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Women’s golf head coach Stacy SlobodnikStoll, right, talks with junior Sarah Burnham before a shot on Sept. 25 at Forest Akers West Golf Course. Slobodnik-Stoll has held the head coaching position at MSU for 19 years. PHOTO: DEREK VANHORN
MORE THAN JUST A COACH Women’s golf coach Stacy Slobodnik-Stoll heads into her 20th season at MSU with a list of achievements both on and off the course
A spectator observes Gideon Mendel’s “Drowning World” gallery on Oct. 4 at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum. PHOTO: DEREK VANHORN
Redshirt sophomore goalkeeper Jimmy Hague (1) catches the ball after a cross on Sept. 18 at DeMartin Stadium at Old College Field. The Spartans defeated the Michigan Wolverines, 1-0. PHOTO: DEREK VANHORN
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East Lansing resident Arie Koelewyn grabs a bookmark that has just been pressed with a picture of a quail on Sept. 29 in the art studio at Snyder Hall. PHOTO: CARLY GERACI
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Drunk driving incidents on the rise at MSU, as declining trend ceases on-campus drunk driving case statistics
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MSU police Capt. Doug Monette said 96 drunk driving cases occured on campus in 2016, already an increase from 78 in 2015. In 2014, there were 98 cases and in 2013, there were 158. “Drinking is a way for some people to have fun, and a lot of young people tend to think that they can push limits and think that they can drink and drive and still be alright because they’ve done it in the past and they were OK, but somewhere down the line you make a mistake and bad things happen,” Deon Howard, technical aide at MSU Extension Directors’ Office and former employee at the State News, said. Drunk driving is on the radar for local law enforcement. “Obviously, drunk driving is a priority for our department,” East Lansing Police Department Lt. Steve Gonzalez said. “I’ve been here for over 20 years and they’ve always taken a hard stand on drunk driving ... and I don’t ever see that changing.” Gonzalez said ELPD receives a grant-funded program from the state of Michigan to combat drunk driving. The grant allows the department to bring officers in to prevent drunk driving. MSU police has similar methods to enforce drunk driving punishments. “We have a road patrol division that enforces all violations like drunk driving,” Monette said. Similar to ELPD, Monette said MSUPD also has a grant program officers sign up for to help enforce drunk driving prevention while also enforcing other traffic violations such as seatbelt violations.
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East Lansing marijuana laws might receive update at next City Council public hearing BY MCKENNA ROSS MROSS@STATENEWS.COM
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East Lansing residents can have a say in proposed changes to local marijuana laws at a City Council public hearing on Oct. 11. In 2015, the city charter was amended to allow possession of less than one ounce of marijuana and use for persons older than 21 years of age on private property, but the current ordinance forbids this. Because of this charter-ordinance contradiction, the East Lansing Police Department does not enforce the current ordinance, East Lansing City Attorney Tom Yeadon said. The proposed ordinance being heard on Oct. 11 would conform to the city charter, Yeadon said. “It removes the possibility of charging people under the (current) ordinance,” Yeadon said. The changes to the city’s marijuana ordinance would make possessing less than one ounce of marijuana or using the drug a civil infraction for people younger than 21 years old, meriting a ticket instead of a misdemeanor, which could possibly lead to criminal charges that result in up to 90 days in jail. City Manager George Lahanas said the proposed ordinance was first discussed at the Sept. 20 discussion meeting. “Council did not believe that the minor amount of possession for personal use of marijuana should be something that’s considered criminal behavior,” Lahanas said. “That’s a principle that I think they all believe.” A decision will likely be made after the public hearing closes, and official action will be taken at a future public meeting, Lahanas said. ELPD Chief Jeff Murphy said the proposed ordinance won’t affect enforcement drastically. “That one doesn’t change things very much
because, if you think about it, how often is a police officer really going to run into somebody on their private property using marijuana and need to take enforcement on that?” Murphy said. “It should be pretty rare.” But a change in city law does not mean marijuana users could not be subject to stiffer penalties under state law. “None of this affects state law, so I’d want our officers to go along with the wishes of the council, but there still would always be the option of making an arrest and charging with a state law misdemeanor,” he said. “The problem (that) could come is that it could just be confusing to people.” Currently, possession of marijuana under state law is a one-year misdemeanor, Yeadon said. Murphy and Yeadon both said although the ELPD follows city ordinances, they also can charge people through state laws. “Even if there’s a policy that the East Lansing Police Department would write it under a civil infraction, there’s still a number of other departments with jurisdiction that would just be able to prosecute whatever they wanted,” Yeadon said.
“If you really think about it, how often is a police officer really going to run into somebody on their private property using marijuana and need to take enforcement on that?” Chief Jeff Murphy East Lansing Police Department
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“(Stacy Slobodnik-Stoll has) taken the program from what it was 20 years ago to a championship program, and a top one in the nation now. It’s just a testament to (how) she goes about things the right way.” Caroline Powers, Assistant women’s golf coach PAGE 4
Senior hurdler David Washington sprints during track and field practice on Oct. 3 at Ralph Young Field. Washington holds a personal-best time of 52.62 seconds in the 400-meter hurdles. PHOTO: DEREK VANHORN
Majority of MSU has already taken RVSM training BY MARIE WEIDMAYER MWEIDMAYER@STATENEWS.COM
Every year, MSU students are required to take the Relationship Violence and Sexual Misconduct, or RVSM, online training. “Completion of the training has always been a requirement and continues to be a requirement as the information provided is important for all Spartans to know,” Title IX Coordinator Jessica Norris said via email. “Each year we will build on this foundation with annual online refresher courses. Refresher courses will expand on topics introduced in the foundation course at a deeper level.” The training covers MSU’s RSVM policy, how to report incidents, the impact of sexual misconduct and relationship violence, how to receive help, how to be an active bystander and more, Norris said. “I learned a lot from (the RSVM training), it was very helpful and informative,” human biol-
ogy sophomore Samantha Randlett said. Students are informed about the training through emails to their MSU email account, and incoming freshmen are notified of the training requirements at their academic orientation program, Norris said. “To date, 55 percent of undergraduate students have completed the training and 54 percent of graduate students have completed the training,” Norris said. The training consists of videos and quizzes, graduate student Scott Ebert said. “I muted the video and did something else,” Ebert said. “I think the majority of students will mute (the video) and do something else.” Randlett said she listened to the videos and she said there was a lot of good information in them. Students who have not completed the training will receive emails throughout the semester, Norris said. “Yeah (I’ve heard of it), I just haven’t gotten to it,” advertising senior Kara Schafer said.
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Women’s golf coach more than just a coach for her many players BY SOUICHI TERADA STERADA@STATENEWS.COM
Among the vast green landscape of Forest Akers West Golf Course, the head coach of the women’s golf team, Stacy Slobodnik-Stoll, can be seen riding through the green in a golf cart checking up on her players. Slobodnik-Stoll has been the head coach of the program for nearly two decades, bringing the program to incredible heights during her time at MSU. She’s accomplished a lot, both on the green and off it, and her impact as a coach is seen on a number of current and former players. Liz Nagel, a former Spartan currently on tour with the LPGA, didn’t hesitate to explain the impact Slobodnik-Stoll had on her. “Currently, I wouldn’t be where I am without Coach,” Nagel said. “She saw something in me that I may not have even seen in myself. She took a chance on me and brought me in on scholarship. (She) really spent a lot of time helping me grow as a golfer and as a young, woman as she does with everybody that comes in.” Spartan Roots While Slobodnik-Stoll is in her 20th season as the head coach, she’s been around the program for much longer than that. She started off as just another golfer for MSU from 1990-94, eventually being named captain her final two years as an athlete. After her playing days at MSU were over, she briefly competed professionally, only to come back to East Lansing as an assistant coach. Being back on campus, she worked alongside her former coach, Mary Fossum. “Everything in my life, I feel like (Fossum) has given to me,” Slobodnik-Stoll said. “In golf and the opportunity to play at Michigan State, the opportunity to be her assistant coach … (She was) just an incredible mentor and an incredible person.”
Now in charge of the team, Slobodnik-Stoll is the second head coach in the history of the MSU women’s golf program. Similar to what Fossum did years ago, Slobodnik-Stoll brought in a former Spartan, Caroline Powers, to help her as an assistant coach. During her time as a player Powers was also extremely successful. She was a three-time All-American and All-Big Ten First Team selection. Now at Slobodnik-Stoll’s side as a coach, Powers said she’s been impressed by the way her former coach carries herself. “She’s taken the program from what it was 20 years ago to a championship program, and a top one in the nation now,” Powers said. “It’s just a testament to (how) she goes about things the right way and she works so hard on every different facet of it.” Playing and Coaching Success Looking at Slobodnik-Stoll’s many accomplishments and accolades in her career, they add up. She’s won five Big Ten Championship crowns to go along with her 17 NCAA Regional appearances. Individually, Slobodnik-Stoll still golfs competitively as a player. She’s been prosperous, being named the Golf Association of Michigan, or GAM, Female Player of the Decade in 2010. She credits one of her past mentors – former University of Indiana head coach Sam Carmichael – for giving her the idea to still play competitively as a coach. When Slobodnik-Stoll first got the job, Carmichael asked her if she still loved to play the game. Her response was of course she loved to play, she was very competitive when she first got the head coaching job. From there, she said she continued playing because of her mentor’s encouragement. “I just always remember (Carmichael’s advice to keep playing),” Slobodnik-Stoll said. “In life it’s so easy to put what you love aside for your job, your family or whatever it is. So I just always remember that piece of advice.”
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Women’s golf head coach Stacy Slobodnik-Stoll, right, talks with junior Sarah Burnham before a shot on Sept. 25 at Forest Akers West Golf Course. Slobodnik-Stoll has held the head coaching position at MSU for 19 years and is entering her 20th season. PHOTO: DEREK VANHORN 4
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Women’s golf head coach Stacy Slobodnik-Stoll, left, talks with redshirt-junior Katie Sharp before a putt on Sept. 25 at Forest Akers West Golf Course. PHOTO: DEREK VANHORN
Slobodnik-Stoll said playing golf competitively has benefited her in other ways, too. “(Playing golf) really was helpful in recruiting,” Slobodnik-Stoll said. “I had the ability to possibly be paired up with or be in the same tournaments as recruits. So then I was like, ‘this is great.’” Growing up in DeWitt, Mich., Nagel said she was always an MSU fan growing up but during the recruitment process she said she knew the type of norm the Spartans held themselves to because of Slobodnik-Stoll’s impact on the program. “I knew that (MSU) made it to regionals every year and made it to nationals a lot of the years,” Nagel said. “I knew that there was a high standard there, and I also knew that I was going to be held to that expectation. I wanted to be a part of that, so I really wanted to make sure I made the travel team and I was one of those girls.” In the actual eyes of the recruits, winning Big Ten championships goes a long way. Junior All-American Sarah Burnham said all the things the golf program has accomplished were also in the back of her mind when she was picking schools. “(Winning Big Ten championships) is also one of the reasons I came here,” Burnham said. “Just the success of the golf program. That’s always a goal for us, individually, too.” Academics On the green throughout her career, Slobodnik-Stoll has stood out among her peers, winning the Big Ten Coach of the Year award three separate times in 2001, 2007 and 2012. But the longstanding coach also puts an emphasis on the academic performance of her team, with her players receiving 70 Academic All-Big Ten selections. “She will ask you just as much how your golf game was or your family was, she would ask about your classes,” Nagel, a three-time
Academic All-Big Ten selection, said. “It’s one of those unsaid things, she knows you’re going to work your hardest in the classroom and if not, you’re going to talk about it.” Slobodnik-Stoll’s focus on academics has been seen directly in her player’s grades. For the past five years, the women’s golf team has taken home the Athletic Director’s Award. The trophy is given to the team with the highest cumulative team GPA in the MSU Athletics Department. “Coach emphasizes student-athlete a lot,” Burnham said. “Just making sure we’re doing well in all of our classes is huge and that we get a lot of help that we need to succeed as well.” As a new student coming in from Spain, freshman Paz Marfa Sans said she felt the impact of her coach’s guidance. She’s only been on campus for a month, but Marfa Sans said her transition has been made easier, especially in the classroom. “She wants to take the best of us so she wants us to be the best,” Marfa Sans said. “She’s just trying to do everything that she can do to make us better, also in the golf course and the academics. So she’s like, if we need help, she’s able to help us in any aspect.” MSU Family Winning and succeeding in the classroom has been a big part of Slobodnik-Stoll’s appeal. But the way she makes her team and her players feel like family has been a huge factor throughout her coaching tenure. During Burnham’s recruiting process, she said she never thought she would come to Michigan from her hometown in Minnesota. “One of the main reasons I actually came to MSU was because of (Slobodnik-Stoll) and how she recruited me,” Burnham said. “When I came here it felt like family, and with coach it just felt right. Just being at home almost, just the main thing.”
Looking back at her time being a Spartan, Powers said Slobodnik-Stoll had a motherly attitude to everything that she did. “She’s like a second mom to me now,” Powers said. “She really cares about all the parts of our lives. She was honestly one of my biggest fans from the beginning, even when I didn’t believe in myself all the time.” Slobodnik-Stoll said her most rewarding experience as coach was more about her players and the influence she has on them, not just the trophies and accomplishments she’s collected. “I think the most rewarding (experience) is just every day having an opportunity to influence young people’s lives,” Slobodnik-Stoll said. “Many of them come here as kids, they’re still young, impressionable, learning … so that four, five-year time period we have them is really a great time in their lives. They’re learning who they are, what they want to be, what they’re capable of doing, what their goals are going to be in life, and they’re just getting an awesome opportunity to be a student-athlete and just playing on the golf team. So that’s probably the most rewarding thing.”
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3:30 P.M. on October 8, Spartan Stadium, East Lansing, Mich. Twitter: @thesnews_sports| Podcast: soundcloud.com/statenews | TV: ABC MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
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Democratic campus visitors exceed Republicans so far in election season BY MARIE WEIDMAYER MWEIDMAYER@STATENEWS.COM
From Sen. Bernie Sanders visit in March to daughter of Democratic nominee Chelsea Clinton’s visit in late September, liberal speakers
have outnumbered conservative speakers at MSU since this time last year. Sanders (I-Vt.) has visited campus once, and he will be on campus again at 2:45 p.m. on Thursday at Adams Field. Former presidential candidate Martin O’Malley was in East Lan-
Then-presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during a rally on March 2 at Breslin Center. STATE NEWS FILE PHOTO
Main Library opens new gaming rooms BY BRIGID KENNEDY BKENNEDY@STATENEWS.COM
Anyone who walks into the Main Library might notice changes to rooms previously meant for reading and studying — gaming rooms opened last month. In March, MSU Libraries was given an estimated 17,000 electronic games. Each game must be catalogued and processed — something that has proven difficult. “There’s not really a standard for that yet,” assistant director for public services of MSU Libraries Terri Miller said. Approximately 100 games have been catalogued and are ready to be used in the new game rooms, Miller said. The library’s staff hopes to have 500 catalogued by the end of the academic year. The video games, part of the Rovi Gaming Collection, can be used for entertainment or as part of research, Miller said. “We have people in all different departments looking at video games,” Miller said. On October 20-22, MSU will host the Meaningful Play Conference.
Meaningful Play is “a conference about theory, research, and game design innovations, principles and practices,” according to its website. The conference speaks to the academic importance of the medium, Miller said. “They are a cultural statement,” Miller said. James Madison College freshman Iza Graham did not expect to find a collection of electronic games at a university library. “It’s not something you typically think of a college providing,” Graham said of the video game collection. “It makes me want to go to the library.” The library has several unique collections students might not be aware of, including the Turfgrass Information Center, the comic book collection, a music manuscripts collection and the Vincent Voice Library, which collects audio recordings of the voices of historical figures. The project is ongoing, Miller said. The library will continue to get new games every month while cataloging new games from the existing collection. “We want students to give us feedback,” Miller said. Students are encouraged to submit their ideas for the Rovi Gaming Collection, including requests for new games.
sing this past Saturday. Chelsea Clinton canvassed for her mother at MSU in the middle of September and actress Chloë Grace Mortez hosted a voter registration drive on campus while campaigning for Clinton at the end of September. During the same time period, former presidential candidate John Kasich was the only Republican presidential candidate to visit MSU. Milo Yiannopoulos, a conservative speaker and journalist, will make a stop on campus in December. “College students sway Democrat and are more liberal than the rest of the population,” director of the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research at MSU Matt Grossmann said. “It makes more sense for Democrats to come to campus than for Republicans.” First-time voters will be influenced by who
visits campus, president of MSU College Democrats Daniel Eggerding said. The trend appears to be a bipartisan issue. “I think that the lack of conservative speakers (on campus) plays a role on who first-time voters will vote (for) this November,” vice chair of MSU College Republicans Justin Gould said. But, conservatives have always been skeptical about visiting college campuses because there are usually left-leaning protesters, Grossmann said. This perceived bias has some conservative students upset. “If MSU prides itself for being a safe space for students to learn new things, we need to be representing the right as well as we do the left,” Gould said. However, student groups are the ones who bring speakers to campus, so it’s unfair to blame the university, Eggerding said.
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TODAY BRESLIN CENTER NOON TO 6:00 PM Come to the Education Abroad Expo (formerly known as the Study Abroad Fair) to learn how you can get involved in international study at MSU. Talk with program directors, advisers, former participants, and visitors from abroad that represent MSU’s 275+ programs in more than 60 countries around the world. Everyone is welcome!
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Along the riverbanks of the Red Cedar are photographs of people seemingly standing in the water. The art is a part of a new initiative by MSU. The Water Moves MSU initiative was announced as the 2016-17 thematic year on Tuesday night. The thematic year was announced in an event at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, hosted by MSU Arts and Culture. The initiative will focus on scientific innovation and artistic expressions of water, Prabu David, dean of the College of Communication Arts and Sciences, said. “We never really quite had good integration between arts and sciences,” David said. Water Moves MSU hopes to change that, David said. MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon stressed the importance of studying and appreciating water.
“Water and land resources seem to be shrinking all the time,” she said. The photographs were done by artist Gideon Mendel. “Drowning World: The Red Cedar River Project” is an extension of his exhibition “Gideon Mendel: Drowning World.” “Water is a fundamental part of Michigan’s identity,” Simon said, given the “definition of ourselves as the Great Lakes State.” MSU hopes to get students involved in the initiative immediately, said Joan Rose, 2016 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate and microbiologist. “People really care about their water,” Rose said. “We are connected to water from Michigan State University in every way.” Rose’s project within Water Moves MSU focuses on water fountains. Water fountains, she said, connect water and art. Rose will be holding a contest for students to design new water fountains, she said. Water Moves MSU’s goal this year, David said, will be to find a nexus
between art, science, culture and community. The initiative will especially encourage artistic representations of water, he said. The event included two musical performances to demonstrate connections between art and water. Media and information professor Elizabeth LaPensée performed an Anishinaabe, a Native American tribe, water song and spoke about Honour Water, a game she developed to teach others the song. The second performance was an original song by the band Jackalope. Jackalope consists of East Lansing resident Charlie Richardson, religious studies professor David Stowe, and College of Law professor Michael Lawrence. Jackalope performed their song, “Water Wheel,” which is about the importance of water and was written specifically for the event. Much like the rest of Water Moves MSU, “Water Wheel” is about “spirit and culture and art,” Richardson said.
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Hague comfortable protecting the net BY ISAAC CONSTANS ICONSTANS@STATENEWS.COM
To be a defender or a goalkeeper — that was the question for a young Jimmy Hague. Hague had played soccer his whole life, but the choice to velcro up the gloves and slip on the longsleeved jersey was a defining one in his athletic career, and one both he and MSU head soccer coach Damon Rensing are happy he made. “We always switched off, so it was at a point where I think we were like 11 or 12,” Hague, the 6-foot-4 redshirt-sophomore said, remembering how his best friend eventually ceded the position to him in youth soccer. “He was too short to play in goal anymore, so he was like, ‘I’m just going to play in center back from now on, and you can play goalie.” Hague has played soccer since the age of four, but always in an amorphous position. Once he finally made the change to keeper, it stuck. However, he had a lot to learn even upon coming to college at MSU. “When I first came in (to MSU), I was definitely the worst goalkeeper here,” Hague said. “I had a lot of learning to do because I was very, I would say, raw. My technique wasn’t where it needed to be.” Hague knew that he wouldn’t start his first season and that his second year would likely
follow a similar path. While coming to a school with one of the country’s leaders in save percentage, Zach Bennett, might have intimidated and warded off many recruits, Hague saw it as a resource. "(Bennett) just taught me so many things throughout those two seasons,” Hague said. “It was great to just learn under him, and I just try to be as good as he was or better, someday.” Hague did not play a second of game time action his freshman year. His sophomore year was no more hands-on. All of his time was spent observing and studying, whether from MSU goalkeeping coaches Paul Gilbert and Bret Mollon, Bennett, or secondary keeper Quinn McAnaney. When McAnaney and Bennett both graduated after the 2015 season, obvious concerns festered around the all-important position. “Well, I think Jimmy took care of a couple of those questions in the spring, but spring games are different,” Rensing said. “Any time at any position where there’s no experience, you’re always a little bit cautious. But I thought ... he’s got a good mental makeup, he’s obviously got the physical tools, so we just needed to throw him in the fire.” Since taking over as the starting goalkeeper for MSU, Hague has not allowed more than two goals in a single game. Yet the all-elusive shut-
out evaded his grasp. “I think he needed a couple games under his belt,” Jimmy Fiscus, a junior defender who has started both of the past two seasons, said. “There was a couple of decisions that he could have done better. They never really harmed us that much, but I think he’s learning as he gets more games under his belt.” True to Fiscus’s word, the preparation and experience fused in the Spartans’ game against Rutgers, as Hague notched his first shutout. In the following match-up, he got another against Oakland. Then, it was on to the University of Michigan. Hague already earned his rite of passage on the team by the time U-M boarded the bus to East Lansing, chaperoning the Big Bear Trophy. But the rivalry game was the one that would truly test his mettle. He passed heroically, spryly repelling an 81st-minute breakaway with a game-rescuing and shutout-preserving stop. His teammates and his coaches all pointed to the 1-0 win as his breakthrough moment. Fiscus said it bolstered his confidence. Rensing said it was the ultimate culmination. Hague admitted it was his “best moment so far.” “Personally, I had a very good game,” Hague said. “That was like my breaking point, where I really came into myself and claimed this role.”
As of Thursday morning, Hague had shutouts in four of his last six appearances. His .837 save percentage ranked among the highest in the nation and ranked within the top-five in the Big Ten. “You either kind of sink or swim, and thus far, Jimmy’s swam,” Rensing said. While the transition to starting goalie was both tedious and trying, Hague knew his teammates supported him all along. “I knew he was a good keeper, I knew he always has been, and I knew he always had what it took,” Fiscus said. Looking back, Hague had other offers to attend other schools, like Oakland University or Western Michigan University, he might have been able to play sooner. But that’s why Hague chose MSU. He welcomed the wait and embraced the education. Once in a while, McAnaney and Bennett text their successor, just to check in. They and everyone else know, however, Hague has got it from here. “With goalkeepers, too, you look for a presence,” Rensing said. “I think his presence in the box has grown with his confidence. And I think again, probably to some degree Jimmy (Hague) had doubts if he could do this, and the more that he continues to succeed, the more you can see his presence and confidence grow.”
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MSU football focusing to renew intensity, cut down on mistakes BY STEPHEN OLSCHANSKI SOLSCHANSKI@STATENEWS.COM
Middle linebacker Shane Jones, recently named a starter in place of injured Riley Bullough, got up and walked behind the cameraman interviewing redshirt-freshman offensive guard Tyler Higby. First, he stared at Higby, trying to draw him in. Higby, trying to stay poised, glimpsed at Jones for less than a second. It was all Jones needed. He broke out dancing, drawing a smile from Higby and laughs from the reporters interviewing him. It was all a ruse to keep the mood light. After back-to-back losses, MSU football hasn’t hit the panic button. Instead, the team responded with increased intensity on the field and chose to remain themselves off the field, all in an attempt to turn the season around, especially from the guys on defense. “We sat down as a defensive unit and looked each other in the eyes and told each other, ‘do we plan on going 10-2 or 6-6 or 7-5 and going to a regular bowl game?’” defensive lineman Demetrius Cooper said. “We just sat there and looked at each other and told each other something has to change, and if nothing changes it’s going to keep on going downhill.”
Cooper and the defensive front four have found sacks at a premium, picking up just 1.25 a game, which ranks dead last in the Big Ten. Even without the sacks, the defensive line and linebackers failed to pressure Indiana quarterback Richard Lagow enough, allowing him to lead the Hoosiers to three-straight come-from-behind touchdowns. Dwelling on mistakes and miscues, however, was put aside at practice, almost as if to shake off the first four games and come with a renewed focus on winning the last eight games. “I feel like today was a good, intense practice,” Cooper said. “I feel like everybody was moving around, flying around, and I feel like we’re going to get everything shaped up and we’re going to figure it out.” The defensive line, however, will attempt to fix things without starting nose tackle Malik McDowell — at least for the first half of the game — and defensive tackle Raequan Williams. McDowell is out for the first half against BYU after being ejected for targeting in the Indiana game, and Williams is out with an unspecified injury. The intensity of practice, however, spilled over to other units of the defense, something Jones alluded hadn’t Senior running back Delton Williams (22) catches a 24-yard pass for a touchdown in the third quarter during the game against Indiana on Oct. 1, at Memorial Stadium always been there from the start. READ THE FULL STORY AT STATENEWS.COM
in Bloomington, Ind. The Spartans were defeated by the Hoosiers in overtime, 2421. PHOTO: NIC ANTAYA
Dantonio shakes up O-line for BYU game BY NATHANIEL BOTT NBOTT@STATENEWS.COM
MSU football head coach Mark Dantonio addressed some of the issues he talked about following the loss to Indiana last Saturday, starting with the offensive line. Dantonio shuffled around some pieces to make the unit more concise to protect fifth-year senior quarterback Tyler O’Connor and open up holes for a running game that has struggled since its 260-yard explosion against Notre Dame. The offensive line shifted fifth-year senior Kodi Kieler to left tackle in replace of David Beedle, and junior Brian Allen has shifted from guard over to center, where his older brother, Jack, held the reins prior to him. Seniors Benny McGowan and Brandon Clemons now are listed as starters at each guard spot, previously listed as co-starters at guard up to this week. Miguel Machado remains the starter at right tackle. There is one problem with the depth chart given by MSU football’s staff. They have a defensive line decimated by injuries and suspension. With junior Malik McDowell out for the first half following his targeting penalty and Raequan Williams down for one to two weeks with an injury. That means Clemons seeing the field at defensive tackle against BYU, something he has already done in past games this season, is as Dantonio called it, “a for sure.” That’s where redshirt-freshman Tyler Higby comes into play. Higby saw time on the field against the Indiana and helped lead the blocking on Madre London’s 24-yard scamper to the outside in the third quarter — MSU’s longest run of the game. “It’s really I think just learning the offense,” Higby, who hadn’t seen much of the field prior to Indiana, said. “I struggled with it during fall camp and now that I’ve started getting in the 10
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flow of things and the season, just knowing the offense is really helpful.” Dantonio said Higby impressed him and the rest of the coaching staff with his performance against Indiana. “I think (Tyler) Higby has played pretty well, he’s been coming,” Dantonio said. “He’s had two, I think, solid games, so he’s playing and he’s maturing as a redshirt-freshman. So it’s a little bit of a trying-to-figure-it-out type situation. We’ll try to always hinge things on making decisions based on who has played the best in the last couple games and what we have to do.” Higby’s addition gives the offensive line some much-needed depth, especially with Clemons playing on defense, where he said he has been playing exclusively this week. Overall, however, Allen was critical on the offense and said there needs to be improvement made on the line this week. “If we get rid of penalties, we finish drives, you know we score points,” Allen said. “We are on the defensive side of the 50 (yard line) a lot and don’t produce. Once we start doing that, the points are there and every game the score hasn’t been indicative of how we played.” Kieler will replace Beedle who started the first four games for MSU at left tackle. Kieler started the first three games at center and saw his first start of the season at right tackle against Indiana. Dantonio said the change was because Beedle struggled last Saturday and they wanted to put a more experienced guy on O’Connor’s blind side. Dantonio also mentioned that Kieler would continue to move around, and it’s not something that really bothers the 6-foot-6, 319-pound fifthyear senior. “It keeps me fresh, I guess,” Kieler said. “It’s a big responsibility bouncing around all over the line but I’m happy to do it and I’m willing to do it and I’m comfortable doing it.”
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MSU alumnus gets a promotion in Marine Corps from fellow Spartan BY JONATHAN LEBLANC JLEBLANC@STATENEWS.COM
MSU alumnus Capt. Jacob Lamar was promoted from first lieutenant to captain in the Marine Corps on Monday. He is currently stationed at Camp Pendleton in California. Lamar was promoted by MSU alumna and his commanding officer, Lt. Col. Jennifer Nash. “I thought it was really cool that my commanding officer — every unit only has one commanding officer — that she’s a Spartan and I’m a Spartan,” Lamar said. Lamar is a member of Nash’s battalion, and is also one of the company’s executive officers. “As battalion commander, I get that great privilege to promote marines,” Nash said. Nash also felt the Spartan connection between herself and Lamar. “It’s those connections we have, which is both being Spartans and having similar experiences both being from Michigan, that brings us together,” Nash said At first, Lamar said he didn’t know if he was going to receive the promotion to captain. “I’m actually on my way out of the Marine Corps transitioning back into the civilian world in a couple months — I wasn’t sure if I was going to be able to see this promotion take place before (that),” Lamar said. “The fact that I did, I’m extremely proud and it’s kind of a capstone of all my hard work in the past four years.” Once Lamar found out he was being promoted to captain, he asked Nash if she would be the one to promote him.
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“As a Michigan State (alumnus), he thought it was a pretty unique thing in which one Spartan could promote another Spartan,” Nash said. To get promoted, it all depends on where a person’s lineal standing is coming out of basic camp, a six-month school that places people in a specialty within the Marine Corps. It also depends on evaluations from superior officers, Lamar said. “That basically determines when and if you get promoted,” Lamar said. However, even though Nash did promote Lamar, she didn’t get to decide that Lamar got promoted because of the Marine Corps’ promotion process. “It’s a panel of 21 officers who reviews his records and performances over the last four years of his career and then they determine based on his performances if he has the potential to fill that rank,” Nash said. With this, Lamar’s experience at MSU helped him learn principles and lessons that helped guide him to his promotion to captain, he said. “There’s a lot of pride when it becomes to being a Spartan and what it represents,” Lamar said. “The community, the culture and loyalty and pride.” These principles ultimately helped Lamar and his transition into the Marine Corps, which he said, “is the elite fighting force (out) of our military forces.” “There’s a lot of pride and tradition that goes along with being in the Marine Corps as well,” Lamar said. “It correlates perfectly from being a Spartan and MSU grad, to transitioning into the Marine Corps.”
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opened in 2007. With hopes of bringing her printing presses to MSU, she contacted Koelewyn for advice. He found her presses were too old to function properly, but purchased a new press that he donated to MSU. Skeen then asked him for help developing a class based around it. The first books arts course was offered in the spring of 2009, and Skeen enjoys sharing her love for letterpress with curious, excited students, she said. “For me it’s a kind of magic, it’s always been magic,” Skeen said. “I love it and I also am very happy to introduce this old technology to people who are used to all the new technology.” Koelewyn’s involvement with printing presses started long before his encounter with Skeen. In the 1970s, Koelewyn trained to be a librarian, but was unable to find a job. While working one of his part-time jobs as a tour guide for a museum, he said he saw a collection of private press books from the 1700s and was instantly intrigued. He has now been a hobby printer for 40 years and holds a printing club in Snyder Hall on Thursday nights.
With digital technology dominating the college curriculum, students hardly get the opportunity to learn manual skills, such as binding and printing. MSU’s Residential College in the Arts and Humanities, or RCAH, offers a book arts course where professor Anita Skeen, along with five or six others, teach students how to write, print and bind on a printing press. Snyder Hall currently houses three large printing presses, all of which were brought there by Arie Koelewyn, proprietor of The Paper Airplane Press, an independent letterpress in Lansing. When Skeen was teaching creative writing at Wichita State University, she decided to take a course on something different. After looking into graphic design, she enrolled in a letterpress-printing course. “I never took any other courses, I just kept taking the letterpress printing courses over and over again,” Skeen said. After developing a passion for letterpress, she acquired two large printing presses and brought them with her when she took a job at MSU. The presses sat in her garage for years, until RCAH
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East Lansing resident Arie Koelewyn adjusts the spacing between letters after a test run on the printing press on Sept. 29 in the art studio at Snyder Hall. Koelewyn has been printing for the past 40 years and currently supervises the print club that meets every Thursday. He also teaches the book arts class offered in the spring semester. PHOTO: CARLY GERACI