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Junior guard Eron Harris prepares to defend U-M guard Derrick Walton Jr. during the game against U-M at Crisler Center in Ann Arbor on Feb. 6. The Spartans defeated the Wolverines, 89-73.

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Catholic charity opens doors to hundreds of refugees in Lansing

BY AKSHITA VERMA AVERMA@STATENEWS.COM

Greeted with a hot meal, refugees seeking the services of St. Vincent Catholic Charities, or STVCC, are found housing, enrolled in school, taken grocery shopping and screened for health issues.

“We take care of these refugee families so they can live here and make our community beautiful,” said Judi Harris, the director of refugee services at STVCC in Lansing.

fortunate that the people here are very educated and know who the refugees are.”

One such refugee is Yadu.

Yadu, who chose to keep his last name private because of potential anti-refugee sentiment, is from Bhutan, a small country bordering India.

“I am originally of Nepali origin,” Yadu said. “But in Bhutan people of Nepali origin were not granted fundamental rights. When our protests were not successful, we were evicted.”

“We have been lucky in Lansing because we get very little Islamophobia. Very few people in our community are out of touch, and we are fortunate that the people here are very educated and know who the refugees are.”

Judi Harris, Director of refugee services at STVCC

Har ris said t he ref ugee resettlement agency at STVCC resettles about 600 refugees from across the world per year.

“We have refugees coming in from Somalia, Sudan, Congo, Iraq, Burma, Bhutan and Afghanistan,” Harris said.

She said the Lansing area hasn’t seen much backlash against refugees.

“We have been lucky in Lansing because we get very little Islamophobia,” she said. “Very few people in our community are out of touch, and we are

Yadu ran from Bhutan at the age of 13-years-old.

He fled with his family to Nepal, where he lived in a refugee camp for 20 years.

“I met my wife in the refugee camp in Nepal,” Yadu said. “I met her through some friends, and we married two years later.”

After waiting in the refugee camp for 20 years, Yadu and his family received a resettlement package from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, or UNHCR, to go live in the United States as

Director of refugee services Judi Harris, left, and associate director of community relations and marketing John Karasinski pose for a portrait on Feb. 3, at 2800 W. Willow St. in Lansing. PHOTO: CARLY GERACI

a third country resettlement.

Though Yadu was ecstatic to finally be able to leave the refugee camp in Nepal, Michigan was a hard place to adjust to at first for a number of different reasons, he said.

“To live in a different environment with a different language was painstaking and

shocking, but I had a positive attitude that I could get through the system and raise my family,” Yadu said. “And of course, it is so cold here.”

He later found a job at the refugee center to help give back.

“I am working for the refugee agency as a case manager now,” Yadu said. “I understand the refugee problems, so I can work with them closely.”

Harris said refugees like Yadu can be economically beneficial to the community.

“Research shows that there is a huge economic benefit on receiving refugees into our community,” Harris said.

“They are younger than our average population, they work

hard and many have been buy ing abandoned houses and making them beautiful.”

Sarah Fentin, social work and Spanish senior at MSU, works closely with refugees like Yadu. Fentin is a full-time student intern.

“As a part of our social work program at MSU, we have to do 240 hours of volunteer work each semester to get accredited,” Fentin said.

“I love it here at the refugee resettlement agency because the work I am able to do is very hands-on.”

The work she does can vary, but said she had monthly responsibilities.

“I have a list of refugee families I see every month

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She said the work would be rewarding for any student at MSU. “There are so many surprising moments with the refugee families I work with, and I learn so much from them,” Fentin said. “I absolutely recommend anyone from MSU to come volunteer or intern here so they can help our community and our immigrant population.”

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Club sports allow students to continue chasing passions for athletics in college

BY GABE COMOS GCOMOS@STATENEWS.COM

Collegiate club sports might lack large crowds of people paying larger amounts of money, opportunities for a shot at athletic scholarships and the sense of fame or status that might come with being a Division I college athlete, but one thing club sports found across the campus of MSU don’t lack are athletes with passion for the game.

Packaging senior Kevin Horton is in his fourth and final year on the MSU men’s club lacrosse team, and is an example of this passion for sports.

“The reason I think a lot of us play is for the love of the game,” Horton said.

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lege, luckily I was given the option to continue playing lacrosse competitively. The competitiveness of college club sports, along with being able to represent MSU, was enough for me to want to play on the team. I am glad I joined because it keeps me busy and I have met a lot of lifelong friends in my four years on the team.”

Another club athlete on campus, marketing senior Connor Flynn, is in his fourth year with the club hockey team.

He said when he got to college there was no decision to be made about whether or not to continue with his passion for hockey.

“For me there was no decision — it was that I was going to do this,” Flynn said.

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Hockey’s mixed showing against U-M shows season weakness

BY STEPHEN OLSCHANSKI SOLSCHANSKI@STATENEWS.COM

In front of 20,027 fans at Joe Louis Arena, University of Michigan forward Dexter Dancs had the game on his stick. All by himself in front of the net, he hesitated, slowing his pace. Dancs was milliseconds away from getting a shot past MSU senior goaltender Jake Hildebrand, but MSU freshman forward Mason Appleton had something else in mind.

Dancs’ hesitation gave Appleton the inches he needed to preserve MSU’s (7-19-2) diamond in the rough. Appleton shot off the bench at full force, galloping with each thrust of his leg, and flew down the ice toward his own zone.

Throwing his body at the ice, Appleton dove and swatted the puck off Dancs’ stick, sending the puck out of the zone and shifting the momentum of the game in MSU’s favor. Moments later, junior forward Joe Cox, who had done everything for his team this game but play goalie, found the puck on his stick all alone.

He cut to his backhand and just as he tried to release the shot, U-M defenseman Joseph Cecconi chopped Cox’s arm.

A minute and one second later on the ensuing power play, MSU junior forward Villiam Haag slipped into the top of the slot, faked a shot, drew a U-M defender to him and slid the puck to senior forward Matt DeBlouw, who anticipated the one-time opportunity.

DeBlouw blasted the puck off the post and in behind U-M goaltender Steve Racine to score MSU an upset of No. 5 U-M. The Spartans celebrated as if they they had won an NCAA title, piling on top of each other on the boards adjacent to the Spartan bench. But they still had won a trophy: a 50-pound metal trophy called The Iron D. MSU laid claim to the newly-inaugurated trophy in the hotly contested Duel in the D matchup.

Freshman forward Brennan Sanford and U-M defenseman Niko Porikos fight for the puck during the hockey game against U-M on Feb. 6 at Munn Ice Arena. The Spartans were lost to the Wolverines, 4-1. PHOTO: SUNDEEP DHANJAL UPCOMING INFORMATION MEETINGS

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That harrowing effort was followed up with a 4-1 loss at the hands of U-M on Saturday. The Iron D might be the only trophy the MSU hockey team will have to show for its losing season.

“Sure it feels great to win it, you know it’s nice, but you’ve got to finish the deal,” MSU senior captain and forward Michael Ferrantino said after the loss Saturday. “It’s a two-game weekend, not one game.”

For every MSU victory this season, with the exception of three games, the following game has been a loss.

“It doesn’t really matter, you play a sport for a reason,” Cox said about inconsistencies this season. “You got to come here with a

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lot of energy every game. Guys on this team come from leagues where they play 60-plus games a year, and we only play around 35. We can’t really have that excuse, being tired. I mean, you’re here for a reason, you’re here to play two games a weekend. We’ve just got to be better effort wise.”

The year started with promise. A team that finished second in the Big Ten last season and returned four of its top five point getters was expected to contend again for the Big Ten. Behind All-American goaltender Hildebrand and a stoic defense that allowed only 2.3 goals a game, MSU was thought to be poised for a run that would bring the program back to it’s former standing.

“With the whole turning the program around we talked about since I’ve been here, that’s one of the biggest things we need to do to make sure that people know Michigan State hockey is back,” Hildebrand said before the start of the season.

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tournament was almost a guarantee for MSU, earning eight trips to the Frozen Four and two national titles.

The program was even more successful off the national stage, amassing 12 Great Lakes Invitational titles, seven CCHA regular season titles and 11 CCHA Tournament Championships.

During that 26-year span, somewhere along the line, hockey tickets were in high demand by and Munn Ice Arena was electric.

Now, the program has fallen from that standing and Munn’s volume lacks flare.

Returning the program to its former glory was the goal for the Spartans, but they’ve fallen short as they are ranked No. 46, according to the PairWise rankings.

As the NCAA Division I hockey tournament is reserved for 16 teams, this would put MSU 30 spots out of a playoff berth.

Following up their best performance of the season with a three-goal loss on home ice was a hard pill to swallow for head coach Tom Anastos. He said he wondered why only some players were playing hard enough to win games.

“I really thought we had things addressed, we expected a push,” Anastos said Saturday. “We just didn’t have enough guys going. On the other hand, there were guys going, but it’s not enough.

It’s a team game. You’ve got to have way more guys going and that’s what frustrates me a little bit. Not a little bit, a lot.”

A win over U-M at a venue like Joe Louis Are-

na is undoubtedly the bright spot in the otherwise disappointing season, but it’s not the win that matters to Anastos. He doesn’t want his team to settle for a win.

“I am angry,” Anastos said. “I don’t want people to get complacent for easy reasons. You’re scratching your head saying you’re coming off a good win last night on a good effort against a real good team in a great environment and then you come home in another great environment and you want to make sure you lay it on the line out there. ... We’re constantly looking at how we prepare ourselves. What changed between last night and today when we dropped the puck? Each individual person has to get themselves ready to play and not expect, ‘hey, last night we got a win.’ OK, that’s old news, today’s a new day and we have to learn that.”

Even with the up and down results, Anastos won’t take moral victories.

“I don’t know if the way our season’s gone that some guys can get easily satisfied, I don’t,” Anastos said. “I don’t want any easy satisfaction in our dressing room, that’s not what we want here.

How can you be complacent? Are we expecting a good win on Friday and we’re not eager to try and complete the weekend?”

The win over U-M will serve as the performance MSU will measure itself with, and should be the rule not the exception.

But the win in the grand scheme of the season is just that — a ­ win.

The Spartans celebrate after the game against U-M Feb. 5 at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit. The Spartans defeated the Wolverines, 3-2. PHOTO: CARLY GERACI

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Chinese students celebrate Year of the Monkey at annual Temple Fair

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Red paper lanterns lined the hallway and the smell of authentic Chinese food filled the basement of Shaw Hall, transforming it into a celebration for the Chinese New Year.

This year, the Chinese New Year begins on Feb. 8 and is a celebration similar to Christmas in America. The new year celebrations last for about 15 days and will finish with the Lantern Festival.

With each new year marks the year of different animal from the Chinese zodiac. This year is the Year of the Monkey.

Despite being miles away from home, Chinese students and community members were able to celebrate the beginning of the new year on Feb. 5 in East Lansing.

The celebration, known as the Temple Fair: Celebrating the Year of the Monkey, was collectively put on by the Chinese Students and Scholars Association, MSU Culinary Services and the Office for International Students and Scholars.

“Many Chinese international students and local Chinese families come to enjoy the event,” Chinese Students and Scholars Association president Yongle Pang said. “We want to bring a similar atmosphere to the MSU community.”

For many Chinese students, the Temple Fair was a way to celebrate their culture while at their home away from home.

“This is so different because it is here in America,” business freshman Wenni Qui said. “I am here with my friends from MSU. It is very special.”

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students found their friends at MSU helped to make the holiday easier to celebrate, despite not being with their families.

“This celebration is very fun, but it is different than it is in China,” psychology sophomore Cindy Lu said. “The activities and games in this place make me miss my home, but having this festival with my friends here at MSU is awesome.”

The festivities at the Temple Fair included many traditional games and activities that participants could earn tickets for.

These tickets could then be used for prizes, such as Chinese candy and snacks.

Economics freshman Chang Wang found the Temple Fair activities were similar to those experienced at home.

“It is different for us international students because years before, we have stayed at home with our families to celebrate this event,” Wang said. “In this celebration, there are many traditional games that I have played at home with my family.”

In addition to making Chinese students feel more at home, the celebration was also a way for non-Chinese MSU students to become engulfed in Chinese culture.

Prenursing sophomore Emily MacLean said she thought it was cool idea to recreate a Chinese holiday in East Lansing for people to experience.

“It makes me want to know more about the Chinese culture while they’re learning more about American culture,” she said.

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Activist groups have been raising awareness about racial issues across the nation and on MSU’s campus. The most recent expression of this racial ire focuses on MSU’s James Madison College.

The W. E. B. DuBois Society, an organization for black James Madison students, recently published a Racial Climate Study comprised of anonymous grievances surrounding instances of racial microaggressions or unsatisfactory discussion of racially sensitive issues within James Madison College classrooms.

Students aired these grievances at an event held last fall titled “Black Lives Matter — Be Heard,” an event open exclusively to black James Madison students. There were 37 people in attendance.

Alongside the complaints, the study also provided descriptions of how the students felt impacted by the events.

Broken down into a series of pie charts, the results show mixed responses to how much these instances of racism impacted student learning.

While roughly 41 percent of respondents said that these incidents didn’t effect their academic performance, the remaining 59 percent reported that they felt discouraged from participating in class discussion, or were uncomfortable attending class or a professor’s office hours because of racial dynamics.

The proposal also called for a meeting with James Madison College administration, including the dean, the director of diversity programs and student engagement, the chairman of the Inclusion Committee and a representative from the James Madison College Alumni Association, before the end of February to discuss the results of the survey and potential solutions.

Such solutions include a call for more black James Madison professors, greater inclusion of black authors and texts into core curriculum, and courses on black social movements and similarly related fields.

In response to the society’s study, the James Madison student senate passed a resolution directly addressing some of the problems the study presents. The W.E.B. DuBois Society said it was in concurrence with the resolution passed.

Significant call to action within the student senate’s resolution included better diversity training for faculty, staff and students, for the administration to create a diverse volunteer group of James Madison College ambassadors — made up of all represented identities in the college — and for non-white authors and their works to be “regularized, in order to explain systemic racism and foster Madison classrooms in which the subject of race is discussed in a culturally sensitive way, to ensure an environment that is both intellectually challenging and emotionally safe.”

There was no direct mention within the student senate’s resolution of some of the DuBois Society’s bolder suggested solutions within the resolution, which argue one of the college’s introductory courses, MC 111 Harlem Renaissance, should not be taught by a white professor.

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Flint’s water crisis has caught national attention, and despite being miles away, many students have stepped up to help however they can.

Specifically, some chapters within MSU’s greek life have been making an effort to help by starting GoFundMe pages to raise money, holding other fundraisers or by donating cases of bottled water.

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“This is a fundamental right ... water. You can’t cook with this water, you can’t bathe with this water.”

Jacob Gordon, Philanthropy chair for Sigma Alpha Mu

International relations junior and Sigma Alpha Mu philanthropy chair Jacob Gordon said the Flint water crisis hits close to home for the brothers.

Sigma Alpha Mu, a relatively new fraternity, jumped right in with the philanthropy.

Gordon said out of 30 brothers, three hail from the city of Flint.

“This is a fundamental right ... water,” Gordon said.

“You can’t cook with this water, you can’t bathe with this water.”

Gordon said the group started a GoFundMe page and donated all the proceeds to the Food Bank of Eastern Michigan.

He said the fraternity has raised about $6,500 for Flint aid in addition to donating cases of bottled water for the YMCAs in Flint.

Gordon said the food bank was overwhelmed with actual cases of water, so the brothers were asked to give a monetary donation.

Another fraternity to put in effort for relief was Pi Kappa Alpha.

The fraternity created a similar page to raise money for the city of Flint.

Members of Pi Kappa Alpha were calling upon other chapters of the fraternity, community members, sororities and other fraternities for donations on MSU’s greek life page.

In addition to the fraternities, Sigma Delta Tau sorority has also donated cases of water to an already up and running GoFundMe page located out of Lansing.

“Community ser vice is something that’s very important to us,” Sigma Delta Tau president Lauren Abrahamson said. “With such a huge crisis that is so close to home, we kind of felt like it was our duty.”

Abrahamson said the chapter has yet to do a dropoff to Flint, but plans to remain involved in helping to combat the water crisis and struggles people in the city are having.

“Just the little things can do amazing things for other people,” Abrahamson said.

Sigma Delta Tau has donated about 11 cases of bottled water.

“Their families, their siblings are living through this,” Gordon said. “I’m able to turn on my sink and not have a problem and brush my teeth.”

Gordon said a donation was also made to Our Lady of Guadalupe in Flint to assist undocumented residents who are also suffering from the crisis.

MSU’s Latino community started a GoFundMe page to assist undocumented residents who cannot obtain water because of their lack of identification.

“How basic of an issue it was makes it really easy to get behind,” Gordon said.

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Bryn Forbes reflects on path from Cleveland State to MSU star guard

BY JOSH THALL JTHALL@STATENEWS.COM

Three years ago in his first ever game against the University of Michigan, then-freshman guard Bryn Forbes had five points and shot just 2-of-11 from the floor and 1-of-7 from behind the 3-point line, as Cleveland State University lost to U-M 77-47.

But Saturday night, during Forbes’ possible final game against U-M, he scored 29 points on 8-of-10 from the 3-point line and 10-of-13 from the floor — a true testament to the hard work and dedication that has brought him full-circle from growing up in Lansing, to leaving, and then finding his way home.

Forbes did not receive a lot of scholarship offers from big-time college basketball programs coming out of high school, in part because he matured and grew later than others.

“(Cleveland State) really helped me mature my game, mature as a person, taught me a lot of things that I carry with me today and thatI’ll probably carry with me the rest of my life.”

Bryn Forbes, MSU senior guard

and I’ve got to shoot’ and if he can do both then you’re a hell of a player, because most shooters struggle to do both,” Izzo said.

Forbes’ former coach and Denzel Valentine’s father Carlton Valentine said he has noticed Bryn Forbes has become a much more focused and consistent player, and gave credit to the MSU coaching staff for getting Bryn Forbes to be “dialed in.”

“I think where he’s improved is his consistency and his focus,” Carlton Valentine said. “Bryn’s improved tremendously with his focus, and you have to give the coaching staff credit for that, because they’ve got him dialed in.”

That improved consistency shows, as Bryn Forbes has become one of the best 3-point shooters in the country, shooting the three at a remarkable 50.3 percent, which is number one in the Big Ten. While nobody knows how Forbes’ senior year with MSU will end, Sue Forbes thinks the experiences he had going to Cleveland State were phenomenal for her son, as it made him hungry.

“Bryn has an insatiable appetite for making himself better and that was his goal,” Sue Forbes said. “He really talked to me not so much about proving to people that he could play at this level, but more that he was just going to keep working hard and making himself better. And he still says that, and he’s playing for Michigan State now and he’s still working hard to make himself a better player.”

Senior guard Bryn Forbes high-fives fans following the game against Rutgers on Jan. 31 at Breslin Center. The Spartans defeated the Scarlet Knights, 96-62. PHOTO: ALICE KOLE

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Carter played a huge role in Bryn Forbes’ decision to ask for a release from Cleveland State and ask MSU coach Tom Izzo about possibly transferring to play at MSU. “I had had my son coming into (my sophomore) year and I came back for a couple reasons,” Forbes said. “My sister got sick, so it was a quick thing. It just happened.”

Bryn Forbes knew some of the guys on the team already when he got to MSU, as a result of working out with Valentine in the MSU gyms whenever he would take a trip home while at Cleveland State.

When he arrived at MSU, Izzo knew he had gotten a very talented shooter, but also saw a lot of room for growth and much work to still be done.

“Well, he got on the floor a couple of times (against U-M), that was illegal when I got him,” Izzo said after MSU’s win over U-M Saturday. “I give him credit, he’s playing harder, he’s playing better defensively. He could always shoot the ball, nobody gave him any words of wisdom on how to shoot the ball. I think he’s doing a good job of learning how to come off screens and do things like that.”

Throughout Forbes’ now season-anda-half with MSU, the one thing Izzo has continued to preach to him is the importance of becoming a two-way player and being just as sharp defensively as he is lethal offensively.

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“He grew late,” said Sue Forbes, Bryn Forbes’ mother. “So he was 5-foot-10 when he started his junior year, and then by the time he was in his senior year, he was about 6-foot, 6-foot-2. So he had this growth spurt that was late and then he started having a little more interest, but a lot of the large schools had already committed all their scholarships by the time Bryn got bigger.”

Forbes said it was tough to leave Lansing and his best friend Denzel Valentine, who he had been playing basketball with since he was seven years old, but he understood he had a different path than MSU senior guard Valentine.

“I mean, everybody wants to play at the highest level, but that wasn’t my journey and I understood that, so I was happy for him,” Forbes said.

Sue Forbes said they knew Cleveland State would be a place Bryn could grow and develop both on and off the court.

Cleveland State’s coach Gary Waters was who the Forbes family thought would best be able to help Bryn develop.

“We were probably focused more on getting him with the right coach and the right attitude and trying to find the right chemistry on the team than we were with a particular school,” Sue Forbes said.

Forbes said he thinks going to Cleveland State for two years like he did was a tremendous benefit in how the coaching staff helped him grow both on and off the court.

“I loved their staff, I love what they’re about, very religious school and they taught me a lot of things in that area,” Bryn Forbes said. “I just learned a lot from those guys and knew they had a lot to offer me. They really helped me mature my game, mature as a person, taught me a lot of things that I carry with me today and that I’ll probably carry with me the rest of my life.”

Just before Forbes’ sophomore season at Cleveland State, he had a child, Carter, who lived in Lansing with his mother during his sophomore year.

In an effort to ensure Bryn Forbes could have a relationship with his son, Sue Forbes dedicated her time to driving Carter down to Cleveland State every two weeks or so.

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MSU basketball seniors shine one last time against rival Wolverines

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Moments before the No. 10 MSU Spartans (204, 7-4 Big Ten) took the court in their 89-73 victory against the University of Michigan Wolverines (17-7, 7-4) Saturday at Crisler Center, that’s when it hit MSU senior forward Matt Costello.

“When we broke her down, when we prayed before the game, there was about a minute where we bring everybody in,” Costello said. “I pray before the game. I just realized it was my last time at Michigan and everything just kind of hit me and so, during the starting lineups, when it was black for them for the announcements, I was just bawling like a little baby.”

MSU won the opening tip, found senior guard Bryn Forbes for a 3-pointer nine seconds into

amount of combined points between Forbes, Valentine and Costello at University of Michigan on Saturday

the game to go up 3-0. And even after U-M took a quick 5-3 lead at the 18:46 mark of the first half, MSU answered with an Eron Harris 3-pointer four seconds later.

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From left to right, freshman forward Deyonta Davis, junior forward Gavin Schilling, senior forward Matt Costello and senior guard Denzel Valentine converse on the bench during the game against U-M at Crisler Center in Ann Arbor on Feb. 6. The Spartans defeated the Wolverines 89-73. PHOTO: EMILY ELCONIN

the game. They shot 14-of-22 from behind the arc to U-M’s 8-of-28 performance, making a mind-blowing 64 percent of their shots and out-rebounding the Wolverines 35-20.

But as it has been all year long, it was MSU’s seniors — playing in their last game against their in-state rival — that led MSU to victory.

“Our three seniors won us the game,” MSU head basketball coach Tom Izzo said. “It was Costello, Forbes and (Denzel) Valentine that came through.”

Forbes, in his second year with MSU after transferring from Cleveland State University a year ago, led the Spartans with 29 points on a 10-of-13 shooting performance from the field, including an 8-of-10 showing from 3-point range.

Along the way, Forbes helped fellow seniors Valentine and Costello clinch a career winning-record against U-M of 5-3.

Costello finished the game going 6-for-8 from the field with 14 points and eight rebounds while Valentine flirted with another triple-double, finishing with 21 points, nine rebounds and eight assists. MSU’s three senior leaders combined for 64 of the team’s 89 points.

“It’s one of the most important things, being a Michigan State Spartan, is finishing your legacy against Michigan, and I’m just glad we could finish this way,” Costello said. “I’m proud of (Valentine and Forbes) and what they were able to accomplish today.”

Unless the two teams meet in this year’s Big Ten Tournament or NCAA Tournament, Forbes will finish his career as a Spartan a perfect 3-0 against the Wolverines.

As a lifelong MSU fan, that means a lot.

“It’s huge,” Forbes said. “This is probably the last time we get to play in this atmosphere and this rivalry, and it’s just tradition. We’re part of tradition and happened to come out and win this one.”

The fact three MSU seniors have been stepping up the way they have lately is a breath of fresh air for Izzo. But it’s also a trend col-

“I just realized it was my last time at Michigan and everything just kind of hit me and so, during the starting lineups, when it was black for them and the announcements, I was just bawling like a little baby.”

Matt Costello, MSU men’s basketball senior forward

lege basketball might be getting back to, with top teams like the universities of Oklahoma, Iowa and North Carolina all having successful teams stacked with upperclassmen.

“It seems like the teams that are in the top have more senior-leaden teams at this point,” Izzo said. “That’s all around the country. ... So seniors are important. They’re valuable and I think when (Valentine) ... I didn’t want to leave him in there, but the guy was close to a triple-double, which would have been an incredible feat for him here, but the victory was every bit as good.”

For now, however, the Spartans will look ahead to the work they have left to do this year, and how they will accomplish the goals they set for themselves at the beginning of the season.

“We’ve got a lot to work on to be a championship team I think,” Valentine said. “But we’re making progress and gaining confidence at the right time and I think that’s good for us at this point.”

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Plant soil and microbial sciences professor James Kelly, left and graduate student Nolan Bornowski collect data on Feb. 4 at the Agronomy Farm, 4856 Beaumont Road in Lansing. Kelly and his students were working on a canning evaluation of various beans. PHOTO: KELLY VANFRANKENHUYZEN

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In the early morning, in a farm building surrounded by fields full of snow, James Kelly prepares to test the latest research models with his colleagues. Hoping to see improvement from previous attempts, these newest inventions could have both commercial and societal impacts, should they be superior. Old archetypes and new innovations lined side by side, the professionals inspect their harvest, noting which varieties perform best in canning quality.

A typical day for Kelly might vary from season to season. Spring brings planting, summer brings field research, fall work is done in a greenhouse.

In the winter, Kelly might make a trip outside of the country for conferences or field research or he might participate in canning evaluations, which was the case on Feb. 4.

“It’s not always the same day to day, that’s one of the fun things,” Kelly said.

Soft-spoken with a reserved Irish accent, Kelly, a university distinguished professor of advanced plant breeding in the Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at MSU, has dedicated nearly 40 years of his life to the breeding and genetics of a crop he considers especially valuable — ­ dry edible beans.

“Beans are such an important food source,

they’re a very important food security source in large parts of East Africa,” Kelly said. “Getting some of our … varieties out there, that can help improve productivity and improve the production on a local level.”

Kelly’s passion for plants began as a child while growing up on a farm in Northern Ireland. He has done his part to push for awareness of the importance of bean research, appearing in a video produced by the Big Ten Network in which he spoke about MSU’s ranking of number one university in the country for bean breeding and genetics.

Kelly first found his calling as an undergraduate student. In his studies during the time of the Green Revolution, Kelly said he was fascinated by the sheer number of lives the work of those that came before him saved and how much plant breeding could do to help people.

During his doctoral studies at University of Wisconsin, Kelly worked on a project with a professor who was involved with beans and he’s been in the field ever since.

“When I first came (to MSU), Michigan was the leading producer of dry beans in the country, so we’ve had a breeding improvement program here for over 100 years,” Kelly said.

Kelly’s work has taken him across continents, having visited Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador, Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia.

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Theatre2Film offers hands-on movie-making experience

BY GABE COMOS GCOMOS@STATENEWS.COM

Half asleep on a couch, eating popcorn or maybe even a bit of snuggling with a significant other — whatever the circumstances are, one thing about movie watching remains consistent. After the end of the last scene of most comes the credits.

These credits list the names of the many people who fill the hundreds of different positions that worked on completing any given movie.

Last year, the Theatre2Film Project was created with one simple, yet intense complex goal in mind — to successfully create a full-length feature film with all of those positions you see at the end of a movie filled by students.

Mark Colson is an assistant professor of media acting in MSU’s Department of Theatre and is also a professional actor.

In addition, Colson is the mastermind behind the Theatre2Film program.

“We created it last year, and the main emphasis was that I wanted to have my actors working to convert a stage performance into a film performance, while giving the media information students a chance to create a feature film,” Colson said.

The program is a collaborative student project between the College of Communication Arts and Sciences and the Department of Theatre and is a student-made theatrical performance.

The program is performed live in front of an audience first then turned it into a full-length motion picture.

Students from different departments were drawn in to participate in the project after hearing about the plan.

Tony Yang, a media and information senior, is in his second year with the program and has the job of supervising producer this year.

Yang said the promise of a full-length movie immediately enticed him.

“I went to the general meeting last year and when I heard about the opportunity to work on a feature length film, that really drew me in,” Yang said. “To really get that experience of creating an actual movie and not just a short three-minute video like most college students really made me interested.”

Colson said before this project was put in place many different departments at MSU were doing similar things, but not collectively.

This program gives them all the opportunity to collaborate and work on one project.

Theatre2Film is now in its second year and has just started the process of selecting its crew to begin working on creating the new movie.

The crew will include more than 100 students with positions including actors, composers, cinematographers and art directors.

“It’s totally student run,” Colson said. “To me, the best part is just being able to give these students actual hands-on experience in filmmaking.”

Colson created the idea and said to his knowledge, there are no universities which have created a full-length feature film at the scale and severity Theatre2Film at MSU has.

Yang said he believes Colson is one of the reasons the program was so successful, citing his motivational and leadership skills.

“Mark (Colson) is one of the most experienced acting professors on campus — he just has so much real world experience and he is really great to work with,” Yang said. “He’s really open and always available. He loves working with students and focuses everyone on maintaining a positive attitude. Also, Mark always makes sure to recognize our efforts and acknowledge people for their success.”

Last year, the program’s film, ‘‘(313) Choices,” saw great success.

After months of hard work and editing the film, the program was invited to the Traverse City Film Festival.

Colson said the program brought approximately 50 students to the film festival, where students were recognized and even got to hear from an audience who watched their film.

“They got to go on a trip to not only bask in the glory of a very successful film, but also give them a very real world experience in filmmaking,” Colson said.

Both Colson and Yang said they believe that the program will be incredibly beneficial for those who participate.

“Collaboration is the best way to describe the project, but I also think of prestige,” Yang said. “No other university makes a 90-minute feature length film, so it brings a new level of prestige to the university in itself along with all of the programs involved in creating this project. It gets a lot of exposure to the students involved.”

T H E AT R E 2 F I L M Now in its second year, the program has just started the process of selecting its crew to begin working on creating a movie.

The crew will include more than 100 students with positions including actors, composers, cinematographers and art directors.

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Theatre freshman Raied Jawhari, left, and theatre freshman Grant Cleaveland, right, get yelled at by media and information senior Jake Samson, center, during a Theatre2Film rehearsal on Feb. 5 at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum. PHOTO: SUNDEEP DHANJAL

“Collaboration is the best way to describe the project, but I also think of prestige.”

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