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Mississippi University for Women

THE SPECTATOR

April 7, 2011

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Legal studies program receives law book collection of late Columbus attorney

Angelica Shields

News editor

The Legal Studies department of the MUW School of Professional Studies recently received a collection of law books belonging to the late attorney Joe Sams.

The books were donated to the university by the family of Sams, who recently passed. The collection was given at a presentation in Fant Library on April 19.

Dr. Mayfield, Dean of School of Professional Studies, Mr. David Smith, Legal Studies Professor, VP for Institutional Advancement Dr. Gary Bouse, and Ms. Gail Gunter, Dean of Library, were all present.

Also in attendance of the presentation were Ms. Cathy Young of Fant Library Services and Marcus Ferguson, a Legal Studies student and President of the Bench & Gavel Club.

Reverend Sandra DePriest, attorney and pastor of The Good Shepard Episcopal Church where Sams attended, was also on hand to represent the family.

DePriest says that Sams’s daughter, Leah Lumm of Memphis, relayed to her that she wanted her father’s collection to continue in its use instead of sitting on a shelf.

Lumm believed that the MUW legal studies department “was the best place for the books,” according to DePriest.

Students, as well as the general public, will have access to the collection, which will be kept in Fant Library.

CAMPUS

Zesty new classes added to Stark Recreation’s summer lineup

Angelica Shields

News editor

MUW’s Stark Recreation Center has added two new dance fitness classes, Social Dancing and Flirty Girl Fitness, for the summer term.

The classes were added as an effort to offer new interactive courses for fitness purposes, as the Recreation Center does each semester. The classes are for trial purposes to test out the popularity of both and develop new permanent fixtures in the curriculum.

Social Dancing teaches popular traditional dances such as the hustle, cha cha, swing and the waltz.

Flirty Girl Fitness, a widely popular program in fitness clubs, focuses on women's fitness to improve flexibility and freedom of movement as well as confidence.

There is a major misconception surrounding the program that it involves...

OPINION

Only just the beginning

Lizzie Locker

Editor

Traditionally, the last column of the year is reserved for the outgoing editor to discuss what he or she will miss or look forward to as they hand control of the paper over to a fresh editor. That is not the case for me, however. Due to some flukey positioning on the staff, I will be back again as editor next year, to plague the university administration, to badger my unwaveringly loyal staff and to harangue my new sponsor, whoever that may be.

It’s strange to me that I’ll be doing this job again. The truth is, I didn’t really want to do it in the first place. I felt woefully unprepared and unwilling. But here I am, one year later, itching to get back to the office this August and start all over again.

I’ve learned a lot in my year of editorship. And when I say a lot, I mean A LOT. I have made a lot of mistakes, done a lot of things wrong, and gotten yelled at by a lot of people. But all those mistakes are mistakes that I won’t make again.

LIFESTYLES

In memoriam

Danton J. Thompson

Columnist

Though this school year has brought a plethora of amazing new games, tech and generally geeky products, the 2010-11 school year has also heralded the deaths of some of our favorite things to geek and gawk over.

Tech

In the past few years, both Nintendo and Sony have been aggressively attacking the handheld market with re-tool after re-tool of their top handheld sellers, the PSP and Nintendo DS. The first iteration of both devices were huge, hulking, battery life-consuming behemoths that were poorly received fashion-wise. It was a no brainer that in the future the portables would have to be much smaller.

Nintendo played it smart with the DS Lite and found a way to make their device smaller, but also found a way to retain every bit of functionality...