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Apparel and textile design then-junior Mikayla Frick sews thread onto her piece before the VIM fashion show on April 22, 2018 at the Marriott Hotel on 300 M.A.C. Ave. in East Lansing. PHOTO BY SYLVIA JARRUS
Apparel and textile design major senior Mikayla Frick poses for a portrait in her studio at the Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture building on Oct. 15. PHOTO BY CONNOR DESILETS BY CHANDRA FLEMING CFLEMING@STATENEWS.COM
Mikayla Frick, an apparel textile design major at Michigan State, became interested in fashion design at a young age. Since then, she’s been building her brand at MSU on her journey as a fashion designer and has recently taken her designs to the runway. HER JOURNEY TO THE RUNWAY Frick, now a senior, is set to graduate in December 2019.
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MSU was not the only college choice she had. In fact, she was accepted into the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. In the end, she said MSU was her final choice because of her family’s affiliation with the school. Apparel and textile design, or ATD, was not Frick’s first major at MSU. She started off on a pre-med path ventured off into business and eventually became an ATD major. “Once you get into those design classes, something just clicked and I just found what
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I loved,” Frick said. “It was something about just being able to express myself with no words and just however I wanted to with fabric on these body forms. I give a lot of credit to my professors in that program. They are amazing.” Frick didn’t start designing until her junior year at MSU when she was in her first fashion show for VIM Magazine and the ATD program. After those experiences, she decided to seek opportunities outside of MSU in the world of fashion. One of these opportunities was Kansas City Fashion Week. “In order to apply you had to have a whole social media account,” Frick said. “You had to have a website, you have to have all these things that they were looking for and there were questions like, ‘What is your business profiting?’” she said. “I was just honest ... I got an interview, I flew out there, did the interview, and I didn’t get in. The word ‘no’ makes me work harder.” After applying twice more, Frick still didn’t get in, but she was able to get into other fashion events such as STYLEWEEK Northeast in Rhode Island last February — which was featured in Forbes Magazine. Frick has also shown at Identities Fashion Show at Harvard University. And her latest show was Boston Fashion Week. “I just wish I could tell people just because one person says no, it doesn’t mean you’re not good enough,” Frick said.
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Mikayla Frick and her designs at STYLE WEEK Northeast in Rhode Island last February. PHOTO COURTESY OF AZUR MELE
Frick works alone on her designs, but has help from her boyfriend, who handles calling models and scheduling. “I was in the studio for this season, the entire summer, every day, all day. There was nothing else,” Frick said. “I didn’t really get to go out with my friends. I didn’t really get to do anything else. And on top of that, I was working another side job just to pay for some of the expenses of what I was doing.” She said balancing various things — like work, school and passions — comes with sacrifices, but it’s possible. SEEING HER DESIGNS ON THE RUNWAY Frick said when her designs are on the runway, she wants people to feel the experience and to be entirely engaged. “I truly love (the runway). I’m so passionate about it and I get to work with so many incredible people,” Frick said. “I never know what the next day is going to bring, or the next
“I was in the studio for this season, the entire summer, every day, all day. There was nothing else.” Mikayla Frick Apparel textile design senior opportunity, and that’s real. I got to work with this past August, Coco Rosa. She’s a supermodel she is one of the most well-known for posing. She’s been in Vogue, she’s like a legend and she runs these model camps and modeling has been something that I’ve been always interested on the side.” One of Frick’s biggest goals is to decide whether or not to feature her designs in stores. “I’ve done a lot of research on that,” she said. “I started my online website, of selling, so I definitely want to focus on that and really start getting into stores. That’s the biggest goal. And finding a manufacturer is another goal because
right now I do everything by myself. My couture will always be done by myself, but my more ready to wear stuff, that is something that ... I can’t keep up.” As for after graduation, Frick said she hasn’t made up her mind on what her next plan is. But she is open to the idea of being unsure. “I am okay with taking another job and trying to balance the two. That’s fine with me and just being able to learn from other people,” she said. Frick does have some advice for beginner fashion designers that she has learned over the years. “You have to have the work ethic because it’s not going to be easy,” Frick said. “I can tell you that right now. Nothing that you have to work that hard for is going to be easy, but as long as you’re willing to put the work in and you’re not afraid of hard work and you’re understanding and not comparing yourself, you’ll get there.”
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udge Rosemarie Aquilina, 61, opens the door to her courtroom, her left arm doling her access card out with a flourish. She wants to explain why, in the most well-known sentencing hearing of her life, she changed procedure. Normally, she explains, the defendant in a sentencing hearing is seated toward the back right of the courtroom, near the empty jury box. When it came to the case of disgraced former Michigan State doctor Larry Nassar — who she sentenced in January 2018 to 40 to 175 years in prison for sexually abusing minors — she had him sit right at the front. She said she was worried about a fight. Aquilina was the first female Judge Advocate General in the Michigan Army National Guard, and said her military training led her to believe both the survivors giving impact statements and Nassar himself could be in danger if he was seated at the back, close to where members of the public would be seated. “I’m looking at this as a military operation,” Aquilina said. “We have a defendant who has an absolute right to be protected as well. The best
way to protect him in a crowded situation like this was to be here.” This, she says, is how she approaches every case — looking at every possible factor to allow both the prosecution and defendant to have ample time during the process. But the Nassar case was not just another line on the docket. The week of sentencing made international news, and the “sister survivors” — as Aquilina dubbed the 160-plus women who read their victim impact statements in court — have become central figures in the #MeToo generation. As has Aquilina. Her attitude during the sentencing was unique. She spoke directly to the victims, telling them to “leave your pain here, and go out and do magnificent things.” The image of her tossing a letter Nassar wrote defending himself over her shoulder — with the same flourish she used to open the door to the courtroom — made her a Twitter icon. But telling Nassar, “I just signed your death warrant” drew criticism from some who said her behavior was unbecoming of a judge.
“Bloodthirsty retribution undermines the image of judicial impartiality. The line is just too much,” tweeted Emily Bazelon, a New York Times magazine staff writer and research fellow at Yale Law School. In fact, Nassar’s attorneys have filed appeals on the grounds that Aquilina’s behavior proved she was not an unbiased figure. These claims were determined not valid by the Michigan attorney general’s office in May. “Everybody’s entitled to an appeal. It’ll be what it is,” Aquilina said. Her conduct, she said, was a reaction to Nassar’s. She said the control he had over his countless victims during his medical career was something he tried to exercise in the courtroom. “He didn’t like that he had a female prosecutor, female judges, female detective — he didn’t like that,” Aquilina said. “He was trying with his behavior to gain control, to gain attention, to not look at the girls, to control them that way. And I wasn’t having anything to do with that. So I can be criticized. But I know that at the end of the day, I was taking his power from him and giving
it back to the girls. “That was important to them and their healing.” She talked at length about the doubts she faced every step of her career. As an aide for state Senator John Kelly in the 1980s, she said people on the senate floor didn’t believe that a woman was there to do legal work. “Nine times out of 10, I was asked to get coffee for other senators,” Aquilina said. “I was asked to sew on buttons, whose girlfriend was I and what was I doing there. And I’d stop them, and say, ‘I’m a lawyer. And I’m the chief aide.’” Her singular attitude is something she’s has had for as long as anyone around her can remember. Mike McDaniel, an associate dean at Western Michigan University’s Cooley Law School in Lansing who served with Aquilina in the National Guard in the 1980s and 90s, said her preparation impressed him at the time more than anything. “I think there was a certain intensity even back then,” McDaniel said. “But I think her diligence and her preparation resulted in her success.” Lansing defense attorney Kristina Lyke, who
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Judge Rosemarie Aquilina’s nameplate is pictured Oct. 15 at the Veterans Memorial Courthouse in Lansing. PHOTO BY MATT SCHMUCKER
Judge Rosemarie Aquilina talks to Emma Ann Miller, 15, on the fifth day of Larry Nassar’s sentencing on Jan. 22, 2018 at the Veterans Memorial Courthouse in Lansing. PHOTO BY NIC ANTAYA
has tried numerous cases in front of Aquilina and plans on running for judgeship in the future, said she wants her courtroom one day to function like Aquilina’s. “I always wanted to have my courtroom ran like ... a People’s Court,” she said. “Because you’re not just listening to the prosecutor, you’re not just listening to the defense attorney. You’re not just listening to the victim, you’re not just listening to the defendant, you’re listening to everyone. And I think that you have to have a lot of patience to do that. And she does.” Charlie Palmer, who was a judge in the National Guard while she was a trial attorney, called her a “feeler” on the Myers-Briggs Personality Test. “She’s clearly an extroverted feeler,” he said. “And she tends to make her decision based upon fairness to the people rather than the rigid rule of law.” Aquilina touched on that topic unprompted as well, saying she does not believe sentences should be rigid for all crimes. She brought up the hypothetical case of two shoplifters — one being a greedy person of
means, and one being a struggling mother who cannot afford a nice dress for her daughter. Aquilina, who immigrated from Germany at the age of 2 with a passport marked “stateless,” said she doesn’t believe those two people should be punished the same, even if the law states they committed the same crime. Since the Nassar case, Aquilina has become a public figure. She’s appeared on NBC News, has headlined women’s sports festivals and has made paid public speaking appearances while being represented by the famed Creative Artists Agency. She has spoken publicly about the importance of hearing the stories of sexual assault survivors, and upheld the plea agreement written by then-Assistant Attorney General Angela Povilaitis that said any woman wishing to make a victim impact statement during Nassar’s sentencing was welcome, not just the seven for whom he was being prosecuted. Povilaitis declined to comment for this story. In their appeal, Nassar’s attorneys said Aquilina has attempted to capitalize on the story to
Judge Rosemarie Aquilina teaches a class at the MSU College of Law on Oct. 15. PHOTO BY MATT ZUBIK
increase her profile and earning opportunities. McDaniel said he couldn’t understand why anyone would criticize Aquilina for trying to bring attention to the issue of sexual abuse, noting that any form of silence protects predators. “I don’t think (increasing her profile) is her motivation,” he said. “I think the motivation is to get the word out about hidden or ignored sexual abuse to young women.” Aquilina said she’s received hundreds of letters from women telling her their stories of sexual abuse and thanking her for publicly believing survivors and denouncing a predator. “That is both an honor and very humbling to think that people trust me with that, and that I’ve made a difference,” she said. In addition to her position on the bench and speaking engagements she has engaged in since then, Aquilina also teaches both at Cooley Law School and at both the MSU College of Law. She has written novels and has plans for more. With all those different roles to juggle — along with being a divorced mother with three of five children and her elderly parents living at
“I don’t think (increasing her profile) is her motivation. I think the motivation is to get the word out about hidden or ignored sexual abuse of young women.” Mike McDaniel Associate dean at Cooley Law School home — the question had to be asked: Why stay on the bench? “I guess maybe I’m here to break the mold,” she said. “I was raised to believe that in America, everything is possible. Our justice system is one of the people, not one of the heavy-handed judge. I like to include the people in my decision and follow the law. I think that’s how it’s truly meant to operate. Without doing that, we’re broken.”
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Annie Fuller is a two-sport athlete and a long-distance running sensation at Michigan State University. Coming out on the starting block for her freshman year, Fuller favored track, avoiding cross-country for the sole dislike of doing anything more than those four easy laps around the track. “I just thought it was too long for me,” Fuller said. “It was so much farther than the mile, or the 800.” But, as her years in Spartan territory started to pass, she found herself having fun with those extended distances and finding success rather quickly. That is until her junior year, when every runner’s nightmare became her reality: Annie Fuller tore her meniscus. In her junior year, Fuller couldn’t compete at all. She said idly watching her team race was challenging, but she admitted it was also a good learning experience. “I was able to find myself outside of my sport and realize that running is not going to be there for me all the time,” she said. Fuller said she received love and support from her teammates through her battle with injury, forming stronger bonds with the ladies she shared the lanes with. “I’m part of a cohesive team,” Fuller said. “I’m not just an athlete by myself.” She had her meniscus repaired around November 2017. After 18 months of rest and rehab, Fuller started run6
ning again. Though it was a struggle at first, Fuller started her recovery slow by re-learning basic physical activities like swimming and biking. By the summer of the next year, Fuller had managed to work herself back into shape. “At this point, I would say I’m near my 100%,” Fuller said. “My knee does flare up here and there, but it’s nothing that keeps me from competing.” Recently, Fuller took part in and dominated the Spartan Invitational, securing third place and tying with her teammate India Johnson for a time of 21 minutes and 12.6 seconds. Fuller finished only a tenth of a second from her teammate Jeralyn Poe, who timed first place at 21 minutes and 12.5 seconds. The three girls crossed the finish line together, with pride overflowing in Fuller’s heart. If she had to pick, Fuller said that over the course of her collegiate running career, the 2019 Spartan Invitational headlines the top of her list in most memorable races. “When I crossed the line, I was like ‘Wow, we are going to be so good this year,’” she said. Another recent invitational Fuller attended was Panorama Farms, placing second and beating her Spartan Invitational time, shaving almost an entire minute off her previous time. She insists that, even though they still have work to do to get where they want to be, this race was a really good step forward for her
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and the rest of the women. “We’re all just so happy and excited for each other when we perform,” Fuller said. “It’s been all about the team ... and it has been a really fun ride.” Overall, Fuller said this season has been exciting and that the group works well together to bring home wins for the school. Before she graduates, Annie Fuller has a couple goals she still wishes to accomplish. She thinks, with no doubt, that the women’s cross-country team can be really good this
“I was able to find myself outside of my sport and realize that running is not going to be there for me all the time.” Annie Fuller MSU runner season. In fact, she acknowledges that it’s her other sport that seeks improvement. “We’ve always struggled in track.” She envisions that the program will take its desired step forward if all of the different event groups learn new ways to unite. Fuller said she yearns to reach out to those team members she doesn’t normally communicate with and build new relationships with them, whether they’ve been there for years or if it’s their first day on MSU’s track. “Cross-country has been a really great addition to my life,” Fuller said.
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California Fair Pay to Play Act could cause domino effect BY BRENDAN GUMBEL BGUMBEL@STATENEWS.COM
A long-standing debate in college athletics has been whether or not its athletes should be paid, and the NCAA has a history of bringing the hammer down on athletes and universities that have been found to violate the rules regarding this issue. Just last week, a step was taken in the direction of what could be a foundational moment for the future of college sports and the athletes who partake in them. California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill that will allow student athletes to be entitled to compensation based off the use of their name, likeness and image. The bill will not go into effect until 2023 and will also allow athletes to hire agents. The passing of this bill did not come without resistance from the NCAA. Before Newsom signed the bill, the Los Angeles Times reported he received a letter from the NCAA that detailed their concerns. They want to preserve the integrity of college athletics and want to prevent it from becoming
a professional atmosphere such as the NFL or NBA, the letter said. The letter also addressed the head start California would have when it comes to recruiting three years from now once the bill goes into effect. This could be the beginning of a domino effect, as Florida has subsequently seen two different representatives filing bills similar to the one passed in California. Another big change in college sports is the NBA proposing to lower the draft age to 18 from 19. If the draft eligibility age is lowered, high-level high school recruits may opt to forego college and go straight to the NBA. Michigan State Men’s Basketball Head Coach Tom Izzo said he is not opposed to college athletes getting paid, but he is definitely aware that there are many implications and unknown outcomes that lie ahead. “I’m in for players getting whatever they can get,” Izzo said at the Big Ten Conference Basketball Media Day on Oct. 2. “I just don’t know what the effects are going to be. And so I’m wide open on it, like I’ve been other things. “I don’t think I’m giving a politician’s answer. I’ve learned over the last few years that it’s hard
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to comment on things that you don’t know a lot about, and I don’t know,” Izzo said. “All this stuff gets thrown at you. I don’t know what it’ll be like to be on a team if some guy is doing this and some guy is getting nothing. I don’t know what that does to the chemistry. I don’t know how many people it’s really going to benefit or to what level it’s going to benefit anybody.” Michigan State students Ben Wright and Will McCrory, both sophomores, shared their thoughts on the passing of the new bill. “I feel like it’s going to give California an unfair advantage,” Wright said. “Other states will probably have less recruiting because Califor-
nia is going to have more money to work with.” McCrory said the bill could have the potential to keep college athletes in school longer. “I think it’s about ... time we start paying college athletes for their names and likeness,” McCrory said. “I think that this will pave the road for other states to do the same thing so that players can start making money and can spend more time in college.” A common theme in what Izzo said was that he doesn’t know what the future holds. And right now, it doesn’t seem like anybody does. One thing is for certain, however. The NCAA will look a lot different 10 years from now, and this new bill is just the beginning.
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It’s On Us week at MSU: ‘We should always be having these conversations’ BY KARLY GRAHAM KGRAHAM@STATENEWS.COM
Each semester, Michigan State hosts an “It’s On Us Week of Action” in the fall and spring semesters. The biannual week of events encourages discussion around sexual assault on campus. After receiving a recommendation from the White House Task Force to Prevent Sexual Assault, a national campaign was created under the Obama administration to raise awareness to end sexual assault. MSU signed on to become one of the more than 550 colleges to hold events under the name of It’s On Us. This fall’s It’s On Us week is Oct. 14 to Oct. 18. It’s On Us week was first brought to MSU through the Associated Students of Michigan State University, or ASMSU. Now, the MSU Prevention, Outreach and Education Department, or POE, also helps run and plan the events. “I really like that we do a fall Week of Action and spring Week of Action because it allows us to engage students, staff and faculty in different ways throughout the different semesters,” POE Prevention Specialist Leah Short said. It’s On Us week includes various events on and off campus. A guest is often invited to campus for It’s On Us week to give a speech to the campus community. This year, “Orange is the New Black” star and transgender rights activist Laverne Cox was the keynote speaker. “In best practices, it’s not productive to just have one big conversation about something like this and then never talk about it again, or talk about it once a year,” Short said. “Always having those conversations — and I think that the way we intentionally do two Weeks of Action each year reinforces that whole sentiment of wanting to make sure that people aren’t just remembering once a year to think about this — that this is always something that they’re conscious of.” With fundraisers, speeches, events focusing on artistic expression and more, Short said the campaign urges to create a conversation about sexual assault and sexual violence on campus beyond the mandatory Relationship Violence and Sexual Misconduct (RVSM) workshops. “I think it’s important that this campaign has a student voice and is centered around student voices and student needs because as a staff person I just help coordinate events and help coordinate the weekly meetings for the planning committee,” she said. “I think that student voice is crucial to have because y’all live the day to day life of students and we need that input to know what’s going on.”
Members of the Associated Students of Michigan State University, or ASMSU, pose during their organized event to kick off It's On Us Week of Action on Oct. 14. PHOTO BY ELIJAH MCKOWN
Since its founding in 2014, 440,000 people have taken the It’s On Us pledge, promising to help create a culture of consent, bystander intervention and survivor support. For the 2019-20 academic year, more than 250 schools have registered college campus chapters. “I think we should always be having these conversations, not just here. I hope that people take the conversations and the events
this week outside of campus on to their lives beyond college, out into the Lansing community, back to their homes,” Short said. “I think that needs to be a constant conversation, that, it may be difficult, it might be uncomfortable, but something I like to emphasize is that we need to lean into that discomfort because that is how we are ultimately going to see change.” It’s On Us Week of Action will return in the spring.
EDITORIAL: It’s On Us, but it’s also on MSU BY THE STATE NEWS EDITORIAL BOARD FEEDBACK@STATENEWS.COM
As the university takes part in the national It’s On Us: Week of Action initiative, created to raise awareness of sexual assault on college campuses, its important message affects our community a little differently. Especially for anyone who’s paid attention to what’s been happening at our university for the past three years. This week, it’s on us to address the issue of sexual assault and to use the conversations we have to power change. From this week’s kickoff event, to actress and advocate Laverne Cox speaking on campus, to the Teal Out, community members are taking action to raise awareness. After all, we can’t put an end to sexual assault on college campuses if we don’t make a communal effort. Yes, it’s on us. But it’s also on you, Michigan State. Because while we, as individuals, have a responsibility to learn and educate others about these issues, it’s also the university’s responsibility to do all it can to prevent campus sexual assault and to help those who have been affected. It’s on you, MSU, when you once enabled a se-
rial predator to work on campus, and when you took years to take any action to ensure nothing like that could ever happen again. We have not forgotten. Time and time again, the community has seen a lack of proactive change from the administration. It’s on you, MSU, when people named in the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights report — which concluded in September that the university failed to comply with Title IX regulations — are still employed at MSU. It’s on you, MSU, to provide our community with closure, and drawing out the legal process does the opposite of that. Not providing all of the necessary documents to the Attorney General’s office for their investigation into MSU — an investigation the Board of Trustees asked for in January 2018 — does the opposite of that. On Friday, survivors and parents of survivors lit luminaries outside of the East Lansing Public Library so that everyone will remember “there are over 500 individual girls affected by this,” a parent said. Seeing hundreds of names, hundreds of lights all in one place speaks volumes. And they only represent those who reported.
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“We as individuals have a responsibility to learn and educate others about these issues, it’s also the university’s responsibility to do all it can to prevent campus sexual assault.” The State News Editorial Board This vigil — which a media release said symbolized the “wait survivors have had to experience for MSU to tell the truth” — took place prior to the new university president’s scheduled talk with survivors, which is one thing MSU can do to help the community heal. Another thing the university can do is get over protecting their public image. When the administration talks about healing and moving on, it’s hard not to think they only want to move on in their own terms.
Moving on doesn’t just mean selecting a permanent president. That’s not the last step in healing — in many ways, it’s still the beginning. The national It’s On Us initiative calls for action, not words. University officials have talked about how MSU can be an example to other institutions on how to move on after something like this happens. But, to this day, not much has been done. On the day the luminaries honoring survivors were lit, one survivor said, “For students, I want them to know (MSU) literally didn’t do anything.” It’s not over, there’s so much more that can be done. And it’s on you, MSU, to make things right. The State News Editorial Board is composed of Editor-in-Chief Madison O’Connor, Managing Editor Mila Murray, Copy Chief Alan Hettinger, Campus Editor Kaitlyn Kelley, City Editor Evan Jones, Sports Editor Paolo Giannandrea, Photo Editor Sylvia Jarrus, Multimedia Editor Haley Sinclair, Social Media and Engagement Editor Wolfgang Ruth, Staff Representative Matt Schmucker and Diversity and Inclusion Representative Edwin Jaramillo.