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Two hours and 17 minutes — that’s how long it takes to walk from Shaw Hall to LMTS Community Outreach Services, one of the Lansing area food pantries.

To walk to the Eastside Community Action Agency, a student living in Shaw would need to carve out one hour and 13 minutes. It would take 53 minutes to walk to the Haslett Community Food Bank.

A walk from Shaw Hall to Olin Health Center, where the MSU Student Food Bank is housed, takes about 13 minutes — but research suggests that more resources are needed for food insecure students.

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Bank Alliance, CUFBA, which was broken down in a previous State News article, found 48 percent of students nationally experienced food insecurity in the past month.

The report defines “very low food security” as significant decreases in quantity, quality and variety of food, along with disruptions in eating patterns because of inadequate access to food.

“I’m a single mom and so finances are definitely tough,” graduate student Trixi Beeker said. “I’m proud to be able to say that my son has never been short on food, but I definitely make some choices sometimes. Every week I make him lunch and the next day, whatever he hasn’t eaten in his lunch, I have for lunch.

I do all kinds of things to cut corners.”

MSU trustee Dianne Byrum said she’s proud of the resources MSU already has available for food insecure students.

“There’s always more that can be done, but there are services for students,” she said. “The food bank is a great example. The trustees put aside a certain percent of university-sponsored, need-based scholarships, and that’s something that we’ve always had as a priority.”

Although having an on-campus food pantry is an important first step, the MSU Student Food Bank doesn’t have the capacity to provide everything every food insecure student needs.

The MSU Student Food Bank works to “cut the grocery bill at least in half,” according to a recent advertisement taken out by the MSU Student Food Bank to call for holiday donations.

Students who still can’t afford the other half of the grocery bill will have to travel to another area food bank, which can take hours, even by bus.

Most Lansing area food banks have limited hours, making it even more difficult.

Beeker comes to the MSU Student Food Bank on its distribution day, which occurs every two weeks, but sometimes it conflicts with her class schedule.

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“We can address the reasons why our students are food insecure,” Edmonds said in a previous State News article.

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“I’m a single mom and so finances are definitely tough. I’m proud to be able to say that my son has never been short on food, but I definitely make some choices sometimes.”

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“The majority of food insecure students are struggling to make ends meet despite working or reaching out for assistance,” the report reads.

Seventy-five percent of food insecure students receive financial aid, but remain food insecure.

Programs like MSU’s Student Emergency Assistance Fund, which provides emergency money to students who can’t make rent payments or pay for their classes, are an important tool, according to the report.

Lowering the cost of tuition is a better way to help food insecure students, CUFBA co-founder Nate Smith-Tyge said in a previous State News article.

“If we can find a way to keep tuition more in check, we can find a way to not have to have food programs because people will have enough income to be able to afford food.”

Beeker agrees.

“Tuition is insanely expensive,” she said. “It’s so much harder for (people who struggle financially) to get into school, and stay in school, and do well and study. A lot of them have to work at the same time.”

Byrum said it’s too early to know if tuition will be raised for the eighth-straight year, since the university doesn’t know what the state appropriation will be yet.

“That’s a conversation that we haven’t started yet,” she said. “Decisions around tuition are, I believe, the most difficult vote that a trustee makes and they’re taken very seriously.”

Although the “Hunger on Campus” report suggests that students need more assistance than they currently receive, the MSU Student Food Bank is an important resource.

“The food bank is a lifesaver, literally,” Beeker said. “Coming here I see all these other people and so I know I’m not alone in struggling, and that helps, too.”

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Holland resident Jim Foley throws a Frisbee to Ranger during halftime during the game against Oral Roberts University on Dec. 3 at Breslin Center. Foley was the owner of MSU’s Zeke the Wonderdog who died recently. PHOTO: CARLY GERACI

Zeke the Wonderdog dies at 11-years-old

BY CONNOR CLARK CCLARK@STATENEWS.COM

MSU’s Zeke the Wonderdog, the high-flying Frisbee catching Yellow Labrador died unexpectedly Friday night around 11:45 p.m.

His owners, Jim and Terri Foley, said Zeke was shaking and had trouble eating upon returning home from the MSU women’s basketball game Friday against Oakland University. When rushing Zeke to the veterinary hospital, he died. Jim Foley said the cause was likely a tumor in Zeke’s abdomen that caused internal bleeding.

Zeke recently had blood and urine work done, however this tumor was hidden to these tests, Jim Foley said. Zeke went fast and never showed any signs of pain.

Zeke was soon to turn 12-years-old, his birthday a few weeks away on Dec. 19.

The Foley family said one of Zeke’s fondest memories was the Spartan Marching Band at home football games. After each halftime performance, the band would receive apples and would feed some to Zeke. Terri said Zeke loved to interact with the band while band members

traded off feeding him.

Jim Foley said one of Zeke’s happiest moments was when MSU’s former tight end Charlie Gantt streaked up-field to catch the game-winning 29-yard touchdown pass against Notre Dame in 2010 at Spartan Stadium. The play, labeled “Little Giants,” was a fake field goal attempt in overtime to win 34-31. Jim Foley said Zeke was sprinting back and forth in the endzone in excitement and celebration.

“Zeke belonged to not only our family but the Spartan family,” Terri Foley said. “He loved, at halftime running into the endzone, catching Frisbees.”

“Zeke belonged to not only our family but the Spartan family. He loved, at halftime running into the endzone, catching Frisbees.”

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MSU redshirt-senior returns from mission trip to shine as a runner

BY SOUICHI TERADA STERADA@STATENEWS.COM

During the 2014 NCAA Great Lakes Regional Championship, early in the race after the gun went off, an MSU athlete’s spike could be seen lying motionless after the scuffle to start the race.

Shoeless for nearly the entire 10,000 meter race, he still ran for a 25th-place finish, aiding the Spartans’ cause to qualify for nationals that year.

The runner, Sherod Hardt, now a 25-year-old redshirt-senior, had only one spike for nearly the entire 10,000 meter race.

“What got me through (regionals) was I looked at my teammates that were all around me and said, ‘I am running this race until I am the last person on the team,’” Sherod said. “Ultimately what got me through that race was thinking about our team’s goal of making it to nationals again.”

With a quarter-century to his name, he’s nicknamed “Grandpa Sherod” by his fellow runners and just wrapped up his cross country career with head coach Walt Drenth’s team.

In Sherod’s most recent race, Sherod ran for 27th place in the nation, leading the Spartans on his way

to his first collegiate All-American honor.

From his first year on campus in 2010 to now, Sherod’s been a college student for a long time. Following his freshman year at MSU, he took a twoyear hiatus in Oklahoma as part of his Mormon trip. Afterward, he returned to East Lansing and is now competing in his final year of eligibility. “(Sherod’s) got a lot going on his in his life,” Ryan Robinson, Sherod’s training partner, said. “He’s very strong in his faith, he’s Mormon. … For him to come back off of that two years of no exercise and rise back to the top, that really speaks to his relentless pursuit of being the best version of himself.”

The road to East Lansing Originally from Arizona, Sherod was surrounded by a family of runners since his youth. His parents, Shaun and Ellie Hardt, are both coaches at Queen Creek City High School. Two of his older sisters, Whitney and Kari, both ran at Arizona State University. “(Our parents) were a really big influence,” Whitney said. “Not only do they coach us in track or cross country, they always coached us in everything we did. So we had an opportunity to learn

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Kinesiology senior Sherod Hardt poses for a portrait on Dec. 3 at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at 431 E. Saginaw St. in East Lansing. Hardt placed 27th in the nation as an AllAmerican cross country runner. In his time at MSU, Hardt took a 2-year break in his athletic and academic course to pursue a Mormon missionary trip in Oklahoma. PHOTO: NIC ANTAYA

from them in pretty much every aspect of our lives.”

Before Drenth’s time at MSU, he coached the Sun Devils and recruited Sherod’s older sister, Whitney. While he left for East Lansing before he could coach her, a relationship blossomed with him and the Hardt family, which ultimately led to MSU becoming Sherod’s home for his collegiate career.

For Sherod, his recruitment by Drenth didn’t get started without a little push from mom. The head coach said during an indoor meet in Kentucky, Ellie came up to him to talk about recruiting her son, Sherod.

“I told (Sherod), ‘You need to meet Coach Drenth because he is a great person,’” Ellie said. “I knew his personality from his recruiting of my other daughter. So I said to (Drenth), ‘why haven’t you recruited him?’”

When Sherod came to MSU’s campus for his official visit just days after that conversation, the redshirt-senior said it was exactly what he had been looking for.

“When I came (to MSU) on my official visit, it just felt right, it felt normal,” Sherod said. “I knew I could trust in the coaches here. I felt like this team was family to me, as you think about it. When I was on my visit, I fell in love with this school.”

Oklahoma-bound Just one year at MSU later, Sherod embarked on a different cross country trip, this time to Oklahoma as part of his Mormon faith. He said it was something he thought of doing since high school, before having set foot in East Lansing.

Sherod said the main reason he decided to

go on the trip was because of one key aspect of his life — family.

“I was able to witness firsthand the goodness the church brought to my family,” Sherod said. “And how it brought my family out of the chaos of the troubles that they were in at the time. So just having that as a testimony builder to me, seeing the goodness that it brings into people’s lives, was enough for me to have that desire to go on a mission.”

Recently, the Hardt family watched one of their sons, Jayce, go off on his trip, this time to Mexico. While they’re gone for those two years, Kari said it’s a bittersweet moment watching their siblings leave.

“It’s just sad when they leave, because they come back a different person,” Kari said.

“A better person and they’re grown up, but they’re different. It’s hard to see them go and not being able to experience those two years of life with them, you just get to hear about it once a week.”

From a personality perspective, though, Drenth said while he did see a difference in maturity, Sherod was still the same person he was when he left.

“A lot of who he was (after the trip) didn’t change,” Drenth said. “It galvanizes faith and helped him mature. Anytime you take someone out of a comfort zone and move them somewhere for two years where they have to really sort themselves out, if they do a good job of that they come back as a more mature person.

They have better perspective on the world.”

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Spotlight As Sherod’s final season in cross country wore on, he reached the highest individual honor in the sport — earning the All-American nod in the NCAA championship meet. “(Becoming an All-American) was amazing,” Sherod said. “Coach Drenth and I, we’ve talked about this before. It’s definitely been a long journey. My freshman year I came in believing and knowing that I could be an All-American one day.”

From Drenth’s point of view, though, he said while the achievement was nice, he would have been proud of Sherod no matter the result.

“I’m elated for him (becoming an All-American),” Drenth said. “It’s a well-earned honor.

But my level of pride wasn’t going to change whether he ran 41st and just missed it or ran in the top 10. He’s been an amazing person to have around.”

Back home, Ellie, Whitney and Kari shared the moment together while they were volunteering at a meet. They had to watch it on a phone, which cut off sometime mid-way through. Despite it all, the three were able to share the moment.

“We were super proud of him,” Whitney said.

“He took off two years to serve a mission, he wasn’t able to run for two full years. It took him a while to get back into where he should be.

It was really exciting to get to watch him not only become an All-American, but do well at regionals, do well at the Big Ten championship.”

In 2008 and when Kari was a Sun Devil, she experienced the same thing as Sherod when she earned herself All-American honors. When she was able to watch her younger brother achieve the same thing, she said she got a little emotional.

“I just know the feeling of finally, it paid off,” Kari said. “Finally after all these miserable runs by myself in the summer paid off. There’s just no better feeling and getting to see him do that, it made me tear up.”

Finally, Graduation After seven years following high school, Sherod is set to graduate this upcoming spring.

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Kinesiology senior Sherod Hardt poses for a portrait on Dec. 3 at Ralph Young Field. Hardt placed 27th in the nation as an All-American cross country runner. Hardt will continue his athletic career as a track and field runner in the spring of 2017. PHOTO: NIC ANTAYA

He still has one more season of track and field to compete in, but after that, his time in the green and white will be up.

Through all the races and workouts at MSU, he’s had an influence on his peers, Robinson said.

Along with his age, there’s also a leadership aspect to it all.

“I think the best part about Sherod is the perfect blend of his ability to laugh and joke and keep the mood light as well as lead by example,” Robinson said. “As well as the fact he’s one of the most genuine people you will

ever meet.”

After MSU, Sherod said he’ll be applying to graduate school and that he is thinking of moving away.

While he’s unsure of where or when, he said it’ll be in the near future.

After the grind of competing as a collegiate athlete, Drenth said there are certain aspects of his time as a Spartan he can fall back on once he’s out in the real world.

“Athletics is a great learning platform for moving forward,” Drenth said. “You do find obstacles, you do end up in situations that are

not ideal. You do realize successes and setbacks. Having an opportunity to be in this environment and manage under stress will certainly help.”

Sherod said being a Spartan for the last seven years has been one of his life’s best adventures.

“MSU has been amazing to me,” Sherod said.

“It’s an experience that I don’t think I can fully put in words. It’s a life-changing experience. It has made me the person who I am today and it’s an experience I wouldn’t change for the world.”

“I felt like this team was family to me, as you think about it. When I was on my visit, I fell in love with this school.”

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Kinesiology senior Sherod Hardt holds out his All-American medal on Dec. 3 at Ralph Young Field. Hardt placed 27th in the nation as an All-American cross country runner. Hardt will continue his athletic career as a track and field runner in the spring of 2017. PHOTO: NIC ANTAYA

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Thousands of parking tickets are written on campus and in East Lansing each year. Some people get several, as one alumna decorated her cap with parking tickets last spring.

She received just a few of the more than 100,000 parking violations given out in East Lansing and on campus last year.

In 2015, the city of East Lansing and MSU’s campus recorded 30,246 and 80,732 violations, respectively.

Parking and Code Enforcement, or P.A.C.E., is responsible for parking enforcement in the city. Supervisor Eldon Evans said the most common violations stem from meter violations.

There were 16,638 meter violations downtown in 2015, Evans said.

Other common violations included private property violations, parking in areas requiring a permit and disobeying parking signs.

“Private property violators park on properties (without) the consent of the property owners,” Evans said via email. “Residential parking violators are issued citations in neighborhoods that require a neighborhood permit.

Those without permits designed for that certain neighborhood are issued citations.”

MSU police spokesperson Sierra Medrano said via email that common parking violations came from expired meters and parking in reserved areas. She said there were 37,602 expired meter violations and 24,431 reserved area violations in 2015.

Parking ramps had thousands of violations in 2015. The most were at Shaw ramp with 11,679 violations. Other locations with many violations included the Trowbridge ramp with 5,631, the Hannah Administration Building loop with 4,804 and the Grand River Avenue ramp with 4,027.

Evans said though P.A.C.E. is not involved in the resolution process of the citation, sometimes the violation is contested in court.

“In court the officer and the owner of the vehicle explain the circumstances that resulted in the ticket being issued,” he said. “Some vehicle owners pay the fine to the 54B District Court and some contest the citation in court.”

Medrano said enforcement is a concern throughout campus, and said the violations have to be paid or appealed within seven days of the ticket. Both MSU Police and P.A.C.E. tickets can be paid online or in person.

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No. 15 MSU volleyball team upset

by Arizona in NCAA Tournament

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It was all about redemption for the No. 15 MSU volleyball team when playing Pac-12 opponent, the University of Arizona. The past two seasons, MSU had lost during the second round of the NCAA Tournament to No. 1 seeds, Washington in 2015, and Stanford in 2014.

It was a five set match that went down to the wire, but the Spartans couldn’t pull out the win (25-17, 16-25, 19-25, 26-24 and 10-15), and were upset by the Wildcats on Saturday.

It was exceptionally hard for the seniors, who unwillingly have to close out their seasons.

It was a tough time for seniors Chloe Reinig and Allyssah Fitterer, as when they walked into the press room it was evident the locker room was full of tears.

Both athletes put up solid numbers against the Wildcats. Middle blocker Fitterer had 10 kills, one solo block, three blocking assists and 12.5 points. Reinig, one of the captains along with junior Rachel Minarick, had 15 kills, two digs and 15.5 points.

“It just really doesn’t even feel real, sit-

ting here still doesn’t feel real,” Reinig said. “In the locker room afterward, I just told the girls that I love them. I honestly was not thinking that this was going to be our last night together. ... It sucks and there’s nothing that you can say to make it better.”

MSU controlled the first set and took the 1-0 advantage against the Wildcats, but the second set would prove to be more difficult. In the second set, the Wildcats improved their hitting percentage from .207 to .357. Arizona sophomore Kendra Dahlke registered seven kills while senior Kalei Mau had five kills in the second set.

Also in the second set for U-A, senior Laura Larson served three service aces in the first two sets, and contributed to the team’s seven total.

“Our serving really got them out of system it brought our block into play, which helped out defense,” Larson said. “Also, we kind of got out of our own heads, played our game, focused on the next ball and that’s what really helped us.”

The Spartans made multiple errors in the fourth set. Reinig said it was reminiscent of some earlier matches his season where they “stepped off the gas,” and her teammates didn’t realize they were fight-

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“We got comfortable I think after that first set, and Arizona is too good to get comfortable with,” Fitterer said. “No team in the NCAA Tournament is just going to roll over and they didn’t and they kept punching back.”

Head coach Cathy George said this upset loss will serve as a learning experience for the team moving forward, George also said she was grateful for her seniors and the energy they brought to the team dynamic this year.

“These seniors have made a huge impact on our program as they’ve gone through (it), but this senior year

for them it really brought this group together,” George said. “And there’s a chemistry and culture that’s different, just different. They’ve really made sure that they took care of each other, invested in each other, and that hopefully will carry on for future years.”

To round up the 2016 season, the Spartans had a 25-9 overall record and a home record of 15-3. Even though MSU loses four contributing seniors this season, the junior class will be there to pick up the pieces, George said. MSU’s 13-7 Big Ten record was a new best for the program, leaving momentum going forward.

Izzo says team needs more ‘grit’ after win against Oral Roberts University

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Grit is a word thrown around the MSU men’s basketball team often, and has been a backbone of basketball and coaching ideology for head coach Tom Izzo’s hall of fame career.

Grit, a mental toughness and tenacity Izzo said this team has struggled to develop with MSU’s first nine games. He said the team’s mental grit might have been suffering because of the long travel and minimal practice, however it is also because his team is a product of its environment.

While considered to be somewhat uncoachable, Izzo said he can coach grit, and his next challenge is pushing players’ buttons to get them to perform.

“It might be because they’re still tired, but if they are, so be it,” Izzo said. “Sooner or later you have to look in the mirror, it gets personal. You’re one-on-one with a guy late in the game, you can’t give up a layup. It gets personal. So we have to coach that a little bit.”

Izzo attributed the team’s effort and style of play as Amateur Athletic Union, or AAU, type basketball. Generally in these games, athletes showcase their high athletic abilities and offensive talent, while sacrificing defensive effort.

“I just think that we’re raised to get a trophy for every-

thing and we’re raised to always have another game,” Izzo said. “That’s not a good mentality. As they say, you should play each game like it’s your last and that’s not what they’ve done. It’s hard. I am seeing that, and I think a lot of other coaches are seeing that, and I don’t think it’s good for the players.”

While Izzo said he plans on coaching mental toughness, fifth-year senior Eron Harris and highly-acclaimed team leader junior Lourawls “Tum Tum” Nairn Jr. said this mental roadblock for the team comes with accountability.

“It’s just a decision you’ve got to make,” Harris said.

“We have to go over 100 (percent) right now because we are missing our guys.”

After a slim four point victory against Oral Roberts Saturday night, Nairn showed clear frustration with the team’s inability to dominate and control the game. The Golden Eagles, now 1-7 on the year, have had losses to Oakland University by 28 points, Tulsa by 14, Montana by 21 and Loyola Chicago by 25 points this season.

“We just have to play tougher,” Nairn said. “We got to have grit and play with grit and play with passion.”

While MSU was playing its first game without leading scorer and rebounder, freshman forward Miles Bridges, most of the frustration came from mental execution, not physical ability.

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Jazz studies student finds music to help cope with her anxiety

BY JONATHAN LEBLANC JLEBLANC@STATENEWS.COM

Music has the ability to influence people in many ways, whether it’s their mood or their mindset.

For jazz studies senior Jordyn Davis, music influenced her to change her major.

Davis was originally an environmental engineering and geology major before switching to jazz studies — a four-year program that will require Davis to attend MSU for potentially another two and a half years.

“At the end of the day, it’s totally going to be worth it because I’m finally doing what I want to do and learning what I need to be learning from the field that I want to go into,” Davis said.

Going into the music field helps Davis deal with a day-to-day issue for her — anxiety.

Davis has been dealing with anxiety ever since she was a child, and because of this, she danced competitively for 10 years, participated in the marching band, was on the swim team and was a leader for several organizations in order to deal with her anxiety, Davis said via email.

However, Davis said while she never knew how

to identify with her anxiety, she always knew how to deal with it.

“I naturally just had these feelings and didn’t really know what they meant,” Davis said. “I just generally felt really uncomfortable and stressed and tense all the time.”

Davis said she had difficulty explaining to people how she didn’t want to interact with them and why she couldn’t have a natural interaction with others.

But Davis said she now has a better understanding of what anxiety is in her life, after being diagnosed with anxiety three to four years ago.

“It’s a lot easier to manage things and a lot easier to explain that to people and to go about my daily life and understand there’s nothing wrong with me,” Davis said. “This is how I process what’s going on in the world and this is how it makes me feel.”

This led Davis to music, which helps her cope with her daily struggles of anxiety.

“I’m able to step into this realm or this new world of whatever story or whatever journey I want to be taken on through this type of music,” Davis said.

“That really helps take my mind off of my feelings of anxiety and my feelings of discomfort and let go and embrace whatever the music has to offer.”

Music composition and jazz studies senior Jordyn Davis plays the bass on Nov. 30 in the Music Practice Building. Davis and her bandmates were practicing to record an extended play album, or EP. PHOTO: EMMETT MCCONNELL

Davis said this led her to falling in love with the bass, since in music, it’s the foundation of a song.

The warm and boomy sound — as she describes the instrument — is what Davis said brought her to choose the bass over other instruments.

“Without a bass player, it’s really hard to tie a whole tune together,” Davis said. “Without the bass in the middle to tie it all together … it’s like a dual functioning instrument — like rhythm and harmony — which you don’t really get with many other instruments.”

Davis said she’s wanted to be a part of the music industry for some time, dating back to a when she was 4-years-old.

Davis said she often thinks of a picture of her as a child with a toy microphone and how it embodied her love of music.

“As a child, I always had a natural love for music,” Davis said. “I always had a CD player, was always plugged in listening to music, dancing and enjoying what it is.”

This love of music transitioned into middle school as Davis wanted to further her musical palette by choosing to play the bass over other options such as the violin and cello, Davis said.

“I was like, ‘I want to play that thing (bass), it’s really big, nobody wants to play it, nobody understands it, so I’m going to figure it out and tackle that challenge and go for it,’” Davis said.

Davis said her love for music has evolved into different spectrums within music, starting off with classical music and eventually being exposed to rock and alternative music throughout high school.

This helped Davis to better understand jazz music, which Davis said is a different conundrum compared to other music such as classical, especially being a bass player.

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have jazz without a bass player,” Davis said. “It just doesn’t work that way.”

Davis said the theory, concept and how musicians approach a tune in jazz is completely different. They have to come up with everything off the top of their head, where as in classical music, everything is already assembled for them.

“You get a chart or piece of music and literally every bar has a key or a chord change, that the bar is going to be in. … You just write your bass line based off that one key,” Davis said. “It’s all of the elements brought into one piece that you are figuring out how to make it cool in 10 seconds … but it also has to be swinging.”

This led Davis to start the project Composetheway, and with it, an extended play, EP, titled “Connections,” which is scheduled to be released in February.

“It’s about encouraging people to live for themselves, while empowering each other and empowering yourself,” Davis said. “It’s got a really positive message to it, but a lot of my music also emphasizes the reality of situations that we live in or situations that we deal with in society.”

Davis said with Composetheway and “Connections” she’s trying to get out of her comfort zone as a writer and composer and perform her music.

“I’ve been hiding behind these songs for a couple of years and now (I) want to get them out there,” Davis said. “It’s something I’ve been pushing myself to do more of.”

Davis said all of her songs in “Connections” are based off of the situations or relationships that herself or other people have had to deal with when trying to understand general interactions with other people.

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