Approximately 150 Mississippi State University students, faculty and staff silently engaged in a âdie-inâ peaceful protest regarding the deaths of Eric Garner, Michael Brown Jr., and other black men and women around the nation during altercations with police. Similar events took place at other universities across the state, region and nation in recent days. The âdie-inâ demonstration took place on the north side of the Colvard Student Union on the MSU campus.