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Welcome to Summer Snoop Dogg, Meghan Trainor to headline Common Ground
Artist Hitman interacts with fans at Sparrow Stage on July 11, 2014, at Adado Riverfront Park in downtown Lansing. — Page 9
What Up Dawg? given somber, ceremonious closing — Pages 6-7
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How to survive on a sublease Take it from a freshman who went through the process — PAGE 2 M ON DAY, M AY 18, 2 015
Anita Crisp dances to Ahsan during Common Ground Music Festival on July 13, 2014, at Adado Riverfront Park in downtown Lansing. — Page 5
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“During the summer, we can kind of just hangout and get a couple beers and it’s not as crowded and you don’t have to wait in line for three hours.” Kristen Slater, a graduate student commenting on the bar scene during the summer — PAGE 10 STAT ENEWS .COM
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Football stocks up on new recruits
Adding to the roster of verbal commits, Football added five new recruits to the recruiting class of 2016 — PAGE 12
Opinion
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Subleasing tips from a freshman who made the leap from dorm life
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“I am the paying student, but my rapist takes priority over me. If he is deemed a danger and was expelled because of assaulting someone why is he allowed to attend? Do rapists now get special privileges at MSU?” Go to statenews.com to read more of this letter to the editor.
People grow up and learn a lot about themselves during their college experience. Even just the first year can change a person drastically. Personally, I became a much more independent person. I went from fearing being on my own to completely embracing it. That’s why I decided to sublease an apartment this summer. Not to mention, I’ve spent pretty much every summer of my life in my hometown of Kalamazoo and while it’s certainly not a terrible place, I’m over it. There was really no pressing reason for me to spend yet another summer home. After scouring through sublease deals, I finally found a place that was perfect in terms of price, range and location. As the spring semester was coming to a close, I was gradually moving my things into my new apartment, enlisting the help of my friends along the way. Finally, I turned my dorm keys into the front desk and kissed my beloved dorm room goodbye. Looking back, it’s safe to say the moving-in process was more overwhelming than I anticipated and I wasn’t exactly prepared. Once I was done unpacking, I noticed my stomach growling. I walked into my
kitchen to get something to eat. I realized I foolishly didn’t bring any food with me — a naive mistake. Despite that, things have been pretty good at my apartment so far. I’m all settled in, I get along well with my new roommate and I don’t think we’ll be running out of food anytime soon, which is honestly my biggest fear. If you’re subleasing this summer or considering it as a possible option sometime in the future, allow me to offer you some words of wisdom. First of all, always buy more food than you think you’ll need. If you’re anything like me, you’ll go through it much faster than you anticipate. Secondly, don’t wait around hoping your room will magically get set up on its own. Moving into a new space and setting it up is always stressful in the beginning. The best thing you can do is put something somewhere and then work around it, you can always move it if you end up changing your mind. And finally, take a trip to Ikea a few months before you move in. I promise you, they will have literally everything you could ever need for a decent price. I would definitely recommend more freshmen take advantage of all the summer subleasing opportunities. I’ll be returning to the dorms this upcoming fall, but so far it’s been a great way to see what it’s like to live independently. When I decide to permanently live on my own, I’ll be much more prepared for that new experience. Leslie Hemenway is The State News East Lansing reporter. Reach her at lhemenway@statenews.com.
Online classrooms, convenience does not mean easier workload
BY RACHEL FRADETTE RFRADETTE@STATENEWS.COM
The digital age has created all sorts of changes for the academic world. Curriculum for schools at all levels have changed with the times and begun to incorporate all aspects of technology. Through this adjustment, a new type of class emerged. Online classes have become a massive part of the education system. College, high school and even home schooling have forms of online participation. 2
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There are some colleges that are completely online in order to accommodate students who cannot go to a classroom or attend a lecture. They are particularly helpful for students who do not want to be in class all summer. Online classes are extremely convenient, but beware because sometimes they can be too good to be true. Students often see online, particularly summer online classes as an “easy A” or vacation class. They are the exact opposite. Online classes are set to a constrained time limit and this can often pressure professors to give their students massive amounts of course material to cover in the allotted time. Shortened time plus only online inter-
action can cause miscommunications between professors and students. A lack of communication can lead to poor grades. If you are going to take an online class, make sure to keep talking with your professor. When you read an online module or watch a lecture there is always a bit of gray area, be sure to ask questions and confirm what you know. Another problem with online learning is that you are responsible for your own learning. You get out of it what you put into it. Online courses require you to persevere and can involve self-teaching, making it more challenging. My fellow procrastinators, you cannot procrastinate in
these classes and expect to pass with flying colors. Online classes require participation throughout the entire class. If you wait to work on anything, you will get far behind and you can kiss that 4.0 goodbye. So if you are constantly battling your own laziness, I would recommend you either not take the class or you use it as a way to fix your problem. After each of my online classes, I had become a much more diligent student– they forced me to actively participate. Go for those online classes, but be cautious, you will have to work harder than usual. Rachel Fradette is The State News opinion editor. Reach her at rfradette@statenews.com
Contents INSIDE
Campus, East Lansing bombarded by seasonal construction
Bonfire and hammocking laws to be mindful of this summer
Quake, elections and more: what you missed over break
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East Lansing residents (pictured left to right) play a game of pick-up basketball with Dylan Etheridge going up for a basket, Will Russell on defense and Jordan Hancock ready for the rebound May 12 on the courts off of Shaw Trail. PHOTO: WYATT GIANGRANDE/THE STATE NEWS
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“It’s a dirty old hole in the wall that no one really knows about, and in that sense it’s special because it’s yours. I’m really gonna miss it here.”
International relations senior Marcus Kamal, on What Up Dawg?’s closure
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What you might have missed, from finals week onward BY MICHAEL KRANSZ MKRANSZ@STATENEWS.COM
From the shaking Earth perturbing a finals study session to the guilty verdict of a murderer that sent campus into secure in place a little more than a year ago, here’s a breakdown of events that happened when heads were in the books to when minds were hazy from post-graduation celebrations. MARIJUANA LEGALIZED IN EAST LANSING ... KIND OF Although voters scrubbed the illegality of the use, possession and transfer of up to 1 ounce of the marijuana for those 21 and older on private property from the city’s charter with the passing of a proposal on May 5, local law enforcement officials have reiterated that this vote is nothing more than symbolic, as they’re still able to arrest under state and federal drug laws. “One of our biggest concerns with this change is that it very well could lead to some confusion for a lot of people,” East Lansing police Lt. Steve Gonzalez said in a prior interview with The State News. “We want to make sure that everybody is aware of the fact that you’re still subject to receiving a charge or citation under state law.” WAS THAT AN ... EARTHQUAKE? The dissipated rumblings of a magnitude-4.2 earthquake originating south-east of Kalamazoo on May 2 were felt by many in the East Lan-
sing-area — a not-easy-to-recognize feeling for many Michiganders, given that biggest recorded quake to rock the state was a magnitude-4.6 in 1947, according to U.S. Geological Survey data. FRANDOR RITE AID, EAST LANSING SHOOTER FOUND GUILTY BUT MENTALLY ILL Ricard Taylor, the East Lansing resident who fatally shot Rite Aid pharmacist Michael Addo before returning home and murdering neighbor Jordan Rogers on May 12, 2014, was found guilty but mentally ill on two counts of first-degree murder and five gun charges, a jury decided. The verdict came exactly one year after that fatal day in May. Many students might remember the day from the t wo-hour secure in place implemented at MSU because of the manhunt for and subsequent standoff with Taylor. Taylor suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and had been off his anti-psychotic medication for nearly three months before the murders, a state psychiatrist said in court. The main thrust of the prosecutor’s argument was contending that Taylor took the victims’ lives for reasons other than his mental illness, negating the insanity defense. The verdict sided with that argument, finding him guilty but mentally ill, which means that he will be sentenced as guilty but will receive psyc h iat r ic t reat ment when imprisoned.
Ricard Taylor sits in the courtroom for his preliminary exam Aug. 29, 2014, at the 54B District Court in East Lansing. Taylor was found guilty but mentally ill on seven felony charges, including two counts of first-degree murder. STATE NEWS FILE PHOTO
U.S. SENATOR VISITED CAMPUS, INTRODUCED STUDENT LOAN DEFAULT RELIEF LEGISLATION On May 5, Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., put forward the Federal Adjustment in Reporting (FAIR) Student Credit Act during a visit to MSU’s campus. The legislation is champi-
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oned as giving private loan borrowers who have defaulted a second chance to repair their credit score after a series of nine months of payment. Defaulting on student loans results in poor credit ratings which can hamper a delinquent borrower from purchasing a car or a house. Legislation is currently in
Whether this is your first summer sticking around MSU or your last, you will find there are three things you can count on, year-round: unpredictable Michigan weather, tuition hikes and The State News. We’re one of the only student newspapers which publishes during the summer. And we do that because we know our audience doesn’t disappear after school ends. This issue was hand-picked just for you. In it, we’ve included all the things you’ll need to know about summertime at MSU: how finding some one
place to get delinquent federal student loan borrowers back on track to a better credit score. FIVE WOMEN ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH BRUTAL E.L. BEATING The women, all arrested in Detroit the week of May 11, are accused of assaulting and
to take over your lease isn’t as easy as it sounds, what sections of campus construction to avoid and what bars are still hopping despite the end-of-year exodus, just to name a few. While The State News will be on newsstands every Thursday, we will be online every day informing you on breaking news and relevant East Lansing happenings at statenews.com. We’re focusing our efforts online — because that’s where you, the readers, are. If you’re social media addicts like us, you can find us on Twitter @thesnews and on Face-
robbing an 18-year-old student outside of her Spartan Village apartment at 2:50 a.m. on March 6. According to a past MSU police statement, the women lured the student out of her apartment before beating her with a baseball bat. The student was able to escape back to her apartment.
book, too. This year, we’ve also taken to Snapchat to show our readers the colorful and exciting things happening on campus. You can friend us by searching thesnews — we promise we won’t spam you with selfies. And if you ever find you have a question about summer student life, ask us. You can tweet at us, drop an email or Facebook comment and we’ll try our best to get to the bottom of it and get back to you. After all, that’s what we’re here for. -Olivia Dimmer The State News Editor in Chief
Summer Kickoff
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East Lansing rife with festivals, concerts and other outdoor fun
Lansing residents Rachel Schineman, left, Kyle Hoffman, center, and Luis Segueda, right, serve guests May 30, 2014, at the MSU Culinary Services tent at the Annual BWL Chili Cook-Off at the Adado Riverfront Park in Lansing. MSU Culinary services won third place is the meatless chili category. STATE NEWS FILE PHOTO
Ypsilanti, Mich., resident John Latini performs June 13, 2014 on Albert Avenue in front of El Azteco. STATE NEWS FILE PHOTO BY CAMERON MACKO CMACKO@STATENEWS.COM
Beginning July 9, Valley Court Park will be hosting the Moonlight Film Festival. Food will be provided and admission is free. The movies to be shown are geared toward children and most have a PG rating. What might be the most notable summer event is the Common Ground Music Festival, where rapper and DJ Snoop Dogg will be among the performers from July 7-12. One of the last events scheduled for the summer is the three day Great Lakes Folk Festival, an event “produced by the MSU Museum’s Michigan Traditional Arts Program, (that) is a celebration of culture, tradition and community.” The festival will run from Aug. 7 to 9.
Though the month of May might look devoid of fun things to do around East Lansing since the East Lansing Art Festival finished up last weekend, the rest of the summer is a packed calender of events, according to the City of East Lansing. At the end of May, the annual “Be A Tourist In Your Own Town,” will take place, sponsored by the Greater Lansing Convention & Visitors Bureau, which aims to “showcase Greater Lansing’s attractions, special events and tourism suppliers to our local residents.” Participants buy a $1 passport during May and are then allowed to participate in any of the planned EVENTS events for the day. On June 5 the Lansing Board of Water and Light will hold it’s annual chili cook-off, which has been going strong for 20 years. Adado Riverfront Park will host the cook off and MAY tickets are between $3 and $10. 30: Be A Tourist In Your Own Town Beginning on June 7, the East Lansing Farmer’s Market will be open for business for students and comJUNE munity members interested in buying local produce 5: LBWL Annual Chili Cook-off and other products. The market will be open every 7: East Lansing Farmer’s Market opens Sunday until Oct. 25. Also beginning in June is East Lansing’s popular 9: Valley Court Park Moonlight Film Festival begins Summer Concert Series, a free series of events locat12: East Lansing Summer Concert Series begins ed in Ann Street Plaza. This event runs from June 12 19-20: Festival of the Sun and Moon until Aug. 1 throughout the course of six non-consecutive weeks on Friday and Saturday nights. The music festival also helps drive business to downtown restauJULY rants and bars, the website read. 7-12: Common Ground Music Festival On the concert series’ off week, Ann Street Plaza will be hosting the Summer Solstice Jazz Festival on AUGUST June 19 and 20. 7-9: Great Lakes Folk Festival The free festival will include local, regional and national jazz musicians and will carry on in the event of rain. ONLINE For those 21 and over, also taking place on June 19 and 20 is the Festival of the Sun and Moon, located To read about the East in Lansing’s Old Town. Day passes are $17 and parLansing Art Festival, which ticipants can enjoy live music, wine tasting, food and happened over the weekend, beers provided by Bell’s Brewery. go to statenews.com
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St. John’s, Mich., resident Michele Sample pours wine during the 15th Annual Festival of the Sun and Moon on June 21, 2014, at Turner Street and Grand River Avenue in Lansing’s Old Town. STATE NEWS FILE PHOTO
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What Up Dawg? closes after four years and many dogs served While local hot dog restaurant and bar What Up Dawg? closed its doors last week, employees and the regulars who frequented the eatery gathered one last time to celebrate the legacy of “The Dawg”
What Up Dawg? general manager Corey Austin serves one of the last customers to visit the bar Wednesday. Joy Calloway, left, said she was in town and simply had a craving for a hot dog. PHOTO: OLIVIA DIMMER/THE STATE NEWS
Before Corey Austin took his last look at the vibrant green awning hanging outside of What Up Dawg?’s doors, before he used up the last of the beer on tap and before he fried the last hot dog he had left on the gristly grill, he invited all his regulars back for one last supper. And so, in two’s and three’s, groups of usual customers filed in through glass doors which were now affixed with brown paper — a looming sign of the restaurant’s imminent closure. They sat at the bar perched on leather-bound stools, which were now lacerated with the kind of wear only four years of drunken college students can leave. They drank beer, reminisced on good times and of course, ate hot dogs. But mostly, they all tried to ignore the fact that
their favorite after-dark hangout was fizzling out of business. They tried, like many recent college graduates do, to cling to the familiar — their old friends, old gathering places, and a collection of fond, booze-soaked memories. “It’s a place where you kind of dream to work,” Austin said. Austin has worked at What Up Dawg? since 2011 and is now the general manager. “You want to work with people that you enjoy and when that was the case, it was just hanging out,” he said “Taking care of your friends. If you have a barbecue at your house and you’re manning the grill, its the same thing. We just had a barbecue every day.” Throughout his last day at What Up Dawg?, Austin did spend his time taking care of his friends. Although many of their favorite entrées couldn’t be made because of the dwindling ingredients — the last scoop of chili was used up the day before,
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and only one bag of cheese was left in the fridge — that part didn’t really matter. Because much like Austin, it wasn’t the hot dogs that kept all these people coming back. And while the crookedly hung pictures of panting dogs on the wall were quirky, that wasn’t it either. When it was all said and done, it was the sense of belonging which reeled devoted customers back in. The sense that despite hectic college life, there were friends willing to share the dark stumble home with each other after a long night out. And at What Up Dawg?, these friends were never more than a $2 Coney dog away. NO T JUST ANOTHER HOLE-IN-THE-WALL Spring 2015 graduate Hope Tackbary first came to What Up Dawg? after a night out at the bars, seeking sanctuary and a hot dog. What
she found, however, became a routine late-night stop. “It was just a stop on the way home, but it became a place that we always came to,” she said. Having just graduated MSU herself, Tackbary said it’s almost as if What Up Dawg? is graduating alongside her. Having become a regular at the bar, she said there had been many nights when it was just herself and all of her closest friends crowding the hot dog joint. “It’s sad because we’re also leaving,” she said. “It’s an end of an era kind of thing. It’s the end of What Up Dawg?. It was here for the whole time that we were here so its kind of leaving with us.” Packaging senior Jack Schumacker said he has been making weekly trips to the beer pong tournaments on Thursdays at What Up Dawg? for nearly 2 years, and not being able to swing
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by on a Thursday night with his team is going to be hard. Although beer pong was fun for him and his friends, Schumacker said something else kept him coming back week after week. “It’s the management,” he said. “Between Bill, who used to manage the place, and Corey now, its just good people. I’m gonna miss it.” International relations senior Marcus Kamal, has been a regular for 3 years, and has even taken his father to eat there during a visit to East Lansing. “It’s a dirty old hole in the wall that no one really knows about, and in that sense it’s special because it’s yours,” he said. “I’m really gonna miss it here. Obviously I’m upset about it. It’s too bad to see a great place like this go under.” For Austin, who has come to call his regulars his friends, dealing with their mourning has been one of the most difficult parts. “It’s hard to not get choked up when I talk about working with some of the people I’ve worked with,” Austin said, holding back emotion. “Because I won’t get to see them anymore. It’s tough. But, that’s how it goes. That’s just what you got to do.”
A HOT DOG LEGACY When What Up Dawg? first opened in 2011, the restaurant set out to use locally-made products and be a laid-back place for a bite to eat. Using those goals, Austin said What Up Dawg? has succeeded on all accounts. “I think despite the fact that “The Dawg” isn’t continuing anymore, it was always for the students by the students,” he said. “Sometimes those things aren’t long term, but its about the experiences and the memories you have in between.” And there are quite a few memories to look back on, Austin said. “I hope that they remember their friends,” he said. “I hope it gives them context for memories. A lot of times you might not remember everything that was going on in your life at the time but you’ll remember a place and you’ll remember something that happened. And I like to think we facilitated a lot of those fond memories at this place. That’s all you can hope for.” Working at What Up Dawg? has been a growing experience for Austin, he said. “I came a boy and I’m leaving a man,” Austin said. “I turned 30 this July. That’s the difference between being a guy and being man. Once you
turn 30, you’re always a man after that point. It’s the end of the college lifestyle and hopefully the beginning of stability.” And while What Up Dawg? certainly has its following, the late-night rush just wasn’t enough to keep the doors open, he said. A business can’t survive on just hot dogs and love. “It’s hard to make money in the restaurant business,” co-owner Seth Tompkins said. “We’ve had this in the hands of some managers since we’ve opened and honestly it never really made money for us. Just after four years of trying to get it to work we just can’t do it.” Tompkins said another restaurant is planning on purchasing the space and starting up a new establishment run by local owners. And after the portrait of “The Dawg” painted on the wall is expunged, Tompkins said he hopes customers have only affectionate memories of the place. As for Austin, he said he’s not really sure what he will do next — but that’s beside the point. For now, he said he’s still finding comfort in the outpour of condolences on social media. “I just keep rolling with the punches,” he said. “The adventure begins next week.”
ONLINE To see a video of the last celebration at What Up Dawg? go to statenews. com/mutimedia.
Packaging senior Jack Schumacker, left, and International relations senior Marucs Kamal sit at the bar inside What Up Dawg? and enjoy a beer together. Both have been visiting the bar for several years and were saddened to learn of its closure. PHOTO: OLIVIA DIMMER/THE STATE NEWS
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Owosso, Mich., resident, Sienna Baker, 11, browses a selection of fireworks on July 2, 2014, at Jeff’s Fireworks, 3340 E Lake Lansing Road. Baker plans on going to Higgins Lake, Mich., with her family to celebrate the Fourth of July.. STATE NEWS FILE PHOTO
Be aware of bonfire permit, hammocking laws this summer BY RYAN SQUANDA
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It’s summer in East Lansing -- a time to participate in local internships, catch up on classes or hold down the fort until the rest of MSU’s nearly 50,000 students return in the fall. But before you participate in some of the other common activities summer brings about -- such as swimming, barbeques and camp fires, it’s important to keep in mind the exact laws and ordinances East Lansing and MSU have in place. Below is a comprehensive list of how to have fun, stay safe and not break the law doing many of these activities. BONFIRES The city of East Lansing allows contained outdoor burning for recreational purposes. However, an annual permit must first be obtained pursuant to section 1-16 of the Fire Prevention Code. The permits are only available in areas zoned as R-1 and R-2 and if the property is not owner-occupied, permission must be granted from the landlord. The fire must be continuously attended, have a water source readily available and must be 20 feet clear of any road. Burning of building materials and non-wood items is prohibited. In addition to this, the maximum size of fire pit allowed is 3’x3’x3’ and no burning is allowed
FIREWORKS The Michigan Fireworks Safety Act requires local municipalities to allow fireworks the day before, day of and day after a national holiday. However, municipalities may regulate the hours fireworks may be discharged. Section 26-66 of East Lansing City Code states it is illegal to discharge consumer fireworks between the hours of 1-8 a.m. on the day before, the day of and the day after a national holiday. Violations of this ordinance are civil infractions and can result in a $500 fine. Fireworks also must be ignited on personal property -- meaning streets, sidewalks, schools and churches are off limits. In addition, state law makes it illegal to discharge fireworks when intoxicated. Also, any violations causing property damage can result in fines of up to $5,000 and 90 days in jail. Violations causing serious injury or death are felonies with penalties of 5 years/$5,000 and 15 years/$10,000, respectively. FISHING IN RED CEDAR RIVER ON CAMPUS Fishing is allowed in the Red Cedar River. Those interested in participating must adhere to a strict set of guidelines such as maintaining a
fishing license from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. In addition to this, fishing from any bridge is prohibited and fishing is only allowed in the area designated along the north bank of Red Cedar River west of the Kalamazoo Street bridge and to the southwest corner of the Brody Residence Hall Complex. HAMMOCKING ON CAMPUS It’s a popular and relaxing summer activity on campus at MSU. However, hammocking is technically illegal on campus, according to ordinance 24.01, which was enacted in 1964. The official language of the ordinance states “No person shall break or cut branches ... or otherwise damage or mutilate any tree” which campus arborists argue it does. Violators of this law risk a $100 fine and up to 90 days in jail. Representatives from the MSU Hammocking Club met with Infrastructure Planning and Facilities a few weeks ago to see if an agreement could be reached to end the campus-wide ban on hammocking at MSU. The club feels there are responsible ways to hammock so as not to damage any trees. Not much change came from the meetings, but club members feel progress was made and all hope is not lost. For now, however, the same ordinances still apply.
Summer Kickoff
Snoop Dogg set to return to Common Ground Snoop Dogg performed to a large crowd July 9. 2008 during Common Ground Music Festival wearing former MSU basketball guard Drew Neitzel’s jersey. STATE NEWS FILE PHOTO
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While some students plot courses across the country toward music festivals of grand scale, those strapped with cash and in town for the summer need look no further than neighboring city Lansing for a smaller, more affordable lineup of national and lesser-known local bands. The festival, Common Ground, runs from July 7-12 and takes place in Lansing’s Adado Riverfront Park, and each evening offers a different genre. This year is Common Ground’s sweet sixteen, Meridian Entertainment Group marketing director Jenna Meyer said, and the lineup has some national heavy-hitters, from Meghan Trainor, to The Band Perry, to Snoop Dogg.
“We offer a great array of talent from your national headliners to your local bands,” she said. Some of the biggest past headliners include Journey, Twenty One Pilots and Big Sean. MSU alumnus Troy Villanueva said he’s been going to Common Ground the past few years and will be going again this year because he loves concerts, especially when they’re not too expensive. He said he feels the musical lineup could be much better, but can’t complain. “I’d like to see Misterwives, Empire of the Sun and a few of my friends are performing too — Cyrus, Packy and the Spektators,” he said. Lansing resident Parios Williams said she regularly attends Common Ground and is looking forward to it this year, particularly because
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her fiance might perform. Besides her fiance, Williams said she’s also looking forward to seeing Tech N9ne, Snoop Dogg and Misterwives perform. “I think it’s so awesome they have indie pop bands that are playing to get them more popular,” she said. “I think it gives a platform for not just big acts like Snoop Dogg but also a platform for kind of punk-pop sets that aren’t on mainstream radio.” Williams said one of her favorite things about Common Ground is how local it is. She said it’s great to not have to travel to a big city for a fun music festival. Also, she said a lot of the money from the music festival goes back into the Lansing community, which she thinks is great. Meyer said locality is a huge factor of Com-
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Under the condition of continuous rains, the number of mosquitoes can be worse for this summer. Howard Russell is a senior specialist at the MSU Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences department and studies insects. “If you are outdoors, expect the mosquitoes will be pretty nasty this year,” he said. Every year in Michigan, the number of mosquitoes are steadily growing, but disease-carrying mosquitoes
are rare. “But the mosquitoes can bite people and make people itchy in most cases, ” Russell said. Species of mosquitoes can appear in different time through the year. “We have 60 species mosquitoes in Michigan, not all of them bite people, but a lot of them do,” he said. “One particular kind of mosquitoes would not (be so bad). But the total number of mosquitoes makes it bad in Michigan.” The weather also affects the breeding of mosquitoes. Of the 60 species of mosquitoes, they can be broken up
mon Ground’s appeal. “I think it’s a great opportunity for people to see some great music in our backyard,” she said. “It’s not often that some of the performers come through Michigan, let alone Lansing. It’s really one of the only opportunities that you get to see some of these acts in Lansing.” In addition to music, Common Ground also provides a variety of foods to patrons. Williams said different restaurants and food trucks from the mid-Michigan area come to the festival, so it’s a great way to taste new, local foods. General admission for each evening ranges from $30 to $40, according to Common Ground’s website. A six-day general admission pass costs $109.
into two types — spring and summer mosquitoes. Spring mosquitoes develop melted snow pools, and other shallow water, but only has one generation per year. Summer mosquitoes survive the whole season in larger bodies of water. “Mosquitoes like stagnated water, like swampy areas, where it will last long enough for them to produce their generations,” Russell said. People can take simple precautions to avoid getting bitten, such as wearing long sleeved shirts and pants.
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Summer bar scene: less lines, excitement East Lansing resident Vicari Vollmar, left, and Leslie, Michigan resident Tiffany Isham, right, drinks beer after playing dodgeball Nov. 13, 2014, at City Limits on 2120 East Saginaw Highway in East Lansing. STATE NEWS FILE PHOTO
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For those students staying in East Lansing during the summer and looking to grab a drink, the warm season in the city is primetime to avoid the bar lines. Local bars such as Rick’s American Cafe, Dublin Square Irish Pub, Harper’s Restaurant and Brewpub, and The Riv usually have lines stretching across the street during the fall and spring, but in the summer this isn’t the case, many students and bar managers said. Recent MSU alumna and graduate student Kristen Slater said the smaller summer population makes planning an outing on the town
easier and more relaxed. “(The bars are) a little less crowded and probably like a little more laid back,” Slater said. “We came (to the bars tonight) a little bit later than I normally would during the year, (when) we get out of class and go straight to the bar. During the summer, we can kind of just hangout and get a couple beers and it’s not as crowded and you don’t have to wait in line for three hours.” After walking around the bars Thursday night, the difference in the amount of people is noticeable. There aren’t any lines to get in — people simply walk in and show their ID. The lack of a crowd is sizable enough that most bars don’t have a cover charge over the summer.
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Harper’s manager Casey Comstock said diminished numbers of students attending the bars results in a different crowd coming out and having a drink. “It also a more local, older crowd — people that typically aren’t as enthusiastic about coming downtown because they (would) rather not have to deal with students and parking issues,” Comstock said. “It’s less hustle and bustle down here so we get a little bit more of an older crowd, people from Lansing come over and experience East Lansing a little more,” said Comstock. Although the lines are almost non-existent and the weather is suitable for walking around, LCC student Matthew Ryan said what
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Subleasing is part of any college town in the summer, including MSU, however, as many students find out, it’s not always an easy process. While rental companies like DTN Management Company and Community Resource Management Company, or CRMC, assist students and make the sublease official, they leave it up to the student to find someone and negotiate a price. “We provide all of the services that you need in order to sublease – we advertise it for you, we provide the paperwork for you, we do the collections for you and then we also do the maintenance for your sub-tenant,” CRMC president Jeff Wells said. Wells said that while CRMC does provide all of those services for students, they
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the summer bar scene does lack is an atmosphere charged with energy, brought on by large groups showing up and large crowds inside typical of the fall and spring semesters. “For atmosphere inside (the bars), more in the fall you get more (of) a scene,” Ryan said. With the excitement of returning students and the football season, Comstock said fall is his favorite season for working the bar. “The pros (of the fall season) are that we are extremely busy (when) all the students are back and we have the football season and everything that comes along with that,” Comstock said. “I can’t really think of any con’s to the fall. The fall is wonderful, the best time of the year.”
ask students to find someone to sublease and suggest students should do a background check on the people they find to sublease. Students have a wide-variety of places they can advertise their rental units for sublease, including MSU-related Facebook pages, Craigslist, bulletin boards around campus, the websites for both DTN and CRMC and more. Recent alumna Sara Kenez said getting approved for a sublease and filing paperwork was easy, but finding someone is the real challenge. Kenez said she posted her sublease all over the place, but still had problems finding someone to sublease and agreeing on a price. “A lot of people seem to be going home, I guess, or are already staying in East Lansing, and the most annoying thing is that you had to drop your price quite a bit to find someone,” Kenez said.
Economics senior Raj Vutukuru said the price was a big barrier in trying to find someone to sublease, but there are other obstacles. Vutukuru said it is also more difficult to find a subtenant if the subtenant has to share a room. “People want to kind of have their own room for the summer,” he said. Kenez had the problem of trying to find someone to share a room with a stranger. “I would probably start looking earlier, because the room that I was subleasing, I was actually sharing with another girl and the plan was to try and like find two people or one person together that would sublease from us,” Kenez said. “She found a few people, but that fell through. So that process turned into her just finding her own subleaser and then I was kind of left to try and find someone who would be willing to share a room with a stranger, so that was pretty difficult.”
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Road, building contruction hits area BY JAKE ALLEN NEWSROOM@STATENEWS.COM
Construction in North Campus began May 11, causing the closure of West Circle Drive from Auditorium Road to the Main Library entrance, along with Beal Street to Hannah Administration Drive. For the duration of the project, parking lots 6 — the MSU Museum lot — and 11 — the lot behind the Main Library shared with the Hannah Administration building and Olds Hall — will remain closed. “It’s an overall underground utility refurbishment project,” Infrastructure Planning and Facilities project representative Andy Linebaugh said. “Our steam tunnels that we have over on North Campus are up to 100 years old and are long due for an overhaul. “When you go down that deep to get to the steam tunnels you have to replace all the other utilities that may be disturbed, and that includes the sanitary sewer, water main and the electrical duct bank.” According to IPF’s website, the project also will update telecommunication and electrical lines. Safety improvements for vehicular and pedestrian travel along West Circle Drive will be implemented and parking lots 6 and 11 will be brought up to current parking and pedestri-
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Mount Morris resident Mike Martin saws wood Oct. 13, 2014, at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams construction site, 640 S. Shaw Lane. Construction will continue until the project’s scheduled June 2022 completion. STATE NEWS FILE PHOTO
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Summer sports still going strong BY MATTHEW ARGILLANDER MARGILLANDER@ STATENEWS.COM
For many sports fans, the summer is not the most exciting time of the year. However, the summer is filled with action from Spartan sports to minorleague professional baseball. FOOTBALL Even though the football season is still months away the summer is filled with news regarding the team. There are key positional battles that will heat up as the summer wears on and there is always recruiting news. Check online at statenews.com as the recruits roll in.
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It was a busy week for MSU football on the recruiting trails as the Spartans added five new verbal commitments to the recruiting class of 2016. The Spartans now have the No. 9 overall recruiting class with 12 total commitments according to Rivals. JONAH MORRIS Morris is a 6-foot-4-inch 190-pound three-star wide receiver out of Akron, Ohio according to Rivals. During a visit to campus on Tuesday Morris announced his commitment via Twitter.
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SOCCER MSU may still be a few months away from competing, but Lansing United, founded just last year, played its inaugural season in the National Premier Soccer League and finished the regular season as Great Lakes West champions with an 8-42 record. United’s roster features three Spartan players this season— senior goalkeeper Quinn McAnaney, sophomore defender Jimmy Fiscus and senior midfielder Jason Stacy. ROWING The women’s rowing competed in the Big Ten championships over the weekend with the NCAA championships beginning May 29.
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BASEBALL The MSU baseball team is wrapping up the regular season now with the Big Ten Tournament beginning May 20. With a strong performance in the Big Ten Tournament the team could earn a berth in the NCAA tournament. There is also the Lansing
Lugnuts, the Toronto Blue Jays Class A minor league affiliate. There are plenty of reasons for fans to head out to a game — $1 deal day Tuesdays in which hot dogs, ice cream sandwiches and soft drinks are all a dollar, Thirsty Thursdays with $2 beers and more.
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AUSTIN ANDREWS Andrews, a 6-foot three-star cornerback, is the teams sixth recruit out of Ohio hailing from Columbus. Andrews was also on a visit to MSU on Tuesday, both Andrews and Morris linked up and committed via Twitter. DEMETRIC VANCE Vance, out of Cass Technical High School — normally considered a pipeline for University of Michigan — is a 6-foot-3 inch athlete that played safety in high school. Vance announced his commitment at his school with his top three college choices in the form of hats on a table in front of him, ultimately grabbing the MSU one over the Michigan and Ohio State hats.
THIYO LUKUSA Lukusa is a 6-foot-5-inch 300-pound offensive lineman out of Traverse City, Michigan. Lukusa also announced his commitment via Twitter with a note he shared explaining why he had made his decision. GAVIN CUPP Cupp is the Spartans seventh recruit out of the state of Ohio and a three-star 6-foot-6-inch 275-pound offensive tackle. Cupp was the Spartans fifth commitment in just a three-day span. Keep checking with statenews.com or follow us on Twitter @thesnews_sports as more recruits verbally commit.