Jessica McHenry
News Editor
Mississippi University for Women opened a coffee shop on campus for students and faculty this semester.
Common Grounds, a shop that serves Starbucks coffee, opened successfully on Aug. 14.
“When we first opened it was smooth sailing,” said Adell Saffore, manager of Coffee Grounds. “But the very first week of business, our truck [that had some of our supplies] got stuck in Houston, Texas, because of the hurricane.”
Summer King
Photographer
If you are a student at the Mississippi University for Women— or if you are a member of the Columbus, Miss. community— then you might be roughly familiar with some of the W’s history. Nov. 10, 2002 was a terrible day for the nation, Lowndes County and the W’s campus. Tornadoes were ripping us apart. Unfortunately, the old athletics program couldn’t continue after this. In 2003 the W officially announced that intercollegiate athletics would be ending.
Anna Dudley
Reporter
This spotlight features Tatjana Matthews, head softball coach for Mississippi University for Women’s Lady Owls. Matthews, affectionately known as “Coach Tot,” is originally from Charleston, S.C. and started the position in January 2017. Matthews has a lifetime of wisdom and experience to guide her and the team through this experimental season ahead.
Casanda Anderson
Senior Reporter
After 15 years, sports have finally returned to The W. Coaches from various states are happy to be a part of this historical moment.
Coach Roxanne Hernandez, originally from Long Island, N.Y., is the head volleyball coach. Hernandez chose volleyball over basketball and started playing volleyball when she was in the seventh grade. She continued playing from middle school to college.
Robert Scott
Reporter
Audiences all over America flocked to theaters to see the film adaptation of Stephen King’s 1986
novel “IT.”
The novel had previously been adapted as a miniseries in 1990 but with the television
constraints, many of the core themes of the novel were not able to be explored. The film,
however, definitely does not shy away from them.