next year, and the hall
is slated to open for
the 2010 fall semester.
Ann Bailey, director Bailey
of housing and resi- “We hope that the court will recon- treated, not proprietary information.”
Group aims to gain access to animal
dence life, said the new four-story hall sider its decision and allow the infor- The evidence gathered from the inves-
will provide 350 bed spaces for on cam- mation that is clearly not confidential tigation was part of the reason PETA
experiments conducted for Iams
pus housing. The building is expected business information to be released,” she requested information about Iams’
to be co-residential, housing freshmen, said. “At a minimum, we hope that the experiments from universities around
sophomores and upper classmen. court will remand the case to give us an the country, she said.
The new residence hall will team BY LAWRENCE SIMMONS opportunity to present evidence on why “These experiments are not required
PETA has requested a rehearing of its
Staff Writer
up with Hathorn, Cresswell and Rice the information is not confidential.” by law and are 100 percent unnecessary,”
case as the Mississippi Supreme Court
halls, creating a four-building residence In 2002 and 2003, PETA conducted she said. “These animals suffer for no
overturned the previous ruling of allow-
village mimicking Zacharias Village. an investigation and documented the reason at all.”
ing the documents to be released, accord-
People for the Ethical Treatment of
Bailey said the university currently has conditions that the dogs were in, Kettler If there is nothing to hide, why would
ing to the Mississippi Public Records
Animals filed a lawsuit against Mississippi
no plans to dedicate the village. said. Iams and MSU spend so much time and
Act.
State University and Iams in January
“[The new residence hall] will have “People have a right to know what money trying to prevent access to this
Lori Kettler, PETA senior counsel for
2006 to gain access to documents related
fully furnished double occupancy bed- happens to animals in these laboratories,” information, she said.
legal and corporate affairs, said the court
to animal experiments. Iams, a brand of
rooms, each with their own bathroom she said. “All we want is the information “We do wonder why Iams and MSU
relied on Iams’ conclusions without hav-
Procter & Gamble produces pet food
that tells us how the animals are being
ing them backed up.
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