New Hope School Attendance Bounces Back Today
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ESTABLISHED 1879 | COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI C DISPATCH.COM 50 ¢ NEWSSTAND | 40 ¢ HOME DELIVERY TUESDAY | FEBRUARY 27, 2018 New Hope school attendance bounces back today No incidents reported Monday as authorities InsiDE “We don’t complete the atten- ■ OUR VIEW: On our handling of re- dance report until the end of the continue investigating social media threats cent social media threats. Page 4A day, but that’s what it’s looking like,’ he said. “On a typical day, BY SLIM SMITH Hope schools that had con- percent absentees,” LCSD Su- the absentee rate is less than 5 [email protected] cerned parents keeping their perintendent Lynn Wright said percent. So it’s still higher than children out of school Monday. late Monday afternoon. “There normal, but it’s coming down.” The Lowndes County Sher- The posts began circulat- weren’t any incidences or prob- LCSO Capt. Greg Wright iff’s Office, along with the Fed- ing through social media on lems. For the students who said his department began in- eral Bureau of Investigation Sunday as the LCSO began L. Wright G. Wright came to school, it was a normal vestigating the social media and the Mississippi Bureau of its investigation. Monday, the stepped up its presence on cam- school day.” posts early Sunday evening and Investigations, continue to look attendance dip was noticeable pus. The superintendent said the by 3 a.m. Monday had identified into a pair of social media posts at the elementary, middle and “At the New Hope campus- absentee rate today was about and interviewed several people that threatened violence at New high schools even as the LCSO es, we probably have about 50 10 percent. See THREATS, 3A Starkville RISING WATER Pride sues city of Starkville Seeks injunction against board’s denial of parade request BY ALEX HOLLOWAY [email protected] Starkville Pride has formally sued the city of Starkville. The suit, filed late Monday afternoon in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Kaplan Mississippi’s East- ern Division, seeks Deanna Robinson/Dispatch Staff Cline Pittman, 6, climbs on the rocks at the John C. Stennis Lock and Dam Monday afternoon. “The water is wild on this side an injunction against and calm on the other,” he said. His parents are Michael and Kerri Pittman. the Starkville Board of Aldermen’s vote on Feb. 20 to deny a request for a Pride parade planned for March. McDaniel Taking off ‘American glasses’ Federal Judge Sharion Aycock is presiding over the case. Roberta Kaplan, of New York Journalist Lisa Ling speaks at MSU about her reporting experiences at home, abroad law firm Kaplan and Company, is BYAB IS ELLE ALTMAN The boys didn’t know fire off those weapons,” Ling said. “It representing Starkville Pride as a [email protected] how old they were, Ling’s was a scene that continued to be etched whole, as well as organizers Bailey guide told her — but they in my mind, particularly as I came back McDaniel and Emily Turner. When Lisa Ling stepped off an air- knew how to operate a ba- to the United States and I tried to en- Starkville Pride is a grassroots plane in Afghanistan for the first time zooka. gage my friends and my colleagues lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgen- in 1997, the 21-year-old American jour- “It became so clear to about what I’d just seen in Afghanistan, der (LGBT) support group. nalist reporting for Channel One News me that day after day af- and no one had any clue that this scene Four aldermen — Ben Carver of was greeted by a throng of boys who ap- ter day, hour after hour, existed in the world.” Ward 1, David Little of Ward 3, Roy peared half her age, all of them holding those boys would just sit Ling It was with this image that Ling See LAWSUIT, 6A guns bigger than they were. there and wait for the opportunity to See LING, 6A Golden Triangle LINK courting 3 companies Development LINK CEO Joe for distribution center in Starkville Max Higgins talks with a Higgins confident industrial park table update on the site’s Starkville Ro- progress came after the tary Club mem- Rotary meeting concluded, ber Monday project will survive court battle at Starkville when Higgins confirmed Country Club. BY ALEX HOLLOWAY ing Starkville’s and Oktib- to The Dispatch that the [email protected] He discussed beha County’s new indus- LINK is courting three Starkville’s planned indus- Golden Triangle De- trial park during a Monday companies to an 80-acre update for the Starkville trial park at the velopment LINK CEO parcel on the east side of club’s weekly Joe Max Higgins said the Rotary Club. the industrial park. That meeting. LINK is “all in” on complet- Perhaps the most no- See ROTARY, 3A Luisa Porter/Dispatch Staff WEATHER FIVE QUESTIONS C ALENDAR LOCAO L F LKS PUB LIC 1 What Shakespeare play does Wil- MEETINGS Wednesday Feb. 28: liam Faulkner’s “The Sound and the ■ Film screening: The Columbus-Lowndes Public Fury” take its title from? Lowndes County Library screens the film “Marshall” at 4:30 p.m. at the 2 What is green guru, Josh Dorfman Supervisors, 9 better known as? library at 314 Seventh St. N., part of a Black History 3 What product was sold with the Month series. “Marshall” is based on the true story of a.m., County jingle, “Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh, what a Thurgood Marshall and one of his landmark cases. For Courthouse Ally Brewer relief it is”? more information, call 662-329-5300. March 6: 4 How many great pyramids are at Second grade, Caledonia Columbus Giza? City Council, 5 5 Who played Cowboy Curtis on “Pee- Thursday p.m., Municipal High Low wee’s Playhouse” and Morpheus in ■ “Look and See”: The film “Look and See: A Portrait 70 58 “The Matrix”? Complex Chance of p.m. rain of Wendell Berry” begins at 6 p.m. at Nissan Auditorium March 6: Full forecast on on the Mississippi University for Women campus, part Answers, 6B Caledonia page 2A. of the Gordy Honors College Forum Series. Free to the public. Aldermen, 6 ■ Conerly Lecture: Wall Street Journal legal affairs re- p.m., Town Hall porter Brent Kendall gives a Lamar Conerly Governance March 20: INSIDE Lecture at 2 p.m. in Mississippi State’s Colvard Student Columbus Classifieds 5B Dear Abby 4B Union Fowlkes Auditorium. The talk is titled “People Say Khalia Pulley likes cos- City Council, 5 Comics 4B Obituaries 5A it’s Different: Journalism, the Courts and the Capital in metology, especially doing p.m., Municipal 138TH YEAR, NO. 298 Crossword 6B Opinions 4A the Age of Trump.” Call 662-325-7851 for information. hair. Complex DISPATCH CUSTOMER SERVICE 328-2424 | NEWSROOM 328-2471 2A TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2018 THE DISPATCH • www.cdispatch.com SAY WHAT? DID YOU HEAR? “I feel like we’re the hottest team in the league. We’re building more and more confidence and motivation, Supreme Court declines to enthusiasm for the game.” Mississippi State’s Aric Holman said, talking about his decide fate of ‘Dreamers’ just yet Tuesday team’s game tonight against No. 16 Tennessee. Story, 1B. Case will have to work its way through the lower courts before any HOUSAND ORDS Supreme Court ruling is possible A T W BY JESSICA GRESKO peals court has consid- The Associated Press ered it. But DACA support- WASHINGTON — The ers hailed the decision Supreme Court on Mon- as a significant — if only day rejected the Trump temporary — win. Trump administration’s highly said the case would now unusual bid to bypass be heard by an appeals a federal appeals court court and “we’ll see what and get the justices to happens from there.” intervene in the fate of “You know, we tried a program that protects to get it moved quickly hundreds of thousands of because we’d like to help young immigrants from DACA. I think everybody deportation. in this room wants to help The announcement with DACA,” he said to means the case affect- visiting governors. “But ing “Dreamers” will have the Supreme Court just to work its way through ruled that it has to go the lower courts before through the normal chan- any Supreme Court rul- nels.” ing is possible. The case DACA has provided could also become moot protection from deporta- if Congress takes action tion and work permits for in the meantime. Right about 800,000 young peo- now, however, efforts ple who came to the U.S. to address the issue in as children and stayed il- Congress have hit a stale- legally. mate. In September, Trump The Supreme Court’s argued that President Luisa Porter/Dispatch Staff decision for now to stay Barack Obama had ex- Gavin Toler, 18 months, plays peek-a-boo with his mother, Julie, at Patriot’s Park playground in Starkville Thurs- out of the case on the ceeded his executive day. “He’s really into Ninja Turtles right now and I’m OK with that because I love it too. I even have a tattoo of Obama-era Deferred Ac- powers when he created Donatello,” Julie said. Gavin is the son of Julie and Kenneth Toler of Starkville. tion for Childhood Arriv- the program. Trump an- als program, or DACA, nounced he was ending wasn’t surprising. It’s the program effective highly unusual for the March 5 and gave law- Supreme Court to hear makers until then to come a case before a lower ap- up with a legislative fix.