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Ragers be damned; the rest of us are drowning By The State News Editorial Board feedback@statenews.com With an ongoing outbreak of more than 1,200 COVID-19 cases connected to MSU since Aug. 24 and the original failed vote for a Greek life party mortarium, it’s easy to say that college students are to blame for spreading COVID-19. And, in a way, you’re right. Some students are still holding parties. Some aren’t wearing masks. Some didn’t obey the recommended two-week quarantine. But for all the students that are ignoring the rules, there are plenty of others who are obeying them. Students are stressed with online classes. We are worried we’ll get sick. We are anxious about paying bills while almost every business is cutting expenses, including student labor. We’re tired. Students who are following guidelines shouldn’t bear the consequences of the careless and dangerous choices of our peers while also carrying the blame under the very broad, and overused label of “college students.” Some are immunocompromised. Some haven’t left their
home since March. But starting Oct. 9 we can go to arcades and trampoline parks? Not all college students fit in the same box. If you are partying, not wearing a mask, gathering with your friends and pretending life is normal, stop. It doesn’t matter if you are 18, 21 or 35, you are part of the problem. You don’t just turn 22 and stop being a dumbass. The more often people gather, the more likely it is that those of us doing everything we can to stay healthy might well get infected. And while you may be able to slide under the radar and allow “college students” to take the blame, you are potentially putting yourself and others at risk for a fun Friday night. And for those on the outside looking in at MSU, many college students are struggling. Remote classes, by nature, are isolating and mentally difficult to adapt to. We’re being challenged in more ways than one during the COVID-19 pandemic including the toll of social isolation alongside financial burdens and the stress of viral infection. Online formatting is only so freeing when you’re bound by
contract to pay rent. Put that together with utter isolation as we spend all day, every day of the week, alone and in front of a screen. Being a Spartan this semester is not the endless party it’s being depicted as. Many of us are following the rules. That’s why we don’t show up in headlines and statistics. We’ve been at home, or in our apartments or in our dorms, trying to get a valuable education through a computer screen. We want this pandemic to be over as much as you do. Some college students are part of the problem, but we won’t take the full blame for making it worse. Let’s work together to slow the spread of the virus, without making anyone a scapegoat. The State News Editorial Board is composed of Editor-in-Chief Evan Jones, Managing Editor SaMya Overall, Campus Desk Editor Karly Graham, City Desk Editor Kaishi Chhabra, Culture Desk Editor Devin Anderson-Torrez, Sports Desk Editor Jayna Bardahl, Copy Chief Mark Ostermeyer, Audience Engagement Editor Sophia Kalakailo, Multimedia Manager Tessa Osborne, Photo Editor Alyte Katilius, Staff Rep. Wendy Guzman and Diversity and Inclusion Rep. Di’Amond Moore. FE E DBACK@STAT E N EWS.CO M
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MSU GREEK LIFE’S CHECKERED HISTORY By Emma LaRocca emma.larocca@statenews.com Greek l i fe at M ic h iga n St ate University has been thrust into the spotlight throughout the past several weeks, as multiple incidents have caused backlash from the greater East Lansing community. Most recently, on Sept. 9, a social moratorium, which would temporarily prohibit social events, did not achieve the t wo-thirds majority it needed to pass. A f ter t his social morator ium failed to pass, on Sept. 12, Ingham
County Health Department, or ICHD, recommended all local MSU students quarantine for 14 days and later issued mandatory quarantine to 39 properties, including 25 fraternities and sororities in the county with known exposure because more than 1,250 positive cases of COVID-19 were connected to MSU. On Sept. 20, the Interfraternity Council, or IFC, instituted a re-vote on the social moratorium, and it passed unanimously, prior to mandatory quarantine orders from the health department, according to an IFC press release. A ll 28
fraternities included under the IFC voted to establish this moratorium in an effort to stop the spread of COVID-19. I FC P r e side nt Da n ie l Wol fe refused to comment by the time of publication. Of the 11 fraternities that voted against the social moratorium, eight are included in the mandatory q u a r a nt i n e o r de r. S e v e nt e e n f rater n it ies voted i n favor of the social moratorium, and of these six were included in the quarantine order. A majority of the Fraternity and
Sorority Life, or FSL, community was placed on lockdown without any prior notice. Also in this release, the IFC raised concerns about who is being targeted by these mandatory quarantine orders. These mandatory lockdowns punish members of the FSL community who are following the rules and ignore those who are not in the FSL community but are still hosting gatherings and not following the guidelines, according to the release. All of the fraternities and sororities that voted against the original social moratorium refused to comment.
This includes Alpha Gamma Rho, Beta Theta Pi, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Delta Sigma Phi, Phi Gamma Delta, Pi Kappa Pi, Psu Upsilon, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Sigma Beta Rho, Sigma Nu and Sigma Pi. Many of the f raternities and sororities that voted in favor of the original social moratorium also refused to comment. This includes Alpha Kappa Psi, Alpha Sigma Phi, Phi Delta Theta, Phi Kappa Alpha and Theta Delta Chi. This is not the first time the actions of fraternities have been called into question.
MSU GREEK LIFE TIMELINE 2009 In the fall semester of 2009, a large portion of the Greek community was placed on a social probation with similar effects to the social moratorium in place as of Sept. 20. The social probation in 2009 was prompted by the deaths of two students which occurred within the same month. One of these deaths cited alcohol overcon su mpt ion a s t he cause of death. The deaths of these students led to the social probation, which was put into place for all MSU Greek houses that were a part of the Interfraternity and Panhellenic councils. Over 10 years ago, this twomonth-long social probation prohibited the fraternities from throwing parties of any kind and was described as an opportunity to discuss their risk-management policies. In order for the self-imposed probation to be lifted, social policies had to be revised and reviewed by the presidents of the IFC, and the Panhellenic Council. Greek life organizations made multiple changes in an attempt to make it a safer place for everyone involved. Greek life parties had to be registered 48 hours in advance and both the IFC and East Lansing Police Department had to be made aware of any parties occurring. In addition to this, members of Greek life were required to take part in drug and alcohol abuse prevention programs in the months after the social probation was lifted.
2013 AND ON In Nov. 2013, t he Greek communit y was for mally recognized as a group of student organizations after M SU of f ic i a l s sig ne d a relationship statement, aiming to improve the culture of Greek life at MSU. Follow ing t he new relationship between MSU and Greek life, many policy changes were in the works. While there had been policies restricting open parties with alcohol, kegs and hard liquor since 2008, it was not until March 2015 that these policies were being actively being enforced. These policies carry fines if they are not being followed. The IFC and Panhellenic council were reforming the enforcement of Greek life social policies in an attempt to ma ke par t ies a sa fer environment for everyone and to keep Greek organizations
from breaking social policies that may lead to greater consequences, such as charter removal. In the past 10 years, multiple MSU chapters of fraternities have had t heir c ha r ters revoked. In 2014, Theta Chi had its charter revoked after its board of directors became aware of hazing allegations. Theta Chi has since been reinstated. In 2017, the MSU chapters of Lambda Chi Alpha, Sigma Phi Epsilon and Sigma Chi were all revoked for multiple v iolat ion s aga i n st t hei r policies set by their national chapters. Most recently, in 2018, Delta Chi had its charter revoked after an investigation found they had violated six policies of improper activities during their rush week in 2017.
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While many fraternities have a checkered past at MSU, ma ny t i mes t hese sa me fraternities have been praised for their philanthropic work. Some of the organizations that Greek life has fundraised for include: American Cancer Societ y, Big Brothers Big Sisters, MSU Safe Place, MakeA-Wish and many others. A big par t of their philanthropy work comes du r i ng M SU ’s a n nua l Greek Week, a week-long collaboration between Greek life organizations in which events are held to raise money for different organizations. In past years, Greek Week has raised over $200,000 to be spread among multiple or g a n i z at ion s . I n 2019, Greek Week raised $93,000 for multiple charities of their choosing.
In 2017, T he State News conducted an investigation into the 29 fraternity houses included in the IFC. This investigation found 19 sexual assault a llegat ions at fraternity houses, but none resulted in criminal charges, according to East Lansing police reports. The majority of the cases did not result in charges because the victim did not wa nt to pu r sue a n investigation or prosecution. 16 of the 19 cases reported allegedly involved alcohol consumption. The following year, The IFC voted unanimously to ban hard alcohol from fraternity chapter facilities. This ban, which took place in Oct. 2018, included all drinks above 15 percent alcohol volume unless served by a licensed thirdparty vendor. This change was another attempt to make Greek life a safer environment for those in and around the community. Many fraternities had histories of alcohol-related policy violations, but the IFC looked at this vote as a turning point.
2020 In Feb. 2020, a Lota Lota c hapter member drew a swastika was drawn outside of the Pi Kappa Alpha, or PIKE, fraternity house. The member was suspended immediately after the fraternity became aware of his actions. On Aug. 26 of this year, The Rock on Farm Lane was damaged and spray painted to read “Trump 2020.” The message was signed with the letters of PIKE, underneath. “BLM sucks” was also written on a sidewalk near The Rock. However, a member of the fraternity Phi Gamma Delta, or FIJI was suspended for being involved with the damage done and messages left on The Rock.
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Analyzing cancel culture and its effects By Sara Tidwell & Jack Falinski sara.tidwell@statenews.com jack.falinski@statenews.com From the Salem Witch Trials to the Red Scare, public figures and everyday people have been on the lookout for people who stood against their morals and values. These acts of public shaming have always been present. Now, this new-age form of public shaming takes on a new name: cancel culture. Cancel culture is the act of withdrawing support for public figures or companies after they’ve done or said something objectionable or offensive. Popula rly per for med on line a mongst Generation Z and Millennials, the hidden truth behind cancel culture is that it’s always been around. Even though the term itself was created not so long ago, public shaming has been found sprinkled throughout world histor y and entertainment in more cases than one. Nathaniel Hawthorne, for example, framed one of the most famous novels ever around culture. In “The Scarlet Letter,” Hester Prynn, the main character of the story, was literally paraded around town with a scarlet “A” signed on her breast for having committed adultery. Cancel culture has always been present in history and entertainment; it just hasn’t always been called cancel culture.
SO HOW DID IT GET ITS NAME?
Twitter can take some of the credit, according to Merriam-Webster. When the #MeToo movement first started, survivors demanded justice by ousting their perpetrators by sharing their names into the public sphere. It’s now used to justify more than just sexual assault. The list includes addressing those who’ve been racially, homophobically or just generally insensitive to the greater society. To be cancelled means being shunned from the same society that deems you to be insensitive. During the time of leprosy, lepers were cast out into secluded areas with other lepers to prevent the spread of the contagious and deadly disease. Similarly, those who’ve been cancelled today are socially cast out into their own stigmatized bubble of guilt and shame. Cancel culture ruins careers. It ruins people’s images. And, for those who’ve already been cancelled, it’s something they’re finding very hard to climb out of. But didn’t they get themselves there? Weren’t they cancelled for reason?
SOME PEOPLE YOU MAY KNOW WHO HAVE BEEN CANCELED
There’s always a problem with putting an ordinary person, even a hero, up on a pedestal. Once you’re on top, should something happen that society doesn’t abide by, it’s a long fall to the ground. And karma knows everything. It doesn’t care who you are. “The King of YouTube,” also known as Shane Dawson, was canceled when videos of him making racist, pedophilia and bestiality-type jokes and again when people came back to his videos before he belittled other online creators like James Charles for money resurfaced. However, his cancelation never stuck because his fans would keep returning to his series. Award-winning author of the Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling, was canceled for tweeting that she supported Maya Forstater, a researcher with a history of making transphobic comments and spreading harmful rhetoric about the “T” community in LGBTQ.
Telev ision host and comedian, Ellen DeGeneres, was canceled for being mean — allegations range from bad fan encounters, firing someone for looking her in the eye and playing favorites with where she extended a helping hand, down to executive producers of her show being racist and committing sexual misconduct. While the list extends for miles, those are just three of the biggest canceled names in modern media. The severity of the reason people are cancelled varies among the crowd. 2020 has shone light on a lot of dark, overlooked areas and helped the world see where our deepest faults lie. Students weigh in International relations junior Jen Nardone said she first heard about cancel culture last year when James Charles was in the process of getting canceled. “It was kind of just scary to see his followers drop so fast based on somebody’s story which could have absolutely been falsified,” she said. But when she heard about Shane Dawson, a celebrity she admired, getting canceled, she said it felt different than just seeing any other celebrity get canceled. “As a fan, it was a whole different thing because you watch someone you love get so much hate,” she said. “(Being) canceled is so aggressive” Nardone said she thinks it’s tough to support someone who is being canceled because it leaves you, the fan, in limbo of whether to support that person. “When you support somebody and then you’re just told you’re not allowed to support them anymore it’s like you’re kind of in a box, and you have to just listen to what everybody wants to do,” she said. “It’s hard.” Cancel culture, according to Nardone, can go too far and do more damage than repair. She said once you’re canceled, it becomes really hard to make a genuine apology, and even if you do people still might not believe you. “We should just acknowledge that people make mistakes,” she said. “I think cancel culture is just really toxic, but people also need to be held accountable.” For Teron Kinnard, an MSU junior studying anthropology, he said accountability is exactly what makes cancel culture beneficial. “I don’t necessarily think it’s a negative thing, unless people get canceled who don’t need it,” he said. “I think it’s a way of holding people accountable to some degree when people usually get away with things.” K in na rd said he t hin k s because t he entertainment industry socially elevates celebrities to statuses that can create conceited egos, cancel culture is a good way to bring them back down to earth. “I feel like a lot of times with big celebrity names, they can get away with some things that most people can’t get away with,” he said. “Cancel culture and social media, those things are really up to the public to decide whether or not they still have their platform.” While there is always some risk in making accusations, Kinnard said cancel culture turns us, the public, into the judge. We, therefore, must investigate on our end to make informed decisions. “That’s always a danger when someone is falsely accused, but I think when it comes down to it, you just have to do your own research,” he said.
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Falling down the rabbit hole: A deep look into the appeal By Jack Falinski jfalinski@statenews.com
Why do people believe what they do? Americans are prideful people. Stubborn. And most importantly, Americans are right — they always are and have always been. Each of us has been, is and will be right … always. But with over 300 million people living in the United States, how can every single one of us be correct in what we say, do and believe every moment of the day? It’s impossible and overwhelming. Today, it can be overwhelming to listen to all of your Facebook friends post about how they’re right. If you think you’re right, you get called out for believing in “fake news,” but if you think someone else is wrong, you’re calling them out for believing in fake news. Fake news is everywhere, but what is it? What does it mean? The answer requires more than just a yes or a no. Truthfully, misinformation, disinformation and conspiracy theories have been built into social belief patterns that are nearly impossible to dismantle.
THE HISTORY BEHIND CONSPIRACY THEORIES
“The simplest thing to say — from a historian’s standpoint — is that conspiracy theories are always
present,” Associate Professor Thomas Summerhill said. Summerhill, who specializes in 19th century U.S. history in MSU’s Department of History, said that throughout U.S. history people have molded conspiracy theories from some type of truth. Summerhill said an example of a misconstrued truth in U.S. history was rumored slave insurrections. Through the grapevine, masters would hear bits and pieces about how their slaves were dissatisfied with the treatment they were receiving. Masters then amplified this information, believing that a slave riot would soon become plausible. But even then, Summerhill said this example is hard to prove. If slaves did admit to conspiring an upheaval, what was to say they didn’t just confess because their masters tortured them? He said humans will always be skeptical of the information we receive. “It’s part of human nature to be secretive about things we don’t want others to know,” Summerhill said. “And so really, conspiracy theories really breed on a petri dish of our humanity.” With secrets comes uncertainty. And with uncertainty comes anxiety. Anxiety helps fuel the flame to turn conspiracy theories into political movements. Summerhill said an example of this was during the 1820’s and 1830’s, when middle class workers were stifled by the single-party system of Jacksonian democracy and rose up against the Democratic-Republicans with the creation of the
Whig party. When political parties aren’t working for people, they tend to look to other theories for explanations. Summerhill said he sees that today. “I think the United States is in a period of high anxiety and rapid change, and I think it’s having a hard time really sifting through and sorting out what’s real and what’s not,” Summerhill said. “As a historian, I link moments like this less to social media and more to whether or not the political parties are meeting the needs of their coalition constituents.”
MISINFORMATION, DISINFORMATION AND CONSPIRACY THEORIES. WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?
Intentionality. Krishnan Anantharaman, a contributing editor to Poynter Institute’s fact-checking offshoot PolitiFact, said people can deliberately share information — whether it’s true or false — to get others to join their belief system. “I guess I’ll call it malevolence, willful deception,” Anantharaman said. “Some people take information and say, ‘Wait a minute. I can fool people with this.’ And they put these two things together and just throw the grenade.” This “willful deception” is considered disinformation and sets it apart from misinformation. While disinformation is shared consciously, misinformation often isn’t. For example, someone who shares a false post on Facebook — but doesn’t know it’s false — is engaging in misinformation. Conspiracy theories are where
“It’s part of human nature to be secretive about things we don’t want others to know. And so really, conspiracy theories really breed on a petri dish of our humanity.” Thomas Summerhill
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the line gets blurred, Daniel Funke, a fact-checker at PolitiFact, said. “I think with conspiracy theories the difference is a little more nuanced,” Funke said. “It requires more of a larger level of buy-in than just like a normal hoax.” He said while misinformation and disinformation can help shape conspiracy theories, conspiracy theories aren’t necessarily a direct result of either. “It takes a lot more mental capacity for you to buy into something like QAnon,” Anatharaman said. QAnon, an internet scheme anonymously birthed in 2017 to describe how President Donald Trump is fighting against a faction of Satan-worshipping pedophiles wanting to take over the country, has now become the soil for many new conspiracy theories to grow in.
THE EMERGENCE OF QANON AND OTHER CURRENT CONSPIRACY THEORIES
Conspiracy theories flourish during a time of unrest, and — with a global pandemic, civil rights protests and an upcoming election — we are currently living in a time of unrest. When the answers to problems seem to conflict with what everybody says and believes, people tend to ease back into convictions aligning along the ideological dispositions they were initially comfortable with. “People generally do not want to be shaken out of their existing beliefs,” Anantharaman said. “I think it’s very common when there’s cataclysmic events or events people have trouble understanding, they’re almost least likely to accept the simple explanation. This has happened with the JFK assassination, it’s happened with 9/11, it’s happening here with coronavirus, it’s happened with Black Lives Matter. Any one of these very compulsive, very disorienting or cataclysmic events in history … the conspiracy theories seem to fill that void of understanding that people are looking for.” In May, during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, a documentary entitled “Plandemic” was released on YouTube. Mikki Willis, the director of the video, used former American research scientist Dr. Judy Mikovits to ignite feelings against a possible vaccine for the virus, contributing to the Big Pharma conspiracy theory that all pharmaceutical companies are evil. The video also conspires about the origin of the virus — one hypothesis is that Bill Gates started the pandemic to make
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of conspiracy theories “It’s always important to be skeptical. I think there’s also the flip side, right? Being skeptical of everything is a problem because then we don’t have the resources — the cognitive resources — to think critically and skeptically about everything we read and see.” Dustin Carnahan
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“People with degrees are still capable of spreading misinformation. ... fact-checkers have to work even harder to debunk this stuff. They had to explain to people that just because this person is a doctor or just because this video looks good doesn’t mean it’s credible.” Daniel Funke PolitiFact fact-checker
ed for fire-related crimes in California, Washington and Oregon. Also in the tweet, Roose said Q stirred up sentiment against Antifa, a radical left-winged, anti-facist political organization. The raging wildfires out West during September have largely been attributed to climate change. But some believe that Antifa members were responsible for setting most of the fires. Another theory taken over by QAnon is the #SaveTheChildren movement, a legitimate independent campaign that focuses on the welfare of children. Child trafficking is a real-world problem, but QAnon users have tied the hashtag to its own roots by saying there is an elite group of pedophilic political officials and entertainers running major child-trafficking rings in the U.S. “QAnon appeals to a lot of base instincts in people,” Funke said. Some of these instincts, he said, include the American ideals to protect children at all costs and to distrust the government. And while being skeptical is part of human nature, Funke said humans shouldn’t dive all in and believe these undependable remarks. “Have a healthy dose of skepticism, but don’t be nihilistic and doubt official narratives,” Funke said.
HOW SHOULD WE APPROACH GETTING OUR INFORMATION?
Assistant Professor Dustin Carnahan said he too believes healthy skepticism is a way to combat rogue information. “I think especially when it comes to the source of information it’s always important to be skeptical,”
With the emergence of social media, news and information can be shared at the click of a button. 72% of college students get their daily news from social media, according to a 2018 study conducted by Project Information Literacy, a nonprofit research institute. Of that, 45% said that Facebook was their daily main source of news, while 27% said that Snapchat was their main daily news source. Since social media allows for information to be created and shared at any time, regardless if it’s true or not, readers must use critical thinking to decide whether a “news” source is factual or not. Here are three simple steps to analyze your news:
Step 1: Who is the author?
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himself richer. “People with degrees are still capable of spreading misinformation,” Funke said. “I think that showed fact-checkers have to work even harder to debunk this stuff. They had to explain to people that just because this person is a doctor or just because this video looks good doesn’t mean it’s credible.” But COVID-19 hasn’t been the only topic conspirators have recently fed upon. Kevin Roose, a tech columnist for The New York Times, tweeted on Sept. 14 how “Q,” the anonymous conspirator behind QAnon who claims to be an inside government official, released information about people who were recently arrest-
HOW TO EVALUATE THE CREDIBILITY OF THE NEWS YOU RECEIVE
Carnahan said. “I think there’s also the flip side, right? Being skeptical of everything is a problem because then we don’t have the resources — the cognitive resources — to think critically and skeptically about everything we read and see.” Carnahan also said to gauge your emotions while consuming news because humans do have confirmation bias. “We are all, I think, prone to fall prey to our passions,” Carnahan said. “We care about something so much that we’re willing to maybe drop aside reason and rational thought just so that we can feel good.” Serena Daniels, a Detroit-based freelance journalist and local news fellow for the nonprofit news organization First Draft, echoed Carnahan’s advice to be wary of how you react to your news. “Pay attention to your reaction to something that you might have seen,” Daniels said. “If it causes you to have a really profound reaction, then think twice about what that means.” Daniels also said untrue, and even biased, information frequently uses strong trigger words to get an emotional response out of readers. Fact-checking sources is a way to combat these heightened emotions. “When we see information going through our feeds that’s provocative, that provokes some sort of like gut reaction — whether it’s anger or fear or otherwise being upset – and you haven’t seen that information reported in what you would consider legitimate news organizations, that’s definitely a red flag,” Daniels said.
Looking at a “news” site’s “About Us” page can give valuable insight to whether the source if credible or not. Credible news sites will have information about its members and leadership, values, mission and ethics. The language in this section should be straightforward — you should be able to understand who does what at the publication almost immediately, according to a 2016 article from NPR. If an About Us page is confusing and unprofessional, or, even worse, missing, that should raise a red flag. Besides the entire publication, you should be able to find information about the individual writer. A quick Google search of their name should give multiple examples of past news-related work and even their social media. Does it look realistic or professional? Have they done other work for other organizations? If the answer is no, you may be viewing false news.
Step 2: What’s in the article?
Look into the mechanics of the article. Are there any quotes in the story? True journalism relies on sources’ input to drive the story and will attempt to add at least one attributed quote. Attribution is important — the quote should come from someone other than the writer. Additionally, the writing should be clear and concise. If the piece is filled with spelling errors, misused punctuation, and weird formatting on the page, it’s likely not factual. Take a look at the visual, if there is one. Google allows you to reverse search an image to find its original use, along with other places it has been shared. If the image is misleading, it’s very likely the article is too. Your initial reaction to the story — after you’ve read the entire story — is important to take into account too. If your first reaction was, “There’s no way that happened?” chances are, it didn’t. This isn’t to say that shocking news doesn’t happen, but rather unbelievable news is usually, well, unbelievable. If the content in the news made you feel a strong initial emotion — anger, sadness, joy — you should pause and evaluate that article.
Step 3: News should be acknowledged somewhere else
No news happens and only one source pays attention. Take a few buzz words from the article and do a Google search. If no other news outlet, research center or blog has a story on that subject, it’s likely you are taking in false news. So if a fire broke out in a city and only the local blog reported on it, chances are it didn’t actually happen. It’s also important to note when other media outlets claim a story is false. Sometimes, journalists will find a story on social media (just like you), yet after doing research and speaking to experts, learn it was fake. It’s okay to be skeptical of information you come into contact with. In fact, it’s usually encouraged. By taking steps to scope out the legitimacy of news, readers can become more well-informed of the happenings around them. Source: NPR
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Furloughed RHS student employees worry about financial stability By Hannah Brock hbrock@statenews.com Following the decision to furlough more than 700 MSU Residential and Hospitality Services, orRHS, student employees, those laid off said they were left frustrated, unemployed and unsure how to pay rent. RHS student employees were notified Monday that beginning Oct. 4, they would be furloughed. This gave student team members 12 days to figure out new employment. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the toll it has taken on university finances led to this decision, the notification said. English senior Carly Lize said she was frustrated when she was furloughed from her position at RHS facilities in North Neighborhood, a job she has had for about four years. “I usually would rely on that job to pay my rent and pay for my groceries,” Lize said. “I work another job on campus, but luckily that one was okay. I needed both jobs to be able to make rent, so I was panicked at first.” Lize said her coworkers relied on their RHS jobs to pay their rent, too. Student team members will remain active as RHS employees however, RHS does not have an expected rehire date at this time, according to
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the notification. “I think I’m really frustrated,” Lize said. “It feels like a lack of care for students on the part of MSU.” Integrative studies in social science junior Jenny Olivarez and psychology senior Anthony Foreman returned to campus because of their employment with RHS. However on Monday, Olivarez was furloughed from her service center representative position in South Neighborhood. “My first reaction was ‘OK, now
what?’ because this was also a lot of the reason why I even decided to come back to Lansing,” Olivarez said. Olivarez had been working for South Neighborhood for about three years. “That was my only job,” Olivarez said. “I do have some savings but definitely not enough to keep me going throughout at least this year, including rent and tuition. So, now that means either I need to file for unemployment because I won’t have
any income, or if I can find a job quicker then hopefully that will be the best case scenario.” Students may not have returned to East Lansing if they knew they wouldn’t have a job, Olivarez said. The notification also cited the lack of students on campus as a reason for the furlough. “I do enjoy working within South Neighborhood,” Olivarez said. “Overall, the people are really good. ... I think it’s just a little unprofessional that they didn’t really give us a heads up and now that we’re all here ... everybody’s already in their leases. Maybe people wouldn’t have moved back if they knew that they weren’t going to have a job.” Foreman was a Spartan Spirit Shop employee for about a year before he was furloughed Monday. This is the second job he has had trouble with through the university, he said. “I was supposed to be a RA starting this semester,” Foreman said. “But when MSU went to all students being online, I was basically out of that job.” Spartans were also given abrupt notification of limited on-campus housing and the decision to hold nearly all classes remotely. In order to keep the same benefits associated with a RA position, such
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as free housing and dining, Foreman was offered a position as a university peer mentor. His furlough from the Spartan Spirit Shop was the second change in employment he experienced recently. “I feel like this isn’t the right reaction,” Foreman said. “But at this point, it is what it is because of the situation that happened with my RA position (and) what’s been going on in the world with COVID anyway, with my personal life ... what friends and family members have gone through. It’s just another thing that we have to deal with.” Foreman said he is not in a bad financial situation; however, the furlough has made him worry about car insurance, credit card payments and gas. “Students have been put on the back burner by the university for a little bit now,” Foreman said. “The students who are trying to work and provide as much as they can to the university as possible, it just seems like they’re pushed to the side and figured out later,” Foreman said. “I just hope that communication, from top to bottom, throughout MSU gets better after this whole experience and that plans are actually in place to support the students better when situations like this, or decisions like this, are made.”
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Community away from home MSU Asian students find support in clubs, look for more representation By Dina Kaur dkaur@statenews.com For many students, the transition to college can be difficult: a new school with more people, strenuous schedules and a new home. Leaving families, friends and life as they know it to embark on the next chapter of their lives is not easy, but arriving at a school with tens of thousands of students as a minority leaves many feeling lonely and lost. Asian students at Michigan State face these situations, year after year. In search of belonging, many have found new homes in clubs and organizations. As these students search for more representation on campus, they have found comfort and community with each other. Marketing sophomore Minhyuk (Min) Lee has found representation in the clubs, classes and activities he’s involved in. As a minority, finding a sense of brotherhood or community relative to race can help with the comfort of campus and the college experience, Lee said. Lee recommended joining an Asian fraternity such as Lambda Phi Epsilon or Pi Alpha Phi. Human biology sophomore Sanjana Sahoo has also found that getting involved in clubs and organizations have been the best way to make MSU feel like home and have some fun along the way. “I definitely recommend MSU CIUS (Coalition of Indian Undergraduate Students). Basically it’s an Indian organization where we all volunteer together,” Sahoo said. “There is a whole talent show at the end of the year. There is a formal, and it’s super fun.” “If you’re into dancing and singing there is something called Spartan Zaariya, which is the all-girls team here at MSU or Spartan Badmaash, which is the all-boys dance team,” Sahoo said. “There is also a singing team called Spartan Sur, and I know there are other clubs out there that I’m not familiar with.” After a year at MSU, supply chain management sophomore Silas Yang feels supported by the MSU community as an Asian student. Yang found support in his first year by joining Asian student organizations on campus. The organizations aren’t limited either. There are specific groups for ethnicities and international students, along with groups not centered around race at all. Yang said he has found it beneficial to stay around these groups as a way
to feel culturally connected. “There’s a ton ... for every single Asian ethnicity,” Yang said. “There is this Japanese organization which is JASA. There is CSE, which is a Chinese organization, (and) KSA for Koreans. There’s a lot of international groups for international students. There’s the international Korean one. I’m pretty sure there is an international Japanese one. You can literally find it for any Asian ethnicity, so if you really want to find people that you fit in with and you can culturally breach on a personal level, I would definitely say find the one that fits you the most.” International relations sophomore Ananya Prayagai said in cultural organizations,stigmas are erased and that outsider feeling is replaced with community improvement. “South Asian Awareness Network is an organization under CIUS, which is to talk about social justice issues from a South Asian perspective,” Prayagai said. “Which I think is very important because there is a stigma within the South Asian community that is different from other communities. So, I think this club is also important for bringing that out and improving the culture within our community as a whole.” It didn’t take long for Prayagai to recognize opportunities for clubs and events that allow her to bring the community together for minorities. But even with these groups offering a sense of community,
Above, the Coalition of Indian Undergraduate Students (CUIS) pictured during the 2019-2020 academic year. CUIS is an Indian student organization that regularly volunteers together. Photos courtesy of Amulya Jain Left, the 2019-2020 Coalition of Indian Undergraduate Students poses for a picture.
Asian students understand that there are flaws in the system — even if they haven’t experienced it firsthand — and are still in search of representation and an escape from stigmas around them. Prayagai said she feels that there are a lot of social justice issues that the university sometimes ignores. She said if there was more awareness of the issues and an improvement in making sure there is no discrimination toward minorities, the university would be better overall. When it comes to international students, Lee has seen the neglect they face in the classroom or even in Zoom meetings. “During course interaction and Zoom meetings, even inperson interactions, I’ve noticed
how secluded foreign exchange students are from everyone else,” Lee said. “Because (in some occasions) they can’t speak good enough English, or they dress differently, or they carry a different vibe to them.” While social work sophomore Alivia Hart feels supported by the MSU community as an Asian student, she does feel that the university could have avoided some racist situations. “Last year, President Stanley sent out some emails about some racial injustices that happened, which I thought was good, but I feel like they shouldn’t have happened in the first place,” Hart said. She thinks that if racial injustices do happen then MSU should try to educate the students in order to prevent further ones.
Sahoo said she wishes MSU would be more vocal about specific cultural clubs as many clubs and dance teams never really get the spotlight. She said bringing them out of the dark would help show people the opportunities available and allow them to join. Human biology sophomore Gagan Mavi said she feels supported but said that she doesn’t know as much because most of the people she surrounds herself with are also Indian. However, Mavi said MSU’s Diversity and Inclusion online program that all freshman and transfer students need to complete is helpful as it aims to support everyone regardless of race. Mavi also compared the disparities between MSU’s
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representation and other schools. During the fall of 2019, Michigan State University reported that its undergraduate class is 74.5% white while the University of Michigan’s is 56% white. “For example the University of Michigan there is just a larger population of minorities and at Michigan State, that’s just not there and I don’t really think that Michigan State is doing anything wrong, it’s just that generally the numbers are lower,” Mavi said. When it comes to making inclusion feel more like a priority, Yang thinks that urging students to take more classes on diversity or other cultures would be helpful. While Asian students search for more inclusion from MSU, they have focused more on what they can control. Clubs and organizations have provided an outlet, an escape and sense of community for students eager to find a home. These groups, as the others have, aim to provide multicultural understanding, deep cultural connection and community for Asian students. STATEN EWS.CO M
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By Brendan Gumbel bgumbel@statenews.com Athletes from all different sports have used their platforms in a major way this year to combat social injustice and systemic racism, a problem that has plagued our country for way too long. The NBA and NHL postponed several games of their 2020 playoffs due to a wildcat strike following the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin back in August. Several MLB teams followed suit in not playing, while various NFL teams cancelled practice for the day. Instead of playing/ practicing, players used their voice to raise awareness and ask the question many of us at home were asking: ‘When will it stop?’ Conversations regarding social justice have also been constant for Michigan State football, with head coach Mel Tucker leading the charge and giving his players the opportunity to voice their feelings on the situation during a time where sports don’t seem so important. “Communication (and) educational resources are what we’ve talked about all summer,” Tucker said. “We really worked hard to connect with our players, to support our players. We’ve had several meetings with all of our players so guys could express how they feel about things.” Coaches and players have both stepped up and initiated conversation throughout the summer and into the fall, and Tucker believes that has gone 10
a long way for his team. He has brought in speakers to talk to the players on all sorts of topics to help “empower and educate,” as Tucker puts it, while urging them to use their platform. “Some of the initiatives that we’ve implemented, in terms of the education and the resources that we have provided, because our players want action, not just statements and words,” Tucker said. “And so there’s been quite a bit of programming ... guest speakers and things of that nature.” Senior linebacker Antjuan Simmons has been at the forefront of these conversations, doing whatever he can to help bring awareness to the issues. “I’m an African-American myself, so when these issues started happening it was important for me to educate my teammates, educate coaches, whoever was around me,” Simmons said. “Just on what was going on, how we can make the world a better place, how we can impact our community. I think we did a very good job of that.” Redshirt junior quarterback Rocky Lombardi believes these conversations have helped the team become closer with one another. Along with the meetings and presentations that Tucker has organized, the players have had additional meetings with just themselves, continuing the conversation and trying to find ways to create change. “I think it’s been good for us to grow together a little bit on
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this issue,” Lombardi said. “It’s been talked about a lot, we’ve had a lot of team meetings over it. Just to open people’s eyes up a little bit and really understand what’s going on, understand what we can do to help this issue.” The players-only meetings got to the point where players who were typically quiet began speaking out. Fluid and productive conversation was taking place, something Simmons deemed to be very beneficial. “We had a great players’ meeting, I think it was three or four weeks ago, about everything and it was amazing,” Simmons said. “We had people who didn’t really understand what was going on speak up and speak where they were coming from. We had other guys educating, guys who don’t really speak, speak up. It really brought out the best of the team.” Racism still exists in America, and the fight for social justice is a marathon, not a sprint. Yes, Tucker has a football season to prepare for, but that takes a backseat in importance to what’s going on right now in the real world. Tucker said these conversations will continue on into the season for the Spartans. “My door is always open,” Tucker said. “I feel really good about how we’ve dealt with this, how we’ve communicated with our players. But it’s a work in progress and it’s a daily process and it’s something that we’re going to continue to work on daily.”
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Upcoming football season’s impact on athletics budget By Wendy Guzman wguzman@statenews.com The COVID-19 pandemic has already taken a toll on Michigan State University’s finances — however, some of the impacts might be lightened for the athletic department with the looming return of Big Ten football. The Big Ten conference formally announced an eight-week 2020 football schedule aimed to start Oct. 24, when MSU will host Rutgers at Spartan Stadium. For this season, the conference adopted significant medical protocols, including daily antigen testing, enhanced cardiac screening and data-driven decision-making about practices and games. The Big Ten will also not allow fans into their stadiums. MSU Athletic Director Bill Beekman said he believes bringing back the season will allow the university’s athletic department to break even financially. This summer, the university said they were estimating $300 million in lost revenue for the 2021 fiscal year due to the pandemic, according to the financial impact on their website. At a virtual Lansing Regional Chamber Economic Club program held prior to the official postponement of Big Ten fall sports, Beekman said the athletic department could lose $80-85 million without a football season. “We sort of talked publicly about $80 to $85 (million) but with all the ancillary things as they add up, it really had that traumatic an impact,” Beekman said in a video conference Sept. 16. “So, we’ve been doing a tremendous amount of budget-cutting.” The Board of Trustees approved MSU’s 20202021 budget June 26, before the postponement of Big Ten fall sports. The budget included a $128.7 million budget for intercollegiate athletics, a $11 million drop from the 20192020 $139.7 million budget. Of last year’s near $140 million budget, $42 million was spent on personnel costs, another $15 million was spent on scholarships, and the remaining $83 million was used to cover all operational costs from facilities and equipment to travel and operating expenses, Beekman said after the season was postponed. Non-personnel costs are estimated to be twothirds of the total athletics budget, including personnel expenses accounting for salaries, fringe benefits, retirement and such. “We’ve been working very, very hard to trim the budget on the non-personnel side as a priority so we could do as little personnel cutting as absolutely possible,” Beekman said. “With that said, we’ve done some freezes, we’ve held open some positions, and just cut back in a whole variety of ways both personnel and otherwise.” According to the university’s Together We Will coronavirus informational page, all varsity sports and departments have been asked to reduce their budgets by at least 25%. All contract employees making $100,000 or greater, which include head football coach Mel Tucker, head men’s basketball coach Tom Izzo, head women’s basketball coach Suzy Merchant and Beekman himself, are taking salary reductions from Sept. 1 to Aug. 31, 2021. Additionally, as of this month, 50 athletics employees have taken salary reductions ranging from 15 to one percent. Another 31 employees saw their sports camp income decrease, ranging from 23 to one percent of their income. In September, it was announced many athletics staff members will undergo furloughs of at least one month before the end of the year. Eleven positions are also vacant due to the department’s hiring freeze. With the additional budget cuts made over the summer, the $140 million budget was expected to go down to $100 million without football. Only a difference of $40 million, rather than the $80 to $85 million they had
Senior linebacker Antjuan Simmons at practice on Sept. 21. Photo courtesy of Michigan State Athletic Communications
previously estimated. That $40 million the university falls short on, Beekman expects to be taken care of by football television deals, making up for the loss of ticket sales as well. “As we currently anticipate things going, we wouldn’t have any fans in the stands so we’d lose revenue from not only ticket sales but premium seating, seat premiums, club and sideline seating, all of those things,” Beekman said. “... Ballpark, anticipating about $40 million from television revenue for football in a normal year, if we get $30 million from television revenue this year, about threequarters of the games played then that gets us to about a break-even for this year.” It is primarily the revenue from football and men’s basketball that funds the other nonrevenue sports at MSU. This was a primary financial concern of having no football season. Some schools that faced financial budget implications because of COVID-19 have begun cutting non-revenue programs. Central Michigan University decided to discontinue its track and field program in May. MSU sponsors 25 sports, 13 for men and 12 for women. All of them are funded by the two main revenue generators, football and men’s basketball. According to MSU’s 2019 Equity in Sports report, football and men’s basketball brought in nearly $100 million in revenue. The next biggest revenue stream comes from ice hockey at $2.7 million. All sports aside from football and men’s basketball brought in a combined $6.79 million. While the men’s basketball season is currently set to begin Nov. 25, it is the return of football after all this time that has left the athletic department on a positive note in terms of their finances. “My sense is that with the cuts we’ve put in place, playing the amount of football we’re planning on playing, with the TV revenue — but not revenue from tickets and other things — we should be able to break even for this year,” Beekman said.
“As we currently anticipate things going, we wouldn’t have any fans in the stands so we’d lose revenue from not only ticket sales but premium seating, seat premiums, club and sideline seating, all of those things.” Bill Beekman MSU Athletic Director
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