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Coming to MSU was the best decision I could have made
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BY GREG MONAHAN GMONAHAN@STATENEWS.COM
Like many who are going through their last week of classes, soon I will be among MSU alumni. That feels weird to put into print. While my experience here has not been traditional — I’m a grad student, I don’t live in East Lansing and I have only had class in a total of two different buildings on campus — I can confidently say coming to MSU was the best decision I’ve ever made.
Even after I was accepted into MSU’s graduate journalism program, I didn’t plan on enrolling. It was hard to justify leaving a paying job — even if it wasn’t one I particularly liked — to spend tens of thousands of dollars on more school. While I say it was the best decision I’ve ever made, it was also the hardest. But I talked myself into it. I tried to avoid worrying about the daunting tuition bills to come and I pushed aside the fact that I grew up in Ann Arbor as a huge University of Michigan sports fan. What I really did, just like everyone else who is about to become Spartan alumni has done, was grow up. I found the field I loved and I made a run for it. Isn’t that what you’re supposed to do?
Even though I still can’t be sure it’ll work out (the field of journalism is far from booming at the moment), I wouldn’t change a thing. And from talking with classmates and colleagues, that seems to be the attitude of almost all soon-to-be Spartan alumni. That’s because there is so much to be excited about as a graduating Spartan. This is as good of a time to graduate from MSU as there has ever been. Many of our academic programs consistently rank No. 1 in the nation or close to it. Our campus is beautiful, its people are inclusive and open-minded and even our sports teams have had unparalleled success in recent years. Now, the class of 2015 gets
to go out and explore a world with nearly a half million other MSU alumni. Having such a significant network to support its new graduates is one of the biggest perks to being a Spartan. After all, Spartans stand together. I almost didn’t come to East Lansing, and just thinking about that frightens me. The last two years of my life have been the best of my life because of this school. The opportunities I’ve gotten to pursue, and the students and faculty I’ve had the privilege to work with will stick with me for the rest of my life. At first, I was very reluctant to come here. Now, I don’t ever want to leave. It’s amazing how two years at the best college in the world can change you.
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LETTER: Restaurants should work to become greener A few weeks ago, I had a sudden epiphany that the restaurant I was working at, a place where I have spent my entire college career, is throwing away colossal amounts of materials that could easily be recycled. After coming to this realization, I decided to embark on mission to find out what other restaurants in the area were doing with their waste. I visited a site at each of the major food hubs in the Greater Lansing area, and what I found was not the comfort that I expected. Some restaurants do a good job of limiting their contribution to the general landfill load, like McAlister’s Deli in Eastwood Towne Center, for example. They recycle their cardboard and some plastic, when possible. But others do not. Specifically, one filled an 8-yard dumpster twice a week with more than 30 12-foot-3-inch cardboard
boxes. And as helpful as these establishments are in contributing to the employment and economic growth in the area, they are doing little to keep their environmental impact in check. A proper business should always strive to maximize their social and economic impact, while keeping the environmental impact to a minimum. Hope isn’t lost for these sandwich shops though. There’s still time to implement a change and start reducing waste while increasing diversion of recyclable products. The first step is for them to call their local landlord and see if there is a way to change the current policy. If the landlord or property services provider will not help bear the load of the costs to improve waste management, then it will be time for that individual company to act on their own. From there, each establishment should contact
their garbage disposal company and get a quote for the upgraded service package. Granger, the provider for most of the East Lansing area, offers four different options for the commercial cardboard receptacles — each size tailored for that business’s need. From there, they can add in the “Bag It” service and take another step closer to becoming better businesses. You, as the consumer, have the ultimate power. You may not feel as though you have the power to uplift or bring down an entire franchise just with your choice of purchases, but if you, and then a friend, and then a couple more friends, and then an apartment floor, and then that complex, and then that block, and then that neighborhood, all decided to change then you can, in fact, be a part of the change — if not the leading edge of a movement. The next time you want to venture over to Sub-
way or Potbelly Sandwich Shop for a bite to eat, take a look out back first and then ask the person working behind the counter what they do to be more friendly to the local environment. I’m not demanding that you boycott these establishments, but if it comes down to a tie between one who does makes a difference, and one who adds to the problem, start choosing the restaurant that is trying do the right thing. If you make the choice and are vocal about it then your thought will spread and pretty soon natural selection will favor the business that adapts with change. The next time you judge a place for its prices or food, decide too if they could do more to take care of cardboard, metal and glass. Carson Letot is an environmental studies and agriscience senior.
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“Being able to bask in nature’s presence while laying in a hammock allows students to fully grasp the connection between campus and themselves.” Matthew Ciolino, president of the MSU Hammocking Club, on an ordinance banning hammocking. Read more on page 4.
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News Hammocking ban to be reexamined BY JESSICA SATTLER JSATTLER@STATENEWS.COM
A number of outdoor activities are indicative of springtime on campus. Of these, hammocking is one of the most notable. However, many students fail to realize that hammocking is effectively banned on campus, due to ordinance 24.01, which was enacted in 1964 and only amended as recently as 1995. The language of the ordinance states, “No person shall break or cut branches … or otherwise damage or mutilate any tree.” The punishment for violating this ordinance is shared between all ordinances adopted by the MSU Board of Trustees and includes the possibility of being charged with a misdemeanor, which can lead a maximum fine of $100 with the possible addition of a maximum 90-day jail sentence, or a civil infraction. “I myself have not been told to take down my hammock,” MSU Hammocking Club President Matthew Ciolino said. “However several members have been by landscaping employees.”
Ciolino, a food industry management junior, believes hammocking is an important part of campus life. “Being able to bask in nature’s presence while laying in a hammock allows students to fully grasp the connection between campus and themselves,” he said. Plant biology professor Frank Telewski shares a different view and has the best interests of the campus trees in mind. “The major problem is that repetitive hammocking increases the risk for damage to bark,” he said. In addition to the damage caused by hammocks, additional threats to trees on campus include native pests, vehicles parked on root systems during football season, construction on campus, painting trees and carving words or initials into tree bark, Telewski said. The damage caused by hammocks is already apparent in some trees. “Paul Swartz, the campus arborist, sent me a photograph of a tree with erosion caused by repeated hammocking,” he said. Swartz could not be reached
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Advertising sophomore Alex Byers sits in a hammock April 10, 2014, along the Red Cedar River behind the Administration Building. Byers, part of the Hammocking Club of MSU, set up a hammock with a fellow club members. STATE NEWS FILE PHOTO
for comment. Ciolino and ot hers are determined to create an environment where hammocking is done in a safe manner, but Telewski still has some reservations. “I would prefer if people just not use the trees,” Telewski said.
Members of the Hammocking Club executive board will be meeting with officials from Infrastructure Planning and Facilities on Tuesday to discuss some alternative options to an outright ban on hammocks, Ciolino said. “Our current initiative that we want to propose to the com-
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Then once our members have properly obtained this training can they go out and hammock.” Ciolino said the group refuses to give up hope. “Hammocking is currently banned campus-wide. However we are still here and fighting for our right to hammock on campus,” he said.
Fraternity house catches masked prowler on grounds BY MICHAEL KRANSZ
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mittee on Tuesday is set up two ways,” Ciolino said. “One, we set up hammocking ‘safe zones’ or designated trees that are ‘strap friendly.’ Second, we set up an MSU- and Hammocking Club-approved training session. … With this program we can pass out certificates or cards that only members will have.
Members of Psi Upsilon weren’t sure what to make of the Jason Voorhees-masked man spotted prowling the fraternity’s premises in the early morning hours numerous times over the course of several weeks. And that uncertainty turned to concern when one of the members awoke to a noise in the night to find the masked man had gained entrance into the house, supply chain management junior and President of Psi Upsilon Brian Seggebruch said. Footage of the encounter, caught on the fraternity’s security cameras, shows the infiltrator noticing that someone spotted him, then motioning to his friends to leave before bolting out of the house, Seggebruch said. “It was very nerve-wracking,” he said.
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“We were all pretty much on edge since we first saw him on our property.” After that, members focused on securing the house, keeping the doors locked, the valuables safe and upgrading their security equipment. Seggebruch said although the horror-movie hockey mask was creepy, members feared mostly for their belongings than their lives. “We felt threatened that something was going to get stolen or broken or that he was around,” he said. “But we didn’t really think it was that serious — we didn’t think he was going to hurt anybody or do anything that serious.” The events culminated in a “Scooby Doo”-style ending around 3 a.m. on April 15, several weeks after the break-in. One of the members was out for a smoke that morning on the back porch when he spotted the masked man prowling their parking lot, Seggebruch said.
The member ran back in and rounded up several others, who then chased and cornered the man and called the police. The man revealed his face but not his motive. The man was unknown to the members of the fraternity, and when police questioned him on scene, the only explanation he offered was that he intended to ring the doorbell and run as a prank, East Lansing police Lt. Steve Gonzalez said. The man, Casey Walker, had no weapons on him and was arrested for a minor in possession charge, Gonzalez said. It is unknown whether Walker is a student. With the scare over, Seggebruch said members of the fraternity have relaxed and let down their guards again. “Now that it’s over, obviously we’re all very relieved,” he said. The fraternity is considering filing a personal protection order against the suspect, Seggebruch said.
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Living City The Record Lounge spotlights local music acts BY ALLYSON TELGENHOF ATELGENHOF@STATENEWS.COM
The room was tiny, but filled with energy exuding from the crowd. Funk songs filled the air, people danced their hearts out and many found their new favorite local band. Initially, people walk into The Record Lounge at 111 Division Street never imagining going to a concert there. But owner Heather Frarey does not put any limitations on her store and enjoys allowing local bands to use it as a venue. “Now that summertime is coming up, we want to do at least two (shows) a month,” Frarey said, adding they want to get a diverse variety of bands playing. She said there is no criteria for who gets to play there because they like to give people a chance who don’t normally get to play at Mac’s Bar, The Loft or The Avenue Cafe. “This is kind of a stepping stone, you know, you start out here and then you work your way up,” she said. Funkapalooza, held in March, was a show which primarily featured two local bands with very different reputations in the area — Tell Yo’ Mama and The Blue Effect. While both harnessed a similar sound, The Blue Effect has gained exposure and are regulars at the MGM Grand in Detroit,
while Tell Yo’ Mama is a new band in the local music scene with only a few shows under their belt at the time. The Record Lounge sets itself apart from other venues in the area for multiple reasons — primarily because it allows small, unheard-of bands to gain recognition in the area when otherwise they may have not been given a chance. Tell Yo’ Mama guitarist Michael Loomis said the group looked forward to the show and they were hoping to gain exposure and followers from Funkapalooza, hoping to create an “initiative to make The Record Lounge accommodate bigger bands.” Another thing that sets The Record Lounge apart from other venues in the area is how their shows welcome attendees of any age and are completely free. This is practically unheard of in the area. “There are a handful of shows where they’ll ask for money at the door, but it’s for the traveling bands, and basically that’s it,” Frarey said. The Blue Effect seized the opportunity to play a free show as a chance to give something back to the community. Being a band who has received more recognition and typically plays larger shows, they enthusiastically agreed to play the show “in an effort to give something back to the local community,” drummer Alex Burgoyne said. “The concert was free to attend, smack-dab in the middle of East Lansing, and there were no age restrictions,” he said. “East Lansing has provid-
Lucas Holliday, Adrian Bryant, and Jacque Baldori of Tell Yo’ Mama perform March 13 at the Record Lounge, 111 Division St. PHOTO: ALLYSON TELGENHOF
ed us so much over the years, we’re grateful for everything and everyone who supports live music. We can’t thank the local community enough for what they’ve done for us.” It is safe to say that The Record Lounge pro-
vides more to the East Lansing community than solely being a record store by giving smaller local bands a chance to get their name out and more well-known bands a chance to give back to the community.
Students seek the perfect finals week study spot BY MARIA BRAGANINI MBRAGANINI@STATENEWS.COM
Between 556 different buildings on MSU’s campus, each student is looking for the perfect space, away from the hustle and bustle of East Lansing to prepare for finals week. Although some students work best under pressure, pulling all-nighters the day before the final exam, others use the weeks before final exams to their advantage. Microbiology senior Mohamed Esa said a lot of factors go into his studying, including a quiet setting, speedy computers, a nearby Sparty’s and a safe space. Esa has spent the last four years at MSU finding his perfect study spot — the Business Library. Living off campus, Esa said he appreciates the non-committal atmosphere the Business Library offers. “In the Law Library, you need
a pass during finals week,” Esa said. “In the Business Library I can come and go as I please.” Esa uses the quiet ambiance to his advantage, studying without Facebook or outside websites for up to six hours at a time, taking breaks every hour. “I strictly study,” Esa said. “I just tell myself that I’ll have time later for Facebook and games. For me, Facebook turns into another website and it spirals down from there.” The right setting for Esa also includes freedom to leave his backpack and computer unattended. “I feel more safe here leaving my stuff to go to the bathroom,” Esa said. “I know I can’t do that in the Main Library.” While Esa prefers to study alone, other students benefit from a study partnership. Supply chain management senior Dani Xie and supply chain management junior Renee Ji began studying together this
semester after noticing that they shared three of their classes. Studying after class on Tuesdays and Thursdays, the duo also makes a habit of meeting on the weekends in the Eppley Center. “We like quiet spots,” Xie said. “We tried to study in the Business Library at the group study tables, but it was too much noise from others. We can’t focus on our own job.” Xie and Ji’s biggest criteria for studying is soft, natural light. “In Eppley Center there’s a large floor window,” Xie said. As an international student from China, Xie admits finding the perfect study buddy takes more than just sharing a few classes together. “Being from the same country helped us relate to each other,” she said.
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Spotlight Program records set in multiple sports this year Men’s basketball and football weren’t the only programs that had their players go far last fall and this spring
LEFT: Junior goalkeeper Zach Bennett attempts to block the shot during the game against Providence College on Dec. 6, 2014, at DeMartin Stadium at Old College Field. ABOVE: Senior Leah O’Connor reaches the finish line the Spartan Invitational on Sept. 12, 2014, at Forest Akers East Golf Course. STATE NEWS FILE PHOTOS
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SU head athletic coordinator Bob Knickerbocker has seen many things during his 32 years at MSU, but even he is having a hard time coming up with a way to describe the most recent season in Spartan sports. In a year when the men’s basketball team made a run to the Final Four and the football team won the Cotton Bowl, it has been many of the athletes of the sports that aren’t on ESPN every day who have helped make it a banner year for the Spartans. “It is a great time to be a Spartan,” he said. “I’ve seen times before when they weren’t that good.” Knickerbocker said he has seen six different athletic directors during his time with MSU, and the times haven’t always been so rosy. “There were a lot of times when we wondered what direction everyone is going in,” he said. “Mark Hollis has really been a key to all of this.” Whether it is Hollis or not, 2014-2015 has been a record-breaking year for MSU athletics. From cross-country and track senior Leah O’Connor winning the individual mile national championship with an MSU program record-setting time to men’s soccer goalkeeper Zach Bennett setting the record for most shutouts, it has been a year of broken records.
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Leah O’Connor Class Senior Position Runner Hometown Croswell, Michigan Claim to fame O’Connor set the program record by running the mile in 4:27.18.
LEAH O’CONNOR Winning a national championship is a seemingly impossible task. Senior Leah O’Connor didn’t just win a national championship, she did it by breaking the mile record at the indoor national championships earlier in the year. “That’s exactly how I pictured it in my head,” O’Connor said in a previous State News article. “I had this plan coming into the race, but you never guarantee that it’s going to come together ... but it did ... just to have it all happen is an extreme feeling of gratitude.” O’Connor set the record by running the mile in 4:27.18, which set the meet record and set her at No. 2 in the all-time NCAA record. It added to her list of accomplishments at MSU, which has included a cross country team national championship in the fall of 2014,and a national championship in the 3,000 meter steeplechase in 2014. O’Connor said her favorite memory in her time at MSU is the team national champion-
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ship the Spartans were able to win. “That’s been the sweetest thing,” she previously told The State News. “To be able to win the national championship with the girls I came in here with as a 17-year-old ... it’s irreplaceable and better than any individual title.” O’Connor will be leaving MSU in a couple of weeks, and she said she wants her legacy to be centered around the people that helped her get where she is, instead of just her individual success. “If individually, people look at what I’ve done on the track and they’re inspired by that and that makes them want to chase after what they want to do, then that’s awesome,” she said. “But I hope that it’s not about me, but it’s about what has been accomplished as a whole these last five years.”
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Zach Bennett Class Junior Position Goalkeeper Hometown Plano, Texas Claim to fame Bennett set the program record of 28 shutouts with still another season to go
ZACH BENNETT Men’s soccer head coach Damon Rensing came to MSU to help rebuild the program. Rebuilding a soccer program can’t really be done without a cornerstone goalkeeper, and junior Zach Bennett has been that. He has only played three seasons but still holds the MSU shutout record at 28 with another whole season to play. Bennett’s play has been the catalyst for the team. Through his goal-keeping, the Spartans’ last season saw themselves one win away from making it to the Final Four. “That’s something me and (senior defender Ryan) Keener talked about a lot before the year. That was a goal we set for ourselves, come to find out that Keener was a part of every shutout except one. It was cool thing for us to experience together,” Bennett previously told The State News. “It’s been something I’ve been working for, something that you come to Michigan State and dream about maybe setting records like this.” Bennett flew past the previous shutout record of 23 set by John Spink (1984, 1986-1988) and Avery Steingate (2008-2010), and will look to add to that record this fall. But it isn’t adding to his own shutout record that motivates Bennett — it’s how close the Spartans got to reaching the Final Four last season and their quest to get back. “Before all that (personal records), we’re trying to get those Ws, and I would (have) much rather taken a win then tying the record for school shutouts today,” he said following MSU’s 0-0 tie with Rutgers in September. Bennett’s teammates also have had kind words for Bennett. The defender whom he dreamed of teaming up with to break the school shutouts record was very happy for Bennett following MSU’s 1-0 win over Akron on Oct. 7, which was Bennett’s 24th, and record-breaking, shutout. “It’s awesome to be a part of, and when you have a guy like (Bennett) that works tirelessly, off-days, every chance he gets, there’s no one that challenges themselves than he does,” former defender Ryan Keener said after the win. When he broke the record, Bennett gave his teammates a lot of the credit. “I think I’ve worked pretty hard, that’s what I come to Michigan State to potentially do,” he said. “It’s a special moment not only for me but for the whole defense and the whole team.”
Sophomore forward Aerial Powers dribbles the ball Feb. 5 during the game against Michigan at Breslin Center. PHOTO: KENNEDY THATCH
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Aerial Powers Class Sophomore Position Forward Hometown Detroit, Michigan Claim to fame Powers averages 21.9 points per game, has scored 678 points and more
AERIAL POWERS Losing when you are used to winning can be very hard. Losing when you expect to win can be even harder.
For sophomore forward Aerial Powers and the women’s basketball team, winning wasn’t just a goal going into the 2014-2015 season, it was the expectation. As sometimes happens in sports, the expectations and the reality were very different things. MSU fought through a disappointing season that included a 16-15 and no post-season birth. It was clear early on in the season that MSU wouldn’t have much to play for. You wouldn’t have known that from watching Powers play. In a season where she played like a person possessed, she set the single season scoring and rebounding records for MSU women’s basketball. “That kid is a warrior,” head coach Suzy MerT U E S DAY, AP RI L 2 8 , 2 01 5
chant told msuspartans.com following their Feb. 5 loss to Michigan. “She’s doing everything she can, it’s just hard when other people aren’t helping. It makes it difficult.” Powers dominating the stat sheet was the story of MSU in the 2014-2015 season. She averaged 21.9 points per game (also a program record) and set records in points (678), rebounds (375) and double-doubles (24). The season was good enough for an All-American honorable mention, something that caused Merchant to put her entire legacy into perspective. “I don’t know what’s going to happen in terms of the future in terms of record books and things like that,” she said to msuspartans.com earlier in the season. “If there isn’t a female up there in the rafters, that kid should be one eventually some day.” TH E STATE N E WS
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Music and Spanish senior Jessica Thomas wraps muffins Monday at Biggby Coffee in the Union. Thomas said the cafe gets extra busy leading up to and during finals week. “We have to add more people to shifts, especially late at night,” said Thomas. PHOTO: KELSEY FELDPAUSCH
Sexual assault climate survey faces criticism BY CAMERON MACKO CMACKO@STATENEWS.COM
With the sexual assault climate survey still open for students to take, some students have argued there are flaws in both the survey itself and the reasons behind the university’s participation. In an Association of American Universities press release, they announced they had contracted Westat, a statistical analysis firm, to conduct the survey after AAU President Hunter Rawlings said in a report last May it was important for universities “to get ahead of this issue before a federally designed survey is mandated for us.” The information gathered in the survey would be used to consider future steps to take against sexual assault, as well as provide information to federal lawmakers. After the announcement, 16 professors, assistant professors and researchers from across the AAU, including MSU psychology professor Rebecca Campbell, signed a letter urging the presidents and chancellors of AAU schools “not commit to signing an $85,000 contract on a
sexual assault and campus climate survey with a consultant,” referring to Westat. The letter argued the results should be shared for comparative analysis between universities, which the AAU originally said would not occur, but then apparently reversed the decision in later documents. They also didn’t like, among other things, that the survey would not be allowed to be tailored to each individual institution. Though the results of the overall survey will be released, it is up to individual schools to decide if they want to release their results. This conflicts with a bill co-sponsored by Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., which would have directed colleges to take a survey administered by the U.S. Department of Education and use the public results to compare institutions to one another, Inside Higher Ed reported. After the Dec. 1 deadline for institutions to sign up for the survey, the AAU released a memo challenging some of the claims of the letter, including that the survey cannot be tailored to institutions and challenging costs as an exaggeration. The letter also alleged only “two
members of the advisory committee appear to have any experience in survey assessment on sexual assault, although the committee does have several lawyers and administrators.” In response, the AAU said its diversity of people and professions on the advisory committee would ensure the survey’s accuracy, even if many members had no direct experience in sexual assault assessments. More than a dozen universities did opt out of the survey administered by Westat, although several other institutions still planned conducting surveys, according to Inside Higher Ed. Coupled with what they described as a shady background to the survey and issues with not being able to taylor the survey to the needs of MSU, Graduate Employees Union President Sylvia Marques and neuroscience graduate student Apryl Pooley expressed an interest in gathering supporters for a letter or petition to be sent to the administration. READ MORE ABOUT STUDENTS’ CONCERNS WITH THE CLIMATE SURVEY LATER THIS WEEK.
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Chance the Rapper coming to MSU Tuesday
What is your ideal summer event? BY ZOË SCHUBOT ZSCHUBOT@STATENEWS.COM
As we enter the homestretch of the school year, many Spartans who will be staying in East Lansing over the summer may find themselves wondering just what they should do once their classmates head home. Check out this quiz to see what summer activity you should enjoy based on how your school year played out. What was your favorite class this year? A. My English class. It was challenging but rewarding and I was proud of the work that I did B. My music class. It was fun but also allowed me to learn a lot about music C. My elective KIN class. It was nice to have a break and get credit for working out D. My studio art class. I loved having a creative outlet among my challenging classes Are you looking for a crazy time? Or do you want to wind down after a busy year? A. I want something exciting, but I’m not looking to go too wild B. I want a nonstop party! C. I’m just looking for some outdoor summer fun! D. After a year of stress I want a fun but low-key event How often did you go out this year? A. Probably once every other week. I like to have a good time but I can only take it in small doses B. Multiple times per week. You’re only in college once C. At least once per weekend. I know when it’s time to have fun and when it’s time to be serious D. Maybe once a month, partying isn’t really my scene
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The cast of “Kinky Boots” during the tour of their show. PHOTO COURTESY OF MATTHEW MURPHY
What activities did you spend the most time on this year? A. My various clubs and extracurriculars B. Hanging out with my friends C. Anything that got me outside and moving D. Creative activities that allowed me to express myself
MOSTLY A’S You got: “Kinky Boots” at Wharton Center Head over to Wharton Center May 26-31 to see this Tony Award-winning musical come to life on the stage in the Cobb Great Hall. This musical, with a charismatic score by Cyndi Lauper, is based on a true story and addresses themes of overcoming stereotypes, finding
your passion and acceptance in a fast-paced, exciting performance. Ticket information can be found on the Wharton Center website. MOSTLY B’S You got: Common Ground Music Festival For those who want to keep the part y going after the school year has drawn to a close, head out to Adado Riverfront Park July 7-12 for the Common Ground Music Festival. Appearances include Meghan Trainor, Jane’s Addiction and The Band Perry. Ticket information and a full list of performers can be found on their website. MOSTLY C’S You got: Lugnuts game
You probably want to spend your summer soaking up the sun outside, so grab some friends and go to a Lansing Lugnuts game. The Lugnuts play their home games at the Cooley Law School Stadium and information regarding tickets and game schedules can be found on the Lugnuts’ website. MOSTLY D’S You got: East Lansing Art Festival If you want a mellow event that will still let you appreciate the warm, summer weather, consider the East Lansing Art Festival. The event takes place May 15-17 in Downtown East Lansing and will feature food, activities, live music and plenty of art
Chance the Rapper will be arriving for one of the last major events of the school year in only a few days. The process of getting Chance to MSU this Tuesday involved “a lot of politics and a lot of red tape,” said marketing senior and Director of Special Events of the MSU Residence Hall Association Russell James. James said that he knew he wanted Chance to perform after the fallout that emerged following the cancellation of the Wiz Khalifa concert earlier this year. After reviewing a survey that he sent to students regarding what artists they wanted to see perform, James said it was “a no brainer” to pursue Chance. Chance has been steadily gaining notoriety following the release of his mixtape Acid Rap in April 2013. He comes to MSU after appearing with Macklemore and Ryan Lewis in 2013. Pursuing Chance turned out to be quite the challenge, and between working with the university, negotiating contracts and making arrangements with Chance’s management the process has taken months of hard work from James. “It’s definitely a process when you’re working with an institution as big as Michigan State and then also Chance the Rapper’s agency, and so that’s hectic in its own right,” James said. However, it appears that all of James’ work was not put to waste, despite difficulties with advertising caused by an inability to finalize guest act Hoodie Allen’s contract until fairly recently. James said he expects the show to be very successful. Following this announcement of Hoodie Allen, the hype surrounding the show has continued to grow. Arts and humanities sophomore Jassadi Moore spotted an advertisement in the dining hall for the concert and immediately jumped at the chance to purchase tickets. She said she was elated when she discovered Chance would be performing at MSU. “I initially saw the advertisements in the caf on the little inserts on the tables and I was so excited to see his face on it,” she said.
What was your favorite part of this year? A. All of the new things that I was exposed to on such a diverse campus B. The fast-paced atmosphere of college C. The fact that there was always something to do — I was never bored D. Meeting so many new and interesting people If you could use one word to describe your year, what would it be? A. Unique B. Crazy C. Adventurous D. Eye-opening
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Geoff Preston Sports editor sports@statenews.com @thesnews_sports
Four takeaways from the 2015 spring game week,” Cook said.
BY MATTHEW ARGILLANDER MARGILLANDER@STATENEWS.COM
On a chilly, cloudy day, there were people tailgating on Shaw Lane and there was a buzz in East Lansing. No, it’s not the fall, but there was a record 48,000 people in Spartan Stadium to watch the annual spring game, in which the White team defeated the Green team 9-3. “Very appreciative of people taking their day and coming out and doing this, and I just want to send that message out to all of our Spartans,” head coach Mark Dantonio said. “I thought it was a great crowd, so it was impressive.” There were quite a few lessons learned in the spring game, despite its fun nature, and there was a taste of what is to come in the fall. BIG MEN PLAYS Taking a page out of Baylor University’s playbook, the Spartans got their lineman involved in the biggest way. Senior offensive lineman Jack Allen scored the game’s only touchdown on a three-yard rush. “I’d probably call you a liar,” Allen said jok i ngly when asked what he would say if he was told before the game he would score the only touchdown. “I don’t really feel this often, I can’t describe this feeling. The only way you hear about offensive lineman is if they do something bad.” Fellow junior offensive lineman Donovan Clark also had a 15-yard run. Junior defensive linemen Lawrence Thomas and Shilique Calhoun each saw some passes thrown their way.
Freshman quarterback Colar Kuhns throws the ball downfield Saturday, during the Green and White spring game at Spartan Stadium. PHOTO: ALICE KOLE
CONNOR’S CONNECTION Junior quarterback Connor Cook might have found himself a new go-to weapon for the upcoming season — senior wide receiver DeAnthony Arnett had five receptions for 51 yards. Cook also missed Arnett on a few throws and expressed his disappointment. “I would have liked him to have more catches than that. I think there were some times where I missed him today, but DeAnthony had a good spring. He got better each and every
TWO-WAY POTENTIAL Although it’s not every day a player can start on both sides of the ball like senior wide receiver Tony Lippett did for the Spartans, MSU may have another possible candidate. Freshman safety Montae Nicholson spent some time lined up as wide receiver, and while he did not look ready yet with polish he is athletic enough to get involved with the offense. “We recruit football players. We recruit guys that can play on both sides of the line of scrimmage,” Dantonio said. “We recruit guys that can play in the offensive backfield or defensive backfield, or wide receiver/DB and vice versa. “I think those types of things show up, especially in spring games when you have an opportunity to get them reps, and that is what happened out there.” Calhoun also suggested a desire to get some more shots on offense. He said with a laugh that he was lobbying Dantonio to get him more reps on the offensive side of the ball. “It was fun out there playing a little wide receiver. It was fun getting out there, having them let me play the opposite side of the ball,” Calhoun said. “I’ll mention it to (Dantonio), hopefully he laughs at it but doesn’t laugh it off, hopefully he takes it into consideration and plays me at a little bit of tight end. I’ll block too.” DEFENSIVE LINE The defensive line looked like it could have the makings of one of the best in the country. The defenses combined had seven tackles for a loss, five of those being sacks. Thomas flashed some explosive potential when he blew through the offensive line to stuff a Green team 4th and 1 and Calhoun as expected was dominant with 2.5 sacks. “I really don’t like to talk about individuals,” linebackers and special teams coach Mark Snyder said. “But I thought today, as it should be, Shilique was unblockable.”
Baseball dominates toughest part of schedule Continuing with the recent trend, the MSU baseball team (25-17 overall, 9-6 Big Ten) put together another strong weekend. The team took two of three from Indiana (23-17 overall, 6-10 Big Ten). The team opened the series with a poor performance in a 6-1 loss to the Hoosiers. Saturday’s game was postponed, which set up a doubleheader on Sunday. The Spartans were able to take both of Sunday’s games with a 7-0 win in the first and a 3-2 win in the second game. Senior pitcher Mick VanVossen was dominant in the 7-0 win on Sunday. The senior threw a com-
plete game shutout, totaling eight strikeouts and giving up just one hit and three walks. VanVossen retired the last 13 Hoosier batters in the game without allowing a man on base. Senior closer Jeff Kinley was also impressive on the mound in the second game of the day. In the first start of his career, Kinley was able to deliver a quality performance. The senior had 6.1 innings pitched giving up just three hits and one run all while throwing seven strikeouts. As it has been the whole season, the seniors make this team go, and head coach Jake Boss Jr. knows that. “This is a resilient group. We’ve got a good group of seniors, and, if you look at the box scores, our
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seniors are the guys that led us,” Boss said. “Mick’s one-hit shutout, that’s senior leadership. Jeff Kinley making his first start and goes for 6.1 very strong solid innings for us, that’s senior leadership.” The Spartans have now won 13 of their last 16 games and this is a team that was 12-14 at the beginning of April. Taking two of three from Northwestern, a threegame sweep of Rutgers and another two of three from Indiana has given the Spartans wins in the last three Big Ten series with a 7-2 record in those games. MSU has nine conference games remaining, all three-game sets. The first comes against Purdue (13-31 overall, 1-14 Big Ten), followed by Penn State
(13-26 overall, 2-12 Big Ten) and the team closes out the regular season against Minnesota(18-21 overall, 7-11 Big Ten). “We’re trying to win as many games as we can and see what happens. We’ve got three weekends to go, nine Big Ten games, certainly a lot could happen,” Boss said. These three teams are a combined 10-37 in Big Ten play this season so this will be an opportunity for MSU to improve its Big Ten record and make a case for an NCAA Tournament berth. The Spartans dominated their most important stretch of the season and now sit in a perfect position with the easiest part of their schedule remaining before postseason play begins.
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Students struggle to enroll in classes BY JESSICA SATTLER JSATTLER@STATENEWS.COM
With April comes the battle for the perfect schedule as scheduled enrollment slowly begins to open for select students across campus. Open enrollment for the upcoming fall and spring semesters didn’t officially begin until April 25, but classes have begun to fill up far before that date, which has left students frustrated and scrambling for replacement classes. “When I went on for the fall semester, four out of five of the classes I wanted were already full. PSY 395, which I need for my major and need for graduation, was full,” psychology junior Rachel Davis said. “For the spring semester, there were two classes I couldn’t get into.” Davis’ enrollment period opened sometime around April 14, though she said she didn’t actually begin her attempts at scheduling until a few days later.
For Davis, her options for alternate sections are very slim, given the fact she will be working a job next year that requires two afternoons a week to be completely free. The Office of the Registrar’s website offers no information on how students are selected for early enrollment, and for many students, including Davis, the actual methodology behind enrollment periods is a mystery. Associate registrar Kimberly Blair-Chambers said that scheduled enrollment opens on April 3, and is primarily prioritized by “group, then academic level, then projected credits.” Priority enrollment goes to graduate students, followed by undergraduate students by class, lifelong learners, agriculture and veterinary technician certificates and, finally, those enrolled in the English Language Center. There is no preference based on college, except for students in the Honors College who are permitted
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A 22-year-old female student was sexually assaulted at Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center on April 10, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said. The student met a man at a Lansing nightclub and was invited back to his hotel room, where he later sexually assaulted her, McGlothian-Taylor said. The case is under investigation by the MSU police Special Victims Unit.
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Sports COLUMN: Hold all sports to the same standard
Former MSU stars shining in playoffs
BY GEOFF PRESTON GPRESTON@STATENEWS.COM
The hot seat. It’s something that coaches at the helm of revenue sports know all too well. But has MSU started to hold sports of different prestige levels to different standards? The mission of college athletics should extend beyond winning. It sounds cliche, but I really believe it’s true. Too often the pressure to win turns students into objects who are designed to make the university money. Maybe I’m old-school, but that’s not what I think college athletics should be solely about. That being said, there has to be a level of fairness in the way the job statuses of these coaches are measured. Mark Dantonio and Tom Izzo are not the greatest examples because they have cemented their job security. There is no double standard at that level. A lot of the coaches at MSU should have the job security they have. Volleyball head coach Cathy George is allowed to have a rebuilding season, and she has taken the volleyball program to places they have never been before. Suzy Merchant can say the same thing for women’s basketball. There are sports, however, in which the coach providing a good learning environment for the athlete isn’t enough, and there have to be wins that come with the lessons. Too often these are the sports that fall by the wayside in terms of national attention. Just because fewer people watch softball than football doesn’t mean the program should be allowed to go 29-70 over the course of two seasons. These are competitive athletes who didn’t come to school for the lessons sports can teach off the field. They came here so they could win games. I’m in no position to call for anyone to be fired. I don’t believe I have the right. One thing I would like to see is some accountability from head coach Jacquie Joseph and her coaching staff. Mark Dantonio wouldn’t be allowed to win less than 30 percent of his games and not explain himself. Joseph has to know this. The reason she has her job still today is because this wasn’t the norm for MSU softball. Joseph has been the head coach since 1994 and in that time she has hit the coveted 40-win mark three times, and has won 30 games or more nine times. Joseph knows what it takes to be successful, and it is acceptable to be in a rebuilding period, but when this senior class graduates they will have not had an above .500 season, including a season when they went 0-23 in the Big Ten. Suzy Merchant and Tom Izzo wouldn’t be allowed to do that, and Jacquie Joseph shouldn’t be allowed to either.
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The Chicago Blackhawks’ Duncan Keith, 2, battles for the puck with the Nashville Predators’ Colin Wilson, 33, during the third period of Game 1 in the first round of the NHL playoffs at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee, on April 15. PHOTO COURTESY OF NUCCIO DINUZZO/CHICAGO TRIBUNE/TNS
BY JONATHON CHUN JCHUN@STATENEWS.COM
The Spartan Brass has gotten used to seeing MSU athletes perform in prime time over the last few years. With both the football and men’s basketball programs finishing in the top 10 the last two years, MSU athletics has seen its stature grow tenfold. With success comes better recruits, with better recruits comes better players and with better players comes more representation in professional sports. This season, the Spartans had six former players in the NBA, 23 players in the NFL and 15 in the NHL. That is a well-rounded representation across professional sports. All the more, MSU currently has three players battling in the NBA playoffs and eight in the NHL playoffs. When it comes down to a win-or-go-home scenario, former Spartans have the mentality and experience to thrive. In the NBA playoffs, Zach Randolph of the Memphis Grizzlies and Draymond TUESDAY, APRI L 28 , 2 01 5
Green of the Golden State Warriors have been making headlines. Alan Anderson has also performed nicely in his role with the Brooklyn Nets. Randolph and Green share a similar approach to the game, in that opposing teams leave the arena cursing under their breath about them. Green, whose NBA stardom has skyrocketed this season, is averaging 14 points, twelve rebounds, six assists, three steals and more than one block a game so far in these NBA playoffs. There’s not many players in the NBA who can make that broad of an impact on any given game, especially in the playoffs. From the hardwood to the ice, former Spartans also made a big impact on the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Of the eight Spartans currently competing for the Stanley Cup, the Chicago Blackhawk’s Duncan Keith and the Detroit Red Wing’s Justin Abdelkader are producing memorable plays. Keith, who spent just the 2001-2002 season with MSU, scored the overtime
game-winning goal for the Blackhawks in their first playoff game. Abdelkader, on the other (injured) hand, sat out the Red Wings’ first two games after blocking a shot off his glove late in the season. In his first game back on Tuesday, Abdelkader was a force not to be reckoned with. With an assist, six hits and a takedown, Abdelkader earned himself Second Star of the game. People who have followed MSU over the years won’t be surprised by any of these playoff accomplishments. Green is one of just three players in NCAA Tournament history to post multiple triple-doubles. The other two were Earvin “Magic” Johnson and Oscar Robertson. Abdelkader was a member of MSU’s 2007 national championship team, and he placed himself firmly in Spartan lore by scoring the game-winning goal with 18.9 seconds left in the game. Seeing former players thrive at the highest level at the most important time can only help the future of MSU athletics.