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On Saturday, MSU students and alumni throughout the world participated in the Global Day of Service, an annual event designed to prove how much Spartans can help their community in one day. The good deeds ranged from, but were not limited to, works in the Lansing area, aid in Flint, a canned food drive in Los Angeles as well as mentoring underprivileged students in Hong Kong. A statement from the MSU Alumni Association anticipated more than 1,500 Spartans, students and alumni alike, would be participating worldwide. Assistant director of Residence Education and Housing Services, REHS, Josh Gillespie is in his fourth year of organizing the student kickoff event in Wells Hall and said his department, along with several others on campus, work tirelessly on social media to encourage students to attend. Breakfast is provided for the students and they are greeted with a DJ and booming music upon their entrance to the large classroom. “It’s a collaboration of efforts,” he said, referring to MSU departments compiling student volunteers. This year, Gillespie anticipated the crowded classroom was filled with more than 700 students ready to tackle a variety of tasks in the Lansing area. He said some went to work with the disenfranchised in housing projects, others worked in habitat maintenance in public parks and others went to youth organizations to work with kids. “We’re working with everybody,” Gillespie said. Gillespie also said he is proud of the diverse group of students that came out to devote a Saturday to good works in the community.
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“The event is also growing every year,” he said. He said MSU organizations hope to attract more than 1,000 students to the global day of service in upcoming years. Accounting sophomore Cameron Stewart and microbiology freshman Kyleigh Buckley were two students who participated in the event. Both received an email and thought the idea of a day where students give back to the community was a great idea. “It’s fun to give back to the community and it’s a nice study break,” Buckley said. The two undergraduate students were placed in a group going to an East Lansing environmental stewardship program and were tasked with helping clean up the community.
“It’s really cool Spartans are able to throw this together,” Stewart said. ASMSU president Domonique Clemons was a participant of the day of service and expressed the vitality of MSU students participating in events like the day of service. “It’s so important for Spartans to get out and give back to the community,” he said. President Lou Anna K. Simon was in attendance at the early morning pump-up ceremony and reveled in the idea of student and alumni support to the community. She said events like these are an “extraordinary show of student support” and “build on a long tradition” of Spartans becoming intimately involved in the places they call home.
Stonewall Society calls emergency meeting BY IAN WENDROW IWENDROW@STATENEWS.COM
The Stonewall Society of MSU, the representative student body for LGBT students within James Madison College, hosted an emergency meeting on April 15 to discuss issues of transphobia within the college. The meeting came in response to an column posted in The State News regarding an altercation between a professor and a transgender student named Elliot two years ago. Elliott, the author of the column, said the professor repeatedly insisted on referring to the student by his legal name in defiance of the student’s wishes and also made inappropriate references to his body parts. Besides the incident itself, the meeting was also called to discuss what they saw as a lackluster response from administration, both at the time of the incident and in light of Dean Sherman Garnett’s statement on inclusivity after the editorial ran. “From what the statement he issued said, and based on what Elliott has said happened at meetings (with faculty), it was all pretty much just protecting this professor and saying like, ‘Of course we’re inclusive, of course we want people to feel safe,’ but it never acknowledged that a wrong was done,” Olivia Brenner, ASMSU representative for the Alliance of Queer and Ally Students and vice president of the Stonewall Society, said. Regardless, The Stonewall Society created its own response in the form of a resolution, addressing Garnett’s statement as well as reaffirming their belief in the right of students to choose their names and preferred pronouns. Included within the resolution were recommendations to improve reporting of cases like these, a greater emphasis on inclusion training for academic staff and faculty and calls for
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an apology from the offending professor. In accordance with Elliott’s wishes to not name the professor in question, the group kept this consideration in mind and did not yet decide whether the apology should be made publicly or privately. The resolution passed with 14 in favor and three
“I’m moving off of what we have all decided as a group, what to ask for and to work towards.” Ben Schroff, The Stonewall Society of MSU President abstentions with no opposition. Ben Schroff, the president of the Stonewall Society, indicated that the organization intends to send this resolution to ASMSU, the provost, Residence Halls Association, the James Madison College Student Senate, the Inclusion Committee and the LGBTQA Campus Planning Coalition, an organization composed of caucus and non-caucus student groups. Schroff also held a meeting with the dean later in the afternoon that day. He intended to bring with him a copy of the resolution and “speak for what has been approved by Stonewall.” “I’m moving off of what we have all decided as a group, what to ask for and to work towards,” he said. Outside members of The Stonewall Society, other James Madison students were in attendance as well. A handful of professors in the college stopped by to show support and offer possible suggestions for faculty to be more effective at addressing inclusion efforts. Read more online at statenews.com
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The MSU women’s golf team has been one of the university’s most successful programs the past two decades. Head coach Stacy Slobodnik-Stoll is at the helm for her 19th season, having led the program to 10 NCAA Championship appearances. Slobodnik-Stoll has also won three Big Ten Coach of the Year awards in 2001, 2007 and 2012. Continuing the program’s success is redshirt-sophomore Katie Sharp, who won Big Ten Women’s Golfer of the Week on April 6. She won the award following her win at the Clemson Invitational, which was held April 1-3. Sharp tied for the second-lowest 54-hole score in program history. There, she shot a career-low eight-under-par, a 68-70-70 performance, helping the Spartans to a third-place finish. Sharp averaged a 77.14 score as a freshman. Now, she’s cut down 2.51 strokes to a 74.63 scoring average, which places her second on the team as of April 4. “I just continued working on making my swing better and improving my stroke game,” Sharp said. “I’ve just stuck to my process and it’s coming around now, which is good.” Slobodnik-Stoll said she was more than happy to see her sophomore perform the way she did. “Katie is just an incredible person and a wonderful player,” Slobodnik-Stoll said. “She works very hard every day at no matter what she does. Seeing her perform at that level was
just wonderful.” Along with Sharp, there’s another standout sophomore on the team who has won the Big Ten Women’s Golfer of the Week earlier this season. Sophomore Sarah Burnham won two of the weekly awards, one on Oct. 28 and the other Feb. 24. “I definitely admire Sarah and how she plays the game of golf,” Sharp said. “I wasn’t planning on winning and I wasn’t planning on being Big Ten Golfer of the week. But it’s just something that happened, and I’m very appreciative of everybody that supported me so far.” Burnham said seeing another teammate win the award is a welcoming sight. She said qualifying for NCAA regionals and the NCAA Championships are goals the team has. “Just being able to know that we have the chance of going to nationals this year is huge, compared to last year when we didn’t even make regionals,” Burnham said. Slobodnik-Stoll has the luxury of having two talented sophomores in Sharp and Burnham. For the future of the team, it’s a good sign having two golfers like them and she said she is well aware of that. “As long as we continue to recruit players like Katie and Sarah and everyone that’s on the team,” Slobodnik-Stoll said. “They exemplify what a true Spartan is and what we want out of this program.” The women’s golf Big Ten Championships begin April 22.
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MSU baseball off to historic start, sets sights on postseason success Junior infielder Jordan Zimmerman high fives head coach Jake Boss Jr. after scoring a run during the game against Central Michigan University April 13 at Comerica Park in Detroit. The Spartans defeated the Chippewas in 14 innings, 7-3. PHOTOS: SUNDEEP DHANJAL
Freshman infielder Royce Ando, (13), passes the ball to junior infielder Dan Durkin, as he attempts to tag Central Michigan University infielder Joe Houlihan out at first base during the game against the Chippewas April 13 at Comerica Park in Detroit. The Spartans defeated the Chippewas in 14 innings, 7-3..
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MSU men’s basketball started its 2015-16 season with a 13-1 start, but that record has been eclipsed by another Spartan team. MSU baseball got off to its best start in program history with a 14-1 record through March 18, and it now sits at 25-7, 7-2 Big Ten halfway through the season, leading the conference standings. The Spartans, who were picked to finish sixth in the conference in the Big Ten preseason coaches poll, are currently ranked 30th in the NCAA RPI and the University of Minnesota is the only Big Ten team ranked ahead of them at 19th.
Mississippi on March 4. The Spartans went on to win eight of their next ten games, including games against Auburn, Florida Gulf Coast and University of South Florida. In-state opponents have been somewhat of a thorn in the Spartans’ side this season, as MSU is 3-2 against schools in the state of Michigan, the two losses coming from Oakland University and Eastern Michigan University. Although the Spartans have played more than 30 games this season, the team has had to fight against weather ailments. The Spartans had two games canceled in early April against University of Oregon because of snow and the annual Crosstown Showdown exhibition against the Lansing Lugnuts was postponed because of heavy rain.
A START FOR THE AGES
Coming into the past weekend, the Spartans were 23-6 on the season — the best in school history through 29 games since the 1971 team started the season 24-5. This season is head coach Jake Boss Jr.’s best while at the helm of the Spartans, the next best coming in 2011 when they started the season 21-8. The Spartans won Big Ten titles in both 1971 and 2011, and if history stands to repeat itself MSU could be en route to another Big Ten championship. MSU started the season 6-0 before losing its first game of the year in a 2-0 loss to Southern
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CONTRIBUTIONS THROUGHOUT THE LINEUP
Coming into this season, Boss and his staff knew the Spartans had a talented pitching staff, but the biggest question mark the team faced was its ability to create offensive production. However, the MSU offensive lineup has answered those question marks. The Spartans rank among the best in many offensive statistical categories in the Big Ten. MSU ranks second in the conference with a .311 batting average. The Spartans also rank among the best in the conference in both slugging and
Central Michigan University infielder/outfielder Alex Borglin attempts to tag MSU senior infielder/outfielder Kris Simonton April 13 at Comerica Park. PHOTO: SUNDEEP DHANJAL
on-base percentage. One of MSU’s biggest offensive weapons has come from the arrival of junior infielder Jordan Zimmerman. Zimmerman is playing in his first season with the Spartans after transferring from Mesa Community College in Mesa, Ariz. The 6-foot-1 slugger is leading the conference with a .427 batting average, while hitting from the No. 2 spot in the Spartans’ lineup. Zimmerman is leading the team in runs, hits, extra-base hits, on-base percentage and stolen bases. To top it all off, Zimmerman went on a 21-game hitting streak, which was recently snapped when he went 0-for-4 against Central Michigan University at the Clash at Comerica this past Wednesday.
“We’d love to get to the postseason. We thought we got snubbed last year so now we’re giving it all we’ve got.” Brandon Hughes, MSU baseball sophomore outfielder “Success for this team has been on everyone,” Zimmerman said. “The pitching has been outstanding and the hitting has been above what we thought it would be.” The heart of MSU’s lineup has also provided a lot of offensive depth this season. The team’s three-through-six batters in the lineup are hitting a combined .332 on the season, with 24 extra-base hits and 67 RBI’s. MSU has been able to maintain offensive production despite injuries to sophomore utility player Alex Troop, who was hitting .372 on the season before he broke a bone in his hand against Butler on March 11, and junior catcher Chad Roskelly, who has missed regular playing time all season because of a knee injury. “We’re all competitors on this team,” freshman utility player Marty Bechina said. “We’re all buying into what we’re being taught. We worked hard in the offseason and it’s nice to see it come together.” A PLETHORA OF NEW FACES
The biggest reason the Spartans were unsure of their offensive ability coming into this season was because of the arrival of 12 new players on the roster. MSU currently has seven freshmen on the roster with two of them, Bechina and shortstop Royce Ando, regular starters for the Spartans. The other five players found their way to MSU via transferring. Bechina has taken the role of the leadoff man for the Spartans. The Chicago, Ill. native has started all 32 games this season for the Spartans, hitting .276 this season in 134 at bats. Ando has been the other freshman who has earned playing time as MSU’s starting shortstop under Boss. This season, Ando has started in 28 games for the Spartans while hitting .227 and has racked up
25 hits thus far. Apart from Zimmerman, the Spartans have also enjoyed the company of other transfer students — one of those being Ethan Landon. Landon is a redshirt-sophomore who transferred to MSU from Kansas State. Landon has earned himself a starting spot in the pitching rotation at the start of the season and in nine appearances has started nine games for MSU to earn a 4-1 record with a 2.35 ERA. The heart of MSU’s offensive lineup consists mostly of transfer students. Senior outfielder Kris Simonton arrived this season from the University of Akron and is hitting .314 in 29 games. Junior outfielder Taylor Grace is a native to Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. and went to Citrus College — he is hitting .292 through 18 games and has filled in as the primary starter since Alex Troop went down with his hand injury. The final transfer student, junior catcher Matt Byars, is from Heartland Community College. Byars is hitting .304 through 31 games and has taken over as the starting catcher since Roskelly was sidelined. A BRIGHT FUTURE
Now that the baseball season is more than halfway over, the playoff picture is becoming much more clear. With only 21 games left in the season, 15 are against Big Ten opponents and nine of those games are against Indiana, University of Michigan and Nebraska, teams that are currently second, third and fifth place in the conference standings. “This group has a lot of character,” Boss said. “They just keep fighting, clawing and competing. We talked about it since September, we compete for each other and we compete for Michigan State.” Last season, the Spartans finished the season 34-23 overall and 14-10 in conference play to earn the No. 5-seed in the Big Ten. MSU was ousted after three games in the Big Ten Tournament with losses to Maryland and Illinois. Once the NCAA Tournament rolled around, the Spartans watched on selection day only to miss the tournament. “We’d love to get to the postseason,” sophomore outfielder Brandon Hughes said. “We thought we got snubbed last year so now we’re giving it all we’ve got.” Since then, the Spartans have used last year as a learning experience and a tool for motivation to finish the season off with a bang. “That was a tough feeling, being left out,” junior closer Joe Mockbee said. “But I think it was a good feeling, too. You can learn from it, bounce back from it and get even better from it. Nobody on this team wants to feel like that again and it’s something that makes us want to work harder every single day.” MSU will get back to action on Tuesday against Notre Dame, with first pitch set for 3:05 p.m. “This team is just different,” Mockbee said. “This team won’t ever give up, they’ll fight until the end of the game even when we’re losing by 10. … I think this group is just so close with each other, everyone gets along, everyone wants to succeed and compete and win as many games as possible.”
Junior infielder Jordan Zimmerman catches the ball during the game against the University of Michigan April 12 at McLane Stadium. The Spartans defeated the Wolverines, 11-5. PHOTO: CARLY GERACI
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Differences in the staffs of the Big Ten’s counseling centers often boil down to the needs and budget of the centers, some Big Ten mental health service providers and administrators said. “Some of it comes down to some states being really conservative in how they give money,” University of Nebraska Counseling and Psychological Services Center coordinator of outreach and innovative services Charlie Foster said. “If you’re a large state school, then that money has to be divvied up across the institution.” The importance of a well-trained staff is essential to providing students with quality care, she said. “Most people don’t deal with someone in the middle of a panic attack on a daily basis, and our staff has to be prepared for that,” Foster 15000 said. Andrea Lawson, the clinical director for counseling and consultation services at the University of Wisconsin-Madison University Health Services department, said administrative services staff serves as a type of frontline for counseling centers. “They are the people students talk to on the
phone and see when they first walk in,” Lawson said. Lawson said differences in the number of interns employed also varies based on budget. “A lot of centers will prioritize training, but depending on the amount of space and staff available other centers may not be able to do this,” she said. The mental health services category of the graph incorporates a wide range of mental health professionals, from psychologists to social workers and psychiatrists. While many schools house their mental health service providers in one department, some do not. Associate director at the University of Maryland Counseling Center David Petersen said psychologists and psychiatrists at the university are kept administratively separate. “Our approach to services are really different,” he said. “It’s more developmentally-focused and holistic here (at the counseling center).” Editor’s note: Only full-time positions included in mental health services and administrative staff statistics. Staff size statistics obtained from counseling center websites and interviews with counseling center staff. Student population figures based on most recently available statistics online.
Residence hall room and board rates to increase next school year BY RACHEL FRADETTE RFRADETTE@STATENEWS.COM
Once again, students will see the price of on-campus housing increase. The residence hall rate for a double room for undergraduate students will increase by $108, as the MSU Board of Trustees voted to increase the price by 2.75 percent at its most recent meeting on April 15. In addition to the room price increase, the silver unlimited dining plan for transfer, freshmen and returning students will increase by $152. The price is currently $2,781 per semester. “It represents the lowest rate in 18 years that we have on record,” Vice President for Auxiliary Enterprises Vennie Gore said. Gore said Spartan Village and University Village did not see a rate increase. He said this upcoming academic year will be the last year Spartan Village will be open, so they are winding it down. “I think students sometimes just look at the sticker price and compare it, but don’t add in the fact that it includes cable television and it includes access to Wi-Fi,” President Lou Anna K. Simon said. For the 2015-16 academic school year, housing and dining rates saw a 3.5 percent increase. MSU has one of the lower rates for Big Ten universities. It ranks closely with Purdue University and the University of Iowa. While discussing how students will feel about a rate increase, Gore said students should look to recent renovations to see where the money is being spent. The board also voted on the monthly rates for one-bedroom and two-bedroom family apart6
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ments for 1855 Place, as this will be its first year of leasing. For the 2016-17 year, a one-bedroom family apartment in 1855 Place will cost $800 per month. The two-bedroom family apartment will cost $925 per month. “We’ve already started construction on the graduate student, other student housing that’s scheduled to be opened in the fall of 2017,” Simon said. The family apartments opening in August 2016 includes 60 one-bedroom and 129 two-bedroom units. Gore said 1855 Place will be a transitional complex for students who do not want to live in residence halls for all four years. “We’ve always been very concerned about the cost of education, and so our staff has been working really hard about managing costs and giving good value,” Gore said. Gore said 1855 Place family housing will open in August. The following year, the remainder of the housing complex will open.
“We’ve always been very concerned about the cost of education, and so our staff has been working really hard about managing costs and giving good value.” Vennie Gore, Vice President for Auxiliary Enterprises
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MSU alumnus races dogs in the Iditarod BY: STEPHEN OLSCHANSKI SOLCHANSKI@STATENEWS.COM
Ed Stielstra, a 1993 graduate of MSU’s Lyman Briggs College, was supposed to be a doctor. He had an application finished and was ready to send it to medical schools. He never sent it. He now, in his own words, gets to “stare at butts all day.” Stielstra is a musher and has been for nearly 20 years, since he first opened Nature’s Kennel. Married to his wife Tasha, also an MSU alumna, in 1998, his family has grown to include more than 150 Alaskan huskies, bred for one purpose — to race. By 2002, he and Tasha reopened Nature’s Kennel, a kennel full of those Alaskan huskies, after closing its doors when they got married to give tours and train. Located in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the kennel in McMillan, Mich. has been the site of tours and training runs for Ed and Tasha for years. But Ed has done more than just operate the kennel and run in local races. He’s competed in the world famous Iditarod, which is the world’s most wellknown Alaskan dog sled race. And that’s how he found himself back at MSU on April 15. “Every year he’s run it, I try to do a presentation somewhere in Michigan,” Tasha said. “Some of the message too is — we went to Michigan State, I have a teaching degree and Ed was Lyman Briggs biology — this is something we never though we’d be doing and you just never know where things take you.” In front a large crowd, Ed and fellow Nature’s Kennel musher Laura Neese gathered to talk about their experiences crisscrossing the Alaskan and Yukon wilderness on the legs of Alaskan huskies. Exploring the trials and tribulations of running in the Iditarod, Ed laid out the groundwork to his success throughout the years. It’s more than physical and mental endurance. As with any sport, the foundation for success is laid out by a trust in not only oneself but in one’s teammates. Being dogs, his teammates offer up a peculiar form of communication barrier. “They understand our language, but we really have to be in tune with them,” Ed said. Ed seems to have the trust part down. “Trust isn’t something built overnight,” Ed said. “You can’t push a rope — the dogs have to trust you. So, much like human relations, you need
that trust to make it to the finish.” His love for dogs has pushed him to compete in the Iditarod and other races across the globe. Now an eight-time finisher of the Iditarod, he’s seen a lot on the trail. Throughout the night he showed pictures of the stops along the route and shared videos of himself hanging out with his dogs. But as the night progressed, the stories became more about what he’s leaving in the next generation of mushers.
“You can’t push a rope — the dogs have to trust you. So, much like humans relations, you need that trust to make it to the finish” Ed Stielstra 1993 Lyman Briggs College alumnus Laura Neese is somewhat more than a trainee as the bond between her and Ed is evident. At 19, Neese has run the Yukon Quest, a 1,000 mile race from Fairbanks, Alaska to Yukon, Canada. One of the hardest dog sled races, she completed the race in nine days, finishing in 13th place. Along the way she picked up the sportsmanship award for her efforts to help other mushers on the trail out of tough situations. But Neese has done more for Nature’s Kennel than race. Homeschooled in Ohio, she ran dogs out of her own kennel and found her way to Ed and Tasha. One night after work, she professed her passion for racing to Ed. From there, Neese began to train alongside Ed and then for him. She took on the responsibility of not only her team but helping to train Ed’s as well, making early morning training runs with both teams. Her tireless work ethic helped push her to compete and do well in the Yukon Quest. “I loved it, I was finally living this dream,” she said. She doesn’t make excuses, Ed said. “She’s tough, she gets it,” he said. And the toughness has made it possible for her to set her sights on the Iditarod as both Ed and Neese plan to run in the Iditarod in 2017. “We love what we do,” he said.
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McMillan, Mich. resident Ed Stielstra pets his dog, Enzo April 15 at Erickson Hall Kiva. Stielstra graduated from Lyman Briggs College in 1993. PHOTO: SUNDEEP DHANJAL
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cheese 18 Vicious of the Sex Pistols 23 Tend, as a fire 25 Dad 27 SADD focus 28 Put back to zero 30 Bring to ruin 31 Hornet’s home 32 “__ obliged!” 33 Words to an old chap 34 Snickers and Milky Way 36 Sign of many an October baby 38 Program that sends unsolicited messages 39 Thurman of “The Producers” 42 “__ you nuts?” 44 Wine in a straw wrapped bottle 46 Grab 47 1963 Liz Taylor role 49 Helper for Santa 51 “Argo” actor Alan 52 T-bone source 53 Computer memory unit 54 Genuine 56 “Beat it!” 57 Be a snitch 59 Jekyll’s alter ego 61 Lobster eggs 62 Fuming
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Finance sophomore Jack Viazanko, left, gets a haircut from shop manager Jesse Medina April 12 at the Grand River Barber Company at 201 1/2 E. Grand River Ave. Viazanko said he visits the shop every three to four weeks. PHOTO: KELLY VANFRANKENHUYZEN
BY JOSH BENDER JBENDER@STATENEWS.COM
When students, one of the largest crowds of consumers in the East Lansing area, go home for the summer, many local businesses near MSU’s campus are forced to try and find new ways to stay profitable throughout the slow, summer months. Last summer, a number of local businesses like Firehouse Subs and What Up Dawg, closed their doors, no doubt because of the lack of business. For the second year in a row, employees from the Grand River Barber Company will head to the Electric Forest Festival, shop manager Jesse Medina said. The festival, which takes place in Rothbury, Mich. near the end of June, has people campout throughout the weekend. 12 barbers from the shop will offer free haircuts at the four-day festival. The shop also uses the summer lull to work with Lansing-based charity, The Homeless Angels. “We gave free haircuts to the homeless,” he said. “We weren’t making any extra money, but we were able to donate and get some publicity.” Medina said many local businesses can’t handle the lean summer months. “But we’ve been able to actually expand to a second location and hire more barbers at our East Lansing location,” he said “We’re kind of like a diamond in the rough.” Other local businesses utilize digital tools, such as the apps Hooked and Zoomer, to boost their summer revenues. “The Hooked app is basically a coupon system for East Lansing,” journalism junior and Pita Pit shift lead Casey Hull said. Hull, a former State News employee, said restaurants offer limited-time discounts and deals that can only be used for orders placed inside the restaurant. “So it picks up our foot traffic,” he said. The Hooked app also allows the restaurant to anticipate surges in activity and thus staff itself more effi-
ciently for potential rushes. Zoomer supplants the traditional restaurant driver delivery system with one akin to the popular transportation service Uber.
“But we’ve been able to actually expand to a second location and hire more barbers at our East Lansing location. We’re kind of like a diamond in the rough. ” Jesse Medina, Grand River Barber Company shop manager
“Rather than having a driver just sitting around, we have the driver come to us,” Hull said. But he said the system isn’t perfect. “It creates an upcharge, and the profit from deliveries is less than what it used to be,” Hull said. Jeremy Plesco, owner of Fortress Comics and Games Inc., said the business tries a more social approach by putting on summer tabletop gaming leagues. “We run a large number of different games like ‘Warhammer 40k,’ ‘Magic the Gathering,’” Plesco said. He said a quarter of his revenue leaves when students leave East Lansing each summer. As a result, cuts have to be made to keep the store financially viable. “During the summer all of us lose hours, including myself,” he said. “We cut about two or three hours off each day’s schedule during the summer.” Hull said the temporary loss of students and the resultant economic slowdown mimics the tourist dependent, seasonal nature of his hometown Petoskey but in a reversal of seasons. “The population (of Petoskey) basically goes from 10,000, 12,000 to 20,000 in the summer,” he said. “Summer is when those businesses make money.”
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From bedridden and ill to medical school, a Spartan puts her faith in God BY CONNOR CLARK CCLARK@STATENEWS.COM
First-year student in MSU’s College of Human Medicine Ariel Dempsey was enjoying a swing dancing session with her younger brother, Jordan Dempsey, in January 2015 when her nightmare began. Ariel’s hand slipped from her brother’s while attempting a flip. Her head and neck lead the six-foot-fall. After the fall, she was rushed to the emergency room in Grand Rapids. While she was a student at University of Michigan, she ran track and field and cross country, but her spinal cord injury caused her to pause her active lifestyle. Upon being released from the hospital, it was believed Ariel suffered a concussion. However, the injury suffered during swing dancing was only the beginning. IN THE DARK
Ariel was high above the Atlantic Ocean, en route to London as she was going to study theology at University of Oxford, when she suffered what she described as a “neurogenic shock.” Her body was struggling to get air, so deprived of oxygen she was turning blue. “In the (intensive care unit) we have seen drowning victims that haven’t had their fingernails fall out,” Ariel’s mother Karen Dempsey, who is a physician, said. “She had several times where she should have died.” Once the plane landed, Ariel was rushed to the hospital. How she survived, she said, was by God’s grace. Upon arrival, she fell into a coma for six days. Karen received a call from one of Ariel’s professors at the University of Oxford, and he told her it didn’t look good. Karen booked the next flight to England. “I couldn’t even talk to him (Ariel’s professor) on the phone, I was crying so hard,” Karen said. “At first we didn’t know what was going on and how serious it was, we thought perhaps it might have been just a concussion.” Ariel was diagnosed with a cavernoma in her cerebellum. Essentially, a clot of blood vessels in the back of her brain were bleeding. When she came to, the doctors gave Ariel the news. “They (the doctors) said I was going to deteriorate down into a vegetable and die,” Ariel said. The 24-year-old was bedridden and in the dark, as light would cause further agony because of the additional stimuli the brain would have to interpret. “I really had to turn my trust over to God for everything that was going on,” Ariel said. “I was stuck in bed in the dark, I have never been so physically miserable in my life.” Her brother, Jordan Dempsey, had just left to return to dental school at Hope College in Holland, Mich. After not hearing from Ariel for a week, Jordan went home to visit his family. “I asked, ‘Hey, how is Ariel doing?’ and then they dropped it on me,” Jordan said. “I was pretty nervous because she is now in a different country and is going through it alone.” Ariel was given only a 50 percent chance of being alive after one year. For the next four weeks, she was unable to move. She couldn’t run and ride bicycles like she used to. All she could do was put her trust in God. “We felt trapped,” Karen said. “It was like sitting on a train track and waiting for a train to
come. In their mind they (the English doctors) were ready just to say, ‘I don’t think she will ever be able to take care of herself again.’” Karen said she was frustrated at the speed of her daughter’s care. She said the effort and compassion from the doctors in England were great, however because of the National Health Service, Ariel’s ability to receive treatment was very slow. Karen said it took two months for Ariel to receive her emergency MRI, something that could be done within 30 minutes. “It wasn’t the compassion and caring — she was just one number in a large system,” Karen said. Ariel was devoted in her religion. As a devout Christian, she still read the Quran and the Hadith. While going through her agony, she would pray every day. A HELPING HAND
Ariel said she learned not to fear death when her close friend underwent a medical tragedy of her own. Joana McKeoun, Ariel’s former roommate, was diagnosed with a brain tumor. McKeoun attended Hopevale Church in Saginaw, Mich. and ran cross country and track and field at Heritage High School. She also volunteered with Make-A-Wish Foundation and Relay For Life. After a five-year battle with brain cancer, McKeoun passed away Oct. 4, 2013. “It was very very tough,” Ariel said. “In a weird way, taking care of her and being able to walk with her in her last moments of life was one of the biggest honors of my life. ... Watching her strength gave me a vision for strength and beauty when I faced my own suffering.” As the winter turned into spring, Ariel showed signs of recovery. She had started to move and took it upon herself to get her body’s neural pathways back on track. She started tai chi, which she had never done before, and began to practice yoga and rock climbing. Ariel’s next threshold was to get back onto a plane, her first flight since her near-death experience, and travel back to her hometown of Grand Rapids to continue her rehabilitation. “She knew the word but couldn’t say the word, she couldn’t read,” Karen said. “Like cat, she knew it was a word but couldn’t remember what it was.” With the damage Ariel suffered, she had to continue to rebuild her neural bridges of her brain. This past June she saw doctors in Grand Rapids for a second opinion and a checkup on her head. The doctors gave Ariel a much more hopeful prognosis. The reaction on the plane might have been from the spinal cord injury she received from her swing dancing fall. But the possibility of her brain bleeding again will always be on Ariel’s mind. “Even though she was not expected or guaranteed to get back any or all of her function back … it’s a gift,” Karen said. Ariel said the experience has made her grateful for her life. “I am really grateful to be able to do the things I can do, because for a long time I thought I was going to be a complete vegetable,” Ariel said. “There is always something that reminds me of what happened.”
Ariel Dempsey walks outside in daylight for the first time since becoming ill on her flight to London. The photo was taken February 2015. Ariel said she couldn’t tolerate light due to her illness and had to spend all day wearing sunglasses in rooms with the curtains drawn and lights off previously. PHOTO COURTESY OF ARIEL DEMPSEY
percent well, I take naps in the middle of the school day with a sleeping bag on the floor, I wear sunglasses in bright rooms, I always feel a bit sick and sometimes my body just shuts down.” Ariel is continuing to get better. She has started to play soccer, something she played while at University of Oxford, and she is one of the top students in her class, Karen said. “Whether you’re 20 or 80, you’re like a vapor, life is so short,” Karen said. Ariel reflected on where she is now. “I am at a place where time will tell,” Ariel said. “Yes, I live with the uncertainty. Yes, I could die any day, but so could anyone. No one knows when they are going to die. No matter what happens, God is Sovereign. As I look ahead at the uncertainty, I remind myself of a prayer from St. Francis de Sales.”
‘‘Yes, I could die any day, but so could anyone. No one knows when they are going to die. No matter what happens, God is Sovereign.’’ Ariel Dempsey, First-year student at MSU’s College of Human Medicine
Prayer Ariel Dempsey used to help her through her medical struggles
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Spartans vs. Zombies invades campus
MSU alumnus Peter Matcheck leads a group of “humans” during Spartans vs. Zombies on April 14 outside of Erickson Hall. Spartans vs. Zombies is an advanced game of tag in which the goal as a human is to remain alive as long as possible by avoiding zombies. Humans are identified by an orange bandana wrapped around their arm, whereas zombies are identified by an orange bandana worn on their head. Computer science junior Diego Carrillo points his gun towards a horde of zombies during Spartans vs. Zombies on April 16 outside of Wells Hall.
Students walk to a mission location at on April 12 at Beaumont Tower. Students participated in an advanced game of tag called Spartans vs. Zombies. The event is one week long and each night there are missions with objectives for both the humans and zombies. PHOTOS BY NIC ANTAYA
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New assistant coach Bret Mollon helps MSU soccer find goalkeeper from, this is where I grew up and just the Michigan soccer scene is something that I really believe in, with the development and how they develop players to go to the college ranks and then on to the pros. So I just really have a passion for the state of Michigan and soccer in the state.” Mollon made the preseason team for the United Soccer League’s Harrisburg City Islanders as one of seven goalkeepers the team brought in for the preseason. While Mollon didn’t make the final roster, he said he learned a lot through the process and uses some of the things he learned in his coaching. MSU head coach Damon Rensing said Mollon’s experience with the goalkeeper position really stuck out to him when searching for a new volunteer assistant coach as the primary responsibility of the position is to train the goalkeepers. “So you look at the programs (the candidates) come from– Shaun Docking does a good job over (at Coastal Carolina), their program’s done well,” Rensing said. “Second, he has state of Michigan ties, he’s familiar with our program, with our culture – he’s got family that went here. ... Then third, he’s very good at training goalkeepers and that is a specific requirement that we need in the volunteer position. And when I look at his goalkeeping experience and track-record, where he’s from, his knowledge of Michigan State athletics and our program, and then his coaching experience, it was a pretty easy decision.” MSU sophomore goalkeeper Philip Stair said Mollon has a very different coaching style than their previous coach, which has helped them to
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As the MSU men’s soccer team searches for a new goalkeeper for the upcoming season after losing three-year-starter and senior Zach Bennett, the team will do so with a new goalkeeper coach, as Bret Mollon was named the volunteer assistant coach for the upcoming season. Mollon replaced Paul Gilbert who left MSU to become the head coach at Lubbock Christian University. Mollon brings with him a life of experience as a goalkeeper, from youth soccer all the way through his collegiate soccer career, where he played at Oakland University his freshman year before transferring to Temple University to finish out his eligibility. At Temple, Mollon served as a captain his senior year and finished his career with a .80 goals against average – a school record. He ranks second all-time at Temple with 25 career wins, completing 21 shutouts during his Temple career. Mollon also tied the Temple all-time record for shutouts in a season in 2008 when he recorded nine. Mollon said he was very excited to return to Michigan after a successful stint as an assistant goalkeepers coach at Coastal Carolina University. In 2013, his first season with Coastal Carolina, the team’s goalkeepers set the school and conference record for shutouts in a season with 12, and the team won the Big South Championship in his second season in 2014. “I kind of always wanted to get back into Michigan,” Mollon said. “This is where my family is
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become more all-around goalkeepers. Stair said where Gilbert focused more on technical training of proper form and use of hand, Mollon is more of a fitness-oriented coach, working to make sure the goalkeepers are as quick and prepared as they can be, for any situation. “Bret is a very, he likes to condition us, which
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Spartan baseball on pace to snap playoff drought DID YOU KNOW? MSU HAS ONLY MADE THE COLLEGE WORLD SERIES ONE TIME IN 1954, WHERE THEY FINISHED THIRD BUT HAD THE TOURNAMENT’S MOST OUTSTANDING PLAYER IN TOM YEWCIC
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50 In 2016, The MSU Baseball team has started out 25-7 in 35 games played, including a 7-2 record in the Big Ten. they are on pace to bypass the best record the team has posted in the six prior seasons, being 2013’s 33-17 mark.
MSU Baseball has been hot at the place recently, but the pitching, led by redshirt junior Can Vieaux, has been consistent. They are currently posting the best team ERA in the six seasons by nearly a whole run scored. Vieaux has let the way with a 1.18 ERA in 51 innings pitched.
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