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ESTABLISHED 1879 | COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI CDISPATCH.COM 50 ¢ NEWSSTAND | 40 ¢ HOME DELIVERY FRIDAY | MARCH 23, 2018 MUW’s CFO to lead university Lights, camera, action after Borsig’s departure Miller plans to apply for permanent post DISPATCH STAFF REPORT Mississippi Uni- versity for Women’s Senior Vice Presi- dent for Administra- tion Nora Miller will be acting president of the university start- ing July 1, the Mis- Miller sissippi Institute of Higher Learning an- nounced Thursday. Miller, who has worked for the uni- versity since 2001 and who also serves as chief financial offi- Luisa Porter/Dispatch Staff cer, will take over for Borsig Lillie Moore hugs her mother, Lynda, in Starkville Thursday afternoon. Lillie is acting in “The Craving,” a horror current president Jim movie that’s filming in the Golden Triangle. The Moores live in Starkville. Borsig, who in January announced his plan to step down after the end of this academic year. “I’ve been here a good long Movie production sports Golden Triangle flair while and I was a student here,” Miller told The Dispatch Thurs- BY ALEX HOLLOWAY day. “This place means so much [email protected] to me and I think it’s great being a small campus. You’re involved in a ritics agree — the Golden Triangle is lot of things, so I’ve probably had a great place to film a horror movie. The Mississippi a broader vision of the university C Film Group is shooting “The than many CFOs would have had Craving,” a suspense-horror the opportunity to have. Dr. Bor- movie that’s being co-pro sig’s been very inclusive in his man- - agement style. The school cabinet duced by Twelve Produc- is pretty well-informed of what’s tions and 13 South Produc- going on in school decisions, but tions. Bryan W. Carpenter, it’ll be interesting for me to look at one of the project’s exec- things from a different perspective utive producers, told The Carpenter than simply from the finance. I’m Dispatch the project fulfills looking forward to that.” one of his long-standing goals of filming Miller said this morning she a movie in Mississippi. Carpenter is from plans to apply for the position per- Carthage. manently. Carpenter is working with Jennifer IHL has not set Miller’s salary Sulkess, vice president of Twelve Produc- yet, but her current salary as vice Luisa Porter/Dispatch Staff tions, on the movie. He said he convinced president is $149,000, she told The Outlaw Plantation home in Starkville is the site of filming for her to film in Mississippi because he said The Dispatch. Borsig’s salary is the Mississippi Film Group’s suspense-horror movie “The Craving.” See MOVIE, 6A $245,000. See MILLER, 3A Building public engagement with CMSD Pride, Starkville School board ONLINE ■ SURVEY: The Mississippi police prepared School Boards Association is president pledges seeking feedback from community members on the superintendent for parade more community search process. The survey will be available at www.msbaonline.org input, involvement until April 5. BY SLIM SMith [email protected] in district moving new challenges. This was not what forward “One of the things that I Bailey McDaniel ex- would say the biggest chal- pected. BY ISABELLE ALTMAN lenge is helping people un- About a year ago, [email protected] derstand that you can engage when McDaniel and on any level that you want to her partner, Emily At a meeting of the Co- engage on,” he said. “Instead Turner, both Missis- lumbus Exchange Club Deanna Robinson/Dispatch Staff of us as a school board mar- sippi State students, McDaniel Thursday, Columbus Munic- Columbus Municipal School District board president Jason keting all these different pro- Spears, left, talks with Sammy Wilcox after speaking to the began planning a pa- ipal School District Board Exchange Club at Lion Hills Center Thursday afternoon. grams or all these different rade to celebrate the LGBT (lesbi- president Jason Spears said opportunities to say, ‘This is an, gay, bisexual and transgender) the biggest challenge facing board in 2012 when the dis- that the finances are back in what we have’ ... it’s finding community’s presence in the city the board is finding ways trict was facing financial order, — revenues are at $28 somewhere, whether it be of Starkville, the idea was pretty community members can upheaval — teachers were million and the board has this club or whether it be you simple. get involved with the school picketing the municipal com- $3.5 million more in reserves as a business or an individual “We thought we’d have maybe district. plex at that time, he told Ex- than the legal requirement, to say, ‘Well, once a year, I’ll 100 people,” McDaniel said. 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Email [email protected] for info. odist Church. office DISPATCH CUSTOMER SERVICE 328-2424 | NEWSROOM 328-2471 2A FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2018 THE DISPATCH • www.cdispatch.com SAY WHAT? DID YOU HEAR? “Knowing how far I’ve come ... was probably one of the cooler moments of my life.” NBC documentary looks at MSU sophomore pitcher Ethan Small. Small missed last season recovering from Tommy John surgery but has returned to MSU’s images that propelled civil rights Friday starting rotation. Story, 1B. ‘Seeing these pictures underscores ... why the murder of Emmett Till was A THOUSAND WORDS such a shocking and important event in the civil rights movement’ BY DAVID BAUDER shut, Till’s mother ordered AP Media Writer it open and Jet magazine took pictures of his horri- NEW YORK — Grue- ble maimed head, beaten some images of a lynched beyond recognition. Emmett Till were seared “For a mainstream, into the minds of many news audience, my guess black Americans in 1955 is a large number of peo- and helped lead to the mod- ple knew his name, but ern civil rights movement. didn’t really know what But few whites knew of happened, which is the their existence at the time. best and highest calling for That reality is at the top a documentary like this,” of NBC’s two-hour docu- mentary about how images said NBC News Chairman propelled the civil rights Andrew Lack. “Seeing effort. The film premieres these pictures underscores Saturday at 8 p.m. ET as what happened, what really the 50th anniversary of the happened, why the murder Rev. Martin Luther King’s of Emmett Till was such a assassination approaches. shocking and important Till was the 14-year-old event in the civil rights black Chicago boy visiting movement.” relatives in Mississippi, There’s no evidence killed after a white gro- that NBC ever showed the cery store clerk claimed picture of Till’s body until a he treated her rudely. De- “Today” show story on the cades later, she recanted anniversary of his death her story. That was far too in 1985, the network said. Luisa Porter/Dispatch Staff late to save Till from be- NBC wasn’t alone among Chris Collins of Sturgis rides his skateboard on the Mississippi State University campus Thursday. “I come over ing bludgeoned, shot in the mainstream media. to here to ride with others who enjoy skating too. Sturgis is a small town so me and others have a group chat the head and thrown into “It was a different Amer- on Instagram and we coordinate when to meet up and skate in Starkville,” he said. a river. Two men were ac- ica,” Lack said. quitted of the crime, even As if to make amends, though they later admitted the documentary shows to it. the image of a murdered Given a casket nailed Till seven times. No guns in stadiums? No guns CONTACTING THE DISPATCH Office hours: Main line: for Mississippi’s teachers n 8 a.m.-5 p.m.