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Parking garage, hotel also scheduled to be built

BY QUENTIN SMITH

Staff Writer

Mississippi State University’s con-struction workers have been work-ing on several projects: Lee Hall, the expansion of the football stadium and a parking garage.

Lee Hall and Davis Wade stadi-um are scheduled to be fi nished in 2014. The parking garage will not be completed until 2015.

Aiken Village, on-campus apart-ment style housing, will also possi-bly be renovated in the near future.

Dan Whatley, construction ad-ministrator, said in an email that these projects are making progress, despite weather setbacks.

“Progress is going well. The wet weather we experienced over the winter had the capability to cripple the schedules of the projects, but the teams worked through the is-

sues and managed to minimize the delays to their schedules,” Whatley said.

One of the major on-campus ren-ovations is Lee Hall.

Lee Hall has been under construc-tion since fall 2012 and is expected to be fi nished and ready for use by the spring semester of 2014.

Whatley said the building is being historically renovated.

“Lee Hall has been partially ren-ovated several times in the past but never had a full historic restoration,” he said. “This project is addressing the entire building and restoring it to its historic state.”

Another project that is also ex-pected to be fi nished in 2014 is the expansion of Davis-Wade stadium.

The stadium will re-open for the fall 2014 football season and will provide increased seating opportu-nities for fans. KAITLIN MULLINS | THE REFLECTOR

The expansion of Davis Wade stadium continues through the spring semester.

BY ALIE DALEE

Staff Writer

Sitting just off Russell Street across from Mis-sissippi State University’s campus, the Cooley Building stands as a symbol of MSU’s rich agri-cultural history.

The building stands in the fi nal process of being granted permission to begin building ren-ovations. The building served as a cotton mill until 1962 and currently houses MSU’s physical plant department.

MSU, in conjunction with the city of Starkville, has a three-fold plan to rejuvenate the building to serve once again as a bustling center in the Cotton District.

David Shaw, vice president of research and economic development at MSU, said the proj-ect is quickly progressing.

He said Castle Properties, located in Colum-bus, Miss., has recently been selected as the de-veloper for the project.

The Cooley Building renovation will feature an updated structure and boast a 2,000 occu-pancy conference center, with the additional two-thirds of the building serving as offi ce space for MSU and private businesses.

Mark Castleberry, project developer, said the 50,000-square-foot offi ce space will see some updates, while retaining its original historical structure.

“The exterior of the Cooley Building will really have little modifi cation with it being a historic building. You will see the windows im-proved... The bricks will be carefully cleaned and the mortar replaced and structural improve-ments,” Castleberry said.

Along with the renovation of the Cooley Building, a parking garage is in the construction plans for the east and west of the building.

The city of Starkville and state funding will supplement the construction of the parking ga-rage.

Additionally, a 110-room Courtyard Marriot hotel construction is scheduled to be built.

Shaw said the renovation team will relocate the MSU facilities housed in the metal buildings currently situated on the land planned for the Marriot.

He said the project is coming along well. Shaw said he expects the project to reach

completion within a two-year time frame.

MSU, city of Starkville plan to historically renovate Cooley building

Construction continuesdespite wet weather

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MOSELEY HALL MAKES IT OFFICIAL| At a dedication ceremony on Thursday, the residence hall formerly known as South Hall was officially named Mary Lyn and Niles R. Moseley Hall in honor of Mississippi State University alumnus Niles R. Moseley and his wife, Mary Lyn. The dedication ceremony featured speakers including President Mark Keenum, Bill Kibler, vice president of Student Affairs; John P. Rush, vice president for Development and Alumni; and Michael Hogan, Student Association president.

New dining option to join campus in 2014BY KAITLYN BYRNE

Managing Editor

Mississippi State University students will have a new cam-pus dining option in 2014.

Courtney Bryant, MSU Dining marketing manager, said the $12.5 million dining facility will be built behind Cresswell Hall, where the ten-nis courts are currently located.

“This will allow the south side of campus to have access to a residential dining facility,” she said. “The available parking and convenient shuttle stops will allow visitors to access the lo-cation easily.”

Bryant said the dining facility will feature an open-kitchen style of cooking, which will allow guests to see their food prepared from start to fi nish.

Unlike traditional cafeteria-style restaurants, Bryant said the facility will offer a Mongolian grill, a rotisserie and a fresh pasta maker, among other options.

“This is not your mother’s cafeteria,” Bryant said. “It’s a state-of-the-art facility with a focus on fresh products.”

Bryant said the building’s interior will hold 450 students with 100 additional seats on an outdoor patio.

Bryant said the facility will also feature a stu-dent lounge.

“This will offer students a place to relax be-

tween classes, meet to study or catch up on homework before heading to class,” she said. “The lounge area will also host a P.O.D. Ex-press, which is a smaller version of the P.O.D. markets that are located in the Union and Ha-thorn.”

Bill Broyles, vice president of Student Affairs, said the dining facility will accept both block meals and fl ex dollars, as well as cash and credit cards.

Broyles said MSU will begin the construction process in a few months so the dining facility will be ready to open in fall of 2014.

“We are looking forward to the ribbon cut-ting,” he said. “We really appreciate the feed-back we have gotten from students about this new dining option. I think they will love it.”

BY CHELLE TUCKER

Contributing Writer

The World Neighbors Association will present this year’s International Fi-esta on Saturday on the Drill Field of Mississippi State University from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The free event will begin with the “Parade of Flags” that will march through the Drill Field symbolizing worldwide unity on MSUs campus.

Following the “Parade of Flags” will be the crowning of Mr. and Miss Inter-national Fiesta.

This years activities will include a va-riety of events.

There will be authentic music, danc-ing and games representing many of the countries and their cultures. Also, an assortment of international foods will be available for purchase.

In case of the rain the event will be held at the Sanderson Auxiliary Gym.

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Wednesday, April 3• 12:00 a.m. A student was arrested on Highway 12 for possession of marijuana in a motor vehicle; manufacture, sell, deliver or possession of drug paraphernalia; driving under the influence; careless driving; and no proof of insurance.• 12:26 a.m. A student was complaining of stomach pains at Sessums Hall. An ambulance arrived, and she was transported to OCH.• 1:22 p.m. A student reported harassment by phone from an unknown person.• 9:36 p.m. An employee was arrested on Everglade Avenue for possession of marijuana, no driver’s license, no insurance, running a red light and probation violation.

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Whatley said he thinks stadi-um expansion will be valuable to campus.

“The benefi t of this project is that it is enhancing and restor-ing a focal point on this cam-pus for student, faculty, staff and visitor use,” he said.

Along with these two proj-ects, MSU will also start con-struction this summer on its parking garage which is sched-uled to be fi nished in January of 2015.

The garage will be built be-hind the YMCA/Post Offi ce building and will be a combi-nation between a garage and a classroom. Parking will be timed and anyone can park there. The rates will be $2 for the fi rst hour and $1 per hour after that.

Mike Harris, director of Parking and Transit Opera-tions, said through email the

garage will bring a much need-ed change to campus.

“It will allow those who come to campus and may not have a parking permit to park as one can do at the meters,” Harris said. “It will pro-vide visitor park-ing in the core of campus. This is a major need for our campus to have this type of parking in such a convenient loca-tion.”

While the oth-er projects have already started construction or are set to start, a new design for

Aiken Village is being sought, and adminis-trators are try-ing to devise an affordable plan for the res-idents.

Bill Kibler, vice president of Student Affairs, said a reason-able rent price is still being de-cided.

“We want to provide another on-campus op-tion for interna-tional students and families for a low cost. We want high quality housing but also want affordability for

the students,” Kibler said.

MSU plans to have road blocks this summer due to construction. George Perry Street will be blocked from the four-way stop on Barr Avenue up to the YMCA/Post Offi ce building.

This summer MSU is plan-ning to start designs on its new project Fresh Food Dinning facility, which has no expected date to be fully completed.

With all of the construction taking place, Whatley said he hopes people will continue to remain calm and be patient throughout this process.

“I think the university com-munity as a whole is anxious for the projects to be done as well,” he said. “We are excited about the enhancements we are making to these facilities, and we appreciate the patience and cooperation we receive from the community.”

“Some pieces of that can happen sooner than that, but for example the hotel could be built more quickly, but we have to tear down the existing structure and that will take some extra time,” Shaw said. “And the hotel doesn’t need to be fi nished before at least the outside portion of the Cooley Building renovations have happened because you don’t want to be having guests there and they be watching a big construction project out their window. And of course you need the parking deck to be able to have the hotel.”

Castleberry said he hopes the addition of the Marri-ot and the renovation of the cotton mill will yet again cen-tralize the community of the Cotton District.

“We’re trying to tie the community... The reason it’s called the Cotton District is because people used to work in the cotton mill. That (Cot-ton District) was the residen-tial, and the community was the workers,” Castleberry said. “The connectivity of making the Cotton Mill kind of the center for activities. We’re going to have an event yard there for festivals, out-door weddings and hopefully

some very exciting restau-rants.”

The fi nal piece of the proj-ect lies with the National Park Service. The Cooley Building is listed on the Na-tional Registry of Historic Places. The honor entails that all renovation proposals must be approved by the NPS.

The project’s most recent proposal was denied, but it was returned with modifi ca-tions that could lead to a fu-ture approval. Shaw said this was viewed as a positive by the team, and that once the project has gained approval, it is just a matter of “let’s make this happen.” He added there is a very positive momentum amongst all the parties in-volved.

Shaw concluded that the project is in a positive place, with a majority of the pieces in place for the renovations to begin.

“We’re right at a point right now where so much hard work has been done by so many peo-ple over a very long period of time,” Shaw said. “So it’s very exciting to be able to be at this point where we can say we just lack one little piece of paper to be able to have the entire proj-ect going and happening.”

I think the university community as a whole is anxious for the projects to be done as well. We are excited about the enhancements we are making to these facilities, and we appreciate the patience and cooperation we receive from the community.”Dan Whatley,construction administrator

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4 | FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 2013 THE REFLECTOR

The more political issues our country faces, the more opinions people

form. Every time these opin-ions form, someone posts them on a social media site with little or no regard for anyone else’s outlook. No matter your opin-ion, you are the only one who cares. And honestly, that’s the way it should be. Your opinion should be just that: your own.

Although there is nothing wrong with asking the opinions of others, you as a human being are responsible for your own opinion. I wish I could accu-rately describe how many times a day I scroll right past some-

one’s opinionated post on any sort of social media.

Go ahead. Admit it. You do it, too. Why? Because you don’t care. You shouldn’t care, either. One of the beautiful things about the human mind is its ability to form opinions.

In addition to forming opinions, the human mind is capable of disregarding other options. Once your mind has settled on a view, it is almost impossible to change it. Even logical reasoning is no match for a person set in his or her ways.

This isn’t my way of telling you to completely disregard

anyone else’s views or thoughts. By all means, if you are genu-inely interested, you should ask your friends their thoughts on a subject.

Their answers could easily shock you, or even infl uence your own thoughts. In fact, I encourage everyone to par-take in such discussions. Al-though, asking such questions should involve a certain form of open-mindedness.

Being open-minded is re-quired in these situations sim-ply because opinions are not a matter of right and wrong. In fact, the majority of opinions aren’t even justifi ed. I’m no stat-

istician, but I would caution to say almost everyone’s opinions are formed based on the beliefs with which they were raised.

I have often found myself in disagreement with the opin-ions of others at all. In keeping an open mind, you can have these conversations with little disagreement. That’s only be-cause I don’t see my opinion as the “correct” one. There is absolutely no way to verify that my opinion is superior to any-one else’s. If I can’t validate why my opinion is fi ner, what is the point of even entertaining such ideas?

Prying into someone else’s

beliefs requires a certain tact-fulness that is not always easy to exude. Differing opinions is no reason to endanger any sort of relationship. That being said, you can state you disagree without completely shutting down the other side of the dis-cussion. Telling someone his or her opinion is wrong is never a smart idea.

Keep in mind even though you are asking for someone else’s opinion, he or she may not be asking for yours.

Again: no one cares. I could easily sit down with (just about) anyone, discuss ideas and not be affected by his or her views

in the slightest. Sadly, some are more easily swayed than others. In that case, I suggest you pick a topic in which your beliefs are fi rm if you wish to partake in such conversations.

Just because the human mind has the ability to form opinions, does not mean that all human minds have the ability to deal with differing opinions.

Unfortunately, this is the case encountered most often on so-cial media. Without caution, a simple Facebook post stating or supporting your views can easily be construed as offensive to anyone of the opposing or neutral view.

CONTRIBUTING WRITER | CLAIRE WILSON

I was determined to make something special out of my spring break this year. I

found a ride to Tupelo, bought a Greyhound bus ticket to Talla-hassee and coordinated with my childhood best friend, a Flori-da State student, a road trip to Miami. The Wednesday before spring break I packed up my bags and hopped in the truck of a fellow MSU student who was nice enough to drive me to Tu-pelo, the location of the closest Greyhound station.

When we arrived in the town neither of us had ever visited, we searched “Greyhound bus station” on an iPhone. There were no results. I told myself not to worry as I checked and rechecked the name of the town on the boarding ticket in my hand. “Let’s stop at a gas station and ask,” I suggested.

The woman behind the count-er was friendly enough, telling us to continue on the road through four red lights and take a right behind the Bancorp building. We found nothing. Still in good spirits, we stopped at the Dollar General. The women working there were certain the station was past the railroad tracks on the left. We followed the second set of directions which led us to the same dead-end area as the fi rst. The dark, vacant street didn’t look promising. It wasn’t un-

til we kept our eyes completely peeled that we saw it: the shod-dy, run-down building with a billboard that read “BUS.”

I started laughing until we got out of the truck and walked up to the door where we found a sign reading, “Sorry, this station is no longer in service. We are now located in Saltillo, Miss.” There was a phone number post-ed. We called to fi nd the phone disconnected.

Panic found me, but we didn’t give up there. My anxiety height-ened on the 20-minute ride to Saltillo. I read and reread my boarding pass.

We stopped at the fi rst gas sta-tion after arriving in town, where we met some kind people who had never heard of a Greyhound bus station and were certain there was not one in their town. They thought there might be one near the airport in Tupelo, not in downtown where we had been. As nice as they were, they were not very helpful.

At that point, and not my proudest moment, I cried. I had one more idea, though. I looked up the number and called the Tupelo airport.

During my mini-breakdown, I asked the man who answered if he knew anything about a change in location of the Tupelo Greyhound.

“Oh, you know…” he said. “I

read something about that in the paper this week.” He followed up with fl awless directions which led us to a Texaco gas station. Upon entering, we learned it was the new bus stop.

When our two-hour ordeal was over, I realized what hap-pened: my choice of profession had been validated. My col-leagues’ work, the distribution of news, allowed me to reach my destination. As a journalist, I will make similar connections for others in the future.

This incident also proved to me one thing: newspapers have not died out, we have not lost use for them and they are con-tinuing to be valuable sources of information.

Sure, the man at the airport was older and therefore still reading the newspaper, but he was informed and without him I would have wasted $100 on a bus I was never able to board.

This might just indicate that the elderly are keeping them-selves better up-to-date than the rest of us. I hope not, consider-ing all the technology to which we have access.

The Internet is a wonderful tool for gathering news. I am not suggesting that to be informed we must pick up a physical print-ed copy of each daily newspaper.

However, maybe if we don’t, relying on our own Internet

searches will lead us only to the information we are looking for; not the general happenings of our surroundings.

The media we take part in is becoming increasingly targeted, allowing us to fi lter out what does not correlate with our inter-ests or apply to our lives.

This sort of modernized news-sifting will result in a population of individuals with knowledge in only what con-cerns them and limited under-standing of anything else.

The man who kindly gave me directions couldn’t predict he’d ever need to know the new Greyhound bus station location in order to save my spring break plans from total ruin. As a con-scious and curious citizen, he did anyway.

In order to be active partici-pants in our communities, we must have similar attitudes.

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Anna Wolfe is a junior majoring in communication. She can be contacted at opinion@reflector.msstate.edu.

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BY CHRISTIINE BOWMAN

Staff Writer

Mississippi State University stu-dents are buying tuxes and gowns as well as textbooks and calculators. Students engaged in college are re-sponsible for planning weddings on top of research papers and projects.

Caroline Cooley, senior psychol-ogy major, said she has enjoyed the

creative aspects of wedding planning but dreads the intimidating legal work.

“I am a little stressed about hav-ing to change all of my legal docu-ments to my married name, having blood work done, setting up insur-ance, fi nancial accounts and things of this nature,” Cooley said.

Bride-to-be Alyssa Harvey, senior broadcast major, gets hitched next summer. The most challenging part, Harvey said, is coordinating with her fi ancé who attends Oklahoma State University. Harvey said the couple has been living eight hours apart for the past two years and only see each other every few months.

“It makes planning extremely dif-fi cult because we want to make all of these decisions together, but we are hoping to get some things worked out this summer,” Harvey said, “I think that my fi ancé is more excited about using the gun to register gifts than anything else.”

Margaret Welsh, senior biomedi-cal engineering major, who has been engaged for eight months, will be married in June 2013. Welsh said to relieve the stress of selecting brides-maids she suggests keeping in mind which friends know the bride and groom best.

“I basically chose my bridesmaids by who had seen me and my fi ancé’s relationship develop over the past few years, and it was really hard to narrow it down to nine girls,” Welsh said.

Cooley said she decided on six bridesmaids and two honorary bridesmaids.

“Three of my bridesmaids are dear friends of mine whom I have known for a long time and the oth-ers are family. I always wanted an even number, an OCD thing, and these six girls just so happened to be the ones I am closest to in the world,” Cooley said.

Friends and guests can make planning fl ow smoothly for the bride by remembering to RSVP — a courtesy Welsh said college students often overlook.

“No one wants to go to a wedding reception that is short on seating or food, and this can be solved with a simple RSVP,” Welsh said.

Another potentially unforeseen struggle is the guest list. Cooley said her advice is to keep the list with you at all times.

“I keep a master copy of the guest list on my iPad so that if my mom thinks of someone to add while I happen to be in class, when she texts me I can just insert them immedi-ately,” she said. “I also keep detailed lists of all the invitation recipients for every shower, the ceremony and the gifts so that I will not forgot or misplace a name or detail.”

Cooley also said she rewards her-self for time spent on schoolwork with browsing the Internet for those perfect favors or bridesmaids dresses.

“Procrastinating is sort of inev-itable but, for instance, if I have

written three pages of my fi ve-page paper I will allow myself to call my vendors for the next hour, and then it’s back to the paper,” she said.

Cooley said looking forward to life with her new husband keeps her from getting bogged down in the stress of juggling school and wed-ding planning.

“When I am overwhelmed and want to complain about how busy I am, I just think about how I am getting married to the love of my life and that if my biggest worry is hav-ing to fi nish a few math problems, then I am blessed beyond belief,” Cooley said.

Harvey said her advice on getting engaged in college is to not rush things.

“There is no rule that says you have to get married right after you graduate or while you’re still a stu-dent. If they’re the one, then they still will be after college,” Harvey said.

Welsh said what she is most look-ing forward to about marriage is starting dental school and having someone who is always there to keep her motivated and walk through this next stage of life with her. She said students planning a wedding must remember to have fun with it.

“Don’t get caught up in the plan-ning and remember to enjoy being a student. Appreciate this phase and don’t try to wish it away. It is easy to get distracted by looking into what is coming up, but you might miss what you’re in right now,” Welsh said.

BY DANIEL HART

Staff Writer

Artwork will be displayed at Nine-twentynine Coffee Bar Saturday outisde of the design magazine pages littering the wooden tables. From 5 p.m. to 8 p.m “Ask 4 More Arts…and Coffee” will take place, an art show in the coffee bar’s base-ment featuring live music and artwork created by Starkville artists, photographers, sculp-tors, T-shirt printers and other artisans.

John Weichel III, sophomore communication major and co-planner of the event along with Faith Spann, sophomore communication major, said the show is a good opportunity to give credit to the Mississippi State University Department of Art as well as support an ar-tistic philanthropy.

“I go to Reformed Univer-esity Fellowship; I’m on the outreach team. It’s our job to put together events, and I’m very passionate about the arts and the arts community,” he said. “A lot of times our art department is really good, and they don’t get credit; I thought it would be a good opportunity to support the arts community on campus, because it’s going to be student work.”

According to the Jackson Public Schools’ website, Ask for More Arts is an organiza-tion that “emphasizes integrat-ing arts education into regular instruction in the elementary classroom.” Through the pro-gram, creative activities will be integrated into subjects like math, social studies and sci-ence.

Spann said she and John be-came friends through RUF and he approached her to help plan the event based on her interest in becoming an art curator af-ter graduation. Spann said her arts-related career goals got her involved in the event as well as Ask for More Arts itself, an organization she fi rst encoun-tered working at an art gallery in Jackson.

“I went to the gallery in Jackson I worked at over the summer, and they were hav-ing an exhibit for participants in Ask for More Arts Collab-orative and I thought it’d be great,” she said.

At the Jackson exhibit, Spann said impressive work from children learning under Ask for more Arts was on dis-play, revealing the program’s effectiveness at providing cre-ative outlets for students.

“I saw art from some of the kids participating in that col-laborative. It was really amaz-ing art, you could see they were inspired, and it was cool to see the foundation really helped them be able to accomplish that,” she said.

For Weichel, experienc-es taking arts classes in high school stuck with him. He said those remembrances cultivated his engagement with Ask for More Arts as the event’s char-ity.

“I was involved in music classes in high school. I did a ceramics class. It’s such a good way to learn and it’s a good outlet,” he said. “A lot of time creativity is moved toward the back and other things like math and science go toward the front, but in reality, it’s im-portant that we have creative outlets. If we suppress that, the world doesn’t look as beautiful as it should.”

As well as benefi tting Ask for More Arts, the event supports local artists by opening the show to all types of art entries. Spann said “Ask 4 More Arts…and Coffee” will exhibit a di-verse range of work, including live music.

“We asked for people to give us all sorts of art, not just paintings or drawings. Along with paintings we’ll have pho-tography, T-shirts, CDs, any-thing that people made them-selves,” she said. “It’ll be a wide spectrum of different things.”

Anna Ballard, senior art major, will be hanging prints in the show. She said she re-searched Ask for More Arts when she heard of the event and discovered a personal con-nection to the ideas fueling the program.

“I used to work at Mission First in downtown Jackson teaching arts to kids. None of those kids had had art before, so I think there’s a really big need for that,” she said.

After selecting a relevant philanthropy, while searching for a venue Spann and Weichel approached Nine-twentynine about hosting the event after spending time at the coffee bar since its March opening. Weichel said the owners of Nine-twentynine, Joe and Neil Couvillion, appreciate the arts and were supportive of the event happening at the coffee bar.

As well as offering music and art, Nine-twentynine will sell coffee at the event. Wine may be brought by attendees willing to pay a corking fee.

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Kirkland humbly manages MSU men’s tennis team

BY PATRICK BESSELIEVRE

Staff Writer

Although championships are won on the court, those who work tirelessly behind the scenes make them possible.

As the members of the men’s tennis team prepare for their fi -nal home match of the season and senior day hosting South Carolina Friday at 2 p.m., one senior preps for the match in a different way than the rest.

Senior Andrew Kirkland has managed the Mississippi State men’s tennis team the past two seasons, and in that time, his hard-working nature has certainly been on display. Kirkland has taken the role as a “do-it-all” team manager as he deals with all parts of the team.

Whether working late into the night on the upkeep of the facilities, running the so-cial media or driving players around, Kirkland fi nds ways to stay busy.

Men’s tennis sports infor-mation director Hunter Rich-ardson had nothing but praise while describing Kirkland’s time as a Bulldog manager.

“He really just does so much stuff for me. It’s not just me, but it is everyone on this team,” Richardson said. “I could sit here all day and tell you a thousand reasons how he makes my job easier. When it comes down to it, he is as essential to this team as the guys that are out there on that court and the coaches.”

Kirkland, a Locust Fork, Ala., native, got his start in working with athletics as a trainer in high school. Shortly

after coming to MSU, he start-ed work as a student trainer and was assigned to men’s and women’s tennis.

He continued that work for two years before accepting coach Per Nilsson’s offer to become the men’s tennis man-ager. Since then, Kirkland has defi nitely set the bar for all fu-ture tennis managers; however, he is very humble about his time with the team.

“A lot of people say I go over and above, but I don’t really feel like that,” Kirkland said. “I feel that I do everything that I am supposed to do and everything that I need to do for the sport to be its best. It is much more than just simply win or lose. It is also about how it looks and how the courts look. I believe that what I do helps the play-ers perform their best during a match.”

Junior tennis player Malte Stropp said he is especially ap-preciative of all Kirkland has done for him and his team-mates.

“I have known Andrew for two years now, and he is just an awesome guy,” Stropp said. “He does everything for all of us. He is collecting up balls, picking up our rackets and giving us water. He is just the guy for every-thing and has so much fun.”

The last two years have been a learning ex-perience for Kirkland. He went from not even considering ten-nis and applying to be a trainer to being the only tennis team manager for two years. Kirk-land said he has learned a lot of crucial life lessons in the

last few years in being with the team.

“I have defi nitely learned to take life one step at a time and that you really can’t plan too far ahead,” Kirkland said. “I never really saw myself working with tennis. Even after my fi rst year with the team, I had planned to just work this for a year and just get out of it. But at the end of that year, I realized that this is what I want to do. I didn’t

plan this at all; I never saw myself here. Seeing all these different people and different cultures has really given me a completely new view of the world, especially seeing them all come from other countries and become a family. That is what we are here.”

Kirkland plans to stay at MSU one more year and con-tinue his job managing and encouraging the tennis team.

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He (Kirkland) does everything for all of us. He is collecting up balls, picking up our rackets and giving us water. He is just the guy for everything and has so much fun.”Malte Stropp,tennis junior

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SCHEDULEPollorena relies on faith, family throughout adversity

BY JOHN GALATAS

Campus News Editor

Bottom of the ninth. One out. The score tied at 1. It was the perfect set up for what would begin a magical run for Luis Pollorena and Mississippi State’s baseball team. Pollorena stood at third base, just 90 feet from victory. With the crack of the bat, Pollorena retreated to third. When the centerfi elder made the catch, Pollorena tagged up and broke for home.

This is the moment the senior pitcher called his most memorable in an MSU uniform. Through illness, setbacks and transitions, Pollorena said this moment was made possible through faith.

Pollorena described his early child-hood as average. He was active and energetic. That all changed at the age of four when he was diagnosed with leukemia. He took over 50 pills a day and went through intense treatments. Through the ordeal, he recalled anoth-er moment that changed his life forev-er.

“I remember seeing a white light, just blinking and seeing a white light, and talking to God,” Pollorena said. “And he said, ‘What are you doing here?’ As a four-year-old, I don’t know.

How am I supposed to answer that? He said, ‘Why are you here?’ and I said, ‘I don’t know.’ He said, ‘You shouldn’t be here, you should be with your family. I have a plan for you.’”

In this brief moment, Pollorena was medically dead on the table.

“As the fl atline was going off, my mom said an old lady walked into the room and started rubbing my hands, my feet and my head. She said, ‘Don’t worry, keep faith, everything is going to be fi ne.’ That’s what she kept tell-ing my mother,” Pollorena explained. “As soon as she walked out and when the door closed behind her, my eyes opened. Two weeks later, they said it was a miracle. I had beaten cancer and been cleared of it.”

The 5’9” Laredo, Texas, native devel-oped a love for the game of baseball and found himself at Marion Military Insti-tute, a small junior college in Alabama. Pollorena said having to perform the military responsibilities at Marion cre-ated an escape on the diamond.

“At fi rst I didn’t like it, waking up early and having to march. At the time I didn’t realize it, but it’s what made baseball fun. Not liking the military part and having to do all that, when you get to the baseball fi eld, it’s what it’s supposed to be – it’s having fun,” he said.

Pollorena had a phenomenal fi rst year at Marion and was tabbed confer-ence player of the year. It was this acco-lade that helped him land a scholarship at MSU the following season.

He described the transition as dif-fi cult when he fi rst stepped on to an SEC baseball fi eld, but the confi dence he developed in junior college returned as he became more comfortable to the scene. He now has evolved his role on

the team as a utility player. He pitch-es, hits, runs and fi elds and will be the Bulldog starter on the mound Friday in the series opener against Florida.

“In little league I was the guy who always wanted the ball. That’s just the competitor in me. I want to win. I will do anything to win,” he said.

Pollorena’s spirit and effort has also caught the attention of his coaching staff. MSU head coach John Cohen said Pollorena always displayed the at-titude of a team player. He is the fi rst out of the dugout between innings, and he acquired a role as the cheerlead-er of the team.

“He’s somebody who brings a lot of energy. He’s someone who works extremely hard. He’s somebody who’s had incredible life experiences, and he’s somebody who is a tremendous athlete. He’s very special to our base-ball program. I think everybody on our team relates to Pollo in one way or another,” Cohen said. “He’s very versatile, very much a student of the game. He’s somebody who I think has a profes-sional future.”

He embraced the same attitude when called upon to pinch run in a game against Tennessee last sea-son. In the bottom of the ninth inning, Pollorena tagged up, dashed down the third-base line, beat the throw from the center-fi eld and slid into home for the winning run.

“I just remember scoring

the winning run, and me and Hunt-er (Renfroe) just locked eyes. We just smiled and said, ‘We have a chance to do something special.’ It really im-pacted my life. That was where I said, ‘We’re going to do something special,’ and God-willing, we did win the SEC championship,” he said.

Off the fi eld, Pollorena volunteers his time assisting students with dis-abilities at the MSU ACCESS Pro-gram with teammate Kendall Grave-man. He said seeing the smiles of these students brings him back to earth and even helps him through his worst games.

“Whenever we have a bad game and we see them, we have to remember how sweet this life is, how blessed we are, how grateful we should be for this life,” he said. “Those kids brighten up my day every time I see them. They each hold a special part of my heart.”

Brecken Rush, MSU ACCESS instructor, said Pol-

lorena devotes

about two hours a day with ACCESS students and takes them to lunch and to the Palmeiro Center to play ball, writes them letters and tutors one of the students in a coaching class.

“Luis has been an inspiration to the ACCESS Program students and to me. He is a Godly man with strong faith and has endured much in his short life,” Rush said. “Luis is truly a blessing to me and to all he comes in contact with.”

Along with the inspiration from the students he works with, Pollorena said faith and family have been a big infl uence on his life. He has relied on faith every step of the way and trans-lates his beliefs to the game he loves.

“This game is a big part of my life, and I say it was a gift that God gave me; sometimes I think that’s what he meant when he said, ‘I have a plan for you,’”Pollorena said. “Sometimes whenever we face opponents that have 6’8” or 6’9” players and I’m pitching and I’m able to get them out somehow, I’ve always wondered why I’ve always been so small, and

my mom would say it’s just God showing how powerful he is, by

showing how he can work through something

so small.”

Luis Pollorena scores the game-winning run against Tennessee last season.

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