Toni Burkett

Reporter

On Friday, Sept. 18, the Starkville-Mississippi State University Symphony Orchestra performed at Rent Auditorium for the Southern Talent String Symposium II. 

The program included pieces composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Camille Saint Saens and Franz Shubert. The music director was Dr. Michael R. Brown, a professor of music at MSU. Dr. Jim Borsig, president of The W, was the narrator for the arrangement known as "Carnival of the Animals." Accompanying the orchestra were Dr. Valentin Bogdan and Dr. Julia Mortyakova, both of the MUW Department of Music. Mortyakova serves as chair of the department.

Dylan Scott

Reporter

Mississippi University for Women continues to fly the state flag, despite recent controversy involving the Confederate battle flag and the massacre at a church in Charleston, S.C.

The mass shooting of nine people in South Carolina was the tipping point that got many Americans talking about whether the Mississippi flag should be redesigned. The massacre was widely regarded as a hate crime by gunman Dylann Roof, who hosted a website that had multiple pictures of him posing with the Confederate flag, along with other photos and writings involving white supremacy.

Monica Kizer

Reporter

The Rogue Social Club kicked off the fall semester with its first fundraiser car wash on Aug. 29 at the local AutoZone in Columbus.

Social clubs are a great opportunity to get involved and make lasting friendships, but the fees can be very expensive. The main purpose of this particular fundraiser was to raise funds for new and existing members, so they will not have to pay out so much of their own money during the semester.