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As a new school year picks up, MSU faces a host of changes Veterinary medicine freshman Kera Conroy, right, pushes her belongings ahead of her mother and sister on Aug. 28 at Brody Complex. Conroy and her family traveled from Kalamazoo, Mich., to take part in move-in day for first-year students. PHOTO: DEREK VANHORN
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RELIGIOUS GUIDE News Look for this directory in the paper every Thursday and online at: www.statenews.com/religious Ascension Lutheran Church 2780 Haslett Rd., E. Lansing Between Hagadorn & Park Lake Rds. (517) 337-9703 Adult Bible Study: 9am Sunday School: 9am Worship Service: 10am ascensioneastlansing.org
Lansing Church of God in Christ 5304 Wise Rd., Lansing, MI 48911 http://lansingcogic.org/ Worship hours Sunday: 10:30am, 5:00pm Monday Family Prayer: 6:00pm
Chabad House of MSU Your Jewish home, away from home 540 Elizabeth St. East Lansing, MI 48823 (517) 214-0525 chabadmsu.com Friday evenings: 20 minutes after sunset followed by Shabbat dinner Saturday: 11am, Torah reading at 12pm
Little Flock Christian Fellowship A Non-DenominationalEvagelical Church MSU Alumni Chapel (Basement Hall) Sunday Worship Service: 10am-12 Noon. Fellowship Lunch after the service Weekly Bibly Studies & Students’ Meetings. littleflock.msu@gmail.com www.littleflock.org
Eastminster Presbyterian Church 1315 Abbot Rd, East Lansing, MI, 48823 (517) 337-0893 www.eastminsterchurch.org Worship Gatherings: Sunday Worship 10:00 am UKirk Presbyterian Campus Ministry Wednesdays at 7pm www.ukirkmsu.org Faith Fellowship Baptist Church 1001 Dakin St. Lansing, MI 48912 (517) 853-9897 Sunday Morning Worship: 11am Wednesday Prayer and Bible Study: 6:30pm Van service available to church Campus Bible Study: Tuesday at 7:00 pm in Chemistry Bldg. www.ffbc.us First Baptist Church of Okemos 4684 Marsh Rd. Okemos, MI 48864 (517) 349-2830 www.fbcokemos.org/worship Sunday worship: 10:45am Greater Lansing Church of Christ 310 N. Hagadorn Rd. East Lansing, MI (Meeting at the University Christian Church building) (517) 898-3600 Students welcome! Sunday Worship: 8:45am Sunday Bible class: 10am Wednesday: 7pm - praise and worship Students please feel free to call for rides http://www.greaterlansingcoc.org
The Islamic Society of Greater Lansing 940 S. Harrison Rd., East Lansing, MI 48823 For prayer times visit www.lansingislam.com/ Trinity Church 3355 Dunckel Rd. Lansing, MI 48911 (517) 272-3820 Saturday: 6pm Sunday: 9:15am, 11am trinitywired.com
University Baptist Church 4608 South Hagadorn Rd East Lansing, MI 48823 (517) 351-4144 www.ubcel.org 10 AM Worship Service 11:15 Coffee Hour 11:30 Sunday School
Peoples Church 200 W. Grand River Ave. East Lansing, MI 48823 (517) 332-6074 www.peoples-evolution.org Sunday Worship: 8:30am, 9:30am Tuesday: Love Life: 7-9pm Wednesday: Dinner at 5:30pm, Journey at 6:30
University Christian Church 310 N. Hagadorn Rd. East Lansing, MI 48823 (517) 332-5193 universitychristianwired.com Sunday: 11:15 am Sunday Bible Study: 10:15 am
River Terrace Church 1509 River Terrace Dr. East Lansing, MI 48823 (517) 351-9059 www.riverterrace.org Service times: 9 & 11:15am
University Lutheran Church (ELCA) One Community: Lutheran/ Episcopal Campus Ministry 1020 South Harrison Rd. East Lansing, MI 48823 (517) 332-2559 www.facebook.com/onecommunitymsu Sunday Worship 10:45am
The Pentecostals of East Lansing 16262 Chandler Rd. East Lansing, MI 48823 (517) 337-7635 www.pentecostalel.org Hillel Jewish Student Center Like us on Facebook! Sunday worship: 11am 360 Charles St., E. Lansing Thursday Bible study: 7pm (517) 332-1916 Thursday young adult group: Friday Night 8:30pm Services: 6pm, Dinner: 7pm Wednesday campus Bible September - April study: 8pm at MSU library
University United Methodist Church MSU Wesley 1120 S. Harrison Rd. East Lansing, MI 48823 (517) 351-7030 universitychurchhome.org msuwesley.org Sunday: 10:30am 9:00am Garden Service in the summer TGIT: 8:00pm Thursdays Sept. - April WELS Lutheran Campus Ministry 704 Abbot Road East Lansing, MI 48823 (517) 580-3744 www.msu.edu/~weisluth 6:00pm Saturday
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Unity Spiritual Renaissance 230 S. Holmes St. Lansing, MI 48912 (517) 484-2360 or (517) 505-1261 Sunday: 10:30am Wednesday: 6:30pm meditation
Martin Luther Chapel 444 Abbot Rd. East Lansing, MI 48823 (517) 332-0778 martinlutherchapel.org Sunday: 9:30am & 7:00pm Wednesday Worship: 9pm Mini-bus pick-up on campus (Fall/Spring)
St. John Catholic Church and Student Center 327 M.A.C. Ave. East Lansing, MI 48823 (517) 337-9778 stjohnmsu.org Sunday: 8am, 10am, Noon, 5pm, 7pm Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 12:15pm Tuesday & Thursday: 9:15pm
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International relations junior Lorenzo Santavicca leads an ASMSU meeting on Aug. 30 at Student Services at 556 E. Circle Drive. Santavicca is the current president of ASMSU, an organization that serves as the undergraduate student government of MSU. PHOTO: DEREK VANHORN
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ASMSU president Lorenzo Santavicca has three main goals for this year — outreach, resources and advocacy. “With outreach, we want to answer the question of, ‘What does student government actually do?’” Santavicca said. Individual goals of the outreach sector range from getting 5,000-8,000 students registered to vote in the election this year to getting students involved and knowledgeable about ASMSU’s decision processes. “A big goal of ours is boosting voter registration because it’s such a critical year for that,” Alex Noffsinger, ASMSU vice president of governmental affairs said. ASMSU had a voter turnout of 5.2 percent last year. “Part of it is taking advantage of the timing of this year,” Noffsinger said. Continuing outreach, Santavicca said he wants to livestream all ASMSU meetings to make them accessible to every student. He said ASMSU is pushing a four-year leadership initiative for all student organizations through the Office of Student Affairs and Services, called ASMSYOU, in hopes to bring more student leaders into groups like ASMSU. “The tagline this year for ASMSU is ‘students first,’” Santavicca said. “And that’s our big goal this year — being there for individual students.” As far as resources go, ASMSU has a $1.6 million budget for the year and is rolling out a new initiative — graphing calculator rentals. ASMSU allocated $10,000 to support the new program, vice president for finance and operations Jason Barnett said, and it will start with 100 calculators in the fall. Depending on the popularity of the program, this number will grow in the spring 2017 semester and beyond, he said. “We understand that some students only have to take one math class for their major, but still
need to buy a graphing calculator for that class,” Santavicca said. “We want to make it easier for them.” ASMSU will also be increasing its bike share program, which began last year and allowed students without bikes to rent one for free through the organization. Because of the program’s popularity last year, bikes available through the bike share program will be increased from eight bikes to 40 bikes for on-campus students. This was promised in 2014. Originally, the program faced problems, which had the start date pushed for nearly a year and a half. “Every neighborhood on campus will have a bike share rack by early October,” Santavicca said. ASMSU will continue their iClicker rentals, free blue book resources and will be covering the $5 monthly bank fee for registered student organizations, or RSOs, for the year. “We made that decision because we want to make it easier for students to run their student organizations,” Barnett said. ASMSU is also prepared to give out more than $200,000 to different RSOs over the year, which will be available for RSOs to apply for funding through the Student Allocations Board. The It’s On Us campus campaign will also continue, with the greek life pledge drive from previous years. A new sexual assault campaign will be introduced this year, through a partnership with MSU police. It’s entitled Start by Believing and will focus on helping report sexual assault to police. “Where It’s On Us tackles the awareness aspect of sexual assault, Start by Believing will help students understand how to help when they are approached by someone who’s experienced sexual assault,” Santavicca said. ASMSU will also be focused this year on advocating for college affordability, mental and physical health awareness on campus and educating students on resources related to such topics, Santavicca said.
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“Universities everywhere struggle with the concept of making everything public and accessible to everyone but then not every student will be comfortable with learning in that open space because of their anxiety.” Stephanie Nawyn, Co-director of MSU’s Center of Gender in Global Context on the closing of the Women’s Lounge AGE 8
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The New Student Room Selection program’s user rate shot up by 31 percentage points in the program’s second year, according to Residence Education and Housing Services, or REHS, statistics. The program allows incoming students to select their own on-campus housing online. Participation among incoming students rose from 43 percent last year to 74 percent this year, REHS interim senior associate director Karen Corley said via email. “We thought having the 31 (percentage point) increase in students that participate was excellent,” Corley said. “That means we’re giving our students the opportunity to pick which neighborhood they’d like to live in, and that will go along with helping them to be successful academically.” Extending the housing decision deadline for incoming students from March 31 to May 1 increased participation, she said. May 1 is the national deadline for prospective students to select their college. Working in tandem with the Office for International Students and Scholars helped more than double the proportion of incoming international students participating in the program, she said. The proportion of incoming international students selecting their own first-year housing rose from 22 percent last year to more than 50 percent this year. Outreach efforts were undertaken across a vari-
ety of social media outlets, including WeChat, a digital messaging service popular with international students, OISS Director James Dorsett said. “We just helped reinforce REHS’ message that this was an option for them and something that they can take advantage of,” he said. The most commonly selected neighborhoods among program participants were South Neighborhood with 2,451 selections and East Neighborhood with 2,081, Corley said. These numbers are likely because these neighborhoods have the most leftover space after returning students and living-learning communities, such as James Madison College and the Lyman Briggs College, have had their pick of on-campus living space, she said. A wide range of factors influence the residence halls incoming students select. Water quality was a big factor in choosing Brody Neighborhood’s Emmons Hall, media and information freshman Louis Coombs said. “I heard that, even though (Brody Neighborhood) is far from everything, it has the best living conditions on campus,” he said. Amenities didn’t play a factor in choosing to live in Wilson Hall, chemical engineering freshman Talha Muhammadimamuddin said. “All the engineers are living there, and I’m an engineer,” Muhammadimamuddin said. Wilson Hall is home to the College of Engineering’s CoRe Experience program, which helps freshmen engineering students engage with and acclimate to their rigorous field of study.
Finance junior Jim McKillop browses posters during the Beyond The Wall Poster Sale on Aug. 29 in the Union. McKillop was taking a break from early class work. PHOTO: EMMETT MCCONNELL
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Class of 2020 will see a different university than last freshman class BY RILEY MURDOCK RMURDOCK@STATENEWS.COM
What a difference a year makes. Beginning with a Title IX investigation that found MSU at fault, and ending with the closing of the Women’s Lounge in compliance with Title IX, MSU has changed in many ways since the class of 2019 stepped foot on campus. As a new class freshman class sets foot on campus at the beginning of another academic year, students and staff alike can look towards their future by learning from their past. Sexual assault investigation wraps up On Sept. 1, 2015, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, or OCR, found that MSU had mishandled multiple sexual assault cases and failed to resolve two cases timely enough in accordance to OCR mandates. It found that the university did not investigate a sexual harassment claim against a sexual assault counselor who was fired four years later after additional complaints. OCR also found MSU had not adequately notified its students on the name and title of the Title IX coordinator, an individual whom students may report sexual assault complaints to. MSU has enacted several changes in wake of the OCR report, including amending policy, expanding Sexual Assault and Relationship Violence Prevention Program, or SARV, E-learning and the recently founded Office of Institutional Equity, or OIE. Jessica Norris was hired as the new Title IX coordinator later in the year. Norris said the OIE has had an immense impact on improving MSU’s handling of sexual assault cases. “The increase in staffing and resources has been substantial, and has allowed MSU to be able to complete investigations in a much more timely manner,” Norris said. “(We are) making sure we have the staff in place to ensure we are meeting OCR guidelines for our investigations.” The OIE launched a new Title IX website on Aug. 22, providing a single place for students to make reports, find information and make use of resources. Norris said the OIE will release an annual report in late September to assess its status, which will be widely available to MSU students. “I believe that we have taken all the steps to make the necessary adjustments to our investigation and response process such that we would not be in the same position as we were in the past,” Norris said. Women’s Lounge closes In July, University of Michigan-Flint professor Mark Perry filed a complaint with the Michigan Department of Civil Rights against MSU that claimed the Women’s Lounge in the Union was a violation of Title IX and other civil rights laws, as it remained a gender-exclusive space in a publicly funded institution. Many students were upset to find that MSU announced they had plans to convert the women’s lounge immediately after, though
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Journalism freshman Wolfgang Ruth pushes luggage on Aug. 28 at Brody Complex. The day marked the official move-in for first-year students. PHOTO: DEREK VANHORN
MSU spokesman Jason Cody said the decision was not the result of any individual’s complaints. Cody said MSU never received any notification of a Department of Civil Rights complaint being filed, but Perry had raised concerns to the university earlier. Norris said while MSU had received many complaints regarding the lounge in recent years, Perry’s was the straw that broke the camel’s back and made the university decide change was necessary. “The university did not respond to the complaint of one person in making that decision, it was really based on the history over the past several years of complaints being received and concerns being voiced, not only from men but also students raising concerns about the space from the transgender community as well,” Norris said. “We want to ensure that we are providing equal access to the space, but we also want to make sure that space is safe from harassment and discrimination.” Norris said conversations regarding the renovations began in late May, with President Lou Anna K. Simon reviewing the situation after Perry expressed concerns to the university. Norris said the final decision likely came from the top down and was made after consulting with legal personnel who determined that the space was indeed in violation of Title IX. “This was certainly a decision that the president’s office was involved in,” Norris said. “The institution has an obligation to follow federal and state laws, and in this case the university felt that change was necessary to ensure that compliance.” Norris said the lounge has reopened as a space available to both women and men, but many who used or supported the idea of the lounge as a women’s space are currently protesting the move. “As a female student here on campus, this lounge was essential to my success my freshman year,” zoology sophomore Alyssa Maturen said in a previous article by The State News. Maturen started a petition on change.org titled “Allowing women on Michigan State’s campus to have a safe lounge to study in,” which, as of Tuesday, has more than 5,000 signatures.
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“It was the one place I felt I could go and truly relax, not to mention I was able to focus way better when among fellow women as I was not being approached by male students,” Maturen said. Football starts year ranked 12th After beginning last year’s football season ranked fifth in an AP preseason poll and ascending all the way to No. 2 during play, the Spartans have fallen to 12th place in this year’s preseason poll. MSU finished with a No. 6 ranking after falling to Alabama 38-0 in the Cotton Bowl, and will hope to prove their critics wrong when play begins against the Furman Paladins on Sept. 2. Tobacco ban goes into effect Tobacco use on MSU’s campus was banned on Aug. 15. After the Board of Trustees voted to ban the use of all tobacco products, including cigarettes, chewing tobacco and vaporizers on June 17, 2015, MSU spent the summer between spring 2016 and fall 2016 preparing to convert campus into a smoke-free zone. More than 400 cement ashtrays have been removed by Landscape Services or are in the process of being removed. Tobacco use on campus is now a civil infraction with a possible fine of $150, but MSU spokesman Jason Cody said MSU police will not be actively enforcing the ban and won’t seek to give out tickets to students. “This is going to be a sustained educational effort to try to create a healthier campus culture. ... We are not looking at this process through an enforcement lens, but rather an educational one,” Cody said in a previous article with The State News. “That said, with any ordinance that’s on the books here, of course there’s going to be enforcement mechanisms.” Student Government sets priorities and looks ahead Both Associated Students of Michigan State University, or ASMSU, and the Council of Graduate Students, COGS, underwent lead-
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Detroit resident Ronald Coleman, 5, poses for a photo with Sparty on Aug. 28 at West Akers Hall. Coleman was helping his cousin move in to his dorm room. PHOTO: CARLY GERACI
ership changes late in the spring. International relations junior Lorenzo Santavicca and graduate student Dee Jordan have assumed the presidency of their respective organizations, and each have their own ideas and goals for the coming year. Santavicca said he plans to focus his efforts on student engagement during his tenure as ASMSU president. His three areas of focus for ASMSU are outreach, resources and advocacy. He hopes to encourage the student body to get involved with the political process by promoting voter registration, expand the ASMSU bike share program, and advocate on behalf of students on the issues of college affordability, health and wellness, and others. Jordan, the first black student to become president of COGS, said the council’s main goal is for their full council to represent as many programs and departments as possible. “The primary goal for COGS this year is to have a complete ‘full council,’ meaning that we have representation from all departments and programs,” Jordan said. “We’ve had some departments that are historically unrepresented.” Jordan has undertaken meetings with department chairs and program directors over summer to encourage involvement in COGS and emphasize the importance of representation in the full council. She said that every meeting she’s attended has yielded a representative for that program or department, and orientations the organization has held have drummed up significant interest towards getting involved. “Only when we’re completely full and unified can we have a complete picture of the landscape for graduate and professional students, and when that’s done we can do our best advocacy,” Jordan said.
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MSU switches to D2L and Office360
Hoverboards banned on campus
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MSU football begins 2015 season ranked fifth in AP Preseason Poll
T.B. Simon Power Plant phases out coal use
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Office for Civil Rights finds MSU mishandled several sexual assault cases
2016-17 room and board and silver meal plans increase in price
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MSU makes changes to its sexual misconduct policy
Lorenzo Santavicca elected president of ASMSU
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MSU issues anti-harassment statement
Women’s Resource Center moved to WorkLife Office
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New Izzone ticket options introduced
Board of Trustees raises tuition for seventh straight year
FUN FACTS: IN 1998, WHEN MOST OF THE CLASS OF 2020 WAS BORN... The Unabomber trial came to a close with Michigan native Ted Kaczynski pleading guilty and being sentenced to life imprisonment.
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Ticket rules change to allow non MSU students into student section
Open fires banned in EL due to summer heat wave, lifted in mid-July
MSU students were upset by the announcement that Seinfeld would be ending. Nick Saban was head coach for the MSU football team. Titanic became the highest worldwide grossing film of all time.
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MSUPD equipped with body cameras
Inquiry following U-M Professor’s complaint reveals that Women’s Lounge will be renovated into inclusive space
East Lansing City Council voted to ban couches from lawns. The Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky scandal was in full swing, leading to the Clinton’s impeachment by the House of Representatives. The Michigan House of Representatives voted to ban assisted suicide, a decision which would lead to the conviction of Jack Kevorkian the next year.
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Michelle Kaminski named new police oversight committee chair
Campus tobacco ban officially goes into effect
MSU basketball, coached by Tom Izzo both then and now, shared the Big Ten championship with Illinois and made the Sweet Sixteen before losing to North Carolina. Then-Co-Team Captain Mateen Cleaves was arrested in February for an alcohol-related incident.
Aug. 21, 2016 MSU football begins 2016 season ranked 12th in AP Preseason Poll
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For members of the MSU Running Club some of the best kept secrets are found off campus. But nature trails on campus are also fine places to run, chemical engineering senior and MSU Running Club president Ben Lambert said. “The most obvious one is the River Trail, which is on campus, but the better part is definitely off campus,” he said. The trail from Harrison Avenue to Potter Park is approximately a 4.5 mile loop, Lambert said. “There is shade in case it gets hot, and it’s just way more scenic than just buildings,” he said. A run south of campus offers a more rustic experience. Heading that way takes you towards a local sheep farm, Lambert said. It’s fun to imitate the sounds of the sheep because the sheep will often respond in turn, Lambert said. Good routes can be found when starting at IM SportsWest and heading onto the River Trail, marketing sophomore and club travel coordinator Riley VanPelt said. “I usually start at IM West, so that’s a mile there,” VanPelt said. The trails in East Lansing and the surrounding areas provide water fountains along the routes and continue for several miles, giving many options to runners of all types, VanPelt said. Runners looking for more urban routes can run twoard neighborhoods in East Lansing, or head west toward Lansing for different scenery. Running an eight mile loop from IM West to the Capitol is a fun way to experience a wider range of scenery, Natalie Whise, history, philosophy, and sociology of science junior and vice president of administration for the club said. Finding new routes is just a matter of being social, she said. “Running with new people can really shape where you run and introduce you to new places.” Runners shouldn’t be intimidated by the prospect of venturing onto a new route, VanPelt said. “Keep your mind open and explore,” VanPelt said.
“If you’ve never been there before, make sure you have an idea of where you’re going and just go off. “It’s always fun to explore and see what you can find out there,” VanPelt said.
5. Potter Park Run A running club favorite, this route follows the Red Cedar River down to Potter Park Zoo. The 4.6 mile loop gets away from campus and heads towards Lansing.
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Chinese students reflect on tobacco ban BY RACHEL BEARD RBEARD@STATENEWS.COM
For some students coming to MSU from China, the new tobacco-free campus is a welcome change but for others it is quite frustrating. “I think it’s quite inconvenient for us to go off the campus to smoke because sometimes I just need a little cigarette after class,” international student, and media and information freshman Bernard Cheng said. He finds the ban especially annoying for students who have to live on campus. “For freshmen, we don’t have cars,” he said. “We need to ride a bike to come out for 30 minutes for only one cigarette and then go back. I hope it can change.” For international students who smoke, coming to a tobacco-free campus can be a big adjustment. “I’m sure there are some students who smoke, and we’ll have to figure out what they’re going to do about it,” James Dorsett, director of the Office for International Students and Scholars, said. “But I think (students were) adequately given information in advance so that they were able to prepare for it, if it was an issue.” Dorsett says he doesn’t anticipate there will be any issues with international students adjusting to the new regulations. “Basically, they will probably look around and see if it’s being really enforced or how people they know or the older 6
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Smoking is prohibited in medical facilities, restaurants, bars students, how they would be dealing with it,” he said. “I’m sure for all the students, it will be somewhat of an adjust- and on most forms of public transportation. Tobacco advertising is prohibited in mass media, public places, means of pubment, but I think they’ll figure it out.” For some international students, like Chinese internation- lic transport and outdoors. Required warnings on tobacco projects are text-only, use al student and food industry management freshman Chenxi small type and cover at most 30 percent of the front and He, the tobacco ban has been a pleasant surprise. “I didn’t know (about the ban),” he said. “I came here and I back surfaces of cigarette packaging, according to the campaign’s site. saw the signs ‘tobacco-free,’ and I was very happy.” But warnings will increase in size to 35 percent on Oct.1. Although the tobacco ban may not be a deterrent to international students considering MSU, it won’t be much of an attraction either, Dorsett said. “For some, it’s certainly something that we can point to as far as a healthy campus and an initiative that is trying to look out for people’s well-being and trying to avoid secondhand smoke and all those sorts of things,” Dorsett said. “I think it could have some attraction. I doubt it’s their number one thing, but I imagine it helps.” Two-thirds of all males in China smoked and more are picking up the habit as teenagers, according to a 2015 study published in a UK medical journal. Among women in China, smoking rates were found to be much smaller, with only about 10 percent of older women and and one percent of middle-aged women smoking, according to the study. Bernard Cheng, Tobacco laws in China aren’t much different compared to Media and information freshman those in the U.S., according to the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids’ website.
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MSU researchers use fingerprint hacking to aid local homicide case BY SHIREEN KORKZAN SKORKZAN@STATENEWS.COM
During the early hours of May 14, 2016, 34-year-old Joshua Christopher Misiak was shot multiple times. The clue to finding a suspect would lead to an MSU research team, a set of fingerprints and a smartphone. Misiak was driving his brother’s vehicle when he and an unidentified 22-yearold woman were shot near the intersection of Kendon Drive and Wildwood Avenue in Lansing. Misiak was pronounced dead at the hospital. Lansing Police said another vehicle pulled up and began shooting shortly after 1 a.m. A witness told local CBS affiliate WLNS that he saw the vehicle speed away after the shooting ended. Investigators said they believe the shooting was intentional and that Misiak and the suspect might have known each other. Lansing Police‘s public information officer Robert Merritt said Misiak owned a Samsung Galaxy S6. Discovering a possible suspect behind Misiak’s death would involve looking into that smartphone. Unfortunately for Lansing Police, that smartphone was fingerprint-locked, and they didn’t have the resources to try to unlock it. What police did have, however, were copies of Misiak’s fingerprints on record from previous arrests. They turned the phone over to the MSU Police Department’s Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime Unit with the hope that someone would know how to bypass the specially encrypted lock using only copies of Misiak’s fingerprints. MSU police detective Andrew Rathbun, was assigned to the task, one of four detectives of the Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime Unit. Rathbun said he had no idea how to unlock the phone with the forensics software readily available to him. He contacted third party vendors and other research labs to see if they could do something, but they said it couldn’t be done because the technology needed didn’t exist. After a week without progress, Rathbun began researching “fingerprint spoofing" online. One of the first links that showed up on Google was the work of Anil K. Jain. Coincidentally, Jain is a university distinguished professor in the MSU Department of Computer Science and Engineering. On Feb. 19, 2016 he and postdoctoral research fellow Kai Cao published a report about using 2-D fingerprint images to hack into smartphones. “I was just Googling and looking up the results, and there happened to be a research paper,” Rathbun said. “I read it and then I finally saw who it was: Michigan State University. And that was my ‘aha’ moment.” On June 17, 2016 Rathbun and another detective reached out to Jain and asked if he could unlock Misiak’s phone without explaining details of his death. Jain accepted the challenge and teamed up with Cao and Sunpreet Arora, a doctoral student from India who specializes in creating 3-D printed fingerprint replicas. None of them had ever been approached by police to help solve a case until Rathbun contacted Jain. “This is not my first time working with police, but the first time in terms of solv-
ing a case and doing operational work for them,” Jain said. The team of researchers first experimented with printing copies of Misiak’s digits on conductive paper. When that didn’t work, they created 3-D replicas of Misiak’s fingertips using a very small coating of silver and copper to make them conductive. Like the two metals, living human skin is conductive, meaning it can create electrical currents through touch. Fingerprint-locked sensors on smartphones read these currents as images. That plan didn’t work, either. Jain then realized that the quality of Misiak’s fingerprint images was not good enough for the team to properly replicate them. Cao had done some prev ious work in enhancing fingerprint images to improve their quality when he was a doctoral student and professor in China, so he applied his expertise to this case by creating an image-enhancement algorithm to fill in the broken ridges and valleys. By doing so, the research team was able to create a more precise image of Misiak’s fingerprints. They copied and printed replicas of all 10 of Misiak’s digits onto glossy photographic paper The tools the research team used are obtainable through most office supply stores or online. Following police protocol, Rathbun only provided the research team access to Misiak’s phone when they were ready to try to bypass the fingerprint lock. On July 25, Jain and his research team called Rathbun back into their lab to try unlocking the phone for the third time. Figuring most people naturally hold their phones with their right hands, they decided to try using the enhanced 2-D image of his right thumb first.
“I was just Googling and looking up the results, and there happened to be a research paper. I read it and then I finally saw who it was: Michigan State University. And that was my ‘aha’ moment.” Andrew Rathbun, MSU Police Detective Mission accomplished. Jain, Cao and Arora successfully bypassed Misiak’s smartphone that was locked with a fingerprint encryption by using the image of one fingerprint. Arora said there was a moment of silence before everyone in the room started cheering
Doctoral student Sunpreet Arora demonstrates finger printing on July 26 at the Pattern Recognition and Image Processing, or PRIP, lab. Photo courtesy of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. PHOTO: SHIREEN KORKZAN
and giving each other high-fives to celebrate what they had just accomplished. “We couldn’t believe it,” Arora said. “Kai is so happy, he is still speechless.” The first thing Rathbun did to the now unlocked phone was disable the fingerprint lock and replace it with a passcode. Rathbun has been searching for clues that could lead to a possible suspect in Misiak’s phone since Jain and his research team unlocked it. He said the process might still take him a while before he can update Lansing Police with any new information. “Hopefully there’s a way that this (technology) can be scaled to other police departments … and those phones that do have valuable information to put people away who deserve it—we can get to that information now hopefully,” Rathbun said. Samsung expressed concerns about Jain and his team’s recent breakthrough. In a statement to digital news outlet Quartz, Samsung said: “Samsung takes fingerprint security very seriously, and we would like to assure that users’ fingerprints are encrypted and securely stored within our devices equipped with fingerprint sensors. As the report itself points out, it takes specific equipment, supplies, and conditions to simulate a person’s fingerprint including being in possession of the fingerprint owner’s phone to unlock the device. If at any time there is a credible potential vulnerability, we will act promptly to investigate and resolve the issue.” Arora said that while he is thrilled with the work he, Jain and Cao had accomplished, he
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wants to be clear that the primary purpose of researching fingerprint technology is not to hack into smartphones, but to prompt developers like Samsung to improve the security on their phones for people who use them. “It’s always a great thing to see our research in practice,” Arora said. “For instance, if I build an algorithm, I would want to see it in a product. So it always makes me happy to see that other people are using it. In this case, we had demonstrated that you could unlock a phone. It’s not to say that we are hackers, but to tell (developers) that their technology is not secure and they need to do something to improve it.” Jain expressed the same sentiment and stressed that his work is not about continuously helping police solve crimes. “I hope this doesn’t happen too often,” Jain said. “It’s stressful for us, too, and that’s not our main objective in doing basic research. But if it helps other people, then that’s fine.” Arora said no one on the team knew they were helping to solve a homicide case until he saw MSU police mentioned their scientific breakthrough on Facebook. “Earlier we were just told that this is a guy who had died,” Arora said. “We didn’t know how he died or who killed him, just that these are his fingerprints from an earlier arrest. That’s all we knew.” No one from Jain’s team was paid to conduct this research for the MSU and Lansing Police departments. “All we know is that we helped them and hopefully they get some vital clues to solve this case,” Arora said.
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The Women’s Lounge located within the Union, 49 Abbot Rd, East Lansing, MI 48824, circa 1940s. PHOTO: MSU UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES AND HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS BY ALEXEA HANKIN AHANKIN@STATENEWS.COM
One hundred years ago, the first-wave feminist movement was pushing for women’s suffrage. More colleges and universities were allowing women through their doors. “1919,” a faded, typewritten article stapled to the Union’s history inside of the MSU University Archives and Historical Collections reads. “Women became a part of the union clubs. They at that time, also become open to all students.” In 1920, just a year later, women gained universal suffrage. In 1925 the Union opened, alongside the Women’s Lounge that has provided a safe space for female students ever since, until this summer. Historically, student lounges have a rich history across the globe. The first buildings considered student unions were founded 200 years ago, at Cambridge University in 1815 and were strictly male-only during a time when women did not attend college. The Union was brainstormed 100 years after the fact and included lounging spaces for both women and men, along with many other gender-specific amenities—a barbershop and beauty parlor, male and female wings and cafeterias and separate coat rooms. When the Union was under construction, women even provided refreshments to the male students who famously helped dig the foundation of the Union during “excavation week” from November 19-24 in 1923, according to the MSU Archives. According to previous articles by The State News from the early days of the Union, female students and faculty were not common—one publication from 1926 gloats about the union cafeteria “serving 70 women” in total, on a “busy” day. Widely, it was used during the 1950s and ‘60s as a place of protection for women to wait for their rides home, away from male gaze. In the 1940s, a vote was put to the student body on whether to keep the men’s lounge, which is now the Dairy Store, or turn it into something for co-ed entertainment, according to the MSU Archives. When votes were cast, the men’s lounge was done away with without much fanfare. Alternatively, the recent closing of the Women’s
Lounge has made national headlines. The dialogue about the closure has primarily circled around the concepts covered by Title IX, which discusses discrimination on the basis of gender in federally funded institutions. This was highlighted when a University of Michigan-Flint economics professor, Mark Perry, filed a complaint that the lounge violated said laws. To Stephanie Nawyn, the co-director of MSU’s Center of Gender in Global Context, this discussion weighs heavily into a more recent and bigger discussion on safe spaces for oppressed groups. “Studies have proven that people learn better when they don’t feel anxious,” Nawyn said. “And universities everywhere struggle with the concept of making everything public and accessible to everyone but then not every student will be comfortable with learning in that open space because of their anxiety.” While it is a small percentage of men who invade and try to make women students uncomfortable in usual study spaces, Nawyn said historically a woman’s most common threat to their focus and education is men, thus creating the issue with the removal of the women’s lounge—a place where female students could avoid potential male assailants, like it was once used in the 1940s, ‘50s, and ‘60s. “Safe spaces are not created for people to hide from other people who are not like them,” Nawyn said. “They are places where people who are marginalized can go to feel safe and secure.” Regardless, MSU officials have gone on to say that despite the protests and 5,396 signatures as of 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday on a change.org petition, the history of the women’s study lounge ends here, as it will soon open as a co-ed space. To Nawyn, this paradigm shift can and should be used as a positive for the university as a whole. “What would be more ideal was if the entire campus was a safe space for everyone,” Nawyn said. “Where everyone could pursue academic development and could study without unwanted attention and feel safe.” Nawyn said the closing could serve to better the whole campus by having the university make campus comfortable, accepting to all. “This is a great opportunity for the university to think big about not having pockets of safe space like this, but for the university to create a culture that supports and accepts everyone,” Nawyn said.
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Learning from Cook, O’Connor brings own brand of leadership BY: STEPHEN OLSCHANSKI EMAIL: SOLSCHANSKI@STATENEWS.COM
Tyler O’Connor stood poised in his white Nike shirt and green shorts and peered out over the media herd walking toward him — the inevitable was coming. Someone would undoubtedly ask him about Connor Cook. About Cook’s non-captaincy a year ago, about whether captaincy was a rite of passage for a quarterback and about whether the team requires a quarterback as captain. Somehow, someway, perhaps in a subtle question, he would have to address it. But he didn’t expect it to be question number two. “Does a quarterback need to have that or what are the benefits of having it?” O’Connor, having waited four years to be named the starting quarterback, waited four years to make his mark on Saturdays instead of in the quiet hours of weekday practice with no cameras or media around to see him toil under center and forge his own path to leadership — and after losing a hotly contested battle with Cook in 2013 and lingering on anonymity for four years — the most pressing question posed from the gaggle of reporters was one concerning a controversy a year ago that had nothing to do with him. He lowered his eyes to the turf contemplating the question, in what seemed to be a subtle show of frustration.
“I’m my own person, I’m out there to be a quarterback my own special way and to lead my own way. How he chose to lead, I learned a lot from Connor.” Tyler O’Connor, Fifth-year senior quarterback
“You know, I don’t think necessarily that it has to come with the quarterback position,” O’Connor said. “It’s just like Coach Bollman literally just told us, ‘It’s who you are. Being captain doesn’t change what you have to do. Just be who you are and do what you’ve done and that’s why you’re voted captain in the first place.’” The question avoided what O’Connor had done to have been named a captain, almost suggesting O’Connor had been named captain as a makeup for last year, though fifth-year senior defensive back Demetrious Cox dispelled that notion. “I feel like Tyler O’Connor could be a wide receiver right now and because of his personality and leadership abilities, he would definitely be a captain,” Cox said. Being who he is and shaking off comparisons to Cook will be one of the determining factors for O’Connor if he’s to lead the Spartans back to Indianapolis for the Big Ten championship game. Fair or not to O’Connor, he’ll be judged in the shadow of Cook, who left school as the leader in touchdown passes with 71, passing yards with 9,194 and total offense with 9,403 yards en route to two Big Ten championships, a Rose Bowl and Cotton Bowl victory and a berth in the College Football Playoff. And that stat line might have carried O’Connor’s name had he won the quarterback contest with Cook, but it remains important that he did not. He’s a different quarterback than Cook, a different person than Cook and he’ll lead differently than Cook because his focus won’t be predicated on replicating Cook. “It’s more of just being your own personality,” O’Connor said of being captain, shrugging off the notions that quarterbacks must inherit a captain’s “C.” “I don’t think position has too much to do with it.” Though he brushed aside the connection between position and captaincy, he made it clear he intends to take his leadership role seriously now that he’s the one under center and with the official title of captain. When the pointed question about Cook came, O’Connor made it clear he intended to be his own. “I’m my own person, I’m out there to be a quar-
Senior quarterback Tyler O’Connor (7) responds to a question from the media during Media Day on Aug. 8, at Spartan Stadium. Media Day allowed the media to converse with the team’s coaches and players. PHOTO: NIC ANTAYA
terback my own special way and to lead my own way,” O’Connor said. “How he chose to lead, I learned a lot from Connor. I learned a lot about how he led teams and how guys responded to him and I’ll take that and run with it this year.”
The four year wait is now over and he’ll be the unquestioned leader of the offense, a role he’s wanted to play for the longest time because he’s spent his career mostly in the background. READ THE FULL STORY AT STATENEWS.COM
A look at MSU fall sports around campus BY: NATHANIEL BOTT EMAIL: NBOTT@STATENEWS.COM
As students flock back onto campus and incoming freshmen take in the wonders of MSU’s massive landscape, they might hear a rumbling noise coming from Spartan Stadium or Jenison Field House. Just as students return to their dorms and houses, the student athletes embark on a new season of fall sports. MSU football kicks off their season on Friday, while MSU women’s volleyball and MSU men’s soccer have already started their respective seasons with big wins. Here is a preview of those three major fall sports for the 2016 year. FOOTBALL
Mark Dantonio enters his 10th season at the helm of the Spartan football team — a season that has expectations through the roof after being one of the four participants in the College Football Playoff and winning a Big Ten
championship. The accolades for Dantonio and his staff keep mounting. MSU finished in the Top 10 for the third consecutive season and are ranked 12th heading into 2016, according to the AP poll. Dantonio added a fifth season under his belt with 11 wins, something that had not been done in school history before his arrival. “Make no mistake about it,” Dantonio said. “We are the reigning Big Ten champions and we need to defend that as we move through the process.” The team lost talent across the board after the winningest senior class moved on to the NFL and elsewhere. However, the Spartans will return key players on both sides of the ball, including team captain Riley Bullough, defensive lineman Malik McDowell, senior tight end Josiah Price and the running back trio of LJ Scott, Gerald Holmes and Madre London. Defensively, the team gets a boost in
the return of injured starters Ed Davis, who is expected to slot in at the SAM linebacker position, and Vayante Copeland, who will be one of the Spartans top cover corners after missing all but two games in 2015 with a neck injury. Overall, the weight of how far this team goes could very well fall upon the shoulders — or arm — of senior
“Make no mistake about it, we are the reigning Big Ten champions and we need to defend that as we move through the process.” Mark Dantonio, MSU head football coach
quarterback Tyler O’Connor. O’Connor managed the offense well in place of graduated Connor Cook against Ohio State University last year, and out-dueled junior quarterback Damion Terry in the Green and White spring game, converting on 10 of his 16 pass attempts for 138 yards and a touchdown. He ran away with the starting job after a string of impressive spring practices, but all O’Connor wants to do is get back on the field against someone besides his own teammates. “I’ve never been so anxious for a game so early, the last time I was so anxious for a game it was about 11 o’clock the night before the Ohio State game,” O’Connor said. “I’m very excited. It’s something I have been waiting for a long time and it’s finally here, this week can’t go quick enough.” MEN’S SOCCER
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head coach, started off their 2016 campaign with an upset victory over No. 12 ranked SMU in Dallas. READ THE FULL STORY AT STATENEWS.COM
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Players to Watch LJ Scott Scott received a bulk of the playing time at running back, leading the team with 699 rushing yards, 146 carries, and 11 rushing touchdowns as a true freshman. While fans remember Scott for his game-winning touchdown against the Iowa Hawkeyes, he looks to continue adding to his legacy at MSU in 2016.
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One of three captains of the MSU football team, the fifth-year senior is the starting quarterback for game one against Furman. While O’Connor has played sparingly throughout his career, his stat line is sharp, completing 34-of-54 passes at MSU with 374 yards and four touchdown completions.
Shelton was second on the team in 2015 with 43 receptions and 1,051 all-purpose yards. Going into his senior season, Shelton is one of few major contributors from an offense that had graduated two starting wide receivers and their quarterback.
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Price, after being named a third-team All-Big Ten selection in 2015, looks to make a splash for his senior year as a Spartan. Price already leads all tight ends in MSU history with 16 touchdown receptions in just 39 career games. With so much turnover at other positions, Price looks to maintain his consistent presence in the opposing team’s game plan.
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While Kieler missed some time in 2015, the senior will be a major key to MSU’s offensive line. After playing in 18 games at right tackle, Kieler has moved to center. Kieler will also look to improve on the 45.5 knockdowns he had last year during the regular season.
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MSU alumna and US rower Emily Regan reflects on gold medal in Rio BY SASHA ZIDAR SZIDAR@STATENEWS.COM
MSU alumna Emily Regan and the U.S. women’s coxed eight won gold in the 2016 Olympics in Rio. On Aug. 13 paddles thrashed through Lagoa Stadium. While trailing Canada and the Netherlands through the halfway mark, Regan said she was confident her team would win it all. The U.S. women made their push just after the halfway mark, and from there the pressure was on. With Great Britain on their tail, Regan said she knew this was it. It was time to push every ounce of strength left to win the race. “I remember hearing the Great Britain coxswain calling her crew to go around 300m left in the race and thinking it was time to find any push I had left to move away from them,” Regan said via email. After six years of training and a time of 6:01.49, Regan and the U.S. women’s rowing team won gold. “Winning gold was an overwhelming experience in the best way possible,” Regan said. Completely overcome with emotion and flooded with memories of all the highs and lows of training, Regan said she started to cry when they crossed the finish line. “It was so special to represent my country at the Olympic games at that level,” Regan said. As a MSU alumna, Regan said she hopes to pave a way and inspire future MSU athletes to dream big and know the Olympics can be a realistic goal. “I know that it’s not often that a person has the opportunity to compete at the Olympics,” Regan said. “But to have a great race in the final of the Olympic Games was
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very gratifying.” Competing in Rio took six years of intense training Regan said. While in Rio, Regan was able to watch multiple sporting events. “The Brazilian people were amazing and very welcoming,” Regan said. “I missed out on doing a lot of the typical tourist things, but I was able to fully take in the Olympic experience.” Regan might have missed out on being a tourist, but she was able to take in the views of the city. Christ the Redeemer looked down on the Lagoa Stadium as athletes competed in the water. Press swarmed Olympians about the water conditions while training. However, Regan said she didn’t see any issues and soaked up the experience. “It was totally fine,” Regan said. “We all basically swam in the lake due to some very windy days.” With a gold medal in hand, Regan said she plans to catch up on some lost time this fall. The Olympic team has the opportunity to visit the White House this fall and Regan said she is looking forward to visiting MSU during her time off.
“I know that it’s not often that a person has the opportunity to compete at the Olympics. But to have a great race in the final of the Olympic Games was very gratifying.” Emily Regan, MSU alumna and U.S. rower
MSU women’s rowing celebrate with teammates after winning the gold medal in the women’s eight event at the 2015 World Rowing Championships in Aiguebelette, France. Emily Regan is on the far right. PHOTO COURTESY OF ALLISON FREDERICK, US ROWING
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A loophole discovered by MSU law professor Brian Kalt may be the key to getting away with the perfect crime. A 50 square mile BRIAN KALT section of the park contains a loophole, because of a conflict in the U.S. Constitution, Kalt said. Published on Jan. 1, 2005, “The Perfect Crime” describes how the Idaho section of Yellowstone National Park could lead to a potential problem. “Say that you are in the Idaho portion of Yellowstone, and you decide to spice up your vacation by going on a crime spree,” Kalt said in the “The Perfect Crime.” “You are arrested, arraigned in the park, and bound over for trial in Cheyenne, Wyoming before a jury drawn from the Cheyenne area. “But Article III, Section 2 (of the U.S. Constitution) plainly requires that the trial be held in Idaho, the state in which the crime was committed ... the Sixth Amendment then requires that the jury be from the state (Idaho) and the district (Wyoming) in which the crime was committed. In other words, the jury would have to be drawn from the Idaho portion of Yellowstone National Park, which, according to the 2000 Census, has a population of precisely zero.” This allows the criminal to walk, because according to the Sixth Amendment and Article III, Section 2 the trial has to take place in Idaho, and the jury drawn of the Yellowstone
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Idaho district, Kalt said. Even after his discovery, local courts in the Yellowstone National Park area haven’t done much in trying to solve the problem, Kalt said. “As a general matter, trial courts don’t like to get into the weeds (of the issue),” Kalt said. “They will err on the side of letting the trial go forward, the theory being if there’s a technicality that someone’s going to go free on let the court of appeals tell me to do that.” According to Kalt, a case in December 2005 involved a man who illegally killed an elk in the Montana part of Yellowstone National Park. However, he was tried in the Wyoming district in front of Wyoming jurors. “More problematic to me was the way the U.S. Attorney’s office prevented the case from getting appealed to at circuit (court) because that would have settled it once and for all,” Kalt said. “I guess their thinking was, they just wanted to get a conviction any way they could and they didn’t want to take a chance of having it go up to the tenth circuit (court).” However, Kalt still believes that he can get this loophole closed with the help of social media. “I feel like the more attention it gets, the better the chances are that it will get fixed,” Kalt said. “What’s interesting with social media since it’s changed back when it (“The Perfect Crime”) went viral in 2005, is that it can spread a lot more quickly.” However this isn’t necessarily a good thing, Kalt said. “It concerns me when it’s so much more widespread, and so much less understood,” Kalt said. “If anything ever does happen, I think it would make it that much easier because of the public pressure to get it (the loophole) fixed.”
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Helpful apps provide guidance to incoming freshmen BY SASHA ZIDAR
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The Spartan App is the holy grail to navigating all things on MSU’s campus. The free app helps connect MSU students to businesses, organizations and what’s happening on campus. “It says the events for the night, it’ll say what food is where, what food my cafeteria has that night,” no preference freshman Brittany Newfer said. “You can pretty much route your whole schedule.” The app has a campus feed to show what’s happening on campus. It also has a transportation section that lists all of the Capital Area Transportation Authority, or CATA, routes, taxis and shuttles in the area. This includes their locations, contacts, and when they’ll be arriving. It also has a nightlife section that shows what hot spots or happy hours are going on in the East Lansing area. Along with nightlife, the app shows places located on campus like banks, car shops, cinemas, dentists, grocery stores and tanning. This app also has a map of all buildings and halls on campus listed in alphabetical order with a pin point location of where to find them. Political science pre-law freshman Allie Brydell said she found out about the Spartan App through friends who also attend MSU. “I use the Spartan App to get around and find my classes,” Brydell said. “My friends told me it’s very helpful and they used it their freshman year.”
Navigating around MSU’s campus as a freshman might seem like an overwhelming task to new students. Luckily, there are apps that can provide an easier way to find resources that you’re looking for.
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Venmo is a service of Paypal, according to the app’s description. The app has a data encryption that protects all financial information when it is connected to different bank accounts. MATHWAY
Even though MSU provides help rooms for math class, Mathway is a potential app to help students get a quick answer 10 minutes before their homework is due at midnight. Business freshman Jake Shook said he plans on using Mathway for his math classes this year. “You basically just type in an equation and it can give you the answer,” Shook said. “You can work through the problem and you can understand how it got there, instead of just struggling and having no idea what you’re doing.” There are pros and cons to the app. Pros are that students can get a quick answer and hopefully work out the problem and understand it better. Cons are that the app won’t be with students during test and quizzes, so they’ll need to make sure to always check their work and not always rely on Mathway.
“You can work through the problem and you can understand how it got there, instead of just struggling and having no idea what you’re doing.”
Venmo is an app students can use to make and share pay- Jake Shook, ments. This means a student can pay you back for buying Business freshman them food or paying rent.
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