MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY

'Mississippi State University' is a land-grant university located in north east-central Mississippi, United States, in the town of Starkville and is situated 125 miles (200 kms) northeast of Jackson and 23 miles (37 kms) west of Columbus. In attendance, it is the largest university in the state.[3]

History

Lee Hall at Mississippi State University

The University began as The Agricultural and Mechanical College of the State of Mississippi (or Mississippi A&M), one of the national land-grant colleges established after Congress passed the Morrill Act in 1862. It was created by the Mississippi Legislature on February 28, 1878, to fulfill the mission of offering training in "agriculture, horticulture and the mechanical arts . . . without excluding other scientific and classical studies, including military tactics." The university received its first students in the fall of 1880 in the presidency of General Stephen D. Lee.
In 1887 Congress passed the Hatch Act, which provided for the establishment of the Agricultural Experiment Station in 1888. The Cooperative Extension Service was established in 1914 by the Smith-Lever Act. The university has since had its mission expanded and redefined by the Legislature. In 1932, the Legislature renamed the university as Mississippi State College.
By 1958, when the Legislature again renamed the university as Mississippi State University, the Graduate School had been organized (1936), doctoral degree programs had begun (1951), the School of Forest Resources had been established (1954), and the College of Arts and Sciences had replaced the General Science School (1956).
In July 1965, Richard Holmes became the first African-American student to enroll at Mississippi State University.
The School of Architecture admitted its first students in 1973, the College of Veterinary Medicine admitted its first class in 1977. The MSU Vet school (commonly referred to as the CVM) is the largest veterinary school in the nation under one roof.
The School of Accountancy was established in 1979.
The University Honors Program was founded in 1968 in order to provide more rigorous course curricula for academically talented students, as well as to facilitate guest lecture series, forums, and distinguished external scholarships. The program has been vastly expanded to form its own college after Bobby Shackouls, an MSU alumnus and retired CEO, donated US$10 million to found the Judy and Bobby Shackouls Honors College in April 2006.

Presidents

Main articles: List of Presidents of Mississippi State University

University campus

Mississippi State University is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award baccalaureate, master's, specialist, and doctoral degrees.
Today, the university has the following colleges:

★ 'College of Agriculture and Life Sciences'

★ 'College of Architecture Art and Design'

★ 'College of Arts and Sciences'

★ 'College of Business and Industry'

★ 'College of Education'

★ 'James Worth Bagley College of Engineering'

★ 'Shackouls Honors College'

★ 'College of Forest Resources '

★ 'College of Veterinary Medicine'
As of Fall 2006, the current total enrollment of Mississippi State is 16,206. The university contains 160 buildings, and the grounds of the university comprise about 4,200 acres (17 km²), including farms, pastures, and woodlands of the Experiment Station. The university also owns an additional 80,000 acres (320 km²) across the state.
Mississippi State University also operates an off-campus, degree-granting center in Meridian where both undergraduate and graduate programs are offered. In cooperation with the U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, the College of Engineering offers the Master of Science degree to students in Vicksburg.
Mississippi State's campus is centered on the main quadrangle, called the ''Drill Field'' (pictured) due to its heavy use by the ROTC. The Drill Field is defined at its north and south ends by the mirror-image buildings, ''Lee Hall'' (the original University building, now the division of languages building, far left in picture below) and ''Swalm Hall'' (home to the Dave C. Swalm School of Chemical Engineering, far right in picture below). Old Main was the original dormitory, west of Lee Hall; it burned in a tragic fire, and was replaced by the Colvard Student Union. The largest building fronting the Drill Field is Mitchell Memorial Library (immediately to right of flagpole in picture below).

The Drill Field and surrounding buildings

From the Drill Field, the campus radiates in all directions. The College of Engineering can be found mostly to the east side of the Drill Field; to the north are the Arts and Sciences, including Computer Science, and the College of Architecture, Art, and Design (CAAD). Humanities are found to the south, while Agriculture dominates the west section. To the west and northwest are also found the athletic facilities, including Scott Field and the Humphrey Coliseum, or ''The Hump''.
Beyond the main campus (and the series of commuter parking lots ringing the main campus) are the North and South Farms. While still used for their original purpose of agricultural research, the Farms are also host to newer facilities, such as the astronomical observatory and Veterinary College (South Farm) and the Engineering Research Center (North Farm). At the far west of campus, one finds first the fraternity and sorority houses, and beyond them the Cotton District and downtown Starkville, Mississippi.

Student life

Housing

Residence halls at Mississippi State University:

★ Aiken Village - Family and Graduate Student

★ Arbour Acres Apts. - Graduate/Upperclass Co-residential

★ Building 3 - Freshman/Upperclass Co-Residential

★ Cresswell Hall - Freshman/Upperclass Men

★ Critz Hall - Freshman/Upperclass Co-residential

★ Evans Hall - Freshman/Upperclass Men

★ Griffis Hall - Freshman/Upperclass Co-residential[Honors]

★ Hathorn Hall - Freshman/Upperclass Men

★ Hull Hall - Freshman/Upperclass Co-residential[Honors]

★ Hurst Hall - Freshman/Upperclass Co-residential

★ McKee Hall - Freshman/Upperclass Women

★ Rice Hall - Freshman/Upperclass Women

★ Ruby Hall - Freshman/Upperclass Co-residential

★ Sessums Hall - Freshman/Upperclass Women

★ Suttle Hall - Freshman/Upperclass Men

Student organizations

The most prominent student organization is the Student Association, the governing body for MSU's 16,000 student body. Other prominent organizations include 18 fraternities and 11 sororities, the Residence Hall Association, the Black Student Alliance, the Campus Activities Board, Music Makers, the Engineering Student Council, Arnold Air Society, the Stennis-Montgomery Association.

Student Media

Mississippi State's local radio station is
WMSV. Prior to WMSV, Mississippi State
had a student-run radio station, WMSB which went off the air
permanently at the end of the spring semester of 1986. WMSB was a
low-power FM station with studios on the top floor of Lee Hall.
The student newspaper is the Reflector,
published once a week. The publication was named the #1 college
newspaper in the South in 2007 by the Southeast Journalism Conference.
In previous years, The Reflector has consistently ranked in the top 10
among college newspapers in the southern United States.

Greek life

Mississippi State's Greek system comprises 18 fraternities and 11
sororities. Fraternities and sororities take part in a number of
philanthropic programs and provide social opportunities for students.
Formal rush takes place at the start of every fall semester.
'IFC Fraternities'

★ Alpha Gamma Rho ★ Alpha Tau Omega ★ Delta Chi ★ FarmHouse ★ Kappa Alpha Order ★ Kappa Sigma ★ Lambda Chi Alpha	★ Phi Delta Theta ★ Phi Gamma Delta ★ Pi Kappa Alpha ★ Sigma Alpha Epsilon ★ Sigma Phi Epsilon ★ Sigma Chi ★ Sigma Nu

'Other Fraternities'

★ Beta Upsilon Chi

★ Theta Tau
'Panhellenic Sororities'

★ Chi Omega ★ Delta Delta Delta ★ Delta Gamma ★ Kappa Delta	★ Phi Mu ★ Zeta Tau Alpha ★ Delta Xi Phi

'Other Sororities'

★ Sigma Phi Lambda
'National Pan - Hellenic Organizations'

★ Alpha Phi Alpha ★ Alpha Kappa Alpha ★ Delta Sigma Theta ★ Phi Beta Sigma ★ Iota Phi Theta	★ Omega Psi Phi ★ Sigma Gamma Rho ★ Zeta Phi Beta

Athletics

Main articles: Mississippi State Bulldogs

The Bulldogs participate in NCAA Division I in the competitive 12-member
Southeastern Conference (West Division) under the mascot
''Bulldog'' and colors maroon and white.
The university made history on December 1, 2003, when it hired
Sylvester Croom as its head football coach. Croom was the first
African-American named to such a position in the history of the
SEC.
On June 8-9, 2007, the Mississippi State Diamond Dogs hosted the
Clemson Tigers in the Starkville Super Regional baseball
series. This was the first Super Regional ever held in Starkville.
Attendance to Saturday's game was 13,715, the highest attendance ever
at any Super Regional game. It was MSU's fourth best-attended baseball
game.

Accolades

★ The university has produced 16 Truman Scholars and is one of 38
universities recognized by the Truman Foundation as an honor
institution. The competitive Truman Scholarships are awarded to those
who plan a career in public service. (2003)

★ Mississippi State has had eight Barry M. Goldwater Scholars
since 1999. The national scholarship recognizes academic excellence in
the sciences, mathematics and engineering. (2003)

★ Mississippi State has also produced George Mitchell, Ronald Reagan, and Morris Udall Scholars.

★ Mississippi State ranks among the top 15 in the nation in
awarding bachelor's degrees in both engineering and education to
African-Americans, according to Diverse Issues in Higher Education.

★ Mississippi State is among the nation's 100 "Baccalaureate
Bargains" for 2002, according to Kiplinger's Personal Finance
magazine. (2003)

Interesting facts

★ MSU was once home to the world's largest dormitory, Old Main. It burned to the ground on
the night of January 22, 1959. Of the nearly 1,100 students in the dorm
that night, all except for one, Henry Allen Williamson, were able to
escape the flames. Bricks from the ruins of Old Main were used to
construct the campus' famous Chapel of Memories

★ About one-fourth of the teachers and administrators in Mississippi
public schools hold at least one degree from Mississippi State. (2003)

★ Clemson University founder Thomas Green Clemson directed in
his will in 1888 that the University be modeled after Mississippi
A&M.

★ Machine Gun Kelly sought to enroll at MSU after finishing at the
campus prep-school.

★ MSU is currently the holder of the Golden lamp of knowledge, which
is awarded to the winner of Quiz Bowl games between MSU and the
University of Mississippi. MSU recently won it in competition at the
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, winning 240-100.

Notable Alumni

John Grisham

Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn

; Public service and activism

★ Marsha Blackburn, United States House of Representative,
representing Tennessee
★ Cynthia
Cooper, 2002 Time Person(s) of the Year

★ Jess Dickinson, Mississippi Supreme Court Justice

★ Charles D. Easley, Mississippi Supreme Court Justice

★ Bill Hawks, Former USDA Undersecretary, Marketing and Regulatory
Programs

★ Kay Katz, Louisiana Republican National Committeewoman; member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Monroe

★ Mark Keenum, USDA Undersecretary, Farm and Foreign Agricultural
Service.
★ Rhonda Keenum, Assistant to President George W. Bush
(43) and Director of White House Public Liaison

★ G.V. "Sonny" Montgomery, Former U.S.
Representative and author of the Montgomery G.I. Bill

★ Hunter Moorhead, Special Assistant to President George W. Bush for
Agriculture

★ Billy McCoy, Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives

★ Jim Newsome, President of the New York Mercantile Exchange
★
John C. Stennis, Former U.S. Senator and "Father of the Modern
Navy"

★ Amy Tuck, Mississippi Lieutenant Governor

★ William Waller Jr., MS Supreme Court Justice

★ Tim Wildmon, President, American Family Association

★ 11 Members of the Mississippi State Senate
; Academia

★ James Cofer, President of the University of Louisiana at Monroe

★ Prescilla Dean Slade, President of the Texas Southern University

★ Vivian Presley, President of Coahoma Community College

★ Malcolm Portera, Chancellor of the University of Alabama System

★ Louis H. Turcotte, Vice President of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

★ Frances Lucas, President of Millsaps College

★ Donald M. Rawson, Dean of the Graduate School, Northwestern State University at Natchitoches, Louisiana
; Literary

★ Turner Catledge, former Vice - President of The New York Times

★ John Grisham, Author

★ Gregory Keyes, Author

★ Donna Ladd, Award-Winning Journalist

★ Mike Adams, Townhall.com
columnist and author of the ''Ivory Tower of Babel''

★ Lewis Nordan, Author

★ Paul Ruffin,
Author, Editor-in-Chief of ''The Texas Review''
; Business

★ George Bryan, Sara Lee Corporation Vice - President and Organizer
for the 54th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship

★ Fred Carl, Jr., Founder and CEO of Viking Range

★ Toxey Haas, Founder and CEO, Mossy Oak Outdoors

★ Ronnie Parker, Founder of Pizza Inn

★ Hartley Peavey, Founder of Peavey Electronics

★ James L. Flanagan, (1948), technical pioneer in speech transmission
and acoustics

★ Joe Frank Sanderson, co-founder of Sanderson Farms

★ Leo Seal, CEO Hancock Holding Company (Hancock Bank)

★ Arthur L. Williams, Jr. Insurance Magnate, #583 on the Forbes
list of the World's Billionaires
★ Richard C. Adkerson, CEO of
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.
; Sports

★ Jeff Brantley, Former Major League Baseball Relief Pitcher,
currently a commentator for the Cincinnati Reds.

★ Will Clark, Former 1st Baseman for San Francisco Giants,
St. Louis Cardinals, & Texas
Rangers

★ Johnnie Cooks, Former NFL Star

★ Hugh Critz, Notable 2nd Basemen for Cincinnati Reds (1920s)
and the New York Giants (1930s)

★ Erick Dampier, Dallas Mavericks Center

★ David Dilardi, Major League Baseball Player

★ Sammy Ellis - Former Major League Baseball Pitcher - 7
seasons.

★ Buddy Elrod - All-American End.

★ Dave "Boo" Ferriss - Former Major League Baseball Player

★ Joe Fortunato - Five-time Pro Bowler with the Chicago Bears.

★ Steve Freeman - Former Buffalo Bills defensive back for 13
seasons and current NFL game official.

★ Tom Goode - Former NFL Center. Super Bowl veteran.

★ Alex Grammas, Major League infielder for the St. Louis Cardinals and Cincinnati Reds and manager of
the Pittsburgh Pirates and Milwaukee Brewers

★ Hoyle Granger - Former NFL Running Back.

★ Justin Griffith - Fullback for the Oakland Raiders.

★ Michael Haddix - Former NFL Running Back.

★ Mario Haggan – NFL linebacker

★ Ron Hill - Vice President of the National Football League

★ Bailey Howell, NBA Hall of
Famer

★ Kent Hull, Former Buffalo Bills Pro Bowl center

★ Tyrone Keyes, Former Chicago Bears and Super Bowl veteran

★ D.D. Lewis - Former All-Star Linebacker Dallas Cowboys.
Member of the College Football Hall of Fame.

★ Paul Maholm - Major League Baseball Pitcher. 2003 first round
draft pick (8th overall).

★ Jeff Malone - NBA-former
player from 1984-1996 with the Washington Bullets, Utah Jazz, Philadelphia 76ers, and Miami Heat. All-Star in
1986 and 1987.

★ Fred McCrary - NFL Running back.

★ Bo McKinnis - Sports agent.

★ Eric Moulds – NFL Pro Bowl wide
receiver

★ Buddy Myer - Major League Baseball 2-time All-Star second baseman

★ Tom Neville - Former NFL Offensive Tackle - 14 seasons.

★ Jerious Norwood – NFL running back
for the Atlanta Falcons

★ Rafael Palmeiro - Major League Baseball Player

★ Jonathan Papelbon - Major League Baseball Pitcher

★ Jackie Parker - Former All-Star Quarterbck CFL. Member of the College Football Hall of Fame.

★ Jay Powell - Former Major League Baseball Relief Pitcher - 11
seasons, and World Series veteran.

★ Don Magruder Scott - Olympic Sprinter.

★ Buck Showalter, former baseball manager

★ Barrin Simpson - National Football League linebacker

★ Fred Smoot - National Football League cornerback

★ Walter Suggs - Former All-Star Lineman for Houston Oilers.

★ Bobby Thigpen Former Major League Baseball Relief Pitcher

★ Del Unser - Major League Baseball former outfielder for the
Washington Senators, Cleveland Indians, Philadelphia Phillies, New York Mets, and Montreal Expos. Won World Series with Phillies in 1980

★ Jimmy Webb - Former NFL Defensive
Lineman - 7 seasons.

★ Jonathan Wing - Former Professional Volleyball Star
; Other

★ Frank K. Spain, Founder of Tupelo television station
WTVA; broadcasting pioneer

★ Jerry Clower, Comedian

★ Rich Fields, Broadcaster and current announcer of the American
television game show ''The
Price is Right''[4]

★ Sean McLaughlin, MSNBC Chief Meteorologist

★ 4 of 6 NBC Weather Plus Anchors

References

★
"Dudy class=wikiexternal target=_blank>Noble Field, Polk Dement Stadium"

★ "Mississippi class=wikiexternal target=_blank>State Alumnus," Summer 2006

★ "Mississippi class=wikiexternal target=_blank>State Alumnus," Fall 2006

★ "Mississippi class=wikiexternal target=_blank>State Alumnus," Spring 2007

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