MSU graduates find success in local entrepreneurship

Mississippi State University boasts a number of successful graduates from best-selling authors to professional sports players to Supreme Court justices. Full story

Coming Out: Religious institutions include LGBTQ community

Opinions on same-sex marriage shift

Buren Blankenship, pastor of Trinity Presbyterian Church in Starkville, Miss., recently asked a group in his youth Sunday school class, “What does a person have to do to earn God’s love?”  Someone replied, “Be born.” Full story

Maroon outlasts White, takes annual spring scrimmage

Despite an early first quarter deficit, the Maroon team surged in the second half to defeat the White team 38-28 in Mississippi State University’s annual spring game. Full story

Feast Your Eyes: Senior Graphic design students serve ‘design stew’

With the tagline “Come See What’s Cookin’,” one might expect the Bachelor of Fine Arts Graphic Design Thesis Exhibition to be a somewhat gustatory experience. Tuesday’s opening reception begins at 5:30 p.m. in the Department of Art Gallery in McComas Hall and continues in the Visual Arts Center for the evening’s remainder. There may be food at the event, but the students crafting the exhibition have been whipping up graphic design stew, as they call it, rather than beef stew. The galleries will display walls of calendars, posters and T-shirt designs rather than tables of crème brûlée and beignets. Full story