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PLAYING THROUGH PAIN BASKETBALL

HARRIS SHOWS HEROISM IN MSU VICTORY

By Dillon Davis davisdi4@msu.edu THE STATE NEWS ■■

It certainly wasn’t a pretty showing by the No. 12 MSU men’s basketball team Wednesday at Breslin Center. But in Gary Harris’ case, he was content it was happening at all.

Each time down the floor against No. 18 Minnesota was met with a grimace marking the lingering pain of yet another injury to the freshman guard.

After suffering back spasms that forced him to leave last week’s 80-75 victory over Illinois, Harris has been limited in practice for much of the week, struggling to regain his trademark athleticism.

Yet even in facing some of the worst pain of his life, Harris refused to come off the floor.

A gutsy performance by the Fishers, Ind., native fueled a 21-4 second half surge, allowing the Spartans (19-4 overall, 8-2 Big Ten) to overcome an ugly offensive first half and defeat the Golden Gophers (17-6, 5-5), 61-50.

Harris finished the game with a team-high 15 points, while doing all he could manage to stay in the game and will the Spartans to a much needed conference win. After the game, Harris said the key to his success was staying in and remaining engaged in the action.

“I didn’t want to come out because I knew it was going to get worse,” Harris said.

“I just wanted to stay on the court as much as possible and keep it as loose as possible.”

Head coach Tom Izzo said allowing Harris to play was a decision he left up to his young guard, given his previous experience with multiple shoulder injuries this season.

And after watching Harris continue to make shots in uncomfortable circumstances, Izzo said the per-

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Junior guard Keith Appling is escorted off of the court by athletic trainer Quinton Sawyer, left, and team physician, Dr. Jeff Kovan, right, during the second half of the game.

Spartans pull through injuries to pull out victory against Gophers

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s Tom I z z o made his way to the podium he handed off a towel, took a seat, sighed and smiled.

The always-talkative Izzo caught himself in a rare moment, “speechless” — unsure of what to say about a performance that didn’t meet his expectations and a team growing more hobbled by the second.

“I’m healthy, my wife’s healthy, my trainer’s in great shape, other than that we’ve got problems,” Izzo said.

It started with Gary Harris’ back.

Then it was Branden Dawson’s ankle.

Add on a bloody — initially feared to be broken — nose for Adreian Payne, a shoulder popping out of place for Keith Appling, and a head injury that prevented Travis Trice from even suiting up.

One can begin to understand why Izzo is simply thankful for his own health.

Despite it all, the No. 12 MSU men’s basketball team (19-4 overall, 8-2 Big Ten) survived, taking down No. 18 Minnesota (17-6, 5-5) 61-50, on a night

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where the Spartans shot only 24 percent in the fi rst half.

The offensive ineptitude in the opening 20 minMSU 61 MINN 50 utes was excruciating for both Izzo and Minnesota head coach Tubby Smith, as the Spartans made only four of their fi rst 21 shots, while it took more than 15 minutes for Minnesota to score in double figures.

The scramble for offense led Izzo to go deep into his normally limited bench, using nine players in the opening nine minutes, including rarely used forwards Alex Gauna and Matt Costello, along

Izzo managed to see a couple silver linings … but knows there’s a long way his team still needs to go. with guard Russell Byrd, hoping to ignite a spark.

But the Golden Gophers closed the half on a 14-7 run, capped off by a 3-pointer from guard Joe Coleman in the half’s fi nal seconds to give Minnesota a 20-18 lead at the break.

It was the second straight game, both in front of their home crowd, that the Spartans headed into the halftime locker room needing to mount a comeback after a lethargic start.

After talking earlier in the week about the importance of getting off to a fast

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Freshman guard Gary Harris leaps for a layup Wednesday at Breslin Center.

burst, junior center Payne said he’s not sure why MSU continues to start sluggish, but knows he needs to play better after going scoreless in the opening half.

“I don’t know, but we’ve got to fi nd out because it’s becoming a problem,” Payne said. “We’ve got to really figure it out. That’s all I’ve got to say. … I’ve just got to start being more aggressive.”

The aggressiveness of Payne and fellow center Derrick Nix, who also was scoreless in the fi rst half, helped MSU jump out to a quick second half lead they would never surrender.

Payne scored 11 second half points and was one of six players to score six points or more, with Nix credit-

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ing it to a changed mindset the duo shared after talking at halftime.

“Me and Payne came out with a different mentality the second half — we’ve got to score,” Nix said. “I feel like we’re one of the best frontcourts in the nation and we’ve got to start playing like it.”

The aggressive play inside opened up opportunities on the perimeter for MSU’s guards and the Spartans made them count, draining five second half 3-pointers, one from freshman Den-

zel Valentine and a pair from both Keith Appling and Harris that put the game away.

Harris scored a team-high 15 points, while Appling added 14, as the shooting was part of a second half flurry that saw MSU go on an 11-0 run to move in front 41-29, capped off by a breakaway dunk from sophomore guard/ forward Branden Dawson.

An 11-4 run by Minnesota cut the lead to five, 45-40, with 5:39 to go, but MSU answered with an See MINNESOTA on page 2 X

ANIMALS

Students want universities to Dogs rescued after neglect by MSU vet spend more on sports, dorms

By Darcie Moran

Tibetan Spaniels Benny, 13, left, and Cricket, 11, rest in their kennel Wednesday at the Capital Area Humane Society.

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A student’s decision to attend a particular college might hinge on more than the academics available.

Researchers at the University of Michigan found many students prefer colleges that spend money on amenities such as sports and dorms, although “highachieving students” would rather invest in academic needs and instruction.

Colleges face the challenge of catering to a diverse student population and future students.

Selective colleges focus more on academic spending, whereas less selective schools try to attract students through incentives such as athletic facilities and university-funded activities.

Kevin Stange, assistant profes-

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sor of public policy at U-M, was one of the researchers to work on the study. Data is not broken down based on individual schools, so specific information on MSU was not readily available.

“Michigan State is a selective university, so they are providing those academics, but probably more towards the consumption side,” Stange said.

Universities have different demand pressures based on student population, and those schools with more pressure tend to spend more, Stange said.

Jasmine Baker, a human development and family studies junior, said she would choose a good education before a nice dorm room.

Baker said she came here to go to MSU’s highly ranked College of Education.

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Deep brown, watery eyes half full of hope and half full of terror stared up at psychology senior Kate Scanlon as she reached her hand through the bars of the kennel separating her from the Tibetan Spaniel named Cricket. But Cricket never moved closer.

Cricket’s timidness might stem from living with College of Veterinary Medicine assistant professor Patricia Schenck, who has been charged with felony neglect of 10 or more animals, Capital Area Humane Society President and CEO Julia Palmer said.

Four Tibetan Spaniels out of the 17 dogs taken from Schenck’s Clinton County residence, including Cricket, are up for adoption at the Capital Area Humane Society, 7095 W.

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Grand River Ave., in Lansing.

Clinton County Assistant Prosecutor Kevin Hayes previously said Schenck is scheduled for a pretrial conference and a trial in March.

“It’s heartbreaking,” Scanlon, a Humane Society volunteer, said.

“Most dogs run to the side of the cage when you walk in — they’re all barking...These ones are more like ‘I don’t know how I feel about

you.’”

Cricket, Benny, Pepsi and Striker as well as two Afghan Hounds from Eaton County — Honey and See PUPPIES on page 2 X

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News brief Chandler gets new owners, renovations After three companies purchased Chandler Crossings for more than $101 million, students are left with questions about changes the switch of ownership might bring.

On Jan. 31, The Woodlark Companies, Westpac Campus Communities and an institutional investor bought the apartment complexes, which include The Village, The Club, The Landings and The Cottages, according to StudentHousingPlanet.com, a site about student housing.

Woodlark plans to make a $9 million investment to make improvements to the properties to all apartments, including revamping floors, cabinets and appliances.

Biochemistry junior David Ng, who also resides in The Club, said renovations to the apartments are welcomed but not necessary.

“I feel like all the floors and appliances are outdated,” he said. “(The changes) are not needed but would be nice for what we are paying.”

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formance was nothing short of a “heroic effort.”

“He couldn’t even run his back was hurting him so much,” Izzo said. “Normally, I would take a kid out who is hurting but it was a muscle and not skeletal, so it’s just a matter if you can deal with the pain.

“I kept asking him if he was good to go, and thankfully, he is smart enough to say yes because I don’t know what we would have done at that point.”

The team faced a varying degree of injuries Wednesday including to junior guard Keith Appling (shoulder), center Adreian Payne (bloody

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school and spend my money on academics,“ Baker said. “Consumer things are good, but I’d rath-

nose) and sophomore guard/ forward Branden Dawson (ankle). Appling and Payne each left the floor to return to the locker room to be attended to while Dawson spent some time resting his ankle on the bench during the first half.

Appling did not return to the game once he emerged from the locker room. But Appling said it was more a precautionary measure than his inability to play.

“I was trying to get open and it just kind of popped out of place, but it eventually slid back into place,” Appling said. “Right now, I feel pretty good. I could have played but they didn’t want me to go back in the game.”

The Spartans also were without sophomore guard Travis Trice, who took a shot to the head against the Fighting Illini. Trice previously suffered a concussion and a broken nose this season against Connecticut.

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Spartans beat Gophers despite lowscoring first half and numerous injuries FROM PAGE ONE

11-5 run of its own to regain a double-digit lead they would maintain for nearly all of the game’s fi nal five minutes. “(I’m) proud of the way we came back, proud of the fact that two second half’s we responded,” Izzo said. “(But I’m) disappointed that a good team should have to get to that point because you’re going to run out of those kind of situations if you don’t take care of business earlier.”

In a night of frustration, Izzo managed to see a couple silver linings, including a seasonlow five turnovers, but

“I don’t know, but we’ve got to find out because it’s becoming a problem.

We’ve got to really figure it out. … I’ve just got to start being more aggressive.”

Adreian Payne, center

knows there’s a long way his team still needs to go.

“I don’t mean it to be as down as it is. You’re 19-4.

I think we’ve been 19-4 three or four times in my career, and this is no doubt the toughest the Big Ten has ever been,” he said.

“It was a big win for us.

I’m going to take it as a big win, but I’m not going to be one for fool’s gold because I don’t think my team can handle that. They’ve got to get better. We will get better.”

er spend my money and have a good degree and be marketable when I leave.”

Stange said the he does not know from his research if the number of college students seeking consumption amenities has changed across the years.

Director of admissions Jim Cotter said part of MSU students’ education does not always take place behind a desk.

“I think that one’s education is an experience,” Cotter said. “Students who are looking to Michigan State can not only learn in the classroom, but also take what they learn in the classroom and apply that outside of the classroom.”

Cotter said some of the things admissions tells prospective students about are study abroad opportunities, academic offer-

ings and intramural sports.

Baker said she thinks more MSU students are here for the college experience, but she said students should focus more on what they came here for, which it to get an education.

“People used to go to school all the time with less nice dorms and they were fine,” she said. “So, I don’t think it should be a high priority.”

stayed. Williams pled guilty to a charge of animal neglect in late January.

Palmer said the society houses as many animals as possible, and the other animals involved in the cases are being housed elsewhere. One sick and elderly dog taken from Schenck’s residence was euthanized with her consent, and one Afghan Hound already has been adopted.

She said Williams’ and Schenck’s cases are similar in more than the professions of the dogs’ owners. She said when the dogs were collected from their respective living conditions,

both sets of dogs appeared to be slightly underfed, though this was more pronounced in the Afghan Hounds, and both had coats matted with feces. She said both cases appeared to be incidents where breeding was involved.

“In terms of demeanor — it’s what we see and expect from dogs like this,” Palmer said. “Typically they’re not wagging their tails. They’re not acting like happy dogs.”

Palmer said dogs that experience the level of neglect suspected in this case can be depressed, withdrawn, fearful and even aggressive.

However, Palmer said the timid dogs with sad eyes still are adoptable, and she hopes and expects they will be adopted in the next week or so.

Grand Ledge, Mich., resident John Bethell, who likes to stop by the society frequently to look at the dogs, said if he didn’t have so many pets already, he would consider adopting the dogs himself.

He previously adopted a special needs dog that was abused. He said although they never forget their abuse, they can still make good pets.

“They have a great ability to forgive,” Bethell said.

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PUPPIES

Dogs avaliable for adoption at Capital Area Humane Society FROM PAGE ONE

Shakti — are victims of reported local neglect cases involving veterinary experts.

Eaton County Senior Assistant Prosecutor Neil O’Brien said Honey and Shakti are two of seven dogs taken from Benson Elmwood Animal Hospital in Lansing, where one of their owners, Kathleen Williams, sometimes

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H E A LT H

Landlords now required to One down, sexual health clinics still available provide voter registration info

By Michael Koury

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By Michael Koury kourymic@msu.edu THE STATE NEWS ■ ■

Students are embracing a new ordinance requiring landlords to provide new tenants with voter registration information passed at Tuesday’s regular city council meeting, a move questioned by some landlords.

The ordinance is aimed at helping students — who might be moving from on campus to off campus, or from house to house — register to vote, or how to re-register with the change of address. Councilmember Vic Loomis was the only member to vote against the policy.

Zoology senior Lia Olowniuk said the new ordinance might be especially helpful for international students who are new to the area.

“I think it’s good for people to be informed of this who aren’t from here, especially if they are to become a U.S. citizen,” she said.

Emilie Wohlscheid, area director with DTN Management Co., 2502 Lake Lansing Road, said they would be more than happy giving out voter registration information, but thought it was unnecessary to mandate it.

“We’re just disappointed the city didn’t come to us first to ask for help spreading the word instead of passing an ordi-

“I don’t think handing out two more pieces of paper out to roughly 17,000 people is the best use of resources.”

Matt Hagan, Hagan Realty, Inc. agent

nance,” she said.

Violating the ordinance was a misdemeanor offense in the original proposal, but Mayor Pro Tem Nathan Triplett made a motion during Tuesday’s meeting to amend the policy to make it a civil infraction, which passed unanimously.

Landlords not in compliance with the ordinance are subject to a $100 to $500 fine, plus the possibility of spending time in jail Under the misdemeanor offense, landlords not in compliance with the ordinance would have been subjected to a minimum fine of $100 and a maximum of $500, plus the possibility of spending up to 90 days in jail.

With the change to a civil infraction, there is no possibility of jail time for noncompliance, and the fine was changed to a max of $1,000.

Ordinances typically take

effect immediately, but this policy will be implemented when the City Clerk’s office has prepared the proper documents.

There is no timetable for when the documents will be ready.

The city will print and give landlords a two-page document to inform tenants what is required to vote, where they can go to register and how they can fill out absentee ballots.

Matt Hagan, an agent with Hagan Realty, Inc., 927 E. Grand River Ave., said handing out two sheets of paper might not be the most environmentally friendly way of going about the new ordinance. During previous council meetings, Hagan criticized the proposal because of the potential fines.

“I don’t think handing out two more pieces of paper out to roughly 17,000 people is the best use of resources,” he said.

Economics junior A ndy Krause said landlords shouldn’t have to pay a penalty for noncompliance.

“People don’t need to be forced to give out information, nor to vote,” Krause said.

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SNYDER TO UNVEIL HIS 2014 BUDGET THURSDAY

Today, Gov. Rick Snyder will unveil his recommendation for Michigan’s budget for the 2014 fiscal year.

The event will mark Snyder’s third budget proposal since taking office in 2011.

The Michigan House and Senate both must pass Snyder’s budget proposal before it is implemented.

Snyder’s 2012 budget proposal cut higher education spending by about 15 percent. The following year, the governor increased higher education allocations by 3.1 percent.

The State News will be at the unveiling at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Boji Tower, 124 W. Allegan St., in Lansing.

Following the unveiling, Snyder will hold a press conference to discuss the budget at 2:15 p.m . at the George W. Romney Building, 111 S. Capitol Ave., in Lansing.

Later Thursday evening, the governor will participate in a televised town hall meeting at at 7 p.m. in Grand Rapids.

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The site of the Planned Parenthood clinic, formerly located at 515 E. Grand River Ave., has been closed since Jan. 31, 2012, but that hasn’t meant a lack of sexual health services for students in the area.

Desiree Cooper, director of community and media relations for Planned Parenthood of Mid and South Michigan, said the clinic on Grand River Avenue closed because many of the services also were available within blocks of the clinic at Olin Health Center.

“Our feeling was that students were pretty well served by the health center on campus,” Cooper said. “We didn’t close it because we were losing money or couldn’t afford it.”

With the nearest Planned Parenthood almost four miles away at 300 N. Clippert St., in Lansing, other available options for students include the Olin Health Center and Pregnancy Services, 1045 E. Grand River Ave. Executive Director of Pregnancy Services Nancy Kujawa said she estimates the organization has seen a 25 percent increase in patients coming to the clinic since the Planned Parenthood on Grand River Avenue closed last year, but the increase in patients has not affected daily operations.

“We’re well staffed,” she said. “It’s been a good increase.”

Kathi Braunlich, marketing and communications manager for MSU Student Health Services , said it’s difficult to tell whether the loss of Planned Parenthood caused an increase in patients at Olin Health Center because the number of clients typically fluctuates yearly.

The health center offers similar services to the former East Lansing Planned Parenthood. The organization’s Lansing center offers abortion services, which are not offered on campus and were not offered at the former

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East Lansing resident Laura Mann, a medical technologist at Olin Health Center, processes specimens Wednesday inside Olin’s laboratory.

“Our feeling was that students were pretty well served by the health center on campus … We didn’t close it because we were losing money or couldn’t afford it.”

Desiree Cooper, director of community and media relations for Planned Parenthood

Planned Parenthood location.

The women’s health clinic in the Olin Health Center provides sexually transmitted infection testing and different types of contraceptives such as diaphragms, the patch, NuvaRing, and Plan B One-Step. For men, Braunlich said they can use the primary care clinic in Olin Health Center for any sexualhealth needs.

Pregnancy Services offers counseling, pregnancy tests and

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While some students might choose Olin or Pregnancy Services based on convenience, music performance senior Elizabeth Hoard said she sees her OB-GYN in Lansing because she’s more comfortable with her physician.

To Hoard, it’s “some place absolutely where I feel comfortable … some place where I feel safe.”

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Featured blog A movement threatened “The first spark of hope for Arabs worldwide, Tunisia’s Jasmine Revolution brought hope to a people and momentum to the Arab Spring. That progress now is threatened with the assassination Wednesday of one of the interim government’s leading opposing voices.”

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he permissible killing of U.S. citizens using drone strikes has been disclosed in a leaked Justice Department memo — leaving many Americans questioning the legal control of their government.

In the memo, which was released to the public Monday by NBC News, the Justice Department affirmed the U.S. government has the power to order the killing of American citizens as long as they are believed to be “senior opera-

— Simon Schuster, State News reporter

Read the rest online at senators have written statenews.com/blog. to the president asking him to release all other memos on the subject — including a supposed list of targeted Americans.

Although releasing this information is something the American public deserves, it still will not legitimize the fact this memo was kept in secrecy for so long. drones if they deem the person poses an “immiSen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., chairman of nent threat,” but never reveal what this threat the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said entails.

Are we to believe anyone our government tells her committee received the memo last year, and now is in support of further examination of its us is a “senior operational leader” of al-Qaida is policies. Regardless of her statements, it still is so, even without any evidence?

As American citizens, we always have underdifficult to imagine how so many of our top political leaders could withhold information like this stood certain policies and orders exist privately within our government and are kept hidden from their constituents for almost a year.

The “white paper,” as this memo has been from us to protect our safety.

But this policy stretches that understanding. called, challenges our basic civil rights and Instead of working to cover its tracks, the makes the freedoms of this country more elastic. Instead of needing concrete information to White House should first try to explain this infordefend the targeted killings of American cit- mation to its people and regain any trust that izens, the government can justify the use of might have been lost.

tional leaders” of al-Qaida or another “associated force.”

The government is permitted to use lethal force on its citizens in recognized war zones — no matter if prior intelligence exists about the suspect — if they are believed to pose an “imminent threat” to the United States.

The structure of this policy also justifies past military action by the United States on its own citizens in non-domestic areas — including the drone strikes in Yemen which killed three Americans, including Anwar al-Awlaki, in September 2011 .

The framework to this controversial document is alarming and rightfully has many Americans puzzled.

Legal experts also have questioned the necessity of the memo, saying it appoints the White House as “judge, jury and executioner.”

Since it was released, President Barack Obama and his administration have been under growing pressure from politicians in Congress to release more details concerning their drone strike programs. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and 10 other

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Aren’t the stories I have after graduation supposed to be too crazy to tell my future kids, yet also be the years that make me into the Truthfully, we didn’t professional I want to be?

Then the imagined, picturesque often visit the majestic land of music, light and laughter that roars suburbia was gone. I was back in to life just north of Grand River Ave- my dorm. The unanswered quesnue nearly every night. Most nights tion was mocked by the free, wailresembled this one: the two of us ing strings of Hendrix that my pouring over schoolwork, exchang- roommate’s laptop emitted to fill ing music and playing cards. The the silence between us.

“Do you think we go out posed question made that all feel empty. After all, we have just a enough?”

My college experihandful of years ence was nearly half of attendance at GUEST COLUMNIST over. I began to think Michigan State. of the moments that Then what? Maymeant the most to be a job, house and me. family — the real I remembered my world. first night on campus.

Life as an underI took a solitary walk graduate college that night through student is life in an the W.J. Beal Botaniexciting, temporary cal Gardens. I remembubble, where life TYLER GROSS ber the euphoric feelafter the bubble is grosstyl@msu.edu ing of liberation that visible but unimagwashed over me inably different.

The extracurricular opportunities, when I realized I would never have academic options, lifestyle and to go back to my hometown again going out to parties quite obvious- if I didn’t want to.

I thought of the kid with the pealy will never again resemble what they do as an undergraduate stu- nut butter in the toaster. The cafeteria was receiving its annual influx of dent in college.

There is a very real, often unspo- freshmen, including me — who sat ken, anxiety among many students. nervously by myself in a booth.

From my vantage point, I could No one wants to don their cap and gown on glorious graduation day see a young man trying to put a and feel like they missed something piece of bread already smeared with — like they didn’t get as much out peanut butter into a surely terrified of the college experience as they toaster. I still chuckle remembering his embarrassed, scanning look should have.

I will be the first to admit, the of traumatic unpreparedness when mere thought of misusing “the best he realized he had done something wrong enough to warrant smoke years of our lives” is terrifying.

“Do you think we go out and a manager’s disdain. Sitting in the cafeteria, I marveled at the selfenough?”

The question came into focus sufficiency a mix of thoughtful paragain. For a momentary glimpse, enting and economic disadvantage the university around me sprawled had blessed me with. I could toast out as a twisted, realized imagina- and butter bread.

I remember feeling for the first tion of what college student life is supposed to look like. The brick, time that I knew I was going to food-producing and student-stor- make it.

The memory of meeting my girling dorms transformed to two story houses on Maple Drive, sur- friend came rushing back to me. rounded by white-picket fences. The anxiety of the first conversaMy roommate asking the question tion. The gratification of shared was suddenly Theodore “The Bea- interest. The joy that constant conver” Cleaver asking if I thought his nection brings.

“Do you think we go out room was clean enough to go over to a friend’s house. As the question enough?”

The question didn’t need an hung in the air between us, my mind whirled; we had become something answer. In our silent reflection of we were not. We were suburbanized what mattered to us in our years America attempting to mimic a real- as undergraduate students, we each had answered the question ity that had never existed.

Just as with the 1960s subur- for ourselves.

There is no correct amount to go banization movement that was the topic of study in my classes, col- out, no movies to tell how college lege life created a constant duali- life should be and the only narraty between perceived lifestyle and tive that needs to unfold is the one that offers fulfillment. realized lifestyle.

I’m sure my roommate’s promEveryone wants to get the college experience. The dazzlingly-exciting inent memories didn’t include a lives presented in “Van Wilder” and liberating bench, peanut butter “Old School” contained equally viv- in a toaster or my girlfriend (betid preconceptions of college as the ter not, at least), but his look told accomplishments in “The Social me he, as we all could, thought of something.

Network.”

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MSU student pursues Spartans reflect on patent for Current Tidal Pakistani girls’ rights

By Samantha Radecki radeckis@msu.edu THE STATE NEWS ■■

While on an internship in the New Mexican desert in Albuquerque, N.M., in 2011, an idea sparked within Jonathan DiClemente. He wanted to put windmill-type turbines in the oceans to create energy from tidal shifts, the mechanical engineering senior said.

DiClemente said he had no clue his idea would inspire and lead him to be CEO of his own company, Current Tidal, which retrofits dams to make energy. He’ll do anything to protect it.

But protecting intellectual property is difficult, said law professor Adam Candeub, who has teamed up with the Intellectual Property Startup Project, or IPSP, to help entrepreneurs through the process. PSP is a program where law students help prepare the paperwork for free for start-up companies, such as DiClemente’s, who want patents.

This semester, Candeub, director of the Intellectual Property, Information and Communications Law Program in MSU’s College of Law, said the IPSP received requests from 15 to 20 start-up companies in Michigan.

Patent-worthy ideas must be original, non-obvious and marshalled by an invention, Candeub said.

“Let’s say you have a really good idea, … a new way to access MP3 files so as to be accessed any place in the world on any device,” he said. “You want to patent it so if someone else comes up with that idea, you can say, ‘No, no, no, no, no. That’s my idea.’”

Obtaining a patent can cost $15,000 to $25,000 and take two to three years to process, said Richard Chylla, executive director of MSU Technologies. While the actual patent only costs a few hundred dollars, Chylla said the legal fees of preparing the patent requests add to the cost, and fewer patent examiners has led to a longer wait.

Intellectual property protection Patent: protects a novel, non-obvious idea associated with a physical invention.

Example: Apple’s iPhone Trade secret: secures a secret formula, method or procedure. Example: Coca-Cola’s recipe Copyright: protects written or musical compositions. Example: music on iTunes Trademark: secures a company’s symbol or picture. Example: McDonald’s golden arches Source: Law professor Adam Candeub

MSU also has MSU Technologies, which works with MSU innovators and helps inventors patent their discoveries that are MSU property.

Chylla said each year, MSU Technologies requests about 130 to 150 patents, grants between 50 and 60 patents and licenses about 40 to 50 patents with companies through contracts.

“A good way to think about intellectual property is like real property,” Chylla said.

“You don’t want someone using your car without your permission.”

DiClemente said he has considered utilizing IPSP’s services, but because of the high cost, has not yet made progress. He has put trademarks and trade secrets on Current Tidal.

“I’m pretty sure that the stuff we are working on is novel enough to patent,” DiClemente said. “It’s definitely patentable — it’s just the matter of getting funds to do so.”

By Brytanie Killebrew killebr6@msu.edu THE STATE NEWS ■■

As 15-year-old activist and 2013 Nobel Peace Prize nominee Malala Yousafzai recovers from recent surgery after being shot in the head on her way home from school, MSU faculty and students from Pakistan are reflection on her fight for girls’ rights to education and what it’s really like to live there.

On Oct. 9, 2012, Yousafzai was shot point-blank in the head and neck by Pakistani Taliban militants while she was riding home from school, according to a CNN report.

Yousafzai isn’t the only one speaking out for women’s rights.

English professor Jyotsna Singh said Yousafzai is one of many South Asian women speaking out about their rights. “(Women) already made (their goals) clear,” said Singh, an expert in gender and race issues in the region.

“The backlash is, in a sense, that … more and more women are (now) educated.”

Sociology assistant professor Khalida Zaki, a Pakistan native and expert in women’s education and social issues in South Asia, said in rural areas of Pakistan, parents fear sending their daughters to school because of safety threats. “(For) young girls in rural areas, where there is a lack of security, there is a risk of being harassed by men,” Zaki said.

International relations junior Kanza Khan said after visiting her home city of Karachi, Pakistan, she’s noticed improvements in women’s education through the years.

Khan said her female cousins living in Pakistan have access to education, but many other young women don’t.

“This isn’t a Pakistan, domestic or terrorist issue; this is an issue of mothers, daughters and grand-

“I think Western media wants to represent South Asian women as oppressed … They don’t represent women that are claiming their rights.”

Jyotsna Singh, English professor and expert in gender and race issues

mothers that just want to learn,” Khan said.

“All we want to do is learn.”

Singh also said many stereotypes and portrayals of South Asian women don’t tell the full story.

“I think Western media wants to represent South Asian women as oppressed,” Singh said, “They don’t represent women that are claiming their rights.”

Alumnus and Pakistani Faraz Anjum said it is not accurate to say all Pakistani men oppose women’s education, although XINHUA /NEWS PICTURES/ABACA PRESS/MCT in some regions women still are oppressed and the population is a Malala Yousafzai recovers on Oct. 26, 2012 at Queen Elizabeth “bit prehistoric.”

Hospital Birmingham in Birmingham, England. She was Anjum said for those growing up nominated for the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize. in Faisalabad, a large city in northern Pakistan, both boys and girls are expected to go to school and prepare to work.

“It depends on the area and the education of the group you are asking,” Anjum said.

“It’s different when you think of it as a country (whose) literacy rate isn’t that high.”

Human biology junior Josh Shafquat said at times he feels torn between the Western media’s portrayal of Pakistan because he is an American citizen of Pakistani heritage.

Shafquat said the change Yousafzai and other Pakistani activists are hoping for won’t be instantaneous.

“You can’t change a culture overnight, it’s going to take time,” he said.

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WHARTON TO HOST BEATLES-INSPIRED CONCERT SATURDAY On Saturday, East Lansing will be infected with Beatlemania.

The four-member group Classical Mystery Tour will bring their Beatles tribute show to Wharton Center.

They will be performing the entire concert with Lansing Symphony Orchestra.

The band, comprised of Jim Owen , Tony Kishman , John Brosnan and Chris Camilleri has become known for performing more than 30 Beatles songs on tour.

The song list includes hits such as “Eleanor Rigby,” “I Am the Walrus” and “All You Need Is Love.”

Rather than modeling their show after more recent, remastered versions of Beatles songs , the tour focuses on sticking to the original instrumentals meant for each song.

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The show’s conductor, Martin Herman, has composed and conducted for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and travelled on fellowships to Paris and the Czech Republic.

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For animal science junior Justin Warchuck, nothing is wrong with being a little chicken, or egg-headed for that matter.

With the December addition of the nations only Laying Hen Poultry Research facility, Warchuck has a unique chance to study the science behind the widely consumed egg.

“Most people eat omelets for breakfast,” Warchuck said.

“Whether you’re eating McDonald’s or buying eggs from the supermarket, the ever yday consumer can relate to the egg.”

Warchuck, who said he has a soft spot for chickens, is working on a feed wastage research project at the Laying Hen Poultry Research facility, home to nearly 7,000 birds, for his ANS 492 class, an animal science research course. The project aims to find out how much feed is wasted after feeding the hens. By examining fecal matter, he hopes the project will help industry feeding methods become more efficient.

“Everything can be made bet ter and be improved,” Warchuck said.

A nimal science research assistant Cara Robison said that the facility allows students to do take on a specific area of research “With us at the Laying Hen facilit y, each student was encouraged to come up with their own project,” Robison said.

“We let the students think about it fi rst and what they might be interested in answering. Now they’re implementing their methods.”

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Research Assistant Cara Robison counts eggs Wednesday at the Laying Hen Poultry Research facility. The facility houses nearly 7,000 birds.

“With us at the Laying Hen facility, each student was encouraged to come up with their own project.”

Cara Robison, animal science research assistant

Darrin Karcher, who also is an ANS 492 professor and a poultry extension specialist for the Department of Animal Science, said the construction of the facility was a three-year process.

“What we’re trying to do is not only explore the production aspects (of producing eggs), but explore the animal side of things as well,” Karcher said.

Karcher said many students in the animal science program work and volunteer at the facility and handle the daily care of the birds, including collecting eggs and keeping track of infant mortality.

Robison ment ioned t he research that takes place in her class is separate from research that takes place at

the facility.

Regardless of the activities of her students, the facility will serve as a center of hen and egg research for MSU’s campus.

In addition to gaining experience on conducting research, Robison said the students will have a unique opportunity at the end of the course.

“At the end of the semester, each student will have their (research) paper and we’re going to have a day where people from the laying hen industry come to MSU and students will give their papers to industry personnel,” she said.

“They’ll also have the chance to interact with (farming) industry professionals. It’ll be a really good networking experience.”

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Eighteen players commit to MSU football on signing day Dantonio “very excited� about new players, class ranks 39th in country

By Zach Smith smithza9@msu.edu THE STATE NEWS â– â–

National signing day is one of the only times each year when the fax machine is once again relevant, and the hopes of an entire fan base are on the shoulders of a teenager.

For MSU and head coach Mark Dantonio, the 18 athletes who signed on Wednesday fill the holes left by graduating seniors and players leaving for the next level.

MSU has the 39th best recruiting class in the country, according to rivals.com “I guess the biggest thing is that when I look at our football team, we’ve got depth, we’ve got a foundation built,� Dantonio said. “We want to bring people in to fit our program. We want to bring people in here that fit our chemistry, the same type of people that we have here that are people that want to work for the common good of everybody.�

Headlining the 2013 class are linebacker Shane Jones, from Cincinnati, and quarterback Damion Terry, from Erie, Penn.

The Spartans are deep at the linebacker position with the return of seniors Max Bullough and Denicos Allen, but Dantonio said he’s not afraid to play young players.

The seventh-year head coach has been stingy about playing true freshmen in the past, but cited sophomore wide receiver Aaron Burbridge as a players who made an early impact. “We’re going to always play the

Expectations high for incoming quarterback Damion Terry

best players,� he said. “We say that walking in the door. You don’t want to play them just to play them because you want to build for the future.�

After tight end Dion Sims decided to forgo his senior season and put his name in the NFL draft, the tight end position is up for grabs.

Sophomore tight end Paul Lang caught 3 passes for 8 yards and one touchdown last season, and Dantonio said incoming-freshman Dylan Chmura could see some early playing time. “He’s a big, physical, strong-looking guy, powerful, great in the weight room,�

Dantonio said. “I think there’s a need at that position as we move forward, so he’s going to have opportunities. He caught the ball very, very effectively, and he’s got confidence.�

Chmura’s father, Mark , played seven seasons in the NFL for the Green Bay Packers and was selected to three Pro Bowls.

With more than 200 days until kickoff at Spartan Stadium in the fall, Dantonio said he expects a lot out of his very talented class. “(I am) very, very excited about our class this year,� Dantonio said. “As always, I think that a lot goes into signing a football class, a lot of investment, time from our coaches, and the various people within our organization here. It’s not really where you come in at, it’s where you finish.�

By Stephen Brooks brook198@msu.edu THE STATE NEWS â– â–

Football is Damion Terry’s life — his obsession. Those are his words.

It has been for a long time, apparently, as Terry recalls an incident in third grade when he took more interest in scribbling football plays on the back of his assignments than listening to the frustrated teacher in the room. “Just being a little third grader, I was probably drawing some mess around plays like triple reverses and Hail Marys and stuff,� Terry said.

This past year Terry has gone from an off-the-radar prospect with modest offers from schools such as Pittsburgh and Boston College to MSU’s 6-foot4, 220-pound promising young dual-threat quarterback . During that same period, many have made fantasizing about the Erie, Penn., Cathedral Prep standout an obsession of their own. “Just ‘Can’t wait to see Damion Terry, he’s the future blah blah,’ stuff like that,� Terry said of what he reads on social media. “Everyone’s real excited and stuff.�

Terry was elevated to a fourstar prospect on Rivals.com this fall after throwing for 3,599 yards and 50 touchdowns and adding 699 yards and 12 scores on the ground as a senior, capping his prep career with a 15-0 season and state championship victory. “Just by the simple fact that he led his team to a state championship this year says a lot about him,� MSU quarterbacks coach Dave Warner said. “I was fortunate to see him play numerous games this year, and he lit it up every game. So (I’m) very, very excited.�

Head coach Mark Dantonio said Terry has the physical ability to play right now at his press conference Wednesday. Since he won’t arrive until July, Terry will be the low-man in a four-person quarterback competition. “With Damion, we saw that ability to move the pocket, to

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create,� Dantonio said. “We also saw a very strong-armed quarterback when he came to camp and a guy that had a physical presence.�

College coaches weren’t shy, this fall, about inquiring about Terry — who committed to MSU in April — after his decorated senior season. He was set to visit Ohio State and Florida before he committed, but never wavered from the Spartans once he gave his pledge, he said. “I just became committed to it really, and they trusted me since day one and I respect them a lot for that,� Terry said. “They saw my talent when no one really did at first. That sold me right there.�

Despite Dantonio’s comments last season hinting toward offensive philosophy changes and a focus on designed quarterback runs in bowl preparation, Terry said he understands the situation awaiting him this fall and is fine with taking a redshirt season. “Obviously we’re all competitors and stuff, but I know I’m

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Head football coach Mark Dantonio addresses members of the press regarding the 2013 football season at the Clara Bell Smith Center auditorium on Wednesday.

going to have a long, uphill battle just learning the playbook, getting used to it, just being a true freshman,� he said. “But I’m definitely going to go in there and give it my 100 percent and see we’ll what happens.�

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Save money by consuming less and conserving energy. Inspire others and motivate yourself.

Give thanks for a lucky break.

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Don’t be pushed into anything.

Choose.

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You’re great at networking. Valuable new opportunities arise.

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Add glitter. The pace picks up.

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You’re very magnetic now. A partner may be even luckier. Witness another stroke of brilliance.

Keep the faith.

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And time with your sweetheart is extra nice.

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Circumstances dictate the direction. Obstacles make you even more determined. Cross things o your private list.

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Provide well for family. New opportunities arise, including a conict of interests. Choose for love.

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8 Sports | T H E STATE NE WS | TH URS DAY, FE BRUARY 7, 2013 | STATE N E WS.COM SPARTAN HOCKEY

ALYSSA GIRARDI girardi5@msu.edu

Losing season reveals true character Tom Anastos received a text message last week and it has been stuck in ever since.

It said something along the lines of “difficult times don’t defi ne one’s character, they reveal it.”

Right now, Anastos — the MSU hockey head coach — k nows difficult times just a little bit more than the next guy.

In a season that, to this point, can’t be characterized by anything other than “disappointing” or “frustrating,” not only has the character of the Spartan icers has been revealed, but their spirit as well.

A nastos said the locker room feels a mix of both: disappointment at knowing MSU isn’t playing at a level it would like to and frustration at things not coming together.

“We’re going through difficult times,” Anastos said. “But how we manage that to get ourselves to where we want to be is really how we’re going to measure ourselves.”

There’s been points in games where it would have been all too easy for MSU to put their heads down and accept the loss.

Falling behind 2-0, 3-0, 6-0, the fi ght in them hasn’t necessarily been enough to perform come-from-behind wins, but there hasn’t been any sign

of giving up.

And if there would be any time in the season where players would want to put their heads down and not care, it would have come during the past few weeks. MSU is 1-6 in its last seven games and 7-193 on the season.

They’ve faced teams more talented than them, and they’ve made many costly mistakes, but the dedication is clear up and down the roster “You just stick with it,” freshman forward John Draeger said. “We just keep working hard and you try not to really think about it. You go out there and play and don’t say, ‘Oh, well, we got guys hurt,’ and make excuses for ourselves. We just go out and work hard.”

And you can’t talk about put-

ting your head down and working hard without mentioning freshman goaltender Jake Hildebrand. If there’s an obvious player who exemplifies not giving up, it’s him.

Looking at the number of blocked shots per player, Draeger and fellow freshman defenseman Travis Walsh both are ranked nationally, demonstrating the mentality of the team to sacrifi ce the body at all costs.

Anybody who watches an MSU hockey game can’t say there is any trace of defeat in them.

It’s been a rough season — rough seasons happen. They’ve faced teams more talented than them, and they’ve made many costly mistakes, but the dedication is clear up and down the roster.

“It’s tough at times, but I think we all play the game because we love to play it; it’s fun for us,” freshman forward Michael Ferrantino said. “The

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Senior left wing Kevin Walrod gets taken down to the ice by Michigan defenseman Mike Szuma on Friday at Yost Ice Arena in Ann Arbor. The Wolverines defeated the Spartans, 3-2, in the first game of the weekend series.

rink is a place where we all go to get away from things, and even if things aren’t going great or going the way you want them to, you still have

fun playing the game — no matter what.”

Alyssa Girardi is the State News hockey reporter. Reach her at girardi5@msu.edu.