“To be completely honest, I can’t even believe this is real life right now,” said Bella Ruth Steward, MSU’s newest Homecoming Queen. The results of the 2025 Homecoming and Senate fall elections were announced Tuesday night. It is reported that 4,818 students cast their votes in the election. Bella Ruth Steward was named Homecoming Queen...| The Reflector
For three and a half quarters Saturday night, Davis Wade Stadium pulsed with the kind of energy only a whiteout can deliver. From the opening clang of the cowbells to the final, tense snap, Mississippi State went blow for blow with No. 15 Tennessee and reminded the rest of the SEC how quickly the conversation...| The Reflector
Hollywood makes college summers look magical. Students linger on green lawns with guitars and frisbees, downtowns hum with music and neon, and even when classes end, the town stays alive with festivals, theaters and late-night diners. I thought that was what I would find when I crossed the ocean from Nepal to Mississippi State University....| The Reflector
The Starkville Oktibbeha Consolidated School District and Mississippi State University have signed a memorandum of understanding to relocate Starkville High School to the MSU campus. The agreement, announced at an event on Sept. 25, outlines plans for the district’s only public high school to relocate to a newly constructed facility on university property near Partnership...| The Reflector
Mississippi State University’s first chapter in its history is once again visible to the public. The cornerstone of the university’s original Academic Building, laid on Sept. 22, 1879, has been relocated to a permanent exhibit at The Mill at MSU after more than a century of being lost, rediscovered and stored away. The Academic Building...| The Reflector
“The Summer I Turned Pretty,” Prime Video’s fifth most-watched returning show of all time, recently came out with its season finale. After many months of waiting to see what the ending of this show would be, the wait is finally over. However, like most shows, controversy surrounds how it ended. In the show, Isabel (Belly)...| The Reflector
Theatre MSU puts on shows every semester that feature talented student actors, and this year, students performed “The Jungle Book” as part of the Lyceum Series on Sept. 26. in McComas Hall. Right off the bat, the curtain rose to a young girl dancing to Indian music. The dance was very interpretative and flowing, incorporating...| The Reflector
It is every man’s dream to start a collection of something. Some people collect jewelry. Some collect coins, and some collect clothes and other random things. Duffy Neubauer collects weapons and artifacts from the Civil War, and he displays his collection in his very own museum called the Starkville Civil War Arsenal. Neubauer’s museum, which he...| The Reflector
Morgan Robinson, director of Mississippi State University’s Institute for the Humanities, hosted a Sept. 24 roundtable, “The Great Balancing Act: Student Athletes at Mississippi State,” exploring how athletes’ habits outside of practice shape their on-field performance. MSU Athletic Director Zac Selmon, along with five student athletes, gave insight into their day-to-day lives. These Bulldogs were...| The Reflector
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On the walls of Saunders Ramsey’s office at Mississippi State University hang two quotes. “The Man in the Glass,” a poem by Peter Dale Wimbrow, emphasizes that satisfaction with oneself matters more at the end of the day than public recognition and approval. “The Man in the Arena,” an excerpt from a speech by Theodore...| The Reflector