MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Middle Tennessee State University faculty and staff recently provided the media with their perspectives on various issues, including the 2024 elections, poetry, skeletal remains and the importance of Sunshine Laws.
![Dr. John Vile](https://mtsunews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Dr-John-Vile-web.jpg)
![Kent Syler, assistant professor, political science](https://mtsunews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Kent-Syler-web.jpg)
• Dr. John Vile, Honors College dean, talked with The Daily News Journal about the problems of partisanship in local elections. Read the Feb. 29 article.
• Kent Syler, political science professor, talked with the Chattanooga Times Free Press March 1 about the drop in early voting numbers for the March 5 primary. Read the article.
Syler talked about primary voting and what it means for the presidential race in this March 3 article from The Tennessean. Read his comments.
• Dr. Bryanna Licciardi, English lecturer, was featured by The Coil literary press on Medium for her new poetry book, “Fish Love.” Read the March 5 article.
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![Dr. Ben Stickle](https://mtsunews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Ben-Stickle.jpg)
![Dr. Ben Jansen, assistant professor of finance, Department of Economics and Finance, Jones College of Business](https://mtsunews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Dr.-Ben-Jansen.jpg)
• Dr. Ben Stickle, criminal justice professor, talked with Radio Canada about the prevalence of porch piracy. Read the article from March 6.
Stickle was featured in a March 28 article by Cheddar.com about porch pirates. Read the article.
• Dr. Benjamin Jansen, assistant professor of finance, talked with WalletHub March 6 about online savings accounts. Read his comments.
![Ken Paulson, director, Free Speech Center at MTSU, College of Media and Entertainment](https://mtsunews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Ken-Paulson-web.jpg)
![Dr. Paul Eubanks](https://mtsunews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Paul-Eubanks-copy-1.jpg)
• Ken Paulson, director of the Free Speech Center, wrote an editorial in The Tennessean March 6 about “Sunshine Laws” and the importance of keeping government records public. Read his commentary and watch a video interview with Tennessean opinion editor David Plazas.
• Dr. Paul Eubanks, anthropology professor, and his students were part of an excavation at historic Cragfont mansion in Sumner County, Tennessee. Watch the interview from March 6.
![Amie Whittemore, instructor, Department of English](https://mtsunews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Amie-Whittemore-web.jpg)
![Dr. Sidney A. McPhee, MTSU president](https://mtsunews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Sidney-A-McPhee-2020.jpg)
![Dr. Sekou Franklin](https://mtsunews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Dr-Sekou-Franklin-web.jpg)
• Amie Whittemore, director of MTSU Write, was featured March 6 in The Clarion for her poetry reading. Read about the event.
• MTSU President Sidney A. McPhee wrote a guest editorial for The Tennessean about the value of a college degree. Read his commentary published March 18.
• Sekou Franklin, political science professor, talked with WKRN-TV about the lack of gun reform on March 27 as the community reflected on the one-year anniversary of Nashville’s Covenant School shooting that took the lives of six people at the private Christian academy. Watch the video.
Franklin was also spotlighted April 2 in Political Science Now, a publication of the American Political Science Association, for a panel he will participate in on April 15 about preparing students for the 2024 election. Read the article.
![Keith M. Huber, MTSU senior adviser for veterans and leadership initiatives](https://mtsunews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Lt-Gen-Keith-Huber-web.jpg)
![Dr. Hugh Berryman, retired MTSU forensic scientist](https://mtsunews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Dr-Hugh-Berryman-web-new.jpg)
• Professor Emeritus Hugh Berryman, founder of MTSU’s Forensic Institute for Research and Education, was featured on radio station WGNS-AM/FM for his lecture on burned skeletal remains. Listen to the interview.
• Retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Keith Huber, senior advisor for veterans and leadership initiatives at MTSU, gave a presentation on leadership at the Gallatin Economic Development Agency’s GEAR Program meeting April 2. Watch a short excerpt from the presentation and a brief interview from the city of Gallatin.
— Nancy DeGennaro (Nancy.DeGennaro@mtsu.edu)
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