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Protecting Spartan Pride Since the mid-1960s, members of the Spartan Marching Band have stood watch over an MSU landmark during MSU vs. U-M rivalry week

Members of the Spartan Marching Band stand and talk during the annual week of Sparty Watch on Oct. 25 at The Spartan statue. PHOTO: CARLY GERACI

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Late-game heroics to questionable clockwork, best U-M rivalry games BY COLTON WOOD CWOOD@STATENEWS.COM

1. Clockgate — Nov. 3, 2001 MSU narrowly upset the No. 6 Wolverines 26-24 in controversial fashion. Trailing the Wolverines, former MSU quarterback Jeff Smoker aimed to lead a game-winning drive late in the fourth quarter. Facing a fourth-and-four in the red zone, Smoker connected to T.J. Duckett for eight yards, which put the ball at U-M’s three-yard line. With the clock dwindling, Smoker and the Spartan offense rushed back to the line to spike the ball. As Smoker spiked the ball, the clock stopped with just 17 seconds remaining. On second-and-goal, Smoker scrambled and was eventually tackled in-bounds. Smoker once again rushed to the line to spike the ball. This time, clock operator Bob Stehlin stopped

Then-junior tight end Carson Butler of the Wolverines fends off then-junior defensive end Jonal SaintDic as thensenior running back Mike Hart of the Wolverines runs with the ball during the 2007 Paul Bunyan Trophy game. MSU lost 28-24.

the clock with just one second left. U-M’s sideline was enraged, and some said the clock should have ran. The Spartans had just one play left. As the ball was snapped, Smoker rolled out of the pocket and connected with Duckett for a twoyard touchdown to give MSU the win. 2. “Pride Comes Before the Fall” — Nov. 3, 2007 Days before the Spartans took on U-M, MSU first-year head coach Mark Dantonio responded to a reporter’s question regarding the Wolverines’ upset loss to Appalachian State. “Should we have a moment of silence?” Dantonio said. When the game concluded and U-M defeated MSU, U-M’s players put one finger to their lips, symbolizing a gesture of silence. Former U-M running back Mike Hart said the comeback made him laugh.

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“You know sometimes you get your little brother excited when you’re playing basketball and stuff (and) let him get the lead and then you just come back and take it back,” Hart said in an article from The Detroit News. Dantonio was asked if he found U-M’s gesture amusing. “I find a lot of the things that they do amusing,” Dantonio said in a previous press conference. “They need to check themselves sometimes, but just remember pride comes before the fall.” U-M’s win marked their sixth straight win against MSU at the time. Since this game, the Wolverines have gone 1-7 against the Spartans.

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3. A Punt for the Ages — Oct. 17, 2015 No. 7 MSU headed into Ann Arbor looking to defeat No. 12 U-M en route to the Spartans’ College Football Playoff berth. From start to finish, U-M never let go of the lead. That was, until the clock read 0:00. The Wolverines were leading with only 10 seconds left, but were faced with a fourth down. Punter Blake O’Neill was ready to receive the snap with no one back to field the punt. The snap was low and O’Neill bobbled the ball right into the hands of MSU’s Jalen Watts-Jackson. Watts-Jackson’s 38-yard return lifted MSU over U-M 27-23.

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Sparty Watch holds the line against U-M vandals for 60 years at MSU BY MARIE WEIDMAYER MWEIDMAYER@STATENEWS.COM

After a hail of eggs were thrown at The Spartan statue one cold night in October 1995, one would almost suspect the iconic statue to be covered in yolks, a symbolic stain on the image of MSU. But one Spartan fan, covered in green body paint, valued the statue more than his own body and threw himself in front of the onslaught. “Not one of those eggs touched Sparty,” John Sheldon, who goes by Johnny Spirit, told The State News in 1995. “I got hit a lot. I took bullets for Sparty, if you want to look at it that way.” Sparty Watch is a longstanding tradition Spartan Marching Band, or SMB, members participate in every year before the MSU vs. U-M football game. “Sparty Watch happens the week of the Michigan vs. Michigan State game,” supply chain management sophomore band member Riley Griffin said. “It doesn’t matter if the game is going to be at Michigan or Michigan State, we still do this because hecklers will still come and try to mess up the Sparty statue. It’s been a tradition with the band. We start the Monday morning of game week and we’ll make sure we have someone there 24/7 up until kickoff.” 60 years of a tradition When Leonard Jungwirth’s The Spartan statue was dedicated in June 1945, there wasn’t a dedicated guard to protect it from Wolverine fans during rivalry week. That would come about 20 years later. “I was in the band from 1962 to 1966, and at that time there was no Sparty Watch,” said for-

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mer band member Greg Pell. While Pell attended MSU, Sparty Watch started in an informal way. “With us it was just the very, very beginning, informal type of thing,” Pell said. “It wasn’t even called Sparty Guard or Sparty Watch, it was just ‘we ought to get together and make sure they don’t get to paint him this year’ kind of informal thing.“ Social media director for the MSU Alumni Band Melissa Mackey was a SMB member from 1983-88. “Back then, Sparty Watch was kind of an informal thing,” Mackey said. “It was just a few people who decided a day or two before the Michigan game to guard Sparty. It actually started when we started to see more and more vandalism of the statue.” The informal members of Sparty Watch would gather to protect the statue on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday nights before the game, when the chance of vandalism was higher, Mackey said. “(We thought) ‘Oh, you know last year they threw some paint on Sparty, so why don’t we hang around and see if we can spook the next maize and blue person that comes around,’” said SMB member from 1969-72 Jim Barry. The MSU Army Reserve Officers Training Corps, or ROTC, helps the SMB on nights they cannot guard the statue. “The army would watch over it Friday night so the band could sleep for the next day, the game day,” head chair of the Sparty Watch committee Peter Florian said. “It’s been something that the band has done with the Army ROTC for several decades.“

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Head coach Mark Dantonio hands out a delivery of pizzas during Sparty Watch on Oct. 25 at The Spartan statue. It’s MSU tradition for Dantonio to stop by The Spartan statue with boxes of pizza for the Spartan Marching Band during the week of the MSU vs. U-M football game. PHOTO: NIC ANTAYA

Breaking through the guard The Spartan statue has been attacked in a variety ways. In October 2013, during rivalry week, a group of 20 U-M fans attacked the statue with fists and, as perceived by some, one attacked the statue with a dildo until they were driven off by super fan Johnny Spirit with Sparty Watch’s help. “Last year, there were actually some students that got paint thrown on them because there were people trying to vandalize the statue right while there were people watching, which is super gutsy and ridiculous, but it was nice to see that the band members just really stood up to that,” Mackey said. The vandalism tends to occur during the week

leading up to the game against U-M, but The Spartan has been vandalized at other times as well. In January 2002 the statue was covered in nine cans of paint before the basketball game against U-M. On April 16, 1979, nine U-M students attempted to paint Sparty’s tail end yellow, according to an old article from The State News. “The Michigan students said they were painting Sparty’s backside a maize color, but Department of Public Safety officers told them we call it corn and took them into custody,” the article said. Sparty Watch is designed to stop the vandalism that occurs during the week of the MSU vs. U-M football game.

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Spotlight “A lot of people have tried to vandalize the statue past midnight, that’s generally when it’s the opportune time,” co-chair of the Sparty Watch Committee Dominic Aldini said. There were times when Sparty Watch stopped possible vandalism, Mackey said. “We were the last line of defense before an awful thing would happen,” Barry said. “We were guardians.” Eventually U-M caught on to the short, informal hours of the original Sparty Watch. “(At first it was) for brief periods of time and then got later into the night as the vandals realized, ‘Hey, if we come later then they’ll be gone’ and we said, ‘Well let’s not be gone, let’s just stay there,’” Mackey said. “Then it extended into a whole day and then a couple days and over the years, it seems like it’s just kind of gotten, every year, longer and longer and more of a formal thing that the band put together.” More than just a guard While Sparty Watch has evolved through the years from an informal gathering to an MSU tradition, some things have remained the same. “I like it because I feel like we’re helping the university out as a bigger part than just the band,” Griffin said. “It’s a lot of fun to go and de-stress from classes for a couple of hours and hang out with a bunch of your friends and make sure the statue isn’t going to get paint on it.” Pell echoed that sentiment. “Well, it’s a social opportunity — when you’re not rehearsing music, you’re not marching, it’s

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Neuroscience senior Ana Maldonado, left and prelaw and statistics junior Katherine Fernandez eat pizza during Sparty Watch on Oct. 25 at The Spartan statue.

just a chance to hang out and hang out at Sparty,” Pell said. The MSU vs. U-M rivalry has been around longer than any current member of the SBM, dating at least to 1953 with the introduction of the Paul Bunyan Trophy and after the then-Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science was allowed to play in the Big Ten Conference. “It’s great to know I’m part of something bigger than myself, just to be a Spartan and protect our honor and what we stand for,” Florian said. There is something special about being a part of the longstanding tradition, SMB President Rachel Sze said. “My first night at Sparty Watch (was) as a freshman and (I was) sort of in awe of being surrounded by so much tradition,” Sze said. “At midnight the band members will sing the ‘Shadows’ and the fight song, and that was just an unbelievably memorable moment for me.” The night shift of Sparty Watch is divided into two parts, Aldini said. “The first half which usually is after band practice or around 8 to midnight and it’s when you get most of the people to come out,” Aldini said. “The second half is at midnight we all sing the ‘Shadows’ (then) the numbers, they die down, but there are a few that stay past midnight.” Sparty Watch has evolved into a great bonding experience for the SMB, Mackey said. “We’ll stand by Sparty all day, all night, protecting it and hopefully we have a great outcome this weekend,” Sze said.

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Members of the Spartan Marching Band play ladder ball during Sparty Watch on Oct. 25 at The Spartan statue. PHOTO: NIC ANTAYA

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Spartans look to upset U-M, spoil hopes of College Football Playoff BY STEPHEN OLSCHANSKI SOLSCHANSKI@GMAIL.COM

MSU takes on the No. 2 University of Michigan at noon Saturday at Spartan Stadium. MSU, 2-5 overall and 0-4 Big Ten, comes into the game a nearly 24-point underdog to the Wolverines with a 7-0 overall record and 4-0 conference record. Under Mark Dantonio, MSU is 7-2 against U-M, including 4-1 at home. Wolverines’ head coach Jim Harbaugh is 0-1 against MSU. The Spartans defeated U-M 27-23 last season — Harbaugh’s first at the helm. “Obviously, guys, big football game for us, rivalry game,” Dantonio said at his press conference Tuesday. “I think the history of this football game really goes back to every coach who’s ever probably coached here.” MSU comes into the game having lost five straight, most recently 28-17 to Maryland. U-M will enter the contest having quickly dispatched Illinois, 41-8 last week. The game has become a looming rivalry for state bragging rights, and has recently become a battle for Big Ten title contention, though this year MSU is out of the picture for a return to Indianapolis. The Spartans, however, could play spoiler to U-M’s aspirations. U-M presents an offense, which currently averages 257.1 yards rushing and 225.9 yards passing per game. Even more

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staggering, the Wolverines have averaged 10 points a quarter while leading the Big Ten and being ranked third in the country for offensive scoring, averaging 48.7 points a game. “You look at them on offense, again, another veteran football team with a quarterback who’s in his fifth year, I believe,” Dantonio said. “Also (Amara) Darboh and (Jehu) Chesson who are seniors and very productive players along with (Jake) Butt.” The MSU offense has lagged behind by comparison, compiling 235 average yards passing and 155.3 average yards rushing. MSU’s already stagnant offense will face perhaps the toughest defense in the nation. “Look at defense, I think they have 10 seniors of the 11 starters,” Dantonio said. “Jourdan Lewis back in the back end, I guess (Jabrill) Peppers at the linebacker position, and then Chris Wormley and Taco Charlton probably at the front four are probably their headline guys.” Lewis, perhaps one of the nation’s top defensive backs, will be the lockdown guy on MSU’s best receiver and will likely be paired with either Donnie Corley or R.J. Shelton. U-M possesses a similar threat in the run-stopping game behind a defense that has given up an average of 96 yards a game. Only one opponent, UCF, rushed for 275 yards against the Wolverines. Dantonio has yet to name a starting quarterback and called it a “game-time decision.” U-M quarterback Wil-

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Then-junior tight end Josiah Price, 82, and then-sophomore linebacker Chris Frey celebrate after the game against Michigan, on Oct. 17, 2015 at Michigan Stadium. The Spartans defeated the Wolverines 27-23. STATE NEWS FILE PHOTO

ton Speight has started every game, coming into the game completing 114of-182 passes, 1,447 yards passing and 13 touchdowns. MSU’s defense has given up an aver-

age of 162.6 yards rushing a game and allowed an average of 225.4 yards through the air. The defense ranks 119th in terms of team sacks, averaging a sack a game.

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Dantonio fires up his players enough to perform the way they did against Notre Dame. Running the ball with effectiveness and preventing deep completions for the Wolverines is a start.

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U-M comes out flat, has multiple turnovers that results in MSU points and allows lowly MSU to hang around. MSU will have to establish the run and the O-line will have to hold back a daunting U-M pass rush.

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U-M’s athleticism becomes ultimately too much. They have solid weapons on offense, their defense is top-ranked and their trench play on both sides is tremendous. If the defense can’t get a breather every once in awhile, it will be a long day for MSU.

35-21 U of M

U-M continues to play how they have and goes full throttle at MSU, showing little mercy. U-M has the momentum of last season’s loss and will show little regard for MSU. If MSU plays as it has, they lose easily.

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Dueling column: The Spartans are down, but they’re not out BY NATHANIEL BOTT NBOTT@STATENEWS.COM

Whether the odds were in their favor or not, the Spartan army of ancient Greece would back down from no challenge. Their tactics were not overpowering and their skills did not reign supreme, NATHANIEL BOTT but sheer determination and will kept them atop their archaic state, cutting down challengers in their path. Mark Dantonio is King Leonidas, and has been for his Spartans since he arrived at the throne of head coach in East Lansing. A great leader — the men he has recruited were not the best athletes, nor the greatest students, but dedication to his process of intense, hard-nosed training and conditioning has led him to glory no Spartan coach in the modern era of MSU football has achieved. “Those who have stayed are already champions.” Four 11-win seasons in the last five years. Two Big Ten championships. A Rose Bowl win for the first time in 25 years. An improbable come-frombehind New Year’s Six bowl win, an appearance in the College Football Playoff thanks to one of the most historic plays in college football history and a 7-2 record against the Wolverines in the last nine years.

“Mark Dantonio is King Leonidas, and has been for his Spartans since he arrived at the throne of head coach in East Lansing.” — Nathaniel Bott That final point knocked U-M off their proverbial pedestal they perched atop for too long. As for “Big Brother,” you might be the winningest team of all time, but what have you done for your fans lately? A couple of wins in the Sugar Bowl and the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl, but nothing else notable comes to mind. Jim Harbaugh is Xerxes as he leads his Persian army into Spartan territory — a place U-M hasn’t won a game at since 2007 and recently has turned in some historically tragic performances. For instance, remember the bewildering negative 48 yards in the rushing column against the Spartans in 2013? We do. Harbaugh and his Wolverines embody the cockiness of those Persians. Harbaugh consistently runs up the score on lesser opponents, and even did so during his days at Stanford. He keeps his starters in for the majority of the game, and even ran a fake punt in the fourth quarter against Illinois while up by more than 20 points. Classy move, Jim. Now, our counterpart at The Michigan Daily 12

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surely has a statistical edge for this year’s content: U-M is ranked No. 2 with an undefeated top defense while MSU sits at a lowly record of 2-5. It’s certainly a flipped script from prior years, when last year’s Daily writer resorted to a poorly constructed satirical piece about East Lansing loving Jim Harbaugh. If I were to walk down the streets of Ann Arbor proudly sporting Spartan garment, I would receive belligerent remarks as well. But to the readers of this content, whether it be through The State News or The Michigan Daily websites, know this — MSU’s student newspaper has won 15 Pacemaker Awards, the highest honor a student-run publication can achieve. This is done with a newsroom of hardly more than 30 students, nearly half of them underclassmen. The Michigan Daily, on the other hand, falls well short of that mark and employs a newsroom more than double the size of ours, full of freelance writers who probably get their work done while eating in cafeterias their own former basketball golden boy described as serving “jail food.” Get some salmon in your diet, Daily staff, some brain food — based on your lack of recognition and achievement for your work, you certainly need it. The large newsroom staff The Michigan Daily has naturally gives them an advantage for the annual “touch” football game between The State News and The Michigan Daily, played the Friday before U-M and MSU take the field. Touch is quoted, considering the fact that it left one of our female designers in the emergency room following a cheap shot from a Daily reporter during last year’s contest. Back to the gridiron, it is tough to deny that the Wolverines have the better athletes, with more skill and speed on the outside and stronger interior line presence. They will certainly be hungry to avenge last season’s gut-wrenching defeat in the final seconds to MSU, one that surely still leaves a sour taste in the mouths of Wolverine fans, Walmart or not. The Spartans have had improbable wins against U-M, too. Remember in 1990 when an unranked MSU team upset the No. 1 Wolverines? We do. MSU will have to call upon their Spartan brethren of old in order to beat these odds, and perhaps the Gods of war themselves, but if there was a leader who could inspire a group of warriors to defend their home against their enemy to the southeast, it would be “Leonidas.” Perhaps he will have some tricks to flip the script of history once again.

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Dueling Column: The Michigan Daily on MSU BY MAX BULTMAN BULTMANM@UMICH.EDU

I’ve been to Michigan State a handful of times in my life, and it’s really not a terrible place. There’s some decent food, an admittedly solid dairy store and the second-best Rick’s American Café in the state. It wasn’t my first choice for MAX BULTMAN college, but for a while, there was a chance I could have ended up there. And I probably would have been happy. That’s why I’ve always felt a little strange about the Michigan-Michigan State rivalry. But when it comes to The State News, I have no trouble sorting out my feelings. I think I speak for your entire campus when I thank you for reducing your print publication to two days a week. The world can only handle so much mediocrity. Last season, after Michigan State beat Ohio State in one of the most significant wins in school history, The State News’ game story led with this: “MSU defeated OSU by a score of 17-14 Saturday afternoon in Ohio Stadium on a walk-off 41-yard field goal by junior kicker Michael Geiger.” It ended like this: “Junior kicker Michael Geiger then attempted a 41-yard field goal attempt to win the game; he made it. The Spartans won. They will play Penn State next Saturday at Spartan Stadium.” After reading stories like that, I wonder if the reason Mark Dantonio always feels disrespected is that his school doesn’t have a better newspaper. To be fair, he hasn’t exactly earned better coverage this year. Michigan State is so bad at football this season that its inferiority complex no longer stops with Michigan. Now, the Spartans are looking up at Central Michigan, Western Michigan and Eastern Michigan, too. They’re so bad that NBA coach Mike D’Antoni is hoping people stop slandering his good name by insinuating that he coaches Michigan State. They’re so bad

that even Connor Cook’s dad is offended. They’re so bad that the couches in East Lansing are finally coming out of hiding. I’d actually feel a little bad making fun of the varsity team in this column if The State News’ writers didn’t seem to believe they were part of it. Last year, one of your reporters tweeted that he cried in the press box after a win. I would have assumed they taught objectivity in journalism school. There also seems to be a misunderstanding about the concept of “news.” I know you all only print twice a week, but is there a reason you still have photos from Oct. 9 as your lead football gallery? And here I thought Michigan fans liked to live in the past. Unfortunately for you, the past, present and future are all the same when it comes to our annual touch football game. The Daily has won 11 straight, including one game in which you wore shirts proclaiming, “We are the ones.” We’ll win again Friday, and then we’ll listen to all of your complaints about how big our staff is. Maybe we should apologize because students here want to work for the Daily. Maybe we should play with six on the field instead of seven, just to give you a break. Maybe we should cancel the game and just use that time to teach you how to write on deadline. I don’t have all the answers here. What I do know is that it genuinely saddens me how pedestrian The State News is. I have a lot of respect for Michigan State as a university, and there’s a chance that one day, one of my younger sisters could end up there. I’d hate to think that, if that happens, they would find this column and think I have nothing good to say about their student newspaper. So I decided to end with a positive. I racked my brain, and I came up with all of the redeeming qualities I could think of about the State News — reasons I don’t think the paper might as well just give up. Here’s what I came up with: I’m sure you’ll all have nice children some day. EDITORS’S NOTE: THIS COLUMN IS SUBJECT TO THE EDITING TEAM AND STYLE GUIDE OF THE MICHIGAN DAILY. THE STATE NEWS HAS PUBLISHED IT AS IS.

MSU and U-M join forces for 64-mile race across state BY SASHA ZIDAR SZIDAR@STATENEWS.COM

Spartans and Wolverines will come together on Friday to run 64 miles from the Big House in Ann Arbor to Demonstration Hall in East Lansing. Alex’s Great State Race honors former MSU student Alex Powell, with hopes to raise awareness for student disability services. Five years ago, MSU student Alex Powell walked around campus with his longtime dream of being a Spartan realized. However, Powell wasn’t like most MSU students. Powell was diagnosed with a rare type of cancer during his senior year of high school. When he had found out he’d been accepted to MSU, he didn’t let his illness change his goals and pursued his educational career at MSU. “I am very excited to be able to run for such an amazing cause,” MSU ROTC cadet and general management junior Michael Stass said. After forming a close bond with the MSU football team and those around him, Powell left a legacy behind on MSU’s campus. He died from cancer in May 2011 “Alex’s story is moving, and this event is a great way to honor his courage and perseverance while battling cancer as he made the drive between Ann Arbor and East Lansing for treatments,” Stass said. “The amount of support both sides bring is truly inspiring.” MSU’s Resource Center for Persons with Disabilities inspired Powell’s family to start the race. The annual event is held the day before the rivalry game between U-M and MSU. Participants race to the location

where the game will be held with the game ball to honor Powell. “I love how it brings both schools together in working towards a very worthy goal,” MSU Army ROTC cadet and social work junior Terra Crown said. “We all have so much to offer and it’s awesome when people from all over step up to the plate.” Crown will not be running the full 64 miles. Stass plans on running about 25 miles. This year, MSU ROTC and ROTC at U-M will join together and run in Alex’s Great State Race. “We have 25 participating this year,” Stass said. “Twenty-five is actually about a quarter of our battalion.” Microbiology junior and ROTC cadet Cam Woodard will also participate in the race this Friday. “It’s very humbling to be a part of this experience running for this cause,” Woodard said. “It makes realize how blessed I have been in my life and my need to give back.” The runners try to raise awareness and funds to support people with disabilities through the RCPD at MSU and U-M, Woodard said. “We do this in remembrance of Alex Powell and his indomitable spirit,” Woodard said. All donations from the race go toward the RCPD at MSU and the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities at U-M. “Last year we raised over $11,000 dollars,” Crown said. “The generosity of people is what inspires me most about this race.” Both U-M and MSU communities will come together to celebrate Powell’s life. Led by the game ball for Saturday’s game, participants will race for awareness and the legacy of a young man.

ACROSS

1 __ for the course 4 Proverb 9 Wire fence stickers 14 Winner of the most 2016 Olympic medals 15 Prize founder 16 Accustom (to) 17 __ Tin Tin 18 “We’re done here. Please leave” 20 For mature viewers 22 Foot prettifier, briefly 23 Miss. neighbor 24 Grape-Nuts cereal brand 26 Big Board letters 30 Lone source of local entertainment 33 Pop in a glass 34 Wonder 35 Longtime name in Syrian leadership 36 Prereq for a lifeguard 37 Fred Flintstone’s boss 40 CBS logo 41 Yoga position 43 Conservationist’s prefix 44 Part of 14-Across: Abbr. 45 Eschew modern conveniences 49 Worrisome grades 50 Misplace 51 Tennis do-over 52 Open house offering 54 Great suffering

57 Like the child of your first cousin, to you 62 Great Lakes’ __ Canals 63 Baseball legend Satchel 64 Dior skirt style 65 “__ the President’s Men” 66 Does’ mates 67 Cares for 68 Sound on Old MacDonald’s farm

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1 Sound of a contented kitty 2 Great Wall setting 3 Deliver a tirade 4 Sometime soon 5 “Let’s Make a Deal” selection 6 __ Dhabi 7 Emerald, e.g. 8 Slip by 9 Texas city of 1.3 million, familiarly 10 Consecrates with oil 11 It may be unearned 12 Compadre 13 Clinch, with “up” 19 Mythical Himalayan 21 Singer Fitzgerald 24 Feline feet 25 Brunch servings

27 Ill-tempered Looney Tunes character 28 Persuaded 29 Week or rear add-on 30 “My bad!” 31 Needlefish 32 Scottish denial 33 Nearly boil 37 Long March leader in 1930s China 38 Tylenol target 39 One may be stubbed 42 Retirement fund 44 Belligerent god 46 Chimney part 47 Word processing category involving page dimensions 48 Moves smoothly 53 Lodes and lodes 54 Patch up 55 Hershey’s caramel candy 56 Modern-day carpe diem spelled out at the starts of 18-, 30-, 45and 57-Across 57 Black __: covert missions 58 D.C. ballplayer 59 Spy novel org. 60 “¡Viva el matador!” 61 __ Scully, Dodger announcer for 67 seasons

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MSU, E.L. prepare for busy weekend BY MCKENNA ROSS MROSS@STATENEWS.COM

East Lansing and MSU are working together to promote public safety for this weekend’s rivalry home game against University of Michigan and the weekend’s Halloween festivities. Annette Irwin, housing and university relations administrator for the city and co-chair of the committee, said the city and university are preparing for a busy weekend. “It’s the Michigan game, and the last time Michigan played here it was a very, very busy night,” Irwin said. “The biggest issue two years ago that we’re hoping to not repeat is there were a lot of medic runs.” East Lansing Police Department Lt. Scott Wriggelsworth said the police are staffing extra officers at the game and at night. He said they plan to have an extra 15 officers on duty and four to six mounted Ingham County police will be available. They will also draw from MSU police if necessary. “We know this home football weekend is one of the biggest weekends we have,” Wriggelsworth said. “Add Halloween weekend into that, this will probably be the biggest weekend we have in the entire year.” East Lansing Fire Department Chief Randy Tali-

farro said although they don’t have the exact numbers worked out yet, they have two ambulances and plan to have an additional two available on Saturday, depending on how many people they can staff for the weekend. “The biggest issue on this type of weekend is people and alcohol,” Wriggelsworth said. “We always see that that is a bad mix, especially when people start tailgating at 7:30. Some people after the game won’t go home, so there’s going to be some people there that have been drinking from 7 a.m. to 2, 3, 4 a.m. — almost the entire day.” The city and MSU work together on public safety issues through the through the Celebrations Committee, which consists of 60 university officials and representatives, and city businesses and agencies such as the police and fire departments. They focus on public safety messages and strategies before celebratory events, using tabletop messages and outreach to community members. Dennis Martell, health education services coordinator for MSU, said the main message they are sending out for this weekend is to stay with friends. “It’s been proven that if you stay with your friends, you’re less likely to get involved in harmful consequences,” Martell said. “That’s the number one protective thing a student can do.”