BY CARL SMITHNews Editor

The Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning Board of Trustees is preparing to review a policy change in January that could prevent a future interim university president from being considered a candidate during his or

her university’s presidential search.Under the new policy, interim presi-

dents could be considered for future executive positions that become avail-able after their temporary term leading the university. Also, interims can be considered for other executive jobs at different universities in the state.

Annie Mitchell, IHL director of

media relations, said the board approved the first reading of the policy change during its regular November meeting and approved to have the second reading in January.

The IHL introduced the proposed policy change on the heels of completing presidential search-es for Mississippi State University and Mississippi Valley State University.

Throughout the search, many mem-bers of various MSU constituency groups said the IHL created the allu-

sion that former MSU Interim President Vance Watson had an inside track for the top MSU job when the Board of Trustees named him interim president.

IHL Interim Commissioner Aubrey Lucas said the policy change will increase the size of future pools of presidential applicants.

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SA passes Aramarkevaluation resolution

BY COLIN CATCHINGS

Staff Writer

In the final meeting of the Student Association Senate Tuesday, the Senate passed two bills and nine resolutions, including a resolution to advocate re-evaluating the current system for meal plans and Flex dollars.

Off-campus SA Sen. Samuel Omoyege presented Resolution 75, the resolution to re-evaluate the meal system.

SA Vice President Braxton Stowe said Resolution 75 was the most important proposal passed during the ses-sion.

“Basically, President Coombs went to the [Faculty Senate] meet-ing and they were talking about this sit-uation,” he said. “We felt that we [the SA Senate] need to make sure that students have the statement on this issue, so we decided to draft a resolution up quick and get this in the agenda.”

He said Resolution 75 will question whether Aramark is efficient in giving high quality food service and is worth students’ investments.

“Is it worth the students’ money to go into the cafeteria and pay $8 for all you can eat when the service is bad, the food is bad?” Stowe said. “We need to make sure that if they’re going to take our money we need to make sure we’re spending it right.”

Senior biological sciences major Clint Nanney said the SA seems to be doing a good job, and Resolution 75 is a good idea.

“Some of the food seems to be high priced,” he said. “I think they could definitely look into that and lower some of the prices.”

A copy of the resolution will be sent to the Faculty Senate, Colvard Student Union director Eddie Keith, dining services director Jason Nall and Aramark.

In other business, off-campus Sen. Justin Ammon presented Bill 36. The bill will allow student organizations to use funds allocated by the SA for any purpose as long as the purpose does not conflict with the mission of Mississippi State University.

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College launches EDGEinitiative Program focuses on eco-awareness

and education

BY KYLE WRATHER

Entertainment Editor

This semester the Mississippi State College of Arts and Sciences launched a new initiative, EDGE, which will promote environ-mental friendliness and other educational themes.

EDGE is an acro-nym for enquiry — which promotes research — diversity, green for environ-mental friendliness and ethics.

Dean of the college Gary Myers said the initiative unifies the College of Arts and Sciences, which is the largest at the university, through com-mon goals.

“The EDGE initiative is basically a way of unifying the college and pre-senting the students with larger con-cepts to think about as they’re getting their [degrees],” Myers said. “We’ve got 14 departments, five centers and institutes and over 4,000 students. It’s very diverse; you go from physics on one hand to philosophy on the other.”

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Middleton receives humanity award

AAS director awarded ’09

teacher accolade

BY PATRICK YOUNG

Staff Writer

Stephen Middleton, director of the African-American studies program, received the 2009 Humanities Teacher Award Wednesday at the Mitchell Memorial Library. The Mississippi Humanities Council and the College of Arts and Sciences sponsored the award.

Middleton said he was shocked by the honor.

“I found out about three weeks ago, and I was stunned, speechless even,” Middleton said. “This has only been my second year here at the university, so I was surprised.”

Middleton was nominated for the award by the deans of the College of Arts and Sciences.

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