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When walking past the bakery, Mississippi State stu-dents can clearly see the mak-ings of what will be the new-est addition to on campus dining options: a Subway.

Scheduled to open some-time in early October, as Bill Broyles, vice president of Student Affairs, said, Subway will be back on campus by popular demand.

“Students have asked us to bring a Subway to campus so we were happy that Subway and Aramark were able to do that for us,” he said.

The efforts to bring the

sandwich shop to campus materialized due to collab-oration between Aramark, students and campus organi-zations, such as the Student Association, and the MSU administration.

Broyles said this collabora-tion was crucial in bringing in new businesses such as Subway as well as Freshens and the P.O.D in Hawthorn Hall.

“When you pay attention to what the students are say-ing, you are able to provide them with what they want,” he said.

Considering its wide-spread anticipation, Broyles said he is optimistic about

the grand opening of the new Subway.

“We have all the equip-ment from Subway; we are just waiting for the location to be ready for it to be moved in. And when it is, I predict there will be lines,” he said

Courtney Bryant, market-ing manager for Aramark, said that the opening will be an exciting event.

“The grand opening week will have games, freebies, and of course, subs,” Bryant said. “We encourage the campus community to join us to celebrate the grand opening of Subway at MSU and sup-port the brand that they have been waiting for.”

Subway scheduled to open on campus next week

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BY JAMIE ALLEN

Staff Writer

According to the Institute of Education Science, Mis-sissippi’s reading test scores are the second lowest in the nation, followed only by the District of Columbia.

These test scores can be at-tributed to the rate of illiter-acy in Mississippi.

According to Devon Bren-ner, Professor and head of Curriculum, Instruction and Special Education, literacy is more complex a topic than just not being able to read.

“The rate of true, total il-literacy is probably relatively low,” Brenner said. “Many people are ‘functionally liter-ate’ in that they can decode and comprehend basic texts, the texts they need to func-tion at a basic level in soci-ety.”

However, in the 21st cen-tury, literacy is much more complex than just being able

to read and write. Brenner said in order to

be fully literate in the 21st century, students and adults must be able to evaluate a website, comprehend a users’ manual or evaluate a political argument.

According to Deborah Lee, professor/coordinator of Li-brary Instructional Services and Corporate and Stati-cal Research Center, said Starkville and Mississippi State University are trying to fi x this problem.

Kyle Turner, senior special education major, said pro-grams like these are import-ant for the future of their ed-ucation and career.

“Whether we realize it or not, most of the information that we intake is through reading. Without programs to promote literacy, students whole educational and work-ing careers can suffer,” Turn-er said.

Mississippi reading ranks among lowest in the country

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News Editor

Censorship in America threatens, particularly in the forms of book banning, chal-lenging and censoring, Amer-ican literary identity and com-munity as well as freedom of speech as it is granted in the Constitution.

This week, in honor of the United States’ public freedom to read whichever books it chooses, the American Library Association, along with count-less other organizations in the national book community have come together to cele-brate the 30th annual Banned Book Week.

According to the event’s web-site, http://www.ala.org/advocacy/banned, Banned Book Week be-gan in 1982 .

Since then, and still today, books have been banned from schools and cen-sored and challenged nation-wide.

According to the ALA’s website, classic novels includ-ing “The Great Gatsby,” “To

Kill A Mockingbird,” “The Catcher in The Rye,” “As I Lay Dying” and “The Lord of The Flies,” have been frequently challenged throughout their respective histories.

Ted Atkinson, professor of American literature, said he thinks understanding the con-text in which books become banned or censored and how it affects the reasoning behind the censorship is important.

“What happens over time is the reasoning for banning a single book changes depending on the historical context,” he said. “For example, ‘Huckle-berry Finn,’ originally the ban-

ning came from fearing that he was a bad ex-ample for chil-dren and then later it became more about the issues of the language used and the poten-tial for it to be offensive.”

A t k i n s o n also said the practice of nation-al book banning is not com-mon relative to the censorship and control of book availabili-ty in communities and schools.

“You can fi lter it down to the local level, so not only within the schools, but public libraries also become kind of battlefi elds for book banning and fi ghting book banning,” he said.

He said often the challeng-ing of books taught in schools and available in public librar-ies comes from parental con-cern for the content their kids may have access to through certain pieces of literature.

“It happens more locally, because you have parents in-

volved, you have everyday cit-izens involved in this effort to work out what readers should have access to,” he said. “A lot of times it’s children; it is a question of what should chil-dren have access to in the pub-lic library system?”

Atkinson said sometimes people attempt to get a book banned without even having read it.

“You often have people who aren’t familiar with it, trying to ban it,” he said. “They’re familiar with it only as a kind of phenomenon or something that they’ve heard other people talk about.”

When asked his opinion, Atkinson said book banning should be handled case by case and in consideration of the lo-cal community.

“I don’t like the term banned I guess,” he said. “I think that whoever is running the library whether in a school or a local library system, they have to involve as many people in the decision making as possible in terms of what’s accessible to people.”

He said he believes books should be readable by whom-ever wishes to read them and the practice of attempting to ban a book often does not stop this from happening.

Atkinson said when a per-son or group sets out to ban a book, they often end up en-couraging others to read said book and therefore fall short of achieving their goal of keeping people from reading it.

“It is a democracy — people should have access to whatever they want to read,” he said. “So I just think for our society as a whole it is counterproductive, for those who are against it or for it.”

Books often challenged depending on context


It is a democracy — people should have access to whatever they want to read.”Ted Atkinson, professor of American literature

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BY JAMIE ALLEN

Staff Writer

The Longest Student Health Center is hosting a Distracted Driv-ing Simulator today in an effort to encourage students to think before joining the 660,000 cars on the road whose drivers are on their cell phones.

The simulator will be on the drill fi eld from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. for students to experience the conse-quences of texting and driving and drinking and driving.

According to Joyce Yates, director of Health Education and Wellness, the department decided to bring in the simulator to encourage students to not drive while distracted.

“The Health Education and Well-ness Department realizes the impor-tance of prevention needed in the area of distracted driving,” Yates said.

The National Highway Safety Commission states that distracted driving is the cause of 16 percent of all fatal car crashes and 21 percent of all injury-causing crashes.

David Shrock, graduate student studying kinesiology, said this simu-lator will show students how being distracted while driving affects their reaction time.

“Participants will be able to take a ‘test drive,’ viewing a computerized screen above the dash that simulates a ve-hicle in motion. Upon completion of the exercise, the ‘drivers’ will be able to see how well or poorly they did in the demonstra-

tion,” Shrock said. Claire Lightsey, junior elementary edu-

cation major, said she does not agree with texting while driving because of the risks it

places on a person’s life.

“I believe that texting and driv-ing is wrong because you are not only putting yourself at risk but others driving around you too. I would hate to be the one that sent the message that someone was reading when they crashed,” Light-sey said.

Shrock said the dangers of dis-tracted driving are greater than one may think.

“Five seconds is the average time your eyes are off the road while tex-ting. When traveling at 55 miles per hour, that’s enough time to cover the length of a football fi eld,” Shrock said.

Yates said she hopes bringing the simulator to campus will have a positive impact on the students and that this will save the life of at least one student.

“Hopefully, once a participant sees his or her score while driving distracted, the student will realize the danger of this type of driving,” said Yates. “It is expensive to bring the simulator company to campus, but it is worth it if one life is saved due to the learning experience,” Yates said.

Lightsey said a life is more im-portant than a text and she hopes students quit texting while driving after going through the simulator

and seeing their results. “Whoever you are texting is not as im-

portant as your life. If it is so important, pull over. But don’t risk your life and others just to text ‘hey,’” Lightsey said.

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Friday, September 28• 12:00 a.m. A student was arrested on Lynn Lane for driving under the influence.• 12:40 a.m. A student was arrested for false information.• 1:22 p.m. A student reported her vehicle was damaged while parked in Herbert Hall gravel parking lot.• 2:37 p.m. A student passed out at Humphrey Coliseum. The subject was transported to OCH.• 2:58 p.m. A student reported a suspicious incident on George Perry Street.• 9:30 p.m. A student was arrested at MSU Horse Park for minor in possession of alcohol.• 9:37 p.m. A non-resident/visitor had a seizure at the MSU Horse Park. The subject was transported to OCH.

Saturday, September 29• 12:42 a.m. A student was arrested on Jarnigan Street for driving under the influence and driving the wrong way on a one-way street.• 12:43 a.m. A student was arrested on Maxwell Street for minor in possession of alcohol.• 1:01 a.m. A student was arrested on University Drive for driving under the influence and driving the wrong way on a one-way street.• 2:31 a.m. A student was arrested at Oak Hall for public drunkenness.• 3:38 p.m. A student reported his bicycle stolen from the bike rack at Carpenter Hall.

Sunday, September 30• 5:16 a.m. A student was transported to OCH from Sessums for medical assistance.• 10:35 a.m. A student reported a suspicious incident that was posted on his Facebook page.• 10:13 p.m. A resident director reported a suspicious person at Cresswell Hall.

Citations:• 2 citations were issued for speeding.• 2 citations were issued for running a stop sign.• 1 citation was issued for careless driving.

Simulator discourages texting and driving, teaches of dangers

One way MSU is encouraging students to read is through the Maroon Edition.

The Maroon Edition is a shared reading ex-perience targeted toward incoming freshmen at MSU.

Lee said the Maroon Edition fosters an envi-ronment of learning and community on cam-pus and encourages students to analyze and ask questions about what they are learning.

“The idea was to have a common event that really brought freshmen into university life and introduced them not just to a book but to a way of thinking about the information that they

read, analyzing what they read, asking the ques-tions that we expect a college educated student to ask of the information that they read and to create a climate on campus that fosters this in-tellectual discovery,” he said.

Lee also said the city of Starkville has a very similar program called Starkville Reads.

“Starkville Reads is an exciting opportunity to do in the community a common-reading book, and they do several throughout the semester,” he said. “They have programs that bring authors into the community and also programing in the school system.”

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Distraction from cell phone use while driving (hand held or hands free) increases a driver's reaction time as much as having a blood alcohol concentration at the legal limit of .08 percent.

“I love to read. I wish I read faster so I could read more because it takes me quite a while to get through a book. I just fi nished ‘The Hunger Games,’ and my wife already read all three books. She read three in the time it took me to read the fi rst fi ve chapters of one, but I have to start book two now. My favorite author right now is Steven Barry—— he writes historical fi ction so I read all his stuff. I read John Grisham and Dan Brown; all that historical fi ction stuff is a lot of fun, but my top book of all time would probably be ‘The Stand’ by Stephen King. That would be up there, ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ would be up there, which is a really, really good one.”

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WHAT IS THE REFLECTOR STAFF READING?

So I’m sitting on a bench, immersing my-self in some fi ne liter-

ature (like Harry Potter or something) when all of the sudden, I catch a glare from a passerby. In her hand, she holds a thick book bound in some really pretentious leather. I think to myself: “Man, that is some preten-tious leather, and why is she glaring at me?”

Her dirty stare proba-bly stemmed from the fact that I was holding an iPad. I’m holding a plastic and glass toy that happens to be loaded with over 70 books I can switch b e t w e e n whenever I choose.

W h e n e v e r I get tired of Harry being overtly angsty, I can easily switch over to another book (probably with the same amount of angst because, let’s face it, angst is fun).

While I am still offended I was being judged for, you know, reading, I will say I can see why the poor little hipster did what she did. I get the whole nostalgia thing.

I get that some people get a tingle down their spine when they open a book and smell the must of freshly- printed pages.

I get that there is noth-ing like turning pages even though there is a substantial risk of getting a paper cut (printed books are danger-ous!), but it’s 2012, people.

We live in a world where people are addicted to re-freshing social networks every fi ve seconds. A world where standing in line lon-ger than 30 seconds can re-sult in a mental breakdown. A world where technology surrounds us. Times are changing, and I’m all about going with the fl ow.

Here’s the thing: E-books are just another way to read in these high-fl ying times.

Shouldn’t we be promot-ing reading in general rather

than want-ing to rip an iPad out of someone’s hand and smash the device on the ground, s h a t t e r i n g millions of words?

A little dramatic, I know, but I fear for the life of my iPad (peo-ple are animals).

But good thing E-books can be backed up so you will never lose those precious words, right?

I understand iPads, Nooks and Kindles are not the cheapest, and as poor college students, money defi nitely does not grow on trees. But on occasional strolls to Barnes & Noble, I see recently released books are in the $20 to $30 price range.

I almost have a heart at-tack thinking about spend-ing that much money on one item when I can just open up the Books app and download the same book for $10.

Before you even purchase a book, the Books app offers a free sample.

Hey, I’ll admit it: I’m lazy, and I do not have time to be gallivanting off to Barnes & Noble every time I want to check out a new book. I mean, what is this, the 1990s?

I have learned one thing about printed book lovers: they are serious and die-hard about the printed word. I am almost sure they all have “Kindles Suck” tattooed on their arms. But really, guys, a book is a book.

While printed-book lov-ers “enjoy” the discomfort of holding up a book for prolonged amounts of time, I will just be chilling, hold-ing my iPad with one hand, scarfi ng down a muffi n with the other hand.

So, I say to you, E-book readers, raise your superb technology above your heads. Blind the judgmen-tal with the lights of your screens (or not, because e-readers with glareless screens exist), and go forth in the dangerous world full of paper cuts and preten-tious leather.

Yes, I’ve called E-readers “the devil’s instrument.” Yes, I’ve shared some of

my conspiracy theories on plots to destroy the joy of the printed word. Yes, I do indeed have a small mountain of books at my house because I’ve run out of shelf space but can’t stop buying them. And no, I don’t regret it.

But as irrational as I can be about the superiority of a physical book over its virtual equivalent, I also have a logical case. Really.

From commercials to endorse-ments by the average E-reader owner, it’s obvious that one of the main reasons everyone promotes getting one is for convenience. I get it: you can use your smart-phone app to access your books and read them during football games. That’s cool. And yes, I get that it’s easier to carry around one reasonably-sized device than giant tomes when traveling. And E-books tend to be cheap-er. And you can get them faster than a shipment of books from Amazon.

Fine, I concede. You’re right. But just because something seems superfi cially more conve-nient doesn’t mean it’s better in the long term.

Take, for example, the Kindle. Back in 2009, Amazon delet-ed electronic copies of “Animal Farm” and “1984” from custom-ers’ E-readers. (To be fair, Ama-zon refunded the purchase price and removed the copies because they were illegal.)

But that’s not the point. The point is that if I had unknow-ingly bought an illegal, physical copy of “Animal Farm,” Ama-zon wouldn’t have crawled into

my bedroom window and stolen it from my bedside table. And, no, I’m not advocating keeping illegal copies of material, but there’s a limit of what companies should be able to do (and, to be fair, Amazon eventually said they wouldn’t do it again). But that doesn’t mean that something sim-ilar can’t happen somewhere else.

Sure, no one really owns Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings except for those who created the world or hold the rights to the creations. But with real books, we have more guaranteed control over our copies of the source material.

We can lend our books for as long as we want. If we want to sell a book, we can. We can be assured that if we annotate the pages, our work will not be destroyed so long as the book is intact.

E-books may be convenient, but they have too many strings at-

tached and too many phrases in their licens-ing agree-ments that make me

formulate conspiracy theories of how companies can take away the freedom I’m used to having. With a real book, the only fi ne print I have to deal with is copyright, and since I respect authors, I have no intention of violating that. The printed word means freedom.

And, to a degree, I don’t trust technology. I know, perhaps I should go live in an era without a computer. But let’s face it: bat-teries don’t last forever, hardware dies, bad things happen on the Internet.

So, whether it’s getting to the good part of the book and losing battery life because I forgot to charge an E-reader, or if the world

goes “Revolution” one day and the power shuts off, what good is an E-reader then, I ask you. I’ll still be able to read Charles Dickens by candlelight. And I’ll be happy about it. Until I burn my house down.

But really, E-readers have some merit. Obviously. But real books are simply better. There’s history in a book. You can see the pages where you stained them because you cried so hard or underlined a quote that meant something to you when you read it 10 years ago. You can see their age, the dog-eared pages and see your progress as you turn the pages.

The tangible object evokes memory: I can still remember when my dad bought me the Harry Potter series and hid it be-hind the tree during Christmas and reading my fi rst chapter book with my mom at the start of kin-dergarten (“Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase,” if you cared. You didn’t.)

Books are to inspire, explore, push boundaries and bring new worlds to life. And holding a novel in your hand better encompasses that than bland words on a com-puter screen. And maybe I’m just a little too trite and romantic, but it simply seems more magical as you open up the pages to begin an adventure.

This week, Sept. 30 through Oct. 6, is Banned Books Week,

a week dedicated to raising awareness to the ongoing fight against censorship. One would think a country like the U.S., which so often defends its right to do what-ever it wants to other coun-tries, would have defeated censorship by now.

But censorship is like a Marvel villain: it pops up everywhere and is impossi-ble to kill. In 2011, the A m e r i c a n Library As-sociation re-corded 326 c h a l l e nge s to library m a t e r i a l s , i n c l u d i n g books by Kurt Von-negut, Su-zanne Collins, Stephen Ch-bosky and Toni Morrison.

And those are only the ones in which someone cared enough to at least try to do something about it.

Librarians are constantly forced to move books to “se-cret shelves” or inaccessible sections because of commu-nity disapproval.

Here’s the thing: No one person has the right to lim-it my access to any book, regardless of material. The First Amendment includes my right to consume what I want to, not what a PTA mom wants me to.

But not everyone agrees. Last January, Arizona imple-

mented a state law banning all books from classrooms that were taught in Arizona’s Mex-ican-American studies curric-ulum because they were “pro-moting racial re s en tment . ” (And by the

way, why does Mississippi get all the bad press? Have you seen Arizona lately?)

In the new law, every-thing from Shakespeare to state-of-the-art textbooks to

Sherman Alexie was banned from the curriculum.

A laundry list of books in which Mexican-American students could see them-selves, abruptly gone simply because the Arizona state government was afraid of the power they could give to the underrepresented.

What Arizona did was un-imaginably bigoted and cru-el, but it won’t stop much of the good that was coming from that curriculum.

Ideas often prove impos-sible to quench, and banned books have a way of finding themselves in students’ pos-session.

Accessibility of all types of ideas and books is criti-cal to our freedom. Books can change our very founda-tions.

They can put us in oth-ers’ shoes, show us we’re not alone, give us a new way of looking at things.

Books empower us to do what we thought we could not. By their very definition, books change us.

Telling us which books we

can read is telling us who we can be. And I, for one, am not okay with that.

Banned Books Week is traditionally celebrated by reading a banned book. Personally, I’m challenging myself to read the entire list of banned books in Arizo-na’s ethnic studies program. So be a rebel and pick up a banned book this week.

But more importantly, stand against censorship. Our First Amendment rights are only rights so long as we protect and defend them.

EVERYBODY NEEDS TO CALM DOWN | ZACK ORSBORN THE SNITCH | HANNAH ROGERS

Whitney Knight is a junior majoring in English education. Se can be contacted at [email protected].

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ONE LITTLE SPARK | WHITNEY KNIGHT

E-readers offer book experience, affordable Real books evoke memory, timeless

Zack Orsborn is the life editor at The Reflector. He can be contacted at [email protected].

ZACK ORSBORNHannah Rogers is the editor in chief at The Reflector. She can be contacted at [email protected].

HANNAH ROGERS

Times are changing, and I’m all about going with the fl ow. E-books are just another way to read in these high-fl ying times.”

“Books are to inspire, explore, push boundaries and bring new worlds to life.”

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E-BOOKS VS PRINTED BOOKS

FACE-OFF

“World War Z” by Max Brooks

“War in Heaven” by Charles Williams

“The Green Mile” by Stephen King

“The Secret History” by Donna Tartt

“Through My Eyes” by Tim Tebow

“Salem Falls” by Jodi Picoult

“Who Moved My Cheese?” bySpencer Johnson

“The Casual Vacancy” by J.K. Rowling

“Steve Jobs” byWalter Issacson

“Mange, Prie, Amie” by Elizabeth Gilbert

Book censorship violates rights

One would think a country like the U.S., which so often defends its right to do whatever it wants to other countries, would have defeated censorship by now.”

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BY DANIEL HART

Contributing Writer

The most conceited thing about Michael Kardos’ website and the man in general, it seems, is how large his portrait on his website becomes when clicked upon. It fi lls the Internet brows-er with his headshot as it slowly loads. Other than that, nothing about Kardos, whether teach-ing in class or reading from his works, would suggest a smug-ness over his accolades: a review of his fi rst novel “The Three Day Affair” (about three college friends who commit an acciden-tal kidnapping and are tossed into a moral pressure cooker) in the Sunday New York Times is just a drop in the bucket.

His 2011 short story collec-tion “One Last Good Time” beat out “Salvage the Bones” (winner of the National Book Award for Fiction) for the 2012 Mississippi Arts & Letters Prize for Fiction. That aforementioned smugness would seem justifi ed.

But before all this writing and award-winning business, Mi-chael Kardos said he had other things on his plate: earning a music degree from Princeton

and playing as a professional drummer for eight years.

“I was in a band; we played in New York, and all around for a while,” Kardos said.

Kardos said he spent those years reading, writing and pick-ing apart his favorite works be-fore deciding to return to school with the intention of getting his master’s in fi ne arts in creative writing but not without a little fun fi rst.

“Once I knew I was going, I spent the last year playing drums in a Bruce Springsteen tribute band. It would not have been awesome if that was going to be the rest of my life, but I knew it was a year, so it was great,” he said.

Kardos said graduate school became a place to learn to write, fi nd a future wife and decide to purse a doctorate to become a university creative writing and literature professor.

“I assumed I’d spend three years obsessing and learning how to write and go back to New Jersey. I never knew I was going to teach until the middle of grad school at Ohio State. I met my wife there; we went to grad school at the University

of Missouri together. We were studying for comprehensive exams on our honeymoon, on the beach reading these giant tomes,” he said, laughing.

At a reading from “The Three Day Affair” on Sept. 18, Becky Hagenston, also a creative writ-ing professor with published short story collections, intro-duced Kardos kindly. In a later interview, she said she greatly admired the contrasts in “The Three Day Affair” and Kardos’ work at large.

“What I love most about Mike’s work — in his novel and his stories — is how he com-bines the darker elements of human experience with things that are just fl at-out hilarious,” she said.

At the event, Kardos said he would be reading a fl ashback sequence detailing the main character meeting his future partners-in-crime at Princeton, and signing afterwards.

“I thought I would read for around 30 minutes. Afterward I’ll be around, we’ll chat infor-mally, whatever you all want to do,” he said.

Post-reading, Kardos was in-deed hanging around. And in

line to cheese for the camera and get her copy of “The Three Day Affair” signed was English grad-uate student Rachel Mordecki, who said she took Kardos’ inter-mediate fi ction class as a junior at MSU after transferring from the Mississippi University for Women.

“When I was at the ‘W’ my creative writing professor told me that I wasn’t a good enough writer to be a professional writ-er. Intermediate fi ction was a last ditch effort; being in that class lifted my spirits about the whole thing,” she said.

One of the stories Mor-decki wrote for the class impressed Kardos, and she said his constructive and easy-going nature helped her decide to continue to pursue cre-ative writing.

“I wasn’t afraid to talk to him. It’s easy to go and talk to him in his offi ce about an issue; he’s really good about just listening,” she said.

Just as Mordecki told, an interview with Kardos in his offi ce was fl uid and relaxed.

And just as his portrait and his ways at the reading promised, the professional musician, award-winning, critically revered author and infl uential professor was nothing but sincere and grateful.

MSU teacher writes first novel

BY ALEX MONIÉ

Contributing Writer

“Looper” is a movie set in the year 2044 in which hired assassins, or “loopers,” kill targets sent from 30 years in the future by the mob. Joe (Joseph Gordon Levitt) is one of these “loop-ers” who excels at his job and reaps the re-w a r d s in the

form of money, women, fast cars and social status.

All is well until Joe’s future self, portrayed by Bruce Willis, is sent back and escapes.

Joe’s future self has his own mo-tives besides being killed and begins to wreak havoc in Joe’s present.

Take equal parts of great science fi ction time-travel movies like “Ter-minator” and “12 Monkeys,” throw in a dash of 2009’s “Push,” and view-ers are left with “Looper.” The movie

gets an “A” for effort but fails to develop a lot of necessary com-

ponents to make it great. If the story was

just about J o e

s t o p p i n g his future self from wrecking the present, that would be simple and make a good movie. Unfortunately, there is a side story focus-ing on a poor single moth-er (Emily Blunt) and her

10-year-old son that makes the story drift somewhere else.

What viewers can give “Looper” credit for is not letting the weight of the time-travel mechanic weigh the movie down. Levitt and Willis could have phoned this in, but each makes an effort to take on slight character-istics of the other to make it work. The two work well and almost in-spire sympathy if they were not hired killers.

The movie is very well laid out with enough action and twists to sustain itself. Hover bikes and weird weap-ons are present, but “Looper” always remains grounded and relatable. Every character’s motives are crystal clear,

and by the time the last act comes, the writers allow the story to

fi nish without more shocks. While the fi ctional future is not complete-

ly fl eshed out, enough is explained so the viewer is not in com-plete disbelief. Take it at face value: “Looper” is an extremely enjoyable movie with a more emotional core than expected.

“Looper” offers science fiction thrill ride

BY SHELBY PERANICH

Contributing Writer

The time comes around every four years where ev-eryone’s Facebook news feed is bombarded with political rants and sappy advertise-ments of candidates holding some religious item with the American Flag behind them. Yes, the time for the 2012 presidential election is here. Whether or not peo-ple participate in the trend of displaying political views on social networking sites, ignoring those who do is al-most impossible.

When it comes to getting passionate with politics on Facebook, Brandon Beatty, junior accounting major, said he does not post any-thing except the occasional political web link, and peo-ple who do sometimes are

not as informed as they may seem.

“I think a lot of times when people put their polit-ical views out there, it’s not fully backed with reason; they just kind of sound ri-diculous. When I see people write stuff, it’s too much opinion-based, not enough fact-based,” he said.

Regardless of which po-litical party these Facebook users are supporting or bash-ing, some people believe they deserve some credit for attempting to be active citi-zens in the government. Be-atty said even the drawn-out arguments on political posts are not always a bad thing.

“To me it’s a good thing because I think not enough younger people are involved. But like I said, sometimes it makes me realize how unin-formed people are,” he said.

Like every issue in Ameri-ca, there are always multiple sides. Although some people may agree a little politicking over Facebook is harmless, others do not feel that way. Ashtin Giambrone, fresh-man biomedical engineering major, said she is dissatisfi ed with what her Facebook news feed has become.

“When I think of Face-book, I think of photos and friends. Facebook just isn’t the right way to go about it,” she said.

Giambrone said she does not think social networking sites in general are appropri-ate places for people to dis-cuss politics.

“If it is continuous, I usually de-friend them, in all honesty. I really don’t care about their posts,” she said.

Some people have more

nonchalant outlooks on the issue of Facebook politics. A.J. Parks, freshman biolo-gy major, said she is not re-ally affected by people who post their views on social networks.

“Facebook is their free-dom of speech. If they want to have a political de-bate on there, I really don’t care,” she said.

While various Facebook users may even try to avoid their news feeds around the time of local or national elections because of the ranting and raving, Parks said it will never keep her from checking her Face-book when she wants.

“I can just ignore what people are saying if I don’t want to see it. I’m not look-ing forward to the election being over, I am just indif-ferent,” she said.

LIFE & ENTERTAINMENT

October is here, and cooler weather has fi nally made its way down to Mis-sissippi. The autumn season is synonymous with the return of football season, pumpkin spice lattes and leaping into a sizable pile of multicolored leaves. How is it fair such a beautiful season occurs during midterms? Classes unfortunately pick up pace during this time of the semester, which can often result with you feeling trapped inside classrooms and libraries. Need a place to escape the world of textbooks and PowerPoint presentations? Here are a few places around the Starkville area to enjoy the new season with activities that are both fun and frugal.

While you are out at North Farm, take a break at Veterans Memorial Rose Gar-den. Owned by Mississippi State as a resource and teaching site, the rose garden is also accessible to the public. Paved walkways through the beds give guests the opportunity to catch a glimpse of the various fall fl owers. A central gazebo provides shade and benches to take in the scenery. Pamela Collins, director of gardens, said a lot of color is currently on display since fall is the second bloom season for roses.

“Since the weather has gotten cooler, the roses are rebounding and they are put-ting on their fall display, which will remain in bloom until mid to late October,” Collins said. “At least until frost, you are going to have good blooms.”

The parking area for the rose garden located off Highway 182 will be available un-til further road construction for North Farm takes place within the next few weeks.

Feeling the need to get out and bike in the crisp air? Trails are located within the R. R. Foil Plant Science Research Center, commonly referred to as North Farm. Outdoor adventures coordinator Trey Harrison said the research park trails are one of his favorite outdoor activities in Starkville.

“The great thing about North Farm is that you can do the mountain biking trials, and then if you get a little worn out, you can get on roads and ride back at an easier pace,” Harrison said. “You can make it a three to fi ve-mile loop — however you want to do it.”

Trail running is also an option for those who want to brave the hills. The trails start by the sandy area near the entomology building inside the research park. An-other option is parking at the rose garden and riding or running the fl at roads until reaching the beginning of the dirt trails. Be careful visiting North Farm during this month because road construction is taking place for a new boulevard that will serve as a second entrance to the research park.

Consisting of 48,000 acres, the refuge provides several areas for relaxation and adventure. Bring a book and take advantage of the multiple reading spots while surrounding yourself with natural beauty and escaping into your literary world of choice. Past the parking area, the tall trees lining Bluff Lake present opportunities for long days spent in ENO hammocks soaking up the sunshine and cool breeze.

Lace up your sneakers or boots to go hiking through the refuge’s various trails. Located in the Bevill Hill area and consisting of a 1.75-mile loop, deputy refuge manager Kimberly Sykes and park ranger Andrea Dunstan said Scattertown Trail is their favorite.

“When you walk the trail this time of year, you get to see beautiful vistas with all the leaves changing colors for the fall season,” Sykes said.

Dunstan said a new tower looking over Loakfoma Creek is accessible for another beautiful view of the refuge. Though the tower cannot be seen from the road, fol-lowing the brick path through the Webster Memorial will lead to this spot.

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Dan Mullen has had over three years to produce a championship contend-

ing football team at Mississippi State. With three full recruiting classes now on the fi eld for the Dogs, Mullen and State fans are beginning to see his work pay off.

Bulldog fans have waited quite some time for an above-average football team. While the numer-ous SEC West losses in recent years have been tough to bear, I believe the wait is worth it.

MSU will have a record of 10-2 at the end of the regular sea-son.

State’s next game is Sat-urday at Kentucky, and coming off a bye week, the Dogs s h o u l d have little t r o u b l e with the Cats to move to 5-0.

But then the Vol-unteers of Tennessee come to town. Most people are chalking up this game as a win for MSU, but as Lee Corso would say, not so fast, my friends.

This season is do or die for UT head coach Derek Dooley. If he does not win a big game this year, I think Dooley will be headed out of Knoxville. After losing close games to Florida and Georgia, the chances for a key win are becom-ing more and more narrow.

The Vols know Alabama and South Carolina will be close to impossible wins, so the MSU game is a must-win for UT. Add that motivation to the fact UT will be coming off its bye week, and unfortunately, you get the perfect recipe for an upset in Starkville.

I’m counting State’s next game against MTSU as a homecoming win, moving the Dogs to 6-1.

Then it’s time to travel to Tus-caloosa. At this point, the Tide will be well on its way to anoth-er national championship, and I just don’t think State will be able to handle Alabama, moving the Dogs to 6-2.

Back home in Starkville, State will then host Texas A&M in the “Snow Bowl.” The combination of the Dogs new “Snow Bowl” jerseys and the fans’ welcome of the Aggies into the SEC will be just enough for State to slide by A&M with the win.

Week 11 will be the thriller for the Dogs as they travel to LSU. This is the year we will beat the Tigers. We already beat some Tigers, so might as well fi nish off the rest.

If you take a look at LSU’s schedule, you will see State’s game came at just the right time for the Dogs. The Tigers’ four games right before they face State are against Florida, South Carolina, Texas A&M and Alabama. Needless to say, LSU will be slightly worn out when Nov. 10 rolls around.

The Tigers’ bye week is the week before they play Alabama, so the Tide will consume LSU’s fo-cus. If they beat Bama, the Tigers will be so excited they will over-

look a hungry Bulldog team com-ing at them. If they lose to Bama — which they will — the Tigers will be devastated and consider

their season a failure.Either way, State comes out

on top in a close game where Mullen out-coach-

es Les Miles and Tyler Russell proves he is a big-time SEC quar-terback.

Standing at 8-2 and second place in the West, State will then host Arkansas.

Although the Razorbacks are in the

midst of one of the greatest let downs by a preseason top-10 team in college football history, you know they will get a few solid wins at some point. I’m just hoping one of those wins is not in Starkville.

I think the Dogs will come out ready to play and take care of the Hogs. Home-fi eld advantage will be a key in this game, which will be closer than expected.

At 9-2 on the season, MSU will work to prove the motto, “This is Our State.” The Egg Bowl will be a close one this year. I think the Rebels will need this win to be-come bowl eligible, but State will need it to reach double-digit wins.

In a hard-fought game in Ox-ford, which will feature four or fi ve interceptions by Johnthan Banks, State will come out with the win and end the regular sea-son 10-2.

Being the fourth best team in the SEC behind Alabama, Geor-gia and South Carolina, MSU will play in the Cotton Bowl against the second best team in the Big 12, Oklahoma (the tough start won’t stop the Sooners from mak-ing a big comeback in the Big 12.)

I’m tempted to say that after such a good season the Dogs may fall to the Sooners, but that would most defi nitely not be True Maroon — much like saying our record will be 8-4...

A record of 11-2 sounds amazing.

Diffi cult but doable. With a deter-mined coach and a hard-working group of players, this prediction may not be far from reality.

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If there is anything Dan Mullen and his staff are striving for in year four with the Dogs, it’s

“building championships.” After their fi rst win against a

western division team not named Ole Miss, the Dogs took a step forward in reaching their champi-onship goals and Mullen said the monkey didn’t jump off his back but more like an 800-pound gorilla jumped on. Come November, will MSU be able to handle the pressure and weight of the SEC and contin-ue its success?

By the end of the season, State will fi nish with an 8-4 record, and here’s why. Sure, I along with the rest of the Maroon and White love the defense and shout, “Johnthan Banks for Heisman,” but the best offense the Bulldogs have faced all year came from Troy.

The Bulldog offense hasn’t been exactly what fans had hoped to see since the Auburn game, and with a lack of production against Troy and South Alabama, the Dogs will need to get the offense going if they want to see more wins. One thing MSU does have in its favor is turnovers. The Dogs are +12 in the turnover margin, mostly thanks to a stout secondary defense, but they cannot rely on consistent turnovers to carry them the rest of the season.

MSU will have its hands full as it travels to Kentucky this week-end. The Cats have been known for home game upsets the last few seasons, including a scare to South Carolina last week, but the Dogs should be 5-0 as they return from Lexington.

Then comes Tennessee. The Vols hung 44 points and almost 500 yards in a boat race against No. 5 Georgia in Athens, and quarter-back Tyler Bray will be coming off an open date to prepare for a swing game for their season and hand the Dogs their fi rst loss.

MSU will rebound against Mid-dle Tennessee State, but the Dogs need to be careful as MTSU de-feated Georgia Tech last weekend in Atlanta (but what else do you expect from the ACC, right?).

State’s next three games are the epitome of what makes the SEC so competitive — a high-potent Texas A&M sandwiched between two road games against last year’s national championship game op-ponents. The Dogs will travel to Alabama Oct. 27 in what will be

College Game Day atmosphere worthy.

As much as I hate the Tide, you can’t ignore what Nick Saban has done in Tuscaloosa as he continues to reload his teams on his way to three national titles in four years. State will be given loss number two before returning home to welcome Texas A&M to the SEC.

A&M lost its fi rst game of the year to Florida, but since then, the Aggies have put up video game numbers. Redshirt freshman quar-terback Johnny Manziel will have just enough to keep the MSU defense off balance and escape Starkville with a win.

State will then take a 6-3 record down to Baton Rouge. So far LSU is a silent 5-0 and continually slipping down in the polls, but in my opin-ion, it’s right where the Tigers want to be. The schedule will be brutal for LSU as three of its next four op-ponents are in the top 10, and the Tigers will be coming off the show-down of the season against Alabama the week before the Dogs come to town. But something tells me LSU head coach Les Miles has not shown teams everything in the playbook, and the Mad Hatter still has some magic for the Tigers this season.

Next on the schedule is Arkansas. The Dogs should get back on the winning track with this one to get to 7-4.

Finally comes the season fi nale against the school up north. Ole Miss has already won three games so far (three more than I thought the Rebels would win), and a sea-son-ending win could make the Rebels bowl eligible. This one will be much closer than fans want it to be, but the Dogs will make it four years in a row and set the 8-4 fi nal record.

I called State fi nishing 8-4 with a Gator Bowl appearance against Wisconsin.

SPORTS STAT OF THE DAY: 50: THE NUMBER OF DIGS BY FRESHMAN ROXANNE MCVEY IN FRIDAY

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Soccer It was another tough weekend for

the Bulldog soccer team as it dropped

two more conference games.

Friday night, the LSU game went

down to the wire as State lost on a

goal that came on the 81st minute on a bit of a scrappy play where

one could argue the ball just bounced LSU’s way. Before LSU’s goal,

the game was an intense defensive struggle, featuring strong play

from both teams’ goal keepers. MSU goalie Skylar Rosson was out

of Friday’s game because of a red card penalty in the previous game,

so sophomore C.J. Winship stepped up to make the first start of her

career.

Sunday’s game against No. 6 Texas A&M went a little differently

as A&M got its two scores within the first 12 minutes of the contest.

Rosson returned to the goal and made some incredible saves to keep

the Dogs in the game. The Aggies outshot State 26-15 and kept

control of the game. The rain never let up for all 90 minutes of the

contest, creating a muddy field and undesired conditions for both

teams.

Volleyball Over the weekend at the Newell-Grissom building, MSU lost two

tough volleyball matches to LSU and No. 12 Florida.

Friday night’s match was a five-set thriller and included a record

50 digs by Bulldog freshman Roxanne McVey, who leads the SEC in

digs. Offensively, freshman Sarah Temperilli had a career-best 19 kills,

while freshman Taylor Scott turned in her fifth double-double of the

year with 18 kills and 20 digs.

Head coach Jenny Hazelwood said the high level of performance

was a reflection of the great week of practice her team had.

“I’m disappointed that we fought so hard and came so close to

breaking through with a big win, but I am proud of the how we

competed and battled throughout the match,” Hazelwood said.

The Gators kept their SEC record spotless Sunday with a straight-

sets win over the Dogs. Scott led all hitters with 10 kills, and McVey

led the team with 15 digs.

The Dogs will continue the pursuit of their first conference win

this weekend when the team travels to Auburn on Friday and takes

on Texas A&M Sunday.

Cross Country The cross country teams competed in the Notre Dame Invite over

the weekend, running against 10 nationally-ranked teams.

The MSU men’s team finished 20th and were led by John

Valentine, Philip Johnson and Curtis Kelly.

The Lady Bulldogs finished 15th behind team leader Renee

Masterson, who finished 33rd individually.

Up next for the Dogs is the Crimson Classic in Tuscaloosa Oct.

13.

Club Sports Over the weekend, the MSU club lacrosse team defeated

Memphis 10-9 in overtime. The club ultimate frisbee team lost

two games to Ole Miss. The club men’s soccer team won four

games, including a victory in the championship game over Tulane

in penalty kicks.

SPINK ON SPORTS | KRISTEN SPINK

Kristen Spink is the sports editor of The Reflector. She can be contacted at [email protected].

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John Galatas is the campus news editor of The Reflector. He can be contacted at [email protected].

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State’s next game is Sat-urday at Kentucky, and coming off a bye week, the Dogs s h o u l d

with the Cats to move

But then the Vol-unteers of Tennessee come to town. Most people are chalking up this game as a win for MSU, but as Lee Corso would say, not so fast, my

— which they will — the Tigers will be devastated and consider

their season a failure.Either way, State comes out

on top in a close game where Mullen out-coach-

es Les Miles and Tyler Russell proves he is a big-time SEC quar-terback.

Standing at 8-2 and second place in the West, State will then host Arkansas.

Although the

This is the year we will beat the Tigers...If you take a look at LSU’s schedule, you will see State’s game came at just the right time for the Dogs.”

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