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Powell set to headline leadership event Campus
prepares
said high definition lead- Plans for the Leadership Summit
for first
15 speakers will lead panel ership has a two-fold began two years ago as a way to
meaning. promote the College of Business and
discussions during two-day summit “Like in the television Industry, Spencer said.
industry, HD means “We wanted to put together an event
game day
change or die — you’ve that would bring business people from
absolutely got to,” around the state and the region back
BY AUBRA WHITTEN Spencer said. “But a sec- Powell
In addition to Powell’s keynote to campus to hear great speakers and
Staff Writer speech on Sept. 24, there will be ond meaning that might to keep on learning,” she said.
15 conference speakers. These speak- be even more important for execu- Anthony Lowe, manager of pro-
Final touches
ers will lead panel discussions and tives, even if you’re a very successful gram development at AOCE, said the
Retired Gen. Colin L. Powell will
break-out sessions on topics related to company or a very successful person summit is expected to have more than
deliver the keynote speech for the sec-
applied for first
the summit’s theme of high-definition right now, is the things that you’re 250 participants.
ond annual Leadership Summit hosted
leadership. doing today are not the same things Smith said this year has already out-
by the College of Business and Industry
home game
Associate dean for the College of that are going to get you where you
and Academic Outreach and Continuing
POWELL, 3
Business and Industry Barbara Spencer want to be tomorrow.”
Education Sept. 23 and 24. SEE
BY DAVID BRELAND
Managing Editor
Grazed by Gustav
With the first football home game
of the 2008 season looming tomorrow,
campus has been abuzz with activity.
University workers are erecting tents,
placing traffic barricades, mowing grass
and putting the final touches on the
game day preparations that make the
thrill of an MSU home game a reality.
Despite the recent activity in and
around Davis Wade Stadium and the
Junction, preparations for the first
home game were taking place over the
summer as game operations student
workers toiled to make sure the sta-
dium was ready to accept visitors.
“We’ve been working all summer
painting and cleaning the stadium,”
Brandon Jennings, a senior physical
education major and student worker,
PREPARATIONS, 4
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Student
groups to
sponsor
voter drive
Event scheduled
for Tuesday
BY COLIN CATCHINGS
Staff Writer
COURTESY OF JAMES EDWARD BATES | THE SUN HERALD
A mid-sized car sits partially submerged in the storm surge generated by Hurricane Gustav at the Ken Combs Pier in Gulfport on Monday. The Student Association and the
Stennis-Montgomery Association will
sponsor a voter registration drive on
the Drill Field from 11 a.m. to 2
Storm made landfall over Gulf Coast as Category 2 hurricane Monday p.m. Tuesday to prepare students for
upcoming national and local elections.
Whitney Holliday, SMA president
and SA secretary, said the drive will be
BY LAWRENCE SIMMONS | Staff Writer used in conjunction with MTV’s Rock
S
the Vote campaign.
ince Mississippi and Louisiana weathered Hurricane “We’ll be passing out applications
on the Drill Field,” she said. “Rock
Gustav’s pounding wind and rain, residents from across the Vote will allow people to print
these states now face with the storm’s aftermath. off registration forms and send them
to their secretary of state [Delbert
According to the Mississippi Emergency Management Hosemann].”
Agency, more than 14,000 evacuees were housed in Mississippi Holliday said students intending to
register on the Drill Field will need to
shelters and 44,841 total outages were reported statewide. bring a valid copy of a government-
Electric Power Associations senior vice president Ron Stewart issued photograph identification.
“We’re going to be having two big
said by Thursday evening a majority of homes should have days of voter registration Tuesday and
power reinstated. Sept. 23,” she said.
Holliday said Sept. 23 will not be
“However, there will be some that remain without power,” the last day registration help will be
he said. “It just takes a little longer to restore power in rural offered to students.
“On Sept. 29 through Oct. 3 we’ll
areas.” have a voter registration table out on
the Drill Field, just a single one, to do
Rain, road flooding and high winds have slowed down the
the last push for people to register,” she
time it takes to restore power, Stewart said. said. “Oct 3. is the last day to send in
COURTESY OF WILLIAM COLGIN | THE SUN HERALD
Waves crash against a stop sign on Beach Boulevard in Bay St. Louis
on Monday Sept. 1, as Hurricane Gustav makes landfall on the Coast.
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