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This is part three of a series on dysfunction in the MSU Police Oversight Committee. Part one gave a general overview of the committee and covered how little it had met in the last three years. This part looks at the Secretary of Academic Governance and other concerns about the committee. In theory, a complaint might be filed with the MSU Secretary for Academic Governance and then forwarded to the chair of the committee within 72 hours, according to the MSU Police Oversight Committee’s Statement of Purpose. Because of staff transitions, this policy is rarely followed. Interim Secretary for Academic Governance John W. Powell said he was not aware of this policy because he is in a temporary position and hasn’t had the opportunity to read through all procedures. Powell said he has never received a complaint to be forwarded to the committee since taking over as interim secretary for academic governance, but
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if he had would know exactly what to do with it, according to procedure, “within a few minutes.” Council of Graduate Students member Robert Vankirk, who sits on the eight-member police oversight committee, said he found the fact that the secretary was not made aware of the procedure to start with an issue. “I found that to be troubling as well because their own procedures and policies in place aren’t universally advertised, even to university officials who are responsible for their implementation,” Vankirk said. Vankirk said the oversight committee as well as its purpose and way of receiving, filing and addressing grievances must be well-known to residence hall advisers. They should also be known by the Office of the University Ombudsperson, the police officers themselves and all other relevant players in the process. Because of how unknown the committee is to members of the university as a whole, an advertising campaign must be conducted to raise awareness, Vankirk said.
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“We just didn’t do the little things that it takes to win. I think we’ve changed some, but I also think the level of competition has changed a little bit.” Tom Izzo, men’s basketball head coach on what MSU needs to do to beat Iowa See page 5
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After resetting the passwords of compromised accounts, victims should determine if they use identical or similar password and login information for different accounts, McCurdy said. “Similarly, if the password for a non-MSU account is compromised and it is the same or similar to your MSU password, change your MSU password,” McCurdy said. If victims believe their financial wellbeing is at risk, they should contact their bank and work with MSUPD. If a victim’s online bank account info was used to steal money from their account, MSUPD can work with other law enforcement agencies to recover stolen funds. But many of the digital threats facing the MSU community originate outside the U.S., making it more difficult to recover stolen funds. “It can be difficult to track down where digitally stolen money goes,” MSUPD Detective Sgt. Chris Rozman said. “In the cases we’ve handled, the money may go through several different banks inside and outside the US.”
Students utilizing MSU’s digital and Wi-Fi services could be at risk of numerous security threats. “MSU typically sees thousands of attempted network intrusions per day and hundreds of millions of attempted malware attacks on the network each month,” MSU Information Technology Services spokesperson Beth Bonsall said. There are a number of steps individuals can take to ensure they don’t fall prey to one of these attacks. CALL THE MSU IT SERVICES HELP DESK AND THE MSU POLICE NON-EMERGENCY LINE
Contacting IT Services is one of the first steps victims should take after discovering malicious misuse of one or more of their MSU accounts, both MSUPD Det. Nicole Simi and MSU Chief Information Security Officer Rob McCurdy said. After calling MSU IT Services to find out how to return their account to a secure state, victims should contact the MSUPD non-emergency line. “Even if you aren’t positive a crime is being committed, you should still contact MSUPD to be safe,” Simi said.
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Basketball prepares for second Iowa matchup
Senior guard Denzel Valentine watches from the bench during the first half of the game against Illinois on Jan. 7, at Breslin Center. The Spartans defeated the Fighting Illini, 79-54. PHOTO: ALICE KOLE
BY JOSH THALL JTHALL@STATENEWS.COM
When No. 5 MSU (16-1, 3-1) takes the court
7 p.m. Thursday night at Breslin Center against No. 16 Iowa (12-3, 3-0), for the second time in the past 16 days, the game promises to have a different feel to it.
When the two teams met on Dec. 29, 2015, an 83-70 win for Iowa, MSU star senior Denzel Valentine was missing his second consecutive game after having a small procedure on his left knee. Meanwhile, Iowa star senior Jarrod Uthoff was unable to find his rhythm offensively, scoring just 10 points on 4-of-11 shooting, while turning the ball over eight times and playing most of the game in foul trouble. While these two stars are poised to have much larger impacts in Thursday night’s contest, the message was clear from MSU coach Tom Izzo: the loss to Iowa was not because Valentine didn’t play. “We did not play with the energy and effort that should be expected by you, me or our fans,” Izzo said. “We just didn’t do the little things that it takes to win. I think we’ve changed some, but I also think the level of competition has changed a little bit.” One of the changes Izzo might have been referring to could be the emergence of junior forward Gavin Schilling, who played only 11 minutes in the two teams first game, scoring only one point and grabbing only one rebound. “He gives a dimension (that) I think is very important,” Izzo said.
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From a talent standpoint, freshman forward Deyonta Davis has a chance to be one of the greatest basketball players to ever come through East Lansing’s parts. That is, at least in the eyes of MSU head basketball coach Tom Izzo. “Let me tell you something, I think Deyonta Davis is going to be the best big man that has played here in a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot of years,” Izzo said at a press conference on Tuesday. “But I also think he’s got a lot of growth right now. … My goal (is when) Deyonta Davis, if it’s next week, next month, next year or a year from now is ready physically, mentally, that’s when he should look to the next level.” Ever since he started playing for the current No. 4 Spartans (16-1, 3-1 Big Ten), Davis, a 6-foot-10 forward and former McDonald’s All-American from Muskegon, has shown flashes of being that superstar caliber player Izzo believes he can be. Thus far into the season, Davis is averaging 8.3 points, 5.2 rebounds and 2.1 blocks per game. Still, while Davis has been making NBA scouts drool over his potential in the first half of the season, much has been made in past weeks about Davis’ playing time, which currently sits at 17.1 minutes per game. By MSU standards, that’s a lot for a freshman, especially considering the fact Davis is part of an experienced frontcourt, one which
includes seniors Matt Costello and Colby Wollenman and junior Gavin Schilling. However, it’s not exactly the minutes someone would expect for a player who is currently being predicted as a first round draft selection in the 2016 NBA draft. Davis, who is a man of a few words, shrugs it off and said earning minutes is just part of being a freshman. While Davis has been finding his role with the team, he’s also had a tremendous amount of help along the way, which for the most part has come in the form of Wollenman and Costello. “(Wollenman) is like a personal basketball tutor to DD,” Izzo said. “Every day, DD has to guard him and Colby helps him through his assignments and the learning process. Unbelievable job. If (Wollenman) never scores another point, he’s going to be very valuable to not only me but very, very valuable to Deyonta Davis.” Wollenman said he tries to help Davis wherever he can, and he, along with Izzo and the rest of the team, have noticed Davis has started to come out of his shell a bit. Davis’ grandma even told Izzo he started to talk more when he came home for Christmas. “When he got here at first, he was … unbelievably quiet,” Wollenman said. “He jokes with us now and he seems like a different person. ... Having been here now five years, it’s really easy to see a lot of the things. You know, I’ve been watching from the sidelines for a lot of it. “ To read more, see statenews.com.
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In inaugural year of Club Football, a No. 5 finish and a realized vision BY SOUICHI TERADA STERADA@STATENEWS.COM
While the MSU football program was busy winning a Big Ten championship this season, a different group of determined players also showcased their gridiron skills. MSU’s club football team, during its inaugural season, finished No. 5 in the National Club Football Association (NCFA) rankings. The club achieved a 4-1 overall record and its only loss was to the eventual national runner-up, Miami University in Ohio, by a score of 35-23. “In terms of goals, (the club) accomplished everything (they) set out to do, and then some,” head coach Al Manfroni said. The club allowed just 11.4 points per game, and in the process, senior defensive tackle Devin Schlossberg was voted first team All-American. “I went to the official NCFA site and I saw first team,” Schlossberg said. “I didn’t expect it, but it was amazing. ... The only reason I look somewhat good is because my defense is really good.” Junior defensive end Patrick Loewen was a difference maker, too, and was selected as a second team All-American. Offensively, senior wide receiver Jake Sterling led the team to a 37-points-per-game average and also received
second team honors. “What we’re doing is no different than the higher up levels,” Schlossberg said. “But when it boils down to it, you still put on pads the same, you still put on helmets the same and you still run full force toward another guy to tackle him, all the same. “Nothing changes. You can’t take away from the sport just because it’s club. It just has the club title. I mean it’s ultimately nothing.” At Sterling’s side was junior quarterback and captain Vinny Costanzo. “It was a great honor to be the captain,” Costanzo said. “We made a lot of good friends on the team. It made it a lot easier to be in that leadership role, getting to know those guys really well.” The team was composed of 60 players picked from more than 100 who tried out. For club president Chris Wesolowski, those guys made his day-one vision come true. “We have some really talented players that are throwing guys around, that are making crazy catches,” Wesolowski said. “We had 60 really talented guys that really made a great first season.” Visit statenews.com to read more.
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The Corporate Retail Association, a new club at MSU, was created fall 2015. Maddy Rodriguez, a supply chain management sophomore and one of the club’s presidents, said it aims to provide members the opportunity to expand their network and
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gather resources in the retail industry. The club brings in representatives from large retail companies that often don’t come to campus and connects them with club members. Meetings begin with presentations about corporate culture and what it’s like to work for these companies. Representatives then discuss jobs and internship opportunities and mingle and network with club members. Rodriguez, along with her co-founder and co-president supply chain management sophomore Colleena Peng, came up with the idea for the club after MSU added a retail management minor. They thought this club would benefit students with the minor by connecting them with companies other campus business-related clubs don’t. “I’ve always been interested in retail and going into the fash-
ion industry,” Rodriguez said. “I know retail is much more than that. It’s just kind of one little specific thing. We started to kind of bring more retail companies to campus and kind of give MSU students more of an opportunity to interact with recruiters and things like that, (to) hopefully get jobs, internships, stuff like that.” Many MSU business-related clubs, because of campus’ close proximity to Detroit, bring in representatives from the auto industry, Rodriguez said. She wanted to give students who were interested in companies besides the auto industry the chance to network. During fall 2015, the club’s most notable visit was from Target.This semester, it has visits planned with Apple and Amazon and hope to confirm a meeting with Nordstrom as well. See statenews.com to read more.
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Following a story published in December regarding questionable water quality at the Eli Broad College of Businessch, other students came forward with complaints about the water in MSU buildings across campus. Fisheries and wildlife junior Luke Maki said the Natural Science and Natural Resources buildings had poor water quality. “I prefer to bring (water) from home because the water on campus here that I fill my bottle with very rarely (seems) to taste as good, it seems to have a slight coloration to it,” Maki said. Neuroscience junior Franco Bull said the Psychology Buildingch, other buildings in North Neighborhood and Student Services suffer from the same water quality problem. “(The water at Student Services) has a very strange taste to it, kind of a sulphur, phosphorus type of thing to it,” Bull said. John Reilly, skilled trades supervisor at MSU Infrastructure Planning and Facilities, attempted to clear up what he perceived
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How Black Lives Matter builds upon the Civil Rights Movement
First black head coach at MSU, Jim Bibbs, a role model still today
MSU’s first black varsity athlete, football player Gideon Smith
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44 Black athletes former head football coach Duffy Daugherty recruited from the segregated south See page 18
“When you look at the history of the modern student movement in the United States, students have always played a vital role in moving for social change. That was true for the civil rights movement. It started with ... young black college students who were making a stand.” Assistant professor in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities Austin Jackson See page 15
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Martin Luther King Jr. speaks to graduate student Laura L. Leichliter, center, and Michigan’s First Lady Lenore Romney on March 9, 1966. PHOTO COURTESY OF MSU ARCHIVES
Former Lansing resident Malcolm X spoke at MSU too BY JOSH BENDER JBENDER@STATENEWS.COM
While Martin Luther King Jr. made a more recognizable impression on MSU and its students, former Lansing resident Malcolm X also spoke on campus. Surprisingly, few students and professors remember his speech or contributions to local protests. “I don’t think most students are aware of Malcolm X’s connection to Lansing — I wasn’t,” Black Law Students Association president and law student Kiara Swinton said. Other black student leaders shared Swinton’s perception. “The larger part of the black student population doesn’t know,” Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity president and psychology senior Kenneth Jackson said. Malcolm X’s connection extends to the MSU campus, where he spoke in 1963 at the request of MSU students. Dean and professor emeritus of the MSU Urban THUR SDAY, JA NUARY 14, 2016
Affairs Program Robert Green introduced Malcolm X and was instrumental in bringing him to speak at the Erickson Hall Kiva. In contrast to the fiery orator many remember, Green recalls him as warm and friendly. “Malcolm X had a sense of humor,” Green said. “I felt comfortable around him.” The speech did not begin as planned. “I was putting the microphone around (Malcolm X’s) neck,” Green said. “He didn’t realize that it was live and he said, ‘Professor Green, you’re the only person that I know of in this room that I would let put a rope around my neck.’ The audience just broke up. It started out in a very light way.” The audience surprised Green. “(Erickson Hall Kiva) was packed and, believe it or not, it was a very strong, multiracial audience,” he said. The speech focused heavily on the need for self-defense. To read more, see statenews.com. THE STAT E NE WS
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The racist legacy of the past is something the black community still deals with. While they don’t face concrete discriminatory laws akin to those the civil rights movement of the 1950s, ‘60s and ‘70s worked to fix, they face issues of police brutality, mass incarceration and disproportionate joblessness, which result in racial degradation — all things the Black Lives Matter movement is fighting against. The acquittal of George Zimmerman after the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin opened a dialogue amongst black people in America, University of Michigan alumnus and Black Lives Matter activist Austin McCoy said. The controversy was a catalyst for the creation of the movement. McCoy said the movement draws inspiration from both the civil rights movement and the black power movement and is fighting against a new type of covert racism that exists in America. McCoy said most Americans don’t truly understand this, because they haven’t experienced it. “A lot of Americans tend to see racism as this manifestation of some sort of motive or intent to oppress a certain people based on their skin, whereas it’s hard to locate that sort of motivation and intent in violence by police or the ways students experience racism on campuses,” McCoy said. Professor of social work and expert on racism and diversity Ron Hall explained the difference in types of racism black people face today compared to the time of the civil rights movement. “The racism that took place during the ‘60s and ‘70s was more overt and what you have today is more covert, so it takes a different kind of strategy, which I think (Black Lives Matter) has tried
to address nationally and around the country,” Hall said. The movement also confronts the issue of police brutality and the disproportionate killing of young black men and women at the hands of police. While some people argue the issue of police violence has nothing to do with race, McCoy and other Black Lives Matter activists said this issue is at the heart of their mission and is an example of the institutional racism they are fighting. “When you have the destruction of inner city economies, usually what springs forth is illicit economies and that demands greater policing,” McCoy said. “Whether it’s federal policies that give military weaponry to these police in the form of swat teams, these factors contribute to the disproportionate killing of African-Americans by the police departments.” McCoy pointed to cities like Detroit and Ferguson, Missouri, where this destruction of the inner city created joblessness and a subsequent increase in policing. While there are similarities between the civil rights movement and the Black Lives Matter movement, there are also significant differences in the composition of protesters and who makes up the leadership. In this 21st century movement, black women and queer black women are encouraged to take on leadership roles, which was not happening in the ‘50s and ‘60s, James Madison College professor and expert in black politics Curtis Stokes said. The use of social media also creates a stark difference in the way protesters organize. To read the rest of this story on the similarities and differences of the Black Live Matter and civil rights movement, visit statenews.com
“Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.”
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Title of speech: ‘Make Poverty History’ Campaign delivered on Febrary 3, 2005 at Trafalgar Square in London, United Kingdom
“And we’re coming to engage in dramatic, nonviolent action, to call attention to the gulf between promise and fulfillment, to make the invisible visible.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
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MLK’s visit to MSU monumental to school history BY DANIELLE DUGGAN DDUGGAN@STATENEWS.COM
Martin Luther King Jr. visited MSU on Feb. 11, 1965. According to the MSU University Archives and Historical Collections, more than 4,000 students and community members gathered in the Auditorium to hear King speak about various civil rights issues. King visited campus to assist in fundraising efforts from a student government-sponsored program called STEP.
“I do believe that Michigan State has done its best to live up to some of the ideas of inclusiveness, diversity inclusiveness, that some people see as being connected to King’s Legacy.” Austin Jackson MSU African Studies Expert
The STEP program’s purpose was to send students and faculty volunteers to assist Rust College of Holly Springs, Miss. through the summers of 1966-68. These volunteers would participate in education outreach programs while on this trip. King’s speech touched on a variety of issues surrounding inequality.
According to MSU Archives, he challenged the audience to look at the world with a brotherhood perspective, ignore the concept of inferior races and rid the world of segregation. King discussed specific issues in the South, namely the need for a new civil rights legislation to end discrimination programs in the southern states, and stressed the importance of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and their recommendations. MSU African Studies expert and assistant professor in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities Austin Jackson said it was logical for King to visit a campus on the northern side of the country like MSU. “When you look at the history of the modern student movement in the United States, students have always played a vital role in moving for social change,” Jackson said. “That was true for the civil rights movement. It started with young college students, young black college students who were making a stand.” College students at the time of Martin Luther King Jr.’s visit were also hard at work promoting equality. Through protests and marches, students on MSU’s campus attempted to make their voices heard to combat racism. Though racism was felt at varying degrees in the North and the South, it was still present throughout the country. Jackson said there were forms of structural racism in cities like Chicago and Detroit, making a visit to MSU an easy choice when promoting change. “I do believe that Michigan State has done its best to live up to some of the ideas of inclusiveness, diversity inclusiveness, that some people see as being connected to King’s legacy,” Jackson said.
Martin Luther King Jr. speaks on campus during an event at the Auditorium. PHOTO: COURTESY OF UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES AND HISTORIC COLLECTIONS
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963
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Jim Bibbs, first black head coach at MSU, an inspiration years later BY RYAN SQUANDA RSQUANDA@STATENEWS.COM
It’s a cloudy Saturday afternoon in January as Jim Bibbs walks into an empty Jenison Field House, the building which housed his track teams for so many years. “This was my home,” Bibbs, the 86-year-old former head track coach at MSU, said. And it was in this home some of Bibbs’ favorite memories took place during his 27-year career, such as the time in 1972 when MSU sprinters Marshall Dill and Herb Washington set a pair of world records in the same night — Dill, a 29.5 in the 300-yard dash, and Washington a 5.8 in the 60-yard dash. “That is certainly one of the most memorable nights in my career,” Bibbs said. Simply put, Bibbs is a legend. He arrived in East Lansing in 1968 as the first black coach in MSU history, and in 1975, became the first black head track coach in Big Ten history. Whether it be the 52 Big Ten champions he’s coached, the 26 All-Americans, or the three NCAA champions, his accomplishments at MSU are remarkable. But ask anyone, as impressive as the athletic achievements Bibbs guided his athletes to are, so too are the hundreds of young people’s lives he impacted along the way. Former head track coach Jim Bibbs poses for a portrait on Jan. 9 at Jenison Field House. PHOTO: EMILY ELCONIN
“So I conclude by saying again today that we have a task and let us go out with a ‘divine dissatisfaction.’ Let us be dissatisfied until America will no longer have a high blood pressure of creeds and an anemia of deeds.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
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For Bibbs, his love for sports began when he was growing up in Ecorse, a town located 20 minutes southwest of Detroit. When Bibbs got to high school, he became a three-sport athlete in football, basketball and baseball at Ecorse High School, but it wasn’t until Bibbs’ senior year that he discovered his talent in track and field. “The track coach was my history teacher and between the track coach and some of the members of the (track) team, they saw me in gym class, and they saw I was pretty fast,” Bibbs said. “So they put a full court press on me to come out for track.”
Bibbs would compete in the sport for a few more years while he earned his master’s degree in physical education from Wayne State University. Soon after that, Bibbs began teaching and coaching in the Detroit school system. It was around the same time also that Bibbs founded the Detroit Track Club, a team he led to five girls’
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In Bibbs’ lone season on the Ecorse track team, he made it to the Class B state meet in the 100yard dash and the long jump, taking second place in the long jump. Bibbs used his strong senior season at Ecorse and earned himself a spot on the Eastern Michigan University track team. It was there Bibbs really began coming into his own. However, while Bibbs was becoming one of the best young talents in track and field at EMU, he was still excelling in the semipro baseball leagues he was playing in the summer back home in Ecorse, and was even offered a contract by the New York Yankees. Bibbs was forced to choose between his two loves. Up until Bibbs joined the track team his senior year of high school, baseball was by far his best sport, but a short conversation with his father had his mind made up. “My dad was bent on me graduating from college,” Bibbs said. “Baseball to him was fun. … So when I had mentioned to him about what the Yankees offered … he said, ‘No, you’re going back to school and finishing up your degree.’ So that ended that. I was not going to argue with my dad.” When Bibbs returned to EMU his junior year, that’s when his track career really began to take off. It was that year in 1951 that Bibbs clocked a 60-yard dash in 6.1 seconds in a meet at Notre Dame, which was fast enough to tie Jesse Owens’ then-world record in the event. For the next two years, Bibbs was taken to some of the top track meets in the country and if not for a pulled muscle in 1952, would have competed in the Olympic Trials that year. But where Bibbs would truly leave his mark, lay in the next 50-plus years of his life.
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national relay championships in the 1960s. And as a teacher and head track coach at Ecorse High School in the 1960s, Bibbs led a successful track program, which won the state championship in 1967. A year later in 1968, Bibbs was hired as an assistant track coach at MSU, making him the first black coach in school history, and when Fran Dittrich retired in 1975, Bibbs was promoted to head coach, and became the first black head track coach in the Big Ten. At the time, while Bibbs recognized he might have been a role model for African Americans, he said he tried to never look into his accomplishments as a black man, but rather as just a person. “I just tried to do the best job I could do,” Bibbs said. “I knew that I was the only (black coach) ... and I had the awareness I wanted to succeed mainly because I was the only one. But I just tried to do the best job I could do because I loved coaching and I loved youngsters.”
TIMELINE 1960s Led the women’s Detroit Track Club to five national relay championships 1967 Coached the Ecorse High School track team to state championships and coached the U.S. Women’s Pan American team 1968 First black coach in MSU history 1974 Inducted into the Michigan Amateur Athletic Hall of Fame
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1975 First black head track coach in Big Ten history 1979 Inducted into the Eastern Michigan Athletic Hall of Fame 2000 Torch bearer at Winter Olympics
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Bibbs went on to have a storied career at MSU until he retired in 1995. But beyond the countless athletes he trained into becoming Big Ten champions or All-Americans, Bibbs’ favorite part of the job was helping young people. “I think as a coach or as a teacher, our job is to make young women out of young girls and young men out of young boys,” Bibbs said. “I think that should be all teachers’ and coaches’ purpose. … I want them to be successful at life, not just running races for me.” In many cases, Bibbs prepared his athletes to achieve even more success after college. One of those athletes was Karen Dennis, an athlete Bibbs began coaching with the Detroit Track Club when she was 13-years-old. After Dennis graduated from MSU, she coached the U.S. women’s track team for the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, and today is the head track coach of Ohio State University. “He touched everybody’s life and he made everybody feel special,” Dennis said. “He was able to be a great coach while at the same time being a great humanitarian.” Current president of Lansing City Council and 1984 Olympic silver medalist Judi Brown Clarke is another one of Bibbs’ former athletes he helped mentor and coach. While Clarke was at MSU, she said Bibbs was not only someone she could call at 2 a.m. if she wanted to work on something related to track, but for many athletes such as herself, Bibbs was so much more than a track coach. “There was just something about him, and I think most students and athletes figured out really quick that he truly cared about you and he wanted you to be successful,” Clarke said. “There was just something about him where he really knew how to bring out not only the best in his athletes, but he made every athlete that he worked with, feel that he was very centric to their success.” STICKING AROUND
As he sat on the infield of MSU’s track at Ralph Young Field at the 2015 Big Ten Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Bibbs was nothing but smiles. Bibbs was in attendance not only to keep tabs on a program he’s been involved with for nearly half a decade, but also to hand out medals at the meet. Bibbs has never left East Lansing and, even after retiring from MSU, has served as a volunteer track coach at East Lansing High School. In addition to this, Bibbs has stayed heavily involved in the MSU program, something current MSU Director of Cross Country and Track and Field Walt Drenth makes sure of. “His presence is so meaningful to the community,” Drenth said. “His track and field knowledge is immense but his presence in the community is, I think, really important. … I thought it was important to have a guy that had his reputation and background around the program.” For the past decade, Drenth has consistently asked Bibbs to speak with the team, and has even started giving out the Jim and Martha Bibbs Award, an MVP award named after Bibbs and his wife, at every season’s track banquet, Drenth said. And when Bibbs was inducted into the USTFCCCA Hall of Fame in 2015 — one of five Hall of Fames Bibbs is a member of
2005 Inducted into the Greater Lansing Sports Hall of Fame
Then-head track coach Jim Bibbs shakes hands with Anthony Hamm in 1990. Hamm was AllAmerican from 1990-91 for the 10K race. PHOTO COURTESY OF MSU ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS
— Drenth accompanied Bibbs and his wife to San Antonio to serve as his escort at the induction ceremony. “He’s my favorite coach,” Bibbs said. And as Bibbs took in the 2015 Big Ten championship from the infield last spring, catching
up with many of his former athletes — some of which have gone on to become Olympians, successful politicians or head coaches of their own college track programs — in Bibbs’ eyes, one thing will always be certain. There’s no sport like track and field.
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MSU Athletics an oasis during the MLK-era BY NATHANIEL BOTT NBOTT@STATENEWS.COM
Then-head coach Duffy Daugherty addresses his team in the locker room before a game during the 1965 football season. PHOTO COURTESY OF MSU ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS
JAZZ: Spirituals, Prayer and Protest Concert MSU’s annual commemorative concert celebrating the birth and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. Jazz orchestra i, directed by rodney Whitaker World Premiere “do You know My name?” about the plight of human trafficking written by Grammy-winning composer Billy childs. Commissioned by Drs. Lou A. and Roy J. Simon BillY childS Guest composer/ conductor
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When Martin Luther King Jr. came to East Lansing on Feb. 11, 1965 and introduced a new government-sponsored student education program, the sports landscape was going through new changes as well. Clinton Jones was in his sophomore year at MSU, primed to take over as the lead running back for the Spartans. For that time period, having a starting running back who was black was unusual, but former head football coach Duffy Daugherty and the MSU football program had a different plan, as Tom Shanahan explained in his book, “Raye of Light.” Daugherty recruited 44 black athletes to MSU from the segregated south from 1959 to 1972. Twenty black athletes were on the roster when MSU won the national championship in 1966. “Racism is something that has had a tremendous impact on my life, beginning when I was a child growing up in Cleveland, Ohio,” Jones said. “And being at Michigan State was like an oasis from the ugly struggle for survival in the city.” Despite his childhood and early teenage troubles with racism, Jones found ways to combat it. He joined the Caritas organization his senior year of high school in 1963, an organization that was devoted to bringing about dialogue between the black and white communities, and reach a common ground through that dialogue. In a sense, that’s what King wanted with his new program, otherwise known as STEP. The program was evolved primarily because of MSU students’ desire to help others gain educational experience. MSU football had the same idea, but executed through athletic experience, and the education at MSU was a bonus for the athletes. As for Jones, his description of MSU as an “oasis” during that time period is high praise. Jones said he knew a few athletes and friends who experienced racial tension and caucasian condescension in his time, but the Mr. MSU competition his sophomore year gave some insight on why the racial tension toward athletes was so low on MSU’s campus. “I personally never had anybody call me out of my name during my whole time at Michigan State,” Jones said. “I believe because our dormitory was so integrated, and most of these
students from the south had never had a relationship with white people, so when they came we were integrated, living with each other. All my roommates were white, and we got along very good.” Jones is arguably one of the greatest football players to dress in a Spartan uniform. But there was one other black student athlete who was starting to turn heads, and he happened to be Jones’ fraternity brother and one of the stars of MSU basketball. Now, being one of the stars of the MSU basketball team during the 1964-65 season didn’t seem like a big accomplishment. The Spartans finished 5-18, 1-13 in the Big Ten that season, the last under head coach Forddy Anderson. John Benington took over, and while the football team was celebrating a national championship, MSU basketball and big man Stanley Washington were enjoying a newfound success, finishing the 1965-66 season at 15-7, second place in the Big Ten after finishing dead last the year prior. “He’s an outstanding, not only an outstanding basketball player, but just an outstanding human being,” Jones said. “He had phenomenal athletic ability on the basketball court, and he had a very magnanimous personality.” Jones and Washington were two athletes who solidified their place in MSU sports history through their play and perseverance. They were some of the first successful black athletes at MSU, playing in a time period when desegregation was still becoming accepted. So as Jones explained, the integration of the sports teams played a major factor in the acceptance of their race on campus. “I think because our team was so integrated, unusually integrated for that time, even for a university in the north, and because the presence of black students who were really making an impact in the sports world, it was something that raised the whole life condition of the student body,” Jones said. Jones and the other members won back-toback championships in 1965 and 1966, and the whole campus was behind the Spartans football team. Jones might have seen MSU as an oasis for him, but to others, he helped create the oasis. “When you are winning, it’s kind of like magnetism,” Jones said. “It’s something that brings people together.”
“Intelligence plus character–that is the goal of true education” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Gideon Smith was MSU’s first black athlete
Michigan Agricultural College varsity football team, 1913. PHOTO COURTESY MSU ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS BY JOSH THALL JTHALL@STATENEWS.COM
John Belcher III recalls sitting on his grandfather Gideon Smith’s lap during family holidays. Belcher listened, he said, while Smith told tales of monumental importance and pointed to aged pictures in a scrapbook. This is the moment Belcher thinks of when remembering the first time he learned about his grandfather, who was MSU’s first black varsity athlete in 1913. The stories Smith told, little did Belcher know, were the beginning steps of a path for justice and equality. A path that was started generations before Smith, but was made easier for future black Americans because of courageous people like him. “That my grandfather played that kind of role is significant, along with the type of person that he was,” Belcher said. “He was just the right person, with the right character, with the right set of attributes to take on that responsibility, at the time.” Smith played for MSU from 1913-15, when the school was known as the Michigan Agricultural College, or MAC. According to a historical recollection of Smith’s playing days, when he went to get a uniform, he was turned down by MAC’s coach at the time, John Macklin. Nevertheless, Smith wasn’t going to let that stop him. Smith wore a high school uniform loaned to him by a friend and went to practice anyway. Impressed by his play, Macklin allowed Smith to join the freshman team in the fall of 1912 and he became MSU’s first black varsity athlete as a sophomore in 1913. MSU history professor Juan Javier Pescador said it was a regular practice for northern universities to have one talented black player on their football teams, from the 1890s until after World War I. “In northern institutions, also the Ivy League and the Big Ten, African-American athletes (participated) on football teams only if they (had) exceptional talents,” Pescador said. “(Teams were) not open to athletes of color that (were) of the same quality as their white counterparts — it (was) only open to athletes of color that (had) extraordinary capacities, and just to one of them.” To read more about Gideon Smith’s time at MSU on the MAC football team, visit statenews.com. T H U RS DAY, JANUARY 1 4, 2 01 6
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In light of recent protests on campus and around the country, The State News spoke to five black students to discuss racism on campus and the challenges they face. Below are highlights of the multiple stories they had to share. We encourage other students to visit The State News on Facebook to share their own experiences with racism on and around campus.
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Humanities-pre-law junior Alexis Adams said she was sitting in class when someone approached her and said the unthinkable. Adams said a girl in her class told her she is the reason that her friend didn’t get into MSU. “I turned back around to her and told her affirmative action isn’t even legal in the state of Michigan so, if your friend didn’t get in, it’s not because of me,” Adams said. Adams said the girl betted she had a lower GPA and test scores than her friend. “I was, once again, really surprised because this is so blatantly ignorant and rude because she doesn’t know anything about me,” Adams said.
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Mon, January 18, 2016 11:30 am-2:30 pm 115 International Center Keynote Speaker: Jocelyn Benson
Join us for: Performance by Earl Nelson Singers Student Panel Q&A Lunch is provided!
Jocelyn Benson was named dean of Wayne State University Law School in June 2014, after having served as interim dean since December 2012 and a faculty member since 2005. While an associate professor of law and associate director of Wayne Law’s Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights, she created the Michigan Allies Project to track hate incidents throughout Michigan and provide legal support for victims. A graduate of Harvard Law School, her areas of expertise include civil rights law and election law. Benson is founder and executive director of the nonpartisan Michigan Center for Election Law, which hosts projects that support transparency and integrity in elections. She serves on the Southern Poverty Law Center Board of Directors. Benson previously clerked for Judge Damon J. Keith on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and investigated hate groups and hate crimes for the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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Neuroscience senior Joey Hemingway was leaving a probate when he experienced racism. “I was going with some friends, three of them actually, three young ladies,” Hemingway said. “The thing is, the probate occurred in Kedzie. We didn’t even get a chance to turn off of Farm Lane to turn onto Shaw Lane because the officer stopped us immediately.” The police officer retrieved every individual’s identification whom was in the car. Hemingway said the police officer expressed that he was just checking on them to make sure they were not intoxicated because they had just left an event with mainly African-Americans in attendance. “We all felt like we were dealt some type of injustice because we hadn’t done anything wrong,” Hemingway said. Hemingway recognized this incident as covert racism. “Covert racism is someone not being, just hinging you off, making racist remarks that aren’t necessarily, ‘Hey, you’re black,’” Hemingway said. “I would rather someone do that just because I know what to expect.”
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It is commonly said that education is the new Civil Rights battlefield. Green’s memoir helps us understand that educational equity has always been a central objective of the Civil Rights movement. His quest began when he helped the Kennedy Administration resolve a catastrophic education-related impasse and has continued through his service as one of the participants at an Obama administration summit on a current academic crisis. A friend and colleague of Martin Luther King Jr., Green served as education director for King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference during a crucial period in Civil Rights history, and—as a consultant for many of the nation’s largest school districts—he continues to fight for social justice and educational equity today. 9781611861938, $39.95
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This remarkable collection of voices in conversation with one another lays the groundwork for future discussions about the relationship between law and educational equality, and ultimately for the creation of new public policy. Taken together, the chapters trace the narrative arc of school desegregation in the United States. A valuable reference for scholars and students alike, this dynamic text is an important contribution to the literature by an outstanding group of authors. 9781611861808, $39.95
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Cameron Macko Public Concerns editor city@statenews.com @thesnews
Looking back at the history of national, state and local laws during the civil rights movement BY STEPHEN OLSCHANSKI SOLSCHANSKI@STATENEWS.COM
With the approach of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, The State News looked back on the impact Dr. King and the civil rights movement had on laws in East Lansing, the state of Michigan and the nation. EAST LANSING
East Lansing has its own history of discrimination towards Black people, particularly when it came to housing. Malcolm X lived in the Lansing area for 12 years during his childhood. Malcolm X’s father was court-ordered to leave his house in Lansing when Malcolm
was just three years old because the home was in a white neighborhood. It was later burned down with the family inside and they were forced to flee to East Lansing where black residents weren’t allowed in town at night. Malcolm X wrote that he gave a speech at MSU in 1963, relating to students “how East Lansing harassed us so much that we had to move again, this time two miles out of town, into the country.” It wasn’t until Feb. 20, 1967 the East Lansing City Council adopted Ordinance No. 192, which defined civil rights in the city. MICHIGAN
Michigan’s history with racism is better than most states.
Slavery in Michigan had been outlawed since it became a territory just before 1800 but inequality among black and white people remained. In the mid-19th century, Michigan enacted laws protecting fugitive slaves. Though fugitive slaves could be legally recaptured and taken back, slave catchers did not receive a friendly welcome in Michigan, according to History of Michigan Law. After the Civil War, the state did not require black people to register with the state and did not set a quota on how many could migrate. Though segregation was not prohibited until 1967, black residents were allowed education and Michigan sometimes ignored legislation
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prohibiting them from voting. Michigan still clung to some of the day’s social laws, which prevented equality and did not allow interracial marriage. With passage and ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment, black people were given the right to vote across the U.S. and Michigan eliminated racial terminology in its constitution. In 1885 Michigan passed its first Civil Rights Act, which stated those within Michigan were “entitled to full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of inns, restaurants, eating-houses, barber shops, public conveyances on land and water, theatres, and all other places of public accommodation and amusement.” In 1952 discrimination was outlawed with government housing and, in 1955, employment. The rewrite to the Michigan state constitution approved in 1963 created the Michigan Department of Civil Rights to
help prevent discrimination and promote compliance with civil rights laws. THE USA
Before King and the civil rights movement, black people struggled to even gain citizenship, let alone equality. With nearly four million slaves by 1860 the country held black people in human bondage as lower than people in many areas of the south and some parts of the north. Laws existed to tell black people they had no legal rights, even in “free” states. The Fugitive Slave Act, for example, allowed escaped former slaves living in free states to be captured and returned to slavery. Laws that further restricted the already-limited rights of slaves included the Slave Codes passed in various Southern states, which banned slaves from such rights as basic education and self-defense and made the killing of slaves by masters legal.
The passage of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution guaranteed the end of slavery, civil rights for all citizens born or naturalized in the U.S. and the right of black men to vote. For nearly a century after the war, black people faced terror at the hands of local white terrorists groups like the Ku Klux Klan and had to live with Jim Crow Laws preventing them from gaining an equal footing with white people. Black people endured lynching, segregated schools and housing discrimination. As these frustrations boiled over, the civil rights movement arose thanks to political figures like King and Malcolm X. Landmark legislative acts and legal decisions, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Brown vs. Board of Education, outlawed segregation discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin across America.
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Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.
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“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. PROUD TO SUPPORT MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY’S COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION Office of the Associate Provost for Academic Services and Enrollment Management Admissions
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Special outreach program brought MLK to MSU BY RACHEL FRADETTE RFRADETTE@STATENEWS.COM
In 1965, The Beatles were the biggest band in the world, a different Romney was governor of Michigan and Martin Luther King Jr. launched the All University Student Government-sponsored Student Education Program, or STEP, at MSU. STEP was the first all student-administered educational outreach program of its kind in the country. For Robert Green, having students of all races approach him at MSU to create the outreach program inspired him. “MSU students have had a history of involvement in social justice,” Green said.
Green is a dean and professor emeritus at MSU and is an expert on education reform and urban redevelopment. He said the outreach program needed to raise money in order to get student and faculty down to the south to volunteer. The project eventually morphed into Summer Tutorial Education Project, which lasted until 1968. King was informed of MSU’s money predicament by Green, so King agreed to help launch the project and speak at MSU to raise funds. He filled MSU’s Fairchild Theatre and addressed approximately 4,000 students in hopes to raise money and garner more volunteers. The STEP program sent students and faculty to Rust College of Holly Springs, Miss. to help
enhance learning for students in elementary and secondary school while assisting college faculty with seminars. The program was conducted during the summers of 1966-68. Green said he recalled a time while at Rust College with STEP volunteers when a group of them went to the public library with hopes to check out books, but Green said at that time in Mississippi, it was illegal for black people to use the public library. “Michigan State has always had a student body, some white, some black, who were believers in social justice,” Green said. Green said every student who went down to Mississippi, which Green described as the most punitive state towards blacks during that time
was taking a risk with his or her life. “It showed that white students on major college campuses who cared not only about social justice in the south but in East Lansing,” Green said. Green said the white students who went down to Rust College through STEP and other programs were targeted just as much their black peers and were called taunting names. Green said the importance of this program is not measurable because of how many people saw the faces of these students fighting for social justice at a time when it was not popular or safe. See statenews.com to read more.
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Firsts at MSU Taken from MSU Archives
David. W. Dickson Dickson was a faculty member for the Department of English and was the first black faculty member at the college from 1948 to 1963. While a faculty member, Dickson taught his course on the Bible as Literature, one of the most popular courses at the time. Dickson later became president of Montclair State University.
William O. Thompson Thompson graduated in 1904 and was the first-known black student to graduate from the then-Michigan Agricultural College. After his graduation, he taught at what is now Tuskegee University.
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Myrtle Craig Myrtle Craig was the firstknown black woman to graduate from Michigan Agricultural College in 1907. President Theodore Roosevelt handed Craig her diploma at the ceremony. The Myrtle Craig Mowbray Scholarship was established at MSU in 1990 in honor of Craig.
Clifton R. Wharton Wharton began his eight-year presidency at MSU in January 1970. Becoming the first black president at a major U.S. university, Wharton worked to help educate the economically and educationally disadvantaged.
Alpha Kappa Alpha Founded on Feb. 3, 1954, Alpha Kappa Alpha became the first black sorority on MSU’s campus. The sorority had 17 charter members. The sorority services included guided campus tours, veteran hospital visits and reading to the blind.
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Alpha Phi Alpha Organized in May 1948, Alpha Phi Alpha became the first social fraternity formed by black students at the college. The fraternity focused on impacting the advancement of interracial groups at MSU.
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Blanche Martin He took the oath of office as the first black member of the MSU Board of Trustees on January 6, 1969. Martin served two consecutive terms on the board. He earned a doctorate in dental surgery from the University of Detroit in 1967 and established his dental practice in East Lansing.
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UAB, Office for Inclusion combine forces to plan day of MLK events BY GABE COMOS EMAIL GCOMOS@ STATENEWS.COM
Martin Luther King Jr. Day is Jan. 18. MSU students will have the day off from classes, but will have the opportunity to attend a MLK Commemorative Celebration and Conference at the Union. The University Activities Board, or the UAB, and the Office for Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives are putting on the all day celebration and conference event to commemorate King. According to UABâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website, the events are also purposed to bring light to the issues of social justice and acts of violence in communities today.
The times and events for the day are as follows:
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MLK Community Partner Fair and Service Project Location: Ground Floor, Union Room 50
10:45 a.m. MSU L ibrar y Film and Discussion Location: Second floor, Union Ballroom The event will be a look at old film of King and civil rights issues in the past along with a discussion that follows.
11:45 a.m. MLK Commemorative Student Leadership Conference Location: Second Floor, Union Ballroom
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MLK Commemorative March for Justice Location: Second Floor, Union Ballroom University-wide march to end the day that will commemorate the march King and his followers used to promote civil rights.
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