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Beloved MSU professor shares his struggles to motivate students From homelessness to a tragic car accident, religious studies professor Malcom Magee has faced his share of adversity. By sharing his story with the students in his classes, he’s able to teach lessons you wouldn’t find on a typical syllabus. See pages 4-5

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2015 Academy Awards features many close races “Whiplash” as a ferociously passionate jazz instructor. His powerful performance defines the film and no other actor stands a chance at swiping this award from his hands. By AJ Moser amoser@statenews.com

I hate myself for using the following phrase but there’s no way around it: I am a film geek. I spend an embarrassing amount of my time watching movies, reading news about the industry and keeping up with the newest releases. So I am fully prepared for this year’s Academy Awards on Sunday evening. A lot of great films came out in 2014. I’ve seen every best picture nominee and many of the other nominated films. So in case you feel lost looking at the Oscar ballots this year, I’ll get you familiar with some of my best bets for the night’s big winners. Best Supporting Actor: J.K. Simmons This is, without a doubt, the easiest category to predict. J.K. Simmons commanded the screen for every second he appeared in

Best Supporting Actress: Patricia Arquette By coming back every summer for 12 years to the role of a single mother raising two children, Patricia Arquette gives a brutally honest and realistic performance in “Boyhood.” I found her scenes to be the most interesting in “Boyhood,” and the heartbreaking moment where she comes to terms with her son leaving for college makes her more than deserving of an Oscar. Best Actress: Julianne Moore “Still Alice” is one of the only big-time nominated movies I’ve yet to see, but Julianne Moore is seemingly a lock to win this award. She has cleaned house at other award ceremonies, and no one can stop talking about her turn as a woman dealing with Alzhei-

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mer’s disease. Only because I am yet to see “Still Alice,” my personal favorite in this category is Rosamund Pike’s twisted character work in “Gone Girl.” Best Actor: Eddie Redmayne This is my riskiest prediction.

Micheal Keaton’s real-life parallels to his washed-up superhero actor in “Birdman” have made him a favorite in this category, but I cannot get over Redmayne’s moving work as Stephen Hawking in “The Theory of Everything.” The young actor tackled the T h u r s day ’ s r e s u lts

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How do you get to class during the winter? 51% — Walking. But I’m not always happy about it.

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painful transformation of the famous professor losing his mobility and eventually his own voice due to ALS. The academy is often favorable to biopics, but I genuinely believe Redmayne deserves this award over the other nominees and will take it home. Best Director: Richard Linklater Best director is another insanely close category. The recurring theme of the night will be “Boyhood” dueling with “Birdman.” While Alejandro González Iñárritu pulled off an amazing feat making “Birdman” look like one continuous shot, Linklater has him beat in the department of unbelievable achievement. What Linklater did with “Boyhood” was risky, bold and unheard of before in American cinema. Over the course of 12 years, Linklater and his crew created a cohesive snapshot of growing up in America captured through the eyes of one young man. The fact that no one involved with the movie was legal-

ly allowed to sign a contract for the 12-year production but came back voluntarily speaks volumes to his passion and skill as a director. Best Picture: Boyhood While the story behind the making of this movie is exceptional, I found “Boyhood” tough to watch at times, with the third hour of this story relying on scene after scene of nonsensical teenage philosophy. I understand how true to life the conversations taking place are, but just because they are realistic does not make them interesting to watch. Critics and voters seem to be obsessed with “Boyhood,” and it will most likely sweep the evening. I would be happier if “Birdman” managed to pull the upset, but I would be ecstatic if an indie darling like “Whiplash” or “The Grand Budapest Hotel” came out of nowhere to take the top prize. But, to be realistic, the night belongs to Richard Linklater’s quiet epic about American life in the early 2000s.

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Hubbard Hall catches fire Thursday A little before 3:30 p.m. Thursday afternoon, residents and students in class rooms in Hubbard Hall heard the familiar sound of a fire alarm ringing throughout the building. “I thought it was a drill at first, to be honest,” said mechanical engineering freshman Cameron Ploss. Then he left his dorm to see a hallway, the fourth floor of South Hubbard Hall, filled with smoke. The residents of both South and North Hubbard halls packed into the ground floor of North Hubbard, which had a pungent odor of smoke, to await clearance to return to their dorms. Some did not even see the smoke while leaving their floors. “I wasn’t really paying attention, I was more running down the stairs,” said Robbie Stevens, who was visiting a friend at MSU. Rumors spread quick ly through the packed crowds. Many residents saw smoke on

their dorm floors, however the common consensus, confirmed by Valarie James, the assistant community director of Hubbard Hall, was that the fire had started in the basement. Lt. Chuck Gagnier, of East Lansing Fire Department, said that the fire was a common dryer fire in South Hubbard, and that the fire department was able to quickly put the fire out. However, the smoke did not stay isolated in the basement, finding a way to climb to the top of the building through the ventilation system. An hour and a half after the alarm was first pulled, residents were allowed back into South Hubbard Hall by facilities manager of East Neighborhood Chip Hornburg. They were not allowed into the basement because firefighters were still cleaning the area of the fire, which smoldered large parts of the ceiling. — CAMERON MACKO

Chemical engineering sophomore Dustin Edwards walks barefoot from the Chemistry Building to the Engineering Building Wednesday. Read more about Edwards on page 7. photo: kelsey feldpausch

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Spotlight Professor Malcolm Magee draws from personal trials to offer wisdom The religious studies professor has seen the darkness of homelessness and tragedy. However, Magee still believes in being a positive role model to his students by encouraging them to leave the world a better place than how they found it By Austin Koltonowski akoltonowski@statenews.com

a limb — Magee has overcome a great deal of adversity. “I’ve been in all the lower 48 states and 11 countries, and I have lived in seven states from New York to California,” Magee said. “(You have to) be willing to get off the track once in a while. I don’t know why I am here or how long I’m here for — but I’m here.”

When he was spending nights curled up with his wife and two daughters on a single mattress in the corner of a converted dog kennel, Malcolm Magee couldn’t have imagined that he would one day teach at a university. His Story Those nights with his young family in Growing up on a farm in Zillah, Washthe basement of someone else’s home, ington, a young Magee had a promishe didn’t anticipate one day giving stuing future. But he said what he had dents life advice. in intelligence, he lacked in patience. “I never planned to be a professor Acting as junior class president, in college,” said the MSU history and Magee said he was eager to graduate religious studies professor. “Not at one early and begin a life with more imporpoint when I was 19, would that have tance. But after being told by his high entered my head.” school that he wasn’t allowed to, Magee Magee said he has led a life of unpre- Magee, 1981 left on his own terms. dictability, aware that life isn’t linear “I dropped out of high school in 1975. I decided and there is a beauty in the ever changing. He dropped out of high school, survived home- that I wanted to graduate early and they decided lessness, was censured for heresy and even lost they had a policy not to, so I quit,” Magee said. “I

Excerpts of a letter from Malcom Magee to his younger self. Read the full letter online.

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Master’s? MBA? PhD? Targeted Executive Education? Have you considered where your education will lead you next? The Eli Broad College of Business offers programs to reach any of these goals. Associate professor Malcolm Magee addresses his Religion 101 class Tuesday in 114 Berkey Hall. Magee has taught a wide variety of history, integrative studies in social science, integrative studies in arts and humanities, and religion classes at MSU. photo: allyson telgenhof 4

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was junior class president and I just dropped out. Thought I would do something different.” With the agreement that he would receive his GED, Magee was soon accepted into a bible college in Yakima, Washington. After studying an interesting, yet radical approach to seminary, Magee graduated from the college when he was 18. He married his wife a year later and had his first child the year after that. Unsure of his path, the wide-eyed Magee moved to Southern California, making a living by driving trucks, selling bearings and working in factories. “I have had a lot of crappy jobs,” Magee said. “And I have done it while I was trying to figure out what things matter. Wherever I went, in whatever way possible, I tried to make the world better.” A later move didn’t offer similar hospitality. “By 1981 we moved to St. Louis and we were homeless,” Magee said. “I had two children at the time and some people were kind enough to let us stay in their basement they converted into a dog kennel.” After four or five months without a home, Magee

received a loan and earned enough money from a sales job to rent a cheap apartment. Continuing on the path of unpredictability, he made his way back to the ministry. But as he was set to take over a seminary in England, he was censured for heresy. “It means, if you’re censured for heresy, it means they don’t agree (with you),” Magee said. “I had gotten a little too liberal.” Eventually, Magee went to MSU for graduate school. Unfortunately, his broken path had one last crack. As he was finishing graduate school at MSU, he was hit by a car, losing a leg in the incident. “I lost a leg, both legs actually, but they reattached one,” Magee said. “And I had a few years to sit in a wheelchair and I finished my Ph.D. in history and I started teaching here.”

es students to do what they love because everything will work itself out. “Don’t make every decision based on what you think you are going to get paid for,” Magee said. “Because if you learn to learn, and you love it, and you’re curious, you’re going to find a job somewhere. You’re going to be able to do something.” When speaking about a future filled with possibility, Magee talks with an obvious enthusiasm. “Somehow or other, I think most people want to leave the world a better place than they found it,” Magee said. But in order for a student to truly explore their life, Magee said he believes it is important for them to take a step off the path carved by society. “One thing that bothers me is how many of the students I see feel like ‘I’ve got to do this, I’ve got to do this,’” Magee said. “Well, who says you have to do it? Or anything. What about finding something that you really just love?” With a number of students inspired by Magee’s journey, his advice has not fallen on deaf ears. General management freshman Chris Breed-

en took Magee’s course his first college semester and said he couldn’t have had a better welcome. “I think it’s great advice, just look at where he ended up now,” Breeden said. “Obviously, I’m sure things were pretty hard, but one of the greater lessons of (his) story is to never give up.” His impact Once hired by MSU in 2005, a year after defending his Ph.D., Magee has affected the lives of both faculty and students. Logan O’Neil, former student and current graduate secretary in the College of Arts and Letters, said he believes Magee’s teachings directly correlate with the life he has led. “He shows a picture of his grandchildren and pleads to his students to ‘go out and make the world a better place,’” O’Neil said. O’Neil said that Magee’s background gives him the authority to speak on such matters but also gives him enough humility to connect with others. “Malcolm’s impact on my life is simply too large to be quantified,” O’Neil said.

His Advice Magee acts as an inspiration to both star and struggling students. Understanding that everyone leads a different path, the professor said he advis-

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News Driver faces trial over alleged inside job Former iCab driver Brandon McLittle listens to the testimonies of two witnesses during his preliminary examination Thursday, in East Lansing’s 54-B District Court on abbott road. McLittle is being accused of aiding in the robbery of his customer during December 2014.

who McLittle called that night, was asked by prosecutor Russel Church if the call received was “unusual,” to which Miller agreed.

By Cameron Macko cmacko@statenews.com

Two witnesses testified Thursday morning in the preliminary exam of Brandon Deval McLittle, charged with several counts of armed robbery and unlawful imprisonment for his alleged role in a robbery in his own cab last December. The witnesses were Valentino Hernandez, the owner of iCab Taxi Service, which is often used by students and the company McLittle worked for at the time of the robbery, and Amanda Miller, another employee who was a dispatcher that night. Hernandez said McLittle was operating a long-distance car service for transportation to places outside of the usual Lansing area. He said the fee for the trip to Chicago would have been about $750 for a round trip, with half going to McLittle and the other to Hernandez. “It would have been a great day for Brandon and myself,” Hernandez said. Amanda Miller, the dispatcher

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750 Dollars, the fare that would be charged for a round trip to Chicago

“His passenger had been robbed and attacked,“ Miller said of what was relayed to her by McLittle. Both witnesses confirmed the identity of McLittle in the courtroom, who was walked out in handcuffs by the bailiff while wearing a red jumpsuit. Most of the details of the robbery were not discussed during the exam. Previous information given by MSU police reported that while McLittle was driving the cab, he claimed he was held at gunpoint

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by two individuals and his passenger was severely beaten and robbed. Mc L it t le c laimed t hey were assaulted while stopped in a parking lot on the east end of Crescent Road, near Trowbridge and Harrison roads, after his passenger had given him the wrong directions. After approaching the stopped cab, the first unknown individual placed a gun to McLittle’s head and told him to drive while the second robbed and assaulted his passenger in the early morning of Dec. 9. Later in January, McLittle was arrested and charged with the robbery of his own cab, although the two other suspects have yet to be found by police. He was arraigned on Jan. 22. Police also have not released how they were able to connect McLittle to the robbery of his own cab. Another witness was supposed to testify on Thursday, Church said, but did not for unknown reasons. The exam was adjourned and will pick up again Thursday at 9 a.m., judge Andrea Larkin said.

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Student makes his daily commute barefoot By Ryan Squanda rsquanda@statenews.com

For the most part, chemical engineering sophomore Dustin Edwards is a lot like any MSU student. He studies hard, he’s part of a few clubs on campus, and he’s even in the Air Force ROTC program. There is one glaring difference between him and his peers — he doesn’t wear any shoes. The State News recently caught up with Edwards to talk about why he walks barefoot and the reactions he gets to it. TSN: How long have you been walking barefoot? DE: It all started in high school. I saw some kid with some funny toe shoes. And I was like, ‘Huh, what are those,’ and I did a lot of research and I found that there’s people that go barefoot all the time and I was like ‘Huh, I’m going to try that.’ So the last three years, I’ve been going barefoot as much as possible.

Chemical engineering sophomore Dustin Edwards walks barefoot from the Chemistry Building to the Engineering Building on Wednesday. PHOTO: Kelsey Feldpausch

What do you tell those who ask why you go barefoot? One, I think it’s good for you medically. I think if you wear a cast on your arm all day, everyday, the bones and muscles in your arm will get weaker and weaker because you’re not using them in the way that they’re supposed to be used. Same thing with our feet. The shoes inhibit our feet from using the bones and muscles in the way they’re supposed to. And if the bones and muscles in my feet work properly, then my hips and my knees and my lower back can all align and work properly so as an old

man, I probably won’t have lower back pain. Two, I think it’s really safe and really clean. If I was a chemist and I wanted to grow some germs, I would get a moist petri dish and stick it in a dark closet. Hmmm, moist and dark. That kind of sounds like my shoes. And that’s why shoes smell so bad. Because you’re actually growing fungus and bacteria inside of your shoe. And how often do people wash their shoes? Not very often, if ever ... I wash my feet every day ... there is glass some places and yeah I have gotten cut, but the small ones don’t really cut you and the big ones you can avoid if you see them. And three, it’s a lot of fun. I get to feel the world. If I’m walking through the woods, I

get to see the trees, hear the birds, smell the flowers and feel the ground. What’s your experience been like going barefoot in college? There’s lots of weirdos at college and they’re very accepting of weird ways. The only places at college that won’t let me go barefoot is in the cafeterias and in the science labs. And the Main Library for some reason, which doesn’t make sense to me. But I talked to all of those people. I went to the head of the culinary services and really made sure. Do they have that rule? Why do they have that rule? And it turns out they do. So I’m a rule follower. I like to follow the rules.

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Education Empowers Week tackles achievement gap Blacks and Latinos % of Graduates

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1 “Invisible Cities” author Calvino 6 “I ran away from you once. I can’t do it again” speaker 10 Ford Field player 14 Surgery acronym 15 It’s a gas 16 “Snow White” character flaw 17 Forgeries that are easy to spot? 20 By way of 21 French pronoun 22 Habituate 23 Dude in the CIA? 28 Essen’s valley 29 Spotted 30 Slug relative 33 Roll 34 Word after clip or pop 37 Trivial blunder? 42 Colorado native 43 “About his head he wears the winner’s __”: “The Two Noble Kinsmen” 44 Guanaco cousin 45 Beantown athlete 47 Peek follower 49 Pancake cook in pinstripes? 54 Some Highlanders 56 U.N. workers’ agcy.

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26 Isaac’s eldest 27 Team whose logo involves a “wishbone C” 30 Mustangs’ sch. 31 Trivial objection 32 One-spot 33 Pan for Yan 34 Recipe words 35 Mojito ingredient 36 Not yet determined, in skeds 38 It’s surrounded by white 39 Game ender 40 Morlock prey 41 Bomb 45 He served between Warren and Herbert 46 Bay State motto starter 47 Like most rafts 48 Rorschach image 49 Ache 50 “__ Men Out”: baseball scandal film 51 Pequod co-owner 52 Chopin’s “Winter Wind,” e.g. 53 Orchestra group 54 Fish feature 55 “Hi, sailor!” 59 Vezina Trophy org. 60 Lao Tzu principle 61 Some pop-ups 62 Brother

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A group of MSU students partnered with Teach for America to bring Education Empowers Week to campus. The events were set for Feb. 16-20 and aimed to inform and engage the student body and community members of East Lansing about the education opportunity gap. Teach For America is a nationwide movement of teachers and leaders who work to ensure that children growing up in poverty have equal access to education. The goals for Education Empowers Week at MSU are to help students and faculty understand the opportunities for activism regarding education inequality. “Through speakers, documentaries, discussions, forums and other events, (we) will question and analyze what social, political and economic factors have led to such tremendous disparities in opportunity,” Mollie VanOrsdol, the MSU’s campus campaign coordinator for Teach for America, wrote

in an email. The lineup of events taking place during Education Empowers Week included screenings of films related to the changing state of education and opportunities to volunteer at local schools. Teach for America has been recruiting college students since 1989 to raise awareness and tackle the issue of the achievement gap. Currently, 8 percent of students growing up in poverty graduate from college by age 24, compared with 80 percent of students from more affluent areas. While college completion for affluent students has nearly doubled in the past four decades, the percentage of students from low-income families obtaining a bachelor’s degree has remained stagnant. Although 16 million American children face the challenges of poverty, an increasing body of evidence shows they can achieve at the highest levels, according to the National Center for Children in Poverty. At a roundtable discussion Wednesday night, students

posed questions and experts made suggestions to prospective teachers. International relations senior Eric Savoie introduced the panel to fellow students by recounting his personal experience with recognizing the achievement gap. “I went to a nice school growing up,” Savoie said. “It wasn’t until my freshman year at MSU when I realized how fortunate I was, and how I took that for granted.” The group of experts used their experiences and history within informed positions in the education department around Lansing and Michigan to encourage students in ways to help fight the inequity in education. Donna Kaplowitz, a professor in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities, told students that education in the country and the state is experiencing an extremely difficult time but to not be discouraged. The panel of teachers and experts encouraged student recognition and increased parent involvement as a way to promote passion about education.

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Good Eats: Spots to enjoy the most important meal of the day The Lansing area offers an abundance of diners and restaurants to enjoy a hearty breakfast of pancakes or oatmeal. Check out these spots for breakfast meals to keep you full throughout your busy day Golden Harvest

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Although breakfast often is hailed as the most important meal of the day, it’s usually the one skipped by college students on the go. East Lansing and the surrounding area is home to several different breakfast places. Here are some that are popular among students. The Fleetwood Diner “I had the corned beef hash. (It was) honestly some of the best food I could have.” — Haslett Michigan resident Devan Pelon

Lansing residents Tony and Bobbie Thias enjoy a meal Wednesday at Flapjack Family Restaurant, 3000 E. Grand River Ave. in Lansing. The couple, who met at MSU in 1950, frequent Flapjack often. photos: kennedy thatch

$6 Approximate cost of The Fleetwood Diner’s breakfast special

$7 Approximate cost of The Fleetwood Diner’s corned beef hash meal Lansing resident Tenaya Martinez grabs food for guests Wednesday at Fleetwood Diner, 2211 S. Cedar St. in Lansing.

If you’re looking for a place that serves breakfast all day and has a fun, old-time feel to it, then look no further than the Fleetwood Diner in Lansing. General manager Dean Bailey said he recommends trying the “Hippie Hash” or the stuffed French toast, which is French toast stuffed with cream cheese filling and topped with fruit. Pelon said the Fleetwood Diner is definitely one of his favorites when it comes to breakfast. Leo’s Coney Island

“I definitely recommend it. I just like the small feel. It’s a really popular, local Lansing establishment.” — Arts and humanities senior Bronson Herman Golden Harvest is a local establishment that’s been raved about by many around the Lansing area. “We use fresh everything pretty much, from herbs to baking our own biscuits and our own hash. We make our own salsa,” owner Zane Vicknair said. “Everything looks spectacular, tastes spectacular.” One of the healthier breakfast options the restaurant in Lansing offers is oatmeal, which Vicknair said isn’t made from an “instant” packet. Golden Harvest also offers a loud and social atmosphere. Herman said he loves the restaurant’s unique atmosphere in addition to the food. Herman said he can’t remember if he last ordered pancakes or eggs, but he recommends either one because they’re both delicious. F l a p Jac k Restaurant

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“I think it was a good combination of decent food for a low price.” — Economics senior Kelly Christopherson

“It’s decent (and) cheap. It’s a nice setting. It’s not super busy usually, and that’s how I like it.” — East Lansing resident Elijah Miller

If you’re looking for a place that’s close to campus and has speedy service, Leo’s Coney Island would be a good stop. General manager Sean Morris said the restaurant serves breakfast all day long and has a wide array of options. He said some of the most popular items include the French toast, pancakes and omelets. As for a favorite omelet, he said he particularly prefers to have the spinach and feta omelet. Christopherson said she ordered breakfast at Leo’s just once, but thoroughly enjoyed it. “I think it was a good combination of decent food for a low price,” she said. Christopherson said she recommends students check out Leo’s if they’re looking for breakfast food on a budget.

Flap Jack Family Restaurant in Lansing provides a variety of more than just different “Flap Jacks.” Manager Lenora Lulgjuraj said the restaurant offers seven different pancake batters, some of the flavors including blueberry, pumpkin and multigrain. Lulgjuraj said one of the most popular items is the hearty breakfast, which she highly recommends. “(It’s a) combination of eggs and hashbrowns and bacon and sausage,” she said. Miller said he recommends people check out Flap Jack if they’re looking for good food on a budget. Miller said he hasn’t been to Flap Jack in a while, but said pancakes are his go-to order whenever he’s there.

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Women’s basketball prepares for matchup with No. 19 Rutgers Rutgers has had a successful transition from the Big East to the Big Ten, jumping into the Top 25. If MSU is going to be able to pull off the upset against the Scarlet Knights they will need a great game out of Aerial Powers By Zach Libby zlibby@statenews.com

MSU will face an opponent that’s won eight of their last 10 games when Rutgers heads to East Lansing this weekend. Rutgers’ last victory was at home in Piscataway, New Jersey, where they steamrolled Illinois. Rutgers has done more than what was expected since leaving the Big East conference, generating the most successful invasion of any sport in the Big Ten. But they’re not perfect. Garnering four losses in conference play, including two against Maryland, double-digit defeats to the Terrapins and a 17-point slaughter by the hands of Ohio State in Columbus has the No. 19-ranked team in the country sitting third in the conference standings. Averaging 70.4 points per game while reaching the 20-win mark for the 15th time underneath head coach C. Vivian Stringer’s tenure, the Scarlet Knights will conclude the season by traveling to East Lansing. When they get here, they’ll face a Spartan squad haunted by a depleting roster with a superstar in the making. Sophomore forward Aerial Powers’ ability to score from any where and her aggressiveness as a rebounder has impacted the Spartans so immensely that without her, MSU wouldn’t be in the current situation that they’re in.

MSU gymnastics aims to improve on beam event The Spartans are 6-4 so far this season, but head coach Kathie Klages wants to tame the team’s “nemesis” and improve on beams before their next meet against Illinois

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Sophomore forward Aerial Powers looks to pass the ball as she is guarded by Maryland guard Kiara Leslie Monday during the Play4Kay breast cancer awareness game against Maryland at Breslin Center. The Spartans were defeated by the Terrapins, 75-69.

Without Powers, who was named the 24th Spartan in the program to record her 1,000 career point, there wouldn’t be a possible NCAA tournament bid, there wouldn’t be a possible national invitation tournament bid and there wouldn’t be a possible Big Ten tournament run. As a team, Spartans have showed supporters this season that they can battle through adversity and run with the best of the best in the conference. That was seen at Breslin Center this past Monday when they nearly caused a court storming after knocking off the No. 5-ranked Terrapins. Troubles from the charity stripe would lead to the sixpoint loss after failing to convert 11 missed free throws, six coming from Powers, but she did finish the night with a team-high 18 points. Searching for that first quality victory since Dec. 21 when they took home a 89-76 win against then-No. 19 ranked Syracuse in the Florida Sunshine Classic, without a doubt, completing their last home game of the season with a win would give MSU the confidence they desperately need before traveling to Hoffman Estates, Illinois, for the conference tournament. Betnijah Laney (16), Kahleah Copper (15.8) and Tyler Scaife (15.5) have combined for 47.3 points per game for the Scarlet Knights and should be a factor on the offensive side of the glass this weekend once again.

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If the gymnastics team wants to build on the momentum of last weekend’s victory over Pittsburgh, they will have to improve in one key event. Beams. The Spartans (6-4 overall, 2-3 Big Ten) defeated Pittsburgh 195.150-194.275 on Sunday but for the third consecutive meet, MSU was outscored on beams. “Beam was again really rough,” head coach Kathie Klages said and went on to call the event MSU’s “nemesis.” The Spartans are ranked eighth in the Big Ten conference for balance beam event, which is tied for vault as their worst event. “We changed the lineup on beam to try and see if we could get somebody to stay on the fri day, FebruaRY 2 0, 2 01 5

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beam and we definitely had our issues,” Klages said. Senior Alina Cartwright, who was voted a 2015 Big Ten gymnast to watch before the season, has returned to the lineup and could be the answer the MSU is looking for, but she has only competed in the bars event so far. “We’re really excited to have Alina back,” Klages said. “We’re hoping to progress her this week and get her into another event or two, and hopefully doing all-around within the next couple of weeks.” Cartwright was voted All-Big Ten first team last year after placing in the top three in the all-around competition seven different times in 2014. However, for the immediate future the struggles on beams still persist, but it isn’t because of a lack of effort during practice. “They look awesome in the gym, so it’s a

mental thing,” Klages said. “They’ve got to transfer that competitiveness that they have in the gym down here to the competition.” The head coach, in her 25th season, is pulling out all the stops in an attempt to improve the Spartans’ weak area and will evaluate herself during practice. “Every day I’m going to judge … they have to earn their spot based on that,” Klages said. “That should put a little bit more pressure on them and hopefully get them more prepared for next weekend.” MSU will begin their three-game road trip with a matchup against Illinois (4-1 overall, 3-1 Big Ten) 8 p.m. Friday. The Fighting Illini are currently ranked 13th in the national poll, averaging 195.996 points per meet. The Spartans sit at 28th in the national poll, averaging 194.832 points per meet.

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Alleged gang making headlines in China Chinese media picked up the trial of the members of the alleged gang Chengguan, alarming the parents of international students and forcing MSU to field calls from concerned families By Michael Kransz mkransz@statenews.com

The recent trial of two Chinese students and the allegations of a student gang have raised concerns for parents abroad and may have damaging effects on the reputation of MSU in China, due in large part to negative media coverage the trial has received overseas, Chinese students said. The story made headlines in Chinese media outlets, journalism senior Mandi Fu said, and it brought about uninformed fears and criticisms from the Chinese public because the coverage was limited to the initial story that centered around gang allegations made by the prosecutor, Fu said. “A lot of Chinese media only translated the first article that says there’s a gang at MSU, but they didn’t really follow up,” Fu said. “That’s why a lot

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Chinese students are, by far, MSU’s largest population of international students, with 4,525 in attendance this semester, making up 9.4 percent of the student body, according to data from the Office of Planning and Budgets. Journalism sophomore Bingqing Mao said coverage by many Chinese media outlets reflects negatively on Chinese students studying abroad at MSU and elsewhere. A common misconception held in China is that those studying abroad are all wealthy, she said, and this trial only served to perpetuate those stereotypes. “The people in China, they think those students drive nice cars and they never study and they fight,” Mao said. “It really ruined our reputation.” For Chinese parents looking at a study abroad options for their children, Mao said some might pass over MSU because of the inflated gang alle-

gations that raise safety and study concerns. "(Parents want their children) to have a good environment to study,” Mao said. “If there are some students like (those in Chengguan), it just gives us a really bad impression.” With the trial being relatively recent and the admissions cycle soon coming to a close, Cody said the events have not affected application numbers from China and the university is not concerned about it directly impacting them in the future. “As for the gang allegations, from our perspective, there is not a gang problem at MSU within any student community,” Cody wrote in an email. “Such activity is virtually unheard of on our campus and in our community. The representation of these activities in Chinese media may inadvertently be misleading.”

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MSU hockey won’t overlook Wisconsin Head coach Tom Anastos remembers a time when MSU started mostly freshmen, something Wisconsin has had to do this season. He said that is why the Spartans won’t overlook the Badgers looking an opponent. Given the fact MSU was in the Badgers’ position two years ago, the Spartans know how dangerous they actualIt’s been an unpredictable year so far for Big ly are. “We’ve been a team the last couple years Ten hockey with many overperforming teams and players. On the other end of the spectrum that we thought was a lot better than our record showed, so we know how that is and sits MSU’s next opponent, Wisconsin. The Badgers were picked to finish third in how that feels,” junior captain Michael Ferthe preseason Big Ten poll selected by coach- rantino said. “Even though the last couple of es, and finally picked up their third victory years we weren’t where we wanted to be, there of the season just last weekend (3-19-4, 1-9- was still plenty of confidence going in to those games and we thought that 2-2 Big Ten). we could win any night, and Meanwhile, the Spartans “Wisconsin is a I think they do too. That’s (12-12-2, 6-4-2-2 Big Ten) head into the weekend series team we can relate what makes them so dangerous is there’s no quit over playing some of their best to having gone there.” hockey of the season. MSU through a similar Throughout the season, is 7-3-2 over its last 12 games MSU has almost always and 5-1 over its last six. change a couple played the same t y pe of Even with the Spartans of years ago when game no matter who the and Badgers sporting comwe lost 11 players. I opponent. Whether it was pletely different records and levels of confidence, MSU thought their team an early season loss against can easily relate to what was championship Boston University or a win over U-M at Joe Louis Aretheir conference adversary caliber last year.” na, the Spartans play stout is going through. defense to pair with a hard“Wisconsin is a team that working offense. The key to we can relate to having gone Tom Anastos both, and what will be key through a similar change a Head coach this weekend against UW, is couple years ago when we keeping things simple and lost 11 players,” head coach Tom Anastos said. “I thought their team was putting the team first. “(Wisconsin’s) doing a lot better of late and of championship caliber last year. ...They lost they’re an improving team,” junior forward Matt 11 players, that’s a big number to lose.” With half of their roster gone from last year, DeBlouw said. “They’re gaining experience every the Badgers have been forced to push young, single game and I think this weekend’s really inexperienced players into key situations. They going to be a good test because they’re home, have faltered at times, as their record shows, we’re coming off a little bit of success and we but MSU knows they will be playing their best can’t dwell on that. We just have to keep doing the little things we’ve been doing to succeed.” hockey at the end of the season. With the weekend series taking place at the “Forget about their record,” Anastos said. “They’re at home, they’ve gained experience, Kohl Center in Wisconsin, the games will begin we were that team two years ago and our best at 9 p.m. EST Friday and 8 p.m. EST Saturday. MSU is currently tied for third place in the Big hockey was played at this time of year.” These are usually the types of games that Ten with 22 points, trailing first-place U-M and coaches have to worry about their team over- Minnesota by two points. By Jonathon chun

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