Sam Sider
Sam Sider was a senior political science major from Fayette, Alabama. Sam chose to transfer to MSU from his community college after being invited to campus and being “courted” when he visited. During his time at MSU Sam was involved in College Republicans, College of Arts and Sciences Ambassadors, Stennis Montgomery Association, and Sam volunteered at voter registration drives. Sam also currently served as the Student Association senator for transfers. Sam said Dr. Dallas Breen and Dr. Steven Shaffer were influential forces for him at MSU, and he went to each of their offices frequently. Sam described MSU as “friendly,” and his advice to students is to follow the wise words of Alfred Lord Tennyson in his poem Ulysses, “to strive to seek to find and not to yield.”