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DONE TOO SOON MSU men’s basketball was upset in the first round of the NCAA Tournament by No. 15 seed Middle Tennessee State University. — PAGES 4 AND 5

Head coach Tom Izzo talks to senior forward Matt Costello during the game against Middle Tennessee State University March 18 at Scottrade Center in St. Louis, Mo. The Spartans were defeated by the Blue Raiders, 90-81. PHOTO: SUNDEEP DHANJAL

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Habitat for Humanity benefits the community BY RACHEL FRADETTE RFRADETTE@STATENEWS.COM

Early mornings turned into long days of taking down house siding, working on roofing and planting gardens are not unusual for members of MSU’s chapter of Habitat for Humanity. Members come together nearly every week to work on build sites in the Lansing area. Habitat for Humanity is an international non-profit organization that started in 1976. The organization works to combat poverty housing through building and updating houses. The MSU chapter allows students to get involved in the build process from the ground up. “We work on houses in the local, Lansing community,” Habitat president and physiology senior Lindsay Schichtel said. Building the houses is a long process, but the pay off for Habitat and the family outweighs the length. “You’re able to see what you’ve done and it makes you feel proud,” said Habitat vice president and athletic training senior Carolyn Rutishauser. Schichtel said the group gives a large donation through fundraising each year to the international

chapter and members decide the use for the funds. In addition to the feeling of accomplishment from working on the houses and raising money, Schichtel said being a member helps her realize not everyone is as fortunate as her. “I come from a privileged family, it gives me the chance to take a step back and realize that not everyone was awarded the same thing,” Schichtel said. Rutishauser said students can see a tangible thing they helped build and that makes the Habitat experience different. Both Rutishauser and Schichtel said they chose to get involved after enjoying their experiences in high school with the organization. “A lot of people don’t have any experience,” Schichtel said. “They ask us what habitat is.” Rutishauser said she respects the families who Habitat helps out because of how much time and effort they put into building their new home. “Not only are students getting the opportunity to get some service in, but they’re having the chance to go and be a part of building a house for a family,” Rutishauser said. Read more at statenews.com.

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Physiology senior Lindsay Schichtel helps remove siding on a house March 18 at Old Castle Circle in Lansing. Schichtel is president of the MSU Habitat for Humanity chapter this year and has been secretary and vice president during her four years at MSU. PHOTO: EMILY ELCONIN

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Safety Traps in the Global Economy The global economy has experienced a chronic shortage of safe assets for the last three decades, and to some extent the Subprime crisis can be attributed to such a shortage through its persistent downward pressure on interest rate. In turn, this situation was exacerbated by the Subprime and European Sovereign Debt crises, as we entered a world of unprecedented low natural interest rates across the developed world and in many emerging market economies. Global nominal interest rates have remained at the Zero Lower Bound (ZLB) since 2009. With nominal rates so low, they can no longer absorb the global imbalance in safe asset markets, yet this imbalance remains. How does this global mismatch play out and shape global economic outcomes? In this talk I will address this question and connect it with current developments in the global economy. Ricardo J. Caballero is the Ford International Professor of Economics, a director of the World Economic Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an NBER Research Associate. Caballero was the Chairman of MIT's Economics Department (2008-2011) and has been a visiting scholar and consultant at most major central banks and international financial institutions. His teaching and research fields are macroeconomics, international economics, and finance. His current research looks at global capital markets, speculative episodes and financial bubbles, systemic crises prevention mechanisms, and dynamic restructuring. His policy work focuses on aggregate risk management and insurance arrangements for emerging markets and developed economies. He has also written about aggregate consumption and investment, exchange rates, externalities, growth, price rigidity, dynamic aggregation, networks and complexity. Caballero was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society and subsequently of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in April 2010.

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Contents Michigan Legislature proposes a lessening of MIP charges

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The Michigan Legislature is currently considering a bill, which would reduce the infamous “minor in possession,” or MIP charge, from a misdemeanor to a civil infraction. Under the current law, students face up to a $100 PAGE 11 fine for their first offense, a misdemeanor on their record and possibly even jail time with any offenses following. This lessened consequence involves a non-crim“They resurrected me. For inal offense and results in a minor fine. State Sen. Rick Jones (R-Grand Ledge) is spearwhatever length I coach, heading the bill in the Michigan Legislature and whatever number of years it’s said he is “very dissatisfied” with the current going to be, I’ll owe them that. system. When an underage student is caught with an They brought the fun back alcoholic beverage, Jones said judges might seninto it. Not a lot of bad days at tence first-time offenders to up to seven days in jail, practice for the 120-some we while others might be left with a misdemeanor. had. Never a bad trip.” “This wide disparity in judgment is unfair,” Jones said. Jones said he does not condone underage drinkTom Izzo, MSU men’s basketball head coach, on his seniors playing their final MSU game ing and, as a former law enforcer, said he supports See page 9

a police officer’s discretion to detain an intoxicated student if their safety is at risk. “My bill is about smarter justice,” Jones said in a recent MLive article. “It balances the need to deter young people from drinking with the understanding that students who make mistakes shouldn’t end up with criminal records that follow them for the rest of their lives.” Jones also said he has the support of many Michigan judges for this proposed legislation. Further, under the law, the civil infraction for refusing to submit to a breath analysis would be deleted. The officer may request, not require, the administration of a breath test to an accused student. Police officers in the city of East Lansing do not share in the optimism for the law. “It is a bad idea,” East Lansing police Lt. Scott Wriggelsworth said. He said it inhibits the officer’s ability to do his or her job in keeping students safe in the East Lansing area. From the perspective of the officers, Wriggelsworth said, those who are belligerently drunk and endangering the safety of others are the ones being issued misdemeanors.

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Head coach Tom Izzo reacts during the game against Middle Tennessee State University March 18 at Scottrade Center in St. Louis, Mo. The Spartans were defeated by the Blue Raiders, 90-81. PHOTO: SUNDEEP DHANJAL

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MSU head coach Tom Izzo knew all season there was something special about this team. He said all year he thought this was one of the best teams he had ever coached. MSU got off to the best start in program history, winning its first 13 games. So when the final horn sounded the afternoon of March 18 and the season came to a crashing halt for No. 2 seed MSU with a 90-81 loss to No. 15 seed Middle Tennessee State University, Izzo wasn’t mad or disappointed in his team — he was sad he didn’t have more time with it. “I don’t go out and say … I didn’t guarantee any Final Fours, but really really felt in my heart, and I still do that this team was

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capable of winning a national championship,” Izzo said. “I did say there’s more than one team, but I’m not going to hide behind what I said because I believed it — and I believed it after we lost, so that probably tells you how strongly I believed it.” “But it didn’t happen and I don’t regret saying it now, I don’t regret their mission since we got beat by Duke, I just regret that I didn’t get to coach them a little longer, that’s what I regret. Selfish on my part, but it’s fair.” MSU did not lead the entire game against Middle Tennessee, but had several chances to take the lead during mini-runs, which could have swung the momentum in MSU’s favor like MSU had done to teams in tight games all year. Junior guard Eron Harris said being so close to taking the lead and maybe having momentum swing in their favor made the loss even tougher, because he said the players felt like they just couldn’t get over one small hurdle. “Once that time starts winding down and you like, ‘when are we going to get over this hump?’ And it never happens, they keep making big play after big play, it’s just demoralizing and before you know it, you just realize there’s not enough time left,” Harris said. MSU’s players and coaches put enormous pressure on themselves this season to get back to the Final Four and finish what they started last season, but they did not feel like the pressure ended up causing their downfall. “No, there wasn’t pressure like that,” Costello said. “We had expectations for ourselves, but we just failed defensively today. That’s where we’ve hung our hat all year and we couldn’t stop them. And that started with me at the three. So, man, just sucks.” Izzo said there was a lot of pressure on the team, but said that is to be expected at a program like MSU because of the tradition of winning.

PAST NO. 2 SEED UPSETS 2013: No. 15 Florida Gulf Coast 78, No. 2 Georgetown 68 2012: No. 15 Lehigh 75, No. 2 Duke 70 No. 15 Norfolk State University 86, No. 2 Missouri 84 2001: No. 15 Hampton 58, No. 2 Iowa State 57 “There was pressure,” Izzo said. “They put it on me and I put it on them. Isn’t going to change as long as I’m here. That’s why you come here. You (don’t) come here to win a few games, you do that at Northern Michigan. Come here to try to win a championship, and that’s the pressure.” Senior guard Denzel Valentine will go down as one of the best Spartans ever to don the jersey on and off the court after finishing his career as the only player in MSU or Big Ten history to total 1,300 career points, 700 career rebounds and 500 career assists. Valentine finished his career with 1,645 points, 856 rebounds and 639 assists throughout his four years. Valentine said while the team fell short of its ultimate goal, he learned a life lesson he will carry with him for the rest of his life. “With great power comes great responsibility,” Valentine said. “And I didn’t handle it today. ... But I got something that I’ll never forget the rest of my life — that when you’re in this position and everybody’s looking at you, you’ve got to come through. I didn’t come through today and I’ll remember that for the rest of my life.” SUCCESSFUL LEGACY NOT LOST

This year’s team had been through a lot heading into the NCAA Tournament, and it seemed all the good that came from the tough times was starting to show at the end of the season. Izzo just hoped after the loss this team and its seniors are remembered for everything it they did rather than what they didn’t do. “I just care about the present and what they did for me, for us,” Izzo said when asked about what lessons he could take from the loss for next season. “And somehow I’ve got to make sure that in all this disappointment that does not get lost, because that’s the problem with sports; it does get lost. And somebody’s not happy unless they win it all.” After losing Valentine to an injured knee early, fighting through a three-game losing streak in the middle of the season, including two home losses and seeing a season limiting case of plantar fasciitis stop sophomore guard Lourawls “Tum Tum” Nairn Jr. from playing his normal big minutes, MSU was clicking heading into the NCAA Tournament. MSU had won 13 of its last 14 games going into the tournament, many of them by large margins, and captured a Big Ten record fifth Big Ten Tournament title for MSU. The senior class finished as the second winningest class all-time with 112 wins. This was one of the best teams Izzo has ever coached, statistically speaking. MSU was ranked highly all season in several key statistical categories, such as 3-point percentage, field-goal percentage defense, rebounding, points allowed and assists, not to mention being Izzo’s highest scoring team ever at 79.8 points per game. MSU was getting phenomenal play from Costello, specifically after Valentine went down and Costello knew he had to do more for the team. Costello averaged 10.4 points and 8.2 rebounds and had been a key to MSU’s success this season. Costello was the first player to average a double-double in Big Ten play since Draymond Green did for MSU back during the 2011-12 season. Before the season began, Costello was about as far off of the radars of NBA teams as a player could be, but after a stellar season and a solid 22-point and nine rebound performance in

MSU’s first-round loss, Izzo thinks Costello could be looking at a career in the pros. “Really happy for Matt because he played one of his best games,” Izzo said. “And I think he’s put himself in a position where he’ll get to play some after this.” Eron Harris, the transfer from West Virginia, found his niche with the team after a rough start to the season. Harris began the season seemingly like he was forcing his offense and letting his offensive struggles affect his defense. When Nairn went down and Harris was thrusted back into the starting lineup, he answered the call. Harris developed into one of MSU’s best on-ball defenders as the season went on and became one of the most consistent players. Even when his offense wasn’t at its best, MSU’s players and coaches knew they could rely on his defense, especially down the stretch. The final piece of MSU’s championship puzzle seemed to be in place as well. Valentine’s longtime friend and teammate senior guard Bryn Forbes emerged this season not only as the best shooter for MSU, but one of the best shooters in all of college basketball. Forbes increased his production by almost six points per game and improved his 3-point shooting from 42.7 percent in his first season with MSU to 48.1 percent this season. But Forbes’ biggest improvement was on the defensive end of the court, and while Izzo said Forbes might be the best shooter he’s ever coached, he also has praised Forbes for his dedication to getting stronger and better defensively. “But I am fortunate that (Forbes is) here and there’s been a Shawn Respert, a Steve Smith, you know,” Izzo said Thursday before MSU’s first round loss. “There’s been guys that can knock down knock-down-shots — Chris Hill — but I don’t know many better that I have had that can do it on a consistent basis like this kid has done it. Add that to the fact he’s gotten bigger, stronger, way better defensively. He’s improved his game a lot this past year and that puts him in the position he’s in.” MSU had its star in Valentine, great shooter in Forbes, true low-post threat in Costello, defensive stopper and playmaker in Harris and rim protector in freshman forward Deyonta Davis. MSU averaged 9.2 3-pointers per game and had a strong low-post presence outscoring almost every team they played in the paint. Everything seemed to be in place right before it fell apart for MSU. Izzo said although he doesn’t want to think about the future right now — he knows when he looks back on this team and all it accomplished, even through adversity, he will look at it as a team that he owes for helping him find his passion and fire for coaching again, something he said he had lost for a few years. “Those that know me, I don’t say this team was better than this team, was better than this team,” Izzo said. “This team was a lot like Zel. It was the most versatile team. It did things off the court, on the court and in the classroom like none I’ve ever had. It just didn’t work out for this team, but it won’t dampen my respect, love, care, it won’t dampen it at all. It will be used for whatever length of time that I’m here. In other words, other teams are going to hear starting next two weeks from now when we start looking at things again, they’re going to hear what this team did. That’s probably the best compliment you can give them.”

Junior guard Eron Harris shoots the ball as he is defended by Middle Tennessee State University guard/forward Perrin Buford during the game against Middle Tennessee State University March 18 at Scottrade Center in St. Louis, Mo. PHOTO: SUNDEEP DHANJAL

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Grad student missed by those he helped BY RAY WILBUR RWILBUR@STATENEWS.COM

A memorial photo of Heather LaBerge and her fiance Max Monroy-Miller during a vigil on March 17 at South Kedzie Hall. LaBerge had a vigil for her fiance who passed away earlier this week. PHOTO: EMILY ELCONIN

Graduate student Max Monroy-Miller will be remembered by his friends, family and MSU as someone who could unite people. Not only was he skilled at doing it, but he devoted his life to it, his friend and colleague Christian Ramirez said. He was an integral influence in the Latino community at MSU and the activist community as a whole, where he sought to bring people of different backgrounds together. Monroy-Miller spent his time at MSU working to make it a better place for every student who attended. “He could bring people together from anywhere,” Ramirez said. “And those people would thank him for it afterwards.” Monroy-Miller died March 15. There is no information about the cause of his death as of Sunday afternoon.

“He could bring people together from anywhere, and those people would thank him for it afterwards.” Christian Ramirez, friend of Max Monroy-Miller

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Monroy-Miller completed his undergraduate education at MSU and was an active member in a myriad of groups on campus during his time as a graduate student, including Omega Delta Phi — MSU’s first multicultural fraternity. The fraternity advocates for Latino education and empowerment at MSU and across the country. His fraternity brother, Francisco Velazquez, said Max was the reason their Greek letters meant something. “You are not a brother simply because you wear letters,” he said. “Max showed us that a brother uses the motto of brotherhood to uplift, to teach, to grow, to protect.” Monroy-Miller was also a founding member of the Michigan Indigenous Chicano Community Alliance, or MICCA, which he helped found because there were no graduate student orga-

nizations that represented the needs of Latino people at MSU and in the Lansing area. The group coordinated and sponsored the Día de los Muertos event on campus last year, the first of its kind at MSU. “He always had the goal of building community,” doctoral student and member of MICCA Connie Rojas said. “We had a month to plan it and Max basically put the event on by himself.” Monroy-Miller was also active in Liberate MSU, the MSU Department of Teacher Education, MSU’s Council of Graduate Students where he served as the curriculum, instruction and teacher education representative and MSU’s Chicano/Latino Studies Program. He was one of several undergraduates in the late 90s and early 2000s who pushed the university to create a Chicano/Latino studies program in the first place, Ramirez said. And he was still fighting to gain department status for the Chicano/Latino Studies Program until his death. “He sought to further institutionalize Chicano studies,” Ramirez said. “We don’t have really any funding or graduate assistants or teaching assistants, so we run the program ourselves.” Ramirez said he will miss most the nights when he and Monroy-Miller would stay up late devising plans to gain department status for the program. Vice president for Student Affairs and Services Denise Maybank said Monroy-Miller helped the university progress through his dedication and passion for his work. “Max was a force that moved through MSU and was the bridge for so much, and because of him we are better and we are changed,” Maybank said. “When I think about not having Max, I’m diminished because of his commitment to making this place better.” Monroy-Miller helped to make MSU a more welcoming place for students who might otherwise feel forgotten in a sea of predominantly white students. For most of his friends and family, it was difficult to describe how he made people feel. “It’s hard for all of us to try to capture exactly who he was,” COGS vice president of external affairs Dee Jordan said. “I believe there are few people God sprinkles on earth who come to transcend and I have no doubt Max was one of those people, that his purpose here was to transcend.”

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Advertising and communication senior Alex Byers, right, dances with media and information senior Dakota Johnston March 17 inside of Harper’s Restaurant and Brewpub at 131 Albert Ave. Harper’s opened its doors at 7 a.m. to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. PHOTO: NIC ANTAYA

Officer Ryan Kuhn arrests a man for urinating on the side of a house March 17 on Marshall street in East Lansing. PHOTO: EMILY ELCONIN

Lansing resident Lelia Boniadi blows bubbles March 17 outside of Orion cooperative house at 501 M.A.C. Ave. Students celebrated St. Patrick’s Day by socializing with friends. PHOTO: NIC ANTAYA

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A new study in the scientific journal “Personality and Individual Differences” by scientists at the University of Windsor in Canada tested the idea that excess use of social media and texting results in something known as increased shallowness. Named the “shallowing hypothesis,” the study defines this as, “Certain types of social media (e.g., texting and Facebook) promote rapid, shallow thought that can result in cognitive and moral ‘shallowness’ if used too frequently.” The concept was made popular by a Pulitzer Prize nominated book “The Shallows,” written by technology and culture critic Nicholas Carr. In it, Carr describes an increasing fall in daily reflective thought, thinking over and making judgments about what has happened, as a result of an always connected online culture where ideas are exchanged in brief Tweets or texts. “In other words, frequent usage of this type of media will be associated with a decline in the use of reflective thought, a decrease in importance placed on life goals related to morality and aesthetics, and an increase in importance placed on life goals related to hedonism and image,” the study says. Deriving its results from a survey of 149 students at a Canadian university, the study acknowledges there are many limitations to its method and can only prove correlation, not causation. “Usually journalists and authors sometimes report these results as ‘social media is causing people to be more shallow and to be less moral,’ whereas we don’t question the other direction of that relationship,” Saleem Alhabash, assistant professor of public relations and social media, said. “Is it possible that people who are more shallow and less moral are the ones who use social media more often? So there’s that issue. There’s no absolute certainty as to whether social media causes changes in these personality traits.” Alhabash said his main takeaway is to treat the results of the study with a grain of salt, though he acknowledged there have been other studies that show strong evidence social media is altering how people’s brains work. “Our brains are shifting from being computers with

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a big storage memory to computers with high-speed, processing software,” Alhabash said. Breaking down the analogy, the societal shift toward quick information acquired through services like email, text briefs and videos means that people’s brains have moved from reflecting on and memorizing what someone reads toward understanding and reacting to information presented before people faster than previously done. “You’ve got all these sorts of information that you’re processing, but you’re not memorizing as much as you would, let’s say, 50 years ago when you would go to the library and read one source of information on it,” Alhabash said. “The whole issue today is we have this burst of information, this immeasurable size of information that is at our disposal and it is impossible to memorize.” Technology isn’t entirely responsible for these shifts. As Alhabash explained, the brain is hardwired to minimize its processing power as a means to conserve energy. It’s more efficient for the brain to expend the energy to process information faster and more frequently than it is to store knowledge for later use. The concern for those looking into the shallowness hypothesis is if this shift in how people’s brains function is diminishing the human capacity to recognize and respond to emotions. “In terms of shallowness, the one thing I can say is that on social media the issues that could arise is that people are always yearning to present themselves in the best light possible (pursuing life goals related to self-image as the study argues),” Alhabash said. “They want to form a good impression, so that actually creates a particular issue with being able to recognize emotion and being able to actually sympathize with others.” He said it could be changing how people communicate with one another, but the results of this are less clear. “There could be distinctions in how we interact with one another,” Alhabash said. “It is changing how we interact with one another. It doesn’t mean these changes are negative or bad, it just means that they are changes and they’re different. It’s a different time and a different generation.”

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MSU head coach Tom Izzo didn’t want his seniors to leave like this

“There’s three guys here that gave me every single thing they had, and I don’t care about next year. I don’t even care about tomorrow right now. I just care about the present and what they did for me, for us.” Tom Izzo MSU men’s basketball coach

FRESH. Head coach Tom Izzo talks to senior guard Denzel Valentine during the game against Middle Tennessee State University March 18 at Scottrade Center in St. Louis. The Spartans were defeated by the Blue Raiders, 90-81. PHOTO: SUNDEEP DHANJAL BY RYAN SQUANDA RSQUANDA@STATENEWS.COM

There were five seconds left in No. 2 seed MSU’s shocking first round loss to the No. 15 seed Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders in the 2016 NCAA Tournament. And it was then MSU’s three senior stars — Denzel Valentine, Matt Costello and Bryn Forbes — checked out of a game and walked off a basketball floor in an MSU jersey for the last time. It was really over. It had actually just happened. Middle Tennessee knocked off MSU, 90-81, in one of the biggest upsets in NCAA Tournament history. Then, 15 minutes after the final buzzer sounded, those same three visibly emotional players wiped away tears and walked with their arms around each other to face the media at a postgame press conference. This is the way all their careers had come to an end — 112 victories, a Sweet Sixteen, an Elite Eight, a Final Four and two Big Ten Tournament Championships later, they were done. “I can’t believe what’s going on,” Costello said. “Just talking to Bryn (Forbes) and (Denzel Valentine) on the way back here, it feels like we’re in a dream right now. This isn’t real.” It is certainly not the ending they had hoped for. However, MSU head basketball coach Tom Izzo said he hopes it’s not the disappointment of Friday’s loss his seniors are remembered for, but everything else they did for the MSU program and community. “There’s three guys here that gave me every single thing they had, and I don’t care about next year,” Izzo said while choking back tears. “I don’t even care about tomorrow right now. I just care about the present and what they did for me, for us. And somehow I’ve got to

57.9 Percent Middle Tennessee State shot from 3-point range. The Blue Raiders made 11 3-point field goals in the game

make sure that in all this disappointment, that does not get lost.” For now, MSU’s seniors are left to ponder what type of legacy they will leave. All season long a national championship was the end goal of the team. They wanted nothing less, and felt they had a team good enough to get there. “I’ve got a lot of emotions running through my head right now,” Valentine said. “I mean, I’m more mad and disappointed because I know what this team could accomplish. … And today it kind of fell apart. And just sucks right now because I know the capability our team had.” For Valentine — a player of the year candidate who views himself as the leader of the team — the loss hit him especially hard. “I got something that I’ll never forget for the rest of my life — that when you’re in this position and everybody’s looking at you, you’ve got to come through,” Valentine said. “I didn’t come through today and I’ll remember that for the rest of my life.” It’s a tough loss to swallow, Izzo will admit, perhaps the toughest of his career, Izz0 said. But if it’s legacy MSU’s seniors are worried about, Izzo said this group did more for him than a lot of groups ever could. In addition to this, Izzo said after the Friday’s game that he’s so proud of this group, he’d be proud if his own son could grow up to be like them, and it’s a group he’ll talk about and use as an example for years to come. “They resurrected me,” Izzo said “For whatever length I coach, whatever number of years it’s going to be, I’ll owe them that. They brought the fun back into it. Not a lot of bad days at practice for the 120-some we had. Never a bad trip. Never a bad concern. “I can look everybody in the eye and say I’ll probably never have a team like this. I’ll probably never have guys like this. But this is a special group. And that’s why there’s all the emotion.”

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Better than Average Then freshman catcher/ infielder Chad Roskelly swings bat April 14, 2015, during the game against U-M at Comerica Park in Detroit. The Spartans defeated the Wolverines, 4-2.

Brandon Hughes Year: Sophomore Position: Outfielder Batting Average: .348

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Year: Junior Position: Pitcher ERA: .394

Jordan Zimmerman Year: Junior Position: Infielder Batting Average: .418 Alex Troop Year: Sophomore Position: First Baseman Batting Average: .372

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Nontraditional bow ties gain traction for student-run business BY DANIELLE DUGGAN DDUGGAN@STATENEWS.COM

What started off as a bed-ridden young man with a broken foot turned into a mother-son company new to MSU. Promoting individuality and embracing one’s unique style, Reign Bow Ties is a company run by business freshman William Murphy and his mother Sherrie Murphy. When William broke his foot playing basketball during the summer of 2014, he refused to spend his summer lying around.

“We’re untraditional because we use 100 percent cotton material with funky prints, uncommon prints and bold solids that really takes that bow tie to the next level.” Sherrie Murphy, Co-owner of Reign Bow Ties

After looking in his closet one day, he realized he wanted to develop his own sense of style. He saw he only owned one bow tie and wanted to have one to wear for every outfit. He took a pile of clothing he was going to donate to the Salvation Army and instead cut them up and used them to make bow ties. William put them together with hot glue and paper clips and started wearing them around.

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Family, friends and strangers complimented the bow ties, which drove him to make a more legitimate business. Sherrie then taught her son how to sew and he began selling the improved bow ties at his school. When this brought success, the mother and son duo decided to take the business to a new level. In April 2015, they opened their first shop online on Etsy. Three weeks after their shop was created, they had their first order. Business has increased every month following. “We’re untraditional because we use 100 percent cotton material with funky prints, uncommon prints and bold solids that really takes that bow tie to the next level,” Sherrie said. The Murphys said they pride themselves on creating unique bow ties different from traditional designs seen from other companies. “I really like the design and the fabric it’s made out of,” friend of William, customer of Reign Bow Ties and hospitality business sophomore Lamont Davis said. “It’s different and more appealing to younger generations.” Now that William attends MSU and doesn’t live at home, his primary role with the business is social media and marketing. Sherrie is responsible for finances, legal details and sewing the bow ties. Sherrie, having grown up dreaming of going into fashion design, has found this to be the perfect opportunity for her. Not only is she able to do something she has always loved, but she gets to do it with her son, whom she calls an excellent partner. “Working with him allows me to grow in this

Business freshman William Murphy holds two bow ties on March 18 at East McDonel Hall. Murphy has been running his bow tie business, Reign Bow Ties, for almost a year. Murphy’s mother makes all of the bow ties by hand with a cotton and linen blend fabric. PHOTO: NIC ANTAYA

type of business, as a person, as an outgoing person, and for him he has that experience, a business experience now that he can take with him as he continues to grow with his career plan,” Sherrie Murphy said. “So I think we make a good team in that way.” Above all, the Murphy’s main incentive is to

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Anime, cosplay convention draws fans For more photos and videos from Shuto Con, go to statenews.com Detroit resident Emily Alpaugh poses for a photo March 19 at the Lansing Center. Shuto Con is held once a year and attracts fans from all across Michigan. PHOTO: CARLY GERACI

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