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The new Brody Square increases Brody Complex’s popularity
Huddled in the northwestern corner of campus
once lay the dorms known as the "Brojects.” Butl
as any passerby can see, Brody Hall now has
something to be proud of.
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‘ ‘They used to gather all the freshmen here and
clump them together,” cafeteria employee Kenzie
Fuqua said. ‘‘Now people are coming from all over
campus to eat here.”
Fuqua is talking about the early success of Brody
Square, the revolutionary new cafeteria complex
opened in the Brody neighborhood this fall. This
area once deemed an isolated island of freshmen
is now a destination point for students,
"I literally travelled to come here,” freshman Jon
Veitengruber said. Others seated at his table said
they had also made the trek from various points of
campus to experience the new cafeteria.
After working in the Brody cafeteria for three
years,
junior Christopher Kenrick has seen
the progress and lived through the turmoil of
construction.
“Last year was just a joke,” Kenrick said. "It was
disorganized; there was no excitement. No one came
here, we all left for SnyPhi. Brody wasn’t a place you
came to. It was a place you were assigned to.”
Executive Chef Dave Brown said he particularly
admired the modern, yet comfortable, design of
the new cafeteria’s warmly lit interior.
■There are all sorts of nooks and crannies and
coves for people to relax in,” Brown said.
The transformation is astounding. The $49
million project, started in 2008, now boasts a half-
dozen different venues serving freshly made food
for students to choose from.
"Before, we didn’t make any of the pasta or
sauce here,” Brown said. "Now everything is made
with fresh ingredients. We are working with fresh
herbs, and creating homemade dishes that are
healthy and nutritious.”
One of these healthy venues is “Veg Out’’;
a vegetarian/vegan option that Brown feels is
especially significant.
"At Veg Out, we use the same principles as we
do with meat to create various vegetarian products
that make a full meal,” Brown said. "We hope to get
the word out to vegetarians.”
Students are not the only ones to enjoy this
epicurean revolution. Parents and staff members
have also headed over to experience the cafeteria
for themselves. On freshmen move-in day, Fuqua
estimates over a thousand parents from all over
campus came in for lunch.
"In the past, parents were reluctant to send their
kids to school, knowing their options were limited,”
Fuqua said. “Seeing that their children can eat at a
well-balanced cafeteria gives them hope."
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Michigan hip-hop scene highlighted at Big Sean concert
On Sept. 9, Detroit-native Big Sean brought his
local flavor to MSU and served as a motivation for
aspiring artists to keep hustling.
Fans packed the Auditorium at 7 p.m. to see Big
Sean take the stage.
He's a great example of an artist that uses his
resources and doesn’t rely on the record label to get
his name out,” William Ketchum, managing editor
of the website michiganhiphop.com, said about the
concert put on by the Residence Halls Association.
Big Sean, no stranger to MSU, performed with
Mike Posner and opened for Kid Cudi in 2009. He
even considered attending Michigan State, but an
offer from ICanye West to record in 2005 for G.O.O.D
Music kept him from becoming a Spartan.
His appearance this year was one that Ketchum
believes showed the diversity of the hip-hop culture
in Michigan.
"The lineup of artists shows how multifaceted
the state’s hip-hop scene really is,” Ketchum said.
Aside from highlighting Big Sean’s debut album
"Finally Famous,” the concert showcased local
artists including Chip Tha Ripper, FlyUnion, Dom
Kennedy and FowL, who is a sophomore at MSU.
To maintain the Michigan artist’s presence in East
Lansing, Big Sean’s representatives have handed
out promotional CDs and T-shirts around campus.
These promotions are what attracted junior Patrick
Duda, who became a fan after receiving one of the
mixtapes.
"I would have paid a lot more to come see
him,” Duda said. "It’s cool how they can put it on
for so cheap.”
According to Zeno Jones, a member of the tour
working in merchandising, it was an easy decision
for Big Sean to perform at MSU.
"State’s always been real: big,” Jones said,
referring to the growing hip-hop scene in the
Lansing area. "It’s kind of a no-brainer. A lot of his
friends go here.”
To aspiring artists such as Duda, who performs
in the mid-Michigan area as part of the hip-hop act
"The Spektators,” Big Sean serves as an inspiration.
"It’s nice to have performers like Big Ssan toj&ok
up to who are also local,” he said.
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And although he’s a signed artist, fame doesn’t
stop Big Sean from promoting himself like many
'independent artists do.
"He’s an artist who does things on his own,”
Ketchum said. "This really shows that.”
Chip tha Ripper performs for
students at the Auditorium.
Other talent included FowL, Dom
Kennedy and Fly Union.
The spotlight is on Big Sean as
he raps for excited fans. Sean
has been a musical presence at
MSU since he distributed his first
mixtape around campus in 2007.
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at the Big Sean concert. Hip-hop
fans were treated to four different
artists.
Big Sean raps for students and .fans at
the Auditorium. The concert, put on
by the Residence Halls Association,
snowcased local talent like FowL, as
well as other big names.
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Kaitlyn Billops, a member of Delta Sigma Theta,
performs at Spartan Remix on Sept. 9. In its third year,
the performance, which is held at the Union, represents
over 60 student organizations.
Pilipino-American Student Scraiety break dances to ,1
variety of songs at Spartan Remix. The group focuses on
academic achievement and cultural awareness.
(re)mixing cultures
Student organizations gather to celebrate campus diversity at Spartan Remix
In the shadow of a stage crowned with an arch of Spartan-
green balloons, students of various majors, years and cultural
backgrounds flooded the lobby of the MSU Union, eagerly
awaiting their fellow students’ moment ® the spotlight despite
the lack of sitting-room.
Such was the initial scene at.the Spartan Remix, held on Sept.
9 at 7 p.m. The event was opened by speeches from Provost Kim
Wilcox, Dr. Paulette Granberry director of the Office for Inclusion
and Intercultural Initiatives, and Dr. Lee June, associate provost
and vice president of Student Affairs,
Following
the speakers, six different student groups
provided entertainment to a welcoming crowd. Their line-up
of performances included slam poetry traditional Mexican and
hip-hop dance displays, and a medley of Jackson 5, Maroon 5
and Third Eye Blind covers.
Visitors were given a chance after the performances to mingle
with over 60 student organizations in order to learn more about
what they do as well as how they could get involved with these
associations.
“It’s a lot more diverse than Sparticipation,” said senior
Mas Mizobuchi, vice president of the Asian-Pacific American
Student Organization.
According to Stephanie Bierlein, Assistant Manager of the
UAB, the Spartan Remix is still a relatively new event to MSU.
"The core groups used to do their own events. We wanted a
welcome reception to celebrate all the groups together,” she said.
“This is the third year for this event. It’s great because new
students can find out about the groups and returning students
can reconnect with friends and promote their organizations.”
According to students at the event, the sheer amount of diversity]
present that night was the main draw of the Remix itself.
"Diversity not only in majors or ethnic backgrounds, but [in]
ways of thinking, makes the University a good place," said senior
Tom Cast. "It’s what makes MSU, MSU.”
Mizobuchi agrees.
■ft [Spartan Remix] brings everybody together to interact with
different cultures,” he said. "It’s a great way to unify everyone.”
However, according to Bierlein, Spartan Remix isn’t the only
event that celebrates diversity at MSU. UAB, she said, hosts]
similar events all year long.
"We partner up with groups for smaller events,” she said,]
"like poetry slams or a salsa night. It’s all up to the students.”
Christian Dioso performs a variety of cover songs with
the rest of his band from the Asian Pacific American
Student Organization. The group holds events
throughout the year to bring together students of Asian
Pacific American descent.
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University Activities Board hosts outdoor event for students
Though it was only 64 degrees
outside, junior Oshan Weerasinghe
and sophomore Lauren Lendzion
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wearing swimsuits.
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on their way to the Dive-In movie
event hosted by the University
Activities Board. The annual event
promises students
free candy
popcorn, Insomnia Cookies, as
well as a movie and a good time.
Aside from the freebies, what
attracted Weerasinghe was the
opportunity to participate
in a
weekend social event that included
everyone.
"This sounded way better than
drinking and getting wasted,”
Weerasinghe said. "It’s good to
have some sort of social activity for
the people who don’t want to drink
to go to.”
Although there are
typically
many activities—parties, events,
concerts—to choose from each
weekend, the Dive-In caters to
students, such as Lendzion, who
want to do more than party
"We had a big party to go to,”
Lendzion said. "We chose this
over that.”
As a long-standing UAB tradition,
the Dive-In allows students-to
enjoy their Friday night on campus
without spending any money
"Our mission is to provide
low-cosf
late night events for
students,” director of marketing
Amy Pochodylo
"The
Dive-In is a way to shake it up a
bit outdoors,”
said.
For students looking for movies
and entertainment Thursday through
Sunday Pochodylo suggests they
check out Wells Hall. The Dive-In
was an event similar to Weils movie
nights, but with a twist.
Although the Dive-In is typically
held in the fall while the weather
is usually still relatively warm,
the temperature is usually not a
problem for students, and the event
makes a big splash each year.
' 'The student body really seems
to like this event,” Pochodylo said.
"Even when it’s cold and rainy we
still have a great turnout.”
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MSU alumnus opens specialty tea house on Grand River Avenue
Wanderer’s Teahouse and Cafe,
owned by married couple Michael
Spano and Elizabeth Marazita, opened
its doors for business on Sept, lland
has since served as a hot spot for tea
enthusiasts.
Located at 547 E. Grand River Ave.,
the tea house offers 34 kinds of tea
made of 30 common herbslp as well
as coffee, pastries, sandwiches and
salads with a vegetarian/vegan option.
All ingredients are completely organic,
Spano said.
A variety of signature blends are also
offered, which are, among other things,
aimed at combating stress, hangovers,
insomnia, colds or PMS. But concocting
the perfect remedy was not something
that happened overnight.
Spano worked
restaurant
management
for 12 years before
leaving to study Chinese medicine all
Bastyr University in Seattle, where he
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area and a graduate of the James
Madison College at MSU, worked as an
international banker before she studied
natural medicine.
'We’ve been wandering for many
years,” Spano said.
The couple has lived all over the globe
including Italy Switzerland and China,
‘‘We have an eight-year-old that
we’ve been bouncing around the world,
and so we decided to come home,”
Marazita said.
While visiting East Lansing
last
February, the couple stumbled upon
the vacant location of the future tea
house. Since
the opening, Spano
said weeknights have been packed.
Students pour in to drink tea, study and
take advantage of the Wi-Fi.
“I heard this place was awesome so
I came here in the morning, and now
I’m back to study” senior Brad Seifert
said. ‘‘It’s a' great environment for that.”
That’s one of the goals of the tea
house, according to Marazita.
“I understand stress,” she said. ‘‘I
understand stress as an undergrad,, a
graduate and as a mother.”
And to help students cope with their
stress, Marazita began what she calls
‘‘Tea and Tai Chi,” where she offers Tai
Chi classes twice a week behind the
shop. Eight sessions are $45 dollars, and
each class is followed by conversation
with Marazita over seasonal teas.
The inside of the tea house boasts a
comfortable atmosphere as well. Quotes
from Marie Curie, Rosa Parks, Albert.
Einstein and Jack Kerouac, among
others, spice up the walls. There are also
a number of donated books to read.
‘‘One thing I’ve noticed is that you’ll
tend to see a lot more people sitting
around reading instead of on their
computers,” Spano said, adding that the
shop offers a children’s corner with a
high chair and books.
think parents are the one group of
students wmo are really ignored on this
strip. They’re welcome here,” he said.
Additionally there is a tea testing
center at the front of the shop.
“I like to let the customer sniff the tea
before they try it,” Spano said. ‘“Follow
your nose,’ I always say”
In the future, Spano and Marazita hope
to open the teahouse to live performances
of music, poetry and monologues and
host language tables where students can
learn foreign languages.
“t wanted to create a place that I
would like to go to,” Spano said. “We
just want to make sure everyone who
walks in is happy.”
And painted on the back door, in the
words of William Shakespeare, is an
invitation for these happy customers to
come again: “Safe May’st Thou Wander,
Safe Return Again.”
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As former field director for the Bolivian branch
of International Service, a British non-governmental
organization that fights poverty; MSU graduate student
Anna Malavisi is no stranger to the effects of destitution.
That’s why on the chilly morning of Sept.*17, Malavisi
was up at 9 a.m. measuring and cutting wood for the
siding of a house being built on MSU's campus through
the partnership of Habitat for Humanity Lansing and
the Whirlpool Building Blocks program. The catch: the
house was Malavisi’s own future home.
“My helmet keeps falling off,” she said as she worked
side by side with students and other volunteers in a section
of Lot 89 turned construction zone, where the outer shell
of the llOO square foot house was being erected.
“This year they [the Whirlpool Building Blocks
program] decided that they wanted to do a blitz build on
college campuses,’ ’ Senior Student Services Coordinator
Kevin Schwemmin said, explaining that MSU was the first
campus chosen for this project, in which a home would
be built in just two weeks.
' ‘It turned out even better that it [the project] is helping
out an MSU graduate student.”
Malavisi and [|er three daughters were living in a
two-bedroom home in Lansing when they learned of
their qualification for the house. Her previous home,
she explained, was too small and expensive, and she
was pursuing her doctoral degree in philosophy while
working three part-timg jobs and raising her girls. The
interest-free mortgage levied at the new house, however,
would grant Malavisi more time for both her daughters
and her studies.
“It was a coincidence that I was chosen; maybe meant
to be,” she said, when considering her connection as a
student to ,MSU.
According to a press release, MSU was one of two
schools chosen by Whirlpool for this program due to its
commitment to community outreach.
IjffAs a land-grant institution, its the core [to why
MSU was chosen],” Schwemmin said. “It’s essential to
our institution*®
“It’s great [to be volunteering], especially because
Anna is here and I get to work with her, and just knowing
she’s so thankful,” senior Christina Kotevski, a student
volunteer, said at the site.
"It really helps out her family” student volunteer and
junior Amar Jaswa agreed.
According to Schwemmin, approximately 345 students
signed up online to volunteer for the project, with about!
60 showing up over the weekend of Sept. 11 and varying
numbers helping out during the following week.
“It’s really good to see students jumping behind this,’’
he said, “it just adds to MSU’s commitment.”
^'Things like this build community spirit and get
people who may not have been aware involved,” said
Malavisi, a regular volunteer for Habitat for Humanity.
As the first project of its kind on campus, awareness of
the good it can do for low-income families was crucial.
Governor Jennifer Granholm came out to speak on the
opening day of construction on Sept. 11, and Malavisi
received the keys to her new home at the homecoming
football game on Oct. 16 in front of a large portion of the
Spartan community For some volunteers such as senior
Jeremy Brown, however, just being a part of the process
was enough.
“The best part about this will be seeing Anna’s
smiling face after it’s completed,” Brown said.
Student and faculty volunteers work to complete the
outer shell ofiM Habitafor Humanity home.;MSU was
on'e of only two universities chosen for the Whirlpool
Building Blocks program blitz builds.
Sophomore Allison LaSota hammers the siding on to the
outer shell of the new home. She was one of four other
girls who came out to volunteer for the event that day
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MSU alumni bring up the next generation of Spartans
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Beneath one
three generations of
Spartans gathered for the football game against
Northern Colorado. It’s a typical game morning
for this group on Sept. 25: beers are cracked,
snacks are laid out and children are running
among the . tent posts playing with a football.
But for Jon Hirschenberger and Steve Baillie,
tailgating is more than a pregame for football.
It’s a time to keep the Spartan spirit alive and
instill it in their children,
Hirschenberger and Baillie, both
in the
graduating class of 2002, became friends during
their time at MSU. Their families frequently attend
MSU sporting events and alumni activities, and
they enjoy coming out to campus to show the
area to the kids: Baillie’s sons Nathan, 6, and
Owen, 4, and Hirschenberger’s sons Wyatt, 2,
andTy, 5.
The future Spartans enjoyed the tailgate and
the sunny morning by playing with a football
around the tent.
“The kids are born and raised green and
white,” Hirschenberger said. “We come out,-here
to show the kids what life is like in college.”
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the oldest member of the tailgate, he recalled
the atmosphere of the area - by the tennis courts
where many alumni and students tailgate - back
in his day
“There were cows standing where we’re
standing right now,” McGregor said. “This was
Moo U. We would be standing in farmland.”
With the cows on the barbecue rather than
grazing in a field, the past and tradition of Spartan
spirit permeated the tailgate party
“I’ve had season tickets since ’94,” Baillie said.
“There’s a lot of heritage here. There are a lot of
memories.”
Coming to the football game is only one way
that Hirschenberger and his group continue to
support their Alma Mater.
Hirschenberger won’t be
“We’ll be paying a lot of tuition fees to this
place,” he said. “All these kids are going to State,”
the ' only one
Mipporting future State scholars. McGregor also
plans to help turn hislongtime friends’ kids into
future Spartans.
“The whole familyls here; those kids will
be going here,” McGregor said: “And I’m
going to pay.”
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YouVote encourages students to vote in the midterm election
Midterm elections may not seem
important to some, but to YouVote, they
are just as important as the presidential
campaign.
The group, anonpartisanvotinginitiative
at MSU, aims to educate students about
the importance of casting their ballots at
elections. Through their website and other
events,YouVote provides information about
the candidates and important issues and
also helps students to register as voters
and participate in the process.
On Sept. 30, volunteers for the group set
up two tents and tables in the Ann Street
Plaza where students could fill out forms to
register as voters. With music loud enough
to be heard from Grand River Avenue and
red, white and blue balloons wafting over
the scene, it was hard not to give the event
a second look.
■Students should be more worried
about this election because it affects them
directly” Mike Zaborowskil a graduate
student and coordinator of YouVote, said.
"The governor hits them more directly
than the president.”
Since 2000, YouVote has been working
to register and educate students for
upcoming elections, as well as encouraging
piem to vote. The initiative was formed
when MSU and East Lansing officials saw
that students were confused, or, more
often, disinterested in presidential as well
as midterm elections, Zaborowski said.
“Last gubernatorial
election, we
had about a 45 percent turnout (in East
Lansing), and that was with an incumbent,”
East Lansing City Clerk Nicole Evans, who
assisted at YouVote’s event, said. “This
is the first year without an incumbent, so
we’ll see how it turns out.”
While some students didn’t know much
about the elections, such as freshman
Hannah Bodrie, others came to the event
with knowledge about the candidates, like
freshman Stephanie Takacs.
"I just don’t know how to find out,”
Bodrie said, when asked why she didn’t
try to find more information.
“I’m not too thrilled with the candidates,’ ’
Takacs said. “I'm alsolnot a fan of the
severe divide between Republicans and
Democrats. Until we fix that we can’t do
anything in Michigan.”
Former Governor Jennifer Granholm
served her second and final term in
2010, which opened up the race for two
new candidates: Republican Rick Snyder,
a former Ann Arbor businessman, and
Democrat Virg Bernero, the mayor of
Lansing.
“I’m speaking for a demographic
party I’m no longer a part of, but I think
the (midterm) election is as interesting
as the candidates make it,” Evans said.
“If they (students) don’t think an issue is
going to make a difference, they won’t be
interested.”
"Someone needs to let them know,”
she added,“and they need to educate
themselves.”
“Our main goal this year is education,”
Zaborowski said.' We want students to know
that YouVote exists and can help them.’ ’
YouVote members created a Facebopk
page andlllfitter account to become
mol^acessible to the student voter
population. Members focused on
increasing student participation.
YouVote volunteers decked out Ann Street
Plaza in red, white and blue and played
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Anxious, excited, nervous: these feelings seemed to
overpower the 1,500 people who gathered on the West
Circle Drive sidewalk on Oct, 3 at 10 a.m. and waited for
a horn to blow.
These people were part of the 25* annual MSU
Museum’s Dino Dash 5k run/walk. A run for everyone, it
connected members of the East Lansing community with
MSU’s campus.
Many people, such as senior Kelsi Franckowiak,
participated to help support the museum’s educational
programs. Franckowiak, who ran with a friend, said the
cause made the race meaningful.
“The event raises money and awareness for the
Michigan State Museum, which is just a good cause within
itself. People should want to come out and help,” she said.
The race was run by people from all walks of life. Some
competed in wheel chairs, and others pushed children
in strollers. From toddlers to 79-year-olds, people were
more than motivated to begin the race.
With a few minutes until race time, contestants lined up
behind the starting mark, running in place and mentally
preparing themselves for the horn to blow. Once the race
began, runners and walkers took off for the three-mile run
with determination.
Graduate student Danielle Bonoban said she didn’t
formally train for the run, but was excited nonetheless.
H'l have never done an event like this before,” said
graduate student Danielle Bonoban. “I decided to do this
race because grad students got in for free, and I just want to
show my support because I know it’s for a great cause.”
The MSU Federal Credit Union helped the museum
with the organization of the event and the registration of
participants. Executive Vice President of the credit unioim
April Globes, said she hoped the event would raise
awareness for the museum.
“We are just hoping to make this a great family day and
a fun day to support the museum,” she said.
This year, the first-place winners were from Jackson
and Lansing, but from children to alumni, everyone who
participated was considered a winner.
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junior Ameek Singh Sodhi.
He hosted the event to raise
awareness about Sikhism.
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about the Sikh religion. The group discussed
issues Sodhi felt were relevant to Sikhs in
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In hopes of raising awareness and overcoming
false knowledge (or lack thereof) of his religion,
devout Sikh and junior Ameek Singh Sodhi hosted
his second annual Turban Night.
Students gathered in the Pillar Room of Phillips
Hall on the evening of Tuesday Oct. 5, to learn
more about Sikhism and experience what it feels
like to wear a turban.
“Turbans are unique to Sikhism. They signify
two things,” Sodhi said. “First,Ihey remind others
of who you are and second, they remind yourself
of who you are.”
Sodhi explained that his religion, Sikhism, is
often mistaken as a sect of Hinduism or Islam,
but in fact is its own distinct religion with its own
divine scriptures. It was founded by Guru Nanak
Dev as an alternative to both Hinduism and Islam,
and is a monotheistic religion that believes in an
omnipresent deity Its practitioners, known as Sikhs,
strongly reject ideas of discrimination by gender,
caste or creed.
According to the Sikh American Legal Defense
and Education Fund, Sikhism is the fifth largest*5
religion in the world, with an estimated 500,000
Sikhs in the United States alone.
As a mentor in Snyder Hall, Sodhi encouraged
students living on his floor to come to the event.
“We wanted to learn about Ameek’s religion,”
sophomore Drew Dzwonkowski, a student on
Singh’s floor and visitor at the event, said.
Sodhi hosted a short discussion on the
importance of the turban, and about the prejudices
held towards it. The turban is an important religious
signifier for Sikhs, and is worn to remind them of
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“I was a little nervous to try the turban on,”
freshman Elle Ables-Allison said. “But after
wearing it I realized that they put it on everyday as
a part of their routine and it didn’t seem like that
big of a deal or anything to be nervous about. It's
just a part of their lives.”
Sodhi also showed a film titled “Ocean of
Pearls,” which focuses on a Sikh’s struggle with
identity in North America.
“After 9/11 it definitely got harder for Sikhs to
express themselves,” Sodhi said. “Many people
mistake Sikhs like me as Muslim, and many
associate Muslims with terrorism.”
“Most people don’t know that my religion
preaches equality of gender and races| of
surrendering your ego, and to dedicating yourself
to the same God (we call him Waheguru) that
Abrahamic religions worship.”
Sodhi pointed out that despite prejudices he
may receive while wearing the turban, he has lived
in America all his life and appreciates everything
it stands for.
“I bleed red, white and blue,” he said. “Being
a James Madison student, I understand the
complexity and genius of our founding documents,
and appreciate the institutions that have made
America an exceptional chapter in world history”
“The identity for a Sikh was designed to catch
someone’s attention,” he said. “It is to remind me
that I get up in the morning, tie my turban, brush
my beard, do my prayers, and yes, maybe be called
a dirty name in the middle of the day, because I
believe, deeply in the tenets of my religion.”
A group of students gathered in the Pillar
Room of Phillips Hall to watch le film
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Sikh's struggle to keep and accept his
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For two nights Juniors Kacey Klem, Tricia Gordon
and Austin Brooks have been sleeping in a tent
outside the Community Resource Management
Company on Grand River Avenue. Although it’s
only October, they’re waiting to sign a lease in
hopes that a tent doesn’t become their permanent
home next fall.
“It’s not about second choices,” Brooks said.
“That’s why we’re here.’’ .
Brooks, Gordon and Klem aren’t the first on
the list to sign a lease, but thanks to a few weak-I
hearted souls who left the event early they are
closer to getting their dream homes.
Brooks’ dream house on Beal Street would be
the man cave where he and the entire tennis team
could hang out and relax. He looks forward to a little
privacy while still living with his good friends.
"I’m all about the basement. I want a finished
basement and a garage,” he said. “My room is 6 x
6 where I live right now. It’ll be nice to have more
privacy’®
The average dorm room at Michigan State is
11x12 feet. When freshman Sarah Wilsey comes
home to her room in Wilson Hall, she doesn’t feel
a sense of home.
“Mainly I just want where I am hving to feel like
my home,” she said: “A dorm room is too small,
and we don’t get our own rooms.”
Like Wilsey Brooks’ decision for hving off campus
comes from experiences gained in the dorms.
“I hated the food on campus,” Brooks said.
"Living off campus teaches you how to cook for
yourself. You also have a lot more privacy”
Besides houses, there are a variety of off-1
campus options to choose from, apartments,
townhouses and co-ops, to name a few. For
students, price is one of the first criterion when
F lome's to housing, mostly because for the
first time, they will be paying for it themselves.
Average rent for an apartment in East Lansing
hovers around $600, while houses, depending
on the location and amenities, can run as high
as $1,035, according to housing review website,
ap artmentratings. com.
Despite the cost, Wilsey is set on a house.
“I feel that a house would feel more like my
home than an apartment will,” she said. “The
criteria I’m keeping in mind is clean, good location
and of course, not too expensive.”
Monthly financial responsibilities aside from
rent, such as utilities and food, can mount quickly
“I know about things like food, utilities and
gas money,” Wilsey said. "But -I’m sure there are
many more.”
Unlike Klem, Gordon and Brooks, Wilsey has
never been through the selection and decision
process associated with off-campus
living.
However, she is not without guidance.
H|’m not too familiar with the process, but I am
sure that my older sister can help me out,” Wilsey
said. “She’s a senior at State and she’s been
through the procesl three times now. I haven't
been looking that much, but I do know it’s a good
plan to choose a place sooner than later.”
Over on Ann Street lies Klem and Gordon’s perfect
home: a dark, woody greenhouse they hope to get
by shopping early The house meets the standards
that they feel make it the perfect living space.
't|“We want a porch and something where we
could have people over. Maybe a few tailgates,”
Klem said. ’ ’We wouldn’t look at anything past three
blocks from campus. We still want to be close to
the bars,”
But at the end of the day Klem believes any
residence can be a home.
‘ ‘As long as it’s not a dirt floor, I’ll be fine,’ ’ she said.
Ryan Frisbie, a member of the University
of Michigan’s Triathlon Team, enters
the transfer area to getlln his bike after
swimming 400 meters. The total race was
about 15.75 miles.
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MSU Triathlon Team hosts Spartan Sprint Triathlon
For the MSU Triathlon Team this year, it was Tuscaloosa or bust.
This Alabama city was the host of the Collegiate Nationals for triathlon
teams in April. So while most students were sleeping in on Oct. 10 after
a night of celebrating a football victory against the Wolverines, the team
was up before 9 am. raising money to fund their trip with the Spartan
Sprint Triathlon.
“We pay for the expenses of traveling for our other races during the
year,” said junior Zach Church, who volunteered instead of competing in
the race. ‘‘Nationals is the only one paid for by the team.”
The team hosts the Spartan Sprint Triathlon every year with the
help of 3 Disciplines Racing, a health and fitness event coordinating
company. The race is considered a sprint because the 400-meter swim,
20-kilometer bike and 5-kilometer run are about half of the normal
distance in a regular triathlon.
Both collegiate athletes and members of the public could compete
in the race, which began in the pool behind IM West and continued
with bike and running courses throughout the campus. The funds for
Nationals came from the registration fees for the race, which the team
split with 3 Disciplines, said event coordinator Jennifer Cooke.
Raising enough money lowever, was only half of the battle in getting
to Tuscaloosa. Sophomore Colin Paulbeck said the team practiced every
day during the week to prepare for Nationals.
“We have a swim coordinator, bike coordinator and run coordinator,”
he said. “We alternate between different workouts every day”
Senior Bill Vann, who placed 94th in the nation last year, trains 22 hours
a week under the guidance of Team USA triathlon coach Kris Swarthout.
*f„‘I train twice, sometimes three times a day six days a week, with one
day off until I peak in April for the Collegiate Nation® Race,” he said.
“This is what I am really passionate about and I hope to do everything
we can to achieve all of our goals.”
Last year, the team placed 14th overall in the nation. The men placed
10th in their division while the women placed 23rd. This year, Vann
expects significant improvement.
“Our team has the greatest abundance of natural talent in the nation
and the potential this year for us is through the roof,” Vann said. “We have
some high goals set for Nationals as a team and I believe that we can
compete for a top-five place in the overall team category if not better.”
“The team is really excited and ready to prove what Spartans are
made of,” he said.
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night long.
The job of a night receptionist may seem lonely
but students filter in frequently until the wee hours of
the morning.
“There are drunk people, obviously” junior Caitlin Pingel
said. “It’s college.”
However, according to Pingel, who has worked in the Red
Cedar neighborhood since spring semester 2010, she’s
never had to call the police because of student behavior.
“Itjaven’t worked in the more troublesome complexes,”
she said.
Dorm complexes around campus fulfill their reputations
through nighttime activity according to junior Samantha Myers,
who has worked as a night receptionist since March 2010.
HE The craziness depends on the complex,” she said.
“Nothing happens in West Circle. I’ve never called the cops
in the Red Cedar neighborhoods, but it happens two to three
times a week in East and South Complexes, due to size.”
Aside from an occasional phone call to the MSU police
and scanning student IDs, it’s up to the night receptionists to
keep themselves busy
“I’ve become a lot better at browsing the internet,” Pingel
said. “Night receptionists are often addicted to Facebook
and caffeine.”
Supervisors make their rounds four to five times a night
to check that receptionists are awake and schedule breaks,
according to senior Anthony Young.
Hi usually play loud music, or sometimes set alarms on
my phone if I’m really tired,” Young said.
Last year, night receptionists had the option of working a
split shift. However, .in effect this fall, workers are obligated
to a full nighttime shift, from 11:40 p.m. to 6:55 a.m, in hopes
of reducing the number of no-call-no-shows,
“I don’t sleep very well,” Myers said. “I sleep during the
day But 4:30 to 5:30 is the worst hour because you’re more
than half done and you just zone, staring at your computer.
It’s a good time to get work done, though.”
Sophomore Dana Castle agrees.
“Around 5:30, I’m losing it,” she said. “That’s when ’5-hour
Energy’ shots come in handy”
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work for all types of class schedules. Students, such as
Myers, cluster their classes on certain days to accommodate
for night shifts.
“My earliest class was M2:40 last year,” Myers said. “You
try to concentrate your classes on Monday Wednesday
Friday or Tuesday Thursday so you can sleep.”
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a very important function, beyond automated ID scanners.
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You wouldn’t expect Spartans to have a lot to
dance about the week before midterms, but on Oct.
18, there they were, crowding the MSU Auditorium,
moving to the melodies of East Coast electrónica
band Passion Pit,
The Boston natives mesmerized the audience
with their upbeat pop tunes and dreamy light show,
and their catchy sound transported listeners into
a state of audio-induced euphoria. The concert,
which began at 7 p.m., was organized by the
Residence Halls Association.
Since they broke into the scene in 2008 with
their EP “Chunk of Change,” Passion Pit has been
producing fast-paced electronic pop songs, woven
together with synthesizers and abstract lyrics.
“I like them because they’re techno but easy
to listen to. It’s different: it’s not super-mainstream,
but it’s still upbeat,” said freshman Jackie Martin,
who was looking forward to hearing Passion Pit
perform ‘‘Moth’s Wings’’
Fans expected two things aside from their
favorite songs: a light show and a dance party in
full force.
After patiently waiting through two openers, fans
rushed the stage, and when lead singer Michael
Angelakos’ high-pitched singing broke the air, the
crowd couldn’t help but pulsate to the rhythm.
“It was so hot in here you could hardly breathe,
As the lights hit the room like a kaleidoscope,
morphing from blues to greens, and fading into
shades of pink, people continued to dance.
‘ ‘This was perfect timing with stressful midterms,
to come out and let loose,” senior Kara Erickson, a
fan since 2008, said. “It’s a relief.”
Halfway through the set, Angelakos encouraged
the audience || lift their hands, clap and then go
crazy With arms flailing in every direction and
crowd surfers floating by the auditorium became
a swelling sea of limbs and bobbing heads.
Senior Justin Covington, who discovered Passion
Pit on the Internet radio site Last.fm, danced along.
Passion Pit’s unique and independent sound, he
said, made his decision to attend the concert a
no-brainer.
“I saw the thing in the cafeteria about the show,
so I went back to my room to buy tickets. I didn’t
go to class that day just to buy tickets,” he said.
As the energy continued to amplify the band
wrapped up the show with their hit “Sleepyhead.”
A satisfied audience filed out of the Auditorium
at 10 p.m. With sweat dripping into the creases of
their smiles, there were no sleepyheads in sight.
Fans such as Parker left the show in awe of
Passion Pit’s performance and the atmosphere.
“A lot of times at shows there’s a lot of hostility
but not here, not at Passion Pit. Everyone was
everyone else’s life support,” she said.
Fansping and dance along with Passion Pit. Many
studentacame out to the Monday night concert looking
for an opportunity to let loMse before midterms.
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students, fit takes a remarkable track record
to represent MSU during homecoming week.
Among the 2010 homecoming court, Megan
Gebhart, Nick Pfost and Brianna Gardner were
certainly no exception to this rule.
Gebhart founded msuCatalyst.com, a site that
shares inspiring stories of extraordinary Spartans,
past and present. Pfost is the vice president and
secretary of the South Neighborhood Lesbian-
Bisexual-Gay-Transgendered Ally
Caucus.
Gardner is the executive producer of MSU
Telecasters and interned on the set of ‘ ‘The Office®
last summer. Despite their different backgrounds,
all of them share one passion: being a Spartan.
"We’re looking for people who embody
MSU and the Spartan experience, who have a
love for the university and who are good role
models for other students, because they’re put
in a spot where they become spokespeople for
the student body’’ Jodi Hancock, co-advisor to
the homecoming court, said.
Take Gebhart, for example. A marketing
major at the Eli Broad College of Business, she
founded the Gumball Group, a gathering of
students who meet to bounce entrepreneurial
ideas off of one another. She also studied abroad
in France, Spain and Belgium. She’s currently in
the midst of a new adventure called 52 Cups of
Coffee, in which she plans to have a cup of coffee
with a new person every week for a year, and
is recording her progress on her blog, 52cups.
tumblr.com.
As lie executive producer of MSUTelecasters,
Gardner is in charge of six student-run shows
that are broadcast and streamed to MSU and
the general public. She interned on the show
"The Office” and helped develop the NBC show
"Community” She has also studied abroad in
Spain and Portugal, and is majoring in Finance;
and Media Arts and Technology
In addition to the occasional radio spot to
promote homecoming, the court is encouraged
to attend all of the daily events leading up to the
weekend. From Friday to Saturday the court]
attended the pep rally at The Rock, the parade, the
Green and White brunch, and the homecoming
game against Illinois - including being introduced !
at the 50-yard line during halftime.
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is homecoming week and National Coming Out
Week,’ ’ Pfost, the LBGTA officer and chairpersonj
for The Alliance of Queer & Ally Students, said.]
"I’ve had to balance my commitments, because]
I’ve had to be at something every day”
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week deal. During the summer, the court waJ
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MSU alumni who graduated 50 years ago. They]
also had the option of attending the Pentwater]
Homecoming Days in August, a celebration]
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features a large MSU alumni population.
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over, the court is expected to serve oh the]
nomination and paper cut committees, which
narrow down the applicants for next year’s
homecoming court. Despite the year-long!
commitment, these exemplary Spartans revel]
in their reign as royalty.
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Gardner said. "This is the highest honor I could
have at MSU.”
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The MSU women’s basketball team rides atop a fire
trucM in the homMoming paradl! Thateam began
their season later that night at Midnight Madness.
A car built by the So.rety a Automotive
Engineers races down the road; The College of
Engineering was onaof several collegg^to show
off their accomplishments in the parade.
homeward rand beyond
Spartans gather to celebrate MSU during homecoming weekend
From Farm Lane down past Hagadorn
Road, traffic sat and waited as rockets and
spaceships rolled down the road, As the
caravan of floats and fans wove its way
through campus, students and supporters
lined the streets and helped ring in
another homecoming weekend at MSU.
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Odyssey’ ’, reflected on MSU’s dedication
to scientific research and the exploration
of worlds beyond our own, and
inspired parade participants to create
otherworldly floats. Aside from featuring
different student, Greek, and alumni
groups, the parade also showcased
local high school bands and community
groups in East Lansing.
as MSU’s
Spectators whooped and cheered
various
enthusiastically
sports teams rode by in the procession,
waving at the adoring crowd as they
went. Members of
the university’s
various student organizations joined the
convoy on a plethora of vehicles - from
automobiles to horses lo go-karts to a
speedboat mounted on a truck trailer;/:
Children of MSU alumni and East Lansing
families, on the other hand, had a field
day filling bags with the free candy
that rained down on them as each float
passed, its passengers scattering sugary
confections to the crowd in its wake.
tradition unfolded:
As night fell on the evening of Oct.
for
15, another
the second year in a row, the Breslin
Center was filled to the brim for
Midnight Madness, the heralding in of
the basketball season. With blasts of
pyrotechnics, Tomilzzo dressed as an
astronaut, and special celebrity Spartan
Gerard Butler, the night served to boost
spectators’ green and white pride,
as well as prepare them for the game
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against the University of Illinois.
“When you have sports teams like
ours that are nationally ranked, it’s easy
for everyone to get excited,” junior Tyler
Domina, a spectator at the event, said.
The excitement continued when the
football team took on the fighting Illini
to their seventh consecutive win - a feat
that hasn’t occurred since 1966. Gerard
Butler attended the game as well, and
led the famous Spartan battle cry from
300. Musical numbers and spectacles
from the band, cheer, and dance teams
helped pump the crowd to fever pitch.
For Domina, this was the best part.
“The way they set up the games makes
the students want to go and support their
team,” Domina said. “Regardless if they
know anything about sports; it’s fun to
watcl all the extras. It gets them excited.”
Before the game could begin, many of
the colleges across campus sponsored
tailgates for students past and present,
allowing alumni to reconnect with former
classmates and professors. Homecoming
is as much an event for students as it is
for alumni.
“Homecoming is a chance for alumni
to come back and relive their college
lives for a weekend,” Domina said.
■'There are all sorts of events for them to
reconnect.”
It’s an important time for all Spartan
fans; the symbolic factor of ‘coming
home’ to the place where their support,
pridel and often tuition dollars,
lie.
Through the series of events - from
historical hayridesEo the parade, to the
final victory over Illinois, an inspiring
burst of Spartan spirit for both academics
and athletics left spectators with enough
pride in their alma mater to lead them
through another year.
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MSU students travel to Muskegon for an educational sailing experience
When’s the last time you drove two hours to
^class, on a weekend? That scenario doesn’t
seem likely unless you’ve taken Great Lakes
Sailing with Capt. Joe Smith.
The one credit Kinesiology 101 class teaches
the basics of sailing in the classroom and
on board Smith’s sailboat. The actual sailing
lessons take place at the Bluffton Bay Marina in
Muskegon, located on Muskegon Lake.
At least 180 students signed up for lie class.
Smith takes groups of them out in three separate,
weekend-long sessions before winter hits.
The class features 16 hours of instruction on
campus, with seminars on safety and the parts
of the boat. The other 12 hours are dedicated to
an overnight boat trip, in which students drive
to Muskegon on a Saturday night to sail, sleep
overnight on the boat, and then sail again the
next day featuring an all-you-can-eat breakfast
Sunday morning. Students are required to
complete at least one overnight trip with Smith
to receive the pass/fail credit.
Smith has been teaching the class since
1986, when he presented the idea to MSU. An
MSU alumnus, he taught math and physics at
high schools across the country but he wanted
to use his love of sailing to teach smdents in a
different way
“I wanted to do something that involved
students more,” he said. “What sailing allows
me to do is to bring a student out of the situation
of what they call ‘normal learning’ and get
involved in a hands-on situation.”
After Smith guides the boat out of the marina
using the motor, he has the students unfurl the
sail themselves. When it comes time to shift
direction, they use ropes and pulleys to pull the
sail to the opposite side of the mast, a procedure
called tacking.
However, the class doesn’t get much more
strenuous than that. After the sail is in place,
Smith explains the next step in proper sailing.
He calls it “Position A.” He demonstrates by
lying back, folding his hands behind his head
and striking a comfortable pose. His point?]
Once the sail’s in place, all you have to do is]
enjoy the peace of the gentle waves.
The class usually has students new to sailing,
so beyond learning tacking and safety the trip
is mostly spent in “Position A.”
Smith does guarantee several benefits that
students get from Great Lakes Sailing: They’ll
enjoy a proper sailing experience. They’re
provided an all-you-can-eat breakfast on Sunday
They’re informed of exclusive tips on how to get
free boats (asking around at marinas for boats
that have been abandoned by owners), and
they’re given unlimited opportunities to sail for
free with Smith once completing the course.
Although some students who join the class
may just scrambling for an easy elective, they
seem to enjoy Smith’s antics and musings on their
weekend excursion away from East Lansing.
Smith even suggests that the course is
important for later in life. After you get the high
paying job and the new boat, Smith asks, will
you know how to operate that boat? Great Lakes
Sailing could certainly help, he argues. The
students agree.
“It kind of showed me that it’s something I
might want to do in the future when I’m older.
You know, have my own money and just need to
get away” sophomore Ismail Gregory said.
If anything though, the students did take
away the most important concept from the class
discussion.
' ‘I learned how to relax in 'Position A,’ ’ ’ senior
David Parke said.
Capi. Joe Smith watches as sophomore Sasha Savage pulls the
salì into place, a process called tacking. Students learned by
performing the tacking themselves.
Capt. Joe Smith takes to the helm as he lectures on the
lesiure of sailing. The one credit kinesiology class requires
that students sign up with Smith for a two-day overnight
trip on Dike Muskegeon, complete with an all-you-can-eat
breakfast on Sunday morning.
Senior Katie Soule pulls the sail into place,
a process called tacking. In addition to
learning to sail, students relaxed and
enjoyed thé sunny Sunday morning.
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of the clean-up to see what type of items were lying
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On a cold, crisp morning, warm sun peeked
through the dried leaves that hung from the trees,
creating a tunnel over the Red Cedar River. Oct. 31
was the perfect day for volunteers and members of
the Fisheries and Wildlife Club to head out, for the
ninth year in a row, to clean out the Red Cedar.
Sipping hot chocolate and discussing their
Halloween costumes from the night before, 50
volunteers gathered around the Michigan State Bike
Shop at 10 a.m. The dedicated students and alumni
had curious expressions on their faces, as if wondering
what they would find this year. After uncovering old,
rusted bikes, shopping carts, a motorcycle and even
a refrigerator in the past, an even higher bar had
been set for finding odd objects.
Junior Genelle Uhrig, a member of the Fisheries and
Wildlife Club, participated for the first time this year.
H|l heard that they have found ovens, bikes and other
major garbage. I am curious to see what I find," Uhrig
said before heading out into the 45-mile long river.
One common myth about the Red Cedar River,
also known to some as the "Red Sewer,” is that it’s
uninhabitable.. Many people don’t realize that it has
been tested and is said to be safe for swimming.
MSU alumni, Matt Freechack, has volunteered for
the past five years and says he plans to continue to
help clean the Red Cedar.
"You get to walk the banks of the river and ride
canoes; it’s really rewarding. MSU has a beautiful
campus. We want to keep it that way” he said.
Handfuls of big, black garbage bags were passed
out to each of the volunteers. People eventually
slipped into rubber waders as the director of the
club divided the river into four sections. Each group
was put in charge of making their section spotless.
After four and a half hours of pulling out rusted
bicycles, shoes and even a table, the volunteers
called it a day, pulling their canoes up to shore and
stepping back onto dry land.
Back outside of the Bike Shop, volunteers
rummaged through the overflowing bags to see
what had been collected. Several people expressed
concern about the amount of garbage thrown into
the river. Settling down after the exhausting day, they
rewarded themselves with some pizza.
Senior and president of the Fisheries and Wildlife
Club Marco Sanchez said he feels it’s important for
people to show respect for the river.
■‘This is a way to show people the great resources
we have on campus. People need to care and should
appreciate the river,” Sanchez said. "It is actually
really clean and there is life in it.”
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majors set up throughout
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thrilling Halloween scare.
Amid an eerie red glow, masters student Emily
young plays the par®of a seemingly innocent child
playing with her toys. The mSority of the props for
the Haunted Auditorium came from the Department
of Theatre’s play "Evil Dead: The Musical,” which
they performed earlier in the year.
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At the Haunted Auditorium, theater majors make nightmares real
Amongst superstitious actors, uttering "Macbeth” in a theater is believed
to bring about a spiral of unlucky events for the cast and crew of a play But on
Halloween weekend at the MSU Auditorium, the taboo title of that Shakespearean
play was just the catalyst for far more frightening events that brought new meaning
to the term "stage fright.”
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"You’re fixated on what’s going on in front of you, but somebody’s coming up
behind you,” senior Tyler McIntosh said.
“That’s when everyone literally jumped,” freshman Nicole Eigner said.
Spurred with fear at the sudden appearance of this living abominatiolj a
contorted actress directed the audience down a spot-lit path backstage, beginning
a nightmarishly thrilling chase through the unfamiliar, claustrophobic hallways of
the Auditorium. The Gothic-inspired design of the 70-year-old building, along with
the rumors of it being haunted by the spirit of a little boy provided for a truly
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a chainsaw.
"This year we decided to kind of go into actually telling the story of an auditorium
and what actually goes on in an auditorium,” senior Brittane Rowe, a production
member, said.
"There’s all these different scenarios: like a costume designer strangling someone,
or an actor who can’t act and goes crazy—just like the extremes of what goes on in
a theater,” she said.
Indeed, the acting business can seem dramatic and stressful, but the department
still found time to haunt the auditorium, and did it in pure theatrical fashion. They
recycled props from "Evil Dead: The Musical,” a play which they performed earlier
in the year, enlisted their own makeup artists and costume designers, and recruited
theatre majors to act as zombies, twisted clowns and other characters.
"Our teacher literally went through and was like, ‘What’s your back story?’, 'What
happened to you?’, ‘Why are you burned?’,” production member and senior Mikayla
Bouchard said.
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Bouchard said the theatre department had an extended budget for the event
this year, and was allowed to use the entire Auditorium building. In just the first two
days of the event, they topped the amount of people who came for the event in the
previous year.
All of the money raised at the door will go toward funding the theatre
department's second senior BFA showcase in New York in the spring, in which
actors and actresses will perform monologues, songs or dances in front of New
York acting agents.
"It was so believable, they were crazy,” Lansing Community College student
Ariella Zanoni said. "They did not hold back at all.”
Senior Cara Bosco paints a gruesome burn on
freshman Sara Ostrowski’s»ce, helping her get
into character for the Haunted Auditorium over
Halloween weekend. This year was the second year
theilppartmjlit of Theatre put oil the event.
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dens, advancing across the grounds of Michigan State University to
consume and infect every unwitting man or woman in their path.
But the harrowed remnants of the human race fought back, rallying
together to combat the undead menace with as much firepower as
they could muster. Thus began the campus-wide game of tag known
as Humans vs. Zombies.
The game ran from Nov. 2 to the 8th, with a final mission at the end
of the week in which "humans” were to secure Beaumont Tower from
"zombies” from 8 to 11 p.m. in order to win the game.
According to sophomore Frank Luchini, humans win the game
by starving off zombies, while zombies win by turning all humans
into zombies.
"Some people have been saying they’ve been changing their
schedules, going to class 40 minutes earlier to avoid zombies. Or
leave five minutes early Or stay late within the building,” he said.
“People will take the most roundabout routes to avoid specific areas
of campus.”
The rules of the game are quite specific, Luchini said. For example,
the game only occurs outdoors between the hours of 7 a.m. to midnight.
For identification, zombies are required to wear bandanas around
their heads, while humans likewise wear bandanas around their
arms. Zombies can "infect” humans by tagging them, while humans
can ward them off with Nerf guns and clean sock "grenades.”
"The original creators of the gameBought this would just be a
fun thing to add on to their daily lives,” Luchini saidj'But really it’s so
much fun and people get so into it.” ■
According to Luchini, a group of sophomores decided to bring the
game of tag to campus after experiencing it in their hometowns.
"It’s played all over the country It’s a massive game of tag, but il
doesn’t Save to affect your daily life. It’s something fun to add on as an
extra,” he said, "We’re all adults now, so we’re able to run around and
play with Nerf guns andpot get yelled at.”
Sophomore Nick Stauffer agrees.
"I get to fulfill my childhood dream of chasing zombies® he said
"I fell in love with the game.”
Apparently so did MSU. Though Re game was advertised solely
through a Facebook event created by sophomore Jessica Oakes, 500
students decided to "attend” the event, although only 300 of them
actually registered in the end.
"We probably only would have had about 30 people playing
without the help of social networking sites like Facebook, and it
would have probably been based around only one part of campus,"
Oakes said.
Oakes hopes to continue the game in future semesters but in a;
more organized fashion. She said a website is in the works and that,
given the amount of positive feedback she has received from students,
she is in the process of making Humans vs. Zombies a registered
student organization.
"When you’re simply walking down the street, you could see a
human running from a zombie,” Stauffer said, "and that’s pretty cool."
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Row upon row of half-repaired bicycles line the
basement of the old Demonstration Hall. Once the
home of the MSU bike shop, the basement now
houses Bike Project, a service in which student
volunteers repair bikes.
‘ ‘I love having the privilege to work on my own
bike down here. The shop has every tool that I
would ever need,” said Jacob Clark, a member of
the East Lansing community He brought his BMX
bike in for repairs.
Every Thursday and Sunday at the bike
shop, four stations are set up for volunteers.
They’re instructed by volunteer coordinator and
sophomore Dan Dokter. Volunteers are asked to
fix bikes, some unwanted and some confiscated
by MSU Police, and send them back to the Bike
Shop to be rented to students and the East
Lansing community.
While Jon Amcker, a senior and Clark’s older
brother, worked on a bike that needed new
pedals and a tire replaced, he explained his
passion for repairing bikes.
‘‘I like working on bikes with my brother. He
wants to be a mechanic one day and I enjoy
helping him get a leg up,” Amcker said.
Volunteers are expected to replace rusty
chains, barely-there tires, and brakes. Many of
the volunteers are not bike mechanics, but they
are carefully talked through each step. Once the
worn-out parts are replaced, Dokter examines
the bikes.
Freshman Aidan Hunter takes time out of his
busy schedule to volunteer at the Bike Shop
every Thursday
‘‘There’s over 40,000 people on this campus
and it feels great to know I’m one of the few
who gives back to the community in a unique
way like this,” Hunter said while taking a break
from learning how to replace the derailleur on a
Schwinn.
Dokter, who has been helping the Bike Project
since he was in high school, says giving the bikes
a new life is a slow process. Nonetheless, he
enjoys volunteering because it helps him escape
from the routine of classes and homework.
‘‘I really enjoy being in the shop,” Dokter said.
"If you take a look around, you can see that it is
filled with hidden treasures. You have to be a bike
enthusiast to appreciate all of this.”
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Spotlights shone down on a catwalk in the
Wonders Hall Kiva on the evening of Nov. 15. Four
drag queens and one drag king took to the stage
in all their booty-popping glory As they sashayed
down the runway dressed in lavish costumesl
adorned with shimmering makeup, their audience
was a seething mass of ecstatic energy- waving
dollar bills at performers, clapping and waving all
night long.
' ‘I feel like every single drag queen has a different
favorite part. For a lot of people it’s the makeup or
the hair, but I just love being on stage,” Michael
” Ramp age” Pompey one of the performers that
night, said. “This show is one I look forward to all
year. We get a great response from the audience.”
‘‘So You Think You Can Drag: Drag Me to
the Circus” was just one of the many events
held during MSU's observance of Transgender
Awareness Week from Nov. 131 21, a nationwide
event intended to raise public awareness of issues
surrounding transgendered individuals. Organized
by People Respecting the Individuality of Students
at MSU (PRISM) and the Lesbian Bisexual Gay
Transgender Queer (LBGTQ) caucus of south
complex, approximately 300 audience members
braved the cold that night to come cheer on the
performers.
‘‘The drag show was obviously very intense
and to put on such an awesome program, we need
awesome planning,” PRISM President and junior
Justin Love said. ‘‘We approached hall governments
and caucuses in south neighborhood for funding
and committee members.”
This year, all proceeds from the event were
donated to the Ruth Ellis Center in Highland Park.
The center provides clothes, food and shelter to
LBGTQ-identified youth in need of support and also
offers long-term help for those who are struggling
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with their sexual identity Combined with tips for the
performers and donations from audience members,
Love says the show raised $604 this year.
"They’re a great center and do a lot of awesome
work, so we wanted to benefit them and show our
support,” he said.
A little closer to home, LBGTQ caucuses around
campus such as PRISM, RING, SPECTRUM, BRIGHT
and PRIDE are attempting to do the same. Love said
that in light of recent negative events in the mews
involving members of the LBGTQ community these
outlets are "always necessary”
"The caucuses and the resource center provide
a safe space for students to go to learn more about
themselves, their communities and have a fun time
doing it,” he said.
Pompey said, however, that pi sense of self-
confidence in one’s identity was just as important
as the presence of these resources.
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out there and that it’s okay to be gay or a gay drag
queen,” he said.
Sophomore Ashley Difonzo, a member of
SPECTRUM, said the idea of a community of like-
minded students is wha|| prompted her to get
involved with the LBGTQ caucuses on campus.
"There are a lot of members in the community”
she said.'"It’s nice to have somewhere to go, kind
of like a safe haven in a way My high school didn’t
have a lot of that, but here it’s so easy to join the
community”
Involving herself in a supportive community such
as this one, Difonzo said, was what made her feel at
ease when it came to attending events like "So You
Think You Can Drag.”
“Once you start attending the meetings and get
to know everyone, going to events like this is a lot
more fun. I’m not timid about it anymore.”
Sophomore Bailey Doolittle works the crowd
during her first performance in a drag show.
She danced to Justin Beiber’s "Somebody to
Love" under the stage name Justin Sheber.
Michael "Rampagff ’ Pompey performs at the]
fourth annual "SoYouThihkYou Can Drag"
show, organized by PRISM in Wonders Hall.
The Wonders Hall Kiva was maxed out in
attendance with 300 attendees.
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Senior John Gburek
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p.m. mass at St. John’s
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Shuffling feet and the rustle of winter coats
being shed muffled anxious whispers of
excitement, which traveled across the narrow
pews of St. John’s Student Center as students sat
for the 7 p.m. mass on Nov 18,
However, the anticipation didn’t appear to
be centered on Father Mark Inglot’s sermon,
but rather on an impending night of witchcraft
and wizardry; Bludger-beating and spell
casting, and broomsticks and portkeys. Put
more simply it was for the midnight screening
of the first part of “Harry Potter and the Deathly
Hallows,’’ the seventh movie installment based
on J.K. Rowling’s best-selling series of novels.
The church caravanned students over to watch
the movie after the mass.
But as the distracted congregation fiddled
with hymnals and shifted in their seats, wishing
perhaps for the use of Hermione’s Time Turner
or the ability to apparate to Celebration Cinema
in Lansing, Inglot fueled their anxious fire.
1 ‘Are you excited for Harry Potter? ’ ’ he asked
with a grin on his face.
“Or, are youiust going to go home and
read the Book of Revelation now?” he quipped,
referring to his reading selection for the mass
that night.
As students laughed, senior John Gburek sat
among them. His slicked blonde hair, Slytherin-
thin, crooked wand
green clothing and
unmistakably branded him as the notoriously
disliked, Voldemort-supporter Draco Malfoy
So why would he side with evil for the
night, especially given the unpopularity of his
character among the Potter fandom?
“You know, it’s a fun time to be the villain,
too,” Gburek said. "In your own life, you can’t
really be the villain all the time so, in a way, you
get to dress up and live the part,"
In fact, being able to live the part by dressing
up as the Harry Potter characters has become
a tradition on the nights the previous movies
arrived in theaters. Sporting a stitched-on
Ravenclaw patch and a copy of The New
York Times turned Quibbler in hand, junior
Michelle Leppek impersonated the eccentric,
yet likeable Luna Lovegood.
“I think she’s crazy and just really cool and
a lot of fun,” Leppek said. “She’s not scared of
anything.”
About 45 students gathered at St. John’s to
go to the movie,'stopping by the basement
for butterbeer—a mix of ginger ale and
butterscotch flavoring— and cauldron cakes,
more commonly recognized as the plain donut.
Though the Roman Catholic Church and the
novels have had a tense relationship in the past,
the presence of these students at St. John’s that
night exemplified the reconciliation between
the Holy See and the Boy Who Lived.
in
church,
“The Catholic
its official
statements, has said nothing but supportive
words about Harry Potter,” Campus Minister
Katie Diller said. In fact, Inglot said the idea
for the dining hall at Hogwarts came from the
Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.
“One of the most important lessons in Harry
Potter is that there is evil in the world! Diller
said. ‘ ‘And it has to be fought against and it’s not
easy and it takes friends—it takes friendships
and relationships to make you strong enough
to fight against the darkness and temptation
that is in the world.”
All of file big paradigms of life—friendship,
family, good and evil—are in the Harry Potter
series, said Inglot; who is a. fan himself.
“There’s this philosophical dualism between
good and evil, and what’s going to win out,
and the intrigue of that comes out a lot in her
[Rowling’s] writing.”
‘They’re going to be classics,” he said—
something he also brought up durlg his
sermon. “They’ll be up there with Tolkien’s
‘Lord of the Rings.’ ’ ’
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CarmiHe Bates, a Ph.D. student, teaches a
traditional Filipino dance toft young girl.
From dances tllmusic to food, participants
from all over the world shared traditions
from their home countrflll
Senior Toshinori Horii and Junya Sazuka
of the Japanese Club teach the art of
origami. Many international clubs were
represented during the Global Festival.
Senior Mariana Rendon spins the wheel of flags
on behalf of the International Students Association.
Aside from students, many East Lansing community
members attended the event.
Dance|s from the Persian Student
Association perform for audience
members at the 2010 Global Festival.
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Students, community members experience the wonders of the world at Global Festival
The MSU Union may as well have been an
international airport on Nov. 21. But rather than being
transported to exotic destinations by airplane, visitors
at the Global Festival experienced the cultures of 31
countries without leaving East Lansing.
Once visitors stepped inside, their senses were
greeted with wafts of German pork weinerschnitzeF
and sounds of South Korean pop music mixed with
floating melodies of traditional Middle Eastern
tunes. Amid the crowd were performers dressed in
everything from patterned headscarves to dresses
with intricate embroidery
At the entrance to the festival, children were given a
passport inviting them to collect information about each
country Much of the first floor of the Union was devoted
to games and crafts geared toward younger attendees.
One of these participants was 9-year-old Jamil
Muhammadi, perched on a pile of red embroidered
pillows at the Afghanistan booth.
“When people come, I tell them about the carpets
and costumes,” Muhammadi said. “The girls wear
scarves to cover their hair, and their outfits usually
have beads and accessories. The rugs are used
as couches and can be stuffed with feathers to be
softer to sit on.”
Tracee Waiee brought. her children Jack and
Caroline to the event. Waiee said Jack would receive
extra credit for his Japanese class at DeWitt Junior
High School, and that both children should have the
opportunity to experience different cultures.
“It’s nice to come out and get some education for!
the young ones,” Waiee said. “They get to see and
understand things they wouldn’t see normally”
Tracee and Caroline waited in line to receive
henna tattoos drawn by Pakistani representatives, an
attraction that brought many festival-goers, including
a Girl Scout troop from East Lansing High School.
The troop frequently attends global events and
this is its eighth Global Festival visit. Kayla Moore, an
ELHS freshman, has been coming to the event since
she was in second grade.
W’We mostly just come for funi Moore said. "In
our troop, we have so many different people from
different places. It’s good to get to know more about
them and their culture.”
Moore and her friends enjoyed the henna tattoos
as well as the gift shop, proceeds from whiclfcwent
to funding scholarships for international students at
MSU. Arm Merrifield, leader oiMoore’s Girl Scout
troop, hopes the girls will use this event to glean
some valuable knowledge about the world.
‘ ’These girls are exposed to different cultures every
day in school,” Merrifield said. “East Lansing has a lot
of diversity Events like this give them an idea of where
their friends and classmates come from.”
The festival also highlighted the cultures of many
MSU students. Senior John Ra, a member of the
Korean Student Organization, said he hoped that
students attending the event would take a moment to
explore the traditions of his birthplace: South Korea.
“We want to advertise Korea to non-Koreans,” Ra
maid,®’We get a lot of internation® students, but we
want to stay connected to the community We wanted
to represent everything about South Korea: cultural
artifacts, pop culture, information about what to visiS
how to use chopsticks.” .
Merrifield said the experience gained at an event
such as the Global Festival is the reason people of all
ages should learn about other cultures.
“It’s about acceptance,” Merrifield said, “By
attending, we get to see not only our differences from
people in other cultures, but also how we’re alike.”
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brandish their signs behind police
officers and fence protection. Among
the three was Margie Phelps, an
attorney and church member who
argued WBC’s free speech case,
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were held before the Westboro
Baptist Church picket planning the
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East Lansing, MSU counter-protest Westboro Baptist Church picket
On Nov. 18 in East Lansing, snow threatened
from the domineering clouds above. Yet, thrust
against this backdrop of gray sky a rainbow of
hundreds of colorful signs let out a singular
cry of unity
About 1,000 East Lansing residents, East
Lansing High School students,,: and MSU
students and alumni gathered outside of ELHS
as a counter-presence to Westboro Baptist
Church’s protest against the students there .
The WBC, based in Topeka, Kan., has
gained national media attention in recent years
for picketing funerals of AIDS victims and
soldiers killed in war overseas. Their website,
godhatesfags.com, states that homosexuals
"pose a clear and present danger to the
survival of America,” and that American
soldiers who died in the Middle East were
killed by God ‘‘in righteous judgment against
an evil nation.”
The WBC protesters came in response to
an e-mail they received from an ELHS student
condemning their practices. Margie Phelps,
the daughter of the church’s head pastor and
one of the three members present, was also
invited to speak at a MSU College of Law panel
on First Amendment rights earlier that day
The planned protest sparked a community
wide response, with counter-protest events at
the school and two nearby churches along with
an organized reaction from the MSU student
body Students marched from the Union to All
Saints Episcopal Church on Abbot Road, the
primary site of the counter-protest.
Sophomore Cory Hanrahan and several
friends arrived in the empty ELHS parking lot
toting rainbow signs about an hour before the
WBC members were scheduled to arrive.
‘‘[We’re] trying to be as civil as we can,
but with our signs we’re trying to relay our
message that intolerance isn't right and we’re
not going to stand for it,” Hanrahan said.
As the minutes ticked toward the start
of the protest, steady streams of counter
protesters, news reporters and gawkers filled
the parking lot at the corner of Burcham
Drive and Old Hickory Lane. The area was
designated for the event by the East Lansing
Police Department with temporary fencing
and yellow tape. The side farthest from the
school was designated for WBC members.
The counter-protest crowd kept growing,
eventually overtaking the parking lot and both
sides of Burcham Drive.
Finally the three church members staked
their claim, wielding multi-colored signs with
messages such as ‘‘God Hates Fag Enablers”
and ' 'America is Doomed.” Their presence
was matched by a storm of chants and
opposing signs from across the street.
There were also plenty of unrelated signs
amidst the sea of pro-gay rights and pro-love
placards. Freshman Brynne Curtis sat on a
friend’s shoulders carrying a sign thaflread
“You’re a wizard, Harry” in reference to the
premiere of the first installment of the seventh
Harry Potter movie that same night.
“We’re trying to get the focus away from
WBC and just show everyone who’s watching
that it’s really not that big a deal,” she said.
This approach was prevalent throughout
the crowd—from “Paging Doctor Faggot”
signs referencing “The Hangover” to a Jesus
impersonator, complete with flowing robes
and a bushy brown beard. Senior Bryan
Reid carried a sign that read “Legalize
Dumbledore.”
"You can't get angry; you can’t let them
make you mad .You’d think more people would
be more receptive to our side professing love
and humor in the situation instead of people
that hate others,” Reid said.
MSU students march with their banner
to the site of the c -ounter pSest at
the All Saints Episcopal Church in
East Lansing. MSU students, with
the backing of the LBGTA caucuses,
organized a march from the Union.
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Sharmaake Sabrie sits in a dimly lit lounge in Abbot Hill, mulling over
jfis schedule for the next few days. Sabrie, a senior majoring in international
relations, is preparing to present about the effects of poverty and hunger
on third world countries in his honors class tomorrow. He admits he’s a little
anxious about the ordeal, smiling sheepishly. The next day doesn’t seem to
be much of a sweat, thougi. He’s meeting with a professor to put together
a paper on how to negotiate with pirates. After all, he knows a thing or two
about them.
A native of troubled Somalia, Sabrie is regarded as an unofficial expert on piracy
and migration issues. Having worked with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the
International Organizatio| for Migration in Geneva, Switzerland, he has a vast network of
contacts who depend on him for advice and information.
Whether it’s the Detroit Free Press inquiring about current Somali affairs or a Somali man
living in Canada seeking advice on how to get into college, Sabrie is a man people want
to talk to. In fact, junior Matthew Salim met Sabrie after being compelled to approach him
in class. Why? Sabrie looked focused, Salim said, a stark contrast to the other students who
surrounded him.
Sabrie’s differences from his peers extend far beyond his mannerisms. He was born
in war-torn Somalia, which hasn’t had a central government since 1991. He sought refuge
in Kenya in 1993 and made it to the U.S. in 200% but not before some of his siblings went
missing due to the war in Somalia, a memory that shapes his outlook on life, Sabrie said.
“It made me realize the things I don’t have,” Sabrie said, recalling the grim events in a
collected tone with a distant look of sadness. “I try to succeed and do the best I can because
¡¡see a lot of people who are in the same circumstances I was in. This is not only happening
in Somalia, it’s happening all over the world, and I think I coild be able to help.”
Since coming to MSU, Sabrie has worked with the IOM, NATO and the European Union
tackling Somali refugee problems in Italy and elsewhere and researching the global impact
of Somali piracy He’s used the four languages he knows (Somali, Arabic, Swahili, English)
to volunteer at the Refugee Development Center in Lansing. This summer he hopes to
work with consulting agency McKinsey & Company to round out his business background
before hopefully attending law school,'he said. After that, Sabrie aspires to work with an
international organization such as NATO or the EU.
As Salim mentioned from the first time they met, Sabrie had a serious aura about him. He
carries himself with the wisdom of a man much older than 23 years, which is evidenced by
his careful, deliberate speaking. Yet Salim attests that Sabrie boasts a sensitive side and has
a sincere passion for improving human rights that goes beyond most people of any age.
“He’s a humanitarian, I swear he is. Anything he can do to ||elp someone, he’ll do it,”
Salim said. “He loves everybody.. .that’s what makes him a good person.”
Of course, when Sabrie talks about his hopes for the world, he desires what any sensible
person wants: world peace and a sense of security for all beings. However, what sets Sabrie
apart is his genuine drive to wolptoward those goals, part of which originated from the
circumstances he grew up in.
“The average student lives in a small and sequestered world; they’ve faced very
little adversity in their lives,” said communications professor William Donohue, who is
collaborating with Sabrie on a piracy negotiation paper. “He's been all over the world, he’s
seen all sides of what humanity does to one another, and it’s that extraordinarily rich set of
experiences he’s been able to translate into a great deal of insight.”
Sabrie’s vision of success also differs from his American student counterparts. As he
writes on his Facebook profile, “Success means effectiveness in the world.”
“I’m coming from a place where I didn’t have any material aspect. All my life I’ve
struggled for safety and security” Sabrie said. “So the idea of becoming rich, what good
will that do for you if your fellow human beings aren’t rich as well? It’s something that’s
unimaginable. One’s success has a direct impact on others.”
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• The first of December gave way to the first snowy
day of the year, and with the snowfall came a breezy
chill that marked the harsh beginnings of winter.
Although it was darbl and the flurries continued
to fly a few flickering lights shone through at The
Rock, where a handful of MSU students gathered
there to mark World AIDS Day with a candlelight
vigil to commemorate AIDS victims.
Dec. 1 is World AIDS Day, a worldwide event
that spurred a multitude of gatherings, vigils
and discussions around the globe about AIDS
and HIV Here at MSU, the Olin Sexual Health
Advocates organized the vigil and several other
events on campus.
World AIDS Day started in 1988. According to
UNAIDS, the United Nations’ Joint Programme on
HIV/AIDS, 33.4 million people across the world were
afflicted with HIV as of 2009. In that same year, there
were 1.8 million AIDS-related deaths worldwide.
Student volunteers signed up to tie 250 ribbons
around campus trees, each one symbolizing 2,000
people that have died because of AIDS. These were
to commemorate the 500,000 people that have died
of AIDS in the United States. The Olin Health Center
offered anonymous walk-in HIV testing all day and
the In Your Face Theatre Troupe, a registered student
organization, put on skits later that night at the Brody
Complex to educate students on sexual health.
The vigil had a small turnout, mostly made up of
the Olin Sexual Health Advocates. Huddled together
in a tight circle and clutching their candles, several
announced this year’s AIDS Day theme, "Universal
Access and Human Rights,” focusing on increasing
access to prevention methods and treatment.
After a few poems were recited, the group bowed
their heads in a moment of silence. To conclude, the
Olin Sexual Health Advocates invited comments
and stories. Angel Adelaja, a Nigerian-American
student, voiced her support for AIDS awareness.
‘ My best friend, her cousin was dropped on their
doorstep in Nigeria with HIV and he didn’t believe
he Jiad itjj Adelaja, a graduate student, said. “If
they don’t have things like this, people won’t know,
people won’t want to come out and support.”
The Olin SexuJj Health Advocates’ main reason
behind organizing MSU’s response to World AIDS
Day is to boost student awareness of AIDS and to
encourage HIV testing. Part of that campaign is
reminding students of the resources they already
have on campus.
"We always have a great turnout for testing
[on World AIDS Day], but we always offer testing,
I’m not sure why the draw on this particular day,”
Erica Phillipich, a coordinator of the Center for
Sexual Health Promotion at Olinlsaid. "More
than anything, we just want people to know the
resources on campus.”
One example of these resources is senior
Mandy Hoffman, an HIV counselor at Olin who
talks to students and faculty about their anxieties of
considering being tested for HIV
“They tell me a little bit about their history and
what they think their risks are, and then I let them
know what I’ve learned through training and through
experience what their actual risks are,” she said.
Anotherpart ofthe awareness involves eliminating
the many stigmas surrounding HIV including how
it’s contracted and where it affects people the most.
“We’re living in a generation that has never
known a world without it, which I think is sometimes
why it’s easy to turn a blind eye to it, to think it’s only
in Africa,” Phillipich said. “It’s just a gentle reminder
that unfortunately it’s still in our communities, it’s still
here, in the U.S. and in Michigan.”
Members of MSU’s Olin Health Center, join together for a
candle light vigil to remember and support all of tlwse who
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college student use of Bridge Cards
Last year, Bridge Cards were hot. Now, they’re not.
In the 2009-2010 edition of the Red Cedar Log, we covered
the increased popularity of Bridge Cards among MSU students.
Issued by the state of Michigan, they act like debit cards for food
aid purposes. But as of April 1, 2011, individuals are now unable to
apply for a Bridge Card just for being a college student.
The Michigan Department of Human Services (DHS) struck
down a qualifying clause in the state Food Assistance Program that
allowed students who were ''attending college with an approved
education plan” to receive Bridge Cards. The DHS said the change
was made to bring the program within federal guidelines, because
it is funded by the federal government.
Christine Fecher, a media relations and online communications
representative for the DHS, said the sudden switcMwas part of the
efforts of a handful of state legislators and the new DHS director
Maura Corrigan to ensure integrity in the Food Assistance Program.
Corrigan was appointed by Gov. Rick Snyder earlier that year as
part of the new state administration.
Bridge Cards award up to $200 a month in food aid to
cardholders. But students who didn’t meet the traditional criteria
for such assistance (i.e.: Are either caring for children, physically or
mentally unable to work, or participating in an on-the-job training
program), saw their aid end on April 1.
Many students were not even aware of the specific details a
few weeks after it was announced. However, many thought it was
a good idea to restrict qualifications for Bridge Cards, even those
who used them.
“I wouldn’t be terribly upset if it happened,” Gus Rutecki, a
freshman at Lansing Community College living at Chandler’s
Crossing, said. "I think it’s pretty fair, especially for the people that
really need it.”
Most students pointed to abuse of the money by their collegiate
counterparts on trivial goods as a justification for the new restrictions.
"I work at CVS and I see people who obviously don’t need that
money1 ’ junior Jacob Idoni said.' ‘It’s just ridiculous that you see people
come in and buy things specifically to go out drinking with, with their
Bridge Card, and you can see they have a ton of money left on it.’ ’
When asked about personal misuse, students weren’t so quick
to point fingers,; although freshman Matt Dapra, a roommate
of Rutecki’s, admitted to spending Bridge Card money on an
occasional candy bar. Besides, with multiple cardholders living
under the same roof, the necessity of the full $200 per person
came into question.
‘‘I don’t think I would use the full $200 on my own per month,”
junior Marla Trzeciak said, stating that she and her roommates only
utilize the full amount when they go shopping together.
Yet, other students who depended on the Bridge Card like junior
Julian Yu weren’t as quick to let it go. Yu said she will have to take out
more loans to help pay for rent and tuition because she receives no
financial assistance from her parents,
‘‘It’s going to be a lot more difficult to get food,”Yu said. ‘‘There’s
still a vast majority of students out there that do pay their own bills
that still go to work and go to school.”
Nonetheless, there didn’t appear to be much overall opposition
from cardholders themselves. Although junior Cathleen Zuzelski,
who was interviewed for last year’s Bridge Card story was overly
supportive of the program a year ago, she seems fine bidding adieu
to the Bridge Card this time around.
"I'm not going to starve,” she said. ‘‘I’ll just have to budget more
carefully for other things that arentl necessary like going out for
dinner or for movies or for fun.”
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stumbled—across the ice rink to the upbeat tunes of Elvis
Presley Bobby Day and the movie “Grease.”
At a vinyl decorating station on the outskirts of
Munn’s concourse, sophomore Amanda Urena feverishly
rummaged through stacks of old, black records in search
of her favorite singers, crouching to read the small print at
their centers.
“My grandpa always used to listen to an old ‘50s radio
station. I would just walk in and he would greet me and we
would listen to that music,” she said, citing artists like Benny
Goodman, Frank Sinatra and Johnny Mathis.
Finally satisfied with a handful of vinyls tucked under
her shoulder, Urena conjured up one word to describe the
decade’s music scene: jive.
In the meantime,-a jumble of students clad in ’50s fashion
dotted the ice below, ready to compete for best costume at
the end of the night.
“I was thinking typical greaser, you know, ‘50s dude.
That’s the picture I had in my head,” sophomore Randy
Adams said as he awaited the judges’ verdicts'‘But later,
when'I walked in the cafeteria and looked at myself in the
mirror,! realized I really looked like Ricky Ricardo from
‘I Love Lucy.’ ”
Though Adams placed, second to a comb-sporting
Danny Zuko look-a-like, his ego wasn’t too deflated.
"I just loved dressing up. I love acting and putting on
a different persona,”- he said. “And the cash prize was an
incentive as well.”
While normally the attire at this event screams Las Vegas
glitz and glam for UAB’s annual “Dice and Ice,lthe group
decided to switch up the theme this year.
“We had a lot of carnival supplies in our store room from
past events, so we were kind of just able to pull out some
old games and set them up,” sophomore Amy Pochodylo,
UAB’s Director of Marketing, said. “It just seemed like we
could do a lot more with the '50s theme.”
Indeed, a line that trailed up and around the bleachers
for skate rental and an empty popcorn booth littered with
stray kernels proved that the switch had paid off.
While the line slowly dwindled, juniors Cassie Barnes
and Jessica Mitkovski plopped themselves down on the
bleachers, warily inspecting the ice. Barnes’ black'and
red ensemble appeared in stark contrast to Mitkovski’s
traditional white sweater and black-rimmed glasses.
“We watched “Grease” on Wednesday night, so I’m
supposed to be Rizzo and she’s Sandy” Barnes said,
“I’m the good girl, she’s the bad girl, can you tell?”
Mitkovski asked eagerly
For the majority of attendees who didn’t share Mitkovski’s
enthusiasm for dressing up, however, free food and ice-
skating were the major pull,
“I really like the idea of free Insomnia Cookies, and I want
to try out skating sooner or later because I’ve never done
it before,” freshman John Herzog said, laughing among a
group of friends.
But, c’mon guys, what about the ‘50s?
“I don’t even know, man, it was really easygoing and
happy it seemed to me,” sophomore Katherine Logan said.
“My parents were born,” Herzog joked.
“I just think of ‘Leave it to Beaver,”’ freshman John
Swartz laughed.
Freshman David Crouse glides across thence at Munn
Aréna. He later entered and placed in the fifties costume
„-competition with his white tee; glasses and wavy hairdo.
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Through synecdoche, The Vagina
Monologues benefit MSU Sexual
Assault Program
Junior Hannah Stoppel is one of few
students at MSU who can say she’sffhad a
violent orgasm onstage. More precisely she
had someone else’s orgasm. Stoppel was one
of 28 women cast in the 2011 production of
“The Vagina Monologues,” a compilation of
nonfiction first-person anecdotes that illustrate
female experiences.
In fact, vagina is said more than 200 times
during the show, addressiig issues like
women injured during war, domestic abuse
and child birth. Stoppel read a monologue
titled “The woman who loved to make vaginas
happy” which investigated female moaning
during sex. The idea has been planted in her
mind since she first saw a taped version of the
show at age 10.
“Some of the monologues I heard then
have influenced my entire life,” Stoppel said.
“It’s kind of something I’ve always had in the
back of my head.”
Nearly sold out performances on Friday
Feb. 18, and Saturday ¡Feb 19, capped a
noteworthy year for the annual show’s history.
Auditions in the fall drew more than 60 women,
one of the largest pools yet, co-director
Nicole Beard said. This led to one of the most
diverse casts of the show’s 12-year run at
MSU, displaying an array of nationalities, ages
and areas of study,
Though most in the cast are MSU students,
ages this year ranged from 18-year-olds to
women in their 60s.
“We have all nationalities, all religions, but
we get along so well because we’re all here
for the same cause,” Beard said. “When we
walk in here! don’t see the difference.”
And it’s not just about acting. Beard said
when casting the show, she and the other three
directors tried to find women who embraced
its message. The event is part of a national
movement called “V-Day” in which a global
network of college and community theaters
produce the show near Valentine’s Day as a
fundraiser to stop violence against women.
At MSU,
ticket proceeds benefitted
the MSU Sexual Assault program, which
provides advocacy and crisis intervention to
victims. Some of those involved had firsthand
experience with the same issues “V-day” is
trying to improve. Beard first auditioned after
working for Relief After Violent Encounter, a
women’s shelter and domestic abuse help
center. Members of senior Megan Threats’ ,
family were victims of sexual assault, something
that compelled her to participate after seeing
the show for the past two years. Onstage,
she performed a monologue about a child's
experience with sexual abuse.
“Everyone having the courage to do this
has been a really big moral experience for
me,” Threats said.
Though casts and arrangement of the
monologues vary each year, some aspects
remain standard. For oneleach actor must
carry note cards during her performance,
even if she knows her lines. This is to symbolize
’“that the story was an event in a real woman’s
life. While some jot down their cues, others
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three, said the show’s structure provides a
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to act off of,¡¡she said. “It’s definitely a different!
experience.”
Junior Elizabeth Battiste , Irene Blanchard and senior Angie
Tripi introduce the 2011 Vagina Monologues. This year the
MSU Sexual Assault Program was chosen as beneficiary.
Junior Whitley Lehto recites her lines at the Pasant Theatre.
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Performing “Hair” from the Vagina Monologues', junior
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hair. The performance included fifteen monologues ranging
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the student telemarketers. Prior to set
shifts, student employees can be found
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right away
“I’ll tell the caller how I was disenrolled last
year, but scholarships from the University allowed
me to come back,” he said. “Basically, I let them
know that there are people here at the university
who care, who actually need and want the money
they donate.”
Money
telemarketers
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building renovations and campus beautification,
scholarships and study abroad programs. Watkins
said the calls aren’t always smooth sailing.
collected by MSU
“I’ve seen graduation dates of 1924 on our
call list,” he said. "You have to get ready to face
differences because of that generation gap. One
man told me he was never giving to MSU again
because we support diversity”
“You don’t really want to think of Spartans being
like that. It was a hard phone call to shake off.”
The turnover rate for employees is high, Watkins
said, because some student employees just aren’t
properly equipped to handle the demands of the job.
“Telemarketing is almost like acting,’|jhe said.
“You have to be able to listen and respond back
and you can’t be afraid to talk.”
Fears aside, Watkins said his time at the MSU
Telemarketers has enhanced his student days at
Michigan State.
“If anything, this job is a stress reliever for me,”
he said. “You’re basically doing homework, talking
to your friends and making calls.”
y;‘| really like calling, for the school because
people on the call list aren’t random. They’re
people who care about their school.”
Twice or thrice every week, junior Sean Watkins
enters the elevator inside Spartan Stadium on the
way to his job, his collared shirt devoid of wrinkles
and his sneakers fresh. He greets any co-workers
he runs into with cheerful hellos.
“ ‘Don’t forget to smile,’ I always say” he quips.
Today Watkins enters the Stadium with a
plastic bag of Twinkies tied around his wrist for
an employee potluck - one of the many things, he
said, that sets his job apart from a typical office
desk job.
Hi don’t like being in a boring place,” he said.
Watkins is, in factlan MSU Telemarketer, who
makes calls to alumni in hopes of convincing them
to donate money to the school.
5fMSU telemarketers have two themed shifts
per semester, in which employees bring food to
share and also dress up in costume. Past themes
have included ‘‘the World Cup” and "the 1980s.”
Watkins said employees also elect people every
semester to put on a dance.
Watkins joined the telemarketers over the
summer of 2010 and returned in the spring of
2011 after studying abroad. He typically works
four hour shifts, making calls to alumni in hopes
of convincing them to donate money to the school.
Prior to his time at MSU, Watkins worked as a bill
collector at home in New York.
“I find I have a little more patience when
telemarketers call me after working here,” he said.
“But if they kept calling, the New Yorker might
come out in me.”
“This is easier than bill collecting, because you
aren’t soliciting and, plus, you already have something
in common with the people you’re calling.”
Watkins said he has a strategy of making the
Telemarketers prepare for their shift to start.
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University Activities Board hosts post-Valentine’s Day Speed Dating event
A student body over 40,000 strong makes for an intimidating
dating pool, but the University Activities Board brought the
number down to a more manageable size. Just over 60 students
sat down to speed-da|S on Feb. 24.
Dim lighting, a disco ball and pop hits playing in the
background set the mood as the clock struck 7:30 p.m. and
the speed dating began, filling the Union Ballroom with lively
chatter. Dates were seated across from one another at a table,
ladies on one side and gentlemen on the other.
Each pair had three short minutes to make an impression
before time was called on the mini-date, leading gentlemen
to slide one seat to their left and start the process all over
again. Every participant was given a nametag and a number
during registration, along wit® a scorecard to keep track of
his or her dates.
Upon reaching the end of a date, those looking to continue
the conversation could check “yes" next to their partner’s name.
Score sheets were turned in to be sorted through by the UAB's
Human Resource Committee, the host of the event.
Thrown after Valentine’s Day as an opportunity for students to
meet new people, Speed Dating was the first event of its kind.
“We had extra money in our budget so we wanted to put
on one more event, and we’ve never done anything like Speed
Dating before. We had no idea what to expect, we were just
-looking to come up with something fun, a good idea that people
would like," freshman UAB volunteer Frank Liu said.
The friendly, casual atmosphere was a draw for some of the
speed-daters who weren’t necessarily looking to meet their
soul mate.
“I’m not really expecting anything; I came out with some
friends as a silly thing, like ‘Yeah! Let’s go speed-dating!’ Why
not?” freshman Jessica Leacher said.
Others, however, were hoping to make a more serious
connection.
“I’m definitely looking for a girlfriend, or at least an
acquaintance. For me, it’s also an opportunity Hopefully this’ll
give me the confidence to get out and talk to more people,”
senior Michael Montpetit said.
Sophomore Donovan Johnson didn’t even come for himself.
He came to Speed Dating in support of a friend.
“I came for my man Oskar because he’s looking to meet some
nice young ladies and I’d like to back him up. And if I happen to
meet some people that I can chill with, that’s cool too,” Johnson
said.
Though students may have been looking for something
different, it didn’t stop them from keeping the ballroom alive with
laughter and conversation for two hours until the mixer started.
The post-dating mixer was a chance for those who sparked
a ñame to resume conversations that got cut off. It was also an
opportunity to mingle with unfamiliar faces, as noli everyone
got paired together. Participants enjoyed punch, and were also
placed in a raffle to win two movie tickets.
As the evening wound down, students were encouraged to
complete their score sheets and turn them into UAB members.
In two weeks, speed-daters received a list of matches from dates
in which both partners checked “yes.” The list, complete with
names and e-mail addresses, allowed speed daters to take their
connection beyond 180 seconds.
Raffle tickets were offered to speed dating
participants. Raffle winners won two movie
tickets for an opportunity to follow-up on an
interested match.
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Sixty students sit across from potential matches at
the UAB speed dating event. The event was held
post-Valentine's Day as an opportunity for male
and female students to make a connection.
Second annual Spartan VEX Robotics Challenge
extends learning beyond the classroom
Stepping into the IM Circle gymnasium on Saturday
Feb. 26, there was a breeze of energy as excited students
rushed between adjacent rooms. Seated on bleachers
and clad in T-shirts of support, parents cheered, whistled
and applauded the competitors as though they were at a
soccer match.
Yet the event here was no less than a sport. Enthusiasm
bubbled through the room like gas in a shaken soda can
as students carrying self-constructed robots paced around
the gym, conversing with their teammates. The Spartan
VEX Robotics Challenge was on.
Here, dueling red and blue alliances pit individual robots
against each other on two 12’xl2’ fields, in two-minute
matches of driver-controlled play The teams strive to get
their robots to gather and place as many plastic rings of
their alliance’s colors as they can onto small goalposts
within the time limit.
However, this isn’t! exactly your average mathletes
competition or science fair. Participants take pride in their
teams, and show their support by donning costumes for
the occasion. Shiny jewelry jingled and black capes swept
the floor while others donned self-constructed Goggles -
attire fit for wagers of cybernetic war.
Bob Watson, K-12 outreach and robotics coordinator at
MSU, said this was the first time four out of the 25 participating
high school teams are being mentored and sponsored.
“Even though the university doesn’t sponsor teams,
engineering students here [at MSU] volunteer to mentor
and assist students with technical difficulties,” junior J.TI
Whitman said. "I helped with a lot of coordination and
things like overseeing the preparation.”
A host of other MSU engineering students like Whitman,
many of whom are also part of the university’s robotics
team, assisted at the event as referees and score keepers,
The titular VEX, a Texas-based educational equipment
company manufactures robotic components that students
can assemble into fully-functioning mechanisms. And
while it may all sound just like science fiction, the roles that
these robots play in the education of students is certainly
no space-age fantasy. Pontiac High School robotics team
coordinator Michael Martus said even students who don’t
win are more than happy to participate in the competition
because it helps fill in certain practical areas of their
education that are not usually met in a classroom setting. _
“Students might learn what a lever is but not know why it
works the way it does,” Martus said. “When the mechanism
[robot] doesn’t lift its arm, students might question why it
doesn’t lift its arm and apply the calculation of the lever to it.”
"It [VEX] is makingits way as a STEM [ScienceTechnology
Engineering Mathematics] initiative, Its curriculum base
helps teachers solve the 'why' for students,”
So for those less victorious at this year’s Spartan VEX
Robotics Challenge, there is certainly ample opportunity
to return to the ring next year with a stronger and better
robot competitor - and perhaps even learn a thing or two
about them along the way
The robots were handmade
by those whopartcipated.
Students usea remotes to
control their robots to lift
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Spartan VEX Robotics Challenge. Teams raced
against each other in two minute rounds.
Freshman Eddie Franklin keeps the rankings
up-to-date after each match. The event was
sponsored by VEX, along with the MSU College
of Engineering, which provided the parts
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Jillian Carol takes to the runway in a design
created by sophomore Aubrey Owada. This
dress was inspired by and created entirely outj
of office materials.
Senior Milica Mandie poses in a military-
themed dress on the runway during the show.
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Tension saturated the stuffy air of the backstage hallway in
the Pasant Theatre before the Apparel and Textile Design (ATD)
Fashion Show as the colorful blurs of aspirant student designers
and models flashed back and forth between tiny dressing
rooms.
Their frantic pace and chatter was broken only for seconds
by Professor Rebecca Shuiling’s stern reminder at their doors to
line up behind stage at 6:30 p.m. sharp, a cautionary “or else”
implicit in her wake. As the words evaporated away once-frozen
mascara brushes rapidly finished their upward strokes while
steady eye pencils completed whirling lines of exotic patterns
on models’ faces.
With a half hour left until show time on the night of Feb. 26, high-
heeled models clicked and clacked their way into position, clad
in dresses whose sole uniting feature was their outrageousness.
Scraps of feathers, glitter and other unidentifiable materials
littered the wooden floor in the wake of practiced struts. Beyond
the curtains, a sold-out audience buzzed with anticipation for
the promised shock inherent in the avant-garde—the show’s
purposefully ambiguous theme.
Fortunately, they weren’t disappointed. First on the runway
j was “Your Birthday Suit,” a short and colorful balloon-covered
dress dipped in sprinkles and designed by sophomore Kathryn
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items, so nothing like regular fabric,” she said.
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as even “avant-garde” seemed too modest a theme for some of
the ensembles that graced the stage. Yet a combination of both
of these themes was the compulsory guideline for the night, laid
down in December by a design committee that selected only 54
out of 104 pieces submitted.
There was “The Office,” a dress with a bodice of loose-leaf
paper and a train of manila folders, “Telegraphy” a dangling
array of black and white telephone cords and rotary dials, and
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“We were really pushing over the top, beautiful, styled, really
crazy, just a lot of really ‘wow’ pieces,” senior and student director
Leigh Gervasi said.
In past years, when the Student Apparel Design Association
(SADA) ran the show, anyone could enter, Gervasi said. This year,
her fall semester ATD 439 portfolio development class took over
and put a greater emphasis on exclusivity; they enlisted a panel
of judges, elected a committee to sift through entries and scaled
the show down to 600 seats.
At the end of the night, four awards were given in the categories
of Most Innovative, Judges’ Choice, Best in Show and Best
Conceptual Design. The latter was granted to one of Gervasi’s
designs, aptly titled “This Book Belongs to.” Hard book covers
bound by hinges comprised the stiff top, while pages folded into
dizzying pinwheels spiraled towards the bottom.
“It’s so amazing to see the dress with hair and makeup on a
stage,’ ’ Gervasi said. ‘ ‘It’s just a whole different piece; it's beautiful.
It’s like an art piece.”
However, the fate of that which breaks with the status quo is
appropriately precarious. Put more simply it’s a safe bet to say
that most MSU students prefer not to attend parties looking like
an art piece.
And so as the applause ceased, the destiny of the dresses
became a mystery Perhaps they would be taken to another
planet?
‘ ‘A lot of people have actually encouraged me to take a shower
in the dress,” senior designer Bethany Ginther laughed, scanning
her dress comprised entirely of loofahs. “But actually a lot of
people have asked if they could wear it for Halloween.’ ’
Other designers said their creations might be displayed around
campus if they got lucky but would most likely be delegated to
the closet if not. Yet, regardless of their destiny they will remain a
testament to the truly bizarre.
Till then, here’s to the first year of a fashion show that awoke
MSU’s drowsy vanguards of design.
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St. Patrick’s Day at MSU is an all-day festival of green-tinged fun
In the early hours of what appeared to be a regular
Thursday students emerged from their slumber to descend
upon downtown East Lansing. But on this particular day with
the red-orange, green and white flag flying high over Dublin
Square on Abbot Road, these students weren’t heading to
class right away They were lining up in masses outside the
bars, and that could only mean one thing: It’s St, Patrick’s
Day at MSU once again.
Easily the second biggest social event at MSU after
Halloween, St. Patrick’s Day has become a traditional MSU
party-fest, While the day itself is intended to commemorate
the death of the patron saint of Ireland, it seems more akin
to a dawn-to-dusk drinking marathon for many students at
MSU. It didn’t really matter that St. Paddy’s fell on a Thursday
this year, as thousands of students dropped whatever else
they were doing to indulge in an all-day celebration with
green beer and green garb.
Senior Shawn Cormier started his day at 9 a.m. at The Riv.
Later on in the afternoon, he planned on going to Harper’s,
then eventually heading back to his place for a more relaxed
setting with a barbeque. A veteran of three St. Patrick’s Day
celebrations at MSU, Cormier said he knew what it was like
to be in for the long haul.
March 17 this year felt like the first true day of spring,
and as the sun and warm temperatures emerged, so did
the denizens of MSU from within their winter confines, with
house parties spilling out onto front lawns from Harrison to
Hagadorn, Each block had several groupings of gamboling
greens - partygoers decked out in MSU gear and St.
Patrick’s-themed shirts ("Get Ready to Stumble,’’ read one),
along with those plastic leprechaun hats.
and Pi Kappa Alpha pledge Kevin Wawa, some sacrifice
was required.
"I had to wake up at 3 a.m. to wait in line at the bar, to
save some spots for some of the actives,” he said. On top
of that, he had a quiz at 6 p.m., but planned on partying
afterward.
Adding to the excitement of the day was the beginning of
the second round of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament,
including MSU’s matchup against the University of California,
Los Angeles. That’s what senior Art Nowakowski was looking
forward to after his shift as the bouncer at Rick’s American
Cafe, Nowakowski wasn’t a part of the big morning rush
but figured he would see some unusual sights in his time
on the job.
"(This job) desensitizes you to things,” he said. "You
definitely become more patient.”
Though the afternoon atmosphere around East Lansing’s
neighborhoods was otherwise fun and carefree, the lucidity
of interviewees for this story seemed to deteriorate as the
day wore on. When asked about his day so far and what his
plans were for the rest of it, senior Kurt Rosenberg replied
with "Irish car bombs and Irish car bombs,” respectively
The men's basketball Spartans ended up losing after a
furious comeback in the second half, meaning a one-and-
done exit for the Spartans after two Final Four appearances,
However, the festive mood of St. Patrick’s Day wouldn’t give
way to drunken, rage-filled riots that followed tournament
losses in the past. Besides, senior Oliver Lindsay predicted
earlier in the day that he, along with many other of his Spartan
brethren, would barely make it to the 9:20 pm. tip-off.
"I probably won’t be awake for the MSU game,” he said.
The day wasn’t all about leisure, however. For sophomore
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This year’s Malaysian Culture Night included throat-slitting,
European invasions and a Far East version of angel hair pasta,
Taking the stage at MacDonald Middle School on Mar. 19, the
Malaysian Cultural Society presented "Merdeka,” a Malay
word meaning independence, showcasing the country’s road/
to independence in the most literal way possible.
After a pre-dinner of bihun goreng, a fried Malaysian
noodle dish, Malaysian men and women of all acres filed
into the auditorium, some draped in baju kurung, ifaditional
female attire that includes a hijab, an Islamic headdress that
covers a woman’s hair and neck.
The show that followed was a linear representation of
Malaysia’s road to self-government, which was finally achieved
in 1957 after centuries of struggle withuoreign occupation,
One unique aspect of the country’s history senior Aizat Rahim
said, is that Malaysians achieved/ independence without
any bloodshed. Though Malaysidns differ vastly in culture
and religion, common ground/can be found in their system
of government. Rahim likenda Malaysia’s culture to a “mini
America’’—a variety of pp'ople and ethnicities congregating
in one area to form a new identity
The play took the amience back to 1511 when Portuguese
soldiers invaded thdPort of Malacca, seizing power from local
sultans and beginning the region’s long conflict with outside
powers. The set'was nearly non-existent, leaving much up to
audience imagination. Drawn-on curly mustaches, top hats
and coattails marked the Portuguese, followed by a British
generaj/with an aluminum foil pipe.
Come World War II, a regiment of elementary school-
aged Japanese soldiers wielding rising sun flags invaded,
cardboard bolt-action rifles in hand and scuffed Adidas
7 sneakers peeking out from beneath their military uniforms,
Each country's occupation was a vehicle for a different kind
of performance, Battles with the British brought out intricate
stage combat and martial arts—kicking, punching and even
stabbing with aluminum foil swords set to tribal drumbeats.
Less violent moments were filled with synchronized dances
by colorfully costumed women.
The show ended as most American ones begin: with a
crowd-standing version of the national anthem, Aside from a
crescent moon and a star in which the 50 white stars would
normally sit, the Malaysian flag is identical to America’s: a
14-striped and colored pattern even those with no connection
to Malaysia may recognize as a symbol of freedom,
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Once upon a time (Nov. 2, 2010 to be exact), the
Michigan majority elected Rick Snyder for governor,
definitively adding the state to a bright, Republican-red
swath that blanketed the nation’s midterm victory map.
This new color of choice was a product of a nation
wide dissatisfaction with the economy and President
Barack Obama’s
lack of promised change; an
implication of a loss of faith in the Democratic party
and a desperate quest by the masses for an alternative
solution at all levels of government. Ultimately being
blue just wasn’t cutting it anymore.
And so on the heels of these newfound sentiments
arrived Mr. Snyder, “one tough nerd’ ’ with an ambitious
goal to reinvent Michigan.
Three months later, however, a slight mix up occurred
regarding just how tougra' ‘tough’ ’ really was.
Flash-forward to the week of March 14, and the
normally quiet, neatly kept lawn of the Lansing Capitol
building was overrun by 3,000 schoolteachers, seniors,
students and union members vehemently chanting
against a governor many of them had voted for. Their
mantras ranged from comedic assertions like “Rick’s a
dick!” to vulnerable pleas of “It’s not fair!” and “That’s
not right!”
If one thing was certain, Snyder’s recent budget
proposal for the 2012 fiscatyear wasn’t going to fly
“It’s not even about balancing the budge»’ Betty
Burgis, a senior from Waterford, said amid the din.
“He’s just trying to be Robin Hood in reverse.”
Indeed, Snyder’s proposed repeal of tax exemptions
for seniors and low-income workers who accompanied
a $1.7 billion tax break for businesses earned
him notoriety among the protesters. To them, he
represented the antagonist in an emerging antithetical
representation of this classic English folktale. He called
the concept “shared sacrifice,” while they deemed
it merely a paradoxical “robbing from the poor and
giving to the rich”' ideology
“Frankly it’s about time Michigan got pissed off. It
really is,” Mount Pleasant resident Rachael Leny said,
glancing triumphantly out at the crowd. “I feel like
we’re much too quiet with what’s going on, and I’m
here because we need to take back control.”
Yet such simple expressions of what appeared to
be blatant moral injustices had to be taken with a $M4
billion grain of salt. In other words, Michigan’s huge
budget deficit could not be ignored.
Snyder’s philosophy was that Michigan’s businesses,
especially the smaller ones, were the catalyst to
rejuvenating the state’s long-depressed economy
Giving companies a tax break would provide them
with an incentive to expand and create new jobs, while
also attracting out-of-state entrepreneurs.
However, this meant balancing the budget in
unpopular ways. At the Capitol, the cries were
specifically against an elimination! of the Earned
Income Tax Credit, a tax exemption of up to $1,000 for
low-income workers, and a repeal of the tax-free status
of private and public pensions for seniors. In addition,
protestors denounced a 15 percent cut in higher
education appropriations and a decrease of $470 per
student in the public education; system.
“I have a problem with it because while they’re
doing all that, they’re giving the corporations
huge, huge tax cuts and they’re taxing the people
that can’t afford to be taxed anymore,” senior Jon
Vane amp said.
On top of it all, another issue that stirred angry
packs of union workers, proudly donning their work
clothes and citing solidarity with the middle class of
Wisconsin, was the Emergency Financial Manager
bill. Under the bill, financial managers are given power
to override the local elected government and cancel
union contracts.
“There’s no oversight under the current plan,” U of
M Flint student Nick Hale said, “It gives the governor ;
an inordinate amount of control over local affairs, and
I think that goes against the Federalist ideas of the
Constitution.”
The tale is far from finished, though. In fact, it has just
begun. As the dull thuds of fists faded from the Capitol’s
interior walls and five steadfast protesters were taken
away in handcuffs, junior Andrew Schireson would only
say one thing to Governor Snyder.
In the words of Neil Young: .“Keep on rockin’ in the
free world.”
The final speaker at the Capitol,; Mark
Gaffney; Michigan AFL-CIO President tells
the people that Governor Snyder and the
newly elected Congress are not following the
democratic process. He gave a statement,
"The final passage of the Emergency
Managers legislation package... is an affront
to the bedrock principle of a representative
democracy that our nation was founded upon.”
Numerous protest signs gave life to the
crowd of 3, 000 protesters. Signs called for
the recall of Governor Synder, the injustice
of cutting the education budget and that tax
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VIM magazine releases its second issue
When fans pour into the Stadium on
a crisp Saturday morning to watch the
Spartans take on a rival football team, the
Michigan State Fight Song can be heard for
blocks. And the energy coursing through
the crowd as they yell “Spartan teams are
bound to win, they’re fighting on a vim,’’
is exactly what a new fashion and design
publication on campus hopes to embody
with its telltale name - VIM,
“[Vim] means ‘enthusiasm,’ and that is
how we wanted our readers to feel about
fashion and design,” senior and co-editor-!
in-chief Julie Christopherson said.
The magazine’s staff took to Farm Lane
on Wednesday Mar. 16 to distribute free
copies of the magazine with an enthusiasm
befitting the spirit of their publication,
handing out nearly 2,000 copies of VIM’s
second issue at The Rock between 10 a.m.
to 6 p.m.
Copies ofVIM’s debut issue in October
2010 were personally distributed by VIM
representatives at locations like the Union,
the library and the Starbucks on Grand
River Avenue on previous occasions.
However, that approach didn’t necessarily
stir up enough vim for VIM, leading the
staff deciding lo hand out copies at one
central locatioflthis time around.
"We’d like to be more active,” senior
Danielle Lauhoff, advertising director of
VIM, said. “We had a lot of leftover copies
last time, and hopefully this time we won’t
have any”
In line withVIM’s goal to do more than just
be another fashion magazine, the newest
issue continues to expand its repertoire
of contenti The fall issue, n addition to
the expected fashion and beauty trends,
included advice on hosting a dinner party
tips on leading a less stressful life, and a top
ten list of things to do before graduation.
The winter/spring issue aimed for a more
local angle, profiling East Lansing clothing
slop DEFYE and examining fashion trends
around campus. Still, to keep the audience
from fashion-overload, VIM supplemented
the glamorous photography spreads and
make-up tips with other pieces of content,
like advice on simple ways to stay happy
Though this is only VIM’s second print
run since it was founded in Jan. 2010, its
staff has been drumming up hype over the
internet, using as many outlets as possible
to reach
the student body Between
deadlines, the magazine staff routinely
Updates the VIM Facebook and Twitter
accounts. Status updates, tweets and wall
posts give followers a constant stream of
fashion news often supplemented with
links to the VIM blog. The blog has new
entries on an almost daily basis which
include detailed fashion commentary as
well as photos, quotes of the day reviews
and interviews.
But gie staff at VIM aim to do more than
reach out to a wider audience. One of the
magazine’s main goals is to continue their
financial success. While their first issue
was sponsored by ASMSU, the campus
student government, the second issue was
paid for entirely by ad revenue and staff
fundraisers. Even without external funding,
VIM was able to cover costs and keep the
magazine free for readers.
As they focus on moving beyond a
niche market, VIM hopes to make the
world of fashion accessible all students as
the definitive source for style at State. And
bit by bit, students on campus seem to be
warming up to the idea of a style magazine
for students by students.
“Honestly, I had no idea that State had a
fashion magazine.! haven’t seen it around
but it seems like a cool idea,” freshman
Andrew Salisbury said. Bit’s good that they
do more than just style stuff too, I feel like
the broader their stories are, the more
people they’Mattract.”
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nachos that the MSU
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offer. Students from
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Nachofest celebrating
the greatness of beer
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Junior Dominic Hense downs his
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Nachofest.Mhe piñatas were filled with
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Nachofest celebrates six and a half years at MSU
Nothing more speaks of Nachofest
than enormous white tents, multiple
beer kegs and tables piled with nachos,
salsa and steaming cheese sauce.
Located in the backyard of 235
Stoddard Ave., Apr. 16 welcomed the
11 ^ Nachofest at MSU. Many groups
could be spotted moseying along Grand
River Avenue
sombreros
and brightly colored T-shirts that read
‘Nachofest makes the alcohol flow.’
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What originally started as an MSU
Telemarketers colleagues and friends
reunion in 2005 has morphed into
thousands of people coming out to enjoy
a day of beer, nachos and the company
of friends.
“It started as an inside joke where
one of our friends would go to all pese
festivals. He went to this nacho festival
and sausage festival, and so we decided
why don’t we have a nacho fest,”
Nachofest committee alumnus Brian
Keehner said.
A little after noon, a huge crowd
hovered under a
tent and began
cheering on the speaker for the day
Steve Hill.
“Rule one of today: don’t touch my
piñatas,’’ Hill said, pointing to the paper
decorations as the crowd erupted in
laughter. “Rule two: today’s going to be
the best day of your lives.”
As the brief speech ended, the crowd
quickly dispersed, rushing to the long
queues for nachos. Others huddled
over beer kegs,: anxiously squeezing
themselves in to fill their cups. While
some purchased the $20 party packages
including the event T-shirt and a plastic
mug with the Nachofest logo, regular
cups were also available for those who
wished to be economical.
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individuals had the choice of either
wearing Nachofest shirts or to follow the
Nachofest 6.5 theme of Power Rangers.
the choice
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' 'There’s a different theme twice every
year,” senior Danielle Wojno said. “Last
semester it was Nachtoberfest like the
Octoberfest festival. The semester before
that the theme was Jersey Shore.”
Amid the crackle of nachos, the pitter-
patter of raindrops and sips of beer, MSU
students were not the only ones present
at the event. Several parents like Shelly
Hill were there for what wasn’t their first
Nachofest.
“It is my second Nachofest. Last time,!
I would say there were about 800 people
here. Also, I see a lot more parents here
than last time,” Hill said.
Despite 40 kegs worth of beer being
consumed by the crowd, junior Marco
Salomone said there hasn’t been any
trouble with the law.
“We really want to make sure that this
event is not like Cedar Fest. So we have
no music, so there’s no noise violation.
We also haven’t had any fires,” he said.
Without the risk of legal intervention,
drinking is not the only thing Nachofest
participants look forward to. The Guac-
off unites people for tasting different
guacamole brought by visitors.
What makes the event even more
special than the food and drink is
the relationship shared between the
committee members. Member Ag
Johnson said more out of state MSU
graduates are attending. Both committee
members Dave Tomke and Brian
Keehner have graduated, but make an
effort to visit every Nachofest.
“I think the real purpose of this event
is companionship... and to maintain our
Spartan relationship,” Tomke said.
And Tomke might be right. Despite
wet jackets and mud-stained shoes,
excited
screams and warm hugs
between old friends and new made
this year’s Nachofest all that more
memorable for those present.
Kelley James drummer gets the crowd hype
while making up beats for James’s freestyle.
James and Mike Posner performed together
at the MSU Auditorium.
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The real Mike Posner is just as spring-loaded as his
onstage persona. When he first laid eyes on his group
of friends packed in a small dressing room backstage
at the Auditorium, he sprang into a haphazard run,
hugging the first person in the circle and working his
way around.
Smelling strongly of generic, shaving cream-esque
men’s body wash, Posner had just finished a long post
concert shower—one that he may have needed very
badly just minutes before, he had been drenched in
sweat, glitter and whatever rubs off a blonde female
audience member in a short skirt caressing you
onstage. Thousands of students attended the Apr. 13
show—standing, dancing and singing along to Posner’s
string of pop-R&B anthems. For most, it was a chance to
see a Michigan-raised artist recently turned superstar,
But a few were just seeing an old friend.
"I’ve known him since sixth gradelwe used to
play drums together in high school,” senior Andrew
Weickmann said while waiting in the dressing room to
see Posner after the show. "We’ve been friends pretty
much since.”
Freshman Alex Scharg has known Posner since
childhood—their families are close friends, spending
every Passover and Independence Day together.
“It’s weird that Mike’s nationally known, but it’s not
weird just to see him in person,” Scharg said.
Weickmann said Posner’s generous personality has
remained constant despite his success. Last summer
he went with Posner and several other friends to the
Bonnaroo Music & Arts festival. Weickmann recounted
how Posner greeted every fan who waited, even
sacrificing his shoes to one, going barefoot the rest of
the festival.
Though he is now savoring stardom, it wasn’t even
a year ago that Posner was an undergraduate at Duke
University much like his Spartan friends here. And the
collegiate spirit hasn’t left him yet.
"I still feel like one of them, man,” Posner said
after the show. "I kind of have a job that lets me be a
professional college student to a certain extent.”
Even though he graduated a Blue Devil, Posner
certainly bleeds a little green and white.
“I’ve got nothing but love, There’s no place in the
world I owe more to than East Lansing,” He said. "I just
want to make Michigan proud.”
Over anhour earlier, astoic-facedPosner swaggered
onto the stage in white Andl high tops, breaking into a
wide smile at the first chorus of "Please Don’t Go,” the
first track on his debut album "31 Minutes to Takeoff.”
He bounced around the stage singing over the roaring
bass and synthesizer backup, shamelessly flirting with
ecstatic women in the front rows. With fans calling him
back to the stage for an encore, Posner performed his
popular single "Cooler Than Me”wearing Kalin Lucas’
signature " 1 ” jersey, sending roars through the crowd.
Freshman Sara Hess sat poised at her computer the
morning tickets went on sale, ready to strike at the 10
o ’ clock release time.
"He sounds different from anyone else,” She said.
"His songs aren’t like normal mainstream songs.”
But it wasn’t just the audience who was pumped up
to be there.
"It feels good to be home,” Posner told the crowd.
"This is the first place in the world that supported my
music.”
For Posner, playing at MSU had
special
significance.
"I'm speechless, man,” Posner said. "To look into
the crowd and look directly at the people that are
responsible for me being able to live my dreams is a
feeling I can’t explain.”
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fundraiser was a great opportunity to partner with a new
business. What Up Dawg? just opened and the owner’s an
MSU alum, so it was perfect,” senior and club president
Rachelle Beazley said. ”We chose 4/20 to host our event
because it’s notorious as a day of ‘the munchies,’ so we
thought we’d take advantage of that.”
. ''We take different trips throughout the year. This year
we did three sales blitzes and we took a trip to Germany so
the funds are mostly going towards covering transportation
costs;’ Beazley added. Sales blitzes, she explained, are
learning experiences tailored toward sales and marketing
majors. Club members compete with clubs from other
colleges in mock sales situations, earning points for their
team based on net sales. The blitzes are a club highlight
and a major draw for business students looking to polish
their skills in sales.
Club members also got first hand marketing experience
the night of the event, greeting customers the instant they
got to the restaurant.
"Hey! Have you heard about the Coney Dawg
challenge? Five coneys for $10; it’s a discount, and you
could win tickets to the Lugnut’s suite! Come on, five really
isn’t that many” Beazely told Merfert as he entered the
establishment.
Hp didn’t know about the competition when I got here,
I was just hungry and she [Beazely] sold it to me when I
walked inlMerfert said.
As the night came to a close, the challenge looked
to be about over as most participants fell minutes short
of the top time, 1:53, put up around 7 p.m. But by 10:45
pm, senior Chad Peltier stole the competition with a
time of 1:43, eating an average of one hot dog every 20
seconds and concluding the challenge with an exciting
turn of events.
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Two guys. 10 coney dogs. One time to beat.
The smell of brats and grilled onions hung in the air
as sophomores Alex Turner and Michael Merfert sat side
by side and tore into their hot dogs, matching each other
bite for ravenous bite. Faces red and cheeks bulging, the
contestants choked down mouthfuls, not bothering to stop
and taste the food.
"I feel fine now, but in the middle of it [the competition],
that was awful,” Turner said upon finishing the last hot dog
of the challenge. "If I could do it differently Id chew more.”
Turner wasn’t the only one who stepped up to the plate
and fought for the glory of eating five hot dogs smothered
in mustard, chili and onions as fast as possible. The ”4/20
Coney Dawg Challenge,” hosted on April 20 by the MSU
Sales and Marketing Club and local eatery What Up
Dawg?, drew more than 30 challengers vying for the grand
prize: two tickets to an all-you-can-eat and drink suite at
the Lugnut’s Stadium.
The competition went from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. and was open
to anyone with an appetite. Volunteers from the club worked
shifts at the restaurant, ensuring that interested competitors
knew the rules of the challenge and signed a waiver before
participating. Club members filled What Up Dawg? with
vibrant energy cheering on participants, shouting out times
and even sharing strategies, though each contestant had his
or her own way of forcing the dogs down.
‘Tve never done any official eating contests before;
my only strategy was to eat fast. But towards the end,
dipping [the hot dogs] into the cups of water really
helped. The buns just dissolve and they’re way easier to
eat,” alumni Suporn Teng, a competitor toward the end
of the night, said.
While contestants perfected their techniques, the Sales
and Marketing Club had its own strategy on making the
challenge a fundraising success.
What Up Dawg offers numerous "signature
dawgs" in addition to customizable options. The
restaurant is located on M.A.C. in East Lansing.
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llikes women. He has a girlfriend who goes
Ito Central Michigan University so he’s been
(learning how to do the whole long distance
thing. He’s not a very flashy dresser, more of
the casual, laid-back type. Even so, Allen’s
hair is styled masterfully: intentional messy
spikes in the front, sculpted with a product that
preserves the natural dry look. Masses ofsilver
rings cling to his lobes, and his sleek, thick-
rimmed frames are far too stylish for the rest
of his ensemble. Today lie’s wearing a forest
green T-shirt displaying a graphic from the
Midwest Bisexual Lesbian Gay Transgender
Ally College Conference (MBLGATACC).
Under it, invisible to onlookers, an entire
role of ace bandage and two binders flatten
his double “D” cup breasts, constricting the
entire upper half of his body
But Allen is still a man, at least today Some
days he wakes up as Shannon, his female
versiongjthe one who matches his body’s
God-given biological features.
Shannon never knows which gender she
will feel like until the morning—it’s essentially
a toss-up. Every morning she wakes up and
can immediately feel which one she is that
day even while alone in her room. She has
two separate wardrobes in her closet. One
for Shannon and one for Allen. On some male
days, she even uses the men’s bathroom.
"I wake upland that’s what happens,”
she said. “You just kind of know. It’s hard to
explain.”
Hard to explain, because the average
person has never experienced a similar
feeling. But there’s an important distinction:
she doesn’jgwake up as a different person.
Her gender may change, but her personality
is unwavering.
Shannon isn’t just a member of MSU’s
Lesbian Bisexual Gay Transgender (LBGT)
community; she may also be the only student
here who calls herself bi-gender—a term she
uses to describe her identity—or a similar
label. Both transgender and gender queer
are broad, vague terms because they are
meant to be largely self-applied, said Deanna
Hurlbert, assistant director and centerfiaison
of the MSU LBGT Resource Center. While
traditional gender roles are black and white,
these terms attempt to break that mold.
“One of the things that's cool about
queerness is that it’s not another box,”
Hurlbert said. “Queer by definition isn’t
strictly definable.”
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While many transgender students feel
uncomfortable
their biological skin,
Shannon’s case is far more complicated. Her
skin changes every day Even attending a
university with 47,000 students, she has never
met another bi-gender student here. In fact,
she has only met one other bi-gender person
in her life, and that was at the MBLGTACC
conference. Her transgender experience
is far from a typical one, if any can be
described that way In LBGT forums around
campus, she’s the sole attendee who identifies
as bi-gender or a comparable term. She has
met female-bodied students who also bind (a
verb used to describe flattening breasts with
Ace bandages and certain clothing), but none
who say they are bi-gendered. Naturally she
feels alone sometimes.
“I can’t just talk to someone about my
experience, because they don’t understand,”
she said.
Hurlbert said she knows of about only eight
transgender students at MSU who are out and
organized in some way
said, noting there is no absolute number, and
there may be many more who aren’t out in the
open.
Hurlbert said she has never encountered a
case quite like Shannon’s at MSU.
“For most people
... gender is more
consistent or fluid,” Hurlbert said.
Both Shannon and Allen, female and male,
are attracted to women; but gender identity
and sexuality are completely separate issues.
A whole other can of worms, as Shannon
describes it.
'Tm attracted to females, but on my female
days I’ll walk into a room and identify with
the female gender. They are, to me, alike. On
my male days they are other,” Shannon said.
Though she didn’t fully accept herself as
bi-gender until the end of her freshman year,
she has known she liked women for nearly as
long as she can remember.
' 'I had crushes on my babysitter when I was
little. So yeah, I knewf she said, breaking into a
smile and giving a few chuckles,
Allen, on the other hand,
is a new
development, name-wise at least. While she
used to shorten Shannonlo Shan, it didn’t
celebrate each gender appropriately Now
her middle name is legally Allen, which she
uses on her male days—one of the boldest
actions she’s taken so far in her quest to find
her identity
In hindsightiShannon’s struggle had been
a long one.
In third grade her teacher would have boys
versus girls games in the classroom, and it
would gnaw at her when she wasn’t allowed
to be on the boys’ team some days. At her
high school in Centerline, she stayed home
on prom night. Her school didn’t allow same-
sex couples at the dance, nor did they provide
any LBGT resources for students. At home,
she didn’t exactly get much support from her
mother.
“She’s accepted my sexuality I think. But
my gender identity that’s a whole other can of
worms that she’s just not ready to open yet,”
Shannon said, explaining that her mother tries
to accept it, but doesn’t know how to handle it
all quite yet.
“She’s madeit clear to me she’s not ready
to address that just yet.. .It bothers me a great
deal,” Shannon said in a collected, matter-of-
fact tone,
While Shannon’s mother is still coming
around, her friends are overwhelmingly
supportive. She struggled with bullying in
middle school, and didn’t make many close
friends in high school. Among a sea of faces in
East Lansing, she has finally forged significant
bonds.
“I wouldn’t be handling everything as well
as I like to think that I do without the support
of my friends,’ ’ Shannon said. ‘ ‘ [Before coming
to MSU] I’ve never actually had meaningful
social connections before.”
While college provides many students
with an opportunity to chart a course for their
career path, Shannon has used it to navigate a
far more primary life issue.
“I didn’t understand until I got to college
that sexual orientation is separate from gender
identity” she said. “It’s kind of where I put a
word on everything.’ ’
Figuring out how to be a male at the drop of
a hat isn’t easy especially with a “very female
body” But so far, she at least has a goal.
' 'My goal would be to be able to walk into a
public place and be called ‘sir,’” she says with
conviction, as if she has adopted the statement
as her doctrine.
One night, the first time Shannon ever tried
binding, she got her wish. After looking up how
to do it online, she carefully wrapped her torso
In Ace bandage, adorned a baggy hoody and
walked to McDonalds on Grand River Avenue.
She concentrated on lowering her voice as she
approached the counter and ordered. For the
first time, a stranger, the cashier at the counter,
responded with ‘sir.’ And, for the first time,
Shannon truly accepted herself as bi-gender.
“I was like ‘okay this male identity is a real
thing and very important to me,”’ she said.
“I still have the female identity but I need to
acknowledge Allen.”
Since then she’s been binding on her
male days, despite orders otherwise from her
doctor. She’s careful about how tight she wraps
it, and makes sure not to wear the bindings
for too long. Lately though, she's been doing
it less for health reasons. And even when she
does, it’s not fully satisfying, which has lead
her to consider taking an even greater leap:
changing her body to physically match Allen.
Finding resources on the matter is difficult, but
she knows it would involve testosterone doses
and likely surgery; at least one to modify her
upper half.
“I would like to have something a little bit
more androgynous, because I feel like it would
cause me a lot less anxiety” she said.
Even if Shannon decides to physically
make herself Aden, Allen would likely be back
to square one on Shannon days,
“What if I become just stuck in between
both genders and I can’t pass as either one?”
she said. “On my female days, waking up with
a beard might be kind of traumatic, more so
than waking up as a guy with breasts.”
However, there is her girlfriend to consider.
They’ve talked about it briefly and she said
she isn’t sure their relationship could survive
the transition. Shannon understands—after
all, it isn’t a dilemma many significant others
have to face. As iastands, her girlfriend has
never even seen her on a male day Purely
coincidental, she says.
There’s also another concern: male
pattern baldness runs in her family She does
have one bit of reassurance on the matter,
however, her father had amazing hair until
he died from cancer in 2009, even through
the chemotherapy He never knew about her
sexuality or gender identity struggle. But his
brothers, Shannon’s uncles, have essentially
adopted her and are understanding of her
situation, even light-hearted about it at times.
Though the future is still uncertain, hopefully
by the time graduation arrives Shannon
will have found a way to use her political
science degree as a tool to help youth in the
LBGT community specifically reforming sex
education in schools to be more inclusive.
She wants to have a child, too. Just one though,
so neither Shannon nor Allen have to divide
their love and energy
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‘And that’s probably just a small piece,’ ’ she
In the face of further state funding cuts, how will MSU weather the storm?
The relative silence of the reception area is unnerving. The
busy clacking of the secretary’s keyboard the only sound—a dull,
rain-like patter that: .cuts through the weighty air. And then the
silence is broken.
“President Simon will see you now”
The long hallway blurs and morphs into an expansive office,
shockingly spacious and tastefully adorned with a subtle theme of
green. There is a certain ironic disconnect between the luxuriance of
the room and the impending topic of conversation with its occupant:
MSU’s financial fate after years of state funding cuts.
“Well, we were hopeful that as Michigan began this very slow
recovery that universities would be treated better than what we
predicted two, three years ago,’ ’ President Lou Anna K. Simon began,
seated at a varnished, circular wooden table near the door.
The rest of the room is barely visible beyond a nearby set of dark
leather couches. A Spartan green blanket bearing MSU’s familiar "S”
lies perfectly folded over the back of one, lending the immaculate
space a fleeting, personal touch.
Just two months earlier, newly elected state governor Rick
Snyder proposed a 22 percent decrease in state appropriations to
Michigan’s public universities—15 percent if institutions could avoid
a tuition increase of more than 7 percent. Though MSU’s largely-
prepared financial cadre escaped the embarrassing episode of
jaw-dropping that ensued, the cut felt no less “brutal,” as President
Simon commonly described it in the weeks after.
In fact, Snyder’s tough love proposition was a pivotal point in
Michigan’s steady 10-year neglect
in
support for higher education. For MSU, it
would mean a staggering $42 million loss in
operational funds for the 2011 -2012 school
year—a sum larger than the combined
funding reduction for all of the state’s public
uiiveisitiesjustayearbefore. ■
The slash was a harsh wake-up call
after years of what now seemed like mere
proddings—a brutal fiscal reality shoved
in the face of an administration rapidly
adapting to a life of penny-pinching.
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of the public’s preliminary stupor. Did
the school really need vice presidents
for every Dean? The largest non-military
cafeteria in the nation? The construction of
a fancy new art museum?
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Leaning back in her chair??: President
Simon addressed these months-long queries.
“What you’re seeing in the press is a way that politicians make
public their reasons for why they’re going to cut things,” she
explained. In essence, perceived extravagances—such as the five-
year, 41 percent swell in administrative pay recently reported by
The Detroit Free Press—were being amplified at the expense of the
underlying pragmatism behind such raises.
“Let me ask you a question back,” she said, in reference to that
topic. “What do you consider administration? You know, from a
student perspective.”
Anyone not deemed faculty?
■“Okay what about financial aid officers?” Yes.
' ‘And in terms of our students, adding more financial aid officers—
would that be a good or a bad?” Pause. That would be a good.
“Okay and academic advisors?” Yes,
There are layers to administration, Simon said, unavoidably made
thicker by recent increases in research ventures - the new Secchia
Center in Grand Rapids and a host of temporary employees hired
to implement a $100 million replacement of the university’s old
computer system, to name just a few. Besides, Snyder’s funding cut
should not presuppose a complete stop-all for investments in the
campus’s future.
The generation of young adults passing through the university
now should not be punished for having to embark on their career
paths in a recession, she contended.
A noble statement, yet many students across Michigan finally
.threw in the towel this year when it came to letting the big dogs go
to bat for them. What had appeared to be general apathy in October
during ASMSU’s “Higher Education, Higher Priority” rally at the
Capitol evolved into a 100-plus strong paroxysm of anger for a stop- i
the-cuts protest at the same location in March.:
■ We’re getting priced out of an education, and that’s not how 1
we’re going to reinvent Michigan,” junior Joe Duffy president of the
MSU College Democrats, said as cheers from his comrades rose up
in spurts around him.
MSU’s tuition rose by 5.2 percent in the 2009-2010 school year,
followed by another 5 percent the next—an increase of more than 1
10 percent over just two years.
‘ ‘We’re going to be the ones who are fixing the state and bringing 1
the economy back together, so I don’t think making us pay more is a I
good thing,’ ’ junior Liz Starke said before a phone bank in Case Hall.J
And there were many more, wholly engrossed in the cause and I
grasping it by the reins before it could once again return to its pre-1
Snyder evanescence.
Yet in the end, when the lexicon of fiscal realities is at last an
outdated verbiage, it may be said that we Echo Boomers were
merely victims of time—the pawns of indiscriminate coincidence
who were unlucky enough to have reached our most promising
years in an economic downturn. Born on the brink of the millennium,
we have matured just in time to be the youth of the Great Recession,
our college days mired by the discourse of funding cuts.
And whether we believe the solutions to this untimely slump
proposed at the state level are unfairly draconian, morally justified or
just plain stupid are judgments best left for discussion at the dinner
table. It’s time to think at the margin.
‘ 'Universities are just going to have to take a real look at programs
and how their administration is set up, and look at what is essential
and see where they can make cuts, too,” senior Andrew Walker said.
“At the same time the state has to make cuts, so does the university?
And it has to start implementing them quicker than ever. For
example, if MSU had kept annual growth of its health care spending i
on employees below 5 percent over the last decade, each student’s ]
tuition bill today would be $1,000 cheaper, President Simon wrote ]
in a letter to faculty members this year. While the cap has now been
placed, the loss stands as a reminder that procrastination really does j
come back to bite.
“Over the course of years, you can’t always necessarily make up
what the student would have had if they’d gone to school, say five ^
years ago,” Associate Director of Financial Aid Val Meyers said.
“You focus on inefficiencies and you cut as much as you can cut,
because every tuition dollar that goes for salary or for office operations
is money you know; that is coming out of these student’s pockets.’ ’
Program cuts and phase-outs are, in fact, being established. No |
longer can a freshman enlist in American Studies courses. Classical ]
Studies has been dealt the same blow and eventually Musical I
Therapy too will go missing from the school’s online drop-down
menu. The College of Agriculture and j
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palm down.
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and that people cared about. So mats
painful to me as an individual; it’s painful
to the institution.”
Indeed, it is painful to us students. Is she hopeful, though?
"I’m always hopeful. I'm an optimist. I think if you look around
Michigan State you see a lot of energy you see a lot of really positive
things happening,” she said. “It’s really growing, it has momentum;
it’s not dying on the vine because of the budget reductions.”
Think about it like an agriculture analogy she says, breaking out
into a smile:
‘ ‘Because of that pruning, we have very very strong roots and we’re
grounded in the right values, we’re in good soil. And I think we’ve done
the trimming in a way that’s more dramatic than what I would like, but j
the free that’s Michigan State will continue to grow strong.’ ’
Too bad money doesn’t grow on trees.
MSU s undergraduate experiment in Dubai flounders affPRwoyears
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The university’s efforts to keep Dubai afloat went up to the brink
of it closing, which left students shocked when they heard the news
at the same time as everyone else in July 2010.
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a desert
Tuitiol money: these two words can cause a headache to MSU
students. However, as many Spartans know, the money they pay to
attend Michigan State is crucial to what the university can and cannot
do. In East Lansing, the university has opted to raise tuition on a
consistent basis to battle increasing costs. In Dubai, the absence of
adequate tuition meant that MSU Dubai had to close in July 2010.
In 2007, MSU invested in a full-fledged sister campus in Dubai,
located in the United Arab Emirates, after the government of Dubai
approached MSU with the offer. The Dubai campus was to be
equivalent to the original campus in East Lansing by offering five
undergraduate degree programs at the same academic standards
as MSU. The Dubai campus not only intended to draw students from
the UAE and other countries, but also from Eas|Lansing, targeting
students who wanted to do a portion of their education overseas.
President Lou Anna K. Simon pushed to expand MSU’s global reach,
arguing that MSU needed to establish a connection to the Middle East.
As she wrote in her blog on July 9, 2010, “You truly can’t be coraliected
globally today unless you are in the Middle East!- still the crossroads
of the world’s cultures and, increasingly its economies,”
However, the economy was to blame for the shutdown. The Dubai
idea was announced in 2007 and the campus opened in 2008, right
when the global economy took a turn for the worse. Dubai was
plagued by the crisis just as bad as Michigan.
“The problems that Dubai had were not unique to Dubai, and a
lot of places had the same financial problems,” professor Emeritus
Harold Sollenberger, who served as the interim director of Dubai
over the summer said, “Unfortunately, two places that hit particularly
hard were Dubai and Michigan, and we were at both ends of that
continuum.”
The decision to end undergraduate programs was announced by
Simon in July A single graduate program, in human resources and
labor relations, is still offered there, and the institution remains open
for research and study abroad operations.
Tuition money however,, played the biggest role in' dismantling
Dubai. There weren’t enough students to fund the campus.
“We anticipated having a much larger student body than we had.
The original plans called for several hundred students in the first
year or two, and then moving up to five-six hundred students, and we
never got to that level,” Sollenberger said.
At the closing of the undergraduate programs, just 85 students
were enrolled, the highest total Dubai had during its tenure. The low
tuition funds made it hard for MSU to hold Dubai to the same academic
standards as the main campus, which was a major goal. With that
being the case, why didn’t MSU Dubai draw enough students?
‘Early estimates of the potential student body were optimistic. Also,
with the financial conditions that changed, many people left Dubai
because the jobs disappeared. The student pool we were trying to
attract was much smaller than what we anticipated,” Sollenberger
said. “Efforts were made to make some changes, but we were still
optimistic that we would recruit the number of students.”
“My sister read in:the newspaper - I didn’t even get a call from
the university - that MSU Dubai was closing down,” freshman Anzar
Abbas, a native of Pakistan who had planned on starting this fall, said.
“I couldn’t join another university; it was too late. At that point, it was
a bad situation. The worst part was that I didn’t even find out from the
university It was finding out from my sister who read in the paper that
my university closed down.”
When asked why the decision was made so late, Sollenberger
said that MSU was doing everything it could to save Dubai.
“We were trying every conceivable way of restructuring the
program, reducing costs ofthe program, tryingto get financial support
from our various partners,” he said. “Literally up to days before the
announcement was made, I and a couple of colleagues were working
on a couple of proposals to try to continue the programs.”
Although the university was late on notifying Dubai students, MSU
did spend a lot of energy assisting students with applications to other
schools. Around 40 students transferred to East Lansing for the fall!
semester, with about 10 more joining in spring. The remaining students
either found schools to attend in the UAE or elsewhere around the
world, from Canada to Australia to England, Sollenberger said.
MSU also helped students obtain visas in the short amount of time
before fall and Abbas was one of the many students who struggled
with getting his on time. After missing his initial flight as a result of
not getting his visa in time, he wondered if he would be able to begin
classes in the fall of 2010.
"I found out that both of the people I had talked to at the Office of
Admissions had left the university’’ he said, “f didn’t know who to talk
to.- That’s when I got in contact with mathematics professor Richard
Hensh. He spoke to the U.S. Embassy about my visa processing and
sped up the process. Otherwise, I would’ve had to start in the spring.”
Abbas received his visafthe day before his originally scheduled
flight to East Lansing in August. Although he had to reschedule it, the
university paid for Abbas’ airfare. Plus, Abbas is only being charged
the Dubai tuition rate of $660 per credit, lower than the rate charged^
to. out-of-state students.
MSU isn’t giving up on the global market just yet. In the same
blog post that President Simon wrote about the Dubai closing, she
mentioned MSU “seeking new collaborative opportunities in Brazil
and India,” and a “successful new office in China.” However, these
offices will serve more as outposts for MSU researchers and study
abroad programs and won’t offer degree programs.
For the time being, MSU isn’t looking to stjirt undergraduate
instruction in Dubai or anywhere else, according to Eric Freedman,
the associate dean of International Studies and Programs,
‘ ‘I have difficulty envisioning in the foreseeable future that we would
be opening an instructional site along the models of Dubai,” Freedman
said. ‘ ‘But you can never say never.”
Freshman Anzar Abbas reflects on his journey to MSU. Although he wasn't planning on attending MSU right away the
Dub|i shutdown forced him to leave his home in Dubai an®move overseas to start his IpHege education. Although hi
didn’t like how the Dubai situation was handled §i first, hip still managed to grow acbusiom^d to life in EastfoansiM.
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Signs of greerl pride are all
over campus. Our fight song lays
it out - "fight for the only colors,
Green and White." Being "Spartan
Green" is a familiar description of
someone who not only embodies
the spirit of Michigan State, but
also takes little steps to help the
environment. Yet, there is still
one black spot amidst this great
green tradition - a sooty stain that
comes from the 250,000 tons of
coal burned each year to heat
and power MSU’s campus.
‘ ‘ Alot ofpeople on campus
don’t even know we have
a coal plant,” junior Talya
Tavor, president of Beyond
Coal, said. ‘‘They see smoke
stacks and they think ‘Oh,
smoke stacks’ Period.”
Coal is the primary source
of energy on campus because
of its low cost - it is much more
cost-efficient to burn and easier
to transport than petroleum or
natural gas. Though the campus
is also equipped to run on natural
gas should its price fall below
the price of coal, the latter rarely
the difference
happens. Still,
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emissions
the
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United States Energy Information
Administration shows that a plant
burning natural gases expelj up
to 70 percent less greenhouse
gases than a coal-burning one.
conducted by
Greenhouse gases, however,
are just one of the many unwanted
products expelled from a coal
burningplant. Airborne pollutants
are also a major issue, and the
T.B. Simon Power Plant at MSU
expelled a whopping 0,239.84
tons of airborne pollutants
in
2007. Nevertheless, the bulk of
the refuse comes in the form of
combustion waste or coal ash, the
likes of which are often dumped
near a plant site.
Those unfortunate enough
to live near a dumping site are
not only uninformed of their
predicament but may also face
health problems. According to
the Michigan Sierra Club, an
NGO committed to state-wide
environmental
preservation;
there are currently ll coal ash
and
electric
in Michigan.
dumping sites
The United States, however,
does not regulate the dumping
of combustion waste, and one
suchj site maintained by the
Lansing Board of Water and
Light’s
steam
generating plants was classified
by the state to have caused high
lithium levels in water. Waste
is also dumped in rivers like
the Saginaw River or special
dumpingponds, where itcanleak
into groundwater and eventually
seep into water sources such as
the Great Lakes. ^
“Household
is more
regulated than coal ash," Tavor
said. “If you live within a mile ofa
dumping site, your groundwater
is worse for you than smoking
a pack of cigarettes a day And
these people don’t even know
it. The law does not require the
people who dump [ash] to tell the
people who are living there that
they’re dumping.”
trash
The T.B. Simon Power Plant;'
like all coal burning plants, must
find somewhere to dispose of
its coal ash. This was once sent
to a cement plant in Southeast
Michigan, but once the plant was
closed, the ash needed to be
disposed of elsewhere,
“We send as much of it to
beneficial reuse as we can,” Gary
Mell, a performance engineer
at the Simon power plant,¡¡said.
“But what can’t go to centers that
can reuse it goes to the Granger
Landfill in Lansing.”
One option for the Simon
power plant is carbon recapture
- capturing the plant’s carbon
emissions with chemicals and
storing it so that it does not enter
the atmosphere. But even doing
so, according to Anne Woiwode,
state director of the Michigan
Sierra Club, would not solve the
ultimate pollution problem.
risky
and
largely untested," Woiwode said.
“It’s a terrible exmrse to keep
using coal.”
“Recapture
is
Still, the Relatively low cost
of energy production is what
keeps the coal plant alive. The
cost of powering a university with
approximately 46,000 energy
consuming students, plus faculty
and at least a hundred buildings,
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is astronomical. For the 2008
-2009 fiscal year, the university
spent 34.8 million dollars to
power the campus.
“Coal is the most economical
source of power that we have,"
Mell said.
Michigan State has run
on coal power since the
1880s, and since then most
buildings on campus have
been set up to run on a coal
system.
1 We have a centralized heating
system here,” Mell said. “All the
buildings are connected to one!
heat provider. In order to heat
the university we have to burn
something that generates steam.”
David Johnson, a professor in
the MSU Department of Fisheries
and Wildlife, said that a problem
with MSU was that the campus
requires the production of a large
amount of energy per capita.
“The Cyclotron
(at -the Dc
Cyclotron building) itself uses
an enormous amount. Replacing
that quantity [of energy] would
be difficult,” he said.
people to reduce their usage
for just an hour; to turn off their
computers,
their
windows closed and turn off
anything they’re not using.
lights, keep
on the environment by reducing
energy usage, Johnson of the
MSU Department of Fisheries
and Wildlife advises a number of
simple methods.
T|ae TRSimon power plant
produces all the energy and heat
needed to keep the campus
mnning by Lummy oral Coal is
the most efficient source of energy
the university can afford.
While
switching
to
greener energy would be far
more economical in the long
run, the initial investment is
too high for the university to
consider without imposing
| a possible new “green tax”
I on students.
I "The question is how many
students would be willing to
pay for a green environment,”
Johnson said.
Nonetheless, Mell of the Simon
power plant said that the plant
indeed
administration
see the need to reduce energy
consumption on campus for the
sake of the environment. After
all, when less energy is required,
does
Bless coal is burnt.
I "We sponsor
'Campus Dim
Downs’’ he said.!‘We encourage
a
"It makes
noticeable
difference in usage. If we did that
every day we would see huge
reductions for the year.”
The power plant itself, Mell
said, is working on ways to reduce
coal dependency by improving
buildings on campus in order
to keep up with the current
emissions regulations.
specializing
"We have people
in our
in
department
upgrading buildings on campus to
be more energy efficient,’ ’ he said.
‘ We have one or two buildings on
campus that are LEED certified
internationally-recognized
(an
green building certification). EPA
regulations for emissions keep
coming down every year, so
we’re working on staying within
the permitted limits.”
For students passionate about
lowering their negative impact
it
comes
“When
to
energy, you need to stop
and ask yourself: What can
I do to reduce my energy?
Does my phone need to be
plugged in? Does the TV
need to be turned on?” he
said.
H‘A surge protector is only 6
dollars, so you can turn things
off when you aren’t using them,
but you have to make that initial
investment.”
Spartans are not the only
students fighting for a cleaner,
greener college. Four out of the
12 Big Ten schools have pledged
to reduce their coal consumption,
and eventually go coal free.
"I just wonder, why not MSU?”
Tavor of Beyond Coal said.
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Vincent said the changes in student
social life were disruptive to faculty but
the late 60s and 70s, a period of long
haired men with beards and women in
unlaundered sweatshirts and torn jeans,
was an exciting time at MSU.
“There were changes in the way
people dressed, what they did. They
It showed the
were; demonstrating.
students were interested in what was
happening politically,” Vincent said. “I
think students are less interesting now
than they were then, less daring than
they were then,”
. -.While this time, period was one full
of fast-paced change at MSU. it didn’t
last long.
“I don't know what happened to all
those hippies,” Vincent said. “I think the
fact that they aren’t around anymore
shows that it was just a mindset associated
with the times instead of a strongly felt
conviction”
One thing that led to the decline of
The hippie generation,in the late 70s,
Vincent said, was sygise in oil prices,
downturn of the ecxnomy and a scare
that there were no jobs for college
toe us of college
graduates. ThY
graduates became 'You’ve got to get a;
job or you'll starve to death.’
English piotesscr Diane Wakoski has
been teaching at MSU for 35 years and
said she’s seen a change in the academic
drive of her Students since the 70s.
“Nowkdays, people.; think college is
necessary for you to succeed, and I don’t
think that's true/ Wakes V said. “Students
are here because they have to be. If all
kfÉjp1 of paper; then the
process means nothing Because of this,
at make- students cynical, makes them
impatient, irritable. It’s not their fault.”
Vincent said it was easier for students
gb to school,
and this caused them to value their
education more than a typical student
does now.
- “There were a lot of people then who
had to work really hard to go to college.
Trowbridge Road on a Friday would be
packed with hitchhikers trying to get
home because they couldn’t afford a car
or bus fare,” he said.
While faculty may believe students
today are academically complacent,
some things haven’t changed all that
much. From conservative farm boys
of the 1910s to hippies of the 1960s,
students choose to attend Michigan
State to discover who they are and what
they want to do with the rest of their
lives. And, as the times change, so will
the university.
“You don’t really notice the changes
until you look back. It’s like when you
have a kid and you notice when he
doesn’t hold your hand when crossing
the street anymore’’Vincent said. “If you
knew when the last time was, you’d hold
that picture in your mind, but you don’t.”
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The trials of third culture kids both in and beyond MSU
America - a nation bursting with ideas, innovation
and culture. Yes, culture. For many who overlook it on
a daily basis, the nation hosts an enormous blend of
nationalities, religions^ and traditions. But as the stew
thickens in the melting pot, it often becomes difficult to
tell what ingredients are thrown in. While an American
citizen may define his or her self as Asian-American,
African-American or European-American by broad
descent, concepts of ethnicity and cultural traditions
are easily overlooked. An environment as detrimental
to the flourishing of native cultures as America tends
to be often gives rise to a brand new "third culture”
among certain inhabitants.
A "Third Culture Kid” (TCK) is the term used to
describe every second-generation American whose
ancestral family moved to the United States from
another country First coined by American sociologist
Dr. Ruth Hill Useem, this term describes a person who
has spent a significant part of his or her developmental
years outside their parents’ cffiture. Useem came across
the idea while on her travels abroad, suggesting that
such individuals adopt aspects from their birth culture
[first culture] and their new culture [second culture] to
form a unique, third culture.
The third culture kid,® Useem claimed, builds
relationships to all cultures in his or her heritage,
while not having full ownership in any This ends up
strengthening his or her sense of cultural displacement,
or a sense of not knowing where or how to belong.
Although exposure to different cultures, anthropology-
professor Adan Quan said, is becoming increasingly
common as a result of globalization, the third culture
kid is still a rare phenomenon. Quan explained that this
was due to the term once being specifically applied to
a stratified class of people, such as children of military
personnel, missionaries and diplomats.
However, with progression in trade and expanding
world economies, the presence of third culture kids
is gradually becoming more frequent within middle-
class families.
Senior Christlynn Chelladurai, one such individual,
is of East Indian descent but was raised in America,
Born in Kuwait, Chelladurai came to America in 1993
when her family fled the Gulf War in search of a better
life. Having completed most oilier schooling life in
Flint, Chelladurai recalled her first experience with a
cultural identity crisis.
"I went to Grand Blanc high school. It was a rich, posh
school,” she said. "Being a predominantly Caucasian
high school, it became a serious identity issue when I
was one out of the four Indian students there.”
Feeling out of place, Chelladurai turned to her one
interest at the time S dance. Her practice of traditional
Indian dance helped her stay closer to her native roots
in a strange new environment, and made her a new
friend as well - mother Indian girl at the school who
shared a similar passion for the ancient art.
Her second experience with cultural displacement,
however, occurred when her parents revealed' her
Egyptian heritage to her.
■l wasn’t sure who I was. My father always shunned
his Egyptian side and I only recently found out that I
am part Egyptian,” she said, explaining that as an
individual who was only beginning to establish a
strong connection lo her East Indian identity in a
foreign country the possibility of a second Egyptian
identity was a sudden interruption in her process of
self-realization.
It was only over the past three years that Chelladurai
has begun to understand her place in the world
with respect to her cultural identity After arriving at
MSU, she became a cultural aide in the dorms. This
approach, she said, allowed her to interact with people
from around the world, helping Iter to overcome the
anxiety ofiving at the nexus of multiple cultures.
"After becoming a cultural aide, I have begun to
considers myself cosmopolitan, more of a citizen of
the world. I try to understand that I’m not the only one
because there is no one pure race, knowing how much
the world has mixed,” she said.
Senior Sneha Grandhi is another third culture
individual whose parents are neither military personnel
nor diplomats. Grandhi moved to America from India
when she was twelve years old, and was raised in a
small secluded city in Maryland. This was a result of
her own choice, she said. Her father presented the
choice of two towns, one more culturally diverse and
one less so. She chose the latter.
"I wanted to see what it’s like, what American
culture was like,” she said, stating that it was partly her
decision to move to America in the first place.
Grandhi said she also felt the need for a sense
of belonging growing up,only her approach to
overcoming this issue was different. Rather than
befriending people who shared the same culture and
heritage as she did, she formed friendships based on
mutual interests.
Steven Gold, a sociology professor at MSU, said
that children from another culture who are raised in
America tend to conform to the overarching American
culture more strongly than they do to their own.
"With regard to United States, most immigration
surveys suggest that immigrant children lose the
ability to talk in their parents’ language,’ ’ Gold said. The
fact that English is the lingua franca, he added, only
encourages third culture kids and immigrant children
to conform.
This phenomenon of cultural dilution, however,
is not limited to immigrants who arrive in America
during their childhood years. Ruslan Mursalzade, an
international student at MSU, arrived in Michigan in
his junior year of high school on a student exchange
program. Originally from the Republic of Azerbaijani
Mursalzade said he was able to later apply to MSU due
¿to the fact that his host family lives in Michigan.
"Highl school| was challenging simply because
in American schools there tend to be more cliques
between people.” Mursalzade said, adding that new
high school students are more readily welcomed back
in his home country
Ruslan eventually overcame the experience when
his host sister introduced him to her friends. However,
§fie explained, there are always challenges he faces
with the dual culture identity crisis.
' ‘ In the U. S., things are a little different. Whenever I go
back home, people expect me to behave in a certain
way I have to change according to my environment,”
he said, stating that he would be expected to follow
and maintain societal traditions back in Azerbaijan.
Mursalzade said he became a cultural aide here
at MSU to overcome the overwhelming feelings of
alienation he has since experienced, as far away from
home as he has been.
"That’s why I became a cultural aide;” he said. "I do
feel the difficulties of international students and I want
to help them transition better.”
The ability to adapt easily to different environments,
Quan said, is a common trait among third culture kids
and adults who experience similar phenomena. David
Pollock and Ruth Van Reken, authors of Third Culture
Kids, argue that third culture kids belong everywhere
and nowhere. Their unique cultural characteristics •
might make it difficult for them to connect with those
that haven’t shared the same experience, but they
also help them become more independent and
cosmopolitan.
And yet, this uniqueness is also what makes them
so familiar. After all, they like many of us regardless of
race, status, religion, or creed, are simply searching for
a place to belong.
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Mason Chen came to MSU as a freshman and like
many other freshmen, he roomed blind. Chen ended up
in Akers, in a quad-style room with three other men he
didn’t know. But over time, things started to get just a little
bit awkward.
“I never really talk to any of my roommates. They
never liked me, and eventually I figured that it’s because
I’m gay” Chen said. "I don’t really mind because I had
high school to adjust, but it’s just kind of awkward and I
end up hanging out in my friends’ rooms a lot more than
in my own.”
As Chen’s case illustrates, sharing a room with others
of the same sex may not exactly work out for everyone.
But surely there are still fundamental differences between
the ways guys and girls live, differences that would
cause problems were they to live in the same 12x12
dorm room - or are those differences just blown out of
proportion?
The concept of gender neutral housing at Michigan
State has been a topic of debate for a few years now, but
much of the progress towards actually offering such an
opportunity on campus has only been made in the past
few months of the 2010-2011 school year.
On Dec. 8, 2010, the Residence Halls Association
unanimously voted to support the creation of Gender
Neutral Housing options. This was quickly followed by
another unanimous RHA vote on Jan. 26 to adopt Gender
Neutral MSU, a student-led group spearheading the
gender neutral initiative, as an officially-sponsored
university organization.
Founded in April 2010, the initial sole purpose of
Gender Neutral MSU was to bring gender neutral
living options to students on campus. The group
worked at this by holding discussions and initiating
petitions, particularly an online petition to Dr. Lou Anna
K. Simon, President of Michigan State, as well as Dr.
Denise Maybank andVennie Gore, Vice President of
Student Affairs & Services and Assistant Vice President
of Residential & Hospitality Services respectively The
petition, which stood 485 signatures strong at the time of
this article, briefly outlined the need for gender neutral
housing and how it would work,
Essentially the petition states that Michigan State
should adopt a gender neutral housing policy similar to
that in place at the University of Michigan and a plethora
of other universities across the country Under this
system, gender neutral housing would be an ‘ ‘opt-in’’
option.
‘ 'It would just be another option that some students
might feel more comfortable with,” co-chair of Gender
Neutral MSU Rachel Skylis said, ‘‘No one would ever be
forced into it.”
Each freshman is required by university policy to live
on-campus, and many students remain in the dorms
past their freshman year. These Spartans are the ones
affected by gender neutral housing and not just the
students labeled as "gay” “transgender,” or “intersex.”
The reason for the policy is to accommodate students
who are uncomfortable about sharing living space with
a roommate of the same sex, regardless of the reason
for such discomfort. According to the National Student
Gender Blind Campaign, a movement that is currently
pushing for gender-blind facilities in universities
nationwide, the idea of gender neutral housing is
not merely preoccupied with questions of gender or
sexuality; it’s a matter of “trust and personal choice.”
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existing co-ed dormitories with suite or quad-style
rooms to minimize. In terms of budgeting, if the housing
option were to be enacted as planned, spending would
be limited to advertising the housing change and
updating the housing forms. Structurally buildings and
bathrooms would remain as-is.
Because the initiative to create gender neutral
housing on campus has always been student-led,
Gender Neutral MSU has appealed to the student body
for support. On Feb. 10, the student body solidified
their stance on the matter as ASMSU, MSU’s student
government, passed a bill supporting the creation of
gender-neutral housing options.
But while turning to such a large and diverse student«
body for support might seem like a difficult task, the
opposition to gender neutral housing seems to be
surprisingly sparse among students.
HE’m all for it! I think that in this day and age, it’s almost
primitive not to have gender neutral housing,” freshman
Ayo Obayan said. “We’re adults, and having the option of
gender neutral housing would really move MSU forward.”
Other students around agreed with varying amounts
of enthusiasm.
"Why not? I don’t see anything bad coming from it.
t And I like girls,” fellow freshman Xinye Ji said, offering
support in a borderline apathetic manner. When asked if
he personally would live in gender neutral housing, and
what he’d do to support it, Ji answered, “I guess I would.
I don’t think I’d really care that much and I don’t really
know how I could do anything to support it.”
, Some students, while not necessarily against the
idea of gender neutral housing, question it from the
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basis of experience. Senior Gillis McCarter spent one
of his school years off--campus living with group of
female roommates, and he wasn’t eager to repeat the
experience.
“I didn’t think it’d be a problem, but would I do it
again? Never. I think living with one girl might be okay
but there was an awful lot of estrogen in that house,”
McCarter said. “And you don’t notice all the things that
are different about living with girls versus living with
guys until you actually do it,”
“Girls have a lot of needs, and those needs happen
to be different from mine. Don’t get me wrong, I’m
still friends with all the girls I lived with, but for the
same token, I live in a fraternity now. With guys,” he
continued. "Sure, the common room gets messier, but
I can get drunk and not have to worry about what’ll
happen. It’s nice.”
Ultimately each student has their own needs and
personal comfort zone, and this understanding rests at
the heart of the gender neutral housing issue. Ironically,
much of the debate surrounding gender neutral housing
focuses solely on analyzing the relationship between
men and women, or questioning how sexuality and
attraction might affect living arrangements on-campus.
These factors may certainly play a role in the success of
gender neutral housing at Michigan State and across the
country but a more important question remains: is every
student comfortable?
Just ask Chen, for instance. Would it be easier for him
to room with females given his sexuality?
"I'd love to live with girls!” he said. “Or at least
somewhere less awkward.”
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the MSU College Republicans during the
dgbate on education. Also present at the
dbbate were the MSU College Democrats
and the MSU Libertarians.
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As a new chapter unfolds in Michigan politics,
three student groups meet up to duke it out
Less than a week after freshman governor Rick Snyder gave
his budget recommendation for 2012, others with budding
political careers also had a chance to argue their solutions to
re-invent Michigan.
The MSU College Democrats, Republicans and Libertarians
held a debate on education policy—an especially hotly-contested
issue on the MSU campus, as Snyder’s budget proposal called
for deep slashes in public education funding. True to the nature
of politics, some said the pending budget was a step in the right
direction; others, not so much. Yet, as is also true to the nature of
politics, the debate raised issues, voices, accusations, jabs and
bashes from all sides of the aisle. As they say—two’s company
and three was certainly a crowd.
In a setup that illustrated the evening’s thrust-and-riposte
all too well, the Democrats’ table was set farthest to the left, the
Libertarians farthest to the right and the Republicans’ was, well,
somewhere in the middle. While the Democrats mostly sported
pullover sweaters and bright ties, the Republicans preferred
full suits, often with American flag pins secured to the lapel
The Democrats cried for federal sta dards, the Republicans for
states’ rights and the Libertarians for total free market solutions.
Of course, both right-leaning teams snuck in a couple of Obama
slams and some pointed jabs at the federal deficit.
The Libertarians suggested abolishing student loans, saying
universities can jack up costs year after year because they are
guaranteed money
‘ ‘The Democrats want to solve the problem with more problems,
the Republicans want to tinker with a failed system,” a Libertarian
representative said in a rebuttal.
The Democrats advocated federal incentives programs in
education to raise standards.
In a true competition there are winners and losers, and we
cant afford to be putting out losers,” a Democrat said, outlining
the party’s position.
Debates like these were new to campus this year. The three
groups, in addition to an MSU student socialist group, held the first
debate in the fall near the midterm elections in November. Senior
Charles CJ ’ Demmer, who debated for the Republican camp, said
debates like these give insight into the future of American politics.
While social issues may be important now, he said, they will take a
backseat as the current college-aged generation matures.
The real debate is going to be on the size of government and
the sphere of influence on the economy” Demmer said.
Sophomore Kyle Safran, who debated with the Libertarians, said
the debates can help both students who participate and attend.
‘‘They help students who are unsure of their political
leanings,” he said.
But seriousness aside, politics is a game—one that can be fun
for those interested, especially when there aren’t yet seats to lose,
careers to ruin or media frenzies to please.
For junior Dylan Miller, who debated with the Democrats,
debating is an adrenaline rush— only with style.
Somewhere between 30-40 percent of it is being able to dress
up nicely” Miller said.
With just a few seconds left during the debate’s intermission,
Demmer rolled the sleeves of his oxford shirt past his elbow and
stared at Joe Duffy president of the MSU College Democrats,
I will decimate you,” he taunted jokingly invoking laughs from
other participants and the audience.
And as the night drew to a close, Demmer also had a few choice
parting words for his opponents.
We will meet again,” he said. “Just you wait until gun rights time."
Head debate coach Will Repko introduces
the MSU College Republicans, MSU College
Democrats, and MSU Libertarians. Students
reached out to Repko to oversee the debate
because he has been a staff representative for
several student debates in the past.
“They
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students
who are
unsure
of their
political
leanings."
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Sophomore Cody Hibbs argues on behalf of
the MSU College Republicans. This was the
second debate that Hibbs has participated
in on campus.
Senior Andrew Walker argues on behalf of
the MSU Libertarians during the debate on
education. The debate focused on budget cuts
for public education in Michigan.
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East Lansing Parkour practices, teaches members urban free-flow on campus
It’s a gorgeous Sunday afternoon at MSU durirlg
the early fall, Almost weekend afternoons go, the
campus is relatively dormant, save for the small group
of people scaling walls and doing back flips outside
the Geogjdphy Building.
TheyYe practicing parkour, a French sport, which
translates as “covering distance,” The objective in this
spoil is simple: Get to any location as efficiently as
possible. As countless YouTube videos of the sport
/will show, this process involves anything from rolling,
leaping and flipping over walls, ledges and rooftops.
However, Christopher Price, the founded of East
Lansing Parkour (the group that practices at MSU), said
such online displays are sometimes exaggerated.
“You get the people that watch the YouTube video
and they’re like, ‘Hey I’m going to go jump off this
roof,’ ” Price, a senior at MSU, said. “I’ve been training
for four years and the only time I’ve jumped between
roofs was my first day and quite frankly it was the
dumbest thing ever.”
Given that parkour requires a lot of training and
discipline, Price said a lot of people either stick with ’
it or quit early on. On this particular day there were
plenty of newcomers that showed up, and Price took
them through basic warm-ups and a few laps around
the Geography Building before leading them through
a series of.- rolls and scoops (squatting down and
moving with hands and feet). These proved difficult
for the novices, though a lot of them appreciated the
patience shown by the leaders.
“It’s pretty cool so far.I like the guys that are leading,
how they’re so ready to teach us,” said newcomer and
freshman Austin Dunyak, who had previous experience
practicing parkour in his hometown of Kalamazoo.
Price then led the group over to the garden west
of the Kresge Art Center, where he demonstrated
running up a wall and sliding across its length as he
hung off it. The practical aspect of parkour, he said,
was a huge draw for him.
‘Oavid Belle [one of the founders of the sport] was
originally a fire fighter, so this [parkour] was to be
used to get through a burning building to someone
and help that person,” he said.
Junior William Rosetos, a regular with the club, said
police officers were also learning parkour to help
them chase down suspects. He conceded, however,
that parkour was much more than just a way of getting
around quickly
“Parkour originated more as an art of urban free
flow and how you move with your environment,”
Rosetos said. “It’s not forceful, you’re not fighting
anything, you’re more in tune with it and you just kind
of free-flow through your environment.”
Unfortunately it’s a little harder to free-flow through
the environment if you run into it. While practicing
wall vaults over a small half-wall later on, junior Julian
Gimmler’s knee collided with the wall in mid-vault,
producing an audible scrape and causing everyone
to flinch. His knee started to bleed, but the parkour
veteran was only embarrassed that he messedilp on
a simple move. Price moved fast, though, and helped
make sure Gimmler’s wound was treated.
As that incident, along with the first-timers’ struggles
demonstrates, parkour isn’t just for anyone that was
impressed by aYouTube video.
“It’s a very physically demanding activity and so
you are very fit and very healthy if you train for any
amount of time,” Price said.
Maybe if MSU students can survive the training,
as well as a few menacing half-walls, they can turn
parkour into a weekly fitness routine and learn some
cool flips and leaps along the way
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Battle wound. Gimmler tried to vault over a short
wall in front of the Kresie Art Center.
Freshman Austin Dunyak practices running
up the wail. The jump up the wail requires
the right footing and perfect timing to plant it.
Sophomore Kelly Whalen reloads
her compound bow outside of the
Demmer Center. The Archery Club
is dominated by females, but the
officers axe trying to get the club to
appeal t'o more males.
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line up to take their shots inside the
Demmer Center. The club always
welcomes new members and many of
the officers are certified trainers.
right on target
Archery Club at MSU/^xpands rapidly thanks to Demmer Center
Despite the Archery Club’s/iong history of
success, which includes a Ibngthy list of All-
American athletes and National Championship
winners, it certainly didndieel like an actual sports
club to junior Cara Easterbrook when she joined
in her freshman year/
‘ 'We were shooting downstairs in the basement of
IM West in a hakvray next to a basketball court that
had a starrwelkdown at the other end, and hissing
pipes in thp/other end,” Easterbrook, now a club
instructoiymcalled with firm distaste in her voice.
‘‘It wasjust like shooting in a pit. It was horrible.”
“Die problem with our club was that it was only
individuals that would practice by themselves.
To me, that was so stupid. I wanted practices. I
wanted meetings. I wanted community I wanted
new people to teach,” she said.
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The debut of the $3.5 million Demmer Center in
October 2009, however, opened doors to bigger
and better things for the organization. Named in
honor of alumni John and Marnie Demmer, the
complex was designed to house both the Archery
Club and the Rifle and Pistol Club, as well as
serve as an indoor and outdoor range open to the
community beyond MSU.
With an appearance at this year’s Sparticipation,
as well as Easterbrook’s and junior Jennifer
Shelden’s presences as certified instructorsithe
club’s popularity is expanding. Despite having
their first meeting on a Sunday morning at 8:30
a.m. after the big football win against Notre Dame
on Sept. 18, 15 interested people still showed
up. That number grew to 24 during the following
week’s meeting.
Though the Archery Club largely consists of
members interested in practicing shooting, they
also prepare a competitive team. The MSU Archery
Team competes out of the North Region, which
sports a sparse population of archery teams, and
is the only group in Michigan that competes at a
collegiate level.
“The northern regions would have Purdue, us
and three people from Ohio State, so it’s mainly 20
archers at most,” Easterbrook said, describing the
turnout at the annual regional tournament held at
Purdue. “Everywhere around the country it would
be 100 archers.”
Despite MSU's small stature in archery there
may still be potential for big talent. The team
sent three archers to the U.S. Intercollegiate
Archery Championships last year in Texas, where
sophomore Eric
Easterbrook
Beaudry finished in the top 30, and Shelden made
All-American status.
finished 14th,
The goals of the club, however, still remain
very basic. Easterbrook and her officers are in the
process of recruiting and training as many new
people as possible, hoping to improve commitment
to the team. Still, beginners won’t just be relegated
to the practice squad. With the exception of the
USIAC, regular members of the club are welcome
to compete at the Regionals at Purdue and the
Indoor Nationals held at the Demmer Center.
“If they are comfortable shooting, everyone
is welcome to participate,” junior Sam Bowles, a
regular member and club officer, said. “We don’t
have tryouts.”
Right now, Easterbrook hopes she can salvage
the gold mine of talent available at MSU and restore
glory to the archery program.
“We took this club, which was nothing, literally
underground, and brought it to Demmer,” she said.
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Sophomore Chris Haxnadek takes a
breather on the bench during the season
openeSagainst CMU. The game was very-
fast paced, forcing the players to use
strength and teamwork to win.
Junior goalie J.J. Griffith and junior
Andrew James guard the goal from the
Chippewas. Griffith and James played for
the A-Team, which defeated CMU.
ie hockey team emerges
victorious at season opener
After a slow first half, it was down to five shots
to determine the winner. As both teams set their
players up to shoot, a nervous silence fell across
the arena. The stadium wasn’t packed with fans, but
a surge of excitement shot through the bleachers
as the final penalty shot slipped past the goalie
and into the net. With three shots into the goal, the
Spartans had won their season opener.
There weren't any announcers or high profile
sponsors, but on the evening of Oct. 1, MSU’s own
inline hockey team brought Demonstration Hall
to life as they battled the Chippewas of Central
Michigan University on home turf and walked
away victorious.
The team, which consists of 13 men I 4 players
with a goaltender at any one time - usually plays
out of state. But this time, their first game of the
season was played right here in East Lansing.
"We like to travel, but it’s better to play here,”
junior Gordon Johns, who plays defense for the-
Affeam, said. "We have a really slippery rink, so
when other teams come they’re sliding all over. It
makes us a much better team.”
After an intense opening, the team won their
game at the season opener with a score of 6-4.
"We started strong, but were down three to
nothing,” Johns said. "We came back to tie the
game, and it went into a five-man shootout.”«
The team had only had a few practice sessions
before their first standoff with the Chippewas, but
were brimming with confidence, thanks to great
' camaraderie and a history of success—including
two Midwest Collegiate Roller Hockey League
(MCRHL) championship wins under their belts.
"This was the first test of our team,” sophomore
Alex Gammicchia said. "It was intense going into
a shootout, but we played really well. It was a really
exciting game.”
But this match was only one of many exciting
games the team has had in its past.
“We got a $900 bid to go to Nationals last year,"
Johns said. "We usually play regional, but thal
game was in California.”
Still, even at the lower-profile games, the action
can get pretty fast-paced.
"Games can actually get pretty competitive,"
Gammicchia said. "It’s fun to both watch and play” |
The season opener at Demonstration Hall may
not have been a national competition, but there
were certainly a fair number of enthusiasts sitting
in the stands. Gammicchia said he hopes to see
even more MSU students coming out to support
their team in the future.
"We get more fans every year,” Gammicchia
said. "But the more who know about it and come
out, the better.”
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the puck to keep it in the tianc.;.; of the
Spartans. Boardman and his teammates
generally travel put If state to play other
teams in the region.
Senior Steve Koch guards the goal for the
B-team. Only the A-team was victorious
over the Chippewas in the season-
Ppener at Demonstration Hall.
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Student Defenders are allowed to prepare
clients for a judicial board hearing and show
up with them at the hearing, but are nil
allowed to sdbak on behalf of their client.
Andrew Blcip^^^ciate director of the
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While the Student Defenders’ goal is
to help students facing a conflict with the
University; the counsel’s activity is restricted
in one key area: at the hearing the student
has to address the judicial board alone.
The Student Defenders, a department
in the Associated Students of MSU, is
comprised mostly of pre-law students from
James Madison who are trained to help
students facing a charge from the university.
issues
These university cases
such as academic integrity and grade
disputes, among others. The defenders
help students through the process, prepare
them for the hearing and work on reaching
a settlement.
involve
However, if the case is heard in front of
a judicial board, the student is required to
speak on his or her own, as the defenders
are not allowed to plead the case to the
judicial board onbehalf ofthe student, arule
made by the Judicial Affairs Office, which
oversees the judicial board hearings.
Senior James DeMates, director of the
Department of Student Defenders, said this
can be intimidating for students who aren’t
used to the judicial process.
DeMates explained that if a student
is accused of drinking in a dorm, the
hall director would be the one to press
charges, meaning that the student goes up
against someone who has been through
the process before.
“They’ve done'this a hundred times;
they know exactly what they’re doing,”
he said, referring to the example of the
hall director. “Who are they against? Two
students, maybe like you, who have no
interest in public speaking and no real
way to defend themselves. It’s putting a
seasoned opponent against novices.”
Rick Shafer,
the associate director
of Student Life oversees Judicial Affairs
and disagrees that the counsel is limited,
arguing that the disciplinary process is
meant to teach students to be responsible
the Judicial Affairs’
citizens. However,
legitimacy behind their mission statement
may be questioned due to the way they
carry out their hearings.
Junior and student defender Bryan Beck
said that at individual hearings, the judicial
board is usually unfair to students.
“I’ve personally had cases where
the student would try to go up against
the board, especially when it’s a grade
dispute, and the teacher ends up being on
the board, and that’s a little biased. When
that person’s on the board itself, it kind
of makes it difficult to sway the board’®
opinion,” Beck said.
and
The Judicial Affairs Office has come under
fire for its infractions of student civil rights in
the past. In 2008, ASMSU found that Shafer
was permitting “unauthorized
judicial
boards” that “were convening disciplinary
hearings
students,”
according to a press release on the ASMSU
website. Shafer attempted to cover up the
unauthorized boards by shredding “student
judicial files,” but was told to stop after MSU
administrators and ASMSU officials opened
an investigation. Shafer would not comment
on the situation.
sanctioning
Although’ DeMates said most cases
brought to the Student Defenders are
usually settled without a hearing, he
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believes
Student Defenders from doing their jobs,
which is to help students.
Judicial Affairs prevents
“It’s kind of like an attorney being hired
for somebody but the attorney can’t do
anything, and the person who hired the
attorney has to say everything on their
own,” Beck said.
Despite its limited role, the group works
no prepare students for hearings. Beck said
the Student Defenders are still the best
option for students looking for help.
‘ ‘It’s a great idea for students and people
who really don’t know where to go,’ ’ he said.
“I think that’s a great thing, as a student, to
have the resources to argue a case and go
up against fie university if they need to.”
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students helping students
-Courtnie Coppernoll, sophomore
The MSU Food Bank helps Teed students living off campus with donations from local vendors
The Olin Health Center’s cafeteria can get quite
chaotic every other Wednesday. Green plastic bags
piled on tables nearly to the height of The students
who placed them there. An abundance offresh food
and students crowding into the tiny room tbxcollect
donated groceries.
The scene is, in other words, just another typical
evening at the MSU Food Bank. Located inside Olin
Health Center, the food bank has been providing
students with essential groceries sinceft 993.
“A group of students and some of the staff at Olin
saw a need for supplemental food support among
students,” Nate Smith-Tyge, director of the food bank,
said. "The food bank has been student-run since it
started. It’s a way for other students who don’t have
financial concerns or who live in a residence Sail to
help other sfjdents.”
Smith-Tyge said that the food bank was initially set
up for graduate students with financial issues, but is
now being taken advantage of by students of all levels.
Approximately 250 students come to the food bank on
any of its fortnightly distribution days, he said, to collect
an assortment of groceries, including pasta, cereal,
fresh produce, bread and nonperishable goods.
The operation purchases; most of its food from the
Capitol Area Red Cross, but also depends on donations
from the greater Lansing and MSU community The MSU
Dairy Store provides cheese, the Lansing Garden Project
provides fresh produce, while delicatessens Panera
Bread Co. and Breadsmith provide grain products.
According to Food Bank Operations Manager and
senior Samantha Hansen, students simply need to be
currently-enrolled and live off campus to qualify for aid
from the food bank. She also pointed out that the food
bank is completely student-operated.
"It’s a win-win with student volunteers,” she said.
“The volunteers get a good feeling and they know
they’re helping someone else out, and that they could
be in their situation.”
Students have an opportunity to volunteer at the food
bank during the fall and spring semesters, according
\to Smith-Tyge. Several student groups, including the
Fqod Science Club, the National Society of Collegiate
Scholars, the Spartan Civilian Club, the Psychology
Club>Lambda Chi Alpha, and the MSU Pompon Team
have afrqady volunteered at the food bank, or plan to
do so sometime during either semester.
"It’s allx^bout building a community amongst
students, fronbinternational students to undergrads to
grads,” Smith-Tybje said. "We’re all in this together.”
First-time voluhteer and sophomore Courtnie
Coppernoll held a simfiar viewpoint.
"We understand thaNsome aren’t as privileged as
others,” she said. "But as Spartans, we’re a family That’s
why I chose to come lend a hand.”
The main goal of the foockbank, Smith-Tyge said,
was to provide supplemental support to help people
get by from week-to-week.
‘ ‘I just hope to ease some financial pressures so students
don’t have to worry about the basics of lifekhe said. ‘ ’That
gives students more time to focus on the primary reasom,.
why they’re at MSU: academics,”
Indeed, senior Kelly Smith, a regular visitor atdhe food
bank, certainly has no complaints about its missiorn
"The food bank just really helps me out grocery-
wise,” she said. “We’re college students. We’re all poor\
Volunteers hand over green grocery
bags to various students inside the Olin
Health Center cafeteria. Students of all
ages' come to the food bank.
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Auditorium Field for the party or' ‘haflah’ ’ in Arabic,
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people think
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Freshmen Navmeet Dhillon and Ashley Wilson sit under the
■tent set up in Auditorium Field for Aladdin Night. The party
was the final celebration of the Arab Cultural Society’s nevM
educational month this year.
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spent a week
in October promoting Arab
awareness on campus. This year, the sociebMook
the entire month to embrace Arab culture.
“You say AIDS awareness or cancer awareness,
and we’re not a plague,” senior and chairperson"
of the group Shereen Hamed said. “We changed
it to Arab Culture Month because that’s what we’re
doing, we’re embracing the culture.”
To kick off the month’s festivities, the society
handed out Arab breakfast food at The Rock and
hosted an Arabic language night. ACS also invited
filmmaker Jackie Salloum to show her documentary
about the Palestinian hip-hop movement.
But the grand finale of ACS’s new celebratory
month was Aladdin Night, a party or “haflah”
in Arabic, under a tent in Auditorium Field on
Oct. 22. The party is coined Aladdin Night not
because it’s themed after the Disney movie, but
because the character is memorable and sticks
in student’s heads, said junior and member of the
society’s executive board Joey Khalil. This was the
fourth year the group put on the party
KjTt brings everyone together. It’s not the usual
party where everyone’s getting trashed,” senior
Emin Yelizarov said, “Music, food and people,
what else do you need?”
Yelizarov and a friend, senior Manzur Moidunny
were amongst a large group of people overflowing
out of the party's small, packed tent. Amid a
fog of strawberry smoke and scents of tabcXffi,
kibbeh and fattoush, a crowded mess of Arab and^
non-Arab students,lalumni and faculty mingled
and danced to DJ Dani, a well-known DJ in the
Dearborn area.
An estimated 120 people came and went
throughout the night, said Khalil, who is Lebanese.
\I feehlike when people think of Arabic, they
donTsassociate it with parties, but honestly, Arabic
partiesNare the best parties I’ve ever been to,”
Khalil saick
“They have these notions in their mind of what
it is, and I feeTffke when people actually come to
these events and see what we’re about, people
will start to see thahwhat you had was a perceived
notion was actually nbt the case,” he said.
Khalil said Arab culrare actually encompasses
a range of religions and nationalities, despite the
common conception that Arabs are solely Muslim
and from one or two countries. Many people in
the group are Christian and cormirom all around
the Middle East, he said.
And on this night, the Arab community and
non-Arabs gathered as one to celebrate ACS’s
educational month.
“It’s just to create diversity and promote a
sense of cultural understanding,” Hamed said.
“You know maybe if we can find it for ourselvesy
maybe other people and other Arabs on campus
can find the same thing.’ ’
Freshman Natalie Yousif, sophomore Lana Raouf and
sophomore Farah Dubaybo eat and mingle at Aladdin Night.
Though the night wasn’t themed after the Disney movie, it
uses the popular character's name in order to be memorable
to those who attended.
Students and faculty grab some food to celebrate Arab
culture on Aladdin Night. The night, hosted by the Arab
Cultural Society was in its fourth year running.
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Junior coxswain Meagan Meldrim
shouts orders to a men's crew as they
slash through the water on Grand
River during the team's fall regatta- the
Head of the Grand. All of MSH®boa1§'
had different name's, such as The
Resolute, Blind Faith and Bucephalus.
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andftarrison Ehrlich slice through
Grand River in synchronized fashion with
their team. Though the men did not win
their annual Head of the Grand Regatta,
they placed boats in second and third
against top-notch rowing teams like the
University of Michigan.
Sophomore Bradley Despins warms
up on the water with his team
before a race. Teamwork is one of
the most essential parts of having a
synchronized and successful crew.
down
on port
Thé7MSU Crew Club hosts the
Head of the Grand Regatta
practices are held daily at 6 a.m. and again in the afternoon.
‘ Well, every coach is supposed to say you’re supposed
to win, right?” Bailey said. “We just want to take opr
prograrjrfrorn where it was, which was a little bit down in
the pgÉ few years, with kids not being as successful, to
making it to finals.”
/" Bailey said that in 2009, the team put four boats into the
/finals at the Dad Vail Regatta, the largest intercollegiate
rowing event in the country despite having put in just one
the previous year. They also put in seven boats, a full squad,
at the Club National Rowing Championship that same year.
These two races are the biggest events of the year
for crew clubs and are the best yardsticks for club
improvement, so in terms of competitiveness, Bailey said
his team had a great past season. If the team consistently
places boats in the finals this year, he said, the wins will
start to come.
More important than winning, though, is the cooperation
that gets a team to the finish line. In a sport where being
level, smooth and synchronized are the main goals, crew
members said that working together is key
“Everyone relies on everyone else—it’s a team thing. If
one person gives Up it affects everyone else,” sophomore
and novice team member Kaitlyn Beels said.
“You spend a lot of time with those same people,
because a lot of it is teamwork—you’re all pushing each
other—and a lot of it is learning each other’s flow and stroke
and learning each other’s balance and tendencies,” Mens
said. “All in all, I think our team is a really big family? ’
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Man O’ War’s black hull cut through the flowing waters
of Grand River as oars splashed in tandem along its
sides. Named after one of the greatest thoroughbred
racehorses of all time, the sleek, black shell is one of the
MSU Crew Club’s best boats and piloted by the varsity
men’s heavyweight crew.
On the morning of Oct. 17, the crew launched Man O’
War into the Grand River in Grand River Park for their
annual Head of the Grand Regatta, a 4,000 meter race':7
Though the race is normally an initiation for the teams
novices—those in their first year of rowing—the University
of Michigan, Grand Valley State University Michigan Tech
University and Northern Michigan University/came to
compete this year, drastically raising the stakes.
“Michigan and Grand Valley are usually really high
society schools—leaps and bounds ahead of us. But just
in the last year we’ve narrowed that gap by a lot,’’ senior
Marc Mens said, adding that theirbwn boat beat Grand
Valley’s last year.
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“So, we’ve stepped right updhto contention with every
team and I feel like that givgfr us more hypeihe said.
The team has definitely^ improved a great deal since
head coach Mike Baileybame in and ‘ ‘turned the program
around," Mens said. /
Bailey came from a successful crew program at the
University of Wi^bonsin, where he was an assistant coach
intermittently jUt 20 years. He said he tries to implement
the techniques from his old program into the MSU team.
I PersonaHwBailey said he puts in almost 7 0 hours a week: team
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Students and organizations get together to share different cultural dances
While many students may have tripped over Bieir two
left feet, fallen on their friends and occasionally even on
their faces, the dance instructors flowed through each
step and twist with practiced ease,
Such was the scene at The Vibe, a saltatory free-for-
all at the old Abbot Cafeteria on Oct. 21, where various
student organizations showcased a plethora of dance
styles, Attendees included members of the Breakdance
Club, Culturas de las Razas Unidas, the MSU Ballroom
Dance Club, and the Capoeira Club.
Approximately 40 students gathered in the cafeteria to
watch the performances, perhaps with hopes of picking
up a few new moves for weekend parties. Devin Evans,
a cultural aide at the Snyder-Phillips residence halls,
however, had some thoughts of his own for the event.
“I hope people will start to respect other peoples’
ways and cultures. We wantedjjo represent different
cultures at the event and give students a multi-cultural
experience,” he said.
One of the more fascinating performances that night
was Capoeira, a Brazilian dance-martial art hybrid.
An art with a uniquely infectious style, Capoeira was
created by slaves to help them escape from slavery To
disguise what they were really up to, they integrated
combat moves into a dance form.
"Music is a key component to the Brazilian dance,”
Kevin “Forca” Hendrickson,
the Capoeira group
instructor, said. "You cannot perform a dance by
yourself; you need people to dance with, people to play
instruments, and people to clap.”
Hendrickson also explained to the students that
Capoeira is a national sport in Brazil and has since b^en
ibraced across continents and cultures. Dance mov§
asèqciated with Capoeira have even translated into
manyvof the moves seen in hip-hop dancing.
‘ ‘It’s agreat way to build strength, balance, and grace,’ ’
Hendrickson said.
The MSlJBallroom Dance Club showed the crowd how
to do the Mamba, Rumba, and Salsa, and coached the
crowd with easypteps such as, “Back, side, together.”
While some students still tripped up despite the
instruction, others glided smoothly across the dance
floor with ease and grace.
Junior David Clatterbuck, a club member, thought
The Vibe was a good waydo learn and connect with
fellow classmates on the danceRoor.
"Dancing with the Stars is a popular show on TV and
people watch it. We thought it wouldbe cool to come out
'here, put on a similar performance, arid teach everyone
a few steps,” he said.
Evans took over the dance floor towards the end of
the night to showcase a few different styles ohhe famous
Hustle. As though connecting to something familiar, the
crowd perked up again for one last dance, as Evàps putì
a twist on the steps by setting it to the John LegencRhit,
“Give Me the Green Light ”,
Freshman Molly Lester said that she enjoyed!
experimenting with different dance styles.
"I was pretty good at ballroom dancing because I
used to do it when I was little. I kept hitting people in the
face when trying to do the Capoeira, and the Hustle was
something I already knew,” she said.
A member of the Break Dance Club displays some
cool and technical moves to the students. The Break
Dance Club performed at The Vibe, and although
many students are familiar with this form of dance,
some say it was the most difficult.
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Yet Michigan State’s campus radio
station, Impact 89FM, has done just thdt.
According to general managèr and
telecommunications professor Gary Reid,
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to their motto: “diversity improgramming,
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Student radio beg^n at MSU in the 1950s.
Reid stepped in as general manager in
1989, and the Impact we know today was
born. Today ¡avariety of music and talk
shows are ^broadcast to campus and the
greater Lansing area.
“WeJve always prided ourselves on
professionalism. After 10 years, I think it
bedomes a culture of success that everyone
.tries to uphold,” he said. “We’re not just
/kids screwing around.” .
The Impact airs 24-hours-a-day sevenS
days-a-week, 365-days-a-year, The station
has 47 DJs on air and 50 to 60 sadents
behind the scenes. However, what’s unique
about the station is that it’s completely
student .run and organized.
“My job is to allow them to do what
they want to do. I make sure it’s legal, but I
challenge the students to be the best they
can,” Reid said.
Music director and senior Autumn
Maison began at the Impact as a sophomore
with a shift from 2-6 a.m. on weeknights.
“It was kind of stressful, yes.l was tired'
a lot, yes,” she said. “But I stuck with it
because I loved it and I knew that this was an
opportunity to work with the equipment and
people who were passionate about radio.’ ’
Talk radio is featured six nights a week,
with a different focus for each day
On Tuesday nights, the Impact reflects on
MSif events and student issues, including
a/ piece called Sexposure. Through a
"partnership with .Olin Health Center, the
show features an open discussion about
sexual health.
“The host for every show gets to decide
what they want to talk about. They have
complete control,” Maison said.
“Here,
you have the freedom to pursue your own
personal interests and see within yourself
your ability”
Maison, who hosts
the show, said
Impact’s music is selected with the help
of a music review team and the station's
listeners on the Sunday night show Sit or
Spin, in which a music panel and viewers
vote on music to be played.
The Impact upholds its motto of diversity
with various programs. Asian Invasion,!
broadcast on Monday evenings, features
popular music from China, Japan and Korea.
Other music shows throughout the week
focus on blues, folk, electronic, metal, hip-
hop, punk, new wave, ska and indie music.
“All the music is filtered through a lot of
people with different musical tastes,’ ’ DJ and
junior Jesse Wiza said. iThen the music is
put into a huge digital log that selects the
songs to be played that day It’s just like a
real radio station.”
Local bands are often featured on the
station in a special segment called The
Basement. Additionally, bands such as
Frontier Ruckus, The Hard Lessons and
Chris Bathgate have performed live in the
Impact studio, according to Maison.
Reid hopes that, with a motivated staff, the
Impact will be able to survive and conquer
through a new age of digital music media.
‘ ‘The biggest issue is remaining relevant,’ ’
he said. “Our desire is to be a trusted friend
that provides new music; music that’s going
to be the next big thing. We like to think of
ourselves as impact media.”
Senior DavidYuan works with the
soundboard on a Monday night. AH the DJs
at the Impact are student volunteers and the
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Behold an MSU sports team that finished fonnh
in the nation two years ago, lost 10 of its 18 sinners,
and yet, improved to third last year. It’s not erne of the
big three revenue sports, or any of the ojber varsity
sports. The MSU Fencing club team is hie source of
this success, and the highly regarded fencing program
has only gotten better in the past fewyears.
Fencing used to be a varsityhsport at MSU, bdt
it was dropped to club statuydn 1997 as parDdf a
national movement of universities devoting/more
money toward larger sports programs. ftfow the
club relies on open tryputs, which bring ihprimarily
people who are newto fencing. Accordingto the MSU
Fencing website, TjBpercent of the traveling team last
year had no expérience before joining the club. Sol
how does theiencing team turnmovice fencers into
national contenders in the scope of a year?
“We’vgoeen blessed with a seriously excellent
coachmg staff in the pasbcouple years,” senior Will
Bonnér said, the menhffoil squad captain as well as
thginen’s overall teapicaptain. ‘‘How many basketball
teams lose half thpir roster and improve? So, hats off
to our coachinq^taff for helping turn decent fencers
into good oneS^’
The fencing club is led by the team captains, one
for each/Of the three weapon squads (saber, epee
and fojljfor both men and women. The captains lead
driUpand dictate practice, but the five coaches give
orie-on-one lessons with fencers to further improve
gneir skill and simulate fencing bouts. The coaches
are current fencers in the United States Fencing
Association and all have high marks for each weapon, -
as rated by the USFA.
Head Coach Dan Bock and his staff began two years
ago, leading the club to its fourth place finish at the Club
Fencing Championships. MSU was the No. 1 club team
in the Midwest Fencing Conference that year, beating
varsity teams such as Ohio State and Notre Dame, which
sometimes feature Olympic athletes.
While MSU Fencing has an impressive history—
once coached by Charles Schmitter for 45 years, who
was considered the first American master of fencing—
the last few years have really seen a jump up for the
chxo.
‘‘I would say we sort of modernized the technique
wmiere,” Bock said, an MSU College of Law graduate
and a former captain of the fencing team at Michigan.
"They have really stepped up and done a lot of
research to modernize practice.”
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Bock said part of this modernization included
students competing more outside the club in USFA
circuits, which initiated the use of electronic scoring
equipment for competitions.
The fencers hit the gym in IM West four times a
week from 8-10 p.m., but often stay later to hone their
craft. After 30 minutes of performing various exercises
that leave them sweating, they don the insect-like
masks and white-clothed body armor—a traditionl
dating back to when a touch on an opponent would
be marked by the charcoal smear from the weapon.
They practice a series of drills and mini-bouts to help
to improve their footwork, which Bock estimates is 95
percent of being a good fencer.
"Compared to our other competition, we’re
pretty athletic,” Bonner said. “We do a lot of footwork
exercises. We win a lot of bouts with people that are
more experienced or better than us by trying harder,
working harder and getting a little lucky”
While Bonner doesn’t want to rule out the inevitable
Thought of reaching a national championship this year,
he‘s still worried about the improving strength of other
clubs and his team’s overall consistency between
the different squads. However, in the fencing world,
there’s no question that MSU’s club is commanding
respect from its peers.
"I’d like to think that we’re a respected club team,
and maybe a little feared,” Bonner said.
Freshman Zach Girouard and sophomore Kendra Siegersma go
head-to-head during fencing practice. While most of the practice
involvesspecific drills, fencers get the chance to square off, often
hooking up to an electronicEcoring system used in competitions.
Sophomore Chelsea Champlin warms up the women’s epee
squad. Many of the fencers described epee fencing as the
marathon of the three weapon categories because the bouts last
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aspects ofjewish and Middle Eastern culture.
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Students who attended Israel Fest were
offered free music, food, T-shirts and fun. But
beyond material goods, they were also given the
opportunity to explore a culture much different
than that of the United States, as well as to talk
with other students who have a passion for
sharing the richness of that culture.
■Junior Sam Appel, coordinator of Israel Fest,
was one of these students. The goal of this
event, he said, was to highlight the many cultural
accomplishments of the nation of Israel.
"We want to inform the MSU community of all
that Israel has to offer,” Appel said, fits culture,
its technology its environmental achievements;
there are so many great things that people don’t
know much about.”
"We put on this event so people can enjoy
good food, fun times, and maybe even learn a
little bit,” he said.
The year 2010 marked the sixth annual
event put on by the MSU Hillel, a Jewish student
organization, and the Associated Students of MSU.
For seniors Jared Hocking and Zach Simons, who
formerly worked for Hillel and helped to put on
the event, Israel Fest’s message was much more
than a simple showcase ofjewish culture.
"Each booth represents a differenipart of
Israeli Hocking said. "Everything from Israel’s
environmental accomplishments to free beauty
products and food; there’s a lot to experience.”
Though Israel’s population is 76 percent Jewish
and the event was sponsored by HillelKsrael fest
appealed to a broad spectrum of students. One
booth offered free Henna tattoos, and another was
giving away Dead Sea beauty products.
At another booth, students
interested in
Israel’s green contributions were able to learn
more about a study abroad program to Israel in
the summer, focusing on creating a sustainable
environment and environmental stewardship -
a movement pioneered by Israel decades ago.
Israel was one of the few countries in the world
that entered the 21st century with more trees than
they had at the start of the 20* and at one table
at the event, students received seed cards to
plant in the ground and help mark Israel’s "One
Hundred Years of Green.”
Aside from helping to plant trees, students
were also able to write prayersiwishes, and
hopes on note cards to be taken to the Western
Wall M Jerusalem, where students traveling there
on a Birthright trip will place them althe wall.
Birthright gives foreign-born Jews who have
never been to Israel the chance to travel there
for 10 days in order to strengthen their identity
in the Jewish faith and to witness important
cultural landmarks, such as the Western Wall, for
themselves.
"It’s the belief that if you put a note in the wall,
what you wish for will come true,” senior Jackie
Schwartz, who handed note cards to passing
students, said.
But one of Hillel’s own wishes is that through this
event, students will broaden their understanding
of Israel and see other aspects of it, as opposed
to solely focusing on its many political issues,
“We want to encourage all people, not just
Jews, to experience this event,” Schwartz said.
"It’s for everyone to see all the good parts of
Israel - not just the problems.”
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parlor 2B, waiting for news which could change the rest of his life,
¡finally the door swung open and freshman Max Olivero emerged.
The wide grin on his face and a breathy chuckle gave Hernandez
the answer he had been hoping for.
His partner was HIV-free, but now it was his turn to find out if he
was infected.
Hernandez returned after less than a minute with an equally
elated expression. After two weeks of waiting on HIV test results
from the Lansing Area AIDS Network, the couple finally found out
they were both clean.
“He was so nervous he wouldn’t even hold my hand,” Olivero
said, still smiling after receiving the news.
The two of them had arrived early to Alpha Kappa Alpha’s
“AKAknowledgeYour Status” HIV prevention event to receive their
test results. They decided to get tested to make sure neither of them
was infected from previous partners.
“You never know, people could lie to you,” Hernandez said.
Matt Hulbert, a prevention coordinator at LAAN—and the man
who gave Hernandez and Olivero the good news—spoke at the
event about ways to prevent spreading the virus, primarily through
safe sex practices and regular testing.
Hulbert cited that black patients comprise 59 percent of all HIV
cases. As one of thel'Divine Nine” fraternities and sororities on
campus dedicated to advancing the status of black students, the
message of prevention was especially pertinent to Alpha Kappa
Alpha's mission.
“Being aware of your status, per se, is important in any race or
organization,” senior Erika Gardner, standards chair for sorority said.
The sorority hosts a “Skee-Week” each semester, where they
organize community uplifting programs for each night of this
specific week. Though “Skee-Week” has addressed other health
issues in the past, this is the first year where the sorority has
confronted HIV prevention.
Felix Sirls, an HIV counselor for the Detroit Department of
Health, and his wife Paula spoke at the event about their personal
experiences of living with HTY
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can’t tell who has it, who doesn’t.”
Felix said HIV prevention efforts are especially important on
college campuses because many students, especially younger
ones, are adjusting to new responsibilities.
“They're away from home, a lot of them are having new
experiences,¡¡he said.
Both Felix and Paula shared accounts of growing up with the
pain of abuse. Felix, a child orphan who was eventually reunited
with his father through the court system, was regularly beaten and
forced into sexual activity with his 15-year-old babysitter. This led
to a misguided promiscuous lifestyle as an adult, during which he
contracted HIV Living in San Francisco, he witnessed the pandemic
gain momentum first-hand and watched as it eventually spread
across the country.
Paula was scarred by sexual abuse as a child, later staying with
her husband for 20 years while he sold drugs and disappeared every
weekend, having affairs with countless women. It wasn’t until she
mustered the courage to leave that he told her he was HIV-positive.
The crowd was captivated as the couple shared their journey
The two regularly speak at awareness events, and Felix has made
a career counseling newly-diagnosed HIV patients and setting up
support groups.
“ [The first time we met] I held her hand and I said ‘Baby you can
do this, I’ve been living with this for a long time,’ ’ ’ Felix said.
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Freshman Michael Nguyen reads over the restrictions and
requirements for getting his blood drawn before donating to in
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MSU students bleed more than green for the American Red Cross Campus Challenge
One of Kelly Weber’s most vivid memories upon
becoming MSU’s donor recruitment representative
for the American Red Cross last year was listening
to a man speak to the Greek community
Amid a crowded blood drive at East Holmes
Hall on Nov. 4,^A/eber retold the story while stray
students ate free snacks post-donation and listened
in. Weber said that when the manis son was born,
he immediately needed a blood transfusion to stay
alive. He was able to get it with donated blood.
Twenty-eight days later, however, his son passec
away The man said, though, that even knowing
little boy for the short time was better than ndver
knowing him at all, Weber recalled.
Weber continued to say that when tire man's
second son also needed a blood transfusion at birth,
he was able to get one. The differempg however, is
that he is still alive.
“That story stays with me,” she said. “It’s truly
one of the amazing stories I’vpfoome across at the
Red Cross.”
It’s because of storiesHike that that MSU and
Pennsylvania State Uniyersity face off annually for
two weeks in Novejrfber for the American Red
Cross’ Campus Challenge. This year, 34 blood
drives were organized across campus in an effort to
break MSU’s four-year losing streak,
“It’s embarrassing—it really is,” sophomore and
memberfot Fiji fraternity Matt Gross said about
MSU’s track record. “I mean, fliere’s no reason we
shouldn't be beating them in everything.’ ’
Beyond this typical competitiveness that arises
between Big Ten schools was the overarching fact
that students werezsaving lives by taking an hour of
their time to dopate blood.
“It feels good to know that you could be saving
someone’s/life—it's a gift,” sophomore Abbey
Debmaknaid after donating blood.
“Ith/absolutely the most important thing you
canxfo, other than giving your life,! Sal Wilson, a
supervising nurse at one of the blood drives, said.
“We’re short, of blood all over the United States
and blood is a product that saves lives,” she said.
In fact, American Red Cross says three lives can
be saved per pint. Blood can be broken down into
three different components: platelets, red cells and
plasma, according to Wilson. Depending on what a
person needs, the three different components could
go to three different people.
“If you can give blood, you should,” sophomore
and volunteer Siman Mand said, “because you <
never know when you could save a life with the
blood that you donate.”
'While Penn State was announced as the winner
of the campus challenge at Beaver Stadium on
Nov. 27, with 2,019 pints and MSU close behind
with 2,008 pints, the competitiveness was left at
the football field. What truly mattered in the Red
Cross’ challenge was that together, both universities
potentially saved over 12,000 lives.
“It’s not one of those things where you necessarily
need or want the recognition,” Gross said. “If people
know about it, so what, you know, at the end of the
day we’re still giving back to the community”
Sophomore Cggstnie Coppernoll applies pressure to her
right arm after successfully dqMating blJId as nrnse Michelle
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Swarms of audiophiles who had come to hear the beautiful voices of
the MSU Men and Women’s Glee club milled about the Fairchild Theatre
on Nov. 2, packing it almost to full capacity
As soon as the red curtains lifted from the stage, the Women’s Glee club
organized themselves onto the stage into five rows of 20 girls. Their long,
black dresses just barely skimmed the ground and the women stood straight-
spined and patient. A hush fell over the theater, and then the music began.
The singers started singing in a voice that was just above a whisper
and soon came to a crescendo, that echoed off the theatre walls. The first
song performed was “Hodie Christus Natus Est.” Latin lyrics escaped
the o-shaped mouths of the choir as they harmonized in unison, “On this
day Christ the Lord is born,” captivating the attention of the audience with
melodic strains,
The Women’s Glee Club practices twice a week for an hour and twenty
minutes each session, and the fruits of their labor truly showed that night.
Shelby Smith, a freshman and member of the club, said that she initially
found it difficult to learn the pronunciation of the new languages.
■Bove singing. So anytime I get up on stage and sing in front of a group
of people, it’s great. It’s fun to share music,” Smith said.
Once the Women’s Glee club finished the last note of “Music Down In
My Soul,” the Spartan Dischords came on stage, bringing a more upbeat
tone to the proceedings with familiar songs such as "Love the One You’re
With” and “California Gurls.” The all-male group received a lot of laughs
from the audience members due to the little jokes it incorporated into the
songs.
Ladies First, a sub-group of the Women’s Glee Club, arrived on stage
soon after. They sang lively renditions of modern-day hits like Beyonce
and Lady Gaga’s “Telephone” and Aerosmith’s “Dream On,” working
up the crowd and getting them to clap and sing along to their energetic
routines and soulful voices.
After a brief intermission, the Men’s Glee Club started its performance
within the midst of the audience itself. They started with no accompanist,
but as they worked theiB way through the audience and onto the stage, the
instruments started to join in.
The Men’s Glee Club sang an array of songs with a somber sense
of harmony that night, performing timeless, beautiful melodies from the
days of the Civil War, followed by old musical favorites from Jamaica, the
Americas, and Africa. They capped off the show by inviting the alumni onto
the stage to join them in singing another time-honored tune: the Michigan
State Fight Song.
“My favorite song was the Jamaican song, ‘Yellow Bird.’ We had a lot
of fun performing with the props,(senior and Men’s Glee club member
Travis Pechota said.
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It was also the night that the intrepid men of Phi Beta Sigma
slept out on the streets to raise donations and awareness for
those who are less fortunate -with, their annual event “Sleep
Out for the Homeless.”
“You find different ways to keep yourself occupied so you
don’t think about the cold,” senior Clyde Martin, a four-year
veteran of the sleep-out, grinned. “If you’re standing still
though, you’re definitely going to freeze no matter how many
layers or gloves yoiive got on.”
Behind him, a stereo system started pumping out rap, and a
couple of fraternity brothers whooped and ran up to it to keep
warm by dancing along, waving and cheering to passers-by
On the pavement along Grand River Avenue near the MSU
Union courtyard, fraternity brothers took turns approaching
visibly chilled passers-by for contributions. Cans of beans and
instant pasta sat on a nearby table alongside a cash-filled box
with the word “Donations” scrawled oMit in pen.
“We have this on the first Friday of every November,”
said senior and fraternity president Shaun Whitehead. “We
sleep out from 7 p.m. till dawn, and we collect donations—
monetary clothing or food, that the Lansing Rescue Mission
can go with and use.”
‘ ‘Last year, we raised almost $400 (in proceeds), so hopefully
we can get to that range again on top of all the clothes and
food that we raise,” he said.
Martin said that he felt him and his fraternity brothers got
better at raising donations every year.
The fraternity only raised approximately $200 in proceeds
this year, but gained more donations of clothing than they did
previously
“I’ve learned that the best way is to just be honest and have
fun with it,” he laughed. “When you come out here and tell
people about what you’re doing, they often like to give more
than they normally want to.”
“The best part about this event is the people,” he said. “We
get to see so many people go by that we never get to see
outside of a classroom. We’ve also met homeless people who
come and support the program even though it’s not going
directly to them.”
Bundled up in six layers of clothing, Whitehead, a three-time
veteran of the event, said that the peak period for donations
was usually between 10 p.m. to 4 a.m.
"Pasl3 or 4 a.m., when the bars let out and everybody’s
going to their last, stops for the night— that’s when things
start to slow down,” he said, “Some people come early in the
morning to drop off stuff, but most of our general stuff comes
before 2 a.m.”
Waving good-bye to some students who stopped to ask <
about the event, senior Steve Bolton, the community service
chair of Phi Beta Sigma, said thaSthis program was what first
caught his interest in the fraternity and convinced him to join.
“I have an opportunity to be blessed and sleep in a bed
and a warm room every day” Bolton said with a smile. “I’m
more than happy to donate one day out of 365 to a cause like
this.”
Will he be able to get any sleep tonight out here in freezing-
point temperatures?
“Last year when! was here, I slept on that bench for
about six hours,” he laughed. “So it isn’t a problem for me
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Just two days after the first snoyk flurries of the year
flickered across campus, the MSIXSnowboard Club began
gearing up for the approaching/season with an exclusive
“After Hours” sale at Modern^urf and Skate in Lansing.
For two hours after the^sfore had closed to the public,
club members were gjven a 15 percent discount and
the privilege of privacy perusing racks of this season’s
outerwear, shoes, bpots, snowboard decks and bindings.
Sophomore Algx MLynarek didn’t anticipate being a big
spender at the sale, but one glance at the Capita Ultrafear FK
snowboard ddck was all the persuasion necessary for him
to bring cmfhis credit card. Mlynarek said he hadn’t seen
the boardim stock anywhere else, as Capita is anl|p-and-
coming company boasting innovative deck designs highly
sought after by gear-sawy snowboarders,
‘If anyone knew about this it would be gone,” he said. “I
less I got lucky”
His luck came in more ways than one—the discount
lowered the deck’s sticker price from around $450 to just
over $380. Mlynarek said he partly bought it in preparation
for the club’s annual trip out West, which is to Park City
Utah this year. On the night of the sale about 120 people
were signed up for the winter break excursion.
Senior Chad Sturgis, president of the MSU Snowboarding
Club, said the sale was oriented to give members a chance
to purchase necessary gear before leaving for Park City
which is the club’s only official trip and the high point of their
season. Though the club itself usually only puts together
one major trip per year, Sturgis said members often use
it as a means of meeting others interested in coordinating
smaller weekend trips throughout the season.
“It’s awesome to go there [out West] with 55 randoms and
come back with 55 of your closest friends,” Sturgis said.
And there’s certainly plenty of time to bond riding
charter buses halfway across the country
Sturgis, who has been a member since his freshman
year, says that interaction between athletes and local shops
is an important part of keeping the culture alive.
“There’s so much more personality with them [local
shops],” he said, “It’s kind of sad,.because the Internet has
taken over.”
Senior Lindsay Johnson, a member of the MSU
Snowboarding Club and a sales associate at Modern Surf and
Skate, said the two entities often partner up for other small
events throughout the year. As the club’s only local sponsor,
Modern Surf and Skate often lends out snowboarding DVDs
for viewing events and recently helped it coordinate with
Red Bull to take part in a promotional event in East Lansing.
Later in the season the two will team up again for the annual
“Railj am,” where veteran riders take on a terrain park built
on mounds of snow in downtown Lansing.
Sturgis said the biggest benefit of buying Jifstore has
to do with tangibility; actually seeing what you’re buying
before you purchase it. As Mlynarek knows, this can make
all the difference.
“It was totally impulse,” he said, walking away from the
register holding his new deck, a grin stretched across his
face. “Modern is the raddest shop around.”
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Burton snowboard boots. Snowboard Club members
recieved 15 percent off their total purchase that night.
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In the face of a national disaster, the Indonesian Student Association’s
Indonesian Night came at what seemed to be tragically fortunate timing. On
Nov. 13, the night became both a celebration and a vigil—a coming together of
a resilient culture that, though restricted to a stuffy gym in a Lansing Christian
Church, echoed happenings on the world stage.
A somber recognition of the death toll Indonesia had suffered from recent
two-week long volcanic eruptions of Mount Merapi under laid the celebratory
cultural dances, bright Indonesian fashion show, good food and smiling faces
present throughout the night.
“It was really sad to hear, because all of my family lives in Indonesia,” junior
Stella Jogisaputra, president of the Indonesian Student Association (PERMIAS),
said. “I cannot do anything because they are too far away I keep asking myself,
'Why do these things keep happening?’H|
This powerless feeling common with natural disasters was helpfully abated
for the night, however, with the small efforts of monetary donations at the doors
of the First Christian Church and a humbling, deeply personal performance of
“Lilin-Lilin Kecil,” or “Little Candles,” a popular Indonesian song, in English.
“I can relate to what they are going through,” MSU graduate Kay Abbas said,
recalling the 2003 floods in his home country of Pakistan. “I was almost in tears
when the song came on,”
In fact, it was a moving moment for many of the approximately 7 0 people present,
as the slow song permeated the hearts and minds of those in the small gym.
“The singer sang better than, he has ever sung before,” MSU graduate and
former president of PERMIAS Putrì Jati, said. “Everyone was silent.”
For guitarist YudiWicaksono, images of. his brother ran through his head as
he played the piece.
“My little brother is a volunteer in the Java arèa,” he said. “They were telling
people to stay 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) away from the volcano, and he was
only two kilometers away from this area when the volcano erupted again.”
“He had to be hospitalized because of the ash,” he said. “But as soon as
he got out, he was volunteering again,® almost forgot the chords when I was
pljjying, because it was very personal for me.”
After the performance, however, the night continued on in , good cheer.
Three girls in Indonesian dress performed the “Renggong Manis,” a dance
representing the beauty and gaiety of young girls. This was followed by a
traditional fashion show and another dance—the “Saman,” or “Thousand
Hands” dance, a highly synchronized dance in which thè performers use
only their hands.
"We want to show everyone about our culture and how rich our culture is,”
Jogisaputra said. “Maybe if they know more, they will want to visit Indonesia.”
“Our culture is so broad and wide. We have so many diverse people—
Muslims, Christians, Buddhists—we are all different.”
Indeed, with over 17,000 Indonesian islands to represent, PERMIAS could
not fit the vast expanses of tradition and history present in their culture into
one night. Instead, the student organization seamlessly combined facets of its
renowned cultural diversity within a vast array of traditional performances in
^perfect accordance with the spirit of their nation’s slogan, “Bhinekka TLnggal
Ika? (Unity in Diversity).
'T^r some, this will be the first and last impression of Indonesia they will
have ifrsfheir mind for their entire life,” graduate student Zubair Shafiq said. “I
would likk to see more of this around the world.”
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African Student Union hosts annual gala to celebrate, promote culture
It was a big year for African students at MSU: The
African Studies Center^mid the African Student Union
turned 50 and 25, Respectively and the continent
successfully hosted/its first FIFA World Cup in South
Africa, When it came time to hold its annual gala on Nov.
13 at MacDonald Middle School in East Lansing, ASU
knew it had to do it up big.
And kidded it was big, from the nearly 10-foot tall man
on stiltsymo danced emphatically along with drummers
to the/African Acrobats International group that dashed
bendath flaming poles. The show featured a variety of
acts including hip-hop infused African dance routines,
fashion shows and solo singing performances. The gala,
called “Love and Futboljj followed a loose story of a
fictional American-born African character who visits his
friends in Africa to learn more about his culture.
Learning about African culture was a central theme
behind the gala, as well as one of the primary goals of
ASU itself.
“The gala is very significant because it’s the chance
for the community at MSU to experience an authentic
African culture,” senior Valentine Nsofor, the president
of ASU and a co-writer of the gala, said. “They get a
chance to see a positive aspect of the continent. They get
a chance to see that this continent is more than just one
culture; it’s several diverse cultures’5
The process of organizing'the gala is time-consuming
and begins as soon as the new executive board is elected
in the spring. ASU and its E-Board spend the summer
booking the.Tocation, fundraising and coordinating the
performances. The gala was the grand finale of African
Culture Week, which ASU puts on with other events, one
of which was African food tasting at Owen Hall.
Besides boosting awareness and celebrating African
culture, ASU has other goals, which include welcoming
incoming African students to MSU.
Brooke Cutler, an international admissions counselor
at MSU, said the adjustment for African students is tough
because of the shift from the tight-knit communities in
African countries to the individualistic society here.
However, ASU is proactive in recreating that community
“When students arrive here from Africa, they are
usually picked up by an ASU member or advisor and we
take them to events and introduce them to other students
from Africa,” sophomore Bethel Ayalew, an ASU member
who was a part of a skit and other performances during
the gala, said.
“We have a mentor program, where somebody who is
fresh from Africa comes over here, and one of us that’s been
in America long enough, we mentor them, we tell what’s
going on in school, how school works, how to keep focus,”
Chinonye Madu, a senior and vice president of ASU, said.
Besides acclimating new students to life at MSU,
the student union hopes to prepare student leaders to
improve the African continent according to the ASU
website. Besides keeping informed on issues and events
in Africa, the students try to see how they can apply their
knowledge back home.
“I plan on going back home to Nigeria and use what
I’ve learned here in America. I’m studying engineering,
so I plan on going there and either teaching it or utilizing
other people around me to build better infrastructures,”
Nsofor said. |‘So what we learn from here|not just
education but also ideas about culture and music, take it
back home and benefit the place you came from.”
At the gala, as the final song was performed by
a soloist by the name of Lady O, members of the ASU
hied on stage and stood behind her, arms around each
other as one community during the final chorus. The
scene conjured up thoughts of a bright future for Africa,
something the ambitious students hope to be a part of as
they look forward to the next 25 years and beyond.
putting out smoke
Spartans Fighting Cancer host public BBQ to raise awareness of lung cancer
“The only smoke you should see around here is
from the barbeque® members of Spartans Fighting
Cancer (SFC) yelled out to the MSU students who
passed by The Rock on the afternoon of Nov. 18. The
organization’s high energy and blaring music, (not
to mention the tantalizing aroma of freshly-grilled
chicken deliciously sizzling on a nearby portabk
grill), captured the attention of passing students,
reeling them in for an interestingly irftorrjfrative
lesson on lung cancer.
SFC,
the student-run MSU chapter of the
American Cancer Society’s Colleges Against
Cancer nationwide program, promotes cancer-
awareness at MSU. Members of/the organization
offered free lunches, prizes, ahd information to
students who stopped by at thbir event, “The Great
American Smoke-out,” thatxiay to raise awareness
about lung cancer and pne of the disease’s chief
causes—smoking.
A real-life “WheeKof Fortune” took place righl
before the grill, where students waiting for free chicken
gathered around in hopes of winning t-shirts, buttons
and pens. Students spun the wheel and landed on one
of the threeprizes, where an SFC member would ask
contestants questions such as,1 ’If a non-smoker lives in
a housgwith a smoker, what are his or her chances of
having lung cancer?”
TAt first I stopped by for the free chicken, but
^though I have heard most of these smoking facts
before, it is refreshing to hear it again and be
reminded,” sophomore Eric Foster said, signing a
white ribbon to show his support for SFC’s cause.
“My grandma died of leukemia so I’m anti-cancer,
and I appreciate what they are doing here.H|
Bubbledfloated through the crisp afternoon air
and mu^ic filled the chill-numbed, reddened ears of
students who stopped by out of curiosity Red table
clofris were draped over five tables, which contained
formative displays on what smokers could be
mying with money that they would otherwise spend
on cigarettes. One of the displays said that at the
cost of smoking a pack and a half of cigarettes every
day for a year, you could save up enough money to
take an extravagant trip to New York City.
“Instead of pulling out a cigarette and smoking,
blow bubbles, fit gives you something else to do
and something else to focus on,” senior Adeline
Culver, the SFC Cancer Education Chair, said. “Not
to mention bubbles are inexpensive compared to a
pack of cigarettes.”
Past the chicken and the bubbles sat a table with
“Quit Kits” that also held displays sharing some of
cigarettes’ deepest and darkest secrets, such as
“V\hiat’s really in a cigarette?” The answer: toilet
cleaner, Brocket fuel, sewer gas and rat poison,
among other equally-unsavory ingredients. Pictures
of smoking’s effects on the lungs at that same table
were also effective eye-catchers. The “Quit Kits,” on
the other hand, contained information on how to stop
smoking as well as helpful aids for those who plan on
quitting: a rubber band to snap, a paper clip, a stress
ball to keep the quitter busy candy a toothpick and
chewing gum to keep idle mouths occupied.
“I am hopeful that people will come check
out this event and quit smoking,” freshman Fred
Jolicoeur said. “Maybe they will realize how much
smoking affects not only them but also the people
around them.”
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negptive effects oj|mokmg to a student. If foe ¡¡»dent
answers correctly; they are eligible to walk away with a free
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Sonya Webster s tiny frame was dwarfed by the immense wooden
chair m which she sat at the Hannah Community Center on Nov. 17.
Between bouts of restless fidgeting spurred by her need to explore
hie expansive banquet had,(the 5-year-old member of Sparrow
Superstars, a T-bad team for handicapped children, was occupied
y tilting her head back and pouring Parmesan cheese packets like
Pixy Stix into her mouth.
I don t think you U meet anyone who loves Parmesan more than
Sonya,” her mom, Samantha Webster said to another T-bad family
laughing as she told her daughter ‘that was enough.’
As Sonya reluctantly turned to her unwanted portion of Fazoli’s
spaghetti and breadsticks, Ms. Webster explained that her daughter
was born with Cerebral Palsy
„She has to wear braces on her legs to help her walk,” she said.
Yeah, but I m not wearing them tonight! ’ ’ Sonya chimed iflhappdv
forgetting about her meal again,
Indeed, the night was special for Sonya, but not just because she
was walking without her leg braces.
The Spartan Ad-Girl Competitive Cheer Team hosted a spaghetti
dinner and sdent auction, in part to raise funds for their own team,
but also to donate 10 percent of their proceeds to the construction
ot the Sparrow Superstars T-bad home field, an entirely handicap-
accessible park that wid be caded Miracle Field.
The field is being budt in Vadey Farms Park in DeWitt Township
through a nonprofit branch of Case Credit Union known as Case
\Cares. Chairperson Kathy Devine said it wid be constructed entirely
fern a speciady synthesized rubber to make it easier for the T-ball
to,11111 or wheel themselves around the bases.
I ',T¥re’s so many other people with bigger problems that we
moughixwe could help,” junior and vice president of the cheer team
SamanthadMz said, while our biggest problem is only money”
In BBS *e ad-girls cheer team formed eight years ago,
members havehad to pay $2,000 each year for the expenses of
traveling to their competitions. This year, the team traveled to Indiana
for jamfest National^. Georgia for Cheersport Nationals and Florida
for their most important competition, the National Cheerleaders
Association, or NCA Nationals. The money from the spaghetti
dinner went directly to the-girls on the team who needed it the most
president Megan Roberts said.
Last year was the first timeSye made it to the NCA finals,” Roberts
said.' 'And we placed seventh in thdnation, which is a big deal’for a club
sports team. Roberts said she hopeddo place in the top five this year,
It was seeing Sonya and another Tball team member who has a
muscle weakening disease that gave the cheer team inspiration for
their approaching season.
I know how much sports have meant to me in my life and helped
me get through hard times in my life,” Ruiz said, “and I think it’s
inspiring that they go out there and play also.”
^^Kiman Lauren Force andJ|S|«rs of
the Spartan Cwipetitive Cheer Team set up
the silent auction table. Items up for auction
included an MSU hockey jersey signed by
>Coach Rick Comley Hijotball signed by the
ij&oit Lions and tickets to atPistons’ game.
Thirteen-® ar-old Katie Frayer finishes her
spaghetti dinner at the rand raiser. The cheer
team delated 1 (Lperaentflf its proceeds to the
Sparrow Superstars T-bal team.
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at the Spartanfiompetitiye Cheer Team’s
fundraiser at the Hannah Community Center.
Thfflfonds raised by the girls were put toward
their travel expe^fes and uniform ipsts.
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Claus at Annabellis Pet Station. PRSSA raised $680, half
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Shelter, while the other half will support PRSSA.
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Frdm its exterior, Alpha Phi Omega might look like
onëoig contradiction: a non-Greek, co-ed, homeless
iSternity. But these brothers and sisters aren’t trying to
d)e like the rest of the lot. While other fraternities and
sororities tend to regard community service as a mere
appendage of their purpose, such service is in fact
APO’s raison d’être.
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Though the fraternity has had a presence on the MSU
campus since 1937, APO might now be best known
through State Walk, a service where volunteers offer
students studying late at the Main Library escorted
walks to anywhere on campus. Founded by the East
Lansing Police Department 15 years ago, the program
was handed over to APO several years ago as a volunteer
opportunity
"In comparison to last year it [State Walk] has grown
drastically and continues to grow by the week,” Junior
Britt Hughes, vice president of service for APO, said.
While members recall as few as two walk requests in
entire semesters past, the number rose to 63 during the
Fall 2010 term—a record high. The fraternity boosted
its publicity for the program this year, courtesy of the
efforts of State Walk’s co-chair, sophomore Lisa Wright.
Wright arranged to have the service mentioned on the
library’s main website, Facebook and Twitter pages, and
also secured advertising spaces on University Activities
Board table tents as well as the university television
channel. She said her desire to spread the word came
from a personal connection with the program’s mission.^
"I’m the type of person who studies a lot at the library’ ’
she said. "Late at night I find it’s a good source for a lot
of students.”
Sunday through Wednesday nights from 9 p.m. until
1 a.m. (2 a.m. during finals week), a large yellow sign
states, "We’ll walk anywhere on campus from the main
library” As the semester progresses, more and more
students seek out the service, especially near midterm
and final exams, volunteers say
There was one lone request on a cold Wednesday
night near the start of the Spring 201 ^semester-
sophomore Hao Chen, a timid Chinese international
student, needed to walk to a CATA bus stop on Grand
River Ave. Freshman Abagail Gray and Sophomore
Laura Damon, also a co-chair for State Walk, bundled
up for the trek.
"My friend told me another Chinese student got—
how do you say the word? Stolen?” Chen asked in a
heavy Mandarin accent.
"Mugged,” one of the two walkers offered.
"Yes, mugged,” Chen said, "Purse stolen and
everything.”
Most of the girls’ conversation fell within the realms
of typical small talk. The days were too short like usual
for late January the weather was a little warmer than
the preceding week and a new clothing store had
just opened on Grand River Avenue (a lot like Urban
Outfitters only cheaper, they agreed),
Yes, APO members do sometimes escort vivid
personalities. Damon once escorted a sixth-year senior
who shared details about every class she had ever
taken. Wright once got a walk request from a girl so
strung out from the side effects of her prescription that
Wright made her stay with the library workers, fearing
she would attempt to drive her car home. This walk,
however, was pretty typical.
Arrival at the CATA stop near the corner of Abbot
Rd. and Grand River Ave. was met with disappointing
news - the bus had stopped running for the night. But
the volunteers kept with the promise on the easel,; and
walked with Chen as far east as Bogue St., apologizing
that they could not continue any farther.
"It’s okay walking here is safe,” Chen assured the
walkers when the corner was in sight. They parted ways
just under the illuminated Michigan State University sign;
the first of many walks that will likely occur throughout
the semester.
Sophomores Amanda Degraaf and
Amaric Oppenlander sit and work on
homework with junior Katie Gaffney •
as they waiter students to walk home.
The past semester for the fraternity has
proven t«L^SsuccesMwith 6||||idents
who used the free service.
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“it’s expressive. You sort of move
rom an internal space outward.”
-Kimberly Forte, senior
Students participate in the practice
of ecstatic dance, based on the five
rhythms: flowing, staccato, chaos,
lyrical, and stillness. Five Rhythms is a
movement meditation practice created
by Gabrielle Roth in the 1960s.
Before dancing, junior AugustajRirrison
and senior Kimberly Forte lead the group
in a ume-in. The danglng sessions take
plate in the Orchard Street Pump HotmIeII
a public space Seated in East Lansing.
a different kind
of thursday party
Gatherings at Orchard Street Pump House bring students together through dance, meditation
It’s part dance class and part
theater
performance, minus the audience. But for members
of the Orchard Street Pump House Ecstatic Dance
and Movement, the label doesn’t really matter.
Their only goal is to experience the five rhythms:
flowing, staccato, chaos, lyrical and stillness.
The 5 Rhythms movement is practiced across
the country at official “Moving Center” schools
and private groups. For participants, it's a lot more
than dancing: it’s a form of meditation where they
get to know themselves and others.
from several
is derived
The movement
eastern practices,
including shamanism. The
experience is highly personalized, as there is no
set choreography or definition for each rhythm,
making the experience a free dance. The practice
was brought to East Lansing three years ago after
three MSU students learned it at an eco village
in Scotland. Since then, the group has remained
self-sufficient, changing venues as needed with
different cycles of membership.
Senior Kimberly Forte has been a participant
since the group’s inception, Hardly ever missing a
session. She was hooked right from the beginning.
“I totally lost myself in the rhythm,” Forte said.
"It’s expressive but it’s also very intrapersonal. You
sort of move from an internal space outward.”
The combined five rhythms compose the
j'Wave”—a word participants use to describe the
entire experience. It starts with a “tune-in” where
the group sits in a circle holding hands, lights
dimmed, taking deep breaths and exhaling with
vocal “Ohm” warm-ups.
_ After the “tune-in” on this particular Thursday
night, each ^individual slowly rose as the music
began and started moving at their own pace, some
stretching first, others immediately dancing to the
aboriginal beat. For the next hour and a half, each
person’s movement visibly reflected the tempo of
the music. Faster electronic beats yielded faster
footsteps and more energetic interaction, from
simple hand movements to contorted yoga
like feats, highlighted by the occasional burst of
spontaneous laughter. During meUovwpoints with
forest sound effects, some participants produced
vocal animal calls of their own.
The theatrical elemenl became especially
apparent when the audio track broke, ahd
participants compensated by making their ownN
music. Vocal melodies soared above hand
clapping drumbeats until one of the members was
able to fix the track.
The mixtapes are usually created by the group’s
own members. Ian Eberhart, a 22-year-old Lansing
resident, produced the track that night based on a
combination of free samples from the Internet and
sound effects ripped from vinyl records he bought
from the $1 bin at Hat, Black & Circular on Grand
River Avenue. Eberhart said he tries to coordinate
the flow of the music with the five rhythms,
characterizing it as an emotionally-driven process,
“I just think about what those things feel like,”
he said. “It’s a very unconscious thing.”
After a long history of hopping around to
different gyms and yoga studios, the group finally
landed at the Orchard Street Pump House this past
summer. The quaint, neoclassical brick building
with white columns was constructed in 1934 to
pump well water to surrounding residents. It is now
used as a free space for a variety of neighborhood
activities, including a regular concert series. The
New England town hall atmosphere of the building
is a stark contrast to the group’s bohemian free
«form, but it suits their uses well.
The best part may be the fact that they no
longer have to charge, encouraging more people
to experience their art.
“It’s a very diverse crowd and it’s so cool,’ ’ junior
Augusta Morrison said.
Of course, the dynamic depends entirely on the
individuals involved.
“Every time you come to dance, people bring
with them the stuff they’ve been experiencing,”
Forte said.
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Formula One Racing Team heads to Detroit for the 2011 North American International Auto Show
Engines roar. The smell of burning rubber
fills the crisp, May air and fans scream as race
cars peel down the track. It’s no NASCAR. It’s
Formula racing.
| Every May the Michigan State University
Formula RacingTeam participates in the Society
of Automotive Engineers
(SAE) Collegiate
Design Series at the Michigan International
Speedway Schools and universities from across
the country compete against one another, the
goal being to design and develop a formula-
style car.
And then they race.
Team member and junior Trevor Shane said
the team creates one car per year, and then
"races it for 12 months.”
He said the cars are judged on cost, design
and business presentation.
“You gotta sell it,” Shane said. "The judges
are also very interested in seeing what you’ve
taken from previous cars. You have to explain
why you did what you did in terms of design.”
This is the fifth year that the Detroit Auto
Dealers Association (DADA) has invited the
MSU Formula One Team to the North American
International Auto Show, DADA also acts as one
of the main sponsors for the team.
From Jan. 15-23, the MSU team had three
cars on display at the Cobo Center: Car 9, Car
51 and Car 71.
Project manager and junior Josh Frontiera said
Car 51 came first in design out of 120 cars in
2008; Car 9 broke a record for acceleration; and
Car 71 is the team’s fastest car because of its light,
carbon fiber frame. Shane added that each car
can accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in 3.4 seconds.
"People [at the auto show] have open really
surprised because we build these carsfrgm the
ground up,” Shane said. "It's cool too beisause
most of the people that come to the auto snqw
are really into cars. People get excited. The]
want to know details. I mean||these cars are
small, but they’re fast.”
According to Frontiera, members put 50-60
hours of work into the cars each week.
"We have a joke on the team|j he said.
"Normal students have to balance school, work
and friends, but on the team, you have school,
formula racing and not much else.”
Freshman Brennen Hitchcock decided to join
the team out of his love for cars, and has found
the experience to be a rush, both on the track
and off.
"When you competeleverything is so fast.
When something breaks on the track, you have
to fix it right away” he said. "I thought I knew a lot
about cars, and then when I j oined my knowledge
just exploded. You pick up so much.”
Shane agreed, calling it a “truly hands-on
engineering process.”
"You have
to design everything, solve'
problems, fabricate it, test it out,” he said!‘We
put in so much time for free because we love it.”
The team welcomes students of all majors
to join the team. No engineering experience
is necessary.
"You don’t need a really strong background
in anything specific,” Frontiera said. "As long as
you’re willing to put some time in, you’re going
to learn from others on the team as opposed to
listening to a professor tell you how to build a
racecar.”
Freshman Brennen Hitchcock said he decided
to join the racing team out Ijf his love for cars. He
is one of the youngest members on the team,
The MSU Formula One Racing Team displayed
three ra^cars at the North American
International Auto Show at the Cobo Center in
Detroit. The show lasted from Jan, 15-23^
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OmegaKsi Phi Fraternity, Inc. open the
show with a cpspel-inspired stepping
performance. Members of the National Pan-
Hellenic Council of MSU participated in thS
third annual Stomp jif^Yard competition.
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Stomp the Yard competition". Out of the ninJj
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performancJgThe fraternity plMcsd second in
the competition.
On Jan. 21 at the Auditorium, the stomping was in high demand.
The third annual Stomp the Yard performance was presented by
the National Pan-Hellenic Council, or NPHC, which consists of nine
African-American Greek organizations.
“This type of entertainment dates back to African rituals and
African culture. We're basically putting a modern twist on it, president
of Sigma Gamma Rho sorority Dejanea Gray said, describing the
high-energy step competition.
Fraternity and sorority members waited in anticipation, showing off
their brightly colored outfits and jackets adorned with Greek letters.
Feeding off the audience’s enthusiasm, MC Josh eagerly yelled out,.
“Is MSU in the building?” The once hushed crowd roared in reply
forming a mixture of robust calls and high-pitched squeals.
“There’s stepping, clapping, chants. They also have little videos,
which are usually something funny” senior Angela Eaddy said
excitedly The videos range from describing the theme of the
performance to a lighthearted comic skit.
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Dressed in bright yellow and purple robes, Omega Psi Pp
fraternity brothers took the stage as the first performers of the night.
Using a preaching approach to inform the audience abouj/fheir
history the group coordinated fast-paced claps, and stomp^ while
singing soulful, mellow songs.
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Their performance was followed by the shrill chant/Of the Alpha
Kappa Alpha sorority’s supporters. The sorority psters creepily
appeared in tattered, green sweaters from behirp gravestones on
stage while attracting immense applause. “Wewill still be the first
and the finest!” yelled one of the performermas their routine came
to cl closo
Echoes and resounding chants contributed to a transcendental
energy which only became more elpated as the night went on.
While Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity ped various _ stunts to win the
crowd’s appreciation, the Delta Sigma Theta sorority sisters created a
personal version of ‘ ‘The Wizard/of Oz ” scene in which Dorothy visits
Deltaland, “Who wouldn’t wanna go there?” Dorothy said, skipping
smilingly on her way to DeJtaLand.
Showstoppers like thgrinefr of Kappa Alpha Psi put a comic spin
on their performanceybhaking their shoulders. However, the ladies
of Sigma Gamma Etio remained stone-faced in their black shirts and
military pants as they marched their routine.
' ‘The purpose of this event can be looked at in two different ways.
One was to snow the campus what Greek-letter organizations do,
with the stepping portion. Also, we get our names out there. To show
ourselvehm a positive light,” Gray said.
MGJosh frequently gave the audience short, entertaining breaks.
Ombne such occasion, he asked the audience, How much swag
MSU got?” Almost immediately the crowd rose up like a giant wave
/swaying to the wild beats of hip-hop music. Several fraternity and
sorority members danced through the cramped rows, excited to
demonstrate their pride, loyalty and culture.
As the clock struck 10 p.m., the nine groups rushed to the stage
to hear the results. Amid the deafening laughs and chatter, MC Josh
along with Brionna Blackwell, president of NPHC, announced the
results. While Alpha Phi Alpha and Sigma Gamma Rho were winners,
in second-place, Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity and Zeta Phi Beta sorority
erupted in powerful embraces with each other.
“It’s a celebration of your organization. It’s why we do it. It brings
all the nine organizations together,” Gray said.
Students and faculty in affiliation with the Scholl
of SoJSWork p-aticipate in the annual MLK Day
march. Thejgharch .startslat the Union, 1
through Adams Field and ends at Beaumont Tower.
I think that he would be
satisfied with the fact that
there is progress, but there’s
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improve, to get us to where
we want to be.”
-Jarreau Jackson, senior
Students, faculty and residents march tdfBeaurr.oni
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King Day'The march was led by members of Alpha Phi
Alpha and endej. with a speech by Dr. Lee June and
ames Cole of Kentucky!
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Alpha Phi Alpha honors the Civil Rights Movement with a march
On Feb. 11, 1965, just three years before he was
assassinated, Martin Luther King Jr. spoke in the MSU
Auditorium to a crowd of more than 4,000 people.
He issued three challenges to the students and faculty
spilling out of Fairchild Theatre’s closely packed quarters.
The first, achieve a world brotherhood perspective. The
second, abolish the notion of superior and inferior races.
The third, develop massive action programs to rid the
world of segregation.
Forty-six years later, the extent to which these ideals
have come to fruition at MSU and throughout the world
remains a topic for debate. Though the term ‘ ‘segregation’ ’
appears to have been delegated to the realm of taboo in
the United States, and notions of racial superiority have
seemingly diminished in our new political climate, we still
ask ourselves: what would Dr. King think?
In fact, this speculative question undertoned much
of the 31st annual celebrations and honorary events for
Martin Luther King Jr. Day at MSU this year.
"That kind of question always gets brought up every
year,’ ’ senior and Alpha Phi Alpha member Jarreau Jackson
said, "and I think that the underlying message through
all his [Dr. King’s] preaching is that he wants progress. I
think that he would be satisfied with the fact that there is
progress, but there’s always going to be ways to improve,
to get us to where we want to be.”
Jackson and the rest of his Alpha Phi Alpha brothers
were an integral part of the MLK celebratory weekend
that began on Jan. 15. After a leadership conference
and resource fair, a talent show and a concert spanning
Saturday and Sunday the men concluded the events by
leading a march from the MSU Union to the Beaumont
Tower on the afternoon of Jan. 17—a tradition their
fraternity began even before MSU officially cancelled
classes to honpr Dr. King in 1998, Jackson said.
Marching imtself is a symbol of unity but for the brothers,
it was a way to commemorate the Selma to Montgomery
marches in Alabama of the Civil Rights Movement in
which Dr. King took pqrt, And despite the crisp January
cold, about 100 studentsUaculty and community members
participated with them. X.
"Me and my friends wer^jtalking about how this is
probably how it felt for the marchers,” freshman Cherisse
Woolard said. "And the whole time we just tried to think
about how the marchers were feeling when they were
actually doing it.”
"I get chills knowing that I’m domgxsomething that
a lot of people ten, twenty thirty years ago did and the
reasons for why they did it, you know wnht I mean?”
Jackson said.
Indeed, the march injected a dose of history into
the weekend, which mainly focused on the modern
day phenomena of globalizatiot! and the cross-cultural
networking capabilities it has provided for society.
‘ ‘The march is important because our generation hasn’t
had to deal with the hardships and the fight for equality
that our grandparents and great-grandparents did, so it’s
a way to symbolically honor and remember them,” recent
alumnus Bryan Cotton said.
Though we’re fortunate that history hasn’t repeated
itself this time, think back to Feb. 11,1965: would you have
pocketed your iPhone or BlackBerry to listen to Dr. King’s
challenges?
"We’ve come a long way” Cotton said,” butfflthink Dr.
King would still say there’s a lot more to do.”
The question remains, how much?
Dr. Lee June and James Cole of Kentucky recite Martin
Luther King Jr.’s “Mave a Dream” speech at the
conclusion of the march. Cole and his mother have
traveled to Michigan on multiple occassions to attend
the march.
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Student organization SCOUT BANANA does great things for Africa, thanks to one MSU alumnus
SCOUT BANANA/may be an internationally recognized
non-profit organization, but it all started right here at MSU
thanks to the work of alumnus Alex Hill.
Sophomore/and MSU chapter coordinator Jade Nehra
said Hill frpsi conceived the idea through an Eagle Scout
project, arid expanded on it during his time at MSU.
"HN/goal was to provide medical transportation to a
health center in Uganda,” she said, stating that Hill raised an
astonishing $70,000 worth of donations towards that cause
/during his time at MSU.
The organization holds events throughout the year that
not only help to raise money but also raise awareness about
issues faced by peoplePiving in African countries. On this
particular Tuesday of Jan. 25, members secured a spot by
The Rock to hand out hot chocolate and inform passers-by
of their organization.
Currently any money SCOUT BANANA (Serving the
Children of Uganda Today Because Africa Needs a New
Ambulance) raises through campus events goes right
to WOCR a South African organization whose acronym
translates to "our children’s future,” junior and chapter
coordinator Joey Whelan said.
‘‘We give the organization the money we raise directly
They know what’s best,” he said, ‘‘Others just throw money at
the problems and nothing really gets done.’’
During the fall semester of 20,10, the members of SCOUT
BANANA raised $1,500 as a whole to fund after-school
programs for kids in South Africa between the ages of 6 to
18. Kids enrolled in the program receive English, math and
art classes with meals on the side, and the organization has
been involved with this program for three years now.
"Usually we switch the projects out every year, but they
[the program coordinators] asked us to stick around because
we are their main source of funding,’ ’ said Emily Jones, senior
and former SCOUT BANANA president.
Yet despite the range of projects that the organization
focuses on, Jones said the group’s overarching mission is to
support grassroots movements in Africa.
"There is no requirement that says we have to give X
amount of money to one particular cause,” she said. "Our
philosophy is that we don’t, live there; we don’t know what’s
best.” Jones added that the organization typically trusts their
on-scene partners like WOCF to build sustainable solutions
to problems faced by the locals.
Jones said MSU students in the organization are linked
up with South African student pen pals, allowing SCOUT
BANANA members to receive indirect updates about the
after-school programs while keeping in touch with new
friends on foreign shores.
1 ‘My pen pal really wanted me to send a picture of me and
my family because she said she didn’t have any photos of
her family and wanted to be a part of mine,” Jones said. "She
even drew me a family tree®
"Other kids make us posters that say ‘Thanks for
believing in us.’ Things like that make all the hard work we
do throughout the year worth it for me.”
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raise awareness fir the lack basic health care in Africa.
The representatives of SCOUT BANANA stan§jtogether,
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BANANA. The organization was giving out free hot
chocolate in order to promote their organization.
Sophomore Grace Kim hands a freshly poured cup of
hot chocolate to a supporter of SCOUT BANANA. The
organization’s representatives were busy handing out hot
chocolate to MSU .students at The Rock.
Sterling Raehtz builds a
hiding place in the.-roods
where members can store
their belongings during a
mission. During outdoor
training the students are
divided into two groups to
work against each other and
BPee who can complete the
mission correctly first.
flag and waittEor further
instructions. Members learn
that they must work together
in order to succeed.
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Senior Cadets Cody Kubiak
and Grant Cleberg work to
set up obstacl® and outdoor
training chakengJftKubiak
tried to decide which weapon
would be most useful in the
current situation and which,
should be left behind.
make decisions. What we force you to do is
get out of your comfort zone and be able
take charge of a group and accomplish a
task,” senior Sterling Raehtz, who came/
back to MSU for graduate school and to join
ROTC, said.
The program exhibits the fruits/of its
labor by allowing senior ROTC members
like O’Malley and Raehtz to plamtne content
for the weekly labs and a variety of other
events throughout the year: One of those
events includes the annual Military Ball, a
part-formal dinner ebent, part-informal
dance planned entirely by the seniors.
The seniors also are in charge of the
various ROTC/extracurricular programs,
which allow/for additional training and
recreational fun
the cadets. The
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Endurance Club prepares for the Army’s
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10-piie run event, held annually
Washington, D.C. The Ranger Challenge
Tehm is a club sport of sorts, which
/bompetes against other schools.
Ranger One is designated for cadets who
are interested in serving actively as infantry
combat officers, with the opportunity to
train more extensively toward that goal. The
camaraderie that results from that common
aspiration
it the best
extracurricular offered by ROTC Schaffer
said, a member of Ranger One.
is what makes
“It’s this one big brotherhood, this whole
fraternity of people that frankly would die
for any of the others,” he said. "It’s not for
the faint of the heart, and more for the
career officer.”
Whether you’re hell-bent on serving
overseas or interested in getting in better
shape, the ROTC can benefit just about
anybody who joins its ranks. Despite the
grueling physical and mental demands,
those moving onto a military career are
passionate about the program.
Freshman and Ranger One member
Mackenzie Sims offered his strategy on
how to survive ROTC. "You’ve just got to
Ranger up and do it,” he said.
Chances are most students’ degree
program don’t feature a weekly lab involving
rappelling lessons or forcing them out of bed
at 6 a.m. four times a week to do rigorous
physical training. Unless, of course, they signed
up to don 'the camouflage with the Army
Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC).
Known as the Spartan Battalion, the
ROTC is MSU’s four-year program that
transforms college students into trained U.S.
Army officers. With classroom components,
plenty of workout time and a slew of groups
and organizations within the program, it
becomes a way of life for its cadets.
■fl think of it as a job more than an
extracurricular,”
and battalion
senior
commander Meghan O’Malley said. That
job includes a stipend too, as well as
chances for scholarships, but only if you
pledge to join the Army afterward.
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leadership development and
about the Army cadets participate
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training. The program also requires mpst
of its members to perform physical trajzimg
four days a week. There are a vajfrety of
extracurricular programs
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forget that all of these caplets are also
students earning a degree/
‘Waking up at 4:30 in the morning to
go do a ruck march ¿fast-paced marches
with full eqnipmenj/and backpack) when
you’re tired andy^ou’ve been up since 3
doing homework isn’t the greatest feeling,”
freshman Alpc Schaffer said. "But by the
end of it, vpu realize the reward.”
The reward for those who' choose to
contract with the U.S. Army is graduating
as ¡/commissioned second lieutenant, the
intro-level officer class. For the few who go
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is permissible, O’Malley said), there’s still
much to take away from ROTC.
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where sophomore Phil McGuigan tells junior Scott Long and sophomore
Taylor Cunningham about his eHarmony profile. In the film, McGuigan said
he used a picture of Denzel Washington as his profile picture.
Holding the boom, freshman Katie Nopar waits for the next scene to start
while freshmen Kirk Mason and Jack Burk set up the shot on the camera.
The living room was packed with several crew members, studio lights,
cameras and wires.
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Freshman Katie Nopar, junior Noah Gebstadt and sehjor Andy Kozlowski
mock and laugh at the others after completion of one oFtheir unsuccessful
takes. The Telecasters were filming a short film on a man wjio found’a®
potential date on an online dating website.
Junior Scott Long and sophomore Taylor Cunningham stop between takes to
laugh and discuss how their take just went. The guys were filming inT^ong’^
house, which is nicknamed "Giraffe House."
Nestled in a cozy red house, a group of friends lounged about
joking and laughing, sharing random videos on YouTube and
enjoying each other’s company It looked like a typical Saturday
afternoon hang-out, except for the studio lights, cameras and
various cords and wires snaking around the home.
These particular friends are actually the cast and crew of
the:"Giraffe House;1 a mini-sketch comedy written, edited
and produced entirely by students for the MSU Telecasters.
The crew's association with the Telecasters grants them the
necessary equipment to produce T.V programs that are aired
locally and on the Internet.
Included in the Telecasters ’ lineup is ‘ ‘The Show,’ ’ the longest
running college sitcom in the U.S, “SideShow” is MSU s own
brand of Saturday Night Live-styled sketch comedy On the
other hand, “Giraffe House,” mysteriously describes itself as
"One house, four boys, one giraffe, infinite possibilities on
the Telecasters’ website.
While the show does not feature a giraffe (the name
originates from a wooden giraffe that once stood outside the
red home where the crew films; it was eventually stolen), it
does feature a different spin on comedy in a modern format.
While the other shows shoot longer segments geared for T.V,
"Giraffe House” tailors its episodes to a YouTube format, often
going for a quick, outrageous gag in two minutes or less.
On this particular day, the crew is filming a skit poking fun at
online dating services. Tall, gangly sophomore Phil McGuigan,
one of the four co-stars of the show, attracts an online date
by claiming he resembles a young Denzel Washington. His
date, however, persists in accepting McGuigan for who he
is, saying she’ll “fall in love with his personality” The big day
comes, an eager McGuigan opens the door, and stops dead
at the sight in front of him before screaming incredulously,
"You’re not blonde? Get off my porch!”
MSU Telecasters’ short sketch comedy show
provides film experience, Tilled with fun
The sketch, after it is chiseled down by the editors, might
last a minute at most. Yet with take after take of hilarioqs
bloopers, the actual filming lasted at least a half hour. Much\
of this is due to improvisations the actors make as they film®
as well as tweaks to the dialogue by producers.
“The Denzel Washington thing just came up today,”
freshman Kirk Mason, a new editor on the crew, said. "In the
script it said something like he was a 6’ IQ” body builder, but
they didn’t think it worked for Phil, so they changed it.’ ’
Each sketch is initially conceived at the weekly writers’
meetings, where old episodes are critiqued as the writers pull
together new ideas. Scripts are then written independently
and e-mailed to the rest of the crew. On Saturdays, everyone
comes together to shoot the sketch, and after that the editors
will trim the episode down to the final product.
Shenanigans and inside jokes aside, the crew members
enjoy being a part of something that gives them practical
experience in film production.
"I’m a media arts and tech, major, and as a department,
we really don’t get involved with cameras or anything until
the end of our sophomore year,” freshman jack Burk said,
one of the head editors after just two semesters on the show.
“But with Telecasters and ‘Giraffe House,’ I’m getting involved
with cameras and editing from the start.”
Despite the laid back atmosphere and the crude humor
that the actors and crew themselves admit to using, an
experience like this can pay off. The show lost a producer
from last semester when he got a gig as a videographer
on the latest Ozzy Osbourne tour. So while the show’s
description of having one house, four boys and a giraffe
isn’t entirely accurate (it’s all there, save for the giraffe),
the infinite possibilities clause still holds true for its cast
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sexual violence
The Coalition Against Sexual Violence protests against MSU Basketball
For the Coalition Agaipdt Sexual Violence, the saying “forgive and forget’’ is not a
part of their vocabulary^
On Jan. 27, almostiive months after two MSU basketball players allegedly sexually
assaulted a girl mWonders Hall, ten members of the coalition thrust their signs
into the night ajr outside the Breslin Center before the Spartan men’s basketball
team took omtne Wolverines, calling for a “rape free Izzone” and for MSU to “stop
ignoring rape.’™
“We hope to raise awareness about this issue and let people know that we’re not
just going to stand by and let rape be acceptable,” senior and coalition member
Corjney Bouse said. “It’s not acceptable. These guys should have been punished.
Something should have happened and it disgusts me that it hasn’t.”
/ The story however, is far from black and white. Two members of the MSU basketball
/team were accused of assaulting a freshman student in their dorm room on the evening
of Aug. 29. The three allegedly began a game of miniature basketball in which anyone
who missed would have to remove an article of clothing. The victim claimed that when
she wouldn’t remove any more clothing, the two men turned off the lights, blocked the
door, and assaulted heaH
Though the MSU police categorized the case as Criminal Sex Conduct I, Ingham
County Prosecutor Stuart Dunnings III decided not to prosecute on the basis of a lack
of evidence. Unsatisfied with the way this case was handled, a number of concerned
MSU students formed the coalition in September of 2010.
The coalition started off protesting at Midnight Madness, the Izzone campout
and Dunning’s office in Lansing, but have now progressed to talks with MSU officials
regarding ways to eliminate a “rape culture” that they see forming on campus.
“It just seems really conspicuous that there hasn’t even been so much as an
investigation and it’s been kind of hushed up,” senior Joel Reinstein said with a sign
stating “Expel Rape” in hand.
Bouse attributed this inaction to the notion of rape by negligence, which
places blame on the victim for putting him/herself in a dangerous situation. She
said the group has also noticed a climate at MSU that “perpetuates rape myths
and victim blaming.”
“We have a culture that sort of propagates rape through the media, through the
kind of jokes that people tell—you couldn't point to any one thing,” Reinstein said.
However, not everyone thought it proper for the group to protest before the game,
One woman approached the members to voice her opinion that it was inappropriate,
telling them that her best friend had been a victim of rape and didn’t need to be
reminded of it,
“I can understand that our actions can be triggering,” Blair Walker, who made the
trip all ie way from Detroit to protest, said in response.
“Obviously this is going to bring up those incidents [of rape], so I understandier
perspective. But at the same time, her perspective leads to a cycle in which we don’t
talk about things, in which people don't address these issues.”
Indeed, some basketball fans there for the game that evening agreed.
“I think it’s fine that they’re here,” Lansing resident Norb Kurtz said. “I was
shocked when I heard about it [the alleged assault], and I thought those two should
be expelled.”
Reinstein said it wasn’t about settling the case or bringing justice down upon the
alleged assailants—the time for that was longpast. Instead, the Coalition merely wanted
the MSU community to be educated, to not forgive and certainly not to forget.
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The Pilipino AmericapStudent Society gets pumped for the Rice Bowl
While most agree/ihat MSU’s notorious rivalry between the
maize and blue Wo^/erines should be settled by a scoreboard, the
Pilipino Americaprotudent Society or PASS, likes to make it a bit
more personal/
. Each yearyuie group competes in the Rice Bowl—a hard-fought
battle thatrequires strength, agility and most importantly a strong
domachd-against the University of Michigan’s Filipino American
Student Association. The competition combines athleticism and
appetite in events such as football, basketball, volleyball, dodge
M and a food-eating contest.
; / “You kind of have"a sense of belonging to your high school.
If You can go to football games, cheer on your team and you know
the players. But here, when you go to football games there’s so
many students and it’s a lot different,” junior and president of PASS
Brieanne Mirjah said. “Rice Bowl is so exciting because you know
everyone that’s playing and you really feel a sense of belonging to
the team, you have a connection to it.”
However, before making the journey to enemy territory on Jan.
22 this year, PASS had a few preparations to make. On the night of
Jan. 20, the group held its annual Spirit Fest to rally the troops before
the events began for the fifth year running.
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Loud hip-hop music, cases of Powerade, boxes ofWheaties and
the shiny, silver Rice Bowl itself set a tone of victory A mixture of
about 40 Filipinos and students from other Asian cultures shuffled
into the Vincent Chin Memorial Room in the basement of Holden
Hall. At the door, sheets were set out for group members to sign up
for the Bowl events.
Bf’We have yet to win the Rice Bowl at Michigan,|| Mirjah said,
“so we want to get everyone pumped up and excited and ready
to beat them.”
First on the agenda, personal PASS cheers had to be made for the
competition, followed by T-shirt decorating and most importantly
the painting of the Bowl from U of M’s dark blue to MSU’s bright,
Spartan green.
Coming off of a close comeback win at home last year, in which
an excitingly off-pitch round of karaoke was the deciding factor,
most of the PASS competitors were confident that the losing streak
at the Big House would be broken.
“Of course we are going to win, because, you know, since I’ve
been here, we are 1 and 0,” sophomore Christian Dioso said, good-
naturedly describing himself as a lucky charm.
But does the competition get as intensely hostile as the Spartan
and Wolverine football face-off in the fall?
“You know, we’ll tease each other and stuff when we play
basketball, but at the end of each event we’re all friends,’’■unior
Jeremy Timacdog said. “It’s a friendly rivalry.”
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connection to it.”
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PASS members join tigether in the annual
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activities like basketball, football and
karaoke. PASS member intend to spread
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mean it’s impossible.”
-Yu Yin, senior
Senior Yu Yin, organizer of the eXue Career
Training School, talks withYangcheng Chen
about specifics of his resume. The eXue
Career Training School Conference aims to
advance thejtpfeeis of Chinese students.
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opportuniti® available to students at MSU.
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Seasoned Spartan entrepreneur trains Chinese students to market themselves
The audience shifts nervously in their seats as Yu
Yin brings up a chart highlighting the 2009 American
unemployment rate by state. With one of the highest
unemployment rates
in the country Michigan’s
position at 15 percent is difficult to miss.
“As you can see, finding a job here in Michigan is
going to be very hard,” Yu warns in Beijing-accented
Mandarin. “There’s going to be a lot of competition.”
“But,” she glances around the room with the severity
of a schoolteacher, “just because it’s hard doesn’t
mean it’s impossible.”
Her audience of mostly freshmen and sophomores
are students from China. They gave up this particular
weekend of Jan. 29 and 30 to learn how to market
themselves to American employers here in the Snyder*
Philips Complex.
This is the eXue Career Training School, a for-profit
weekend seminar founded by Yu in spring 2010 to help
Chinese students at MSU bridge the cultural divide and
get the most out of their American college lives.
The enterprising Yu,'* a finance senior, has
interned for Honeywell (a Fortune 100 company)
and launched two successful business startaips
over her years at MSU. Yu said she decided to teach
these seminars based on common questions she
received from Chinese students about adapting to
college life in America.
(■'The transition is very hard for Chinese students,”
she said. “They’re not sure of all the opportunities
around them and they want to do something, but
nobody tells them how.”
When asked what he felt was his greatest roadblock
as a student, freshman and seminar attendee Zhang
Yangtao said having to adapt to life in America was a
major issue.
“The second language, the style of lectures,
■Americans everywhere - I’m still trying to get used to
this environment,” he said.
Roadblocks like these, Yu said, were what she
hoped to overcome through her seminars.
“I’m trying to show them [Chinese students] how
life could be,” she said. “And how they can do more
to reach out.”
Throughout the weekend, Yu covered topics
such as building effective resumes and cover letters,
networking resources, andwaysto stand out to potential
employers at career fairs. While she encouraged her
audience to work a variety of part-time jobs to build
their skill sets, she also warned them not to turn their
noses down to unpaid positions.
■‘Employers aren’t going to ask whether you were
paid when they consider internships listed on your
resume,’ ’ she said. ‘ ‘Don’t avoid those even if they don’t
give you any money.”
Yu also dedicated time to topics such as dining
etiquette, dinner
and professional
interviews
dress codes. She gave pointers for job interviews
and detailed how international applicants could
present their apparent shortcomings as employable
strengths.
“Oh, and the most important tip about interviews?”
she grins cheekily, “Don’t cry, no matter how nervous
you are.” A chuckle ripples through the audience.
Sophomore Gu Yu said the seminar inspired her to
make more American friends and involve herself in
student organizations on campus.
“I transferred here recently and I feel I haven’t been
communicating enough with others,” she said. “I need
to work on that.”
But Yu has bigger dreams for these seminars that
extend beyond a mere on-campus operation. She
plans to export this start-up back to her native China,
hoping to fill a void in the market there.
“We have a lot of agents in China who help
prepare students for SATs and TOEFLs, but they
don’t train students to adapt to life in America.”
“What I’m doing here is taking care of everything
in between and trying to teach them all the skills they
need,” she said. “And in teaching them, I myself learn
more about where I stand.”
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Juniors BrgckVeenhuis ad Andre^Gardner were among
the 450 MSU students who participated in the tournament.
The buy-in was free, though students were encouraged to
donate non-perishable food items in support of the Mid-
Michigan Food Ban®
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Getting out of bed to trek across campus
on a brisk Sunday morning might seem like\
a daunting task, but on Feb. 13. Hundreds
of students reported to the Union at 10 a.m.
where they were joined by poker enthusiasts
from the Greater Lansing area.
A warm, welcoming atmosphere filled
with relaxed chatter greeted patrons as they
filed up the steps to the second floor of the
Union, ready to take on the second annual
Hold 'em for Hunger Poker Tournament.
With no buy-in, Hold 'em for Hunger drew
crowds of all ages and experience levels.
The winner of thelournament received a
$2,000 check, courtesy of the Michigan
State University Federal Credit Union. The
next 75 placeholders were also eligible for
a variety of goods and gift cards donated by
local vendors.
But there was more at stake than gift
cards that weekend. Each participant was
encouraged ito donate at least one non-
perishable food item in an effort to fight
hunger by raising food for the Mid-Michigan
Food Bank.
The MSU Rotaract Club, a community
service group, opted to raise awareness and
supplies for the food bank as part of a larger
initiative called the Backpack Program. The
Backpack Program, a project supported by
other off-campus rotary clubs, goes beyond
federally funded, free or reduced-price
school lunches to meet the needs of hungry
children around the clock.
"Basically rotary clubs in the area sponsor
five different elementary schools. Every
other Friday clubs go to the schools and fill
backpacks full of food for kids who are on
assisted food programs,” senior and Rotaract
Club elected board member JadCQogswell
said.
"They do it when the other kids arpn’t
atpund, so it’s subtle. This way the kids have
foodior the weekend and after school.”
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RotaracKClub connected with other clubs
to fight child hunger and malnutrition
close to home by raising non-perishable
provisions and awareness about food
shortages in Michigan. At the first annual
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of food and hoped to mhtoh or surpass the
amount this year.
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While the poker games\vere held to
benefit a worthy cause, the chaftiw aspect of
the tournament didn’t stop participants from
hitting the cards hard. Tension crepHnto the
air as more players were eliminated ahp the
prize round approached. Slowly the crowd
thinned as the tournament stretched intisp
the afternoon and evening hours. Still, even
eliminated patrons had no complaints to
offer on the tournament set-up and execution
as they left. The MSU Rotaract Club worked
hard to ensure that Hold 'em for Hunger ran
as smoothly and efficiently as possible, and
the effort paid off.
1 ‘The tournament was very well-organized,
and I had a lot of fun playing. Obviously I
wish I had done better, but some of it’s luck,”
recent MSU graduate Jason Dargo said.
"Really the only difference between a
usual tournament and this was the number
of rookies and the adjustment from a typical
buy-in,’ ’ Dargo added. ‘ ‘Withsmaller amounts,
the game goes faster; I just wasn’t used to it,
but it’s good for this number of people.”
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Couples Emery Way freshman Catherine Morgan, junior
Maxwell McGowan and freshman Kaylee King groove the
night away at ISA’s Valentinljs Ball. The frve-ifjpur event
provided nonstop entlltainment with the MSU Ballroom
Danise^lub and live DJ performances.
ISA president slmpr Ruslan Mursalzade condttctsSte
segment of the night where couples, or friends could open
up and share|a sepret, or a loving thought. The ball was
Venetian-themed and guestllwere provided dinner.
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atmosphere to ISA’s Venetian-themed ball. Free
masquerade masks were given to those who; attended and
didn't bring their own
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ISA brings Venetian charm to East Lansing for its annual Valentine's Day Ball
Strains of classical music emanated from the
brightly lit University Ballroom at the Marriott
Hotel. Amid the golden arched walkway and red
heart-shaped balloons, streamers shimmered
above young men and women dressed in their
finest suits and gowns as they walked toward
the ballroom.
On Feb.fj4, the celebratory day of love and
affection between beaus, the International
Students Association (ISA), threw its annual
Valentine’s Day Ball. Titled this year as ‘ Venetian
Nights,” the ball, according to ISA programming
board representative Mariana Rendon, is the
organization’s biggest event.
Kelechi Edozie-Anyadiegwu, ISA assistant
director of public relations, said a summer trip
to Venice, Italy gave her the idea for the theme.
"In Venice I went to a play where they were
talking about a Venetian-themed ball,” she
said. "Venice is probably the most romantic
place, and a Venetian-themed ball makes you
think of love.”
The masks on party goers’ faces were not
the-only indication of the Venetian theme. In
a corner of the ballroom, four MSU music
students played classical pieces on their violins
- a selection from the works of Mozart and
Haydn, said performer and graduate student
Erin Lawson. The musicians also included
musical numbers for a pair of dancers from the
MSU Ballroom Dance Club who were asked to
perform for the ball, as the two of them waltzed
across the wooden dance floor.
’ 'We’re going to start with the waltz because it
adds that royal feel.that goes with the theme, and
then we’ll switch it up to tango,” club member
Prashanth Rajarajan said. "The contrast in light
and dark can be seen, as the waltz is a light
dance while tango is dark and mysterious.”
While
international students struck up
conversations around the many tables inside,
couples could also be seen hblding hands,
occasionally sharing a kiss. An houryand a half
into the night, however, the mellowNdassical
music came to an end and the party^cene
kicked in. Old favorites like "Don’t Wanna^Lhss
a Thing” and "Sweet Caroline”proved to be ag
popular as new songs like "Cupid Shuffle” ang
"Carry Out.” The dance floor was packed with
shaking hips and swaying shoulders.
While many present at the event were single,
others professed their love to each other openly.
"I love you very much,” Houssem Ben Lazreg
announced to his companion Agnes Lusito
during the shout-outs in several languages,
including German, French and Spanish.
1 We got a wider audience this time. With this
event, we’ve been a lot more organized unlike
previous years where things just happened on
the spot,” ISA student assembly representative
Dushyant Barpaga said.
ISA treasurer Gaurang Shrikhande agrees.
"In our first week, we sold 500 tickets. We
didn’t take as much time to sell the tickets
[compared to last year], which is our biggest
achievement.”
The event’s success was evident by the lack
of space in the ballroom. Some couples, like
Barpaga and his partner, Rendonfjcould be
seen gazing lovingly into each other’s eyes.
"Baby te amo [I love you],” he declared with a
grin on his face.
"I joined the e-board on Sept. 27 and we
started dating in November,” Rendon, who is
from Honduras, said.
Singles, .however,, were not left out from
the fun.
■Please do mention that I’m single,” senior
Ashiq Rahiman joked. Others like sophomore
Xia Chen were happy enough just being there.
"Iam here just to have fun, know others and
make friends,” she said.
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Jumd|^Nathari Redner and Freddie Wurster shuck Oysters
for the Spartan Enology Society oyster and wine tasting.
Shucking an oyster involwhiprying the top and bottom
shells apart, and then cutting trie oyster free from its"shell.
' .Junior Nathan Redner stirs up a traditional nriglonette
sauce in the Kellogg Center kitchen. Redner volunteers to
prepare ftMd for the Spartan Enology Society in order to
get hands-on experience for his major.
Seniors'Kathryn jsgeks and Kathryn Wahl pass around a
tray of ¡outers at the pysteSand wine listing event put on
by the Spartan Enology Society Thesevent was held in the
Olympus Room at the Kellogg Center and guest speaker:.
Erik Liedholm presented information about various^ystprs
and the traditional wine that isHerved alongside!them.
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The Spartan Enology Society gets educated inline dining at the Kellogg Center
Members of the Spartan Enology Society certainly don’t drink
their wine ^from a box. In fact they don’t drink from anywhere,
because it’s a dry club. Administrators keep a watchful eye to
make sure no alcohol is consumed, but it doesn’t really hinder their
objective. For this group of mainly hospitality business students,
wine is more of a science than a social lubricant—one that involves
a lot of studying, and occasionally eating fresh seafood.
As it turns out, oysters and fine wine aren’t like apples and
oranges. Both are common in upscale restaurants and come in a
variety of strengths and flavors. It takes a trained palate to pinpoint
the differences.
“Each oyster has a particular flavor—the salinity if it’s really
briny if it’s light in flavor—that’s the same thing with wines,” senior
Kathryn Weeks said.
Weeks was one of 12 students who attended a societyl
sponsored presentation at the Kellogg Center on Jan. 10. As an
introduction, several courses of oysters were passed around
the stately wood dining table and their differences in taste were
discussed, one of the few times when etiguette calls for leaving
silverware untouched.
Guest speaker Erik Liedholm stood at the front of the room with
a gold pin attached to the lapel of his suit—credentials of his trade
as a sommelier, a certified wine guru. Following the oyster tasting,
he gave an almost sermon-like lecture on the grapes of the Loire
Valley region of France. For those learning the ins and outs of all
things wine, this is thgjDlace to start, he said. Once you know French
wine, the rest combs easy And for those with a budding career in
the restaurant opnotel industry such knowledge is necessary
If you re/lnto food and beverage, your profit is in wine,”
Liedholm said.
Ssrdor and co-founder Brian Weber formed the society as an
educational opportunity for hospitality business students. It gives
studbhts in that field a chance to learn a new skill applicable in a
variety of hospitality business careers.
."Asa club we really want to focus on the education,” Weber
said. Because in. this industry if you really want to make it you’re
going need to sit down with a cup of coffee and read a book.”
Weber said the society s ultimate goal is to help students achieve
sommelier status, a process that reguires extensive studying and a
class to pass a standardized test. Weber is a level one sommelier,
the first rung of the wine ladder, and wants to encourage others to
pursue the same path.
“Eventually the School of Hospitality Business at Michigan State
will be known for producing sommeliers,” he said.
Junior Tim Wickes, part of the small circle that launched the
society said he is confident the experience will make him more
marketable in his chosen career path.
own my own restaurant someday and I want to pick
out the wine list. I want to trust myself to do that,” Wickes said. "It
absolutely gives you an edge.”
“if you’re into food and beverage,
your profit is in wine."
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.during the oyster tasting event put on by the Spartan
Enology Society. At the event, five varieties of oysters
were sampled, including Wianno, Island Creek, Nonesuch
Belons, Fanny Bays and Kumamoto.^
Company wine director and proprietor Erik Liedholm
presents to: the Spartan Enology Society at the Olympus
Room in the Kellogg Center. 1 iedholm’s presentation, “The
Loire Valley’1 gealt with oyster and winelShg.
Junior StegglTzeng, better known asJ||||Stevj3, p^formsa
classical piano piece during the Cultural Vogue pre-show
Tzeng started playing classical piano when he was ||years
old and began composing music in middle school.
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traditional .stepping and modern hip-hop dancH during
Cultural Vogue. The fraternity aims to prom^Hgaith Asian
culture, instill unity and aid the gre Jig? community
Senior and one of the MCs for the night, Theresa Tan, along
with other members of the Filipino American Student
Society (PASS), give a modern performance during-
Cultural Vogue. PASS aims to generate a greater awareness
of Pilipino American culture at MSU.
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MSU Baseball team seeks success it hasn’t seen in 32 years
:he last time the MSU Baseball team made the NCAA
ny&ment, Coach Jake Boss Jr, fired the answer back
Apparently it’s not a number that sits well with him.
o the last year the Spartans won the Big Ten, and they
haW’t wonUhe regular season or the Big Ten Tournament since. But
after this season, these Spartans found themselves in an unfamiliar
spot. Finishing 36-21 and 17-11 in the Big Ten, they captured the Big
Ten Championship for the first time in 32 years.
This success was justVthe latest burst of progress made by the
program since Boss Jr. took over in 2008. He raised the team from
23-31 in 2009 to 34-19 last year, and they’ve been centered on a
different set of expectations in the Spartans’ clubhouse ever since.
"When I was at Eastern Michigan [coaching] we played Michigan
State and I felt like they quit once they got down, and we pounced on
that ’ ’ Boss Jr. said. "So we had a little bit of an idea going in that might
be a problem, so just the attitude of expecting to win and seeing
yourself holding that Big Ten Championship trophy at the end of the
year, realizing that it is a possibility”
Boss Jr. said the Spartans boast good starting pitching and defense,
arguably the most important elements for a championship baseball
team on any level. The Spartans rely heavily on starting pitchers
senior Kurt Wunderlich and junior Tony Bucciferro. Wunderlich went
10-2 with a 3.19 ERA and Bucciferro went 8-3 with a 3.38 ERA. As for
the rest of the defense, the middle of the infield was patrolled well by
second baseman sophomore Ryan Jones and junior shortstop Justin
Scanlon, who helped turn the bulk of the team’s 51 double plays.
Senior Brandon Eckerle hauled in 185 putouts in centerfield, the
most on the team among the outfielders.
"You gotta go out there and attack the hitters,] and just let the
defense do the work,” Wunderlich said. |l think we have the best
fielding team in the Big Ten. I trust those guys to make the play
behind me and they’ve bailed me out before.”
Thanks to that simple formula, the Spartans churned out a series
of highlights throughout the season, including wins in both of their
showcase games. They captured the Crosstown Showdown against
the single-A minor league Lansing Lugnuts on April 5. They also laid
claim to winning the first collegiate baseball game ever at Comerica
Park on April 20 in Detroit against Central Michigan. More important
though were two critical three-game sweeps of Minnesota and
Michigan.
"The Michigan series was special because it was on the road, and
it’s tough to sweep a team regardless of where you’re playing,’ ’ Boss Jr.
said. "You look at the Minnesota series, and we just played extremely
well against the defending Big Ten champions.” The highlight of the
series against the Golden Gophers came in the middle game, when
Bucciferro pitched a complete game shutout.
However, the last half of the season remained the most critical for
the Spartans. MSU still needed to get through Penn State, Purdue
and Indiana, all of whom represented the remainder of the top four in
the Big Ten standings at the time along with MSU.
With the bulk of the schedule at home, the Spartans passed their
late season tests with flying colors. MSU swept both Purdue and Penn
State in three games each, and the Big Ten-clinching win came with
a 10-1 drubbing of Northwestern on May 20.
The Spartans weren’t able to claim an automatic bid to the
NCAA tournament though, as they lost twice to Illinois in the Big Ten
Championship tournament. However, considering how long it took
to get to that point—32 years to be exact— the Spartans could still
finish the season with a sense of accomplishment.
"It’s tough not getting an automatic bid, but there’s so many
positives that we can take away from this year,” senior first baseman
Jeff Holm said. ‘Til always remember this year. When I’ll look down
on my hand and see that (Big Ten Championship) ring, it’s going to
make it all worthwhile.”
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Scoreboard
MinnesotaW, 71-62
NorthwesternW, 65-62
Penn Statg¡|L, 66-62
WisconsinW, 64-61
NorthwesternW, 71-62
IllinoisL, 71-62
Purdue L, 86-76
Michigan L, 61-57
IndianaW, 84-83
Iowa L, 72-52
Wisconsin L, 82-56
Penn StateW, 75-57
Ohio State L, 71-61
Illinois^W, 61-57.
MinnesotaW, 53-48
Purdue L, 67-47
■IowaW, 85-66
Michigan L, 70-63
Roster
Keith Appling F
Russell Byrd,F
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Alex Gauna
Draymond GreenJ
Anthony Ianni
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Mike Kebler S
KoriaLucious S
Kalin Luc as S
Derrick Nix SO
Adreian Payne F
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Garrick Sherman SO
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Men’s basketball team's consistent struggles
lead to a season below expectations
—Fans must certainly have felt that the tumultuous period that was
the-2011 men’s basketball season was like a nightmare that they
couldn’t wake up from. A 9-9 Big Ten finish (19-15 overall) and a first
round exit in the NCAA Tournament were a heart-wrenching far cry
Tram the Spartans’ previous two outings, where they reached the
Final Four twice and the National Championship game once.
The Spartans just couldn’t get any momentum going after
barely surviving a brutal non-conference schedule. MSU had to
make its way through eventual national champion Connecticut,
last year's winner Duke, perennial powerhouses Syracuse
and Texas, and came up short in each of those games. But the
Spartans weren’t playing sound basketball by their standards
either, going into the Big Ten play hobbled by consistent
turnovers, poor shooting and defense.
The conference schedule didn’t offer much of a respite for the
Spartans, as they continued to snooze through their slump. After
their win against Northwestern on Jan. 05, MSU wasn’t able to win
more than one game in a row until the Big Ten Tournament. They
were swept into their season series against Purdue and, even
worse, Michigan. They were blown out by the Iowa Hawkeyes 72-52
on Feb. 2, and an 82-56 loss against Wisconsin four days later only
added salt to the wounds in their pride.
The Spartans were riddled with off-the-court distractions as well.
Coach Tom Izzo served a game suspension in December after
the university wrongly employed an individual associated with a
potential recruit during a summer camp. Junior Korie Lucious was
abruptly dismissed by Izzo in January for conduct detrimental to the
team. Two unnamed basketball, players were accused of committing
sexual assault on campus in August, a case which Ingham County
Prosecutor Stuart DunningsSlII declined to take up because he
couldn’t find evidence of coercion, The State News reported.
MSU ended up being carried through by senior Kalin Lucas, who
was the one consistent bright spot amidst the gloom. Lucas started
all 34 games, led the team in scoring at 17 points a game and made
the second All-Big Ten team. Delvon Roe was a defensive specialist,
often enlisted by Izzo to guard the opposing team’s best players.
Roe made the all-defensive team for the Big Ten. Keith Appling and
Adreian Payne formed a formidable freshman duo that provided a
glimpse of the future of Spartan basketball this year, coming off the
bench to provide depth and occasional scoring.
However, the Spartans failed to develop consistency and no onAs
March crept closer, many hoped Coach Izzo would work his magic
and take his team for a deep run into the NCAA Tournament. For a
while, that looked possible. Beating Iowa and Purdue with convincing
wins in the Big Ten Tournament helped the Spartans crawl into the
Big Dance, because they had been on the bubble before, finishing
the season 17-13.
The Spartans were seeded 10th and slated to play against the
University of California - Los Angeles Bruins. However, as in many
games that season, MSU fell behind quickly and had to race to
catch up. The Spartans were down 42-24 at half and at worst down
by 23. However, thanksio missed free throws by the Bruins and
persistent three-pointers from the Spartans, MSU stormed back and
was within one point with 4.4 seconds left - with the ball in hand,
too. However, Lucas traveled trying to escape a triple team, ending
the comeback effort.
The call put the Spartans’ season to bed. And though the team
came close to finally waking up right before the terrible ending this
year, they ultimately didn’t stir fast enough.
Senior Cetera Washington throws up a
shot for two points against; Ohio State,
V|Siingtpn plajfSIa total of 19 minutes
against the Buckeyes.
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Ten title trophy while their teammates look
onward. The game was the l^phome game
the seniors played at the Breslin Center.
Scoreboard
Illinoisi W, 70-57
WisconsinW, 62-43
Michigan! W, 63-56
• - Iowa! W, 63-60
Ohio StgH1 L, 67-53
IndianaW, 69-50
Minnesota! W, 66-54
Iowa-L, 66-64
WisbonsinW, 73-70
PurduelW, 76-57
Penn State! W, 60-49
MichiganW, 69-56
Northwestern :W, 74-60
IllinoisW, 69-56
Ohio Stateli1 L, 54-53
MinnesotaW, 65-51
Roster
Taylor AltonJ
Klarissa Bell F
Bryonna Davis F
Jasmine Holmes S
LykendraJohnsonJ
Kalisha Keane S
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Annalie Pickrel F
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Courtney Schiffauer SO
Kelsey Smith F
Brittney Thomas S
Jasmine Thomas 1so
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Madison Williams F
Senior jasmine Holmes cuts the net down
as part of the post celebration for winning
the Big Ten title. The game was the last
time Holmes and fellow senior teammates
would play at the Breslin Center.
Juniff Taylor Alton surveys thejiourt while
an Ohio State Buckeye guards her. The
Spartan women's basketball team fell to
Ohio State.
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MSU women's basketball team wins Big Ten title
DratfainXr serious attention this past season, the
.’s basketball team displayed outstanding
1, strategy power andÉteart. While men’s
head coach Tom Izzo’s usually acclaimed
ggled, scraped and skirted by all season—
finalTyfalling to UCLA in a tragic two-point loss in the
first round of the NCAA Tournament—Suzy Merchant
and the women’s team reached an ultimate high.
For five days after the male Spartans fell, the women
gallivanted on, claiming some of the headline space
that the men let slip away Their numerous historical
imprints this season even outshined their loss in the
second round of the Tournament—a lukewarm end
to a season that, holistically, shined brighter than a
freshly polished court.
While the team shined throughouttheir season,
it closed with individual recognition as well. Senior
Kalisha Keane was crowned Big Ten Player of the
Year, the first ever at MSU. Junior forward Lykendra
Johnson was named the conference’s best defensive
player. To accompany it, Merchant now sports the
title of best coach.
Though the stand-alones shined, in the end it’s
always about team synergy And they definitely had
a lot of it. The team definitively captured the Big Ten
title, a coup-d’état that ended Ohio State University’s
half-decade reign. But their biggest triumph may have
been at home. On FebM3, for the first time in history a
women’s basketball game sold out the Breslin Center,
nearly 15,000 fans packing the arena.
The team triumphed over the visiting team—
University of Michigan—by a 13-point margin,
marking a decade span since they last lost to their
rival in East Lansing.
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Th^jall 2010 season proved to be
successful for both MSU’s men and
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J Ranked 16th nationally according to
IU.S. nlack and field polls, the women’s
team now also holds the best ranking
in the Big Ten championships.
While cross country assistant coach
Lisa Senakiewich described freshmen
Sara Kroll and Julia Otwell as part of a
talented group who raced fearlessly
runner Emily MacLeod has a lot to
celebrate with her accomplishments.
MacLeod was named Big Ten runner
of the week at the Wisconsin Adidas
invitational. She was also named Big Ten
women’s cross country athlete of the
year completing the third-best 6k time
in Big Ten Championships history Her
success brought a positive outcome to
the whole team as it received the Big
Ten title for the third time in program
history since 2001.
"It has been a
really great
experience. I’ve been working hard
since I’ve been here and that’s my main
goal!she said.
Apart from MacLeod, the other two
team leaders, Senakiewich said, are
Carlie Green and Rebekah Smeltzer.
Green, like MacLeod, is a fourth-year
senior with a year’s eligibility within the
team. Being a number two runner for
the past season, Green believes that
group dynamics are the reason for the
team’s achievements.
"We’re a young team but older
athletes
into
like us have grown
oim roles, been more mature and
interactive,” she said.
Senakiewich agrees.
"None of them [athletes] are in it for
individual accolades. They are racing
for each other while supporting their
peers along the way”
Though winning the Big Ten, said
Green, gave the team Rie experience
they never had, the men’s team didn’t
fall short of any expectations either.
“Where we finished was significant.
Even with our best guys down we can
still do well,” Senakiewich said.
The team's main asset, Patrick
Grosskopf, became a runner in the
season-ending race for the second
consecutive season since 2001 Among
other team contributions was freshman
Travis Borchard who was named the
Big Ten runner of the week along with
sophomore Kristen Smith. The men
finished the race fifth with a score of 148.
The philosophy for both men’s and
women’s teams, Senakiewich said, is
to continue to compete at our best.
And while the men’s team didn’t win a
championship this season, both teams
have worked tirelessly to reach their
respective successes,
' We’ve all been working hard. We’re
all in this together and we all turned out
well” MacLeod said.
Feeding
into MacLeod’s positive
enegery Senakiewich ends on an
encouraging note.
"It is moments like these which are a
test to the team and the coaches of what
we can do. Our philosophy involves
how we can get to winning.”
Team members such as Green
are excited to win once more. To go
back, Green said, and make it better
is her belief on being one step closer
to victory.
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Scoreboard
Western MichiganW, 38-14
Florida AtlanticW, 30-11
Notre DameW, 34-31
Northern ColoradoW, 45-Z
WisconsinW, 34-24
MichiganW, 34-17
IllinoisW, 26-6
NorthwesternW, 35-27
IowaL, 37-6
MinnesotaW, 31-8
PurdueW, 35-31
Penn StateW, 28-22
Alabama L, 49-7
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the weekend after at the Rees Jones Intercollegiate Tournament.
Traveling west, the Spartans competed in The Prestige at PGA
WEST in La Quinta, Calif., putting the MSU program to the test against
lop-tier west coast golfers Stanford and California State. MSU finished
the first day in 13th place of 15 teams, due in part to the top Spartan
of round one, freshman Conor O’Neil, who shot a 2-over par 74 to
sit in a tie for 24th. However, day two spelled disaster as the team
slipped into 15th place with a three-day 54-hole total of 71-over par
935 (306-315-314).
The team took to the tees for the last time against|14 teams in
2010 at the Bridgestone Tournament, struggling to make par as they
ended the match in 14th place.
However, a new year gave the Spartans a fresh start as2011 brought
a season turnaround in the Big Ten Match Play Championships. Day
one of the championships, the team faced Purdue and suffered a 5-1
loss. But the Spartans made a comeback, chalking up wins against
Penn State and Wisconsin in the next two matches.
From that point on, the team placed in the top half of the remaining
invitational tournaments. The Spartans took sixth of 16 teams m the
Pinehurst Intercollegiate Tournament, eighth of 18 teams in the
Spring Break Championship, sixth of 18 teams in the UK Bluegrass
Invitational and seventh of 14 teams in the Illini Spring Classic.
Working their way up from a mid-season slump, the golfers
prepared for the Big Ten Championship, which marks the end of the
regular season and the beginning of postseason preparations for
NCAA tournaments. Though the team finished 10th of 11 teams in
the Big Ten, Mory became the Spartan spotlight of the tournament,
tying for second after the first day of play and ending the tournament
tied for fifth place individually.
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MSU Men's Golf faces turbulent year
torrents of rain washed over the greens of Forest Akers, the
•±\gan State men’s golf team sat atop the first round leaderboard
. 11-stroke advantage in their first tournament of the season,
rd Annual Fossum Invitational, hosted by MSU on Friday Sept.
> suspended on the first day of play due to excessive rainfall,
. the fairways and the golfers soaked.
The unsuitable conditions wore on and the tournament was
rescheduled to start the next morning, leaving the Spartans with
a score of B-over par 294 and a four-way tie for first place. Junior
Chris Mory and freshman Carson Castellanie were among the
golfers tied for the individual lead after the first round, both sitting
at 1-over par 73.
The battle for first place raged on as the second round of golf
resumed on Saturday. Mory was still the tournament frontrunner, but
sophomore James Ross came from behind to contest for the title#
matching Mory stroke for stroke. With the last holes approaching, the
teammates fought to break the tie, but both finished the tournament
at 2-over par 146.
The Fossum Invitational went into playoffs to determine the
champion, as Mory and Ross replayed the course. With nerves and
anticipation rising, Ross finally took the upper hand, beating Mory
with a par on the 10th hole and taking the individual title, his first
collegiate title.
As a team, the Spartans finished the second round at 9-over par
297Jtotaling for a score of 15-over par 5931(294-297), leading the
golfers to their fourth consecutive Fossum Invitational title and the
11th in MSU history.
Opening the season with a tribute to the legacy of Spartan golf,
the year grew more difficult for the athletes as they took on stronger
programs across the country The team placed 12th of 17 teams the
Freshman Gareth Blease tees off during
the Fossum Invitational on Sunday; Sept.
12. Blease, whose hometown isflondon,
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Mary Fossum Invitational 3rd (896)
Tar Heel Invitational 6th (870)
The Landfall Tradition 7th (903)
Regional Challenge 6th (906)
Central District Invitational 5th (888)
Bryan National 11th (930)
Liz Murphey Invitational 9th (905)
Lady Buckeye Invitational 1st (918)
Big Ten Championship 1st (1180)
NCAA East Regional 11th (894)
Roster 1
Michelle Bowles «.SR
NatalieBrehm SR*
Allyssa Ferrell FR
. Maddi Massa JR*
Lindsey McPherson FR
Christine Meier FR
Gaby Muller FR
Bea Murray FR
Liz Nagel FR*
AimeeNeffSR
Caroline Powers SO
Lindsey SolbergJR
MSU women’s golf team celebrates a triumphant season
Emteong the final round of the Big Ten tournament on
pril-24, the Michigan State women’s golf team held a
two-stroke advantage over Purdue, the fourth-ranked
and thjrde-time defending Big Ten champions. The
Spartans| kept the lead heading into the back nine the
following day when the competition tightened, landing
MSU in a five-stroke deficit.
| With four holes left to play and anticipation in the air,
Spartans clawed their way back up the leaderboard,
recording four birdies and 12 pars between the four
scores that counted out of MSU’s six players. Over the
same four holes, Purdue’s Boilermakers shot 4-over par,
ending the four round tournament at 33-over with a total
score of 1185 (303-296-291292).
The Spartan’s finished at 28-over par with 1180
(306-290-295-289), winning the tournament by five
strokes and bringing home the ninth women’s golf Big
Ten Championship. The title added to a long history of
Spartan excellence, marking the third championship
win in the last decade and the eighth consecutive year
that Michigan State has placed in the top three at the Big
Ten tournament. MSU’s team score of 1180 was also the
best ever 72-hole score in Big Ten history
Ending the regular season on a high note underscored
the team’s progression through the eight month season,
which opened in September with MSU hosting the Mary
Fossum Invitational on Forest Akers, MSU’s on-campus
golf course. While the Spartans placed third in the
tournament against Kent State and Notre Dame, they
continued to take advantage of the Forest Akers course,
improving their game throughout the year.
Forest Akers, along with the indoor Paul J, Rearick
Golf Complex and a host of off-campus facilities, gave
the team the opportunity to build its skill, perfecting
drives and putts regardless of outdoor conditions.
As the team practiced throughout the harsh winter
in East Lansing, it also looked south, traveling to North
Carolina, Florida and Georgia to compete in invitational
tournaments throughout the season.
Come Feb.gPt, the team also traveled to Palos Verdes,
Calif., for the first tournament of 2011 .TheSpartans golfed
against 13 other teams in the Regional Challenge hosted
by Ohio State University coming out of the tournameni
'm sixth place. At the three-round tournament, Senior
Aimee Neff led MSU with a 10-over 223 (74-74-75),
tying for 15th place overall while sophomore Caroline
Powers shot a 224 (76-76-72) to tie for 16th. Both golfers
were named to the All-Big Ten First Team upon the end
of the regular season.
The Regional Challenge paved the way for the
next three months, as MSU hosted the Central District
Invitational the following weekend, taking fifth place
behind Iowa State, Louisiana State, Texas A&M and
Texas Christian.
Working into March, the team played in the Bryan
National tournament, taking 11th overall. From there the
Spartans finished 10th in the Liz Murphey invitational
before making a sweeping comeback at the Lady
Buckeye Invitational. By a landslide of 17 strokes, the
team won the invitational with Powers leading the way
Powers ended the tournament with 10-over 226 (75-72-
79), winning the first tournament of her collegiate career
while making a solid contribution to the team victory
On the backend of two impressive wins, the Spartan’s
look forward to a promising post-season as they await
a release from the NCAA listing the regional qualifiers,
where golfers may qualify for the NCAA National
Championships.
Senior Aimee Neff chgcks her lie in the
Fffpsum Invitational.lpfeff placed sixth overall
and shot a team-best 74 in the final round.
Freshman Christine Meier tees off in her first
Fossum Invitational! MSU women’s;, golf team
placed third in the annual invitational.
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Iowa4th, 191.850
Michigan 4th, 191.850
Western Michigan4th, 191.850
West VirginiaL, 194.000-192.575
Pittsburgh L, 192.175-191.175
Minnesota L, 194.450-191.400
Western Michigan L, 194.625-191.825
New Hampshire 2nd, 193.425
Alaska 2nd, 193.425
Brown 2nd, 193.425
OhioI|S8L, 195.200-192.675
IllinoisL, 195.225-195.000
Alaska - AnchorageW, 195.450-190.525
WashingtonL, 195.075-193.075
Oklahoma L, 196.875-194.800
Big Ten Championships 7th, 194.425
NCAA Regionals 3rd, 194.525
Roster
Nicole Argiros SR
Jackie Berg JR
Alyssa Brennan SO*
Sarena Bumbarger FR
Gillian Carr FR
Daneen Haba JR
Laura Jollie FR
Jessica Leadbetter FR
Dani Levy FR
Kathryn Mahoney SR
Kelsey Mazur FR
Kelsey Morley SR
Taira Neal FR*
Alex PacflFR
Selina Rodriguez JR
Shanthi Teike SO
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Alexandra (ace competesgenison Field House
during the Minnesota m®t. Pace ended the
season with a beam high score, of 9.800 and a
floor high score of 9fi|5.
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MSU Gymnastics experiences trials and triumphs
MSU teammates Skype with injured
teammate senior Kathryn Mahoney
during Senior Night at the Jenison Field
House. Teammates mo®d the computer
throughout the meet so that Mahoney
Sould watch. Mahoney' suffered a C6
vertebra fracture during a practice vault
session, but is makmjfa speedy regifery
Horizontal and uneven bars, beams and a trampoline fill
the third iloor of the Jenison Field House. With the thick smell
oFchalk eind sweat in the air a testament to its frequent use,
the room is more than a place for the gymnastics team to
p1 pr^ctijee; kip home.
Day in and day out for nearly three months, the Big Ten
Division I gymnasts file into practice and take on another
day of training. With pop hits blasting over the loud speaker,
warm-up begins.
It was at just such a routine practice that senior and four-
year team member Kathryn Mahoney suffered a fall on vault.
The accident left her paralyzed with a fractured C6 vertebra.
The devastating injury occurred at the start of the season.
A shocking blow to team morale, the disaster set the stage for
a challenging year.
“It was, in all of our eyes, the most difficult season we’ve
ever had to face, both as athletes and as coaches,” Head
Coach Kathie Klages said.
The injury of a strong, experienced competitor, as well as
a friend and leader, took its toll on the gymnastics program.
The team competed in six dual meets throughout January and
February losing each one,
“We struggled. We’ve had the worst record that I’ve ever
had at Michigan State, and we had losses to teams we’ve
never lost to before,” Klages added.
After Kathryn’s injury three other gymnasts sustained less
severe setbacks, adding to the chaos surrounding the season.
Despite the seemingly endless misfortune, each athlete
contributed to pulling the gymnastic family back on track.
With effort and willpower, the team managedmo rekindle its
fighting spirit.
“Kathryn was my teammate and my best friend. It was
a challenge competing this year without her, but it was
definitely one of my biggest accomplishments too—coming
out, competing for her and in her honor,” senior Nichole
Argiros said.
Rather than let the accident cast a negative shadow on
the year, teammates turned to Mahoney for support and
motivation. Before each meet, Mahoney kept in touch with
her teammates via Skype, email or text message, offering
encouragement and a pep talk.
Slowly but surely attention shifted to getting Spartan
gymnastics back in the game with a competitive edge. In daily
practice, drills focused on fundamentals to eliminate sloppy
mistakes. To combat existing injuries and prevent new ones,
the team concentrated on staying healthy Coaches stressed
that each gymnast reach her full potential. The team also relied
on the support of underclassmen, especially freshmen, who
took to the stage in place of teammates who were temporarily
unable to compete.
The team also found support outside the MSU gymnastics
family even among other competitors. At the Big Ten
Championship, athletes from other teams wore green and
white ribbons and tattoos during routines in an effort to
support Mahoney
The meet also tested how far the gymnasts had come since
the beginning of the season
‘ ‘BigTen was great because we realized that our gymnastics
are just as good as everyone else’s,” Argiros said.
With a total score of 194.425, the team placed 7th at the
meet. More importantly they earned a score high enough to
advance to NCAARegionals, scheduled for Apr. 2 in Corvallis,
Ore.
The invitation to compete atRegionals markedthe gymnasts’
triumpl^over a season that pushed them to emotional and
physical limits.
“They finally started to compete like we knew they were
capable of.” Klages said. “The confidence came. The trust in
each other came. The team believed in themselves, and that
made the difference.”
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Michigan L, 3-2
Central MichiganW, 4-2
DukeW, 1-0
CaliforniaW, 4-3
PacificW, 10-0
StanfordW, 3-2
ProvidenceW, 1-0
'fames MadisonW, 1-0
Kent State L, 2-0
Boston UniversityW, 6-1
IowaW, 1-0
MichiganL, 2-1
OhioW, 6-4
Penn State L, 4-1
Wake ForrestW, 3-1
Ohio'State :L, 5-1
NorthwesternW, 2-1
IndianaW, 2-0
NorthwesternW, 3-2
NorthwesternW, 3-1
Ohio State L, 2-0
VirginaL, 3-2
Roster
Corey Block SO*
Sara Burnosky F
Molly Cassidy F*
Chelsy Coll SO*
Camille Dagorns
Elizabeth Heiffrich F*
Kristen Henn SO
Abbey HuckJ
Amanda Hucks
Katherine Jamieson F
Christie Jones SO*
Camille Lambeeau F
Adelle Lever SO
Jessica Linder SO
Angela LucikJ*
Julie Mackays
Meghan Mage®s*
Mallory McDonagh F
Angela Paguras
Holly ShermanJ
Jantine Steinmetzs
Sabine van de Assems
Joelle van Irelands*
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Spartans be^gake Foilst ®.
Sophomore Elizabeth Helftrich brings
the ball down the open field, bringing
MEM to a win. Helffrich was red-shirtod
in. the 2009 season and was happy to be
back in the game for the 2010 season.
new identity
MSU Women’s Field Hockey team redefines itself
It was overtime—that unforgiving block of minutes
When second chances are never so appreciated, but
even the team with the strongest heart may not prevail.
The women’s field hockey team drew the first
penalty corner shot as the clock ticked in the first
round of the NCAA Tournament, a game-winning
opportunity similar to a free kick in soccer or a
technical free throw in basketball.
The ball was pushed into play from the back line to
senior midfielder Sabine van den Assem, who sent it
rolling to senior forward Jantine Steinmetz. Steinmetz
gathered strength and hit the ball toward the net,
sending with it her teammates’ season-long hopes
for a NCAA victory
Upon seeing the ball fly past the Virginia Cavalier
goalie, Spartan fans rose to their feet and the girls
rushed the field in celebration.
But two inches would break their hearts.
In field hockey if the ball is hit into the goal, as
opposed to a flick, scoop or push, it must fall below
460 millimeters before crossing the line. Steinmetz’
hit flew just above that mark.
“We would’ve been in the elite eight right there,”
assistant coach Molly Maloney said. “Two inches kept
us from going further.”
“Although we lost, it was exciting to know that
nothing was left on the field,” she added. “They gave
everything they had to try to win that game.”
Their efforts didn’t go entirely unrewarded. With the
top scorers having graduated and redshirt freshman
Molly Cassidy stepping in to her first year as goalie,
the season had been a month-long quest to redefine
the team’s style of play Theloss to Virginia was an
ironically satisfying culmination of this journey
“We came into our own team and our own identity
and I think at the beginning of the year we struggled
with that a little bit,” sophomore midfielder Kristen
Henn said, citing the team’s 3-3 record in the Big Ten
conference. “As soon our schedule started getting
tough, we started coming to know each other and we
had our own definition for our team,”
But what has always been uniquely definitive of the
field hockey team is the combination of European and
North, American styles of play Head coach Rolf van
de Kerkhoff is a Holland native, and assistant coach
Helen Knull is from Scotland. This made for a diverse
recruiting process, with the follidation of the team
being women from Kentucky California, Canada and
even the Netherlands.
“The field hockey culture in the United States
isn’t as strong as it is in Europe or Canada,” Maloney
said. “They grow up playing field hockey at a much
younger age, so they come from a completely
different background of experience, But then there’s
also the American dynamic of how we perceive the
sport, which is much different.
Americans in general are more into training and
mental toughness, so we have these kind of two
different sciools of thought that come together to
help really lift the game,” she said.
Henn said the European field hockey culture places
a stronger emphasis on skills and showmanship, while
in America, fundamentals are the key to the game. The
mix of the two creates a style of play unique to MSU.
And next year’s season may prove to be even
more of a defining adventure. With van de Kerkhoff
taking a new positioi at the University of Delaware,
former assistant coach Helen Knull will step in and
take over.
“So far it has been a very smooth and fun
transition,” she said. “The team is excited and ready
to get a new chemistry”
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Western Ontario L, 5-3
Maine T, 4-4 (OT)
Main®W, 3-2
Alaska T, 1-1
AlaskaW, 4-1
Alabama-Huntsville T, 4-4
Alabarria-HuntsvilleW, 2-1
Western Michigan L, 4-3
Western Michigan L, 3-1
Ohio State L, 4-3 (OT)
Ohid'btateW, 4-0
Notre Dame L, 6-2
Notre Dame L, 4-2
Ferris State L, 3-0
MinnesotaW, 5-2
Wisconsin L, 4-1
Ferris StateW, 3-2
Ferris State L, 1-0 (OT)
Michigan L, 5-0
Colorado College L, 5-4
Michigan TechW, 5-3
MichiganW, 4-3
Michigah L, 4-0
Lake Superior State!W, 4-0
Lake Superior StatesT, 2-2 (OT)
Miami (Oh)W, Z-4
Miami (Oh) L, 4-0
Ferris Stat L, 2-1
MichiganW, 2-1
Ohio StateW, 2-0
Ohio State L, 4-2
Northern Michigan L, 4-2
Northern Michigan L, 6-5
Alaska L, 4-1
AlaskaW, 6-2
Bowling GreenW, 2-1
Bowling GreenW, 2-0
Alaska L, 3-2
AlaskaL, 4-3 (20T)
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Dean Chcllos SO
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Chris Forfar SO
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Matt Grass! SO
Anthony Hayes ;so
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Torey Krug |so
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Daultan Leveille
KyleffiÖMahohJR
Mike Merrifield JR
Trevor Nill |JR
Drew PalmisanoJR
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Brett Perlini
Lee Reimer FR
Chris Sandmeyer jFR
Joey Shean iSR
Brock Shelgren JR
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Despite a turbulent season, the MSU men’s ice hockey
team looks forward to next year as change comes to the rink
A rough season ending with a track record of
il^wins, 20 losses and 4 ties hasn’t dampened the
.odes of the MSU men’s hockey team, who are
loc|4ang-| forward to next year with high hopes as
their new coach takes them under his wing.
“This season was very up and down,” sophomore
defenseman and team captain Torey Krug said,
adding that it was quite the roller-coaster ride. “It
started off on a high note and then things spiraled
from there.”
The team started off the regular season with
two wins and two ties against Alaska and Alabama-
Huntsville before
falling short before Western
Michigan, Ohio State, Notre Dame and Ferris State. At
the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA)
showcase over Thanksgiving break, the Spartans
emerged with a 5-2 win against Minnesota. In a two-
game series with Ferris State, however, MSU won the
first match with a score of 3-2 and then subsequently
fell 1-0 in overtime.
From late December to the end of February the
Spartans participated in the Great Lakes Invitational,
winning nine games out of 18. Junior forward Trevor
Nill said playing Michigan at the Joe Louis Arena in
Detroit during the invitational was one of the defining
moments of the season for him. The team played a
total of four games against Michigan this year, losing
twice and winning once before that fateful game gave
the Spartans a much-needed turnaround.
“It was huge for the team to win that and tie up the
series, especially after a 5-0 loss in Ann Arbor just a
month prior,” Nill said.
And though the team didn’t exactly walk away
from this season as triumphant as they would have
liked, Krug said he took their performance this year
as a learning experience.
“Being a young captain, I. fearned a lot about
myself and about my team. I learned how to lead a
group of guys that are older than me,” he said. “We
were finding out who we are.”
Nonetheless, the appointment of Tom Anastos as
newKiead coach of the hockey team has certainly
given the Spartans new hope. A former Spartan
himself, Anastos played hockey under former
coach Ron Mason from 1981-85, before serving as
an assistant to Mason from 1990-92. Previously the
commissioner of the CCHA for the last 13 years, he
will be the sixth coach in over 7 0 years of MSU hockey
after former head coach Rick Comley’s retirement
this season.
“He used to play hockey for MSU, he’s very
passionate about MSU, passionate about winning and
has connections all over the hockey world,’ ’ Krug said
of Anastos. “I know he’s going to bring a lot of fire to
the team and make sure the guys are motivated.”
“It brings something new into the program, to play
for someone who has been in your shoes, someone
you can relate to on another level,” he added.
What’s more, athletic directors from Big Ten
schools will announce their intention to establish
men’s ice hockey as an official conference sport
for the 2013-14 academic year to the Big Ten
Council of Presidents/Chancellors in June 2011.
Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Ohio State,
Penn State and Wisconsin are participants in this
initiative, and the proposal includes plans for an
inaugural Big Ten hockey tournament to be held
in March 2014.
Exciting times for Spartan hockey indeed. But
before they can descend to a rink awash with new
possibilities, Nill said the team still needs to take
things slow and stead||at this point in time.
' We always want to achieve as much as we possibly
can. We have to set the bar high, but take it one game
at a time until we get the process right,” he said.
Krug added, “I think our first goal is to win the
CCHA championship and bring excitement back to
MSU hockey to fill more seats at Munn.
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MSU Women’s Rowing Team cruises past the competition in the 2011 season
C Srbill but mighty; Thatls the team motto that
Vmshgd women’s rowing through this season. It’s
rathgr intimidating being the smallest competitors—
WhiM most rowers are over six feet tall, these women
_j^dOhve one person that size on the whole team,
andonly two above five feet ten. But they make up for
their shortcomings in other ways, like rigging their
boats and oars to accent their personal strengths
and habits. They’ve also embraced' a new training
program this year with new workouts and practice
techniques. They even got new shoes this year (the
very same ones used by the U.S. Olympic team)l
which can be adjusted specifically for each person.
“We focus on technical power more than power,”
junior rower Jocelyn Smith said.
And their tactics have paid off, Going into the Big
Ten Championships the Spartans were ranking eight
in the nation, in between number seven Washington
State and number nine Yale. But like most successes,
the road there was an iipriver one. The team
struggled in their second matchup of the season
against Princeton and Brown, numbers one and six
Respectively going into the Big Ton Championships.
However, facing such tough opponents early in
season may have been beneficial for the ladies in
green and white.
''That was a really a learning experience for us,”
junior rower Bre Walkowiak said. “It opened our eyes
to where we needed to be.”-
Three weeks later, the Spartans were on top on
the world again after a win against the University of
Virginia, which won the national championship the
year prior. They also triumphed over University of
Southern California, ranked fourth before life Big Ten
Championships. The second varsity eight boat won all
three races, beating Texas as well,
For the women’s rowing team, those victories were
somewhat of a dream come true - literally During
practice, the team often imagines their selves racing
against “ghost boats”—make-believe competitors
used for motivational purposes. This year’s phantom
crafts were, you guessed it, USC and Virginia.
The accolades, however, didn’t stop there, The
Spartans went on to finish seventh as a team in the
2011 NCAA Championship Regatta, the highest-
finishing of the four Big Ten teams that qualified for
the event. MSU’s varsity eight finished sixth in the
Grand Final race of the regatta, matching the prowess
of the 2006 and 2008 crews, who also finished sixth in
their respective seasons - the highest-ever Spartan
finish for the varsity eight.
Graduating senior rower Laura Cowal was also
named Big Ten athlete of the year, in the wake of the
MSU varsity eight’s unprecedented fourth consecutive
gold medal in the Big Ten Championship. Indeed, the
ladies Bi green and white have shown this season that
size really doesn't matter.
“It’s really been [about] pushing out confidence
for usfi
and making our race plan suitable
Walkowiak said.
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Michelle CampbellF
Monique CarterS
Hannah ChampF
Abigail ChristiansenJ
Amelia ClaryF
Laura CowalS
Kristina DejcngS
Alicia DiMauroSO
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Theresa GeelhoedSO
HKLydia Hawthorne
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Heather HollidaySO
Brianna LakanenJ
Kellie LaPointSR
Kathleen LeightonJ
Anna LudesF
Alexandra MaibuschS
Amanda McGeachieSO
Roberta MolterF
Shelby MotoliginSO
Michelle NeuderSO
Samantha PalmerSO
Rose PawlowskiF
Camille Press 1J
Alex ReininkJ
Shelby RockwellSO
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Michelle Sosa jJ
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Breanne WalkowiakJ
Thp 2011 women’s rowing varsity eight-
sport their gold mgdMs. for winning the Big
Ten Championship. The^Smen’s rowing
team has.ibn thelchampionship for four
consecutive years,
The 2011 women’s rowing varsity eight
boat practices technique and power. The
varsity 8 finished sixth in the Grand Final
rac,i that qualified the team for theff 011
NCAA Championship Regatta.
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The 2011 women's rowing varsity four boat
consisted of members Kathleen Leighton,
Kristina De Jong, Lydia Hawthorne and
Jesse Shynal. ThHwomen’s rowing team
finished seventh in the 20 lf| NCAA
Championship Regatta.
Scoreboard
Bradley T, 1-1
DukeWs 1-0
¿¿^MarylandW, 4-3
GeorgetownI L, 4-0
ProvidenceW, 4-0
NiagaraW, 4-1
MarquetteW, 1-0
Notre DameW, 2-0
DuquesngW, 2-1
NorthwesternW, 2-0
Ohio State L, 2-1
New HampshireW, 2-0
Penn State L, 2-1
Western MichiganW, 5-0
WisconsinW, 3-0
Bowling GreenW, 2-1
IndianaL, 3-0
Michigan L, 3-2
AkronL, 1-0
Milwaukee^T, 1-1
Michigan L, 2-1
OaklandW, 2-0
ButlerW, 1-0
North GaSlina T, 1-1
Roster
Garret BackJ*
Josh Barens F
Demonic Barone: -J
Mark BaronqJ
Rubin Bega
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Matt Cebula
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Jeffemy ClarkJ* 1
Kevin Cope SO
Wesley Curtis F
Bryce Dobbins SO
Jake Fullertons*
Colin (Jr.?-:! ;ys
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Joe Gregus
Cody Henderson F
Nosa Iqoha S
Ryan KeeiS F
Tim Kreutz F
Stephen Lucia nekJ
Joe PaiMJ*
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Brent Rosendall
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Cyrus SaydeelJ
Avery Steiniage S*
Ryan Thclen SO
Spencer Thompsons
Nick Wilsonso
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one season.
Forty-three years later, the men's soccer team makes the Sweet 16
lost every sports team defines themselves differently staking claim to
\tiVational quote, style of play or triumphant moment and molding it into
UDvm mindset.
Thife year, the men's soccer team chose four words.
mjlwe wanted to be confident against whoever we played,” head
TTOacimamon Reusing explained. “Consistent: we wanted to play the same
no matter who the opponent was, and still play at a high level.
‘ ‘Relentless: we wanted to have a little edge to us, we wanted to be a driven
team. And selfless: we wanted to put the team before the individual.”
Chosen preseason by the players themselves, these words became
everyday guidelines -as much as they were identifying qualities. More
importantly they would spur the Spartans on to the most successful season
of men’s soccer since 1968.
“We wanted to use those four words to go out every day—practice, game
day even an off-day” senior midfielder Jeff Ricondo said. “Just go out every
day knowing that that’s what we needed to be.”
With such determination burning in their hearts, Ricondo and his
teammates made it to the Sweet 16 in the NCAA Tournament this year, a feat
unseen within the men’s soccer program for 43 years.
“It was probably one of the best memories I’ll have at MSU,” he said.
“Obviously coming from a team standpoint it was a great success, but on the
individual level, that added right there at the top.”
The journey however, began with confidence. A steady rise in reputation
earned the team consideration as one of the nation’s top 25 collegiate soccer
programs this year, Rensing said. Coupled with an exhilarating overtime win
against the 3rd-ranked University of Maryland in the first game of the season,
the Spartans’ can-do mentality was soon set in stone.
“I don’t think we would have had the season that we did if we didn’t win
that game,” senior defenseman Colin Givens said.
Confidence was trailed by consistency as the men finished the regular
season witffl an 11-7-1 overall record. Assistant coach Kylie Stannard said
injuries prevented the team from repeating a Big Ten Championship, but
their approach to each game never faltered, eventually earning them a bid
to the NCAA Tournament.
Here, the men were relentless, After a clear-cut win over Oakland University
in the first round, they faced a dreaded second round overtime battle against
Butler University But with five minutes left to play Ricondo entered the game
and scored the lone winning goal—with a broken collarbone.
■H really didn’t even know how to react,” junior midfielder Brent Rosendall
said. ‘ ‘It was kind of meant to be because he had always been the guy behind
the scenes doing all the work. It was a funny celebration, because no one
could touch him because of his collarbone.”
Nonetheless, a goal in the third round of play by the University of North
Carolina with three seconds remaining dashed the Spartans’ hopes of
advancing to the elite eight.
Looking back on their accomplishments, however, the coaches agreed
it was the overarching mentality of selflessness that paved the way for an
unprecedented and satisfying season.
"We talk a lot about team here,” Stannard said, “and I think that bond is
what showed through everything.”
To top off the team’s successes, Givens and senior midfielder Spencer
Thompson were drafted into Major League Soccer teams upon finishing the
season, a testament to the program’s rising potential to incubate talent.
“It felt like my whole life was leading up to that moment,” Givens said. “I
definitely had a few tears of joy It was just the best feeling in the world.”
Senior midfielder Spencer
ThompJIn dribbl® the ball up
the field in their gamejagainst
Providence. Thompson recorded
two assists during the match,
helping the Spartans to ®S0 win.
Junior forwardfebin Bega juggles
the ball past junior midfielder Daniel
Fabian. Bega scored oheflf feur
goals for the Spartans.
Curtis and Providence forward
Marc Cintron run towards the ball
at center field. ThefSpartans made
it to the Sweet 16 for the first time in
43! years.
Scoreboard
Western Michigan
Eastern Michigan
Milwaukee
Depaul
Loyola Chicago-
Northern Illinois
Bowling Green
Penn State
Indiana
Purdue.
Michigan
Oakland.
Northwestern
Wisconsin
MinneS)ta
Illinois
Iowa
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W, 1-0
W, 4-0
L, 3-2
T, 0-0
W, 3-0
W, 7-0
W, 2-0
L, 1-0
W, 2-0
W, 2-0
T, 0-0
W, 2-0
W, 1-0
L, 2-0
T, 1-1
L, 1-0
T, 1-1
L, 1-0
Roster
Desiree Aber
Paige Burke
Katelin Chaklos
Courtney Clem
Samantha Cook
Mikki Dennis
Jill Flietstra
Cara Freeman
Laura Heyboer
Karly Kasper
Kelsey Ka'slgb
Kelly Lindsay
. Chelsey Miller
Taylor Miller
Jordan Mueller
Kelsey Mullen
Chelsea Peterson
Hannah Peterson
Megan Pines
Kori Reinhart
Courtney Shegos
Olivia Stander
Annie Steinlage
Sarah Stern
Jennifer Ulmer
Elizabeth Watza
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freshman, Rebecca Candler. MSU was
victorious bill IU with a score of 2-0.
The MSU women’s soccer team
celebrate their 2-0 victory over
Indiana. The-earn ended their
season with a 9-4-6 record,
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An average season for MSU women’s soccer has players,
staff looking forward to more opportunities next fall
Luck, senior Elizabeth Watza said, played a huge
rolerlh the track record of the MSU women’s soccer
team this year.
The team ended the season on Nov. 5 with an overall
record of 9-4-6.
“We’ve had a bout of bad luck in the past year; a
lot of ‘hitting the goal posts,”’ Watza said.EWe also
load people fighting throughlinjuries that carried
over from last year. People assume that if you’re hurt
one season, you’ll be back the next, but that isn’t
necessarily the case.”
The season started off strong as Spartans defeated
most teams close to home, beating Western, Eastern,
Bowling Green and Loyola.
Shortly after, Spartans beat Oakland University
and fellow Big Ten schools with a five-game winning
streak, dominating Indiana, Purduei Michigan and
NorthwesternW
However, despite the winning streak, the team
experienced a number of losses.
Spartans fell to North Carolina! Milwaukee and
Penn State at the beginning of the season, and then
Wisconsin, Illinois and Ohio State at the end in what
head coach Tom Saxton called a “burn-out! as the
girls played five games in 15 days.
“Ohio State were Big Ten champs this year,” Watza
said.1 'Even though we lost 1-0,1 think it shows that we’re
just as good as the rest of the teams in the country It
helped us gain a lot of confidence for next year.”
During the five-game stretch, Saxton said a 1-1 tie
against Minnesota kept the team alive.
“The game was televised on the Big Ten Network,
and we tied them on their own turf,’ ’ he said. “It definitely
kept us going forward.”
The team did not qualify for the NCAA Tournament'
this year, but has traveled to California and Texas for the
tournament in previous seasons. Next year, the women
will travel to Nebraska if they qualify after Nebraska
¡joined the Big Ten last summer.
Saxton said the team has a strong defense, but a
better offense might help them out even more, although
the team already has “plenty of talent.”
“This team has some of the strongest players in the
program’s history” he said.
Aside from improving offense, Watza said she hopes
the team will continue to work on building chemistry
between players once seven incoming freshman join
next year.
“I think if we focus on being good teammates to
each other, the rest will follow.”
Junior Paige Burke added, “We are always there
for each other, whether it’s school, helping each other
study quizzing each other on the bus when we’re on
road trips, break ups, family issues.”
After associate head coach Tammy Farnum’s
daughter was diagnosed with cancer three years ago,
the team writes her initials, Alp on their wrists before
every game.
“Since that diagnosis, we’ve encouraged our team
to support Tammy and her family” Saxton said. “We’re
praying and thinking about them everyday”
"We're all about Spartan family” Watza said.. “Our
coaching staff has always implemented chemistry as
being the most important thing.”
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Illinois L, 6-3
Illinois L, 3-2
WisconsinW, 8-0
Wisconsin L, 10-4
Penn State L, 8-6
Perm Statf!W, Z-6
Iowa L, 5-3
Iowa L, 9-8
NorthwesternW, 13-4
Northwestern L, 4-2
Indiana L, Z-2
Indiana L, 4-2
Minnesota L, 6-3
MinnesotaW, 12-2
Ohio StateW, 12-2
Ohio State IL, 1-0
Purdue iL, 5-0
PurdueW, 3-2
Michigan L, 8-0
Michigan L, 8-0
Roster
Melanie Bensema
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Sarah Bowling F
Jessica Bracamonte S
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Mary Kate DiVirgilio
Emma Fernandez F
Samantha Findling F
Karen Fox S
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Lindsey Hansen S
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Cassee Layne F
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Hjayme O'Bryant
Lori Padilla
Jenny Ramsaier
Rebecca Rogers
Sophomore Mary Kate DiVirgilio swings, at a
pit® from the CSitral Michigan Chippewa
pitcher. DiVirgilio served as a pinch-hitteB
in the game against the Chippewas.
The Spartans break after a quick infield
meeting. ThnSpartans record stood at
19-19 after they were defeated by the
Central Michigan Chippewas.
Freshman Cassee Layne windsPlto
deliver Jfpitch. Layne had one strikejB;.
recorded against the Chippewas,'
gftball head coach Jacguie Joseph had some
Igeatiohl for her^eam coming into this year.
| thought we had a good team, I thought we could,
for the [Big Ten] championship, I thought we
od chance for making the NCAA tournament,”
oseph said.
Unfortunately none of that happened. MSU finished
27-||joverall, and at 6-14 they placed ninth in the Big
Ten. With no Big Ten tournament in softball, the Spartans’
only hope for postseason play was a bid to the NCAA
Tournament, but they fell short of that too.
Joseph pointed to two reasons why the team faltered:
pitching struggles and losing senior outfielder Jessica
Bracamonte to injury
The Spartans relied heavily on freshman starter Cassee
Layne, who started 34 of 54 games. That wasn’t the original
plan though, as Joseph said that MSU’s ace, junior lefthander
Lauren Kramer, struggled most of the season. After two
seasons starting 20 or more games, Kramer’s 5.08 earned
run average this year limitedMer to 12 starts.
“I can tell yo|| we tried everything, and she tried
everything,” Joseph said about fixing Kramer’s play
With Kramer’s slump and Layne’s 3.16 ERA still a bit
too high, (Joseph said she usually wants an ERA below
two) the team’s downfall was their pitching. Their team
ERA of 3.79 was second worst in the Big Ten, and they
were also second to last in strikeouts with 226.
"It was really touglland there were a lot of games I felt
like where that pressure got to me, but I feel like going
into next year I’ll know how to deal with that pressure
much better,” Layne said on carrying the bulk of the
workload this year.
However, MSU’s strength was offense. The Spartans
batted .275 as a team, good for fifth in the Big ¡ten, but
they were best at playing long ball, ranking second in
home runs with 53.
Most of the offense came courtesy of senior shortstop
Lindsey Hansen,: The third team All-American was near
the top of nearly every offensive stat category in the Big
Ten, most notably leading the conference in home runs
with 20. In facji she became MSU’s all time home run
leader on March 13, finishing her career with 42.
“I could make the case that she would be the best!
Spartan to ever play here,” Joseph said, who has 17
seasons of experience coaching at MSU.
But the Spartans could’ve been deadlier with a full
season from Bracamonte, who tore her ACL and missed
31 games. She was coming offlcareer highs in batting
average (.328) and runs batted in (28) in 20®, but now
she and HanserMgave graduated.
Despite losing a sizable portion of her offense Joseph
said the same goals are still in place for the team.
‘O think we’re average, and I think we are looking to
be great,’ ’ she said.1 ‘I think this is the stepping off point.. .1
think you can make a case that it’s time to get better.”
Part of that transition included the dedication of the
softball team’s gjiew Secchia Stadium, which opened
this season. The stadium was dedicated during the
final lome game against Michigan, with Peter and Joan
Secchia in attendance, the prominent MSU alumni for
whom the stadium was named.
?d2‘I feel like even this year ifjhad a ifage impact on oMI
program,” Layne said. "Our program needed a fresh
new start, and the stadium hejped catapult it to that.”
HTo play in a multi-million dollar facility after so many
years of not, I think the stadium dedication and that gift by
Peter Secchia changed our whole program,” Joseph said,
■We’re certainly looking toward bigger things now.”
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The success of Spartan swimming and diving
('"^^'^immers step up.”
''-iUme of competitors take to the blocks, goggles
Uudirfo the expressions in their eyes.
‘Take your mark.’’
^—The swimmers tense their bodies, ready to spring
'hn-a^plit-second. A shot is fired and cheering erupts.
A solid wall of noise explodes in the natatorium: the
race begins. Shouts and cheers echo across the
water as swimmers leap off the blocks into the air,
bodies streamlined, hitting the water with practiced
effortlessness.
Every day for nearly seven months, the swim team
reported to the IM West pool deck for afternoon
practice. For hours, the athletes drilled technique and
perfected turns while swimming lap after lap to build
endurance. The practices kicked off the year in the fall
and kept the ieam in shape until the regular season
came to a close at the Big Ten meet in February
The men’s team swam their opening meet on Oct.
8, and the women’s team swam their first dual meet the
next day suffering a loss to the University of Minnesota
on Oct. 9. However, both the men’s and women’s
swimming and diving teams could look forward to
the 55th annual Alumni Meet, a tradition that stands
as a testament to the history and commitment of the
extended Spartan swimming and diving community
"The meet began under Coach McCaffree and the
Seibold family and has continued on without pause
every homecoming,’mead coach Matt Gianiodis said.
"On a scale of 1-10, [the Alumni Meetflwas a solid
9.98. Every year our Alumni Meet gets better and
better. By my count, we had more than 70 alumni
present and most of them were swimming and diving,
too. We had eight decades of Spartan swimming and
diving represented,” Gianiodis added.
The meet underscored the family atmosphere that
played a crucial role in carrying the Spartan swim and
dive team through the season,
"Despite the fact that swimming and diving are
two different sports, and Both the swim and dive
teams practice co-ed but compete separately we are
still very much a family It’s an individual sport, but
everyone still relies on teammates,” diving coach Eric
Best said.
The melp of the team and the determination of
individuals led the swimming and diving team on
to a record-breaking season in many different ways.
At the Big Ten Championship meets, which were in
Bloomington, Ind. for the women and Minneapolis,
Min. for the men, there were 24 top ten performances
and five new school records between the two swim
teams. Both the men’s and women’s team finished
■0th overall. On the diving board, senior and varsity
diver Ivan Zalessov broke the records in all three
diving events-records that he had set himself the
previous year.
The season didn't end there as the men’s swim
team sent sophomore Jacob Jarzen and senior Kevin
Puskaric to the NCAA Championships.
"We swam fairly well, all things considered. Kevin
did catch a flu bug right at the beginning of the meet
and he did his best to fight it off. All in all, a very
successful season and something we can build on for
next year,” Gianiodis said of the NCAA finish.
Outside of the pool entirely Spartan swimming
and diving also had an unprecedented number of
academic all-stars, with 23 members of the program
receiving Academic All-Big-Ten honors. Seniors
Brian Rockwell (swimming) and Sarah Mory (diving)
received special recognition for maintaining perfect
4.0 GPAs, ending the year on a high-note with much to
look forward to next season.
Sean Costello
Men’s Roster
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Brian Akers
Jacob Austerman F
Jason AustermanJ
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Cameron Bertlett
Bryce Beyer F
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Pat Falconer F
Ricky Forrest S
Mark GammellSO
Josh Geschwendtso
Brad GillianF
Drew Goins F
Jacob JarzenSO
Jason Lintifr
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Nick McGowan F
Kevin Puskaric S
Nick Roberts F
Brian Rockwell S
Mark SchrammJ
Sam Schulze F
Michael Uggeri F
Colby Ward S
Brandon Williams F
Bryan Williams F
Ivan Zalessov S
Women’s Roster
Lauren BaisdenSO
Ashley BorgmanJ
KJ Burkland F
Sarah ClayJ
Cristee Cordes F
Lauren Daugherty F
Becca Ebner S
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■ Sarah Falconer
Stephanie Fishers
Lisa FittonJ
Samantha HilkJ
Abby Immerfall F
Mari Isa F
Jordan Jackson S
Marcella Kupraszewicz F
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Laura Leslie
Emilee LetarteSO
Molly Mason F
Maeve McHugh F
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Tori Merritt
Sarah Mory S
Kristin O’ConnorSO
Morgan Piaillki
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Brooke SauchekJ
Kelsie Schooleyso
Katie Schroeder F
Stephanie Seibert F
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Kerry Sodonis
Summer Strickler F
Brooke Telander F
Jessica Wellick F
Rachael WilsonSO
Whitney Woodbridge iF
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Members of the MSU swimming and diving team prepare
for thejltart of a race during the MSU vs. Iowa meet. The
team ended the season with a 10th place finish at theSien
and women’s Big Ten Championship.
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Wright State W, 6-1
Cleveland State W, 6-1
Youngstown State W, Z-0
BradleyW, Z-0
Daytoni W, Z-0
Toledo W, 6-1
Wake Forest W, 6-1
Marquette W, 6-1
Notre Dame L, 5-2
Ball State W, 6-1
Detriot W, Z-0
Valparaiso;W, 6-1
DePáulW, 4-3
Michigan L, 6-1
IndianaL, 6-1
PurdilBL, 4-3
Minnesota L, 4-3
Wisconsin L, 4-3
Western MichiganW, 5-2
Ohio State L, Z-0
Penn State W, 4-3
IowaW, 4-3
IllinoisL, 5-2
Northwestern W, 4-3
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Jason Norville
Ronnie Hulewicz
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The i®tfnded in a victorjytfor the
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»gitm/b^n State men’s!, tennis coach Gene
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program’s History
The regular season began on Jan. 15 with a
win against IUPUI and Wright State, 7-0 and 6-1,
respectively Spartans continued on with wins
through Jan. and Feb. before falling to Notre
Dame on Feb. 12 (5-2).
The season proceeded with a wins against
DePaul, Western Michigan, Penn State and Iowa,
but Spartans fell short against fellow Big Ten
teams like Michigan, Purdue and Ohio State.
Spartans qualified for the Big Ten tournament
at the end of April, coming out with a win against
Northwestern (4-2) and a loss to Ohio State
(4-0).
"Ohio State was our toughest opponent,”
head coach Gene Orlando said. "They have a
greaiprogram and have won the conference
the last six years. It all comes down to playing
within yourself, and playing your own game.”
Despite the struggle against Ohio State,
Orlando said he remains very hopeful for next
season.
"We had some great wins and some tohgh
losses within the Big Ten, but we’re playing
better than we did a year ago at this time,” he
said. "We have a good group, a good core that’s
coming back. I think the seniors have built a
nice framework for the juniors to follow.”
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Akron
Bowling Green
Eastern Michigan
Miami of Ohio
Western Michigan
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William &Mary
Dayton Ball State
Purdue
Indiana'
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Penn State
Ohio State
Iowa
Illinois
Northwestern
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W, 7-0
W, 6-1
W, 6-1
W, 5-2
L, 6-1
W, 5-2
L, 5-2
W, 4-3
W, 7-0
W, 7-0
L, 4-3
L, 6-1
L, 4-3
L, 4-3
L, 5-2
L, 4-3
L, 6-1
L, 7-0
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Marina Bohrer ; F
Olga Chernova F
Bana Guentert j SO*
Nicole Herzog j SO
Emily LeBlanc 1 F
MICHELLE LEBLANC ¡' SO
Katrina Lingl j F
Marion Noe S
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Michaela Silesova J SO
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ovey Bowling Green, Eastern Michigan,
Westetrr-Michigan and Cleveland State
before falling to Michigan (6-1) and
Missouri (5-2).
Spartans managed a few more wins
later in the season against Dayton, Ball
State and Indiana before a seven game
streak of
losses against Wisconsin,
Minnesota, Penn State, Ohio State, Iowa,
Illinois and Northwestern.
Women’s Tennis was eliminated from
the Big Ten Championship by Illinois, 4-0.
Despite a rough season, the Big Ten
Conference at the year-end banquet
honored two sophomores, Amy Barton
and Dana Guentert. Guentert received
the Big Ten Sportsmanship Award and
Barton was named a Second Team All-Big
Ten honoree.
Head coach Simone Jardim could not
be reached for comment.
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pffe vault^gfocused on
high knee runs, stretches
and sit ups.
Practice laps around the
track start off the men’s
women’s distance
runners’ warm-up. Track
and field season runs until
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J^ISU Track and Field sets the bar higher
| the time the Big Ten Indoor Championship meet
. around this year, the men’s and women’s track
ield squads had already broken three school
brds, two in the weight throw and one in the distance
sy relay Even more, 13 members—six women and
-setfen men—found themselves ranked among the top
50 in the nation.
Suffice it to say expectations for the remainder of the
spring, especially the outdoor season, were high.
“When I came in here four years ago, it was more
of a rebuilding process,” senior sprinter Yury Ratomski
saidl'Now we have people that went to Nationals and
have been All-Americans, so we’re starting to get more
recognized and respected throughout the years that
I've been here.”
In fact, after her performance in the NCAA Indoor
Championships on March 5, sophomore Beth Rohl
became not only the first Spartan female weight-throw
All-American—an award given to exceptional athletes
by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches
Association (USTFCCCA)—but the first field athlete in
school history.
With this promising build-up, the outdoor season
began. At the annual Spartan Invitational on April 2,
both the women and men started off strong by taking
home titles in 10 events each. The Spartans then
oacked their baas for the Sun Angel Track Classic at
Arizona State University.
There, MSU’s record books had to be rewritten once
again. Rohl broke her own record in the hammer throw
with a 59.94 meter toss and soon after, senior Anthony
Agrusa did the same, throwing for 62.25 meters.
Throughout ; the season, there was an emphasis
on progress at every meet, no matter how miniscule,
Ratomski said. In a sport in which every centimeter
or second counts, it was all about improving mentally
physically or better yet, both.
However, there was also an understanding among the
team that it wouldbe their BigTen Outdoor Championship
and NCAA Outdoor Championship performances that
would garner the most merit. Everything up until then
was a mini-test of preparedness.
rJmOm team has come really far since last year|senior
Emily Macleod said.' ‘We’re really coming out and we’ve
worked hard to get where we are.
“I’d say every year we get better and better. You just
have more miles under you,” she said.
Indeed, Macleod ran her career best 5,000 meter
race this year at the Indiana Invitational on April 161
finishing with a time ofB:03.07.
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“I’ve been doing this for 10 years and still, every time
I get nervous,” he said. “When it comes to the race you
just have to forget about everything.’ ’
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Minnesota
Penn State
Ohio State
Oakland W, 3-1
Toledo W, 3-0
L, 0-3
Iowa W, 3-1
L, 0-3
L, 0-3
DlinoHL, 2-3
Si; Wisconsin W, 3-2
Michigan L, 1-3
Northwestern W, 3-0
L, 0-3
Purdue
Indiana L, 2-3
Wisconsin L, 0-3
Illinois L, 0-3
OhicffState L, 0-3
L, 1-3
Penn State
Iowa W, 3-0
Minnesota L, 2-3
Indiana W, 3-1
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Amy Dentlinger
Natalie Emro
Allyson Karaba
MandiKaraba
Kristen Kelsay
Kelsey Kulpers
Alexis Matthews
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and sophomore Mandi
Karaba celebrates a point
against Eastern Michigan
at the Spartan Invitational.
Three Spartans recorded
double doubles during
the game.
MSU women’s intercollegiate volleyball team has an ace season
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, 4yball team. Another term common for the
3am, especially this season, was ‘injury prone.’
Despite top two players sophomore Alexis Mathews
an#junior Carli Weiler being injured, the team
managed to be consistent in its performance.
The season that, started the last week of August
produced players like Mathews and Weiler, two of
the 36 women selected for the 2011 U.S, National
A2 Program.
Apart
juniors
from Mathews and Weiler,
Kyndra Abron and Jenilee Rathje also shared
outstanding performances. While Abron became
the only underclassman ranked in the top 10 in
conference-only matches, Rathje became the
sixth at MSU who received the All-Mideast Region
honorable mention by the Big Ten coaches. Apart
from Rathje’s personal achievements, the season
highlight was the game in Hawaii.
“It [Hawaii] is one of the top teams of the nation.
For us to be able to win five games against them
was a positive way to go,” she said.
Just two games short of making the season, the
team won four out of six games, beating currently
ranked number 19 University of Michigan on Nov.
24. The night was special with 6,824 spectators
present and seniors like Megan Schatzle playing
for the last time.
“It was really awesome. It was the last time that
myself and two other seniors got to play against
the Wolverines,” Schatzle said, explaining that
despite not making the tournament, the team had
the motivation to finish the season strong.
The win became even more memorable after
the Spartans brought home the “State Pride
Flag” for the first time since 2006, a symbol of the
volleyball rivalry between the two schools.
After the game against the Wolverines, the
team ended the season by gaining a 3-2 win over
Northwestern University It was at this game that
Rathje became the 17th all-time Spartan to collect
1,000 kills in a career.
“It’s such a great honor to be recognized to be
the best among the Big Ten coaches,” she said.
With one more season left to compete, she plans
to combine her skills and knowledge in business
and sports after graduating in December.
With the season coming to a close, Carney
discussed the team’s future goals.
“Every season is different and unique. The
head coach, Cathy has established a program
of excellence, hard work in both the gym and
academics. First, we should attempt to win the Big
Ten and then get into NCAA,” she said.
Aiming
to win games and excelling
in
academics are not the team’s only goals. The
team recently volunteered with the Lansing Area
Volleyball Association to demonstrate the sport
skills for the 180 kids in attendance, passionate
about the sport.
Even though the team was not victorious this
season, defeating some of the top teams in the
nation took MSU Volleyball one step closer to a
championship.
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Shippensburg W, 50-0
Harvard W, 31-10
Binghamton W, 19-15
Northern Illinois W, 20-15
■81 L, 29-10
Lock Haven W, 28-12
Oakland W, 45-0
Eastern Michigan W, 19-15
. West Virginia ; W, 21-18
Ohio State- ? L, 19-16
Central Michigan L, 19-18
Northwestern : L, 22-15
Illinois ! W, 21-15
Penn State! L, 30-9
Indiana L, 22-9
Purdue L, 22-9
Michigan L, 24-15
Wisonsin L, 27-9
Roster
Steve Andrus SO*
BenBoudro SR
David Chelm JR
Bryant Craft SO
Tyler Dickenson JR
Collin Dozier JR
Andrew Ermatinger FR
Eric Ford FR
Ian Hinton JR
Nick Humes FR
Tyler Humes® FR
Curran Jacobs JR
Anthony Jones Ja 1 SR
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Nick Kaczanowski FR*
Philip Kho'zein JR
Troy Lamson FR
Brenan Lyon SO
Chris Lyon FR
Michael McClure FR*
Nick McDiarmid FR
Sean McMurray FR
Kevin Nash FR
Robert Nash FR*
Eric Olanowski JR
Dan Osterman SO
Nick Proctor FR
Joe Rizqallah SO
John Rizqallah FR
Levi Stace FR*
Joel Trombly SR
Ryan Watts FR
Soph^Sjre ®an Osterman, wrestling in the 149||ound
weight class, puts imja fight against a Wisconsin ofjiment
at the last home meet at the Jenison Field HgSse. ¡Istermari
finished his season with a 25-11 record.
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Competing at the 174-pound weight class, junior Curran
Jacobs lifts his opponent, Aaron Hynes over his head.
Winning&2 against hisPofM competition boosted Jacobs’
overall record to 22-10.
Freshman Sean McMurray wrestles Brandon Zecrip
from th*S7=jSund weight class. McMmray1g)n his
match 8?2 against his University of Michigan opponent.
Sophomore JoMph Rizqallah, a member of the MSU
wrestling team, hangsonto the back of a Wisconsin
opponent. Rizqallah, in the heavyweight weight division,
finished the season v$®22 wins and 14 losses.
with adversity
MSU wrestlers struggle with injuries, elite Big Ten teams
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Easti dominates basketball. So what is the Big Ten’s sport
oft choice? It’s wrestling, and MSU’s home conference
dominates the rest of the nation. With pearly every team
tanked in the top 25, even a small disadvantage could put
a team at the back of the pack.
That’s why the Spartans, handicapped by injuries this
year, fell flat during their Big Ten stretch after a strong start.
After winning eight of their first nine duals, the team tumbled
during conference play going 1 -7 to finish 9-9 overall. Coach
Tom Minkel attributed the team’s poor dual performances
to the unusual amount of injuries the team suffered, which
made a difference in the ultra-competitive Big Ten.
Iv'‘We just simply had some holes in our lineup where
we weren’t very competitive, and consequently, from a
dual-meet standpoint, we’d win three or four matches,
but we couldn’t win enough to put us over the top,” he
said (in wrestling duals, the two schools each send out 10
wrestlers who square off in individual matches that add
up to the teams’ final scores).
Minkel listed off at least six wrestlers who were injured,
many of whom were out for the entire season. A loss of
depth like that can’t be had in the Big Ten. The Spartans
faced Iowa (ranked second in the country), Penn State
(fourth), Michigan (11th), Northwestern (14th), Wisconsin
(15th), Illinois (19th), and Purdue (23rd). The Spartans’
only win was an impressive one against the Fighting Illini,
ranked 14th at the time, Minkel said in the last 20 years, two
or more teams have represented the conference in the top
five at the NCAA Championships in all but one year.
Still, many individual Spartans enjoyed success this
season. Most of the starters achieved a winning record
for their individual matches, including 20-win seasons
for sophomore Dan Osterman, juniors Curran Jacobs
and Tyler Dickenson, and redshirt freshmen Michael
McClure and Nick Kaczanowksi. Weighing in at 149
pounds, Osterman finished the regular season ranked
20th nationally in his class. Minkel said his wrestlers won
at least three matches in every dual they competed in,
with many notable wins over ranked individual opponents
throughout the season.
In spite of their injuries, the Spartan wrestlers showed
their resilience and fought to compensate for the loss of
their teammates.
‘‘Because all of your players are out, it changes the way
your style is, it makes you go more offensive. It’s a different
match,” sophomore Joe Rizqallah said. “You don’t want to
let this year go and say ‘Oh we have some players out.’You
want to make this year the best year you can make it.’ ’
That’s why Minkel and hisSeam are gearing up for
the Big Ten and NCAA Championships scheduled for
mid-March. The team finished seventh at the Big Ten and
18th at the NCAA last year, and he predicts the Spartans
will move up from their current ranking of 52 to a top
25 national finish, with the Spartans sending at least six
wrestlers to the NCAA Championship.
While MSU isn’t looking past this season just yet, their
potential in the years to come is apparent. Next season,
they will only lose two seniors in addition to regaining
the wrestlers lost to injury this year. Coupled with a
fine recruiting class, Minkel said that MSU will feature a
pretty darn solid team. Yet, the wrestlers know they need
to be that and more to climb to the top of the mighty Big
Ten standings.
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Exceeding 33,000, Michigan State
University’s campus is flooded with
undergraduate students. While each share
the commonality of Spartanhood, each one of
us is an individual among thousands.
Providing advancements in knowledge,
unification among peers and even sanctuary,
our colleges become hubs for the familiar.
As each of us moves through our educational
journey with determination, we grow within
our colleges, our homes away from home.
Offering lectures, guest educators, clubs,
activities and celebrations, colleges remain
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Farm assistant I«chel Beyer arranges items for salllat
the stand. All proceeds go toward the funding of the
farm's operations, granting members like Beyer handsgm
experience in cultivating and selling organic produce.
Fresh, succulent vegetables sit on the table^of the
MSU Student Organic Farm stand, located outside the
Auditorium. The farm's harvesf i^often distributed toll
number of MSU's dining halls, as well as the Kellogg Center.
When asked to describe a typical college student’s eating
habits, the words “organic” and “healthy” don’t usually come to’
mind. Think more along the lines of french fries, chicken fingers
and lots of Ramen Noodles.
But the MSU Student Organic Farm stand strives to change that.
With a plethora of fresh, organic foods such as kale, raspberries
and tomatoes, members of the Studerfj Organic Farm run a
stand outside of the Auditorium every Thursday from April to
November. The students operate the stand entirely on their own,
from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
As part of a nine-month program made up of 15 students from
across the country students who work at the stand grow the produce,
too. Each week, three or four people take turns running the stand,
and profits go to the 10-acre farm, which is located three miles south
of campus in Holt, Mich,
According to the program’s website, the Student Organic Farm
was founded in 1999 with a mission to provide training for small-
scale, organic farmers. Revenue from the stand’s sales supports
the hands-on training program, which teaches members of the
communityOLOW to cultivate fruits, vegetables, flowers and herbs
for local markets.
Rachel Beyer, an assistant on the farm, began as a student in
2009 and has since enjoyed working with the stand.
‘ ‘I love it. It’s a really cool opportunity to teach people about where
food comes from and to share what we’re growing,” she said.
Josh Moses, a student in the program since March 2010, agreed
with Beyer. After attending a culinary school in Chicago, he came to
MSU to further his education in organic farming. He not only prides
over the stand and its produce, but also the curriculum as well.
“It is very specific and detañed, with how to farm organically!’
Moses said. .“We get to eat lovely produce and see where it
comes from. And we do study farms and workshops, which are
also amazing.”
The members who run the stand are not the only ones who
enjoy the produce. Other students, sucllas sophomore Ashley
PoweU, who prefers to eat organic, stop by the stand in between
classes. PoweU likes to buy tomatoes, and to her the accessibüity
of the stand is a bonus.
“This about my fourth time buying groceries from the organic
farm. I like what the organic farm does and what it stands for,”
she said.
The stand also works with a program called Community
Supported Agriculture. The program allows consumers to pre
pay for 22 weeks worth of groceries, which includes 12 to 16
items a week. The year-round program has 60 members and a
200-member waiting list.
And for students who can’t make it to the stand on Thursdays,
a taste of the farm’s healthy produce is offered in cafeterias on
campus. With its food served at dining halls including Yakeley
Hall, Snyder-PhUlips and the State Room aithe KeUogg Center,
the student organic farm stand proves that yolldon’tmave to travel
far to find fresh, healthy food.
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Between the Auditorium and the Kresge Art Center
on Oct. 11, you could find art students, with their easels
set up in a perfect circle, ready to have a long fun-filled
day of drawing.
With over 100 student participants, the Drawing
Marathon was an opportunity for students to socialize
and work with live models. Most of the participants
were excited to be drawing on a sunny day where the
atmosphere was quiet and peaceful.
Students participated as a requirement for their
freshman art class. Those walking by saw the creative
painting and live models and decided to join, because
paper, easels and other materials were supplied.
Sophomore Ashley Godziebiewski, who had just
recently changed majors, had never participated in the
Drawing Marathon before and said, “It’s a great way to
get together with other artists and draw, maybe even
learn something new. It’s a relaxed environmenHB
One perk of the event was the chance for art
students to work with live models. The models were
dressed in ridiculous costumes and posed for each
segment, allowing the students to draw One model
wore an old-fashioned white wig and posed in the
center of the easels for all students to observe, while
others held contorted poses.
“We haven't worked with live models before. This
is something completely new but it’s a really great
learning experience,’ ’ said freshman Rachel Bonneau.
Also on display were huge, collaborative pieces of
art from each class.
, “All the students created a large piece of art
together. It looks really cool,” Bonneau said.
The collaborative pieces, which began as a blank
canvas, were diverse and provided insight to each
student’s personality where they were given the
freedom to draw whatever they wanted.
“It’s an event that is meant to get people together
and share art,” said Benjamin Duke, an art and art
history teacher who was in charge of the Drawing
Marathon. “It’s great for community building, and the
students seem to enjoy coming out and drawing.”
Students such as freshman Kathryn Reed grasped
the concept of the drawing marathoi|B|
“It allows us to have a purpose to set aside time
to draw Many of can look at this as a great learning
experience,” she said. “It also is a great outreach to
other students about art.”
Steven Stradley a masters student, gund time toPttend
the drawing marathon and contribute his own idf|^K> the
collaborative piecehf artwork. The pieces were setBp
on site between the Auditorium and Kres<© Art Museum,
allowing students ¡1. paint on the same pifj® or paper.
Senior Ip|ry Hidlay came to the drawing marathon to
practice drawing with live models, The marathon provided
live models dressed in different costumes who presented
different poses to help give the students more dynamic and
interesting artwork.
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alongside junior Emily l§/estbrook
during a night filled with outrageous
dancing. Both Ocko and Westbrook aie
pursuing a Fishing and Wildlife major.
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community for residential college
WithMts blue streamers in the doorway and the octopi
centerpieces adorning the tables inside, the MSU Union
Ballroom was supposed to resemble some kind of underwater
realm.
But save for one dancer who sported water wings, the Lyman
Briggs annual ball on Friday April 1 didn’t really give off a
bottom-of-the-sea vibe. The students who showed up, however,
had no trouble diving past the blue streamer barrier to reach
the dance floor inside. Yet, as they recalled, jumping into the
ocean of people that is MSU proved a bit more challenging,
whicllled them somewhat to choosing the residential college
environment of Lyman Briggs.
"It kind of eased me into the college experience instead of
throwing me into cold water with thousands of people I didn't]
know,” junior Abbie Entz said. "I was really nervous about
coming to MSU, and my first semester here, all my classes were
in Holmes and I had classes with people I lived with.”
“If I joined a living-learning community it would be a smaller
community to kind of get my feet wet,” freshman Kimberly
Schoch said.
Lyman Briggs College ELBC)
includes students from
38 science-related majors, ranging from astrophysics Bo
computational mathematics to zoology The college is based
in Holmes Hall, which is home to most of its students, classes]
professors and advisers.
“It’s a residential program, so you live where your classes
are, and everything is there,” Kent Workman, director of
student affairs for LBC, said. "It can really build that sense of
community”
Building that community is one aspect, but the potential
for LBC students to become cozy within the bubble can
sometimes make branching out to the greater MSU community
a jaunt into deeper waters.
“I sometimes feel we are a little bit sheltered,” senior
Bridgette Ma said. “I didn’t know anything outside of Holmes
Hall until sophomore year.”
While some students felt that they could see that happening
with some of their Briggs friends, a few of them pointed out
that getting involved in extra-curricular activities and inevitably
taking classes outside of LBC will give them opportunities to
expand their social horizons.
“I know a few of my friends had a little bit of a struggle
expanding their circle of friends,” junior Steve Carnaghi said.
“They were kind of sucked into ‘I’m in Lyman Briggs, I should
be here all the time, devoting all my time to the university
but I don’t think that’s ever stopped them from excelling their
academics or really wanting to get involved here on campus.”
It certainly didn’t stop Carnaghi, who joined the Sigma Chi
fraternity and the Habitat for Humanity Club, among other
groups,
“In previous semesters, it’s been difficult,” sophomore Alyssa
Wethington said about branching out. “I got involved with my
major; I got involved with the Fisheries and Wildlife Club. You
just have to try a little bit. We have a sense of community but
we’re also part of the greater whole.”
Still, being in the Lyman Briggs bubble has its own comforting
advantages.
“It has kind of hindered us in a way but we’ve also created
such special bonds within Lyman Briggs that it kind of balances
each other out,’ ’ Ma said. ‘ 1 met Abbie (Entz) probably two years
ago, and I don’t know if a lot of the other students would have
been able to stay friends with people they were with freshman
year.”
Coming to MSU might feel like diving into an ocean for some,
but being a part of Lyman Briggs has assured these students
that they’ll still be buoyed by friends.
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For students in the Eli Broad College of Business, it's all about networking
The importance of networking is cruelly jammed
into our brains almost as soon as we hit puberty when
making friends takes more than simply sharing an Oreo
at lunch or having a mutual love for playing dress up.
By the time we’re packed for college,- we’ve often
gotten a taste of the unforgiving synergism between
who it is you know and what it is you know, which,
so we’ve beenlaught, must be harnessed to have a
successful career.
And for business students, this lesson becomes almost
as sacred~as the law. Corporate America imposes strict
consequences on those who ignore the not-so-subtle
cause, and effect relationship between good connections
and open doors. And in a race to the top, it’s best not to
fall behind.
At MSU, however, the bridge building isn’t reserved
just for the real world professionals. Each year, the Eli
Broad Student Senate hosts a spring picnic for fellow
Broad college members to mingle solely with one other.
Over free pizza and pop on Thursday, April 21, future
accountants, stockbrokers and maybe even CEOs
had the chance to converse about the thing they know
best: business. The get-together was held behind the
Business College Complex on Shaw Hall’s basketball
courts—a rare and casual atmosphere for students
normally accustomed to a professional dress code.
‘ ‘We rarely have such events that get all of the business
students together, able to meet different students with
different majors and just kind of get outside of the
classroom in a nice social environment,” senior Sanat
Joshi, the coordinator of the event, said.
While the major draw was, admittedly the orange
Little Caesar’s truck shoveling out Hot-N-Ready pizzas
(the tables were magically full by lunch time), meeting
other students who had chosen different paths was
certainly a plus, he said.
“It primarily helps with networking opportunities
and getting to know other people and just having more
awareness within the business college,” Joshi said.
Indeed, the term business is often thrown around
ambiguously is a future career goal—we’ve all had a
friend (or three) tell us it’s their calling—but in actuality
the Broad college hosts seven undergraduate programs
with vastly different ends in mind.
“It’s definitely diverse,” senior David Ullrey said.
“You get a good mix of majors and different viewpoints
in class.”
While Ulrey was one of many attendees more
interested in the free food than socializing, others did
indeed come to broaden their horizons.
“I just wanted to meet more people in the business
college and get involved a little bit more,” junior Olivia
Davis said. “I think it’s important to know how to talk to
your peers. I mean, you never know when they might be
useful or you might be useful to them, so it’s just good to
just be on good terms with everyone.”
Seniors Samantha Rigan||and Jillian
Emerson purchase t-shirts to support
the Msiness College. The college sold
t-shirts and other apparel, as well as
hanJedplut freejote bags.
Junior Hilary Taylor takes interest of
the Marketing Asipciation booth. The
Spring Picnic was a time for fellow
¿Students to find new jpportunities
within their dym major.
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journalism and who:- he thinks
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MSU alumnus M.L. Elrick was
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Led by Pulitzer-winning alumnus, J-School celebrates its centennial by preparing for future of journalism
The MSU School of Journalism (MSU J-School)
celebrated its 100th anniversary this year, and as
J-School Director Lucinda Davenport put it! “The
future is what this celebration is about.” However, it
was an old-school investigative reporter who stole
the show.
Michael L. Elrick, the MSU alumnus who won
the Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for breaking the Kwame
Kilpatrick text-message-scandal story was
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the J-School Centennial
keynote speaker
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Celebration. The day-long event
speakers, mostly MSU
journalism alumni, 20
workshop sessions! and closed with a dinner
reception at the East Lansing Marriott.
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With his inspiring story and powerful remarks,
Elrick was the star of the day He.fiohg with his
partner Jim Schaefer, discovered through Kilpatrick’s
text messages that Kilpatrick committed perjury and
had multiple affairs as mayor of Detroit! The story
broke in the Detroit Free Presslteading to Kilpatrick’s
resignation and eventual imprisonment.
Elrick was edgy and rebellious, traits that go back
to when he started a rival publication to the State
News during his years at MSU. He complained about
his excessive parking tickets at MSU (an ¿obnoxious
injustice perpetrated by our fine university”). He
burned Kilpatrick ("The difference between me and
Kwame is I own a house in Detroit”). He encouraged
students to transfer dut of journalism if they were in it
for the money ("Get the hell out of here; there aren’t
that many jobs anyway”), but sheepishly apologized
to Davenport as students and faculty laughed.
Elrick described how journalism ^¡served the
people through the last century by exposing the
truth. He argued that the goal of journalism should
remain the same, regardless of the era.
"It’s about finding out the truth. It’s about finding
out who the bad guys are, and blowing them out. It’s
about somebody looking down on you, and feeling
like you have no fights, and no entitlement to the
truth, and going and getting it, and saying,: ‘Here it is,
byatch!’,”‘he said.
“If they [elected officials] have gotten so far ahead
they’ve forgotten what it is they said they were going
to do, I’m right there to remind them. I want them to
know I’m on top of them. I want to be so far up their
ass, they know what my hair tastes like.”
The evolving world of j ournalism was the underlying
message of the centennial, with workshops focused
on using social media for networking, entrepreneurial
j ournalism as the new business model, and presenting
information online.
Davenport said that the theme of the event was
innovative technologies, and how they have changed
the public face of journalism over the last century
“We have a lot of alumni who were successful, and
basically we didn’t have to look far to find some alumni
who were involved in cutting-edge journalism,’ ’ she said.
Tricia Bobeda and Aaron Olson, recent graduates
working at the Detroit News, taught how Facebook,
Twitter, and Tumblr can create
relationships
between publications and readers. Steve Patterson,
a 2008 graduate working in broadcast, stressed
the importance of learning to write, film, edit and
produce an entire story on your own. These alumni
were just a few of the many that day who have since
made a career for themselves.
But though Elrick was the centerpiece of these
alumni, his speech was founded in basic principles
of journalism that he hopes will be renewed.
“This stuff is not revolutionary” he said. “As we
look forward, I see alot of what we need to do in what
we did, and what they did here!00 years ago. We
need to go out there and tell the truth.”
Not many students—engineers or music aficionados—can
say they own a stereo that plays music by producing arcs of
purple lightening. What’s more, not many can say they’ve built
said stereo. But after all, engineers like So tinker, and audio
engineers are no exception. Audio Enthusiasts and Engineers
(AEE) is a club where music lover meets designer; one of the
few places where producing music is seeioas a technological
advancement rather than a spiritual one.
The group has been manufacturing synthesized noise for
the past five years, establishing themselves through a variety
of teams and projects that teach students the nuts and bolts
behind sound equipment. While some follow kits, others have
been pioneers in the field, building devices never before
attempted by other engineers.
It all started in 2006, when two students founded the club
to fill a curriculum hole in the College of Engineering—there
were virtually no opportunities for students tolearn audio
design. The club’s beginnings were defined by a project
called Revolution Audio, which was truly revolutionary in
multiple senses of the word. First, the concept had never
been attempted before, not anywhere, by any other engineer.
Second, the project was, in fact, about revolving. It consisted
of a surround sound system with a touch screen interface,
where users could switch which speakers were left and right.
Stroke the touch pad and spin the controls in a circle, the
sound follows you. Rearrange the living room furniture, touch
a screen instead of moving speakers. The inaugural team
built everything from scratch, even the touch pad.
This mission laid the club’s path for years to follow. Each
year, the more advanced members make up the design team,
which works all year to create a grand-scale project. This
year’s team is constructing what they call a mind synthesizer,
which would convert heartbeats and other bodily functions
into electronic rhythms and tones. So far, they’ve figured
out how to monitor the heartbeat in voltage pulses on the
computer. Now, they’re) working on turning those into music.
Eventually the club hopes to enter the mind synthesizer in
the Guthman Musical Instrument competition in the state of
Georgia, a national showcase of musical innovation hosted by
the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology
These audio enthusiasts are already well versed in
creating off-the-wall ways of generating sound. Previously
they constructed a Tesla Coil speaker, which plays music
by creating arcs of electricity The device essentially looks
like a giant coil of wire that emits purple beams of lightning,
which in turn creates an impressively wide range of musical
frequencies. And yes, you can even hook your iPod to it. But
users beware: there’s a magnetic field around the coil that will
fry any electrical device within a certain range.
Hit’s fun, just don’t get too close,” AEE presiflent Scott
Sprau said.
But not all the projects are immensely complicated to build.
After aH, ¡¡'Enthusiasts” does come before “Engineers.” And
though most members are engineers or computer scientists,
students of any major can join. Either way everyone has to
start from somewhere. The two most popular teams are the
Tube Amp and Guitar Pedal teams, whose projects are far
easier than the design team’s excursions. There are also easier
mini projects, like custom molded earplugs that donradistort
sound for the listener, and headphone amplifiers made of
Altoids tins that make frequencies consistent between iPods
and headphones, improving sound quality
Not surprisingly the one thing almost all members have in
common is their mutual love of music.
“I’d say a fair number of people are musicians or have
music background,” Sprau said. "We get a guitar player
crowd, but then we also get a lot of techno electronic people
that make beats on the computer.”
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Freshmen Dorothea Kaiser and Todd
Symborski dance the night away at the
Honors College masquerade ball. The
masquerade ball was held at the MSU Union
Ballroom on Saturday; Feb. 12.
Sophomores Steve Gerdeman and Josh Mazur
dance in the spotlight of the masqueradeffiall.
These gentlemen provided the Honors ball with
entertainment for the night by showcasing their
dance moves for other attende^
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Honors College hosts masquerade
ball as a chance to unwind
For one Saturday night, Honors College
students were able to break away from the books
and boogie down with their fellow classmates.
At the annual Honors College masquerade
ball at the Union Ballroom on Feb. 12, females
flaunted their finest dresses and males cleaned
up Ha variety of suits for the college’s biggest
social event of tffe year.
“It’s a good way to unwind and just relax with
other people in the Honors College,” sophomore
Steve Gerdeman said. “Most of us see each other
in the classroom or studying. It’s nice to see each
other in a more relaxed setting.”
Honors students took it upon themselves to
find different ways to unwind. For junior Andrew
Trusty that meant pulling out a classy ductlape
suit for the occasion.
“I’ve been slowly finishing it up over the
past couple years, and I put it together for this,”
Trusty said of his black and red three-piece,
complete with a red tape bowtie. He said he also
dabbles in duct tape art, having constructed
little penguins, moose and giraffes. His date,
junior Elena Karisny, had her own matching
duct tape dress.
The theme this year was a masquerade ball,
as voted by the Honors student body However,
most dancers were unmasked, content to dance
under no disguise. Others chose to brandish
decorative and elaborate masks with glittery
sequins and elegant feathers.
Inside the ballroom, specks of red, white,
yellow and purple waltzed across the walls as the
Honors students crowded the dance floor in the
center. The wooden square swelled with people
the entire night, with only a few of groups spilling
off to the side, socializing in various circles.
The dancers were treated to a variety of music,
dancing nearly in-sync to the “Cupid Shuffle” as
well as belting out the namesake chorus of Cee
Lo Green’s hit “FuckYou,” something that wouldn’t
have flown back in high school.
While the Honors College Programming
Board, which organized the event, was only
allowed to sell 300 tickets due to fire codes, the
smaller dance size was still a worthwhile time
for Honors students, who are used to a smaller
community as part of the program.
“It makes MSU a lot smaller, with people
who share the same interests,” freshman Greta
Sommerfeld said.
The college enrolls about 1,000 people,
Trusty said. Those students enjoy the benefits
of priority
enrollment, no prerequisite
requirements and separate Honors sections
for their classes that provide a more in-depth
learning experience, requiring them to both
learn and apply their knowledge.
Honors students also talked about being able
to live on Honors floors, with at least one in every
neighborhood on campus. The students enjoy
the studious atmosphere promoted on those
floors as well as being around more school-
oriented people.
However,
those school-oriented students
know when to drop the books and put on their
dancing shoes,
“They don’t sacrifice having fun for school,”
junior Brandon Waterloo said. “They’re still a fun
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Distinguished professor’s career is recognized for 40 years of teaching
I When Dr. Philip A. Cusick took to the podium to
give his speech, he at first seemed disappointed by
the many people who had shown up.
’. "Don’t you guys have something better to do?” he
asked mockingly and was answered by the audience’s
warm laughter. However, for his colleagues in the
College of Education, past and present students and
friends, there wasn’t anywhere else to be besides
congratulating Cusick for 40 years of service to MSU.
I The event, held at Erickson Kiva on Friday Jan. 14,
served as an opportunity for Cusick to reflect on 50
years of school reform. It was also a time to celebrate
the closing of Cusick’s career with MSU before he
retired in the spring.
Cusick’s 45-minute address covered the decades of
reform that schools, curriculums and classrooms had
undergone since the 1960s. He peppered the speech
with jokes that had nearly everyone in the room
laughing. Despite his quick delivery in his soft, almost
whispery voice, he held the audience’s attention.
Beyond being a professor of educational
administration, Cusick served as the head of the
department twice. He held other chair positions at
MSU, including the Departments of Counseling and
Educational Psychology
u, “He’s prepared countless school and district
leaders; some of his students are in very high
positions,” Don Peurach said, an assistant professor of
educational administration. "He’s really been the face
of the department, a leader in the field in the state,
and a mentor to many students.”
Thus, it was clear why so many people came to bid
him farewell.
“He’s followed my career; he’s been available when
Jhad questions. I’ve always been welcome to stop in,”
John Graves said, who received his doctorate degree
under Cusick in 1979. Graves worked for 30 years as
a superintendent, most recently in Jackson, Mich.
"He’s always been a part of my administrative
career,” Jane Van Steenis saidl who has been a
principal and assistant principal at several different
schools. HHe’s always been my mentor and he’s
always had a strong interest in my career.”
When discussing Cusick’s impact, it always came
back to one key concept: his ability to ask good,
thought-provoking questions of his students and
colleagues. With some background in philosophy
as well, he’s helped to open his students’ eyes to
education and reform.
"He is an unbelievably gifted observer. He looks at
things equally and carefully” Graves said. "He taught
me how to ask good questions.”
From the opening introduction to the response
given afterward, the portrait of a very talented and
caring man was painted. People talked of Cusick’s
humility which helped to hide his brilliance. For
instance, he played down his own education, saying
the only teaching advice he ever got was to "get the
kids to sit down, and then teach them something.”
"He can take something vast like 50 years of
history in American education and boil it down to
a very few manageable concepts,” Ryan Goodwin
said, a first-year doctoral student studying education
policy Cusick, however, dismissed the significance of
his lecture, saying he was just rambling away
A standing ovation seemed the only natural
conclusion to Cusick’s speech. The short, bespectacled
professor, who had been sitting on the steps, stood
and acknowledged the support from his peers and
admirers. With the recognition of his achievements
and character that day the same thought was most
likely on everyone’s mind.
“He’s really going to leave a big hole here. He’ll be
greatly missed,” Van Steenis said.
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Students explore their future at the Law College Fair
Thoughlawyer and attorney positions are often glamorized
in popular culture, the approximately 600 students who
attended MSU’s largest Law College Fair were able to figure
out what the future really had in store for them.
With 95 law schools from around the country in attendance
at Spartan Stadium on Sept. 22, the LSAT, tuition and personal
statements were the main focus of discussion, as students’
visions of becoming the next Ally McBeal or Daniel Kaffee
diminished.
“A lot of people think it (being a lawyer) is like ‘Law and
Order’ and shows like that, but those TV shows are not like
real life.’wunior Bill Siderits said, adding an “I wish” as he
moved forward in the long line of students waiting to speak
with representatives from the University of Michigan.
• “I’ve known I wanted to be a lawyer since I was 12,” he
said. "This gives me the opportunity to find out what I need
to do to get into law school.™
At the fair, smdents were able to obtain information
on a personal basis by getting one-on-one time with
representatives
law schools. Pamphlets,
business cards and folders were also free for the taking
at each school’s personal booth. Boston University, the
University of Notre Dame and the University of Miami were
just a few of the schools in attendance.
from various
"This is a great opportunity for students to meet with
schools they’re never actually going to see, and a great way
to get information that they might not have been able to
find by going to a website,’:’ Jaimie Hutchison, a field, career
consultant for James Madison students, said. Hutchison also
helped coordinate the event.
‘ ‘It’s very important to ask questions and do your research,
because law school is expensive,” she said.
MSU had two booths set up for the night: one for the
regular law school and another for the new public health
policy program offered as a dual-degree option, a masters,
a graduate certification or as a specialization along with the
law college.
MSU’s booths were some of the most popular, with a slew
of students waiting in line for the majority of the evening.
Second-year law student Jason Schmidt was also available
to talk about his experiences, something the other colleges
in attendance didn’t offer.
“MSU’s law college has the highest bar passage rate,” he
said when asked about its standing in comparison to other law
schools.
‘ ‘You get all of the resources MSU has, coupled with the great
faculty and diverse collection of students,” he said. "I still get to
go the football and basketball games as a student.”
MSU’s current law school actually used to be the Detroit
College of Law until 1995, when it partnered with MSU and
moved on campus, he said.
Schmidt also had some words of encouragement for future
law students.
"The first year they really try to scare you,” he said. "If
you stress out, you’re spending way too much time and you
overwhelm yourself. Anyone can do it.”
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West Circle Drive was in near gridlock with
Breslin Center traffic on Jan. 27. But inside the Music
Building auditorium, it was a whole different scene.
Well-mannered older couples and slightly dressed
up students listened silently as faculty performed
the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart—a stark
contrast to the masses of rowdy basketball fans and
police conducting traffic outside. But West Circle is,,.,
after all, music territory And it was, after all, Mozart’s
255th birthday At intermission there was even a
cake with displaying his face and a spirited round of
' ‘happy birthday’ ’ sung by the audience.
The show marked the third installment of the
College of Music’s new West Circle Concert Series.
Through anew publicity effort to promote the shows,
the college has seen attendance numbers soar well
above normal levels, often times exceeding the
auditorium’s 365-person capacity
“The first event we had 580 people; we couldn’t fit
them in there. We had chairs on the stage and down
the front,’’James Foger, Dean of the College of Music
and professor of saxophone, said.
The idea was formed to correspond with the
200th birthdays of Frederick Chopin and Robert
Schumann, two influential lS^-century composers,
which occurred during the fall. The College of Music
continued with the idea, adding“ a Beethoven-themed
concert in addition to Mozart’s birthday celebration.
Music professors attribute the series’ success to the
fact that the shows were organized into a common
themed advertising campaign, something the college
has never attempted before.
“I think it’s been extremely successful so far,”
Deborah Moriarty professor of piano, said.
Moriarty in addition to performing in all four of the
concerts, played a principle role in organizing the events.
Bp think a themed concert is something people
really enjoy I think people love to come to chamber
music and it’s been a little bit easier to advertise it
because it’s a series.”
Senior Brandon LePage, box office manager
for the College of Music auditorium, said faculty
concerts also have a significant benefit for students.
“I think it’s a key part of the training that I’m
getting here. My degree is in performance, so if I
never see my professor perform it kind of defeats
the purpose,” LePage said.
“We can sit in private lessons and he can talk to
me about what it’s like to perform all the time, but
if I never see him do what he’s telling me, how do I
know that he knows what he’s doing?”
LePage has observed that audience turnout
largely depends on the professors performing.
Newer professors tend to have a lower turnout, while
more seasoned professors have a greater draw. He
too observed the West Circle Series garner more
interest than the average faculty concert.
“This is way more people than usually come to a
faculty concert,” he said.
The boom may have come just in time. Now more
than ever, the College of Music is relying on its
own fundraising to fuel the operations budget after
funding decreased by about 10 percent over the last
two years, Forger said. Operations budget funds are
vital because they are the life blood of the college’s
regular activities, including small-scale purchases to
hefty Wharton Center rental fees, which can rack up
to $100,000 a year.
Despite fundraising concerns, the college strives
to keep ticket prices at a reasonable level to make
the concerts accessible and encourage return. This
includes free admission for all MSU students. The
characteristics of chamber music, specifically its
small number of instruments, call for a small setting.
While its charm can be lost in larger venues, music
professors say the college can provide the ideal
experience for students interested in this type of
classical music.
“When you go into the audience here, you’re right
there. If you go to a big hall like the Wharton center,
you’re very far away1 ’ Moriarty said, comparing it to the
difference between watching an MSU hockey game on
television and seeing it live at Munn Ice Arena.
“You go to Munn and it’s like Wow, I want to
be here. I want to see another one,”’ she said.
“Chamber music is a little like that in this kind of a
setting. You have a feeling of immediacy and being
part of the performance.”
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Scattered between the Life Sciences A Building, West
Fee Hall and the first floor of the Olin Health Center,
such has been the College of Nursing’s unfortunate lot
for years. However, it looks like the college is finally sel
to unite under one roof, thanks to the construction of the
new Bott Building for Nursing Education and Research.
The $17.5 million project is funded by grants from the
National. Institutes of Health (NIH), private fundraising
and donations. The largest contribution was courtesy
of Timothy and Bernadette Marquez, whose $7 million
donation granted them the naming rights to the building,
which is christened after Bernadette’s parents.
Increased enrollment has caused the College
of Nursing to expand over the past five years. The
institution has tried to respond to the national shortage
of nurses by increasing the number of students they
accept each year and employing greater numbers of
faculty The dean of the college, Mary Mundt, argues
that the building isn’t just a response to the increased
enrollment, but also a way to meet the current needs of
the program.
“With health care reform, the need for nurses is
huge,” Mundt said. "The nursing shortage has gone on
for quite a while now. It’s related to the fact that a lot
of people are in the post-war baby boom age and are
going to be retiring from the work force, and they need
to be replaced.”
“The other reason is the population is aging pretty
significantly, and there’s more chronic illness, so the
need for more nurses to serve that population is
significant.”
Built as an extension to the Life Sciences A Building,
where the college is headquartered, the three-story
50,000 square foot Bott Building will have classrooms
and student support services on the first floor, with the
upper two floors reserved for research and doctoral
programs. The official groundbreaking was held on
Sept. 24, and construction is expected to be completed
by December 2011.
With the Bott extension, the college is hoping they
can serve their increased enrollment better by creating
new programs to match current trends tn?the nursing
field. The accelerated second degree program, which
allows students with a degree in another field to
become a nurse through 14 months of clinical work,
was one of the fastest-growing programs in the country
and was introduced at the college in 2005. The College
of Nursing has also supplemented its programs by
bumping up admissions at all educational levels, though
increased enrollment doesn’t necessarily mean that the
college’s academic standards have deteriorated.
“We’ve turned away between 200 and 300 qualified
students from the clinical admission every year. There
are about 600 pre-nursing students who want to be in
the nursing program,” Mundt said. “We’re an accredited
program nationally so there are standards you have to
meet to continue your accreditation,”
The College of Nursing is currently ranked in the
top 20 percent for masters programs nationally Mundt,
however, hopes to go even further. By increasing
focus on research, she hopes to place the college
into the list of top 20 nursing programs funded by the
NIH. Several faculty members have already received
grants for research in areas such as management of
cancer symptoms and the possible genetic origins of
Alzheimer’s disease.
“Our goal is to be, nationally the best that there is,”
Mundt said.
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Asking an MSU student if they’ve been to Las Vegas usually elicits a
mischievous grin or embarrassed chuckle, followed by a reluctant “yes"
and an off-handed recap of the better parts of the night.
But despite that “what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas,” the College
of Osteopathic Medicine’s Student Government Association brought the
glamour, gambling, and games of Sin City to East Lansing for theirftlth
annual Las Vegas Night on Jan. 15 at the Eagle Eye Golf Club.
There were, however, a few significant differences between the scaled-
down event and the notorious City of Lights. For one, a part of the $20
entrance fee and the additional cash spent on gambling chips went to
Special Days Camps, a summer and winter getaway in Muskegon, Mich for
children with cancer. Instead of freshly turned 21-year-olds or mischievous
bachelors running amok, charitable students, faculty alumni, and friends
of the College of Osteopathic Medicine filled the room with good-natured
spirits. And, of course, partying in the pyramid of the Luxor casino wasn’t
really an option.
“Oh, you know, I’ve just been there (Las Vegas) once, but this is more fun,
I think. More calm,” Sophia Johnson, a sophomore at the college, laughed.
The Hollywood-themed night began celebrity-style with a bright red
carpet preceding the double-doored entryway to the Grand Garden Room
at the club. Men in crisp black suits and girls in long, brightly-colored
dresses and flashy high heels were greeted by twelve blackjack tables, a
roulette stand, a craps table, a wheel of fortune and, of course, a bar to tempt
the more fiscally conservative.
“All we kept saying is that it’s going to charity so it doesn’t matter
anyways,”: second-year student Evan Coyne said above the din of popular
‘80s music and random cheers from lucky gamblers, highlighting his not-so-
successful attempt at blackjack with his friends.
In fact, about $5,000 out of the approximate $20,000 raised last year went
to charity Student Government Association’s Faculty Advisor Beth Courey
said, adding that with a greater turnout than last year, this year’s donation
was looking to top that. The rest of the money according to Courey would
then be divided between the college’s 31 student organizations depending
on their degree of participation in helping set up the Las Vegas scene.
“We are privately funded, so this is huge,” Special Days Camps Director
Tammy Willis said. “Our budget is about $250,000 annually that we have to
come up with, so nights like this really are the only things that let us keep
doing camp.”
According to Willis, the camp only charges $50-$75 per child, but the real
cost of attendance for each child is approximately $250-$300. So, in a display
of gratitude, she and a handful of other volunteers from the organization
came out to celebrate the night, even offering to man the blackjack tables
as dealers.
“A lot of us give up two weeks in the summer,” Dearborn resident and
camper-turned-volunteer Joey Klein said. “So doing an event like this, it’s fim
for us to get together, relax, have a good time, unwind, and still be able to
donate to something that we love and cherish in all of our hearts.”«
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RCAH students shine poetic light on the infamous “rape trail”
Scenic though it may be, the path behind Shaw Hail that runs
alongside the Red Cedar River doesn’t enjoy a good reputation
among MSU students - a fact made apparent by its less-thanS
flattering moniker as the “rape trail’’.
Students from the Residential College in the Arts and
Humanities (RCAH), however, hoped |to combat the trail’s
negative reputation by transforming it into a scene of beauty
and contemplation through the power of poetry On Wednesday
Sept. 8, RCAH students handed out pieces of chalk with poems
wrapped around them to students walking along the “rape trail,”
and asked if they would be interested in writing the poem on the
pavement.
Many students didn’t take the offer and kept on going, though
a few did join in. Sophomore Patrick McWilliams was one such
student who stopped to create art with poetry and chalk.
“In high school I did a loiof art, so this kind of thing just
always intrigues me,” McWilliams said. “Poetry has always been
something that’s kind of important to me just because it can have
such an impact with just a few words.”
Another artistic volunteer, senior Kerry Hidlay, expressed
enthusiasm at the chance to give the “rape trail” a face-lift.
“I always thought it was fun to do this - write out poems on the
sidewalk and decorate it. It looks really nice for the community”
she said.
The RCAH students collaborate with the Center for Poetry of
Easljjansmg to put on this event twice a year. Although some
©f the students write poetry themselves, they decided not to
display their own work at the Chalk Walk, preferring instead to
pick excerpts from both their favorite poets and poets whom
they felt made a difference in the world.
Sophomore Preethi Bandri saw a poster for the Chalk Walk
and decided to stop by Impressed by what she saw, she began
writing out poems as well.
“I think it’s really great that there are so many people here
appreciating it, you know, putting it down in chalk,” she said.
“And it’ll be here for a couple of days, or until it rains and people
can just look at it and admire it. I’m excited to look through it.”
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Adorned in paisley button-ups with instruments in hand,
animal rock band Fatal Plus took to the stage at the 2011
College of Veterinary Medicine’s annual “Vet Rap” talent show
on Jan. 23 at MacDonald Middle School.
Dr. Jon Patterson, a professor of pathobiology and
diagnostic investigation, started the band in 1998 with former
faculty member Dr. Jim Render, inventing a genre of music
that he terms the “animal rock”
Patterson described his band asla fun, parody kind
of band,” which modifies classic rock songs to veterinary
medicine themes.
“It [the band] allowed the students to see a different
side of us, rather than just the stodgy academics who are
their teachers,” Patterson said. “Jim was a drummer, and I
was gutsy enough to try to sing, so then it was a matter of
rounding up other musicians to join us.’l|
Fatal Plus kicked off the event that night by performing four
songs to a lively toe-tapping audience: Lady Zenyatta (from The
Beatles’ Lady Madonna), Outbreak of Avian Flu (from Robert
Palmer’s Bad Case of Lovin’You) and We Are an Old Man Band
(from Grand Funk Railroad’s We’re an American Band). They
then wrapped things up with a number that Patterson deemed
as the band’s greatest hitjlS. Neurona (an infection affecting
horses), based off of The Knack’s My Sharona,
Patterson said the band has also played two gigs at Potter
Park Zoo as a fundraiser for the zoo’s new veterinary hospital.
Fatal Plus recorded a CD in 2006, with plans to record a
second this summer.
Ten other acts took to the stage throughout the evening, •
including fourth-year grad student Jennifer Stokes, who sang an
original piece about the train that runs on Service Road. Stokes
called it her "inspiration to wake up earlier in the morning,” and
also performed a Jackson 5 medley on her violin.
Other acts included a clarinet solo from second-year grad
student Erin Shaw, an improv comedy routine from second-
year students Jeff Crafton and Vanessa Kane, as well as
trumpet and ukelele solos from Joe and Reuben Stump, the
two sons of the college’s assistant dean, Sarah Abood.
Jim Crissman, an MSU alumnus from the class of 1977,
also read an excerpt from his novel, Root Cause: The Story
of a Food Fight Fugitive. The novel, Crissman said, highlights
themes of “veterinarians, bikes, family responsibility and
where food comes from.”
The College ofVeterinary Medicine has been putting on
“Vet Rap” for 22 years now, Patterson said. Fourth-year grad
student Dana Sweeton explained that a couple of students
come together from each class to plan the event every
year. The event also features a baking contest where the
faculty samples and judges tasty treats made by students
themselves.
“It’s justia fun event everyone can attend outside of
school’ second-year grad student Andrea Babischkin said. “I
think this event definitely promotes the closeness of students
and professors within the college.”
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Avenue was a lot more crowded than usual
on Sept. 8, the day of the Pi Beta Phi sorority’s
fundraising event for First Book, an organization
that provides needy children with new books.
The line to order stretched around into the
dining area, while students sat packed around
tables in their efforts to sit together. Noodles
employees rushed to complete orders while
customers waited anxiously for their food.
‘ ‘We like to do these things because it brings
in business and also helps out the community
so it benefits us both,” said Noodles and
Company manager Brett Yako.
As customers kept arriving, the girls of Pi Beta
Phi handed out fliers to those interested in the
cause. The fliers allowed for 25 percent of each
customer’s order to be donated to First Book.
"Our philanthropy is literacy and First Book is an
organization that gives children, literally their first
book,” said Katie Vallentine, a junior and president
of Pi Beta Phi. The sorority puts on other events
to promote literacy and support the organization
throughout the year, including a spaghetti dinner
and a broomball tournament, she said.
"We do a lot of stuff with our philanthropy
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According to First Book’s website, the
organization has donated more than 70
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the United States and Canada over a span
of 20 years:;, The girls of Pi Beta Phi have
been a part of this contribution since 2006,
Vallentine said.
Through their fundraising efforts just last
year, the sorority was able to donate 720,000
brand new books to children in low-income
families.
"It gives us the opportunity to do something
a lot of people don’t see as a big deal," said
vice president and junior Trade Whelan, who
organized the logistics of the event. "A lot of
people here don’t realize that some kids don’t
even have books.”
"I think what they’re doing is awesome,’ ’ said
junior and Noodles and Company employee
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struggled with reading, so their philanthropy is
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maximize profit for charity the greeks
also sold event t-shirts.
Sigma Phi Elipsòn member Kyle Snarski,
along with Pi Beta Phi sopholflres
.Natasha Shah and Aubrey Owada share a
laugh after being hit with pies. The greeks'
partnership was the first year of what they
hop^Hbe a iong-standing tradition.
phighting hunger
Sigma Phi Epsilon, Pi Beta Phi pair up with hopes to start an unusual tradition
The Sigma Phi Epsilon house on North
Harrison Road is likely the only place in East
Lansing—past, present or future—ever to
serve Barbasol shaving cream pies. But on
Nov. 21, the fraternity brothers had something
besides dessert on their minds. In fact, they
would have rather seen the unlikely filling
put where it belonged.
“You can’t feel the air around your face,
you’re afraid to open your eyes and you’re
afraid to breathe in deep,” junior Kyle Snarski
said, bits of white foam still clinging to his hair.
Snarski was one of about 10 SigEp
brothers who volunteered to be a pie target
at the first annual “SigEp/Pi Phi Pie Phight.”
The men joined forces with the Pi Beta Phi
sorority sisters to sell shaving cream pies
as a fundraiser for the Greater Lansing
Food Bank.
Once purchased at a price of $3 for one
or $5 for two, the pie’s fate was in the hands
of the buyer. He or she could choose to
deface a victim among the lineup of SigEp
volunteers or reguest a specific target from
either house. Some buyers, especially the
more timid Pi Phi sisters, were gentle in their
delivery Others were relentless, wielding the
dish with as much force as a tennis racket.
“It feels awful, [but] I'm just glad to help
out,” Snarski said.
After the first hour, the living room’s
weathered wooden floor was slick with
shaving cream and
the grand picture
window behind the lineup of clairs, which
seemed comparable to a shooting gallery
was smeared with white streaks. As the mess
grew, the pile of aluminum pie trays and
original red and green shaving cream cans
slowly shrank.
“The soothing Aloe is awful. It burns so
its unkempt aesthetics,
much more,” said junior Michael Moore,
theghead of SigEp’s public relations and
philanthropy.
Despite
the
fundraiser was the start of a new, somewhat
experimental,
Greek
approach
community donation. While other houses
typically go solo on philanthropy projects,
SigEp and Pi Phi hope that by banding
increase enthusiasm
together, they will
among a wider base of students.
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Moore said his fraternity is the only one on
campus without a consistent annual charity
fundraiser.
“Our house used to do things! but
never anything that stuck,” he said. “This is
something I want to make sure happens
yearly from now on.” Moore also hopes that
a co-sponsorship will help the two houses to
motivate each other in continuing the event.
Junior Tracie Whelan, Pi Phi’s vice president
of philanthropy said the new format will likely
be a recipe for longevity making it easier to
increase awareness and student support.
In her experience, the key to slccess for
philanthropy events is a network of good
publicity in the Greek community and getting
the word out to on-campus clubs.
“We both draw from different groups
sometimes, so hopefully it [student turnout]!
will be larger overall,” she said, adding that
Pi Phi hosts a broomball tournament every
spring and a spaghetti dinner each semester
to benefit First Book, a charity that promotes
child literacy
In jumpstarting the new tradition, Moore
came up with the solution of using shaving
cream instead of real pies to solve an obvious
paradox that existed in the original plan—
wasting food in order to fight hunger.
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As snow piled onto windshields
and covered the streets of East
Lansing in a thin, white blanket,
warmth radiated from the Alpha
Omicron Pi house.
On Dec. 1, old issues of The State
News splotched with patches of
pink, blue, green and red covered
oblong tables. A trail of giggles crept
upstairs as girls gathered in the
basement to discuss issues of body
image and paint picture frames as
part of Be Spartan Confident Week,
put on by the ladies of AOPi.
“Basically the picture frame idea
stems from the idea that whenever
you’re having a bad day you can
look at the picture inside the frame
and see the inspirational quote or
drawing you painted on the frame,
and then it might not seem so bad,”
sophomore and AOPi president
Samantha Kray said.
Junior and co-vice president of
communications Becca Stolarsky
said the main goal of Be Spartan
Confident Week was “to bring
everyone together and talk about
issues of self-confidence.”
1 'When you stand next to someone
it’s human nature to compare yourself
to them, and I think a lot of girls have
a skewed perception of what they’re
'supposed’ to look like,” she said.
Be Spartan Confident Week
began on Nov. 29 when AOPi put
inspirational quotes around campus.
On Wednesday girls gathered at
the house for discussion, and on
Friday AOPi topped the week off by
painting the message “Be Spartan
Confident” on The Rock.
“We didn’t expect it to blow up
and
communications
like it did,” AOPi co-vice president
of
junior
Sam Artley said about Be Spartan
Confident Week. According
to
Artley AOPi chapters from all across
the Midwest have contacted them
in hopes of doing a similar thing at
their respective universities.
Junior Meghan Kanya heard about
the Wednesday night workshop
through her roommate and decided
to attend after taking classes in
psychology on body image.
“I wish more girls would realize
they’re fine just the way they are,
because that’s how they were made,”
she said.
Fall semester marked the first Be
Spartan Confident Week at MSU, but
AOPi hopes to continue the event for
years to come.
Artley said the sorority wants to
expand the week in the future by
adding guest speakers and getting
involved with other organizations"
like Respecting and Understanding
Body Image (RUBI) at MSU, not
only to provide support but also to
show students outside the Greek
community what AOPi values.
“There’s a certain stigma that
comes with being in a sorority” she
said. “People that don’t know 'us
assume we’re just like every other
sorority They make image seem
important. People look at me and
are surprised to find out I’m actually
in a sorority”
Kray agreed.
“When people think sororities,
they think about looks and social
interactions with frats,” she said, “but
it’s so much more than that.”
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was heldMt Old Chicago wife® new and
o|f members of TriagleBratefnity came
together in Sfebration.
After numerous roundslef appetizers and
drinks, going through second, third and
poss^BflOurth helpings,, the men of Tri
angle'were pleased&ith their Rush Week
dinner. MemblM also participated in a
small JstSgethir at the house afterwards.
Tailing the endjbf the back rub line,
sopheptore Conrad Bartke gi^s freshman
.NichbSfeurt a massawhile freshman
Bradford Wallis watches in appreciation.
Dining at ®ld Chicago has been a Rush
Weil tradition for the men of Triangle.
a complete 180°
Becoming a brother of Triangle Fraternity
triangle
Frat: a word that’s inextricably linked to stereotypical
crowds of binge-drinking college “bros” who pop their
collars, gel their hair, and major in checking out sorority girls.
It’s not a particularly friendly image and that’s exactly why
at Triangle Fraternity the term "frat” is more than frowned
upon— it’s shunned.
“We prefer using the full word: fraternity” junior Calvin
Tomaschko, president of the Triangle Fraternity said. He
added that Triangle goes beyond the "frat” image to promote
"leadership, brotherhood, and a place that you can call home.”
The house, which serves as a center for all of Triangle’s
operations, stands on the corner of North Harrison Road
and Oak Street. Parties, philanthropy tutoring, meetings:
it all happens there, Rush Week included. The fraternity
powever, puts its own spin on attracting potential pledges by
establishing an extremely casual Rush Week atmosphere.
“The word ‘rush’ isn’t really recognized here,” Tomaschko
said. "Relaxed, un-awkward, social hangout is what we like
to call it.”
Triangle likes to keep "rushes” comfortable by creating
a no-stress, hazing-free environment so that brothers and
rushes can get to know one another and form friendships
naturally Rather than lecturing the rush class on reasons to
join the fraternity brothers joined them in games of poker,
euchre and Call of Duty
Though Rush Week involved plenty of fun and games,
the fraternity also worked hard to impart the importance of
academics to the spring rush class. To keep Rush Week from
getting in the way of studying, active brothers offered tutoring
in math and science courses every weeknight, a major draw to
the engineering, architecture and science students to whom
the Triangle Fraternity caters. The tutoring served a dual
purpose, encouraging the rush class to bond with brothers
while working through an endless pile of assignments.
"It’s not all about having fun; it’s about getting work done,”
freshman and fraternity brother Brad Wallis said. "The
fraternity comes second and school comes first because
even though the fraternity helps with networking, if you don’t
have the grades, you can’t gel the job that you want.”
Preparing brothers for a successful future is one of the
fraternity’s main objectives, as Triangle pushes both brothers
and rush recruits to develop themselves into well-balanced
men. These expectations rest heavily on the shoulders of the
rush class at the end of the week, as they receive and accept
their bids to become full-fledged Triangle pledges. All
brothers are expected to manage their time efficiently while
conducting themselves with respect in an effort to uphold the
Triangle brotherhood and its code of ethics.
“We’re looking for someone that is constantly working
on themselves, not only in schoollbut socially within the
community and professionally” junior Jake Hoppert, pledge
educator of Triangle, said.
To give brothers the opportunity to become more active
in the community the fraternity works with non-profit
organizations like Habitat for Humanity Within the house,
senior brothers also try to teach young pledges more
practical life skills such as cooking and housework.
“A lot of guys don’t know this kind of stuff when they come
to college, so every Sunday we spend an hour cleaning the
house and then we eat together as a fraternity” sophomore
Conrad Bartke, a member of the spring rush class, said.
"The meal is prepared by our house caterer, Chops
[Robert Vogt], who picks a few of us pledges to go shopping
with him and then cook the meal. It’s a great way for pledges
to interact with brothers and learn at the same time.”
In the end, learning is what drives the men of Triangle.
Brothers join to learn, not just academically but also about
each other and themselves,
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banquet hall
filled th ¿thigh t
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«SpleLosh and AJyS(|C^caterra make the leap into
the pond at the LansMJj|3ar Plunge. The ladies
represented Kappa Delta in thei^fe^sto raise money
and take the plunge int^tlfasnlri waters.
Fred and Wilma Flintstone, Inspector Gadget and
400 others took a daring plunge into freezing waters
on Feb. 27. A bone-chilling water temperature of 34
degrees didn’t stop the characters from raising $70,000
for the Michigan Special Olympics.
At the seventh annual Lansing Polar Plunge at Eagle
Eye Golf Club, courageous participants formed teams
of three-to-four and were encouraged to wear costumes
to make the event "more festive, fun and add a whole
new quirk,” Anne Goudie, Lansing Area Director of
Special Olympics, said.
Each member was required to raise $50 by collecting
pledges to qualify for the event. Teams included groups
from local businesses and organizations like Harper’s
Restaurant and Brewpub, Woody’s Oasis, Lansing Police,
MSU Greeks and groups of friends.
Together, teams took the plunge into the pond,
holding hands, clenching fists, grinding teeth.
"As soon as I jumped in my body just jolted,”
Kathleen Loftus, junior and vice president of external,,
relations of the Panhellenic Council, said. “I felt like I
was convulsing, but it was actually really fun to feel that
adrenaline rush. It’s like nothing else.” --
Plungers were only in the water for a few moments,
and the police department’s dive team was in the water
with the jumpers. The East Lansing Fire Department
and paramedics were also on site.
This year, MSU Greeks got their first icy taste of
the Lansing Polar Plunge as a kick-off event for Greek
Week 2011.
"I had never done anything like this before,” said
Patrick Hunt, senior and vice president of external
relations of the Interfraternity Counc^R'Knowing I
could do something to raise money personally and
participated'myself was great. I was so happy to be a
part of that.”
MSU’s Greek sororities and fraternities fon
13 groups, each with one large fraternity one small
fraternity and one sorority One person from each house
was required to attend the Lansing Polar Plunge.
Matt Roberts, aqenior in FarmHouse, was dressed as
an iPhone with stiff, black cardboard hanging from his
neck down to his knees. He said he was happy to take
the plunge.
‘ ‘ Sometimes people think that people with challenges
can’t participate in athletic activities, but that’s not true,”
Roberts said. "Special Olympics provides a recreational
outlet for them.”
Goudie said MSU students volunteer for the
Special Olympics rather often, acting as referees and
scorekeepers. The group held a basketball tournament
in February and organized hockey and cross country
tournaments on campus.
“We’re active in and around the MSU community
We’re pretty visible on campus and I think that’s why
we’ve gotten such great support,” Goudie said.
The Special Olympics offers year-round athletic
training and competition to 19,000 athletes in the
state, in addition to 400 local competitions, regional
events and eight state-level competitions, said
Kimberly Purdy, public relations director of Special
Olympics Michigan.
The Lansing Polar Plunge is only one of 24 Polar
Plunge events across the state.
“The more participants we have for an event like
the Polar Plunge, the more money we raise to fund our
programs,” Purdy said. “It also helps raise awareness
and gives the Greeks an opportunity to get involved.”
Hunt said he hopes the Lansing Polar Plunge becomes
a tradition the Greek community can carry on.
"It’s great to see that students, parents, people from
the community and even senators could come together
a plunge to
raise funds
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the cdSs eounfusions due® a
simultaneous 5k me-, ¡ held on campus.
Zeta Tau Alpha sorority promoted
their event by decorating The Rock
in pink cancer ribbons and vibraraB
paint. Proceeds from the 5K race «jfi
were donated to the Susan G. Korrion
foundation.
Runners from thePotafau Alpha
“Think Pink!” 5k finish the ra® and
return to the ra|h|||i>n area. Bottled
water, bananas, apples, yogurt and
granola bars t^ge provided to th^H
event attendees and participant!*;
fellow ZTA senior Mary Dosch] did the
Greater Lansing Race for the Cure and
it was so moving. You’re meeting total
strangers and they’re telling you their
life stories.”
Though the cause was serious, ZTA
sisters did their besttokeepparticipants
light-hearted and motivated throughout
the race. Sisters cheered along the trail,
encouraging runners and walkers with
shouts and pink ribbon-shaped hand
clappers. ZTAmembers also distributed
snacks and water bottles to runners as
they crossed the finish line, devoting an
entire table to bagels, apples, bananas
and granola bars for all supporters.
As the last walkers crossed the
finish line and ZTA sisters began to
clean up decorations, the event came
to a close, but ZTA’s efforts did not.
The sorority plans to continue raising
money and awareness about breast
cancer by participating in other 5k
puns as well as the Yoplait Save Lids to
Save Lives campaign.
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of my close friends’ parents have had
cancer. My friend’s dad actually had to
go through a 17-hour surgery to have
it [a tumor] removed, so I wanted to
come out and support.”
The run also brought ZTA alumnaTerri
Roberts to campus in support of breast
cancer education and prevention.
‘ ‘I walked as a ZTA alum. I graduated
from the University of Central Florida,
so I’m a little out of state, but...we
[ZTA] have a long history of supporting
the Susan G. Komen Foundation and
breast cancer awareness, and I do
what I can,'.’ Roberts said.
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Beyond
sorority’s historic
donations of time and effort to the
foundation, senior ZTA sister Kara
Brockhaus had a more personal tie to
breast cancer.
"My mom
is a breast cancer
survivor so that’s why I walked. It’s a
great cause; I’m graduating next year
but I’ll still come back and walk,” she
said. ‘‘Last year we [Brockhaus and
The ladies of Delta Gamma, Fijmand Delta Kappa Epsilon
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Students of Sigma Delta Tau, Sigma Phi
Epsilon, Alpha Kappa Psi collaborated for a
high school football-themed performance.
As one of numerous fundraising events held
throughout the week, Songfest raised mone|i
for organizations such as The American
Cancer Society; Big Brother, Big Sister,
Listening Ear, and MS.U Safe Place.
Members of Sigma Delta Tau, Sigma Phi
Epsilon, Alpha Kappa Psi joined forces to
perform a football-themed dance routine.
Songfest raised money for selpral sorority
and fraternity sponsored charittffiS
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Greeks come together for
final Greek Week event
The Sunday afternoon felt like a Saturday
night inside the auditorium April 17 as
Greeks took the stage for Songfest.
The event featured 13 performances
from different teams, with two fraternities
and one sorority represented in each group.
Songfest marked the end of Greek Week
2011, in which numerous events were held
lo benefit the American Cancer Society;
Big Brother, Big Sister; MSU Safe Place and
Listening Ear.
Backstage,
teams were practicing
routines and chanting the names of their
fraternities and sororities loud and clear. It
was impossible to avoid bumping shojiiders
with other students and the general public
as they flooded the auditorium lobby
Before the first team took the stage,
the audience lit up with green glowsticks
around their necks, red ones in hand, as the
lights in the auditorium dimmed.
Delta Gamma, Delta Kappa Epsilon and
Phi Gamma Delta set off the show with a
dance routine which they described as
“an evolution of high school fads.” Flips,
synchronized movements,;;; tutus and a
piece to N*Sync’s “Bye Bye Bye,” left the
audience dancing by their seats.
Twelve acts followed, each with their
own theme. Delta Chi, Kappa Sigma and
Kappa Kappa Gamma, for example, took to
the stage in plaid shirts, shorts and short
skirts to form “The Brat Pack,” depicting the
group of teen actors form the 1980s. They
danced to music from Sixteen Candles and
The Breakfast Club.
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But none of this was easy work.
Sophomore Nicole Gomez of Kappa
Kappa Gamma said “The Brat Pack”
started practicing their songfest routine in
February
“We aren’t really talented dancers, but we
had to practice a lot to make sure our moves
were synchronized and entertaining,” she said.
Though Gomez claimed she has no
dancing talent, there wasn’t a silent moment
from the audience in the auditorium that
afternoon as she and the rest of “The Brat
Pack” strutted their stuff onstage.
“It was great to see the Greek community
all in one place,” sophomore and Delta Chi
member Kyle Vellmure said. “Everyone
was supportive and I had a lot of fun getting
to know people in other fraternities and
sororities.”
Junior Colby Lievens of Alpha Gamma
Rho said Songfest was the perfect event to
bring Greek Week to a close.
. “I really got to know so many people
in the Greek community through this
event,The said. “Instead of having a few
representatives from your own fraternity or
sorority participating in an event, everyone
is involved.”
Junior Jessica Salley of Zeta Tau Alpha
said Songfest has become suchia staple of
Greek Week for this very reason.
“We always have a big turnout for this
event,” she said. “It’s just fun. Everyone you
know is up on stage singing and dancing.
It’s hard to not have a smile on your face.”
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Chi Omega and Fiji host a carwash to benefit the Make-A-Wish foundation
Five-year-old Carlos had one wish. He wanted to go on a shopping
spree to Toys ‘R Us, riding there and back by way of limousine. Last
year his wish was granted thanks to the contributions of the women
of Chi Omega.
Chi Omega’s national partner in philanthropy is the Make-A-Wish
foundation, so the M.SU chapter’s fundraising efforts are geared toward
raising money to grant the wishes of children with life-threatening
medical conditions. Last year, the fundraising paid off as the sorority
had garnered enough funds to make Carlos very happy for a day
“He got picked up in a limo and was taken to Toys ‘R Us, and just
had a fabulous day” senior Megan Carter, former vice president and
philanthropy chair for Chi Omega, said.1 ‘We got pictures with him and
all of his purchases. It was just nice to see how, on a really personal
level, our contributions made a difference in somebody’s life.”
With this success in mind, the sorority is working to grant another
wish through various fundraising events. One of their latest efforts
came in collaborating with the Phi Gamma Delta (Fiji) fraternity to
host a car and bike was! April 21, 2011, in the rear parking lot of the
Chi Omega house. From noon to 5 p.m. the two Greek organizations
washed vehicles of all sizes in exchange for donations for the Make-
A-Wish foundation.
“The Fiji boys approached us and wanted to do a car wash, so we
said ’Why not make it into our philanthropy event for the Make-A-i
Wish Foundation?”’ sophomore Laura Donofrio, the co-philanthropy
chair for Chi Omega, said.
The estimated cost of granting a wish is $5,000. A large portion
of those funds come via organizing and hosting a large soccer
tournament every year called the Karen King Kickoff, named in honor
of a Chi Omega sister’s friend who was murdered in 1997. It’s an open
tournament for people to put teams together to play for a giant trophy
at Lansing's SoccerZone. All of the proceeds go toward the chapter's
own personal wish fund through the Make-A-Wish foundation. Once
they reach the amount, they’re set up with a kid in need of a granted
wish.
Chi Omega’s relationship with the Make-A-Wish foundation has
led to some special opportunities to reach ourno those they help.Bast
year, they helped put on a holiday party for kids of the Make-A-Wish
program, as well as for any parents or siblings who have or have had
a child in the program before.
“We really enjoyed doing that because we got to meet the kids; we
weren’t just giving money” Carter said. “We got to face-paint and do
crafts with them, and there was a band, and all the parents were there.
It was really nice to meet these kids firsthand.”
The men of Phi Gamma Delta are active on the philanthropy scene
as well. They partner with the American Red Cross to organize and
run a monthly blood drive on campus. Their big event is Hoops for
Hunger, wheMthey rent out IM Circle to host a basketball tournament
similar to the Karen King Kickoff, with all proceeds donated to local
food banks.
Phi Gamma Delta is relatively new on campus, revived in 2009
after a ten-year absence. The brothers said that doing cooperative
events like the car wash not only helps get their name out in the
community but also allows them to work with other Greeks towards
similar philanthropic goals.
“It’s for the betterment of Greek organizations to reach out,” junior
Cameron Dole said, vice president of Phi Gamma Delta. “The more
we can do with other fraternities and sororities, the better.™
As cars pulled in and out of the sorority the car washers worked to
B.o.B.’s tune “Airplanes,” in which Paramore’s Hayley Williams sings,
Mcould really use a wish right now.” It was a fitting reminder for the
women of Chi Omega to work towards finding their next Carlos, and
give him a day he'll never forget.
Junior Cameron Dole and sophomore Sam^Hrian put the
finishing touches on a freshly washed Buick.. There was n<|
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cruise out dltheWlke-A-Wish Carwash on af|feshly
cleaned moped. The combined Chi Omega: and Phi
Gamma Belt car wash lasted from noon until ®>;m. in the
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Fraternities and sororities take a trip back to high school during Greek Week
Senior and Kappa Sigma brother Scott Hudda has
been playing the violin foil'd 7 years. In high school,
he kept at his talent in earnest logging countless
hours of practice as the Detroit Youth Philharmonic’s
precocious concertmaster..
Now, he’s a packaging major, and playing the
instrument is merely a creative release, a buffer
against the monotonous drag of his schoolwork and
other less artistic obligations.
Likewise, his concept of practicing has now
reverted to the spontaneous, do-it-when-I-feel-like-it
sessions characteristic of a casual musician. And so
his gift chugs along largely underused during the
year.
That is, of course, until Greek Week.
For one week in the spring, MSU’s fraternities
and sororities team up and compete against one
¿another as a last philanthropic hurrah before the
end of the year. This year, money was raised for
Special Olympics; Big Brother, Big Sister; Safe
Place, an organization dedicated to ending sexual
and domestic violence; and Listening Ear, a 24-hour
crisis center in Lansing.
But when it was once again time for the annual
Battle of the Bands competition at the Auditorium on
Friday, April 15, the Greek community’s undercover
guitarists, singers, dancers, drummers andmusicians
revealed themselves on stage, Hudda included.
"I love playing here because it gives me a reason
to get back into music and just rock out with a bunch
of other people,” he said.
This year’s theme was high school throughout
the decades, and sure enough, the night was chock
full of the clichés appointed to the teens of the 20th
century
There were
jocks, iaerds, punks, burnouts,
cheerleaders, greasers and rebels performing
under subthemes like detention and spring break.
Each performance in turn felt like a live parody of
"The Breakfast Club” or "Sixteen Candles” set to
the tune of mom and dad’s rock and roll.
With almost all 2,600 of MSU’s Greeks in
attendance® the roar of the Auditorium was
deafening.
‘ ‘ I think' apprehension' is the right word,’ ’ Delta Chi
senior Mitchell Craig said after belting out "Jessie’s
Girl” on stage, clad in a bright blue varsity jacket
and sunglasses. "You always get a little nervous.”
Moreover, the night was about entertainment
and strengthening the camaraderie of the Greek
community, he said.
®|For many it was their favorite night of the week.
‘ You don’t expect someone to have musical talent,”
Pi Beta Phi junior Lizzie Curcuru said. "It’s especially
cool to see someone you know up there.”
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THE 2011 RED CEDAR LOG YEARBOOK
The Red Cedar Logis an award-winning,
professional
produced
publication
solely by students- students who have a
passion for writing, photography design,
business and editing. And by combining
their talent and creativity into one staff,
these students produced a yearbook that
documents the memories of over 13,000
undergraduates, some of whom will
cherish their book for a lifetime.
Producing a 400 page book is no
small feat, and every year brings a
new set of challenges. But through the
collaborative efforts of 26 dedicated
staff members, we rose above
the
obstacles and successfully created a
yearbook focusingKpon the many layers
composing Michigan State University
In an effort to peel back the layers of our
great campus, we hoped to expose and
document the lesser-known happenings
of MSU and showcase the individuals
that make this university unique. Whether
those layers be class tiers- freshman,
sophomore, junior, senior; or indentity-
student, staff, faculty administration; pr
perhaps organizational* clubs, sports,
Greeks; each layer together contributes
to the way we live our lives as Spartans.
Though we can’t cover every event
or organization on campus throughout
the year, we hope that this book, at bare
minimum,
something
touches upon
memorable and special for every student,
and reminds them of their experience as
a member of the Spartan family
Content editor Angie Jackson, assistant
photo editor Erica Treais, editor-m-cMIf
VicariVollmar, assistant llntent editor
Isaac Hee :a|H design editor Jessica
Halfyard holdjphoto editor Maison Robinson
6n the balcony of the Biltmore Hotel in
Providence, RI. Thgeditorial||taff visited for
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Design: The Red Cedar Log was produced •
completely on; Macintosh computers fqrjjageJ-
layouts, photo editing and word processing. AH
computers were networked tnróùghfaLaCie Œ”
Rack NAS Ethernet Disk. Software used included
Adobe‘(ÎS3 Master Suite and Microsoft Office 2,004.
Type:HHheadlines, folio àfffl-paBBWpas
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All Body copjlapd cap^ffiavere created with
Rockwell Standard Light.
Photography: The photography of the Red
Cedar Log, with the ex®pti©»>f senior
portraits and -ai&fllmission of women’s varsity
is whofly the original work pi
the photographers
The cameras and’flash urut^feed were from the
Canon produdgpre, with «cdrnbination of Canon
and Sigma lenses. Some photographers chose tg
use their penlpnal e'guivalenti^^pipment.! ■ ■
Advertising: Educational Services, Inc. yyas th^H
Red Cedar L®g‘s advertising ccpjpany TlapH,
provided fte yearbook with 14 pages of black
and white advertisement^^H
;eqii"|ls- ¿¡lout ,$3:,per student, for the publication^
of the ydaba^gALS: students'ireturnedtoiSchodl
in aBBS? theterevious^Sris ye'axBook could
be picked up,'at varicSfeialKio^Mr^s
andfinsbn-c'ampus buildings, For a small fee,
Bumni caiman bp ks shippec.-to thcS^H
AEexp^^^^^were paid for with funds
earned through partnership with Herff Jones
Photography and Educational Services, Inc.
Content m the yearbwk were determined
byi^Bditor-in-Chief, the |||nterit§4anagmg
Editor, the Phqigjgraphy Managing Editor and
the Design ManacrmpBditor withlBnsiddration
of retiSsts from student organizations.tp be
featured in the publication free of charge. There
were noJ^^Byrdqeiypd; from ftfe university. A
totailf lsSBMfte^fthe 400-page, full-cdlbr
|§earbook printed from' JcSeajs Inc., costing
$13|jSo.
Copyrig ht: The Red Cedar Log is copyrighted
byWcariWlmar, EditorSpMef. No part of thSS?
book?^^fbfip3rodu(Md withouftprior conse^S
Acknowledgements: Thank ydu for all your help..
Wefeifdn’t have done this wi®ut you,
Finance and Operation: The Rod-Cedar Leg is
an entirely student-run publication, designed, <
produced arid managed by students. Each
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semester,iSslSsU' provided a set amcn||Jgpf
revenue-throughiStudent tax dollars, whijc||igsg
■Mike Laiferty Tim Ross, everyone froru the Jostens
plant, T
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Matt York, Eric Endlich, Kathy WaliczekMssie
Spears and Helen Cannon.
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The Red Cedar Log staff enjoysj
an afternoon outdoors as content
editor Angie Jackson leads the staff
in a 30-minute yogareession. Staff
members provided a picnic afterward
for their first bonding outting.
Mason Robinson
Staff members gather in photo editor Erica!
Treais’ living room for a final goodbye. Each
staff member brought a dish to pass, as well
as a homemade gift for their editor-in-chief.
Post-stall
staff packs ir
Services! With
often he
Studying a proof, journalist Jacob Kanclerg
edits his work for errors. All staff members
were required to edit proofs before
spreads were sent for final submission.
In celebration of Halloween, staff members
gather H assistanSphoto editor Erica
Treais' living room. Costumes included
'Snooki,' ‘Daria,’ 'Basement Cat,’ 'Ms.
Frizzle,’ and a MINI Cooper.
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Designer Brendan Prost smiles for the
camera during a weekly staff meeting.
The design staff met Monday nights after
the staff meeting to conducts critiquespn
completed assignments.
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Clad in America-themed attire, a portion O
the Red Cedar l||g staff gathers during the
end-of-the-year party fli a familyiphoM
The staff sang;"God Bless America” before
. serving dinner.
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EDITORIAL
Editor-in-Chief | Vicari Vollmar
Business Manager l Laura Sunisloe
Design Managing Editor I Jessica Halfyard
Photography Managing Editor I Erica Treais
Assistant Photo Managing Editor I Ellina Stein
Content Managing Editor I Angie Jackson
Assistant Content Managing Editor | Isaac Hee
Copy Editor I Alexandra Ghaly
STAFF
Journalists I Jacob Kanclerz, Jessica Whitmill, Courtney Zott,
Kritika Bharadwaj, Ian Kullgran, Adelina Schmidt
Photographers I Hilary Higgins, Natalie Kolb, Veronica Nagy,
Cassie Allore, Chase O’Black, Anthony Thibodeau
Designers I Betsy Eber, Saralee Gordon, Brendan Prost
Distributors I Zachary Albright, Timothy Flis, Brian Morisette
SPECIAL THANKS
Audrey Aquino, Jennifer Garavaglia, Nitin Jacob, Carly
Maniewski, Natalie Patterson, Mason Robinson, Rodneya
Ross, Marissa Russo
Content editor Angie Jackson, assistant content
editor Isaac Hee, editor-in-chiefVicari Vollmar
and copy editor Alexandra Ghaly listen intently
to another staff member. Ice-breakers were used
during each staff meeting for bonding and laughs.
Helicopter mot
Photo editor Mason Robinson, assistant photo
editor Erica Treais and photographer Ellina Stein
prepare for a helicopter ride above campus.
Selected photographers have the opportunity to
shoot aerial photos of MSU each year.
Copy editor Alexandra Ghaly smiles for the
camera during a weekly staff meeting. Ghaly
wasEesponsible for editing copy for AP Style,
grammar, spelling and factual errors.
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Photographer Jennifer,Garavaglia
appears from behind curtains in the]
home of photoleditor Erica Treais. Treais’
homo was often used for staff gatherings.
Designer Saralee Gordon, design editor
Jessica Halfyard and designer Betsy Eber
work in the designeSfcor-nerMf thlgRed
Cedar Log office. A sticky notepcrafted
menorah sticks to the wall in celebratigrg
of Hannukah.
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:. at the camera during a weekly staff
meeting. Red Cedar Log stiff meetings
were held Monday nights at 9 p.m. in 328
Student Services.
The. content department salutes America
with their editor-in-chief at the Red Cedar
Log end-of-the-year gathering. Staff
members sported cut-offs, plaidgnd red,
which and blue in support of thaU.S.
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Red Cedar Log office, the
photography staff huddles
for a family portrait. Th|*S
phSography department
consisted of an editor,
assistant editor, three staff
photographers and three
intern photographers.
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Journalist: Jessica WhitmiU goofs off
¡Muring a Red Cedar Log weekly
staff meeting. Weekly business, story
assignments and critiques were
discussed during staff meetings.
In preparation for a weekly staff meeting,
qditor-in-chiefVicariVollmar plans the
agenda at her deslg in 31 IB Student
Services. Vollmar’s desk was often
littered with lists, sticky notes and food.
to my rcl children:
In February 2010,1 was hired as your 2010-2011 Red Cedar Log editor-in-chief.
After several months of wrapping up my second academic year and finishing yet
another volume, I took my post as the sole leader of a 26-person staff with the
responsibility of producing a 400-page book documenting the memories of the
undergraduate students at Michigan State University- a task as large as the student
body itself.
My greatest fears were failing to make an impact on each of you and failing to
efficiently revive the faultering communication and ineffective work flow of this
department. I refused to coast through our nine months together- enjoying the ride,
to me, meant sacrificing my time, energy and sometimes my sanity to take my staff
and our book to the greatest heights. My expectations were exceeded, but the
ultimate result-1 couldn’t have fathomed such success.
My editorial staff, all of you exceeding my age, stunned me with your passion
for and knowledge of your craft. It was your incredible sense of responsibility for
your departments, your dedication to improvement and your drive to excell that
stabilized the core of this department. I couldn’t have asked for a more outstanding
group of leaders to help maintain order, while aiding the growth of our staff.
While most outsiders consider my title as your editor-in-chief as foremost, a glowing
mark on my resume, I considered my position as a opportunity to positively
influence your lives, teach you something, whether helpful or important, and assist
in catapulting your creativity to destinations unseen. I only hope that as a bare
minimum, I taught you the importance of placing your heart and your soul and all
that you are into the things you care about most.
To watch each of you grow, in skill and personality and as a direct result of my
leadership, was one of the most amazing accomplishments of my time spent with
the Red Cedar Log. Your stories transformed into captivating, original pieces. Your
photographs reflected passion, with nothing left to be desired by the viewer, Your
designs pushed the boundaries of creativity
Although it is our responsibility together, to document the memories of over 33,000
undergraduate students in print, our memories will forever lie within the walls of our
cheery green office, the third floor of Student Services and venues of East Lansing.
Our unconventional ice-breakers, our Friday afternoons, our celebrations, our
conflicts, our devouring food, our laughter, and each one of you will remain forever
nestled in my heart.
I worked hard, sweat, panicked, cried and fought for each of you. In return, thank
you for consistently exceeding my expectations. Thank you for your hard work,
your dedication, your own sacrifice of time, energy and sanity Thank you for always
supporting me, as both employees and as friends, and for giving me yet another
reason to love this life.
Wherever you find yourself, I know that with the determination you’ve displayed as
my staff, each of you are capable of achieving greatness. Never settle.
Always and forever your Momma M
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Alliance of Queer & Ally
Students, The
Allido Records
Alocilja, Evangelyn
Alpha Kappa Alpha
Alpha Kappa Delta Phi
Alpha Omicron Pi
Alpha Phi Alpha
Alpha Phi Omega
Altizer, Jessie
Amcker, Jon
American Cancer Society
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American Counseling Association
American Red Cross
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Anastos, Tom
Angelakos, Michael
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Appling, Keith
Arab Cultural Society
Arab Culture Month
Archery Club
Argiros, Nichole
Army Reserve Officers'
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Asian Invasion
Asian Pacific American Student
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Associated Press
Associated Students of Michigan
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Baillie, Nathan
Baillie, Owen
Baillie, Steve
Baird, Sarah
Baird, Sheridan
Baker Woodlot
Baker, Edwin
Baker, Emma
Balog, Mary
Bandri, Preethi
Barbasol
Barnes, Cassie
Barpago, Dushyant
Barry, Zach
Bartke, Conrad
Baseball
Basement, The
Bastyr University
Bates, Adam
Bathgate, Chris
Battist, Elizabeth
Be Spartan Confident Week
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Beal Street
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Abbas, Anzar
Abbas, Kay
Abbot Hall
Abbott Cafeteria
Abbott Road
Abdullah, Amir
Albert Avenue
Ables-Allison, Elle
Abrams Planetarium
Acafellas
Adams Field
Adams, Megan
Adams, Randy
Adams, Walter
Adelaja, Angel
Aerosmith
African Acrobats International
African American Student Mentoring
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African Culture Week
African Student Union
African Studies Center
AIDS
Aisha Shule
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Aladdin Night
All Member Party
All Saints Episcopal Church
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Beaudry, Eric
Beaumont Tower
Beautiful Bliss
Beaver Stadium
Beck, Bryan
Beels, Kaitlyn
Bega, Rubin
Behring, Ryan
Beiber, Justin
Bell, LeVeon
Belle, David
Belons
Bene, Kevin
Bent Jones, Krystall
Berkey Hall
Berkobien, Andrew
Berlinsky, Dmitri
Bernero, Virg
Bessey Hall
Beyer, Rachel
Beyonce
Bhattacharya, Rishi
Bierlein, Stephanie
Big Dipper, The
Big East
Big House
Big Sean
Big Ten Network
Bike Project
Bike Shop
Billings, Ashley
Billington, Anne
Billops, Kaitlyn
Black and Gold
Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears
Black Poet Society
Black, Sarah
Blacklight Planetarium
Blackwell, Brionna
Blanchard, Irene
B ind Faith
Block, Andrew
Bluffton Bay Marina
Bock, Dan
Bockstanz, Joseph
Bodrie, Hannah
B kram, Ronda
Bolton, Steve
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Bonneau, Rachel
Bonner, Will
Bonoban, Danielle
Book of Revelation
Bosco, Cara
Bosko, James
Bott Building
Bouchard, Mikayla
Bouse, Cortney
Bowl Championship Series
Boy Who Lived, The
Bradford, Josh
Bradley, Emily
Bratschi, Britteny
Brazen, Evan
Breadsmith
Breakdance Club
Bredael, Alexandra
Brennan, Michelle
Breslin Center
Bridge Card
BRIGHT
Broad, Edythe
Broad, Eli
Brockhaus, Kara
Brody Cafe
Brody Complex
Brody Hall
Brody Square
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Brown Pride
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Brown, Dave
Brown, Jeremy
Brown, Quentin
Bruer, Canlon
Bubble Island
Bucephalus
Buck, Greg
Buffalo Wild Wings
Burcham Drive
Burgis, Betty
Burk, Jack
Burke, Paige
Burr, Matthew
Burton, Naomi
Butler, Gerard
Byrnes, Robert
Calcaterra, Alysse
Calcaterra, Angela
California Gurls
Call of Duty
Capital Green
Capital One Bowl
Capitol
Capitol Area Red Cross
Capoeira Club
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Carol, Jillian
Carver, Jamila
Case Cares
Case Credit Union
Cassidy, Molly
Cast, Tom
Castillo, Lynn
Castle, Dana
Catch Me If You Can
Cedar Fest
Celebration Cinema
279
Center for Poetry
Center for Sexual Health Promotion
78
Central Collegiate Hockey Association 242
279
Chalk Walk
159
Champlin, Chelsea
248
Chandler, Rebecca
92
Chandler’s Crossing
97
Chatti, Leila
180
Cheersport Nationals
68
Cheetah Jameson
243
Chelios, Dean
213
Chen, Xia
209
Chen,Yangcheng
82
Chestnut Road
87
Chillin’
217
Chinese Student Coalition
22
Chip Tha Ripper
275
Chopin, Frederick
14
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Christmas
16,81
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Christopherson, Julie
51
Chunk of Change
46
Church, Zach
247
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59
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Civil War
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154
Clatterbuck, David
84
Clay, Kyra
Cleberg, Grant
201
300, 301
Clevey, Jordan
41
Clobes, April
158
Club Fencing Championships
Club National Rowing
College of Law
College of Music
College of Natural Science
College of Nursing
College of Osteopathic Medicine
Collegiate National Race
Collegiate Nationals
Comilla, Julie
Comley, Rick
Community
Community Resource Management
Company
Community Supported Agriculture
Community Volunteers for
International Programs
Coney Dawg Challenge
Controlled Substances Act
Cook, Stephanie
Cooke, Jennifer
Cooler Than Me
Cooley, Ian
Coppernoll, Courtnie
Cordero, Bobby
Corneal, Chris
Corrigan, Maura
Cotton, Bryan
Courey, Beth
Cousins, Kirk
Covington, Justin
Coyne, Evan
CPR
Creed, John
Cropsey, Evamarie
Cross Country
Crouse, David
Cruz, Taio
Cuadrado, Aida
Cultural Vogue
Culturas de las Razas Unidas
Culver, Adeline
Cunningham, Taylor
Curie, Marie
Curtis, Brynne
Curtis, Wesley
Cusick, Dr. Philip
Cutler, Brooke
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Cogswell, Jack
Cole, James
College Against Cancer
College of Agriculture and Natural
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College of Education
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Dargo, Jason
Davison, Angie
Day of the Dead
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Dead Sea, The
Dean, Nazrin
Debniak, Abbey
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DeGroot, Ben
Deguzman, Xavier
DeLosh, Sydney
Delta Chi
Delta Chi Car Smash
Delta Gamma
Delta Gamma Anchor Slam
Delta Gamma Anchor Splash
Delta Gamma Foundation
Delta Sigma Theta
Delta Tau Lambda
Delta Xi Pho
DeMartin Soccer Field
DeMates, James
Demmer Center
Demmer, C.J.
Demmer, John
Demmer, Marnie
Demonstration Field
Demonstration Hall
Dennehy, Claire
Department of Fisheries
and Wildlife
Department of Horticulture
Department of Theatre
Desarmo, Brent
Despins, Bradley
Detroit
Detroit Auto Dealers Association
Detroit Department of Health
Detroit Free Press, The
Detroit Lions, The
Devine, Kathy
DeWitt Junior High
DeWitt Township
Dhillon, Navmeet
Dickenson, Tyler
Difonzo, Ashley
Dig Dug (Shake It)
Diller, Katie
Dimond, Courtney
Dino Dash
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176 Mason, Ron
91 Mathis, Johnny
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100 Mazur, Josh
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96 McCabe, Kelsey
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296 McDonald, Chelsea
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177 McGregor, Dave
69 McGuigan, Phil
71 McIntosh, Tyler
62 Mcintyre, Kyle
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59 McWilliams, Patrick
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78 Ramen Noodles
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71 Redner, Nathan
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87 Reinstein, Joel
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Schuiling, Rebecca
Schultz, Makena
Schumann, Robert
Schwartz-Duval, Aaron
Schwartz, Jackie
Schwemmin, Kevin
Schwinn
SCOUT BANANA
Seckar-Anderson, Lacey
Seifert, Brad
Service for Sight
Service Road
Sexposure
Seymour, Kristen
Shafer, Rick
Shafiq, Zubair
Shah, Natasha
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192, 193 Sollenberger, Emeritus Harold
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166 Somebody to Love
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279 Soule, Katie
105 South Complex
143 South Neighborhood
275 Southeastern Conference
203 Spano, Michael
213 Sparrow Superstars
274 Spartan Battalion
203 Spartan Civilian Club
158 Spartan Competitive
287
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287 Spartan Dischords
216, 217 Spartan Enology Society
194, 195 Spartan Innovation Celebration
296 Spartan Marching Band
286, 287 Spartan Remix
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162, 163 Special Days Camps
163 SPECTRUM
156 Speed Dating
162, 163 Speedo
91
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Spirit Fest
St. John’s Student Center
St. Patrick’s Day
Stalker
Stander, Olivia
Stanford, Linda
Stannard, Kylie
Starbucks
State News, The
State of Fifths
State Room, The
Steele, Jacquese
Steinmetz, Jantine
250, 251
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126 Stoddard Avenue
69 Stolarsky, Becca
Stoll-Alvarez, Crystal Maria
299
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57 Stoppel, Hannah
48 St rad ley, Steven
52 Strauch, Alex
263
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Student Alumni Foundation
Student Apparel Design
180, 181
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Student Government
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276 Student Life
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58. 59 Students for Sensible
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Sturgis, Chad
Summers, Durrell
102, 103 Supreme Court, The
179 Surplus Store
14, 15, 24 Susan G. Komen Foundation
59 Swarthout, Kris
20 Swartz, John
278 Swimming and Diving
69 Syedanaur, Sarifah
Sylvester, Tyler
100, 101
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22
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Tai Chi
Taj Mahal
Takacs, Danielle
Shane, Trevor
Shaner, Wilson
Sharawi, Sarah
Shaver, Chrissy
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Sigma Gamma Rho
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8 Sikh American Legal Defense and
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1 Silver, Sarah
4 Simon and Garfunkel
4 Simon, Lou Anna K.
4 Simons, Zach
3i Sims, Mackenzie
9 Sinatra, Frank
1 Sirls, Felix
0 Sirls, Paula
5 Sit or Spin
7 Skee-Week
8 Sky Theater, The
Skype
Sleep Out for the Homeless
Sleepyhead
Smalley, Ryan
Smela, Tim
Smith-Tyge, Nate
Smith, Alex
Smith, Capt. Joe
Smith, Kelly
Smith, Samantha
Smith, Shelby
Smith, Tony
Smucker, Alvin
Snarski, Kyle
Snowboard Club
Snyder Hall
Snyder v. Phelps
Snyder-Phillips
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Society for Creative
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207 Van Steenis, Jane
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291
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53 Veenhuis, Brock
170 Veg Out
299 Veitengruber, Jon
258, 259 Verdin, Ruth
69 Vibe, The
233 Vidlund, Jessica
Vidlund, Ryleigh
290, 291
97 Vietnam War
Vietnamese Student Association
151
272 VIM Magazine
92 Vincent Chin Memorial Room
17 Vincent, Bill
43 Vogt, Robert
46 Voldemort
68 Volleyball
112, 113
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Wahl, Kathryn
126 Waiee, Tracee
Wakoski, Diane
143 Wale
100 Walker, Andrew
61 Walker, Blair
78 Wallis, Brad
14, 15 Walsh, Chris
Takacs, Stephanie
Tall, Saffal
Tan, Theresa
Taneja, Vikash
Tavor, Talya
Team USA
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Thanksgiving
Think Pink 5k Run/Walk
Third Eye Blind
Thompson, Lisa
Thompson, Spencer
Thousand Hands
Threats, Megan
Timacdog, Jeremy
Timms-Fryer, Justin Brodie
Tomaschko, Calvin
Tomke, Dave
Topping, Alice
Torrez-Miner, Mexica
Toyota
Track and Field
Transgender Awareness Week
Treadwell, Blake
Triangle Fraternity
Tripi, Angie
Trowbridge Road
Trusty, Andrew
Trzeciak, Marla
Tupancy, Laura
Turban Night
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Tweedie, Isiah
Twitter
Tzeng, Steve
U.S. Embassy
U.S. Intercollegiate Archery
Championships
UAB Human Resource Committee
Uhrig, Genelle
UNAIDS
Underwater Hockey
Union Ballroom
United Nations
United States Fencing
Association
University Activities
100, 276, 296, 297 Wanderer’s Teahouse and Cafe
78 Washington Post
Washington, Denzel
158 Waterloo, Brandon
Watkins, Sean
Board
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95, 100, 101 Watza, Elizabeth
University of Michigan
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Urena, Amanda
V Foundation for Cancer Research
46 Way, Emery
80 Wayne, Forest
94 Weber, Brian
299 Weber, Kelly
Webster, Ryan
Webster, Samantha
Webster, Sonya
Weeks, Kathryn
Weerasinghe, Oshan
Weickmann, Andrew
Weigel, Wayne
96, 97 Weihl, Stefan
100, 101, 213 Weintraub, Justin
285 Wells Hall
180 Wendzinski, Julia
396 West Circle
241 West Circle Drive
241 West Fee Hall
273 West Shaw Lane
110 West, Kanye
105 Westboro Baptist Church
46 Western Wall
210 Whalen, Kelly
21 Wharton Center
21 What Up Dawg?
170, 171 Whelan, Joey
154, 155 Whelan, Tracie
81 Whirpoo Building Blocks Program
81 Whirpool
151 Whitehead, Shaun
217 Whitman, J.T.
112, 113 Wianno
207 Wicaksono, Yodi
151 Wickes, Tim
291 Wiese, Claire
71 Wilcox, Kim
260, 261 Williams, Caroline
Willis, Tammy
Wilsey, Sarah
Wilson Hall
Wilson, Alex
Wilson, Ashley
Wilson, Sal
Wind Symphony
Windt, Katie
214 Wiza, Jesse
73 Wizard of Oz, The
151 Woelmer, Jill
86, 87, 399 Woiwode, Anne
71 Wojno, Danielle
204 Wolverines
291 Women’s Basketball
35 Women’s Epee Squad
28, 29 Women’s Glee Club
87 Women’s Golf
202, 203 Women’s Soccer
272 Women’s Tennis
99 Wonders Hall
102 Woody’s Oasis
248 Woolard, Cherisse
213 Wooster, Derek
88 World AIDS Day
214 World War II
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Yoplait Save Lids to Save Lives
Young, Anthony
Young, Emily
Young, Katie
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Congratulations
to the Michigan State
University
Class of ¿010.
The Red Cedar Log
wishes you
the best of luck
on your future
endeavors.
You will forever
remain a member
of this greater
C ongratulations onyour graduation
from Michigan State University! The
investment you have made in your
education has come to fruition and
you are now officially an MSU alum. A
diploma from this university speaks
volumes about your dedication to
your course work,
independent
projects, community engagement,
and global understanding.
This past year, Michigan State has
continued to distinguish itself as a
university invested in its students,
faculty and the world. Together, we
have taught and learned, explored
pushed
and
ourselves
boundaries
resulting
of understanding. The
contributions of faculty staff, and
students continue to expand our
legacy as a Land Grant University
discovered,
and
and
the
Michigan State University has
persisted in making its presence
felt for the betterment of the world.
We have educated and empowered
future
leaders;;: you are one of
10,860 undergraduate and graduate
degree recipients that will leave your
footprint on this world. This past
year, MSU increased its number of
medical school graduates by almost
50 percent, helping ensure that the
underserved areas of Michigan will
have greater access to quality health
care in the near future. As access to
affordable oil has been challenged,
MSU
fast becoming one of
the
leading research centers for
alternative energy Across disciplines,
MSU researchers are seeking the
best solutions to ensuring a safe,
secure, and plentiful supply of water.
Biosensors, DNA chips, and more
is
water-efficient farming are among
this year’s advances, as well as major
in understanding
breakthroughs
both matter and energy. Research
that effects a positive difference in
people’s lives stands among MSU’s
top priorities—and in every corner
of the planet, MSU’s successes are
gaining recognition and improving
lives.
Michigan State
athletes have
continued to bring honor to the name
“Spartan.” A Big Ten championship
in football with Mark Dantonio taking
Big Ten Coach of the Year honors
kicked off a 2010-11 season that
included a Big Ten championship
for Women’s Basketball, Women’s
Cross Country Women’s Golf, and
Men’s Baseball. Outstanding Spartan
showings in rowing, crew, track and
field, and softball continued the
outstanding sports year.
As you enter the next stage of your
lives, I encourage you to carry your
Spartan Spirit with you. Michigan
State University has
imbued you
with a commitment to excellence—
for yourselves and the world
in
which you live. I know you will bring
honor to the MSU name as you carry
the values that are central to this
university to the world. I wish you
the best of luck in your continued
success.
Sincerely
Lou Anna K. Simon, Ph.D.
President
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